Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1934. Early Draft script for the 1934 film. One of the earliest printed scripts for the film, produced for review by executive producer David O. Selznick, and at 140 pages a good deal longer than the final version, which runs 93 minutes. While not noted...
London: Vic Films / Governor Films, 1962. Final British Script for the 1962 film, based on the 1960 novel. Along with "Billy Liar" (1963), which he would make the following year, John Schlesinger's first feature film is perhaps the quintessential document of middle-class life in Northern England during the early...
N.p. N.p., Circa 1970s. Original typescript screenplay for an unproduced film called "After the Fall," based on Arthur Miller's 1964 play about a Jewish intellectual living in New York. Miller's play opened on Broadway in 1964, at the ANTA Washington Square Theatre, ran for 208 performances, and closed on May...
Berlin: Film-Kurier, 1924. Original German programs for duology "Die Nibelungen," one each for "Die Nibelungen: Siegfried" and "Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge." Based on the thirteenth century epic poem "Nibelungenlied." Text in German. Film-Kurier was the first German film journal, published daily beginning in 1919. Film-Kurier's classic era lasted until 1933...
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Los Angeles: Privately printed at the Pueblo Press, 1939. First Edition, one of a limited edition of 250 copies (this being no. 156). This copy additionally INSCRIBED by cinematographer and film historian Charles G. Clarke, who wrote the introduction, to director Richard Fleischer on the second blank: "For Richard: /...
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New York: Harper and Brothers, 1955. First reinforced library Edition (meaning the edition issued to libraries by the publisher, as opposed to an ex-library copy), with "REINFORCED LIBRARY EDITION" stamped on the front jacket panel across Harold's belly. Jacket is first issue, but price clipped by the publisher (again, as...
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: Darien House, 1977. First Edition. Author, actor and huckster historian Ricky Jay's first book, a hilarious, photo illustrated treatise on the use of playing cards as weapons, with chapters on technique, practice, stunts and self-defense. The scarce cloth edition (a simultaneous softcover edition was also published). Fine in...
New York: Random House, 1949. First Edition. A play that became the basis for the blistering and important 1951 film noir, directed by William Wyler and starring a young and very angry Kirk Douglas. Fine and unread in a Near Fine dust jacket. A collector's copy, with spine coloring and...
N.p. N.p., 1982. Vintage double weight photograph of artist Joseph Beuys, shot in 1982 by photographer Klaus Behr. With Behr's stamp on the verso. At this time Beuys was approaching the height of long delayed recognition on an international level. The Guggenheim Museum held a major retrospective in 1979, ultimately...
N.p. N.p., 1979-1997. Archive of 22 pieces of correspondence between writer Larry Gelbart and director Robert Parrish, consisting of nine typescripts, six of which are INSCRIBED, plus three autographed letters signed, one typed letter signed, and six autographed notes from Gelbart to Parrish, as well as three outgoing carbons of...
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New York: Harcourt, Brace, and World, 1966. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Cliff Robertson, who portrayed the title character in the 1968 film adaptation of Keyes' novel, "Charly." Basis for the 1968 film, Charly, considered by many to be Cliff Robertson's finest performance. In a custom clamshell box. Fine in a Fine...
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. Around this time the Barrons were beginning to experiment with committing electronic...
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, Circa 1976. Early Draft script for the 1977 film. At 200 pages, this draft is 36 pages longer than the longest of the three we have encountered, meaning almost certainly that it is a First Draft or very close. The plot of William Friedkin's suspense thriller...
N.p. N.p., 1937. Draft script for the 1937 film. Character of Mary Field, with the actress' name, Suzanne Kaaren (uncredited in the final film), written in, at the bottom of the cast list on the "CAST" page, with a few pages with minor proofreading emendations in holograph pencil. Screenplay divided...
N.p. N.p., 1961. Five vintage borderless photographs from the New York premiere of Harold Pinter's play, "The Caretaker," in October 1961. With a stamp crediting photographer Sam Siegel on the verso of each photo. Included with mimeograph snipes for the photos and a mimeograph letter from the play's producer Harvey...
France: Champs-Elysees Productions / Lux Film, 1960. Archive of 19 borderless reference photographs from the 1960 film. Ten of the photographs depicting crew at work on the set, four of which feature director Franju. Three photographs with the stamp of photographer P. Brard on the verso. Based on the novel...
N.p. N.p., 1984. Draft script for the 1984 stage musical. Copy belonging to an unknown cast member, who played Smollett, with his lines noted in holograph pencil. A musical based on the 1883 adventure novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. One of the most frequently dramatized novels about pirates and piracy...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1953. Revised Shooting Final script for the 1954 film. Actor Van Heflin's copy. Includes a 10-page shooting schedule. Loosely based on the St. Albans Raid, the northernmost land action of the American Civil War. The film took great liberties, changing both the time and motivation for...
La Rochelle, France: 1975. Original poster for the 1975 stream-of-consciousness opera directed by Robert Wilson, for its debut in La Rochelle, France in 1975. Known for his deep concern for the use of language in his work, this piece is characteristic of Wilson's explicit attention to detail. In the play...
N.p. N.p., Circa 1937. Vintage photograph of a young Judy Garland, circa 1937, shortly after she and her mother moved to Hollywood after she received her first contract from MGM. It was around this time that she first teamed with Mickey Rooney in "Thoroughbreds Don't Cry" and "Love Finds Andy...
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N.p. The Landau Company, 1963. Draft script for the 1968 film. As early as 1950 there was talk of adapting Carson McCullers' 1940 debut novel "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" for the screen. In 1963 producer David Susskind took over Jose Quintero's attempt at adapting the novel, which began...
Tokyo: Toho Company, 1960. Draft script for the 1960 Japanese film. Holograph ink and stamp on the outer page edges. Production designer's script, with holograph underlining on numerous pages regarding objects needed for a given scene (swimsuits, sun cream, summer kimonos, Persian cat, etc.) Other annotations, in the same hand...
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...
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...
Gentilly, FR: Ateliers Lalande, 1962. Original French poster for the 1962 British film. The early 1960s take on Gaston Laroux's novel, done in Hammer horror fashion. A very accessible version and probably the least ponderous, little seen today but considered second only to the 1925 Lon Chaney version by cinephiles...
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Rome: Albert and Charles Boni, 1951. Original Italian program for the 1951 film, based on the novel "Toto il buono" by Cesare Zavattini. SIGNED by De Sica at the bottom of the title page. One of the director's classics, pure visual storytelling, made just after "Bicycle Thieves" (1948) and just...
London: Hammer Films, 1971. Revised Draft script for the 1972 British horror film, here under the working title "Blood Will Have Blood." With holograph annotations throughout that include additions to description and changes in dialogue. A classic from the Hammer canon, and the last film Hammer made in conjunction with...
New York: Park Place Gallery, 1967. Poster advertising an early performance by Steve Reich at Park Place Gallery in New York on March 17, 18, and 19, 1967, also featuring Max Neuhaus performing and "distributing" a new piece called "BI-PRODUCT" (currently listed on Neuhaus' website as "By-Product," in contravenance of...
Mexico City: Ultramar Films, 1952. Draft script for the 1954 Mexican film. Included is a typed letter signed from the film's producer Edward L. Alperson, on his custom rough-edged stationery, discussing the possibility of distribution within the US. Distribution was eventually taken on by United Artists, and Daniel O'Herlihy received...
Culver City, CA: Tri-Star [TriStar] Pictures, 1984. Revised Final script and shooting schedule for the 1984 film. Copy belonging to an uncredited crew member, with his holograph annotations throughout in blue ink. Doc Jenkins (Willie Nelson) is an aspiring singer/songwriter whose ambition is thwarted by a bad contract with a....
N.p. John Erwin, 1953. Two vintage oversize double weight photographs from the premiere of the 1953 play. Both photos feature a very young Louis Gossett (who later changed his stage name to Louis Gossett, Jr.), and one features African American actress and singer Maxine Sullivan. Both photos credit photographer John...
New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1913. First Edition. SIGNED by Biggers on the front endpaper. Near Fine lacking dust jacket. Gilt intact on front board and spine, tissue guard frontis intact. Neat owner stamp to front endpaper, else a lovely copy of the author's first book. Housed in a custom paper slipcase.
Boca Raton, FL: Penthouse, 1973. Vintage oversize, double weight, borderless still photograph from the 1973 film, based on the 1947 novel by Andrew Lytle. Shot, struck, and mounted by the film's still photographer, Bob Willoughby, with a holograph notation in his hand on the verso. Full provenance available. Culp and...
N.p. N.p., 1966. Vintage program from Otis Redding's 1966 tour, where he headlined the "Winter Carnival of Stars," which also included Aaron Neville, James and Bobby Purify, The Marvelettes, The Original Drafters, Lorraine Ellison, Sad Sam, and comedian Irwin C. Watson. With a full page photograph and biography of each...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1927. Shooting script for the 1928 film. Original typescript with descriptive text in black type and intertitles in red type. Holograph ink and pencil annotations on the front wrapper, noting starring performers, draft type, and crediting screenwriter Meehan. With a few annotations in holograph pencil...