N.p. N.p., 1935. Archive of 24 vernacular photographs documenting a 1935 summer road trip through the badlands of South Dakota, Idaho, and Wyoming. Each photograph with holograph ink annotations identifying location to the margins, and holograph pencil annotations to the verso noting locations and dates, along with the stamp of...
Manchester: Factory Records, 1980. FACT 30. Vintage cassette containing interviews with members of the Sex Pistols, housed in a vinyl pouch. Designed by Peter Saville. Factory Records’ Christmas gift for 1980, despite having never released any music by the band, was a cassette containing a 1977 interview of Sid Vicious and...
New York: HarperCollins, 1996. Tony Hillerman's original typescript for his novel "The Fallen Man," with his original holograph corrections in ink. Housed in a plain orange publisher's box, with a memo from Hillerman, on his stationery, affixed to the lid. The history of the manuscript is explained in three documents...
New York: Viking Press, 1939. First American Edition. Basis for the 1945 espionage film directed by Herman Shumlin, and starring Charles Boyer, Lauren Bacall and Peter Lorre. Very Good plus in a Very Good dust jacket. Slight lean, with light soiling to the spine, and residue from sticker removal to...
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...
Neuilly-sur-Seine, France: Gaumont, 1913. Vintage double weight matte finish photograph from the legendary 1913 silent film serial. Printed onto heavy card stock for use as the equivalent of a modern day lobby card. With the Gaumont logo at the lower right corner. The first of Feuillade's three film serial masterpieces...
N.p. N.p., 1973. Vintage borderless oversize candid photograph of Jane Birkin by her best known photographer Jean-Pierre Fizet. Here she lounges poolside, wearing more than usual (i.e., a hat). With Fizet's rubber stamp and multiple agency stamps on the verso, along with a date of 1973. 11 x 8.5 inches. Very...
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N.p. Red Lion, 1968. Presentation script for the 1969 film, copy belonging to producer Harry Mandell, with his name in gilt on the front board. A woman breaks off her engagement with her fiance when he becomes violent after she has an abortion, only to be stalked by him when...
N.p. N.p., Circa 1947. Two vintage borderless double weight photographs, one showing actress Jessica Tandy displaying her knitting to director Elia Kazan and stage designer Mordecai Gorelik, and the other two showing Tandy and Kazan in conversation, taken in Tandy's dressing room between performances of the 1947 play. One with...
London: Island Records, 1972. Collection of three vintage matte-finish studio still photographs from the 1972 film. Loosely based on the early years of real-life Jamaican outlaw Rhyging, who rose to prominence as a folk hero in the 1940s. Ska and reggae musician Jimmy Cliff's film debut, in which Cliff stars as...
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...
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New York: Filmways Pictures, 1980. Revised Draft script for the 1981 film. Included is a second script, a revised draft in wrappers containing the latest revisions, and two shooting schedules, one detailing shooting dates beginning Week Three, and one detailing dates beginning about Week Nine. Notations throughout both scripts in...
Berlin: Nero-Film AG, 1931. Vintage oversize double weight photograph from the 1931 film. Based on the true story of psychopathic serial killer Hans Beckert, nicknamed the "Vampire of Dusseldorf," here played by Peter Lorre. A brilliant image from this crime thriller classic in which the search is on for Lorre...
London: Panther Books, circa 1967. First Edition. Details the five-month drug case against the Rolling Stones, with Mick Jagger and Keith Richards at the forefront, a case that would ultimately divide Great Britain, and tells how the nation became aware of drugs, both "hard" and "soft." Quite scarce. Very Good...
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N.p. N.p., 1951. Vintage double-weight photograph of a 19 year-old Elizabeth Taylor selecting new wallpaper and drapery fabrics for her apartment. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso, along with a Photoplay Library stamp dated April 9, 1951 and a small holograph annotation in ink regarding cropping. 8 x....
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N.p. N.p., Circa 1968. Revised Draft script for the 1968 film. Copy belonging to production manager Mickey Delamar, with his name in holograph ink to the front wrapper and his holograph annotations throughout. Laid in with the screenplay are several promotional materials for the film, including two programs, an edition...
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...
Cambridge: Sun and Moon, 1985, 1986. First Edition. Three volumes, with the second and third volumes SIGNED by the author on the title page. "City of Glass" in the first issue jacket without the publisher's seal on the spine. Slight lean to "City of Glass," else Near Fine in Near...
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N.p. N.p., 1980-1981. Handmade vernacular conceptual journal documenting the shooting of Robert Frank's 1981 film, "Energy and How to Get It," circa 1980-1981. Includes tipped in ephemera, drawings, business cards, and 46 Polaroids of Wurlitzer, Robert Frank, June Leaf, and “Lightning” Bob. Annotations and captions throughout by Wurlitzer. Also included...
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Manhattan Beach, CA: Lightstorm Entertainment, 1991. Revised Draft script for the 1991 film, dated February 19, 1991. Script pages watermarked “T20029” and bearing the ownership watermarks of director Cameron’s production company, Lightstorm Entertainment, as called for. With an alternate ending to the film, which was shot but ultimately cut before...
N.p. N.p., Circa 1922. Collection of 15 vintage reference photographs from the 1922 Scandinavian silent film. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. A documentary-style horror anthology film charting the history of witchcraft in the Middle Ages through to the early twentieth century, intersected with dramatized horror segments...
N.p. N.p., 1985. Vintage borderless photograph of Christo Vladimirov Javacheff in his studio, New York City, 1985. Snipe, agency and photographer's stamps, and holograph annotations on the verso. Christo Vladdimirov Javacheff and his wife Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon worked together on environmental artworks for nearly 50 years. Christo is pictured here...
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London: Eon Productions, 1972. Shooting script for the 1973 film. With a holograph ink annotation on the title page, noting copy No. 56. Roger Moore's first turn as 007, and the eighth film in the franchise overall. Based on the 1954 novel by Ian Fleming, which sees Bond go up...
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...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1958-1960. Archive of scripts and revision pages for 56 episodes of the hip private-eye detective television series "Peter Gunn." Copies belonging to screenwriter Lewis Reed, with his holograph name to the front wrapper of each episode. Included are screenplays for nearly half of the 114-episode run...
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N.p. N.p., Circa 1959. Collection of two vintage borderless photographs of writer Ernest Hemingway and a friend at a bullfighting match, circa 1959. With holograph annotations regarding layout to the verso, along with the stamps of Tele-Magazine, Radio Magazine, and Dalmas press agency. Hemingway made several visits to Spain throughout his...
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Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1943. Draft script for the 1944 Universal horror film. With holograph pencil annotations to the front wrapper and throughout, mostly noting deletions and page number changes. Included with the script is a bound set of revision pages attributed on the front wrapper and at the top...
Beverly Hills, CA: Walter Shenson Films / United Artists, 1965. Collection of four vintage black-and-white still photographs from the release of the 1965 British-American film. All four of the boys wonderfully represented here, gals in tow, having a fine time on the ice (John and George), in the jungle (Paul)...
London: Michael Powell [Theatre], circa 1960. Vintage borderless photograph from the set of the 1960 film, showing actor Carl Boehm taking in a scene being shot out of frame, with the prop film camera his character is hopelessly devoted to in front of him, and a real film camera just...
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1935. First Edition. INSCRIBED in the year of publication by the author to legendary film director Tod Browning: "To Tod Browning / with admiration / Horace McCoy / Hollywood, August, 1935." A wonderful association. Horace McCoy was a Hollywood screenwriter in 1935, and at the...
Lancaster, OH: N.p., Circa 1890s. Original manuscript scrapbook of poker memorabilia, presented to the Lancaster, Ohio Poker Club by "two victims" of the club, identified as Ecaroh Nidri and Trebor Niarud (almost certainly pseudonyms) on the first page. Charmingly illustrated throughout with 14 original photographs of the club's members, as...
N.p. N.p., 1965. Archive of four vintage black-and-white double weight still photographs from the 1966 film. Shot and struck by special photographer John Bryson. The photographs feature Frankenheimer, actor James Garner, and cinematographer Lionel Linden. Bryson was a photojournalist for Life magazine and many other publications, and was also a....
New York: William R. Scott, 1955. First Edition. About Fine in illustrated boards and a Very Good or better dust jacket. Slight spine lean, with a contemporary gift inscription to the front endpaper. Jacket has a few closed tears at the extremities, with a one and a half inch tear...
London: British Nation Films, 1942. Original British program for the 1942 film. A fascinating piece, in that it consists almost entirely of a long transcription by Pressburger of the true-life narrative by Sir George Corbett, which forms the basis for the film. Photo illustrations from the film throughout. Saddle-stapled illustrated...
London: Hammer Film Productions, 1960. Draft script for the 1961 Hammer film, with name of editor John Pomeroy written in holograph ink and struck over with holograph pencil, with copy No. 51 noted in holograph pencil, all at the top margin of the front wrapper. Three pages of the script...
Vienna: Werner Herzog Filmproduktion, 1979. Vintage borderless reference still from the 1979 German film showing director Werner Herzog and actor Bruno Ganz, along with some extras, on the set between takes. Herzog's highly interpretive remake of F.W. Murnau's 1922 silent classic, "Nosferatu," and the second of five films Herzog made...