Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1969. Original title card maquette hand lettered by Harold Adler for the 1969 film. Based on the "Alexandria Quartet" by Lawrence Durrell. Harold Adler was a calligrapher who created hand lettered titles on over 100 films, worked frequently with Alfred Hitchcock, and was a favorite of...
London: Navarone Productions, 1977. Revised Draft script for the 1978 British-American film. Copy belonging to property master Tony Teiger (presumed), with "Props." in holograph ink on the title page. Based on Alistair MacLean's 1968 novel, and sequel to J. Lee Thompson's 1961 Academy Award-winning film, "The Guns of Navarone," also...
Unknown: Playboy Productions, 1979. Final Draft script for the television film, originally aired on ABC on October 19, 1979. Actor Martin Landau's copy, with his holograph ink and pencil annotations to the wrapper and throughout. Laid in with the script are a set of eleven blue revision pages, as well...
Boston: Michael Joseph, 1938. First UK Edition, and the correct first of "Flying Colors," preceding the single volume publication. SIGNED by the author on a special Book Society bookplate designed by Rex Whistler. The third Hornblower novel published, and the eighth in series chronology, published together with the second. Along...
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N.p. Monogram Pictures, 1946. Typescript of the Final Shooting script for the 1947 Poverty Row film noir. Based on Cornell Woolrich's short story, "Two Men in a Furnished Room," first published in the 1946 short story anthology "The Dancing Detective" under his pseudonym William Irish. The tale of a manhunt...
N.p. N.p., Circa 1990s. Vintage photograph of Muhammad Ali with documentary filmmaker and producer Lindsey Clennell, circa early 1990s. With a holograph notation on the verso identifying the subjects. In articles about Ali from 1988 and 1989, both the "New York Times" and "Washington Post" quote Clennell, and the "Times"...
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New York: Lincoln Center / List Art Poster and Print Program, 1964. Original lithograph designed by Saul Bass for the Second New York Film Festival, held at Lincoln Center on September 14-26, 1964. INSCRIBED at the bottom right by Bass to Film Festival founder Amos Vogel: "to Amos Vogel...
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1929. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper: "Inscribed for Mrs. White / by / Dorothy Scarborough / May 1930." Very Good in a Very Good plus, price-clipped example of the rare dust jacket. Jacket is lightly toned at the spine, with...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1924. First Edition. One of 2000 numbered copies (this being No. 1595). Publisher's patterned paper boards with green vellum spine and paper spine label. The author's first book, written four years prior to her 1928 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, "Scarlet Sister Mary." The first entry in...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1965. Final Draft script for the 1966 film. Secret agent Derek Flint is a smooth-talking Renaissance man—martial arts master, polyglot, ballet dancer—who works for the international intelligence agency Z.O.W.I.E. When several fellow agents are discovered mysteriously murdered, his agency tasks Flint with finding and stopping the killers...
Stockholm: Svensk Filmindustri, 1961. Vintage oversize Swedish still photograph from the 1961 film. With the Svensk Filmindustri logo at the bottom right corner. In a typically heavy moment from the film, Max Von Sydow (Martin) and Lars Passgard (Minus) stand together in a moment of silence. Shot by the film's...
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1976. First Edition. Basis for the 1993 film directed by Gus Van Sant and starring Uma Thurman. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Shallow vertical crease to the rear flap fold.
N.p. N.p., 1977. Draft script for the 1977 film. Copy belonging to actor Martin Landau, with his signature on the title page, and holograph ink and pencil annotations throughout. Laid in with the screenplay are a 33-page shooting schedule, an 18-page revised shooting schedule signed by Landau, ten photographically reproduced...
Tokyo: Takarazuka Productions, 1961. First Draft script for the 1961 film. Working copy belonging to uncredited crew member Takahashi Toshihiro, with his name rubber stamped on the first leaf and the last page of text. Director Yusjiro Ozu’s penultimate film, about a widower and his daughters, who become concerned when...
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1945. Post-production Release Dialogue Script for the 1946 film. The only script associated with the legendary noir that we have ever seen, and presumably the earliest continuity, dated 7 months prior to the film's release. "The Blue Dahlia" got off to a shaky start, as Raymond Chandler...
Pittsburgh, PA: Pittsburgh Pictures, 1973. Vintage US one-sheet poster for the 1973 film. A grim and violent cult classic that tells the story of an outbreak of a highly contagious and untreatable military-developed biological weapon that spreads through a rural Pennsylvania town after a plane transporting the disease crashes nearby...
N.p. N.p., 1941. Original play script for the premiere production of Joseph Kesselring's "Arsenic and Old Lace" in 1941, copy belonging to the show's producers (and erstwhile playwrights) Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse, with their property stamp at the bottom right corner of the front wrapper. Housed n a custom...
New York: Fluxus Editions, 1972. First Edition, one of 250 copies (this being No. 34). Although not called for, this copy SIGNED by Mekas on the verso of the front board. Designed by George Maciunas. Featuring poetry by Mekas alongside photographs of his native Lithuania. Published the same year as...
New York: McBride, 1927. First Edition. An attractive copy of this uncommon Smith title, a meditation on wayward youth that is a departure from his trademark ribald humor. Inner front hinge lightly cracked, minor soil to the rear board, else Near Fine lacking the rare dust jacket.
New York: The Vanguard Press, 1944. First Edition. The author's first book, with a price of $2.50 at the bottom of the jacket front flap as called for. Near Fine in a bright, about Near Fine dust jacket, with a lovely, deep brown topstain. Backstrip and jacket spine panel both...
Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1973. Vintage US silkscreen banner poster for the 1973 film. Based on Frederick Forsyth's 1971 novel about the titular professional assassin hired by a militant French underground organization to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle. Set in and shot on location in Paris, Versailles and Hautes-Alpes...
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1874. Small quarto. First printing of this edition. First published in 1842 by Rudolph Ackerman in London. Thirty-five color illustrations by Henry Alken, all present. One page of ads at the rear. Marbled boards in half-bound red morocco leather, compartments, titles and designs all gilt...
N.p. N.p., circa early 1950s. Two vintage black and white photographs advertising the legendary Ohrbach's department store in the Wilshire Prudential Insurance Company building (today home of the Screen Actors Guild). An strong example the apex of its mid-century design in Los Angeles. Stamped on the verso by Woro Studio...
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N.p. N.p., 1971. Original eight-panel artwork by Ernie Bushmiller for the January 31, 1971 deluxe Sunday installment of his seminal comic strip Nancy. This strip features Nancy and her dog Poochie. As with American cinema, it was the French who first championed the studied simplicity of Bushmiller's un-deconstructible combination of...
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N.p. Regal Films, 1958. Draft script for the 1958 film. Copy belonging to actress Lyn Thomas, with annotations throughout relating to her character in the film, Laura. A space probe returns to earth bearing an unusual extraterrestrial fungus which, when accidentally mixed with human blood, turns into space rust. The...
Gentilly, FR: Ateliers Lalande, 1962. Original French poster for the 1962 British film. The early 1960s take on Gaston Laroux's novel, done in Hammer horror fashion. A very accessible version and probably the least ponderous, little seen today but considered second only to the 1925 Lon Chaney version by cinephiles...
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Hollywood: RKO Radio Pictures, circa 1944. Collection of eight original preliminary advertising concept art sketches for the release of the seminal 1944 film noir. Executed variously in graphite, charcoal, and gouache on onion skin paper, each leaf tipped on to card stock at the corners, some with annotations at the...
Hollywood: The Selznick Company, 1959. Leatherbound presentation copy of Second Draft script for the 1962 film. Presented to studio executive David O. Selznick, with his initials in gilt on front board. Henry King's adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic final novel, and his final film as well. King was...
Paris: Jolly Film, 1967. Original French petite poster for the 1967 French film. Monsieur Hulot first came to the attention of the world during his beach vacation in "Monsieur Hulot's Holiday" (1953), then reappeared in a modern French neighborhood in "Mon Oncle" (1958). The third feature finds him in the...
Burbank, CA: Palomar Pictures, 1969. Vintage borderless double weight photograph of Woody Allen's mug shot, from the 1969 film. Woody Allen's first film as a director, one of the great American comedies, the film that set the template for Allen's 1970s work. A massive archive documenting the birth of an...
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1941. Vintage double weight studio still photograph of hapless Henry Fonda and beguiling Barbara Stanwyck from the 1941 film. Rubber stamp on the verso, dated December 4, 1940, indicating that Hollywood Advisory Council (i.e., Hayes Office) has approved the photo as not being scandalous. 8 x 10...
Paris: Intermondia Films, 1959. Archive of 69 vintage borderless single weight keybook contact sheets, amounting to nearly 800 numbered images, for the 1959 French-Italian film, here under a working title, "Le clochard." Much of the film is represented in minute detail, along with test shots, set design shots, and many...
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Bensenville, IL: Open Skull Press, 1966. First Edition. One of "no more than" 400 copies. Published by Douglas Blazek's Open Skull Press, and INSCRIBED by Bukowski to Blazek in the year of publication on the inside front wrapper: "For Doug Blazek / As if a man don't have just enough...
Soviet Union: Mosfilm, 1983. Vintage borderless photograph from the set of the 1983 film, showing director Andrei Tarkovsky striking a contemplative pose while behind the camera. With a holograph ink notation on the verso identifying the film. The only vintage photograph of the great director at work on location we...
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1972. Vintage oversize borderless double weight black and white photograph from the 1972 film. An amazing image, showing Max von Sydow looming above—and seemingly beyond—a very possessed young Linda Blair. One of the great genre films of the 1970s that accomplished the uncommon feat of being...
New York: Random House, 1974. First Edition. REVIEW COPY, with a photostat (not a Xerox) of the publisher's review slip laid in. The last of Westlake's 1970s Parker novels under the Stark pseudonym, and one of the scarcest. A lovely copy. Fine and unread in a Near Fine dust jacket...