New York: Signet Books, 1950. No. 811. First printing of this edition. INSCRIBED by the author to Signet Books founder Kurt Enoch: "To Kurt Enoch / 'Long may they weave." From the Kurt Enoch collection, with a letter of provenance included. Kurt Enoch was the founder of Signet Books and...
New York: Signet Books, 1951. No. 915. First printing of this edition. INSCRIBED by the author to Signet Books founder Kurt Enoch: "Hi Kurt / I'm just hoping this sells as many as you printed! / Sincerely / Mickey Spillane." From the Kurt Enoch collection, with a letter of provenance...
London: Faber and Faber, 1988. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page: "John Healy / 19-2-2011 / Dublin." Accompanying the book is a ticket to a screening of the 2011 Irish documentary, "Barbaric Genius," on the same date at the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival. The documentary...
N.p. N.p., 1956-1957. An archive of 6 autograph letters signed by Kenneth Millar (a.k.a. Ross Macdonald), 4 to book illustrator, longtime friend, and Santa Barbara neighbor Don Freeman, and 2 to an old professor and mentor from Ontario, Frank Stirling. A fascinating and unique collection of correspondence from Millar, full...
Chile: Nascimento, 1954. First printing of this edition. One of 1000 numbered copies (this being No. 680) SIGNED by the author. This copy retains the scarce insert on green paper that was issued with all copies, a bibliographic note on the genesis and publication history of the poem by Jorge...
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Dallas: Sack Amusement Enterprises, 1947. Original lobby card for the 1947 film. One of the better known films produced for African American filmgoing audiences in the 1940s, and the last in a series of films directed by African American actor/writer Spencer Williams. Williams was one of only a few African...
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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Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1944. Second Revised Final script for the 1946 film. Presentation copy belonging to actress Alexis Smith, with her initials in decorative gilt on the front board, bound in full calf. Throughout the script are 5 black-and-white film stills on tipped-in leaves, all featuring Smith and costar...
Paris: Les Films de la Pleiade, 1962. Collection of four vintage borderless photographs from the 1962 film. With holograph notations and rubber stamps on the versos. Based in part on the nonfiction study "Ou en est la prostitution" by Marcel Sacotte, who also contributed to the screenplay. Godard’s least “intellectual”...
N.p. Ramco Productions, 1970. Draft script for the 1970 film. Two criminals, Elsie and Johnny, cross paths with Morgan, a down-and-out man who used to be a minister before his life fell apart and he took to drinking. Johnny coerces Elsie into posing as an evangelical healer and under Morgan's tutelage...
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1967. Rehearsal Script for the 1968 film. Notations in holograph ink on page 29, noting changes to dialogue for characters Buzz and Howard (Ronald Colby, Al Freeman, Jr.), as well as a faint pencil notation on the front wrapper, presumably indicating a copy number. Warner Brothers...
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1979. Final Draft script for the 1980 film. Production designer's copy, with holograph pencil notations throughout denoting objects, transportation, and scenarios that will require advance work. Also laid in is a Shooting Call, dated 5/24/79, and noted as the second date of shooting. A blend...
Burbank, CA: National Broadcasting Company [NBC], 1967. As Broadcast script for the 1967 television special, originally broadcast on November 13, 1967 on NBC. Presentation copy belonging to music supervisor Irving Weiss, with his name on the front board. Laid in are three leaves with brief autograph notations, and an eight...
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Mexico: Producciones Barbachano Ponce, Circa 1959. Three vintage photographs from the set of the 1959 film. All likely shot on the same day, and on a set in a rural location. Buñuel appears in each photo wearing a pith helmet, in the first with cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa, the second with...
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...
N.p. N.p., Circa 1990s. Photograph of Miles Davis from 1971, cracking a rare smile while in a dressing room, trumpet in hand. Struck by photographer Jim Marshall circa 1990s, with his stamp, holograph identification number and date on the verso. As a photographer for both record labels and magazines such...
London: AVCO Embassy Pictures, 1973. Draft script for the 1974 film. From the collection of still photographer Bob Willoughby. Rainbow copy with blue, pink, and white leaves. Included are six vintage black-and-white reference still photographs from the film. Bob Willoughby (1927-2009) studied with Saul Bass at the Kann Institute of...
N.p. N.p., 1940. Vintage double weight publicity photograph of Josephine Baker for the 1936 Broadway musical, Ziegfeld Follies. INSCRIBED by Baker in black marker on the recto: "Mademoiselles / Sunny Templeman / With best wishes from / Josephine Baker / 1940." With a studio insignia for Murray Corman photography studio...
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N.p. N.p., 1976. Vintage black-and-white photograph of director Joseph Losey and Alain Delon on the set of the 1976 film. Shot by French photographer Michel Ginfray for Gamma, with a stamp for both parties on the verso, along with a printed mimeo snipe in French and brief notations in holograph...
Universal City: Dreamworks, 2007. Draft rainbow revision script for the 2008 film. Copy belonging to Second Unit Clearance Coordinator Ashley Kravitz, her name in holograph pencil on an included one line schedule. Included are eight revision pages differing from those in script, two different one line schedules, and other ephemera...
Paris: France Cinema, 1962. Archive of 224 vintage borderless single weight keybook contact sheets and film stills, amounting to nearly 2000 numbered images, for the 1962 French-Italian film, here under the original French title. The entire film is represented in minute detail, along with test shots, set design shots, and...
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Various cities: Various studios, 1951-1964. Collection of 49 vintage still photographs from various film adaptations of Tennessee Williams plays. All stills are black and white and US issue unless otherwise noted. Included are: A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (1951, Elia Kazan) 1 press photograph of Marlon Brando and Kim Hunter, with TCF stamp...
London: Edgar Wallace Mystery Theater / Merton Park Productions, 1963. Final Script for the 1964 British film, later rebroadcast as Season 5, Episode 5 of "The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theater." Based on the 1929 novel "The Big Four" by Edgar Wallace. "The Edgar Wallace Mysteries" constituted a run of 47...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1966. Original one sheet poster, designed as a pin-up, for the 1966 science fiction film. The very scarce Style D poster featuring a young and exquisitely beautiful Raquel Welch in all her glory. Oddly, a far superior image to the more famous one from "One Million...
Stockholm: Svensk Filmindustri (SF), 1970. Vintage black-and-white borderless double weight Swedish press photograph from the 1971 film, shot in 1970. Stamps on the verso for the Pressens Bild Ab Feature-Service in Sweden, as well as a Swedish mimeo snipe describing the scene, dated October 1970 and crediting still photographer Jorgen...
N.p. N.p., 1973. Draft script for the 1973 play. Based on the 1950 Broadway play "Out of this World" by Cole Porter, Dwight Taylor, Reginald Lawrence. George Oppenheimer, NY columnist, playwright and screenwriter, streamlined his interpretation for a tasteful revamp to fit a smaller stage. The musical opened Off-Broadway at...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1941. Draft script for the 1941 film. Actor Van Heflin's copy. A delightful comedy about a man who does not believe in jealousy, much to the annoyance of his lovely wife, who constantly finds herself accosted by other men. Lacking front wrapper, rear wrapper is...
London: Navarone Productions, 1977. Revised Draft script for the 1978 British-American film. Copy belonging to property master Tony Teiger (presumed), with "Props." in holograph ink on the title page. Based on Alistair MacLean's 1968 novel, and sequel to J. Lee Thompson's 1961 Academy Award-winning film, "The Guns of Navarone," also...
New York: William Morrow, 1939. First printing of this edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper: "To Noni / Who wrote it / From the guy who paid her for doing it / Erle Stanley Gardner." According to Dorothy Hughes' biography of Gardner, Noni Bibler was one of...
London: Faber and Faber, 1958. First Edition. Copy belonging to the author's British agent, E.J. Carnell in London, with their label on the front endpaper, reading "NON-STOP / by / Brian W. Aldiss / First American Rights" in holograph manual type. A touch of rubbing to the rear panel, else...
Burbank, CA: Buena Vista Pictures, 2000. Archive of two scripts for the 2000 film, including the shooting script with blue and pink revisions bound in, and yellow revisions bound separately, with the studio's production number rubber stamped randomly on the pages throughout. Copy belonging to Bruce Willis' stand-in, Allen Strange...
Culver City, CA: Faces Music / Columbia Pictures, 1970. Vintage oversize double weight photograph of Ben Gazzara on the set of the 1970 film. 9.25 x 12.25 inches (23.5 x 31 cm). In an archival mat. Near Fine.
New York: Chelsea Theater Center, Circa 1971. Draft script for the US premiere of Jean Genet's 1961 play, which opened on November 30, 1971 and ran through December 25, 1971 at the Chelsea Theatre Center in Brooklyn, NY. Genet began writing the play, about life in a poor village in...
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1995. First printing of this edition. Octavo, blue cloth with navy blue quarter leather and silver titles, in a matching blue cloth slipcase. One of 250 numbered copies (this being No. 67). Collects poems from "Moby Dick," "Battle-Pieces and Aspects of War," "John Marr and Other...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975. First Edition. Warmly INSCRIBED by Gaddis in 1984 to Harper's Magazine and Saturday Review literary critic John Aldridge: "To John Aldridge / with great thanks and serious regard / William Gaddis / Ann Arbor / 1984." Though later considered one of the most important...
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1953. Final White script for the 1954 film. A truly bizarre drama, set in South America in 1901, wherein chocolate plantation magnate Heston must put off divorcing his feisty new bride in order to allow her to help him stave off an invasion by a legion of...