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...
Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1977. First Draft script for the 1979 film, here under the working title "The Windsor Project." Toxic environmental waste creates a mutant bear that terrorizes the Maine countryside. Set in Maine, shot on location in Crofton, British Columbia. Black titled wrappers. Title page present, dated 12/25/77...
London: Cinema 5, 1977. Early Draft British script for the 1977 comedy directed by Terry Gilliam, based on the poem by Lewis Carroll from "Through the Looking Glass" (1871). Terry Gilliam's first solo directorial effort after co-directing "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" with Terry Jones. A comedy in the...
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...
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...
Tokyo: Kurosawa Production Company, 1960. Shooting script for the legendary 1961 Japanese film. Working copy belonging to Omura Senkichi, who played a small role as a traveling servant in the film, with his name on the front wrapper and his annotations throughout. Though not credited as such, based thematically on Dashiell...
Los Angeles: Studio Films, 1955. Complete set of 8 vintage two-color lobby cards from the 1955 film. Each of the lobby cards features one of the African American starring performers, and each card advertises the Poverty Row studio, Studio Films, and the short-lived film process "WonderColor," used to make it...
New York: William Morrow, 1934. First Edition. Warmly INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper: "To Noni / With best from the boss / Erle Stanley Gardner." According to Dorothy Hughes' biography of Gardner, Noni Bibler was one of Gardner's early assistants. Near Fine in a Very Good example...
Secaucus,NJ: Citadel Press, 1985. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Woody Allen on the half title page: "To Pierre Goulliard / 17 July 1987 / Woody Allen." An in-depth, film-by-film exploration of the themes, characterizations, and technical aspects of Allen's career as a writer and director, up to and including "The Purple...
N.p. N.p., 1928. Vintage double weight photograph from the set of the 1928 film. Shown are Dreyer and his crew, including cinematographer Rudolph Mate, setting up a ground shot of one of the film's French clergymen. A rare photograph of the director at work on his masterpiece. The film was...
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Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1955. Vintage studio still photograph of Lillian Gish and Charles Laughton on the set of the 1955 film. Annotations in holograph pencil, "Library Dell Publishing," "Life Story 1953," and four overlapping "Everett Collection" stamps, all on verso. Based on the 1953 novel by David Grubb...
N.p. N.p., 1957. Draft script for an unproduced film. Holograph ink on front wrapper, noting title, screenwriter Leonardo Bercovici, and a story based on Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1860 novel. Bercovici's screenwriting credits include; "The Bishop's Wife" in 1947, starring Cary Grant, Loretta Young and David Niven, and "Portrait of Jennie," in...
New York: N.p., Circa 1957-1959. Draft script for the 1959 play. Copy belonging to producer Stanley Chase, with his name and address to a sticker on the title page. The script contains the printed lyrics for every musical number, with dialogue and stage direction interspersed. Arlen's original 1946 musical, "St...
Beverly Hills, CA: Lorimar Productions / AVCO Embassy Pictures, 1969. Revised Final Draft script for the 1971 film. Copy belonging to Phil Abramson, set director for the film, with his name in holograph ink on a couple of pages, and holograph annotations throughout. Laid in is a folded photocopied shooting...
N.p. N.p., 2004. Vintage double weight photograph of Amos Vogel, taken by Gerard Malanga and gifted by Malanga to Vogel in 2004. Malanga's trademark name blindstamp is at the bottom right corner of the image, and he has inscribed the verso: "Amos Vogel, founder of Cinema 16 / October 22...
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London: Chambers, 1935. First Edition, preceding all others. A phenomenally popular novel in the UK and Ireland upon publication, and basis for the iconic 1952 John Ford film, "The Quiet Man," starring John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara. The UK edition went well into multiple printings, the small first printing having...
New York: Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS], 1948. Treatment script for an unproduced film, as well as a produced radio broadcast script for the May 25th,1948 CBS radio adaptation. Holograph ink on front wrapper, noting title, screenwriter Daniel Tardash, and story based on the 1946 novel by Isak Dinesen (writing under...
Paris: Trinacra Films, 1977. Vintage double weight photograph from the set of the 1977 film, shot by still photographer Etienne George. Shown are director Francois Leterrier and his crew to the left on a dolly, and actress Sylvia Kristel on the right in a state of semi-undress. The last film in...
New York: The Monacelli Press, 1995. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Rem Koolhaas on the title page, in the year after publication: "To Rochelle / Rem Koolhaas / 1-2-96." Koolhaas' magnum opus, a profusely illustrated guide to his process. Conceptual in its design and execution, much like the architect's work. Near Fine...
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London: Alan Ross, 1969. First Edition. Near Fine Fine in a lightly rubbed, Near Fine dust jacket. Boards very slightly bowed, a touch of foxing to the top page edges. The author's remarkably scarce fourth novel, easily his scarcest, republished by Mysterious Press in 2011.
Burbank, CA: American Broadcasting Company [ABC], 1969. Collection of 217 individually numbered contact sheets, amounting to 2650 images, from the 1969 film. Housed in two original three-ring binders from the film's publicity department. The occasional frame is circled or crossed through in red marker. A robust collection that documents nearly...
Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1989. First Edition. An important monograph on the American farm subculture in the southwest United States. From the collection of abstract expressionist Alfonso Ossorio, with his ownership signature on the half title page. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Jacket has...
Burbank, CA: Amblin Entertainment, 1983. Eighth Draft script for the 1984 film, with 19 additional goldenrod revision pages laid in. Copy belonging to an unknown crew member, with their name in holograph ink on front wrapper and the first page of the revision. Copied hole shadows but with script and...
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1957. Revised Final script for the 1958 film. Based on the 1947 play "For Love or Money" by F. Hugh Herbert. Presentation copy belonging to producer Ross Hunter, bound in full navy calf with gilt titles and design, with Hunter's name on the front board...
N.p. Various, Circa 1966-1996. Archive of material from the estate of Michael Dreyfuss, violinist for progressive folk-rock band McKendree Spring, including material spanning over four decades, with the majority of the material dating from the band's heyday in the 1970s. This listing includes 15 posters, 817 pages of material from...
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London: Chatto and Windus, 1936. First UK edition, and first English-language edition. The film director's first novel, the only English language edition, and with no US equivalent. The story involves a film star who becomes lost in his own character, and devises a scheme to make a film with God...
USA: Woodstock Editions, 2001. First Edition. One of 200 numbered suites of 15 six-color offset prints, each print SIGNED by Hans Gissinger. These are from Gissinger's monograph, published simultaneously by Woodstock Editions in 2001. 25 x 39 inches, 111-lb. paper. Fine condition. An exquisite production. Shipping billed at cost.
New York: Praeger, 1970. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Cage in 1971 to Ellsworth Snyder: "for Ellsworth Snyder, / with admiration and friendship / John Cage, Madison '71." Ellsworth Snyder and Cage were longtime friends. Snyder performed the composer's work on many occasions, perhaps most infamously at Cage's much-protested 1965 appearance...
N.p. N.p., 1964. Collection of five vintage, oversize, borderless photographs and two contact sheets (with 59 images) of the Thelonious Monk Quartet in performance at the La Maison de l’ORTF (Office de Radiodiffusion-Television Francaise) in Paris on February 23, 1964. Photographs with the stamp of photographer Alain Dessalles on the...
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N.p. Filmes Cinematografica, 1976. Collection of 3 vintage borderless photographs from the 1976 film. Grazia Neri stamps on the verso. Jancso's "Private Vices, Public Pleasures" is loosely based on the death of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, believed having killed himself after shooting his lover in a suicide pact in...
Paris: Parc Film, 1964. Vintage borderless photograph of Jacques Demy and Catherine Deneuve on the set of the 1964 French musical. With extensive holograph annotations in blue marker and the production company's rubber stamp on the verso. Genevieve (Catherine Deneuve), works at her widowed mother's umbrella boutique and Guy (Nino...
Burbank, CA: American Zoetrope / Warner Brothers, 1971. Vintage black-and-white oversize double weight still photograph from the 1971 film. Shown are George Lucas and an assistant setting up a shot of Robert DuVall, with Lucas placing calipers on DuVall's head. With the Warner Brothers studio stamp on the verso, along...
N.p. N.p., Circa 1957. Draft script for an unproduced film. Copy belonging to Ben Colman, after previously being owned by screenwriter Maxwell Shane, with both of their names and addresses on the first page. Based in part on an adventure story by Daniel Defoe. The film opens with a man...
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."...
Paris: Cinedis, 1960. Original black-and-white photographic lobby card from the 1960 film, "Testament of Orpheus," Jean Cocteau's final work in the cinema. The last film in Cocteau's "Orphic" trilogy, following "The Blood of a Poet" (1930) and "Orphee" (1950). The only film in the trilogy featuring Cocteau himself, as an...
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Denver, CO: Wiseman Film Productions, 1964. Original one sheet poster for the 1964 film. Only one style of the poster is known to have been issued for its initial release. A seminal film from many points of view. The second feature to be directed by Shirley Clarke. Clarke's goal was...