Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1965. Draft script for the 1966 film. Presentation copy belonging to actress Juanita Moore, bound in full red leather, with twelve reference photographs from the film tipped in, and containing two inscriptions from actress Debbie Reynolds. The first inscription by Reynolds, on the verso of...
N.p. N.p., Circa 1979. Draft script for an unproduced film, likely a first draft. Based on James Crumley's 1978 gritty masterwork of crime fiction, featuring Crumley's recurring detective C.W. Sughrue scouring America's sleazy underbelly in search of a girl gone missing from Haight-Ashbury a decade earlier. After Walter Hill's critical and...
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1953. Final Draft script for the 1954 film. Actor Van Heflin's copy. Safari guide Van Heflin is hired to hunt murderer Abel McCracken in the wilds of Africa, though the guides motives may go beyond his assigned task. Pink titled wrappers, noted as Final Screenplay...
Beverly Hills, CA: Faces, 1974. Original poster for the US premiere of the 1974 film at Columbia I and Columbia II on 2nd Avenue at 64th Street in New York. Cassavetes had only screened the film at two festivals prior to the date advertised here, the San Sebastian Film Festival...
Florence, MA: Red Trillium Press / Aqui en la lucha, 2009. First Edition. One of a deluxe edition limited to 50 copies (this being No. 15) signed by the photographer Eduardo Hernandez Santos, with two signed original prints all housed in a gray clamshell case. A photographic exploration of one...
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1947. Original Pressbook for the 1947 film noir. A little-seen noir with an interesting history. Based on the 1940 film, "The Letter," which is in turn an adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's 1926 short story of the same title (first collected in "The Casuarina Tree"). Written...
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1933. Vintage studio still photograph of John Barrymore, Carole Lombard, and Walter Connolly, from the 1933 film. Based on the 1932 play by screenwriters Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, which itself was based on the unproduced play "Napoleon of Broadway" by Charles Bruce Millholland. An...
N.p. N.p., Circa 1965. Vintage press photograph of Diana Rigg as Emma Peel, the iconic female character in the classic British television series, "The Avengers." Here Rigg stands on a polar bear skin rug laid out near the shoreline of an unknown British locale. Shot by photographer Terry O'Neill to...
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Los Angeles: J.E.R. Pictures, 1961. Original one sheet poster for the 1961 film. A rare artifact from the second of eight nudism-related films produced and directed by the prolific sexploitation director Doris Wishman. Working with a large sum of inherited money, two scientists build a rocket to take them to...
New York: Andy Warhol Film, 1967. Vintage poster for the 1967 film. The film originally screened at the Hudson Theater in a 95 minute version, although this cut is considered lost. A 109 minute version would screen in 1968 as the first film shown at the New Andy Warhol Garrick...
N.p. N.p., 1965. Archive of four vintage black-and-white double weight still photographs from the 1966 film. Shot and struck by special photographer John Bryson. The photographs feature Frankenheimer, actor James Garner, and cinematographer Lionel Linden. Bryson was a photojournalist for Life magazine and many other publications, and was also a....
Paris: Various, 1946-1964. Collection of 19 original French programs for French, German, Italian, and Spanish films, with a single US film, here under the original French titles, 1946-1964. All feature color wrappers, some illustrated with color stills from the film, and highlights include "Madame du Barry" (1954, Christian-Jaque), "Madame Butterfly"...
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Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1928. Draft script for the 1928 silent film. Lon Chaney is an undercover police detective who attempts to catch a thief notorious for slipping out of criminal charges by killing any witnesses set to testify against him, though Chaney can't help but simultaneously get wrapped...
New York: David Merrick Arts Foundation, Circa 1975. Draft script for the 1975 Broadway production, which premiered October 30, 1975 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, for a run of 156 performances, closing on March 13, 1976. Numeric annotation in holograph pencil on front wrapper, and copy No. 4 noted in...
N.p. N.p., 1959. Hand tinted woodcut by Kurt Seligmann in 1959 as a Christmas card, titled "Moor," SIGNED and dated in pencil by Seligmann just below the image, and further INSCRIBED to Amos Vogel: "We loved your card - with Jean Durand! / Season's greetings / Arlette and Kurt." Kurt Leopold...
New York: Francis Productions, Inc, circa 1968. First Draft script for the 1968 film. Copy belonging to Frank Perry, with his name in red holograph ink on the title page. Perry considered making the film, but it was ultimately directed by Christian Marquand. This draft is credited solely to Southern...
New York: Powerhouse, 2001. First Edition. Review copy with publisher's slip laid in. SIGNED by the photographer on the title page. Fine and unread without dust jacket as issued.
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1966. Final Draft script for the 1967 film. James Coburn returns as Derek Flint in this James Bond-styled spy spoof sequel to "Our Man Flint" (1966). Flint's boss assigns him to stop a group of women on the Virgin Islands who hope to take over the...
Paris: Productions Sigma, 1939. Vintage double weight photograph from the 1939 film. Shot and struck by the film's still photographer Raymond Voinquel, with his name in tiny print at the bottom left corner of the image, and the film title at the bottom right. A striking image, shot from the...
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1952. Original US program for the 1952 film. Autobiographically reflective of Chaplin's fears of being left behind in the fading vaudeville and silent film era, "Limelight" depicts the final years of a washed up stage clown who briefly maintains an impossible relationship with a young...
Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1947. American Post-production Continuity and Dialogue script for the 1947 film. With holograph ink annotations throughout. US mimeograph duplication of the British post-production script (so noted on the title page), with the annotations mostly having to do with deleted scenes. An interesting document showing direct evidence...
Beverly Hills, CA: Copley Galleries, 1948. First Edition. One of 500 copies issued. INSCRIBED by the author and artist on the front endpaper: “For Charlotte [Bebe] and Louis Barron. Cordially, Man Ray, Hollywood, 1949.” An exceptional avant-garde association, and in one of the strangest alphabet books ever published. Around this...
London: British Nation Films, 1942. Original British program for the 1942 film. A fascinating piece, in that it consists almost entirely of a long transcription by Pressburger of the true-life narrative by Sir George Corbett, which forms the basis for the film. Photo illustrations from the film throughout. Saddle-stapled illustrated...
N.p. N.p., Circa 1960s. Collection of seven vintage black and white photographs of a performance by El Teatro Campesino at the Village Theatre in New York, circa 1960s. With printed mimeo snipes affixed to the verso, along with the stamp of photographer Marion Bernstein. From the archive of the PIX...
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Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1965. Final Draft script for the 1966 film. Secret agent Derek Flint is a smooth-talking Renaissance man—martial arts master, polyglot, ballet dancer—who works for the international intelligence agency Z.O.W.I.E. When several fellow agents are discovered mysteriously murdered, his agency tasks Flint with finding and stopping the killers...
New York: Random House, 1948. First Edition. REVIEW COPY, with a publisher's review slip in red type, specific to this title, laid in. With a typed note signed from Ben Washer of Paramount Studios to actress Mary Nash, on Paramount stationery, affixed to the front pastedown. The note describes how...
N.p. N.p., 1951. Vintage double-weight photograph of a 19 year-old Elizabeth Taylor selecting new wallpaper and drapery fabrics for her apartment. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso, along with a Photoplay Library stamp dated April 9, 1951 and a small holograph annotation in ink regarding cropping. 8 x....
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Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1969. Collection of nine vintage borderless studio still photographs from the 1969 film. Mimeo snipe on verso. Based on the 1965 novel by James Leo Herlihy. A classic and a cornerstone film of the New Hollywood cinema. Would-be gigolo Joe Buck (John Voight) and ailing...
Neuilly-sur-Seine, France: Gaumont, 1916. Vintage double weight matte finish still photograph from the legendary 1916 silent film serial. With the Gaumont logo at the lower right corner. The last of Feuillade's three film serial masterpieces, preceded by "Fantomas" (1913) and "Les Vampires" (1915), combining elements of both its predecessors. In...
New York: New Directions Books, 1950. First Edition of Tennessee William's 1950 play, profusely annotated for a 1959 West End production. Copy belonging to actor-director-producer Sam Wanamaker, with his holograph annotations throughout. Red boards, worn overall, with Wanamaker's name inscribed in holograph black ink to the front board. Includes a....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. First Edition. INSCRIBED to Richard Lupoff on the front endpaper in the year of publication: "For Dick Lupoff / Best of luck to a fellow Creature-Feature fan / Anne Rice / May, 1976." Anne Rice was still attending school in San Francisco at this time...
N.p. N.p., N.d. Typescript draft for an unproduced film. A soldier's father is killed when witnessing a gang hit in Los Angeles and the soldier, on 30 day leave from his tour in Vietnam in order to attend his father's funeral, is out for revenge. A blunt condemnation of violent gangs...
N.p. Recorded Picture Company, 1978. Revised Draft British script for the 1978 film. Winner of the Prix de Jury at Cannes, and nominated for the Palme d'Or. Based on the short story by Robert Graves. Soundtrack by Michael Rutherford and Tony Banks of the progressive rock band Genesis. A quiet, chilling...
New York: Viking Press, 1939. First American Edition. Basis for the 1945 espionage film directed by Herman Shumlin, and starring Charles Boyer, Lauren Bacall and Peter Lorre. Very Good plus in a Very Good dust jacket. Slight lean, with light soiling to the spine, and residue from sticker removal to...
N.p. N.p., 1928. Two vintage oversize photographs from the first stage production of "The Front Page" in 1928, showing two different trio shots of the reporters who grace the majority of the play. The first photo, a double weight 8 x 10 by Florence Vandamm with her blindstamped name on...
London: Allen and Unwin, 1920. First edition, first issue with type broken on page 35, line 32. Some offsetting to the second blank, some fading to the book spine, still easily Near Fine in an about Fine dust jacket with light rubbing at the spine ends. A very nice copy...