Los Angeles: Essex Productions, 1979. Final Draft script for the 1984 horror film. Copy belonging to makeup artist John Carl Buechler, with his name in holograph ink on the title page and two Polaroid photographs laid in. Six friends are stalked and murdered while on a camping trip. Shot on...
N.p. N.p., 1981. Vintage photograph of William Burroughs and John Giorno at the Fifth International Convention of The Freudian Movement at The Plaza Hotel, New York, 1981. With a typed description on the verso. Giorno was an American poet and performance artist, best known for his early multimedia poetry experiments and...
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Culver City, CA: Faces Music / Columbia Pictures, 1970. Vintage oversize double weight photograph of Ben Gazzara on the set of the 1970 film. 9.25 x 12.25 inches. In an archival mat. Near Fine.
N.p. N.p., 1928-1932. An archive of 6 extraordinary autograph letters signed, 5 in French and 1 in English, by the pioneering film director Georges Melies, generally considered to be one of the inventors of narrative cinema, revealing a great deal about his little-discussed but profoundly important origins in the Robert-Houdin...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1955. Five vintage candid reference photographs from the 1955 film, showing variously, actors Marlon Brando, Frank Sinatra, composer Frank Loesser, and director Joseph L. Mankiewicz on the set. The first photo, double weight, shows Marlon Brando, as Skye Masterson, surreally socking one of his gangster...
Berlin: Verlag Ernst Wasmuth, 1924. First Edition. Very Good plus without dust jacket. Moderate fading to the extremities of the blue cloth boards, with some light dampstaining to the front board and a few underlines in red pencil to the text. Bookplate to the front pastedown. Contains black and white...
N.p. N.p., 1955. Vintage script for the 1955 Broadway play, which debuted at the Morosco Theatre on March 24 and ran for 700 performances. Copy belonging to an unknown crew member, with their holograph pencil annotations to virtually every page, noting stage blocking and deletions. One of Tennessee Williams' most...
Los Angeles: Triune Films, 1980. First Draft script for the 1980 horror film. Accompanying the script is a bi-fold two-color card program issued to the press upon the film's release. One of the strangest American horror films of 1980, largely unseen until a pair of restorations brought it back to...
New York: Signet Books, 1952. First printing of this edition. INSCRIBED by Caldwell to the publisher: "To Kurt Enoch / with the grateful thanks of Erskine Caldwell." The first paperback printing of the Broadway play, based on Caldwell's novel, with a new introduction written by Caldwell. Photo-illustrated with stills from...
London: The Other Cinema, 1983. Two vintage reference photographs from the 1983 French documentary film. With printed label snipes on the verso specific to the film's UK release. A loose, experimental meditation on memory, told through the stream of consciousness of a world traveler. Shot in Japan, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde, Iceland...
N.p. N.p., 1962. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Monica Vitti sitting on a sofa and staring into the existential void, from the 1962 film. "ROMA's Press Photo" stamp on verso, with address in Rome for same. The third and final chapter of Michelangelo Antonioni's trilogy, preceeded by "L'Avventura" (1960), starring...
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1967. First Edition. First issue jacket with a price of $5.95 and a Wallace Stegner blurb on the front flap, and a photo of Stone on the rear jacket panel. The author's first book. Warmly INSCRIBED by Stone to fellow author Chris Offutt in the year of publication...
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1955. Revised Final Draft script for the 1956 film. Copy belonging to the script supervisor, Adele Cannon, profusely annotated throughout in holograph ink and pencil. Included is a studio still photograph from the film, featuring the Creature and people in peril. Third installment in the...
New York: Anchor Press / Doubleday, 1976. First Edition. INSCRIBED in Swedish by director and author Ingmar Bergman on the front endpaper, and rare thus. Remainder spray to bottom page edges, else Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Lightly soiled boards and endpapers. Jacket is soiled at the verso...
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...
London: Warwick Film Productions, 1960. First Draft script for the 1960 UK film. File copy belonging to the film's director Ken Hughes, with a typescript note tipped on to the title page requesting its return to the director and noting it is the only script in existence for the film...
Santa Ana, CA: RKO Radio Pictures, 1942. Final Draft screenplay for the 1942 film. Copy belonging to legendary screenwriter Dudley Nichols, inscribed by Nichols to L.A. Times film critic Phil Scheuer on the title page: "By Dudley Nichols / Confidential! / For Phil Scheuer from D. Nichols—with admiration." Nichols' ownership...
Hollywood: Icon Entertainment, 1994. Draft script for the 1995 film. An early draft, produced prior to the film having an association with Mel Gibson's production company, Icon Entertainment International. Winner of five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, and nominated for another five, including Best Original Screenplay. Orange...
San Diego: San Diego Timing Association, 1951-1964. Archive of vintage programs, bulletins, flyers, and newspaper clippings published by and relating to the San Diego Timing Association, a foundational sanctioning organization in US drag racing. In postwar America, the return of risk-loving, unmarried ex-GIs with advanced mechanical skills and extra money to...
N.p. N.p., 1974. Vintage oversize double weight still photograph of Diana Ross from 1974. Photographer's rubber stamp to the verso. Featuring Ross sitting in a chair, a striped jacket thrown over the back. Ross is considered the most successful female musician in history, with 70 hit singles both from her...
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Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1970. Draft British script for the 1971 UK film. Working copy belonging to actress Billie Whitelaw, SIGNED by Whitelaw on the front wrapper, with her holograph annotations throughout in pencil and red and blue ink. Included are four vintage black-and-white still photographs from the film...
N.p. N.p., Circa 1968. Archive of manuscript material for Rudolph Wurlitzer's 1968 debut novel "Nog," including a complete first draft of the novel, showing significant differences from the published version and with an unpublished final chapter, and over 300 loose manuscript pages, both with extensive holograph annotations throughout. As complete...
N.p. N.p., Circa 1950s. Two vintage matte-finish, hand-tinted color photographs of Josephine Baker performing onstage in Lausanne, Switzerland, circa 1950s. Both photos signed in holograph pencil by photographer Henry C. Bovet on the bottom right corner, with the additional notation "Lausanne." Baker moved to France in 1925, where she quickly...
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Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1934. Draft script for the 1934 film, here under the working title "Honor Bright." In an attempt to go straight, a con man and his girlfriend take in his young daughter, who has been living with his deceased wife's wealthy family. One of Shirley Temple's earliest...
Tokyo: Toho Company /, 1973. Draft script for the 1973 Japanese film. Based on the 1972-1973 manga written by Kazuo Koike and Kazuo Kamimura. The story of a woman with a sword in the end of her umbrella who seeks vengeance against the men who murdered her father and raped...
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...
Los Angeles: Fox Film, 1933. Revised Shooting Final script for the 1933 film. Based on the Broadway play by John L. Balderston, an American (Howard) sails to England to marry his cousin, follow the American victory in the war of independence. 149 years later, his descendent with the same name...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the front flyleaf. With a publisher's "Autographed Copy" sticker to the rear flyleaf. A memoir by the four time Academy Award winning actress, extensively photo-illustrated throughout. Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket.
Bryn Mawr, PA: Theodore Presser, 1958. First American Edition, and first English language edition, originally published in Austria in 1955 by Universal Edition. First issue of an eight issue journal by composers and theorists Karlheinz Stockhausen and Herbert Eimert. Each issue focused on a single topic in contemporary music, this...
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers / Seven Arts, 1969. Six vintage temporary tattoos issued as a promotional item for the 1969 film. With the both the original envelope housing the tattoos, and a Warner Brothers mailing envelope addressed to film critic, photographer, and poet Michael S. Dworkin. The decals are inspired...
Paris: Bernard Grasset, 1926. First French Edition, preceding all others. Copy No. 1 of seven copies on Japon, numbered 1-5, and two hors commerce copies numbered HCI and HCII. Warmly inscribed by the author on the half title page: "a Monsieur Brun / qui a si cordialement accueilli mon debut...
Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou / Herscher, 1983. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Klein to Ira Lowe on the half-title page: "to Ira, / a little catalog not made, heureusement in USA (see page 7) / All my best / Bill." Ira Lowe was a Washington, DC based lawyer who specialized in the...
New York: W.W. Norton, 1968. First Edition. An obscure American popular music autobiography, wherein Otis relates his integration as a Greek-American musician into the Watts Negro community of the 1930s and 40's, as well as his adventurous life beyond that time. Otis was one of the most successful bandleaders of...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1928. Archive of 94 vintage, double weight photographs from the 1928 film. Inspired by the 1919 nonfiction travel book by Frederick O'Brien, and retaining much of that work's anti-imperialist themes, about an alcoholic doctor who is set adrift by white traders after objecting to their...
Paris: Les Films du Carrosse, 1959. Original French Grande poster for the 1959 film. Poster design by Boris Grinsson. Truffaut's auspicious debut, winner of Best Director at Cannes, nominated for the Palme d'Or, and also nominated for a Best Original Screenplay Oscar the following year. 47 x 62 inches27 x....
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...