Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists / The Bound for Glory Company, 1975. Revised script for the 1976 film, "Bound for Glory," directed by Hal Ashby, based on the autobiography of Woody Guthrie, written for the screen by Robert Getchell, and starring Robert Getchell (screenwriter); David Carradine, Ronny Cox, Melinda Dillon...
Worcester, MA: Metacom Press, 1985. First Edition. One of 500 copies (this being No. 196) SIGNED and numbered by Gorey. Prospectus for the edition laid in. A cut-apart style book in illustrated tan wrappers with two side-stitched spines. The book is "read" by independently flipping the captions and illustrations on...
Los Angeles: Chocolate Chip / Pinto, 1973. Final Draft script for the 1974 blaxploitation film. Copy belonging to an unknown crew member, with their holograph pencil and ink annotations throughout, many noting camera cuts and props to be used during production. Four estranged cousins (three black, one white) convene at a....
Los Angeles: Samuel Goldwyn Company, 1984. Style A one sheet poster for the 1984 film. First issue, printed in black and brown (later reproductions are in black and white) and measuring 27 x 41 inches. Later reproductions measure 40 inches in length. This variant shows the film's trio in and...
N.p. N.p., 1957. Collection of six vintage photographs, five showing the exteriors of RKO Studios buildings, including the Administration Building, RKO-Pathe Studios, and the entryway gate in the 1930s and 1950s, and one showing a 1957 reception given for the new heads of RKO Pictures, Thomas O'Neil and Walter E....
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Marseille: Les Films Marcel Pagnol, 1935. Vintage double weight reference photographs from the 1935 film, showing director Jean Renoir and actors Charles Blavette and Celia Montalvan on location during filming of the 1935 film. With the stamps of photographer Roger Corbeau and Cinemonde to the verso. Renoir's seventh sound film, and...
Paris: Mara Films, 1974. Vintage French theatrical poster for the 1974 film, "Lancelot du lac" (released in the US and UK as "Lancelot of the Lake") directed by Robert Bresson. Bresson’s bloody take on the King Arthur legend was an expansion of the aesthetic he had already developed, where the...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1960. Vintage oversize borderless black-and-white double weight press photograph from the set of the 1960 film. Shot by Jean Schmidt for the French magazine Cinema, with stamps for both parties on the verso. A cinematic experiment tailor made for Welles, in which three actors portray two...
Chicago: The Reilly and Britton Co., 1917. First Edition. Blank book-style yearbook (largely still blank) belonging to Elizabeth Floding with numerous inscriptions and well wishes from various students and faculty, including a four-line Gellett Burgess poem written to Floding by Margaret Mitchell: "I never saw a purple cow, I never...
Paris: Viaduc Productions, 1974. Vintage oversize borderless reference photograph from the 1974 film, showing actress Jane Birkin in a plaid miniskirt, but no top, freezing in an unheated Paris apartment. With holograph annotations regarding layout on the verso, along with a mimeo snipe, a collector stamp, and a stamp dated...
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers / First Artists / Coleytown / Turman-Foster, 1974. Revised Final Shooting script for the 1974 film. Based on the 1950 Lew Archer novel by Ross Macdonald. Private investigator Harper (Newman) returns in this sequel to the eponymous 1966 film, investigating a blackmail plot in a Louisiana...
Boston: Little, Brown, 1938. First Edition (Arundel Edition), one of 1075 copies (this being No. 618) SIGNED and numbered by both Kenneth Roberts and illustrator N.C. Wyeth. This copy is additionally inscribed by Kenneth Roberts to legendary director John Ford: "Doubly inscribed for John Ford / with the admiration of...
Yokohama, Kanagawa: Kurosawa Production Co., circa 1980. Draft script for the 1980 Japanese film. Holograph pencil annotations throughout regarding casting, including the use of professional or amateur actors, as well as a notation regarding lead actor Katsu Shintaro, who was fired on the first day of shooting. The story of...
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1946. Advance Reading Copy, preceding the First Edition. About Fine in illustrated wrappers. Just a hint of toning, brief offsetting at the front endpapers from something once laid in, and light rubbing at the spine ends. Basis for the well-loved 1948 film comedy starring Cary...
N.p. N.p., 1969. Single page, carbon typescript (the original letter presumably sent to Burroughs, this copy from Southern's estate), single spaced, with several typeovers. A friendly, sassy letter to Burroughs, beginning with an expression of Southern's great anticipation of a visit from Burroughs: "Buzz along the rialto has it that...
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Tokyo: Shinchosha Company, circa 1988. Preparation Draft script for the 1988 Japanese animated film. Based on the semi-autobiographical 1967 short story by Akiyuki Nosaka. Text in Japanese. A draft script of the film, in which the ending had not yet been finalized. "Grave of the Fireflies" follows the final days...
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1978. First American edition, and first edition in hardcover. INSCRIBED by Truffaut on the half-title page in the year of publication: “To Laurie / Sincerely yours / Francois / 78 August 3.” Truffaut's third and final book, an absolute must for any film lover, comprised...
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...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1970. Revised Draft script for the 1971 film. SIGNED by director William Friedkin on the title page. Friedkin made his name with this gritty adaptation of Robin Moore's non-fiction account of east coast drug trafficking. Perhaps the greatest of the many 1970s crime films that were...
Beverly Hills, CA: Faces, 1974. Original one-sheet poster for the 1974 film. One of four variants issued by Cassavetes' production company Faces, Inc., this variant picturing John Cassavetes, Peter Falk, and Gena Rowlands as part of its design. Along with "Faces" (1968), considered to be one of the groundbreaking director's...
Culver City, CA: RKO Radio Pictures, Circa 1934. Draft script for the 1935 film. In a custom quarter leather clamshell box. The second of two films based on Liam O’Flaherty’s 1925 novel, the first being Arthur Robison’s 1929 British feature, about a former Republic Army member during the Irish War of...
New York: William Morrow, 1937. Uncorrected Proof, preceding the First Edition. Good to Very Good in publisher's self-wrappers, with a publication date of April 12, 1937 and projected price of $2.00 rubber-stamped on the front endpaper. Spine lean and roll, vertical creasing to the spine panel, small stain to the...
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. Roger Corbeau, 1962. Two oversize double weight still photographs from the set of the 1962 film. Each shot and stamped by still photographer Roger Corbeau, and with unique rubber stamped reference numbers, on the verso. "Le proces" (released as "The Trial" in the UK and the US) was co-produced...
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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Paris: Gaumont, 1987. Vintage oversize borderless photograph of Jean-Luc Godard from the 1987 film. With holograph annotations on the verso. An experimental film that irreverently mixes genres, twisting together a broad range of references to literature, film comedy, and the history of cinema. Starring Godard himself as a filmmaker, thus...
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985. First Edition of the author's first book. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Jacket is extremely bright, with a touch of rubbing at the spine ends and corners.
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...
Tokyo: Shinchosha, Circa 1988. Draft script for the 1988 Japanese animated film. Text and titles in Japanese. Based on Akiyuki Nosaka's semi-autobiographical short story, following the final days of two Japanese children during World War II. Nosaka purportedly heartily approved of the choice to adapt his story as an animated...
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Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1928. Archive of material from the 1928 film. From the estate of actor Monte Blue, who starred in the film. Included in the archive are a carbon typescript draft script, here under the working title “Southern Skies,” four vintage photographs, each with a mimeo snipe...
New York: Tams-Witmark Music Library, Circa 1947. Draft script for the 1947 Broadway musical, which debuted on January 10 at the 46th Street Theatre. Copy belonging to an uncredited cast member, Donald Burr, with his name in holograph pencil annotation to the title page and annotations to virtually every page...
London: ITC, Circa 1971. First Draft script for the 1972 British television film which aired on ABC on January 15, 1972 and was theatrically released in Europe. Copy number "29" in holograph marker on title page. This early First Draft was written by screenwriter Philip Levene, best known for his screenwriting...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1946. Final script for the 1946 film. Based on the 1944 comedic mystery novel by Craig Rice, about the children of a widowed mystery novelist attempting to solve a murder in their neighborhood with the help of a handsome police lieutenant. Blue titled wrappers, noted as FINAL, rubber-stamped...
Paris: Denoel, 1952. First French Edition (and correct first). INSCRIBED by Narcejac on the front endpaper and signed by Boileau just below. A French review copy, with the necessary PRESSE punch-stamp present on both the rear panel of the jacket and the book. An absolutely pristine, extraordinarily well-preserved example. "Celle...
Los Angeles: Selznick International Pictures / Vanguard Films, 1934-1948. An archive of 7 scripts, including rough drafts, screenplays, post-production scripts and support documentation for the 1947 film, "The Paradine Case," directed by Alfred Hitchcock, based on the 1933 novel by Robert Hichens, written for the screen by a host of...
New York: Frissell and Macdonald Productions, Circa 1976. Draft script for the 1976 play, which premiered on May 18, 1976 at the Little Theatre for a run of 396 performances, closing on October 30, 1978, copy number "#13" written in holograph marker on top right of title page. Inspired by the...