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N.p. William Klein, 1968. Vintage photograph, shot by director-photographer William Klein, during the making of his landmark documentary. With Klein's stamp on the back, noting his address in Paris. In making his cinema verite documentary about the occupation of the Sorbonne begun during the May, 1968 protests in Paris, Klein...

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Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1942. Final Script for the 1943 film, "Tonight We Raid Calais" [here titled simply "Project 47"], directed by John Brahm, written for the screen by Waldo Salt, and starring Lee J. Cobb, John Sutton, Beulah Bondi, and Howard Da Silva. John Sutton plays a British intelligence...

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Neuilly-sur-Seine, France: Societe Nouvelle de Cinematographie (SNC), circa 1970. Draft script for the 1970 film. Text in French. One of Marcel Camus' best loved films, a French-Italian collaboration dealing with World War II in a humorous light. The last film made by French actor Bourvil. A British airman falls into...

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Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1962. Collection of six vintage contact sheets featuring 54 images from the set of the 1962 film. The images show Brando in costume on the set, posing with co-star Tarita Teriipaia, who he would later marry, cast and crew filming a boat landing, and many...

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Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1949. Final Draft script for the 1950 film. With a "New York Legal Department" rubber stamp to the front wrapper and extensive holograph pencil notations throughout, likely by a professional reader, regarding differences between the source novel by Thomas B. Costain and the script. Based on...

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New York: Random House, 1958. First Edition. Laid in is a typed letter signed by O'Hara, addressed to "Bill and Frank," on stationery from Long Island, NY. The letter is dated June 20, 1960 (in pencil), and in it O'Hara expresses his dislike of the public remarks made by Mark...

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Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1942. Draft Script for the 1942 film. Nominated for two Academy Awards. Third of the seven classic and highly successful "Road" movies Bob Hope made with Bing Crosby. Yellow titled wrappers, dated February 4, 1942, with credits for screenwriters. Title page integral with the front wrapper, as...

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Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1941. Vintage double weight studio still photograph of hapless Henry Fonda and beguiling Barbara Stanwyck from the 1941 film. Rubber stamp on the verso, dated December 4, 1940, indicating that Hollywood Advisory Council (i.e., Hayes Office) has approved the photo as not being scandalous. 8 x 10...

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France / Italy: Robert and Raymond Hakim, 1960. Collection of six vintage borderless still photographs from the 1960 film. With rubber stamps on the verso of each. Based on the 1955 novel "The Talented Mr. Ripley" by Patricia Highsmith. One of greatest of the French post-noirs, and easily one of...

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Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1976. First Draft script for the 1976 film. The third entry in the wildly popular and paradigm-shifting crime film franchise set in San Francisco, featuring Clint Eastwood as "Dirty" Harry Callahan, a cop who cares little for bureaucracy. This entry finds Harry working with similar resistance...

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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...

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Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1967. Final Shooting script for the 1968 film. SIGNED by actor George Segal on the title page, with a brief inscription. Based on the 1964 novel by William Goldman. Christopher Gill (Steiger) is a serial killer who always seems to elude police detective Brummel (Segal). Green titled...

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Paris: Athos Films, 1965. Vintage French petite poster for the 1965 film. The influence of "Alphaville" as the first crime film to be set in a sci-fi context cannot be underestimated, and even the film's legitimate proteges, such as "Blade Runner," don't quite capture its strange sexuality. Shot on location...

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Burbank, CA: Walt Disney Pictures, 1988. Revised First Draft script for the 1991 film. Based on 1982 graphic novel by Dave Stevens, an early entry into the superhero movie canon, following the success of 1989’s "Batman," and a cult classic in its own right. In 1930s Hollywood, stunt pilot Cliff...

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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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London: Commies From Mars / Initial Pictures, 1985. Third Draft script for the 1986 film, "Sid and Nancy," here under the working title, "Love Kills." INSCRIBED by Kate Simon in holograph ink on the verso of the last page of text. Simon was "a friend of Alex Cox's and [she]...

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New York: Harper and Brothers, 1935. First Edition. Winner of both the 1935 Harper Prize and the Pulitzer Prize. Very Good plus in a Very Good, unclipped first state dust jacket. Book has light foxing to the boards and page edges, with toning to two pages where a laid-in newspaper...

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London: Henry Baldwin / Charles Dilly, 1791. First Edition. Quarto, two volumes. With stamps from the Kansas City, MO Public Library on the first page of text of each volume, but otherwise without the usual condition issues associated with ex-libris copies. Second state, volume one with corrected spelling (p. 135...

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London: Studio Vista, 1970. First Edition. The scarce hardcover edition (also published in a slightly more common softcover variant) of folklorist and noted musician John Fahey's brilliant, loving analysis of his hero Charley Patton's catalogue. One of the most important books on American blues published in the twentieth century, only...

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Manchester: Factory Records, No. FAC235, 1988. First Edition. Issued privately by The Hacienda club in Manchester to friends of the establishment, a flip-book (or "manual video") illustrated by avant-garde filmmaker and conceptualist Robert Breer and photographer Wiliam Wegman, bound such that the book slants to the left to enable easy...

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Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, circa 1970. Draft script for the 1970 film. Based on the 1968 novel by Gore Vidal. One of the key twentieth century films about Hollywood, and a prescient one in terms of LGBT interests, which at the time received almost no attention from major studios. Myron...

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New York: E.P. Dutton, 1929. First Edition in English and first edition in hardcover, preceded by the French edition "Les mains d'Orlac," in 1920. With the publisher's wraparound band. A seminal horror novel, rare in dust jacket, written by one of the most important French genre fiction writers of the...

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Twin Falls, ID: Sugar Creek Productions, 1998. Shooting script for the 1999 film. A deluxe working script archive belonging to actor Bob Hildreth, with his name in holograph ink at the top of the first leaf. Noted throughout the archive is the contact information for the independent entity that produced...

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London: William Heinemann, 1949. First Edition. The author's first book, notoriously scarce in jacket, basis for the elegant 2003 British film. Ms. Smith went on the write "The Story of the 101 Dalmations." Near Fine with a bright lavender topstain, in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Small owner name...

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Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1957. First Draft script for the 1960 film. Copy belonging to associate producer James H. Ware with his name on the front wrapper, and his notations throughout in holograph pencil and ink. Ware was a major presence in British and American cinema, best known for...

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New York: Rinehart, 1954. First Edition. SIGNED and DATED in the year of publication by the author on the front endpaper. Near Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Jacket is lightly chipped and rubbed, with some minor bruising to the spine near the crown. An important true crime...

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Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1957. Final Draft script for the 1958 film. Actor Van Heflin's copy, with his notations throughout. A young officer in the army of Empress Catherine of Russia is on his way to his new duty station at a remote outpost. During a blinding snowstorm he comes upon...

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Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1957. Original US one sheet poster for the third of Budd Boetticher's seven legendary Westerns with Randolph Scott, one of five released through Columbia. Near the end of Randolph Scott's career, producer Harry Brown, Scott, and Boetticher began work on a series of intelligent films...

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Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1950. First Edition. Fine in an about Fine, very lightly rubbed dust jacket. A stunning copy.

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Burbank, CA: Walt Disney Productions, 1969. Revised Final Draft script for the 1970 Disney film. Based on a story by Marty Roth, executive story editor for the television series, "The Dukes of Hazzard" (1979-1985). Coast Guard Ensign Garland (Morse) falls in love with sailing instructor Kate (Powers), but his bumbling...

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New York: Macmillan, 1917. First Edition. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Ex-library copy, with only a few of the defects usually associated with such copies. Very Good plus, with circulation slip to the front pastedown, and with a few light splashes to the boards. Rear panel and flap of the...

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Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1968. Second Revised Final script for the 1970 film. A Cold War-era science fiction film in the vein of Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove," in which US and USSR supercomputers join forces to create either world peace or, if crossed, world destruction. When cast, actor Eric Braeden...

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London: Ealing Studios, 1947. Original British program for the 1947 film. Based on the novel by Charles Dickens, and starring Sir Cedric Hardwicke and Sally Ann Howes. This Dickens adaptation has gone down in critical history as being truly one of the most Dickensian, with a dark mood and attention...

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N.p. N.p., Circa 1972. Archive of nine black and white, double weight photographs, circa 1972, of Led Zeppelin members Robert Plant and Jimmy Page on stage, apparently unpublished, by noted photographer Michael Montfort, three with the stamp of German magazine "Stern" on the verso. A single photograph also features a....

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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...

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Kyoto, Japan: File, Inc., 1994. First Edition. A monograph of Hopper's photographs from a 1991 visit to Tokyo and a 1994 visit to Kyoto, published in Kyoto in 1994. Only one printing is known and to our knowledge these photographs have never appeared in book form since. Fine saddle stitched two-color photo illustrated wrappers.

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