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...
New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. First Edition. Boldly SIGNED by Sonny Rollins in black marker on the front endpaper, along with a small doodle of a sixteenth note couplet. Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket. Full provenance available.
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Paris: Societe d'Exploitation et de Distribution de Films, 1938. Set of 3 black-and-white still photographs from the US premiere of the 1964 film. Each with a mimeo snipe affixed to the verso, as issued, noting that the film is making its debut at the Esquire Theatre in Los Angeles. Also...
Beverly Hills, CA: EK Corp. / United Artists, Circa 1974. Early Draft British script for the 1974 British heist film. Based on Gerald Browne's 1972 novel, adapted by Charles Grodin. Howard Chesser (Grodin) is a diamond merchant supervising the cutting of a large and rare diamond. When the diamond is...
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....
N.p. N.p., 1969. Revised draft script for an unproduced film, carbon typescript on onionskin, unbound, housed in an envelope with a "Winkast Programming Limited" label with "Hadrian VII Screenplay Stage play" scratched out and "'THE TRUMPH' BY JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH" written in in green holograph marker. From the estate of film...
N.p. John Erwin, 1953. Two vintage oversize double weight photographs from the premiere of the 1953 play. Both photos feature a very young Louis Gossett (who later changed his stage name to Louis Gossett, Jr.), and one features African American actress and singer Maxine Sullivan. Both photos credit photographer John...
Various cities: Various. An archive of books and personal material belonging to Arline de Haas, noted author of the photoplay edition for the first talking film, “The Jazz Singer” (1927). Included is her leather-bound presentation copy of her novelization of the film, a work that caused a fundamental and multi-level...
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N.p. N.p., 1934. Vintage oversize, double weight photograph of Josephine Baker in character as Dora from the 1934 revival of Jacques Offenbach's 1875 operetta "La creole". With a holograph pencil annotation to the verso identifying the production. The operatic debut of the longtime comedienne, actor, and dancer. The production, which...
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Tokyo: Nikkatsu, 1960. Draft script for the 1960 film. Text in Japanese. Obsessed with the teenage trends of the time including going to the beach, jazz music and progressive attitudes toward sex, this film features a gang of high school students having fun at an amusement park, including one harrassing...
Beverly Hills, CA: Copley Galleries, 1948. First Edition. One of 500 copies issued. INSCRIBED by the author and artist on the front endpaper: “For Charlotte [Bebe] and Louis Barron. Cordially, Man Ray, Hollywood, 1949.” An exceptional avant-garde association. Around this time the Barrons were beginning to experiment with committing electronic...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1962. Original US three-sheet poster for the 1962 film. An iconic image for an iconic film. Kubrick's rendition of Nabokov's masterpiece is legendary in its own right, a work that stands ten feet above the rhetoric later raised by Nabokov's son and the resulting forgettable...
Boca Raton, FL: Penthouse, 1973. Vintage oversize, double weight, borderless still photograph from the 1973 film, based on the 1947 novel by Andrew Lytle. Shot, struck, and mounted by the film's still photographer, Bob Willoughby, with a holograph notation in his hand on the verso. Full provenance available. Culp and...
Gallup, NM: Southwesterner Books, 1989. First Edition. One of 26 lettered copies, this being a non-lettered presentation copy, with a full-color drawing by Franklin laid in. SIGNED by Hillerman, Franklin, and the publisher. A collection of in-depth interviews with the author about his writing process, illustrated throughout. Fine in a....
Los Angeles: Fox Film Corporation, 1933. Final Script for the 1933 film, "Berkeley Square," directed by Frank Lloyd, written for the screen by John L. Balderston and Sonya Levien, based on Balderston's play. Starring Leslie Howard. A pre-Code film adaptation of Balderston's stage fantasy in which a scientist (Leslie Howard)...
Berlin: Verlag Ernst Wasmuth, 1924. First Edition. Very Good plus without dust jacket. Moderate fading to the extremities of the blue cloth boards, with some light dampstaining to the front board and a few underlines in red pencil to the text. Bookplate to the front pastedown. Contains black and white...
Berlin: Film-Kurier, 1924. Original German programs for duology "Die Nibelungen," one each for "Die Nibelungen: Siegfried" and "Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge." Based on the thirteenth century epic poem "Nibelungenlied." Text in German. Film-Kurier was the first German film journal, published daily beginning in 1919. Film-Kurier's classic era lasted until 1933...
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Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1989. Shooting script for the 1990 film. With rainbow revision pages throughout. Sequel to the 1988 action thriller, based on the unrelated 1987 novel "58 Minutes" by Walter Wager. Two years after the Nakatomi Tower incident, hard-nosed cop John McClane returns to save Dulles International Airport from...
Mexico City: Ultramar Films, 1952. Draft script for the 1954 Mexican film. Included is a typed letter signed from the film's producer Edward L. Alperson, on his custom rough-edged stationery, discussing the possibility of distribution within the US. Distribution was eventually taken on by United Artists, and Daniel O'Herlihy received...
Vienna: Deutsch-Osterreichischer Verlag, 1924. First German Edition, preceding all others, this being the hardcover variant published simultaneously with a more common wrappered edition. INSCRIBED by Balazs in German on the half-title page to German expressionist writer Leonhard Frank: "Leonhard Frank / in herlzlicher Freundschaft / Bela Balazs / Berlin /...
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N.p. N.p., 1937. Draft script for the 1937 film. Character of Mary Field, with the actress' name, Suzanne Kaaren (uncredited in the final film), written in, at the bottom of the cast list on the "CAST" page, with a few pages with minor proofreading emendations in holograph pencil. Screenplay divided...
New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1940. First American Edition. Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket. A spectacular copy. Lord Peter Wimsey.
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1924. Continuity Draft script for the 1925 film. Studio File Copy, rubber-stamped on the front wrapper. Brief notation on one page in holograph pencil. Based on Tod Robbins' 1917 novel, a classic of horror fiction about a trio of circus freaks who escape captivity in...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1939. Final Script for the 1939 Shirley Temple film, "Susannah of the Mounties," directed by Walter Lang, written for the screen by Muriel Dennison, Robert Ellis, Walter Ferris, Fidel LaBarba, and Helen Logan (with only Ellis and Logan credited here), and starring Shirley Temple, Randolph Scott...
Sao Paolo: Metron, 1989. First Edition. INSCRIBED and dated 14.2.90 by the artist on the front endpaper: "Por caros Nomita e George, Este immenso prazer em recebe-los aqui, assim tao espontaneamente. Meu abraco amigo e os uatos de felicidades, o Carlos Bracher, Ouro Preto, 14.2.90." Fine in a Near Fine...
Paris: Productions Sigma, 1939. Vintage double weight photograph from the 1939 film. Shot and struck by the film's still photographer Raymond Voinquel, with his name in tiny print at the bottom left corner of the image, and the film title at the bottom right. A striking image, shot from the...
France: Champs-Elysees Productions / Lux Film, 1960. Archive of 19 borderless reference photographs from the 1960 film. Ten of the photographs depicting crew at work on the set, four of which feature director Franju. Three photographs with the stamp of photographer P. Brard on the verso. Based on the novel...
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Germany: Kinematrade, Inc., circa 1933. Vintage US poster for the 1932 German communist propaganda film "Kuhle Wampe oder Wem gehort die Welt?" The subtitle is seen here under the English translation "Whither Germany." Circa 1933, as identified by the name of the Philadelphia theatre on the poster. The last and...
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New York: Park Place Gallery, 1967. Poster advertising an early performance by Steve Reich at Park Place Gallery in New York on March 17, 18, and 19, 1967, also featuring Max Neuhaus performing and "distributing" a new piece called "BI-PRODUCT" (currently listed on Neuhaus' website as "By-Product," in contravenance of...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1953. Draft British script for the 1954 UK film, released in the US as "Crest of the Wave." Copy belonging to sound recordist Peter Handford, with his name in holograph pencil on the front wrapper. At a top secret naval base is located on an...
New York: Harcourt, Brace, and World, 1966. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Cliff Robertson, who portrayed the title character in the 1968 film adaptation of Keyes' novel, "Charly." Basis for the 1968 film, Charly, considered by many to be Cliff Robertson's finest performance. In a custom clamshell box. Fine in a Fine...
New York: Farrar and Rinehart, 1945. First Edition. An exceptionally bright copy of a key Woolrich title normally found the worse for wear. Basis for the 1948 film noir written for the screen by Jonathan Latimer and starring Edward G. Robinson. Near Fine in an about Near Fine dust jacket...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1934. Early Draft script for the 1934 film. One of the earliest printed scripts for the film, produced for review by executive producer David O. Selznick, and at 140 pages a good deal longer than the final version, which runs 93 minutes. While not noted...
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1955. First reinforced library Edition (meaning the edition issued to libraries by the publisher, as opposed to an ex-library copy), with "REINFORCED LIBRARY EDITION" stamped on the front jacket panel across Harold's belly. Jacket is first issue, but price clipped by the publisher (again, as...
N.p. N.p., 1973. Vintage borderless press photograph of Alejandro Jodorowsky directing his third film, "The Holy Mountain." Mimeo snipe on the verso credited to the director's Mexican production company, Procinemex, describing the details of the photo in Spanish. 9.5 x 7.5 inches. Near Fine.
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...