1980. Draft script for the 1980 stage version of "Harold and Maude," adapted by Colin Higgins from his 1971 novel and screenplay. Actress Ruth Ford's copy, effusively inscribed to her on the title page by Higgins, actress Janet Gaynor (who played Maude, 23 years after her last film appearance), Keith...
Paris: Dargaud Films, Circa 1976. Draft script for the 1976 French-British film. Based on the "Asterix" comic book series by writer Goscinny and illustrator Uderzo, a series that began in 1959, serialized in Pilote magazine, and ran until Goscinny's death in 1977, afterwards written by Uderzo until 2009. The series...
New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1968. Vintage poster for an exhibition of work associated with an unrealized Christo project, intended to wrap the New York Museum of Modern Art. INSCRIBED by the artist on the poster in orange crayon: "For Betsy Jones / Christo 1968." In early 1968 Christo and...
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1971. First American edition in hardcover in a first issue jacket, with a code of 971 at the top right corner of the front flap, and a price of $5.50 at the bottom of same. Near Fine in a bright, Near Fine dust jacket. Bookplate on the...
San Francisco: Terry Zwigoff, 1988. First Draft script for an unproduced film, based on R. Crumb's cartoon character "Sassy, the female sasquatch." A project that was in development three years after Zwigoff's first film (a documentary about Howard "Louie Bluie" Armstrong), and preceded by six years the documentary about R. Crumb...
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Philadelphia: Janus Press, 1962. First printing of this edition. Slim quarto, printed in Monotype Bembo on Okawara paper. One of 45 numbered copies (this being No. 35) SIGNED by the illustrator, Kaplan. Copy belonging to poet Denise Levertov, with both her name in holograph ink and a white owner label...
Syracuse, NY: Everson Museum of Art, 1971. Original tabloid sized advertisement for a retrospective exhibition of Ono's work held at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, New York from October 9 - 27, 1971. The exhibition contained new and old work by Ono, as well as contributions by Lennon...
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1965. Original silkscreen poster designed by legendary title and poster artist Saul Bass for the 1965 US film. Printed at the Art Krebs Screen Studios in Los Angeles, with a copy of the original receipt included. Bass' initial design proposals were, in general, too radical for film...
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Japan: Toho Company, Ltd., 1964. Original Japanese B2 poster for the 1964 film. A masterpiece of 1960s Japanese cinema, based on the novel by Kobo Abe, which Roger Ebert described as a modern turn on the myth of Sisyphus. A schoolteacher, on an expedition to collect insects that inhabit sand...
Los Angeles: 1963. Promotional broadside, designed to resemble an oversized postcard, for the Los Angeles premiere of Adolfas Mekas' feature film debut, "Hallelujah the Hills," along with the debut of Kenneth Anger's short film, "Scorpio Rising." Mekas was the brother of Jonas Mekas, a film critic, filmmaker, and essentially father...
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Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1942. Final Script for the 1942 film comedy, "The Magnificent Dope" (here under the title "The Magnificent Jerk"), directed by Walter Lang, written for the screen by George Seaton, and starring Henry Fonda and Don Ameche. Don Ameche runs a Dale Carnegie-esque "success school" that...
Rome: Titanus, 1962. Two vintage single weight, borderless photographs of Claudia Cardinale and Alain Delon on the set of director Luchino Visconti's 1963 film, "Il Gattopardo" (noted as "The Ghepard" on the verso). Shot in 1962 during production. The first photograph pictures Cardinale and Delon in a heated moment, while...
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1953. Final White script for the 1954 film. A truly bizarre drama, set in South America in 1901, wherein chocolate plantation magnate Heston must put off divorcing his feisty new bride in order to allow her to help him stave off an invasion by a legion of...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1981. Revised First Draft script for the 1982 film. Laid in is a photocopied MGM memorandum from Steven Spielberg addressing the confidentiality of the "Poltergeist" project. Red numeric watermark on each page as called for. A quintessential entry in the horror film oeuvre, "Poltergeist" tells...
London: Jarrolds, 1932. First UK Edition, and first printing in English. An edition of this title so rare that we had been heretofore unaware of its existence, issued under the publisher's Jay Library series, at a price of 7/6. Basis for the classic 1930 film by Josef von Sternberg, starring...
N.p. N.p., 1966. Vintage borderless, oversize press photograph of Nobel Prize winning writer Bob Dylan at an press conference during the Paris leg of his 1966 world tour. With the stamp of the Paris International Presse agency on the verso. After debuting his electric live sound at the 1965 Newport...
Paris: Editions 213 / Steidl, 2015. Deluxe Limited Edition portfolio. One of five copies (this being copy No. 1) of photographer Sophie Bramly's portfolio of 47 matte finish photographic prints in both black and white and color, depicting the emerging hip hop scene of 1980s New York. Signed and numbered...
London: Feliks Topolski, 1965. First and only edition. Folded broadside, revealing when unfolded a large scale graphic and textual portrayal of a poetry reading that became a watershed moment in 1960s British counterculture. SIGNED by Alexander Trocchi at the inclusion of his essay. The broadside was published as a part...
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Paris: Club des Producteteurs, Circa 1965-1966. Eight vintage oversize press photographs from the set of the 1965 film, shot for the French magazine Cinema 66, and with their stamp and stamped reference number on the verso of each. All the shots are striking and quite candid, several showing director William...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1958. Revised Shooting script for the 1959 film. Studio Vault copy, rubber-stamped on the front wrapper. Brief notations in holograph pencil throughout, and in ink and pencil on the front wrapper. Pre-production and production scripts of any Hitchcock film are rare, presumably because the director...
Paris: N.p., 1936. Vintage borderless photograph from an anti-fascist meeting in Paris in 1936, featuring novelist Andre Malraux speaking on a microphone with Nobel Prize winner Andre Gide seated at a table next to him. Photographer's rubber stamp to the verso, accompanied by holograph notations in pencil, black ink, and...
Paris: Les Films de la Pleiade, 1962. Collection of four vintage borderless photographs from the 1962 film. With holograph notations and rubber stamps on the versos. Based on the novel "Ou en est la prostitution" by Marcel Sacotte, who also contributed to the screenplay. Godard's least "intellectual" film is also...
London: Don Letts, 1979. Original handbill for the London premiere of the 1977 film documentary, held at the Institute of Contemporary Arts Cinema Club, preceding the New York premiere of the film by nearly 10 months. The definitive London punk documentary. Shot by Don Letts on 8mm film almost exclusively...
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1960. Vintage US one sheet poster for the 1960 film. Canadian release sticker affixed to the recto, denoting, "Bureau de Surveillance du Cinema." A game-changing horror film, considered by anyone to be one of Hitchcock's three best, in which the director took the bold step of...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1977. Final script for the 1978 science fiction/horror film, "The Fury," directed by Brian DePalma, based on the 1976 novel by John Farris, written for the screen by Farris and DePalma, and starring Kirk Douglas, John Cassavetes, Carrie Snodgrass, Charles Durning, and Amy Irving. The script...
London: Michael Powell (Theatre), 1960. British Advance Poster for the classic 1960 film. The British Double Crown poster for the film turns up from time to time, but this Advance issue, which does not state the film's title, is a rarity. Noted director Powell's most controversial film, about a serial...
Paris: Jean-Louis Seigner, 2001. Vintage oversize photograph of Roman Polanski on location in Warsaw in 2001 during the production of his 2002 film. Based on the 1946 memoir by Wladslaw Szpilman, about his survival in the Nazi-occupied Warsaw Ghetto during World War II. Winner of the Palme d’Or at Cannes...
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1943. Revised Final Draft script for the 1944 film. Screenwriter Hartmann's final submission for the master mimeo, with profuse holograph corrections, typeovers, attached text, and pasted-in text throughout. The second of Universal's Technicolor fantasy adventures (after "Arabian Nights," 1942, and "White Savage," 1943), loosely based...
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1968. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author and dated in the year of publication on the front endpaper: "For Michael Ratcliffe / with best wishes / Paul Theroux / 23 Oct, 1968." Ratcliffe was literary editor at the Times during the period when Theroux was writing reviews...
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...
Beverly Hills, CA: UFA / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1926. Vintage US reference photograph for the 1926 German film. With a printed snipe on the verso noting both UFA and MGM. Murnau’s final German film before emigrating to America, where he would make four more films before his untimely death, including the...
Ottawa, Canada: Crawley Films Limited, 1963-1966. Archive of press material and photographs for the 1963 Canadian film, and for the twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of the production company, Crawley Films. F.R. "Budge" Crawley was Canada's answer to Hollywood's Sam Goldwyn, and he produced hundreds of films during his 40-year...
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Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1933. Draft script for the 1933 film "Song of the Eagle," seen here partially under the early working title "The Beer Story." Presentation copy belonging to uncredited producer Harry Joe Brown, with his name in gilt titles to the front board, presumably gifted to Brown by prop...
New York: Island Records, 1980. Vintage black and white double-sided poster for U2's 1980 US tour promoting their debut album "Boy" and hit single "I Will Follow." One side of the poster advertises press responses to U2's debut album "Boy," alongside a list of the band's upcoming US tour dates, while...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1936. Final Draft script for the 1936 film. Quarter-bound red leather Presentation script belonging to executive producer Darryl F. Zanuck, with his name in gilt on the front board. Bound throughout are ten black-and-white stills from the film, backed with paper. Based on Harry Hamilton's 1936...
Tokyo: Nikkatsu, circa 1956. Draft script for the 1956 Japanese film. Rear wrapper with title in Burmese. Based on a 1946 children's novel of the same name written by Michio Takeyama. Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. In the War's closing days, when a conscience-driven Japanese...