Paris: Paris Film, Circa 1938. Vintage oversize double weight reference photograph of Jean Gabin and Julien Carette, from the 1938 film. Based on the 1890 social realist novel by Emile Zola, Renoir's film remains true to the proletarian source material, while grafting on elements of film noir and his own...
N.p. N.p., Circa 1978-1982. Vintage double weight matte finish photograph, a self portrait taken by Andre Kertesz while seated in a barber's chair, showing both the front and back of his head, just after having received a haircut. With the stamp of Kertesz's long time printer, Igor Bakht, on the...
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New York: Farrar and Rinehart, 1940. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. The usual slight fading to the jacket's red spine title, attractive owner bookplate on the front pastedown, else a superior copy, with a couple of tiny closed tears and corner rubs to note. The eighth Nero...
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...
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N.p. N.p., circa 1960. Bound carbon typescript of Stefan Zweig's 1927 novella, made for the purpose of use by German actress Lil Dagover for her reading of same for the 1963 German LP, "Lil Dagover spricht Stefan Zweig." Dagover's name is in blue holograph ink on the front board, then...
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N.p. N.p., 1961. Vintage borderless photograph of Ray Charles at the organ, performing in Paris in October 1961. With the stamps of photographer Jean-Pierre Leloir and Radio-Magazine on the verso, along with holograph pencil annotations regarding layout. 7 x 9.25 inches. Very Good plus.
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Los Angeles: Mark Hellinger Productions / Universal, 1947. Collection of 6 vintage photographs from the 1947 film. 5 are studio still photographs, and one is a reference photograph. Criterion Collection 383. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Grant US. Hardy, The BFI Companion to Crime. Selby Masterwork US. Silver Classic...
N.p. N.p., 1956. Draft script for a 1956 student film. Front wrapper title in decorative holograph black ink, presumably by the screenwriter. Based on the 1890 story by Ambrose Bierce. 22 pages of storyboards, corresponding with the script that follows, all bound together. Decorative cast and crew invite to premiere...
1967. Archive of eight vintage borderless photographs, three typescript essays, and a carbon typescript of the first essay and first page of the second, by photographer Jerry Bauer, circa 1967, with the photographs corresponding to the topics of the essays. Bauer was an American photographer best known for his photographic...
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Italy: Excelsa Film, 1951. Vintage double weight press photograph of writer Curzio Malaparte sitting in the director's chair during the filming of his sole cinematic effort, "The Forbidden Christ." With holograph pencil annotations regarding layout on both the recto and verso, and the stamp of photographer Osvaldo Civirani and a....
N.p. N.p., 1962. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Monica Vitti sitting on a sofa and staring into the existential void, from the 1962 film. "ROMA's Press Photo" stamp on verso, with address in Rome for same. The third and final chapter of Michelangelo Antonioni's trilogy, preceeded by "L'Avventura" (1960), starring...
Italy: Nepi Film, 1960. Vintage oversize double weight borderless photograph from the 1961 film. A candid, on-the-set photograph of director Michelangelo Antonioni, cinematographer Gianni Di Venanzo, Jeanne Moreau, and others working on a balcony shot, part of the long party sequence that makes up the last third of the film...
New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux [FSG], 1967. UNCORRECTED PROOF of the author's second novel, preceding the first edition. Copiously annotated, sometimes quite critically, other times effusively, by novelist Frederick Tuten, who reviewed the book. Scarce in an advance issue, with an association. In a custom blue cloth clamshell box...
N.p. N.p., 2014. Photograph of the Velvet Underground and Nico, shot by Billy Name circa 1967 and struck by him in 2014. SIGNED by Billy Name in silver ink on the recto, and with his stamp on the verso. Name, who had gotten his start in theatre, met Andy Warhol...
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Tokyo: Nikkatsu, 1966. Draft script for the 1966 film. Text in Japanese. Based on a novel by Takashi Suzuki, a repressed, Catholic young man living in a boardinghouse is infatuated with the landlady's daughter and when he cannot express his feelings, he turns to violence. He joins a gang and...
New York: William Morrow, 1939. First Edition. Very Good in a Good plus example of the scarce dust jacket. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper: "To Margie and Babe / with all my love / Daniel Geoffrey Homes Mainwaring." Book is slightly cocked and a bit shaken, otherwise...
N.p. N.p., 1993. Draft script for the 1993 film. Copy belonging to art director Michael Lamont, with his name in holograph ink on the verso of the front wrapper, and to the top edges of several leaves. Based on the 1985 play. The true story of the doomed autumn romance of...
N.p. N.p., circa 1931. Archive of 14 vintage photographs of movie theaters circa 1931. Each with a holograph pencil notation on the verso identifying the theater and city. Three photographs with the photographer's stamp bearing his name and Reading, PA address on the verso. Films by Warner Brothers, Fox, Columbia...
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Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1948. Vintage still photograph from the set of the 1948 film. Featuring Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland laughing together in conversation, while then-toddler Liza Minnelli tugs on her mother's hand in the foreground. Mimeograph snipe and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer rubber stamp to the verso. A highly fictionalized...
Paris: Editions de Minuit, 1961. First Photoplay Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the half-title page: "Pour Dominique Aury / avec tout mon amitie / Alain Robbe-Grillet." ("For Dominique Aury / with all my friendship / Alain Robbe-Grillet.") Text in French. Basis for the 1961 film directed by Alain Resnais...
Rome: Solaris Cinematografica, 2000. Eighth Draft script for the 2001 television film, which originally aired on January 22 on Channel 5. Copy belonging to script supervisor Franca Invernizzi, with her extensive holograph annotations on nearly every page (and many page versos) regarding camera shots, takes, timing, and dialogue. Bound in...
Universal City: Universal City Studios, 1979. First Draft script for the 1981 film, here under the working title "Family Dream." With the signature of an unknown crew member to the top right corner of the front wrapper. A cynical ex-convict is hired to drive a group of orphaned special needs...
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1969. Vintage black-and-white borderless reference photograph from the US release of the 1969 film. Jon Voight plays a naive Texan who moves to New York to hustle his body and finds himself in an unlikely friendship with an ailing con artist played by Dustin Hoffman...
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1968. Two vintage candid photographs from the 1968 film. With holograph annotations on the verso of each. A seminal horror film, one of the finest genre pictures ever made, from the earliest days of the New Hollywood cinema, bringing together Hollywood newcomer Roman Polanski, old-time producer William...
London: Faber and Faber, 1934. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the first UK edition. While the UK edition of Stout's book is itself a rarity, this proof likely the only surviving copy. Found in the author's attic after his death. Very Good in brown wrappers, title label on the spine. Square and...
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1973. Revised Final Script for the 1974 film, "The Longest Yard," directed by Robert Aldrich, written for the screen by Tracy Keenan Wynn and Albert S. Ruddy (though only Wynn is credited here), and starring Burt Reynolds, Eddie Albert, and Bernadette Peters. Ex-football star Burt Reynolds ends...
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures / Famous Lasky Corporation, 1928. Final Draft script for the 1928 film, here under the working title "Quick Lunch." Included is a separately bound, 8-page sequence synopsis for the film. W.C. Fields' last silent film, but only the beginning of his fame. Wealthy Sam Hunter (Chester Conklin)...
London: Signal Films, circa 1975. Shooting Script for the 1975 film. Sequel to the 1966 film "Alfie," and based on the 1970 novel by Bill Naughton. Copy belonging to director/screenwriter Ken Hughes, with his heavy annotations throughout. Alan Price takes on the role previously played by Michael Caine of Alfie...
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...
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1942. First American Edition, and first edition under this title. Preceded by the UK edition, titled "Uneasy Freehold" published by Peter Davies in 1941. Basis for the 1944 film classic, directed by Lewis Allen and starring Ray Milland, recently named by Martin Scorsese as his favorite...
Czechosolvakia: N.p., 1961. Original A1 poster, issued circa 1961, for the Czechoslovakian release of the 1960 Italian film. From the collection of noted film historian Amos Vogel. Full provenance available. Artwork by Fremund. 22.5 x 32.25 inches. A few professional repairs to tears at the edges, rolled, on archival linen...
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New York: Carnegie Hall, 1979. Original poster for a WKCR Benefit Concert at Carnegie Hall, featuring Philip Glass, Steve Reich, John Cale, Leroy Jenkins, The Model Citizens, and others. April 1, 1979. Fine condition, on archival linen. In the 1970s and 1980s, Carnegie Hall—as well as forward-looking radio stations such...
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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 annotations in pencil, black ink, and...
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...
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, 1968. Vintage poster for the 1967 film. The film originally screened at the Hudson Theater in New York in a 99-minute version. In early 1968, a 110-minute cut played at the Cinematheque 16 in Los Angeles. This poster, which mentions the Los Angeles screenings and...