N.p. N.p., 1983. Original handwritten manuscript draft for the 1984 novel. With Ellroy’s profuse and expectedly surgical corrections to his own text throughout, and with substantial content that did not make the published edition. With a letter of provenance from Ellroy’s then-editor and publisher Otto Penzler, tying the manuscript directly...
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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...
Oxford, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 1990. First Edition. One of 100 lettered copies (this being No. 41) SIGNED by both Barney Imes and Richard Ford, with Ford contributing the introduction. A stunning color monograph of the juke joints of Mississippi, birthplace of the Delta blues, many of which have...
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...
New York: Dial, 1969. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page. The author's first book. Jacket design by Tuba Studio. Very Good plus in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Slight spine lean, front board slightly bowed. Light rubbing to the jacket, with toning to the spine...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1940. Final Script for the 1940 film musical, "Tin Pan Alley," directed by Walter Lang, based on the story "Life is a Song" by Pamela Harris, written for the screen by Robert Ellis and Helen Logan, and starring Alice Faye, Betty Grable, Jack Oakie, and John...
New York: Vanguard, 1959. First American Edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page. The Nobel prize winning author's first book, and basis for the 2001 film directed by Ismail Merchant. Near Fine in a strong Very Good plus dust jacket. Faint splash to the top page edge. Jacket...
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 inches (119...
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 Peter Falk's shadowed countenance. Along with "Faces" (1968), considered to be one of the groundbreaking director's most important and uncomfortable films, a painfully intimate...
Chicago: Ziff-Davis / Alliance Books, 1943. First Edition. Association copy, lengthily INSCRIBED in the year of publication on the front endpaper to fellow screenwriter Walter C. Roberts, citing New York City as his currently location and noting in part: "I have not forgotten... how instrumental you were in launching me...
Neuilly-sur-Seine, France: Societe Nouvelle de Cinematographie (SNC), 1965. Collection of 16 vintage lobby cards for the French release of the 1965 film. The set is housed in its original titled brown paper envelope from the film's distributor, Societe Nouvelle de Cinematographie (SNC). Based on the 1962 novel "Obession" by Lionel...
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1977. First Edition in hardcover. SIGNED by the author on the half title page. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Just a touch of foxing to the top page edges, and slightest fading to the jacket spine. An attractive copy. Travis McGee.
Los Angeles: Pan Arts / American Broadcasting Company [ABC], 1987. Shooting script for the 1988 film comedy. Director George Roy Hill's working copy, with his typically profuse holograph notations throughout, as well as handwritten drafts and drawings for establishing shots, scene setups, screen credits, sequences, ideas, etc. Also included are...
New York: Dial Press, 1958. First printing of this edition (first published in 1929). INSCRIBED by W.R. Burnett to press agent and Hollywood figure Jimmy Starr in the year of publication on the second blank: "Apr 14 '58 / Dear Jimmie / Here's the new edition of Little Caesar. I....
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1971. First Draft script for the 1972 film. Copy belonging to character actor Randy Jurgensen, with his name in holograph blue ink to the title page, also noted as copy No. 71 in green holograph ink to the right of same. Jurgensen played the main henchman in...
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1947. Archive of seven vintage single and double weight fashion publicity photographs from the 1947 film. Mimeograph snipe on the verso of a few photos notes the Jean Louis clothing designs for the film. Photographers’ rubber stamp also to the versos. Based on the 1938...
Yokohama, Kanagawa: Kurosawa Production Co., circa 1980. Draft script for the 1980 Japanese film. Holograph pencil notations 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 City: Plymouth Theatre, 1954. Draft script for the 1954 play. With holograph notations throughout. The two-act play first opened on Broadway at the Plymouth Theatre on January 20th 1954 and ran for a total of 415 performances closing January 22nd, 1955. Based on Wouk's 1951 Pulitzer Prize winning novel...
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1936. Vintage sepia toned double weight photograph from the filming of the 1936 Universal Studios newsreel "You Can't Get Away With It." Shot in the office of J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the FBI, on October 14, 1936, the photo shows Hoover filming his Assistant...
New York: La Mama ETC, 1975-1976. Archive of four posters from productions hosted by La Mama Experimental Theatre Club, including "Fragments of a Trilogy" (Andrei Serban & Elizabeth Swados, 1975), "A Rat's Mass" (Adrienne Kennedy & Cecil Taylor, 1976), "Anais" (Tom O'Horgan, 1976), and "Quarry" (Meredith Monk, 1976). Founded in...
N.p. N.p., circa 1960. Archive of scripts for an unproduced film version, circa 1960, of the Dostoevsky novel. Included are a plot summary, typescript draft, and draft script for an unproduced film, based on Fyodor Dostoyevsky's 1866 novel. Archive belonging to director Robert Rossen, with his holograph notations throughout. A....
Crescent City, FL: New Athenaeum Press, 1967. First Edition. Issued in green and gray wrapper variants (no priority), this being the gray variant. INSCRIBED and DATED in the year of publication by the author on the front endpaper with typical aplomb: "To Les Dubinas / I hope you all like...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1957. American one sheet film poster for the witty 1950s romantic comedy, "Designing Woman," directed by Vincente Minnelli, written for the screen by George Wells, and starring Gregory Peck and Lauren Bacall. Style B, with striking original illustration of Bacall and Peck by Kapulick. Folded...
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Stockholm: Svensk Filmindustri, 1961. Original Swedish photographic style poster for the 1961 Swedish film. The first entry in Bergman's legendary and highly personal "Faith" trilogy, which won the director his second Best Foreign Film Oscar, and defined what came to be called his "chamber dramas." A young woman is released...
Hollywood: RKO Radio Pictures, 1941. First Edition, large quarto. The deluxe annual for RKO Studios' 1942-1943 season, billed as RKO's "Victory Program," to commemorate the studio's World War II efforts. Featured in this annual are full color advertisements for Disney’s "Bambi," as well as 18 single-reel Disney featurettes, two Tarzan...
Culver City, CA: Kelso Film Productions / Columbia Pictures, 1976. First Draft script for the 1976 film. Issued a full 18 months prior to shooting. Based on the 1975 novel by Jack Higgins. Colonel Steiner (Caine) is a German soldier sent to England to abduct the British Prime Minister, Winston...
Beverly Hills, CA: Apple Corps / United Artists, 1970. Original one sheet poster for the 1970 film documentary. Some have claimed that "Metallica: Some Kind of Monster" (2004) was the first documentary to inadvertently document the deconstruction of a rock band, but Michael Lindsay-Hogg beat them to it by 34...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1931. Proposed Treatment script for the 1935 film. In a later white leatherette binding with Jean Harlow's name and the date of the treatment (Dec. 15, 1931) in gilt on the front board and the spine. Original front wrapper bound in. Based on the 1931...
Paris: Robert et Raymond Hakim / Sud-Films Distribution, 1967. Vintage black-and-white borderless still photograph of Catherine Deneuve and director Luis Bunuel on the set of the 1967 film. With the French producer's stamp on the verso ("Robert et Raymond Hakim"), and a printed list of credits in French. Buñuel's first...
N.p. N.p., 1987. Original two-color DayGlo silkscreen poster for a performance by Psychic television at the Electric Ballroom in London held on September 24, 1987. Poster designed by Psychic television founder and frontman Genesis P-Orridge. An event that marked the end of Psychic television's first incarnation, with Alex Fergusson as...
Tokyo: Film Art Association, 1949. First Draft script for the 1949 Japanese film noir. Holograph ink and pencil notations on two leaves. Text in Japanese. Generally considered to be the greatest film noir made in Japan, and hugely influential on American film noir of the 1950s and 1960s. White titled...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1938. Temporary Complete script for the 1939 short film, one of several classic shorts featuring the great Algonquin Round Table humorist Robert Benchley. A stereotypically clueless husband is left in charge to show his apartment to a prospective subletting couple while his wife is at...
N.p. N.p., 1966. Original manuscript for a draft of legendary singer-songwriter James Taylor's early song, "Knockin' Around the Zoo," composed shortly after his stay at the Belmont Psychiatric Hospital for severe depression when he was 17 years old. To the best of our knowledge, this is the earliest known handwritten...
Santa Barbara, CA: Cordelia Editions, 1982. First Edition. One of 15 roman-numbered copies issued (this being No. III), SIGNED by both Kenneth Millar and Margaret Millar. Brief owner notation on the rear endpaper, now partially erased, else Fine in full blue leather, with a photo of the two authors with...
New York: Atheneum, 1976. First Edition. Lengthily INSCRIBED on the front flyleaf in the year of publication: "9 July, 1976 / To Joan Alhadeff - The realest lady of all the real ladies / To Morrie Alhadeff - Half angel, half hustler, all street, and all smart - / With...
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Los Angeles: Metro Pictures Corporation, 1921. Collection of six vintage production photographs from the lost 1921 film. Based on the short story "The Offshore Pirate" by F. Scott Fitzgerald, first published in the "Saturday Evening Post" on May 29, 1920. Actress Viola Dana's second film based on a F. Scott...