London: Wardour Films / Universum Film [UFA], 1927. Original program for the London premiere of the film on March 21st, 1927 at the Marble Arch Pavilion, preceded in English by the US release earlier that month but with different title cards. Director Lang's expressionist masterpiece, based on the novel and...
N.p. N.p., Circa 1971. Draft script an unproduced film by Curt Siodmak, based on his 1971 novel of the same name, about a scientist who discovers how to induce ESP in people. Sidomak was the screenwriter for such horror classics as "The Wolf Man" (1941), "I Walked with a Zombie"...
London: Gaumont, 1935. Original UK Pressbook for the classic 1935 film, based on the 1915 novel by John Buchan. A rare and blazingly beautiful artifact from one of the foundational espionage thrillers of the twentieth century. Hitchcock's adaptation of Buchan's novel proved, as usual, to be an improvement on the...
Neuilly-sur-Seine, France: Gaumont, 1915. Original double weight matte finish still photograph from the legendary 1915 silent film serial. With the Gaumont logo at the lower right corner. Shown here is Musidora as Irma Vep conferring with another member of The Vampires, an anarchist criminal gang at the center of the...
London: Haskins Press, 1975. Limited Edition, preceded by the original 1965 edition. One of 1500 copies (this being No. 511) SIGNED by the photographer on the tipped in limitation page. Fine in an about Near Fine jacket. Jacket lightly toned and rubbed, with a few short closed tears at the...
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1970. First Edition. Owner name on the front and rear endpapers, a hint of foxing on endpapers, else about Fine in a Fine, fresh dust jacket. The author’s second book.
Hollywood: Security Pictures, 1957. Revised Draft script for the 1958 film, "Island Women," here under the working title, "Calypso Island." Copy belonging to actress Marie Windsor, with her name in holograph ink on the first page of text, notations in holograph pencil and ink throughout, one page noting scene wardrobe...
Stockholm: Svensk Filmindustri (SF), 1956. Vintage borderless photograph, showing Bergman conversing with Bengt Ekerot, in costume as Death, on the set of the 1957 film. With the copyright stamp of Svensk Filmindustri, as well as some addition Swedish language stamps, and a date stamp of November 24, 1956 on the...
Los Angeles: William Fox, 1927. Vintage double weight reference photograph from the 1927 film. Portrayed are star-crossed lovers Janet Gaynor and George O'Brien, in the midst of their romantic city adventure, boarding a trolley. Murnau's first film to be made in the US, a rare and poignant studio photograph from...
N.p. N.p., 1977. Original photocopy art print by experimental composer Glenn Branca. SIGNED by Branca on the verso, with his holograph notation noting "#1 of 5." 8.5 x 11 inches (22 x 28 cm). Near Fine with a shallow diagonal crease to one corner.
London: Cineguild, 1948. Vintage black-and-white reference photograph of director David Lean, cinematographer Oswald Morris, and lighting cameraman Guy Green on the set of the 1948 film. With a mimeograph snipe detailing who is in the shot. From the estate of Guy and Celia Green, with a letter of provenance attesting...
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...
New York: The Vanguard Press, 1967. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the front flyleaf in the year of publication: "For Gunter -- / With best wishes / Joyce Carol Oates / 9-22-67." Finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction (1968), and winner of the M.L. Rosenthal Award...
Mexico: N.p., 1959. Vintage oversize borderless black-and-white press photograph of director Luis Bunuel and cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa behind the camera in Mexico during the making of the 1959 film (a French-Mexican co-production released during Bunuel's Mexican period). Mexican stamp of photographer Georges Yves Massart on the verso. Handwritten text on...
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N.p. Matrixbest production, 1977. Seventh Draft script for an unproduced film. Holograph signature and copy number 80 in black marker by production designer John Beard on the title page. Beard is best known for his work on "Brazil" (1985), "The Meaning of Life" (1983), "Bad Timing" (1980), and "Life of...
Paris: Les Films Concordia, 1963. Original French program for the 1963 film. Based on the novel "Il Disprezzo" by Alberto Moravia. With a tiny rubber stamp contemporary to issue reading, "Interdit au moins de 18 ans" ("No under 18 admitted"). Godard's lush Technicolor landmark that transformed Brigitte Bardot from a....
N.p. Bruce Weber, 1992. Oversize vintage photograph of singer Marianne Faithfull, taken by Bruce Weber in 1992. With Weber's rubber stamp on the verso, boldly inscribed across the entirety of same: "For M / I'm wild about you / Bruce / Bruce Weber / NYC 1992." A stunning photograph, taken in...
N.p. N.p., 1974. Original eight-panel artwork by Ernie Bushmiller for the March 3, 1974 deluxe Sunday installment of his seminal comic strip Nancy. This particular strip features both Nancy, Aunt Fritzi, and Nancy's dog Poochie. As with American cinema, it was the French who first championed the studied simplicity of...
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Paris: Franfilmdis / Argui-Film, 1933. Vintage double weight borderless reference photograph for the landmark 1933 silent film by Jean Vigo. With the stamp of photographer Mars Marstrich on the verso. Although he only made four films before his death from tuberculosis at the age 29, Jean Vigo would come to...
N.p. N.p., 1970. Original four-panel artwork by Ernie Bushmiller for the February 3, 1970 daily installment of his seminal comic strip Nancy. This artwork features both Nancy and Sluggo. As with American cinema, it was the French who first championed the studied simplicity of Bushmiller's un-deconstructible combination of rigid artistic style...
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Baltimore: Dreamland, 1970. Original flyer for the 1970 film. From the collection of frequent Waters collaborator Alan Rose. A flyer for the premiere private screenings of Waters' second feature film. The flyer notes that there are to be 9 screenings on April 10, 11, and 12, 1969, shows at 8PM...
Los Angeles: National General Pictures, 1969. Final shooting script for the 1970 film, "Darker than Amber," based on the 1966 novel by John D. MacDonald, featuring his series character Travis McGee. Written for the screen by Ed Waters and starring Rod Taylor and Theodore Bikel. Boldly SIGNED by Rod Taylor...
Los Angeles: Selznick International Pictures / Vanguard Films, 1945. First Draft script for the 1947 screwball comedy, "The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer" (here under its working title, "Suddenly It's Spring"), directed by Irving Reis, written for the screen by Sidney Sheldon, and starring Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, Shirley Temple, and...
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1924. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Eugene O'Neill at his contribution: "For Bob Sisk - / Cheers! / Eugene O'Neill." The second issue of Mencken's redoubtable magazine, and the first publication of O'Neill's controversial play about miscegenation, "All God's Chillun's Got Wings," two months before it...
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Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1955. Revised Final White Draft script for the 1956 film. Director Michael Curtiz's presentation copy, in tan leather covered boards with gilt titles and Curtiz's name at the bottom right corner of the front board. Based on the story “The Kiss Off” by Frank Tashlin, aka Tish...
New York: Magic Lantern Inc, 1971. Draft script for the 1974 film. Based on the 1927 novel by Hermann Hesse. A depressed half-man half-animal (played by Max von Sydow) is introduced to the hallucinogenic world of the "Magic Theater," where he seeks redemption via a metaphysical transcendence. The film took...
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N.p. N.p., 1951. Vintage oversize black-and-white double weight photograph of Orson Welles by British photographer Jane Bown. Photographed during the same shoot as one of the most iconic Welles portraits of all time, the renowned director is seen here in a simple suit and tie. The photo was taken during...
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Paris: Telemondial, 1973. Original French Grande poster and double sided French flyer for the 1973 Situationist film by Rene Vienet, which repurposes the 1972 Hong Kong martial arts film "Crush," directed by Kuang-Chi Tu, overdubbing the dialogue to create "a critique of class conflicts, bureaucratic socialism, the failures of the...
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Tokyo: Nikkatsu, 1959. Draft script for the 1959 film. Text in Japanese. With a single notation in holograph pencil. Small-time deliquent criminals greatly enjoy robbing other people, but fall into big trouble when they accidentally rob the Yakuza. Brown titled perfect bound wrappers. Title page present. 84 leaves, with last...
N.p. N.p., Circa 1979. Charles Willeford's original, heavily hand-corrected submission to his one-time publisher, Pegasus Rex, for "The Writing on the Walls," eventually re-titled "Off the Wall." Willeford's name, address, and phone number are in blue holograph ink at the top of the title page, and each of the eighteen...
Atelier 41 / New World Pictures, 1975. Original Polish poster for the 1975 film, designed by B. Tankowska. Director Akira Kurosawa had long been a fan of V.K. Arsenyev's nonfiction account of his travels in the Ussuri basin in the Russian Far East, during which Arsenyev encountered and befriended a....
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1951. Lobby card for the 1951 film, Hitchcock's classic adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's existential crime novel by way of Raymond Chandler's pulp sensibilities. 14 x 11 inches. Near Fine with some light soil. Grant US. Hardy, The BFI Companion to Crime. Selby Masterwork. Silver Classic Noir. Spicer US.
Redding, CT: Charles Ives, 1922. First Edition. Second issue, in publisher's blue cloth with titles and rule in gilt on the front board and spine, and with pages 37-39 printed, and no dust jacket as issued. Fine condition. A collection of avant-garde short pieces in every imaginable format (marches, violin...
Rome: Titanus, 1960. Two vintage borderless double weight photographs from the 1960 film. With holograph notations and an agency stamp on the verso of each. Rosaria (Katina Paxinou), recently widowed, moves to Milan from the countryside with four of her sons to join her eldest. Each take different paths as...
Paris: Jean-Michel Place, 1999. First printing of this edition, originally published by Reynal and Hitchcock in 1939. Husband and wife team Dorothea Lange and Paul Taylor were hired by the Farm Security Administration to document the 300,000 strong, Depression-era exodus, and the struggles theses migrant workers overcame in search of...
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New York: Factory Films, 1968. Vintage black-and-white double weight still photograph of director Paul Morrissey and actor Joe Dallesandro, shot during the making of Andy Warhol's 1968 film "Flesh." Photographer Werner Bokelberg's rubber stamp and holograph pencil notations to the verso. Morrissey's first production for Warhol, Dallesandro's second leading role...
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