Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1927. Shooting script for the 1928 film. Original typescript with descriptive text in black type and intertitles in red type. Holograph ink and pencil annotations on the front wrapper, noting starring performers, draft type, and crediting screenwriter Meehan. With a few annotations in holograph pencil...
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1926. First Edition. Near Fine in a Very Good or better example of the rare dust jacket. Jacket has tiny chips at the corners and is frayed at the spine ends, with some clear archival reinforcement at the verso. Still presents quite well. A classic British...
Hollywood: Allied Artists Productions, 1956. Draft script for the 1957 film noir, here under the working title "Night Target." A strike through the printed title and "Footsteps in the Night" and "1956" written in holographic ink on the wrapper with the name of an uncredited crew member written in holograph...
Burbank, CA: Armada Productions / Warner Brothers, 1959. Original illustrated Japanese B2 poster for the 1959 film. One of the best and most entertaining Westerns ever made, from the standpoint of cinematography, dialogue, story, economy, direction, and fine acting. Howard Hawks develops his story mainly with interior shots, avoiding close-ups...
London: Gaumont, 1935. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the UK release of the 1935 film, a shot of stars Robert Donat and Madeleine Carroll in one of the film's less stressful moments. Hitchcock's adaptation of Buchan's novel proved, as usual, to be an improvement on the source material, adding two...
Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, Circa 1922. Draft script for the 1922 film. With holograph ink and pencil annotations to the front wrapper, noting the year ("1922"), "446", and "only copy", and the signature of an unknown crew member at the top right corner of the first page. A rare script...
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1955. Revised Final Draft script for the 1956 film, with rainbow revisions. Released just two years after "On the Waterfront" (1954), the multi-award-winning collaboration between Elia Kazan and Budd Schulberg, and based on Budd Schulberg's 1947 novel about a once respected sportswriter now forced to...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1970. Collection of five vintage reference photographs from the 1970 film. Four of the photographs have been trimmed, three with partially trimmed mimeo snipes on the verso, Antonioni’s great American experiment, and the only film the director ever made in the United States, written for...
Paris: Gallimard Serie Noire No. 185, 1953. First French Edition, preceding all others. Basis for the classic 1955 French heist film, "Rififi," one of the classics of noir, directed by Jules Dassin. Extremely scarce in the original hardcover binding, much more so in dust jacket. Very Good plus in a....
Los Angeles / London: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1950. Final Shooting script for the 1951 film, here under its working title, "No Highway." Profusely annotated by a studio secretary on the inside rear wrapper, over time, regarding at least eight script revisions, with dates ranging from 10/4/50 to 11/13/50. Based on the...
Los Angeles: Republic Pictures, 1957. Early Draft script for the 1957 film, "The Beginning of the End," directed by Bert I. Gordon, based on a story by Gordon (indicated here, though not credited in the film), written for the screen by Fred Freiberger and Lester Gorn, and starring Peter Graves...
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1957. Second Revised Final script for the 1957 film. Director Michael Curtiz's presentation copy, in tan leather with gilt titles and Curtiz's name at the bottom right corner of the front board. A highly fictionalized portrayal of the life and career of Prohibition era torch singer/actress...
Burbank, CA: Walt Disney Productions, 1969. Revised First Draft script for the classic 1971 Disney film, "The Million Dollar Duck," here under the working title, "Mr. Webfoot Waddle." Based on a story by Ted Key, notable writer who created the famous time-traveling duo, Mr. Peabody and Sherman, both regular characters...
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Atelier 41 / New World Pictures, 1975. Original Polish poster for the 1975 film, designed by B. Tankowska. Director Akira Kurosawa had long been a fan of V.K. Arsenyev's nonfiction account of his travels in the Ussuri basin in the Russian Far East, during which Arsenyev encountered and befriended a....
London: Maclehose Press, 2008. First Edition. Spine ends very lightly bumped, else Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket. Basis for the Swedish television series and resulting film trilogy released in 2009, and for the upcoming American version by director David Fincher.
Boston: Little, Brown, 1964. Advance Preview Edition, preceding the First Edition. Publisher's review slip laid in. Promotional publication of two stories by the author, "Florence Green is 81" and "Me and Miss Mandible," in anticipation of Barthelme's first book, a collection of stories. Loose leaves, mimeograph. Fine, housed in original...
Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1969. Collection of six vintage oversize borderless photographs from the 1969 British film. With holograph annotations and an agency stamp on the verso of each. One of the best heist films of the twentieth century: funny, complex, and altogether beautiful to watch. Michael Caine and Noel...
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1933. Draft script for the 1933 film "Song of the Eagle," seen here partially under the early working title "The Beer Story." Presentation copy belonging to uncredited producer Harry Joe Brown, with his name in gilt titles to the front board, presumably gifted to Brown by prop...
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1962. Vintage oversize, double weight, borderless still photograph from the 1962 film, showing directed Quine scrutinizing the setup of a dinner scene with Jack Lemmon and Kim Novak. Based on the short story "The Notorious Tenant" by Margery Sharp, first published by "Colliers" in 1956...
Venice, CA: Blum Group, 1977. Third Draft script for the 1978 film. A Hollywood agent has racked up huge gambling debt and needs to quickly pay back the bookie. He organizes a group of talented skateboarders and enters them into a major competition with a $20,000 prize. Shot on location...
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.
New York: Paramount Pictures, 1971. Second Draft script for the 1972 film. Laid in are a staff and crew list, and a photocopied (as issued) six page inter-office memo on Paramount letterhead regarding contract terms for Marlon Brando, dated February 9, 1971. With a notation of copy No. 11 in...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1966. First Draft script for the 1967 film "Tony Rome," here under the working title "Shamus." Based on the 1960 novel by Marvin H. Albert. Paul Brenner of Allmovie.com notes: "Frank Sinatra brings a sneering Rat Pack ethos to his first hard-boiled detective role in Tony...
Burbank, CA: American Broadcasting Company [ABC], 1964. Five Draft scripts in deluxe presentation bindings for the 1961 television series. Stella Stevens' personal copies. Episodes represented include: "Autumn Without Red Leaves," "But Who Shall Beat the Drums," "You Fish or You Cut Bait," "A Bird in the Solitude Singing," and "August...
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London: Black Dog Publishing, 1999. First Edition, originally issued as a trade softcover original. This copy rebound by Wiering Books in gray cloth with black titles and rule and an original Throbbing Gristle thunderbolt patch inset onto the front board. Artistically INSCRIBED by Throbbing Gristle frontman and COUM founder Genesis...
New York: Signet Books, 1954. No. 1152. First printing of this edition. INSCRIBED by the author to Signet Books founder Kurt Enoch: "To Kurt Enoch / Another in a series which I hope will ever grow longer and longer / James M. Cain / Hyattsville, MD / August 22, 1954."...
Hollywood: Lawrence Schiller Productions, 1981. Feature Draft script (television equivalent of a Shooting script) for the 1982 television film, which originally aired November 28, 1982 on NBC. Based on the 1979 Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Norman Mailer, who adapted his own book for the screen, about the final years in...
Paris: Les Films de la Pleiade, 1962. Collection of four vintage borderless photographs from the 1962 film. With holograph annotations and rubber stamps on the versos. Based in part on the nonfiction study "Ou en est la prostitution" by Marcel Sacotte, who also contributed to the screenplay. Godard’s least “intellectual”...
Hollywood: Security Pictures, 1957. Revised Draft script for the 1958 film, "Island Women," here under the working title, "Calypso Island." Copy belonging to actress Marie Windsor, with her name in holograph ink on the first page of text, annotations in holograph pencil and ink throughout, one page noting scene wardrobe...
N.p. N.p., circa 1969. Original ribbon copy typescript for Tay Garnett's screenplay adaptation of Mickey Spillane's 1967 novel. Profusely annotated by Garnett in blue and red ink on every page, and with a annotations by him at the top right corner of the first leaf: "First Draft (Work Copy)," "Screenplay...
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1980. Early Draft script for the 1980 film, with Roman Polanski credited as screenwriter on the title page. The screen credit ultimately went to Mann Rubin, who rewrote the script extensively. Based on the 1973 novel by Lawrence Sanders. Notable both for being one of...
New York: Atheneum, 1974. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Jean Renoir on the title page: "To Dan and Estelle Rocklin. / Best wishes, / Jean Renoir." Garson Kanin writes of the book: "Jean Renoir's book is a Jean Renoir film. I can think of no higher praise." Renoir went from sitting...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1939. First American Edition. Near Fine in a Very Good plus, price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket shows only a few small chips and tiny closed tears at the extremities, with some light evidence that there was once some reinforcement at the verso, now professionally removed. Basis...
New York: Coward-McCann, 1958. First American Edition. First issue, tan boards and price of "$3.50" on the front jacket flap. REVIEW COPY, with slip and author photograph laid in. Photograph by Avakian. Southern's first novel. Light foxing to the top edges and jacket verso, and a hint of toning to...
Paris: Robert et Raymond Hakim / Sud-Films Distribution, 1967. Vintage black-and-white borderless press photograph of director Luis Bunuel with cinematographer Christian Matras and the cast on the set of the 1967 film. With a European press agency stamp on the verso ("Photo exclusive / EUROPANEWS"), a date stamp of April...
Hollywood: RKO Radio Pictures, 1940. Final script for the 1941 screwball comedy film. A key film in the American screwball comedy cycle, with proletarian elements deftly woven into a hilarious, smart, and blizzard-paced story. Nominated for two Academy Awards, including Best Screenplay. Cantankerous tycoon John P. Merrick (Charles Coburn) goes...