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  • Branded to Kill
    Suzuki, Seijun (director); Hachiro Guryu (screenwriter); Jo Shishido, Koji Nanbara, Isao Tamagawa...

    Branded to Kill

    Tokyo: Nikkatsu, 1967. Draft script for the 1967 film. Text in Japanese. An experimental, absurdist, pop art satire of yakuza films and film noir, Suzuki’s film was a failure on release, leading him to be fired and then blackballed by the studio for making films that made neither sense nor...

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  • One Way Street [Death on a Side Street
    Fregonese, Hugo (director); Lawrence Kimble (screenwriter); James Mason, Marta Toren, Dan Duryea...

    One Way Street [Death on a Side Street]

    Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1949. Revised First Continuity script for the 1950 film noir, here under the film's working title, "Death on a Side Street." That title has been struck through in pencil, with the film's final title, "One Way Street," written just above it. Copy belonging to studio...

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  • The Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapper
    MacDonald, John D.

    The Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapper

    New York: J.B. Lippincott, 1973. First printing of this edition, and first American edition in hardcover. INSCRIBED in the year of publication on the front endpaper to Denver Post book editor Clarus Backus: "For Clair and Earlene / Thank you for one of those very good, very rare evenings /...

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  • 6 Hours to Live [Six Hours to Live
    Dieterle, William (director); Morton Bartaux, Gordon Morris, Bradley King (screenwriters); Warner Baxter...

    6 Hours to Live [Six Hours to Live]

    Hollywood: Fox Film Corporation, 1932. Final Shooting script for the 1932 film, here under the working title "Six Hours to Live." With holograph pencil annotations to the front wrapper. By way of a scientific experiment, a murder victim is revived from death, but has only six hours to find his...

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  • La Dolce Vita
    Fellini, Federico (director, screenwriter); Ennio Flaiano, Tullio Pinelli, Brunello Rondi (screenwriters); Marcello...

    La Dolce Vita

    New York: Bill Doll and Company, 1961. Two vintage borderless studio still photographs from the US release of the 1961 Italian film. Large Astor Release snipe on verso, one with "R.R. Stuart Collection" stamp on verso. Fellini's most pivotal film, if not his finest. Unlike the more sentimental and abstract...

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  • Grand Theft Auto
    Howard, Ron (director, screenwriter, starring); Roger Corman (producer); Rance Howard (screenwriter, starring);...

    Grand Theft Auto

    Los Angeles: New World Pictures, 1977. Draft script for the 1977 film. Photocopied and cobbled together during production for used by actress Elizabeth Rogers, who played Priscilla in the film, with her name in holograph ink on the title page and holograph annotations in ink and pencil throughout. Ron Howard's directorial...

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  • One-Eyed Jacks
    Brando, Marlon (director, screenwriter); Charles Neider (novel); Guy Trosper, Calder Willingham (screenwriters);...

    One-Eyed Jacks

    Hollywood: Paramount Pictures / Pennebaker Productions, 1961. Collection of four vintage oversize double weight matte finish photographs from the 1961 film. Based on the 1956 novel "The Authentic Death of Hendry Jones" by Charles Neider. Marlon Brando's only directorial effort, after his production company fired original screenwriter Sam Peckinpah and...

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  • China Seas
    Garnett, Tay (director); Crosbie Garstin (novel); John Colton, John Lynch (screenwriters); Jean...

    China Seas

    Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1931. Proposed Treatment script for the 1935 film. In a later white leatherette binding with Jean Harlow's name and the date of the treatment (Dec. 15, 1931) in gilt on the front board and the spine. Original front wrapper bound in. Based on the 1931...

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  • The Lady from Shanghai
    Welles, Orson (director, screenwriter); Jean Louis (designer); Robert Coburn (still photographer); Van...

    The Lady from Shanghai

    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...

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  • Bound for Glory
    Guthrie, Woody (book); Hal Ashby (director); Robert Getchell (screenwriter); David Carradine, Ronny...

    Bound for Glory

    N.p. N.p., 1974-1976. Archive of material for the 1976 film belonging to Second Assistant Director Bill Venegas, including a First Draft screenplay dated December 12, 1974, a Revised Draft screenplay dated August 11, 1975, and several sets of production documents regarding location shooting in Louisiana, California, and Arizona, including shooting...

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  • Madame Butterfly
    Akins, Zoe (screenwriter)

    Madame Butterfly

    Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, Circa 1932. Draft script for an unproduced film. With holograph pencil annotations to the front wrapper. Based on the 1898 story by John Luther Long. An early screenplay by American playwright Zoe Akins, who won a Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1935 for her adaptation of Edith Wharton's...

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  • Horseman, Pass By
    McMurtry, Larry

    Horseman, Pass By

    New York: Harper and Brothers, 1961. First Edition. The author's first book. Basis for the classic 1963 film, "Hud," directed by Martin Ritt, and starring Paul Newman, Patricia Neal, and Melvyn Douglas, the latter two in Oscar-winning performances. Easily Near Fine in a Near Fine, price-clipped dust jacket. A strip...

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  • Original photograph of Josephine Baker, circa 1930
    Baker, Josephine (subject); Murray Korman (photographer)

    Original photograph of Josephine Baker, circa 1930

    N.p. N.p., Circa 1930. Vintage double weight photograph of Josephine Baker, circa 1930. With photographer Murray Korman's studio logo in white at bottom right corner of the recto. Baker moved to France in 1925, where she quickly gained success as a dancer and actress, starring in several films throughout the...

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  • The House that Dripped Blood
    Bloch, Robert (screenwriter); Peter Duffell (director); Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Nyree Dawn...

    The House that Dripped Blood

    London: Amicus Productions, Circa 1970. Draft script for the 1971 film. SIGNED by screenwriter Robert Bloch on the title page in 1982. Brief annotations throughout in holograph ink and pencil. An anthology horror film, featuring four different stories, including vampires, witchcraft, wax ladies, and eerie stranglers. In one story, a....

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  • The Glass Key
    Tuttle, Frank (director); Dashiell Hammett (novel); Kathryn Scola, Kubec Glasmon, Harry Ruskin...

    The Glass Key

    Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1935. Vintage photograph of author Dashiell Hammett, star George Raft, and director Frank Tuttle on the set of the 1935 film noir. Snipe, stamps, and annotations on the verso, all indicating that this photo was used a number of times since it was struck in 1935. Based...

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  • Original photograph of Yves Saint-Laurent, circa 1970s
    Saint-Laurent, Yves (subject)

    Original photograph of Yves Saint-Laurent, circa 1970s

    N.p. N.p., circa 1970s. Vintage borderless photograph of Yves Saint-Laurent, circa 1970s. Mimeo snipe, holograph annotations and press agency stamps on the verso. Yves Saint-Laurent started his career working for Christian Dior. He succeeded Dior's position after his untimely death in 1957. Four years later he founded his eponymous fashion label...

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  • Photograph of Amos Vogel by Gerard Malanga, 2004, signed by Malanga
    Malanga, Gerard (photographer); Amos Vogel (subject)

    Photograph of Amos Vogel by Gerard Malanga, 2004, signed by Malanga

    N.p. N.p., 2004. Vintage double weight photograph of Amos Vogel, taken by Gerard Malanga and gifted by Malanga to Vogel in 2004. Malanga's trademark name blindstamp is at the bottom right corner of the image, and he has inscribed the verso: "Amos Vogel, founder of Cinema 16 / October 22...

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  • The Snake Woman [The Lady is a Snake
    Furie, Sidney J. (director); Orville H. Hampton (screenwriter); John McCarthy, Susan Travers...

    The Snake Woman [The Lady is a Snake]

    Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists / Caralan Productions, 1961. Draft script for the 1961 British horror film, here under the working title "The Lady is a Snake," with the release title in holograph pencil on the front wrapper. Though made in the UK, the film was a US co-production, and...

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  • Christo Wraps the Museum: Scale Models, Photomontages, and Drawings for a Non-Event; June 5-25
    Christo and Jeanne-Claude

    Christo Wraps the Museum: Scale Models, Photomontages, and Drawings for a Non-Event;...

    New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1968. Vintage poster for an exhibition of work associated with an unrealized Christo project, intended to wrap the New York Museum of Modern Art. INSCRIBED by the artist on the poster in orange crayon: "For Betsy Jones / Christo 1968." In early 1968 Christo and...

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  • The Last Word [The Number
    Boulting, Roy (director); Michael Varhol, Greg P. Smith, L.M. Kit Carson (screenwriters);...

    The Last Word [The Number]

    N.p. N.p., 1978. Revised Draft script for the 1979 film, here under the working title "The Number." Copy belonging to actor Martin Landau, with his extensive holograph pencil and ink annotations throughout. Realizing that his family faces eviction due to a corrupt real estate deal, a desperate inventor takes a police...

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  • Take a Giant Step
    Peterson, Louis (playwright); Louis Gossett, Maxine Sullivan, Estelle Hemsley, Frederick O'Neal (starring)

    Take a Giant Step

    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...

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  • Elvis [Elvis the Movie
    Carpenter, John (director); Anthony Lawrence (screenwriter); Kurt Russell, Shelley Winters, Bing Russell...

    Elvis [Elvis the Movie]

    Los Angeles: Dick Clark Productions, 1979. Final Shooting script for the 1978 television film, which aired on ABC on February 11, 1979. Annotation of copy number "147" in holograph marker on top right of title page. One of three television films made by noted film director John Carpenter. Carpenter began working...

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  • Wuthering Heights
    Wyler, William (director); Mordaunt Shairp (treatment); Charles MacArthur, Ben Hecht (screenwriter); Samuel...

    Wuthering Heights

    N.p. N.p., Circa 1937. Treatment script (here called a "Suggested Screen Treatment") for the 1939 film by British playwright and screenwriter Mordaunt Shairp. Annotation in holograph pencil on upper left of front wrapper, partially lost because of chipping. Shairp, during his brief three year run as a screenwriter, worked previously...

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  • Endless Desire
    Imamura, Shohei (screenwriter, director); Hisashi Yamanouchi (screenwriter); Shinji Fujiwara (author); Reiji Akitsu...

    Endless Desire

    Tokyo: Nikkatsu, 1958. Draft script for the 1958 film. Text in Japanese. Based on a novel by Shinju Fujiwara. Five people assemble ten years after the end of the Pacific War at a military station to uncover a stash of morphine worth a fortune now, whcih was buried by the...

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  • The Red and the White [Csillagosok, katonak
    Jancso, Miklos

    The Red and the White [Csillagosok, katonak]

    Budapest: Mafilm / Mosfilm, 1967. Original maquette for the Hungarian poster for 1967 film. A combination of original artwork (tempera paint) and applied lettering designs. Designed by Antal Revesz. One of the masterpieces of Hungarian cinema. A Russian-Hungarian co-production, "The Red and the White" was originally commissioned to celebrate the...

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  • Something Wicked This Way Comes
    Clayton, Jack (director); Ray Bradbury (screenwriter, novel); Jonathan Pryce, Diane Ladd (starring)

    Something Wicked This Way Comes

    Burbank, CA: Walt Disney Pictures, 1981. Revised script for the 1983 film. Written for the screen by Ray Bradbury, based on his 1962 novel. After a carnival comes to Green Town, the good citizens are compelled to follow their deepest desires, caught under the spell of the malevolent Mr. Dark...

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  • The Wrong Venus
    Williams, Charles

    The Wrong Venus

    New York: New American Library [NAL], 1966. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper to fellow mystery writer John D. MacDonald: "To John D. / With admiration / Charlie." A brief but eloquent inscription, linking two of the best hard-boiled mystery writers of a generation. Williams also...

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  • Speck's Orient-Cinema
    Deutsch-Dryden, Ernst

    Speck's Orient-Cinema

    N.p. N.p., 1916. Vintage Swiss one sheet lithograph poster, made to promote the 1916 opening of Speck's Orient-Cinema in Zurich, during the heart of the silent film era. Designed and illustrated by costume and commercial designer Ernst Deutsch-Dryden. The poster's illustration portrays well-dressed clientele watching a Western movie, likely meant...

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  • Tout l'or du monde
    Clair, Rene (director, screenwriter); Jean Marsan, Jacques Remy (screenwriters); Walter Limot (photographer);...

    Tout l'or du monde

    Paris: Cinedis, 1961. Archive of 749 vintage keybook photographs from the 1961 French-Italian film. Over 200 are loose, the remainder being affixed with cello tape on thick stock in two folio sized spiral bound notebooks with one title label present. Each photograph is numbered in holograph pencil on the versos...

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  • Now and Forever [Honor Bright
    Hathaway, Henry (director); Vincent Lawrence, Sylvia Thalberg (screenwriters); Gary Cooper, Carole Lombard...

    Now and Forever [Honor Bright]

    Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1934. Draft script for the 1934 film, here under the working title "Honor Bright." In an attempt to go straight, a con man and his girlfriend take in his young daughter, who has been living with his deceased wife's wealthy family. One of Shirley Temple's earliest...

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  • The Turning Point
    Ross, Herbert (director, producer); Arthur Laurents (screenwriter, producer); Anne Bancroft, Shirley MacLane...

    The Turning Point

    Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1976. Draft script for the 1977 film. Presumed estimating script, with "Budgeting" in holograph ink on the front wrapper. Notations in holograph blue and black ink throughout. A film made at what was arguably the maturation point for the Women's Liberation movement that began in the...

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  • Original photograph of Josep Maria Sert and Isabelle Roussandana Mdivani, circa 1930s
    Sert, Josep Maria; Isabelle Roussandana Mdivani (subjects)

    Original photograph of Josep Maria Sert and Isabelle Roussandana Mdivani, circa 1930s

    N.p. N.p., Circa 1930s. Vintage photograph of artist Josep Maria Sert and his wife, sculptor Isabelle Roussandana Mdivani, in front of his mural "The Marriage of Quiteria," located in the Waldorf Astoria's Sert Room, which contains 15 murals by the artist. With a mimeo snipe on the verso. Sert's other...

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  • Orson Welles and John Gielgud on the set of "Chimes at Midnight"
    Welles, Orson (director, starring); Nicolas Tikhomoroff (photographer); William Shakespeare (play); Jeanne Moreau...

    Orson Welles and John Gielgud on the set of "Chimes at Midnight"...

    Wengen, Switzerland: Alpine Films, 1965. Vintage oversize double weight photograph of Orson Welles and John Gielgud on location in Spain for the shooting of "Chimes at Midnight" in 1965. Shot and struck by noted photographer Nicolas Tikhomoroff, with his rubber stamp and the stamp of his Parisian agency, V.I.P., on...

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  • Peeping Tom
    Powell, Michael (director); Leo Marks (screenwriter)

    Peeping Tom

    London: Michael Powell [Theatre], 1960. British Advance Poster for the classic 1960 film. The British Double Crown poster for the film turns up from time to time, but this Advance issue, which does not state the film's title, is a rarity. Noted director Powell's most controversial film, about a serial...

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  • They Shoot Horses, Don't They
    McCoy, Horace

    They Shoot Horses, Don't They

    New York: Simon and Schuster, 1935. First Edition. Author's first book, a hard-boiled Depression-era classic, basis for the 1969 film directed by Sydney Pollack and starring Jane Fonda, Michael Sarrazin, Susannah York and Gig Young (who won an Oscar for his role as the dance marathon promoter). Near Fine in a....

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  • Les Echanges Malandreux
    Gorey, Edward

    Les Echanges Malandreux

    Worcester, MA: Metacom Press, 1985. First Edition. One of 500 copies (this being No. 196) SIGNED and numbered by Gorey. Prospectus for the edition laid in. A cut-apart style book in illustrated tan wrappers with two side-stapled spines. The book is "read" by independently flipping the captions and illustrations on...

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