Hollywood: Hollywood Studio, 1936. Revised Final Shooting Draft script for the 1936 film, here under the working title "Love Flight." Annotations on front wrapper of "File Copy," "1710.1F," revision dates, four lead actors, release title and strike through working title, all in graphite, red, and blue holograph pencil. Noted director...
N.p. N.p., 1985. Vintage borderless photograph of Christo Vladimirov Javacheff in his studio, New York City, 1985. Snipe, agency and photographer's stamps, and holograph annotations on the verso. Christo Vladdimirov Javacheff and his wife Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon worked together on environmental artworks for nearly 50 years. Christo is pictured here...
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Beverly Hills, CA: The Where's Poppa Company, 1969. First Revised Draft script for the 1970 film. Based on the 1970 novel. A stark black comedy in which Gordon, stuck caring for his senile mother, becomes increasingly frustrated with his inability to have a love life due to her interference. The first...
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1927. Vintage hand color tinted lobby card for the 1927 silent film. Pictured are a curly haired Louise Brooks, looking past an oblivious Wallace Beery and toward a typically sly Adolphe Menjou. Based on the French play "L'homme en habit" ("The Man in Evening Clothes) by Andre...
N.p. Delpire, 1966. Collection of three vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1966 film. Both with the stamp of Tele-Magazine on the verso. An anarchic satire of the fashion industry directed by a true insider, Vogue magazine's longtime fashion photographer William Klein. Dorothy McGowan (in her first and only film...
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Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1941. Complete script for the 1943 film. The fourth Steinbeck script to be adapted in as many years. Not as well known today as "The Grapes of Wrath" or "Of Mice and Men," but still a wonderful, warm adaptation of what is perhaps Steinbeck's lightest...
Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1995. Two truly striking vintage reference photographs taken on the set of the 1995 film. With holograph pencil and ink annotations regarding layout and the printed label of the film's still photographer Phillip V. Caruso to the verso. Shown in the two photographs are Scorsese working...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1931. Draft script for the 1932 film, based loosely on Edgar Rice Burroughs' novel "Tarzan of the Apes." Two black and white reference photographs for the film also laid in. The first of Weissmuller's twelve Tarzan films, and the first appearance of Cheeta, Tarzan's chimpanzee...
Los Angeles: Gershwin-Kastner Productions, 1965, 1967. First Draft script and a Revised Estimating script for the 1968 film. The First Draft script is early, written well over two years before the film's release. The Revised Estimating script is on all yellow stock, except for distribution page (white), and pink "This...
Tokyo: Gendai Eigasha, 1969. Draft script for the 1969 film. Front wrapper notes a date of 1969 and credit as a Gendai Eigasha production. The second page is a elegaic introduction to the film story: "On the erotology and insurrection of sugi Sakae, who wrote of dancing as flowers strangled...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1938. First Edition. Association copy, INSCRIBED on the second front endpaper by Irving Berlin: "To / Dorothy Hechtlinger / with my best / Irving Berlin." A scarce promotional songbook issued by Twentieth Century-Fox in connection with their successful 1938 musical film "Alexander's Ragtime Band." Dorothy Hechtlinger was...
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Milwaukee, WI: Hal Leonard, 2007. First Edition. A history of the iconic amplifiers, profusely photo-illustrated throughout in black-and-white and color. Near Fine, with minor rubbing to the boards, without dust jacket as issued.
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New York: E.P. Dutton, 1968. First Edition. One of 1500 copies printed. INSCRIBED by Andrew Sarris on the front endpaper. Very uncommon to find signed. "The American Cinema" introduced auteur theory to America when it was published in 1968, and sparked a long and famous debate on the topic between Sarris...
N.p. N.p., 1969. Vintage oversize double weight candid photograph of Alan Arkin, Art Garfunkel, and Martin Sheen on the set of Mike Nichols' "Catch-22" in 1969. Shot and struck by the film's still photographer, Bob Willoughby. The photographer has written at the top of the verso, in holograph pencil: "Candid...
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London: Routledge, 1938. First Edition. A fictitious "autobiography" of a London prostitute, written by Greene and Matthews under a pseudonym to avoid political scandal. The book was withdrawn from the market by the publisher after warnings were issued by various moralistic institutions in England, and the first edition remains very...
N.p. N.p., Circa 1959. Two vintage borderless photographs of writer Ernest Hemingway and a friend at a bullfighting match, circa 1959. With holograph annotations regarding layout to the verso, along with the stamps of Tele-Magazine, Radio Magazine, and Dalmas press agency. Hemingway made several visits to Spain throughout his life, including...
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Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1957. First Draft script for the 1960 film. Copy belonging to associate producer James H. Ware with his name on the front wrapper, and his annotations throughout in holograph pencil and ink. Ware was a major presence in British and American cinema, best known for...
N.p. N.p., Circa 1960s. Vintage oversize borderless double weight reference photograph of Elvis Presley with a horse on the set of an unknown film, circa 1960s. With the stamps of photographer Bill Avery and editor Bud Fraker on the verso, along with a holograph pencil annotation noting "965-8". Bill Avery...
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London: N.p., Circa 1969. Draft script for the 1969 film. An early version of the screenplay with the provisional title "A Kestrel for a Knave." "6x" in black holograph marker on top right of title page. The second film (and breakthrough) by esteemed British social realist filmmaker Ken Loach. Based upon...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1948. Vintage still photograph from the set of the 1948 film. Featuring Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland laughing together in conversation, while then-toddler Liza Minnelli tugs on her mother's hand in the foreground. Mimeograph snipe and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer rubber stamp to the verso. A highly fictionalized...
Redding, CT: C.E. Ives, 1922. First Edition. A self-published volume of songs by Charles Ives, selected from a volume published earlier the same year, titled "114 Songs." Like "114 Songs," this was printed for distribution among the composer's friends, and judging from the small number of copies in world libraries...
N.p. N.p., 1961-1968. Archive of 48 vintage photographs of car accidents scenes in the Columbia County, New York area, from the years 1961-1965, 1966, and 1968. With the stamp of Lee's Studio in Chatham, NY on the verso of the majority of photographs, along with occasional holograph annotations. Most photographs...
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Los Angeles: Melville Productions, 1959. Revised Shooting Final Draft script for the 1959 film, belonging to actor Martin Landau, his screen debut, housed in paper envelope bearing Landau's name, film title, script, and "Will pick up at the gate" on label. Annotations of Landau's name and character's name, written on...
N.p. N.p., 1960. Two vintage reference photographs on the set of the 1960 film. Both with "Cinema Verite" and "London Express News" stamps on verso and one with mimeo snipe on verso. A young woman finds herself standing trial for the murder of her lover, forcing her to reflect on...
Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1991. Revised Draft script for the classic 1991 film comedy, with rainbow revisions. Two metalhead best friends who run a no-budget public cable television show find their lives turned around when a sleazy producer purchases the rights to their show for his prime time network. Based...
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1961. Vintage photograph from the 1961 film. An image with an intentional" trick of the light," showing Monroe playing paddle ball as a crew member runs a cable in foreground. A famously difficult shoot, and just as famously, the final film of both Gable's and...
New York: New York University Press / Halifax: The Press of Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 1974. First Edition. First issue wrappered binding, without the UNIVERSAL EDITION notation on the spine, and without the added note about typographical corrections by Reich at the end of his Introduction. Association...
N.p. N.p., 1987. Vintage script for the 1988 Broadway play, which premiered on May 3, 1988 at the Royal Theatre and ran for 279 performances. David Mamet's incendiary take on the world of Hollywood movie-making, a black comedy that stands alongside Nathanael West's "The Day of the Locust" in the...
UK: Warwick Film Productions, 1960. Collection of 35 vintage, double weight, reference photographs from the 1960 film. One photograph showing actors Yvonne Mitchell and Peter Finch relaxing on the set, a second photograph with holograph annotations regarding layout on the verso. A dramatization of the libel and criminal cases involving...
Beverly Hills, CA: Crown International Pictures, 1969. Original title card maquette hand lettered by Harold Adler for the 1969 film. Harold Adler was a calligrapher who created hand lettered titles on over 100 films, worked frequently with Alfred Hitchcock, and was a favorite of legendary title sequence designers Saul Bass...
Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1967. Collection of ten vintage photographs, including eight borderless reference photographs, one borderless promotional photograph of Paul Jones and Jean Shrimpton, and one promotional studio still photographof the same, from the 1967 film. Nine of these with a mimeo snipe on verso, one with additional “David...
Los Angeles: Warner Brothers / Reprise Records, 1964. Original artwork assemblage for the US stereo release of The Kinks’ classic 1964 debut album, "You Really Got Me," released by Reprise Records in November 1964. The photograph and design were made by Klaus Schmalenbach for the Warner Brothers / Reprise Records...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1933. Collection of 70 vintage double weight reference photographs from the 1933 film, including seven of cast and crew at work on the set, three of which feature director Tod Browning. Also included is a later print of a fourth image of Browning on the...
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1939. Master File script for the 1940 film "The Great McGinty," seen here under the working title, "Down Went McGinty," corrected in red pencil to "The Great McGinty." This revision contains an appropriately unusual and rather whimsical foreword by Sturges, with two earlier titles, "Biography of a....
Paris: The Obelisk Press, 1937. First Edition. Author's non-numbered presentation copy, boldly inscribed by Henry Miller to William Saroyan in the year of publication: "To / Bill Saroyan / the everlasting Armenian with the pneumatique gift! / Always yours, / Henry Miller / Paris / 8/12/37." A wonderful association between two...
Los Angeles: Lorimar, 1979. Second Draft Screenplay for the 1981 film. Copy belonging to actor Jim S. Cash, who played one of the Twin Oaks tavern customers, with his ownership name in holograph ink on the front wrapper. Various editorial annotations throughout in holograph ink and pencil. Directed by Bob...