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...
New York: E .P. Dutton, 1972. First Edition. Humorously INSCRIBED by avant garde composer and former Black Mountain faculty member John Cage on the front flyleaf: "This is a book I haven't read. / John Cage." A history of Black Mountain College, the experimental college located in North Carolina that...
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Sherman Oaks, CA: Republic Pictures, 1953. Original pressbook for the 1953 film noir. Screenplay by noted screenwriter Steve Fisher. One sheet folded once as issued, 11 x 17 inches. Near Fine, with a faint horizontal fold crease at the center of the wrapper and pages. Hardy, The BFI Companion to...
Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1969. Collection of six vintage oversize borderless photographs from the 1969 British film. With holograph annotations and an agency stamp on the verso of each. One of the best heist films of the twentieth century: funny, complex, and altogether beautiful to watch. Michael Caine and Noel...
New York: New York University Press / Halifax: The Press of Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 1974. First Edition. First issue binding, without the UNIVERSAL EDITION notation on the spine, and without the added note about typographical corrections by Reich at the end of his Introduction. Association copy...
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...
New York: Open Book, 1982. Limited Edition. One of 350 copies, of which only 100 were for sale (and this being No. 56), signed by both Harrison and Guest on the half-title page. Fine and unread without dust jacket as issued. A charming edition of poetry accompanied by black and...
Los Angeles: Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS], 1979. Two Draft scripts for the 1981 film. One is a First Draft script, dated December 1979, the other is an Agency script in promotional titled wrappers, undated. Directed by Bob Rafelson, and based on the 1939 novel by James M. Cain, "Postman" was...
Rome: Produzioni Cinematografiche Associate, 1954. Original French program for the rarely seen 1954 Italian / French coproduction "Giovanni d'Arco al rogo," here under the French titled "Jeanne au bucher." Presumably programs were made for both French and Italian audiences. In a rather bold film experiment for its time, Rossellini filmed...
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...
N.p. N.p., 1937. Vintage double weight photograph from the 1938 film. A candid, on-the-set photograph by the film's credited still photographer, Roger Corbeau, of a cafe scene featuring the film's principal character (actor Raimu), with the camera crew just to the left, in the shadows, the borders of the studio...
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Paris: Denoel, 1952. First French Edition (and correct first). INSCRIBED by Narcejac on the front endpaper and signed by Boileau just below. A French review copy, with the necessary PRESSE punch-stamp present on both the rear panel of the jacket and the book. An absolutely pristine, extraordinarily well-preserved example. "Celle...
New York: Signet Books, 1948. First Separate Edition. INSCRIBED by Faulkner to publisher Kurt Enoch: "William Faulkner / New York / 5 Feb 1950 / Mr. Enoch." Faulkner inscriptions of this significance are rare. From the Kurt Enoch collection, with a letter of provenance included. This first separate publication of...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1958. Draft script for the 1959 film, belonging to actor Martin Landau with Landau's prominent signature in holograph pencil on top of first page, and annotations in holograph ink and pencil throughout, primarily making note of action and dialogue for Landau's character Leonard, with the...
New York: Clifford Hayman, Circa 1965. Draft script for the 1959 British play. Copy belonging to Dana Andrews, from Clifford Hayman, the producer for the play in London, with a mimeograph letter signed by Hayman, dated August 25, 1965, suggesting Andrews' production company bring the play to the US for...
N.p. N.p., Circa 1960s, 1980s. Draft script and Second Rough Draft for an unproduced, English-language film, circa 1960s and 1980s, about the life of St. Martin de Porres. Laid in one of the scripts is a typed note identifying Martin as the subject of the script and noting the date...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1962. First Draft script for the 1963 film. A nuanced "invasion from Mars" film that borrows cleverly from both "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" (aliens use human beings as physical hosts) and Val Lewton (threat of a creature, but creature is only implied, not shown). An...
Paris: Columbia Films / Anouchka Films / Orsay Films, 1964. Vintage borderless photograph of actors Sami Frey, Anna Karina, and Claude Brasseur rehearsing the 1964 film's iconic dance sequence, which they did daily for a month prior to shooting. With holograph annotations and agency stamps on the verso. An outrageous and...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1966. Final Draft script for the 1967 film. James Coburn returns as Derek Flint in this James Bond-styled spy spoof sequel to "Our Man Flint" (1966). Flint's boss assigns him to stop a group of women on the Virgin Islands who hope to take over the...
London: Carol Reed Productions, Circa 1948. Vintage candid photograph from the UK release of the 1949 film. From the archive of Maurice Bessy, with his stamp on the verso, along with the stamp of photographer Leslie Baker, and another for Carol Reed Productions and The London Films Studios in Shepperton...
Milan, Italy: Ubulibri, 1982. First Edition, a trade softcover original. INSCRIBED by Bernardo Bertolucci on the title page: "Pour Pierre Goulliard / [unknown] / Bernardo Bertolucci / 4/11/87." A critical study of the famed Italian director by critic and screenwriter Ungari, through 1981's "Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man" ("La tragedia di...
New York: The Ring Publishing Co, 1929. First Edition. SIGNED by Jack Dempsey on the front endpaper. Not to be confused with the much more common Author's Autograph Edition. Very Good lacking dust jacket. Light rubbing to spine ends, joints, and corners,with a tiny bit of loss at the upper...
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Los Angeles: Saul Bass and Associates, 1960. Original glossy photographic title card for plate No. 3 in the title sequence from Stanley Kubrick's 1960 film, "Spartacus." This plate was used for the portion of the title card sequence showing "LAURENCE OLIVIER as Crassus." Only a small portion of the photographic...
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N.p. N.p., 1966. Draft script for an unproduced film. Copy belonging to crew member James H. Ware. Ware was a major presence in British and American cinema, best known for his work on "Beat the Devil" (1953), "Room at the Top" (1959), "Our Man in Havana" (1959), "Charade" (1963), and...
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1933. First Edition, stated on the copyright page, with the code "E-H" just below. Publisher's file copy, with a faded red stamp at the lower front jacket panel reading: "RELEASE DATE FOR REVIEW JUN 25 1933." Laid in is a Harper's blurbed bookmark, advertising Fannie...
New York: Harper, 1961. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page. From the collection of author Chris Offutt. Offutt is the author of “Kentucky Straight” and other short story collections, novels, nonfiction, and memoirs, and, in 1996, was named one of the twenty Best Young American Novelists by...
London: Michael Joseph, 1965. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the First Edition. Very Good in plain brown wrappers as issued. Spine lean and some vertical wrinkling to same. Generic bookplate SIGNED by the author laid in (i.e., not attached). A very presentable copy of the earliest state of this title.
N.p. N.p., 1975. Archive of 15 single weight and 20 double weight vintage press photographs of Maria Schneider at the 1975 Cannes Film Festival, there to promote Michelango Antonioni's Palme d'Or nominated "The Passenger," in which she starred opposite Jack Nicholson. Eight photographs with stamps of photographers Leo Mirkine, Prisco...
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Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1941. Original pressbook for the 1941 film. Also included is a supplement titled "Intelligence in Motion Picture Advertising," by Kenneth Collins, in essence a second pressbook, as well as a second supplement featuring further ad campaigns and exhibitor's information. Date stamps to the pressbook and Collins...
New York: Producers Theatre, circa 1956. Draft script for the 1956 Broadway revival. With annotations in holograph ink and pencil throughout. An idealistic young woman, Barbara Undershaft, serves as a Major in the Salvation Army, bringing aid to the destitute and poor. Her estranged father reappears in her life, causing...
First Draft script for the 1972 film. A very early version written by Charles Grodin. A comedy that is pretty difficult to overestimate: even though it was not directed by Woody Allen, it was the template for the many great films he would subsequently write and direct in the 1970s...
Tokyo: Nikkatsu, 1956. Draft script for the 1956 film. Text in Japanese. A yakuza boss and his right hand man escape from prison and examine their relationship, both matters of loyalty and betrayal, as well as the scams and crimes they pull in their criminal history. White titled perfect bound...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1933. An early draft, in script format, of the 1933 novel, "Gabriel Over the White House," written by Thomas Frederic Tweed. This draft was developed the same year into the 1933 pre-Code film directed by Gregory LaCava, written for the screen by Carey Wilson, and...
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1961. Early Draft script for the 1970 film "Cromwell," seen here under the title "Oliver Cromwell." Copy belonging to director/screenwriter Ken Hughes, with his annotations throughout. With 11 pages of reproductions from "The Commonweal" newspaper from August and September 1885 laid into the front of...
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, Circa 1947. Vintage press photograph of Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, and the film's still photographer Robert Coburn on the set of 1947 film noir. Mimeograph snipe on the verso notes that here Welles and Coburn are discussing the Jean Louis clothing designs for the film...
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1955. Two vintage keybook photographs from the 1955 film, one showing director Elia Kazan behind the camera, the other showing actors James Dean and Nick Dennis goofing around behind the scenes with dialog director Guy Thomajan. Typed annotations identifying the subjects on the versos. Based on...