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...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1940. Collection of 38 vintage keybook set design photographs from the 1940 film. Based on the Charlie Chan character created by Earl Derr Biggers. The twenty-fourth entry in the famed "Charlie Chan" film series, and the eighth to feature Sydney Toler, wherein the great Honolulu-based detective...
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1957. Revised Final script for the 1958 film. Based on the 1947 play "For Love or Money" by F. Hugh Herbert. Presentation copy belonging to producer Ross Hunter, bound in full navy calf with gilt titles and design, with Hunter's name on the front board...
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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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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Burbank, CA: Walt Disney Productions, 1975. Draft script for the 1976 film "The Shaggy D.A.," seen here under the working title "Double Trouble." Copy belonging to actor Hank Jones, who played the role of Policeman #2, with his name to the front wrapper in black ink. The sequel to the...
N.p. N.p., Circa 1960s. Vintage borderless photograph of French-American conceptual artist Marcel Duchamp, circa 1960s. With the stamp of photographer Philippe Collin on the verso. 9.5 x 7 inches. Very Good plus.
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Italy: Produzioni Europee Associati [PEA], 1975. Vintage oversize borderless black-and-white double weight photograph from the set of the 1975 Italian film. With the stamp of photographer Deobrah Imogen Beer (as Deobrah Beer) on the verso, along with a typescript snipe. Also described in an ink notation on the verso is...
Paris: Les Films du Carrosse / Les Productions Artistes Associes, 1975. Collection of 4 vintage black-and-white press photographs from the set of the 1975 film. Three of the four photographs show Truffaut and his crew working on the set, both in front of the camera and behind it, and the...
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...
London: Faber and Faber, 1988. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page: "John Healy / 19-2-2011 / Dublin." On this date Healy attended a screening of the 2011 Irish documentary about his life and work, "Barbaric Genius," at the Dublin International Film Festival. The documentary tells the...
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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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...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1951. First Draft Continuity script for the 1952 film. AFI Catalog notes that the film went into production on December 26, 1951, making this a draft that was probably an iteration or two short of the shooting script. Notable adaptation of Hugo’s 1862 novel, with Michael Rennie...
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...
N.p. N.p., 1973. Lengthy typed letter signed from Stan Brakhage to Will Petersen, roughly 500 words, dated May 28, 1973. Petersen was the director of the Creative Arts Center at West Virginia University, and Brakhage's letter confirms an upcoming talk at the university and answers in some detail a number...
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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...
N.p. Flag Films, 1945. Two vintage oversize double weight studio still photographs from the 1945 French film. Two Cinemagence stamps on verso of each photograph. Feuding sets of parents seek to thwart their children from marrying by distracting the son with a cabaret performer who has ideas of her own...
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...
Aspen, CO: Baldwin Gallery, 2006. First Edition. One of 1000 numbered copies (this being No. 916) with a unique rice paper dust jacket printed and hand assembled by the artists. A wonderful, artist-designed catalog issued in conjunction with a 2006 Baldwin Gallery exhibition of photographically "snowflakes" by Doug and Mike...
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...
Springfield, MA: Willey, 1891. First Edition. A history of African-American newspapers beginning in 1827 and continuing through to the book’s publication, with over 70 biographical sketches of editors and journalists, including a separate chapter dedicated to female African American journalists, and essays on the state of the Black press and...
Rome: Dell Publishing, 1984. Original poster for the 1984 opera directed by Robert Wilson with music by Philip Glass, David Byrne, Gavin Bryars, and others, as performed at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma in March of 1984. "The CIVIL warS" was originally conceived as six movements, created in six different...
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N.p. N.p., Circa 1940s. Draft English language script of Camus' 1944 play. Ribbon copy typescript on onionskin, circa 1940s, largely faithful to the 1947 Stuart Gilbert English translation, "Caligula and Cross Purpose," but with modifications made apparently for a smaller production. The adaptation includes the removal of incidental characters (patricians...
Manchester: Factory Records, 1981. Vintage offset lithograph poster for the release of the 1981 album. Based on the record sleeve designed by lead Factory designer Peter Saville. The band's debut album, after the dissolution of their previous band Joy Division following the death of lead singer Ian Curtis, a mix...
Hollywood: Faces, 1979. Fifth Draft script for the 1980 film, here under the working title "One Summer Night." Name of uncredited editor Jack McSweeney and "#36" in holograph ink on top right of title page. After her neighbors are killed in a mob hit, a woman goes on the run...
N.p. [G.P. Putnam's Sons / Viking Press], 2007. Archive containing the author's original corrected printed typescript and corrected galleys for the 2007 novel, both dated February 2006. Annotations in both documents by author William Gibson and a proofreader in various colors of holograph ink (typically Gibson’s are in red and...
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...
N.p. N.p., Circa 1965. Vintage borderless press photograph of Fondas Henry, Peter, and Jane outside of the a Whelan's Drugstore in New York City, circa the mid-1960s. With the New York stamp of photographer Don Ornitz, and the stamp of UK press agency Pictorial Press on the verso. 8 x....
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Los Angeles: CBS Television Network, 1981. Wardrobe breakdown pages and shooting schedule for the 1981 television film which originally aired on October 24, 1981 on CBS. Archive belonging to an unknown crew member in the wardrobe department with holograph annotations on every page and 94 Polaroid photographs tipped onto pages...
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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...
New York: Appleton-Century, 1947. Octavo. First Edition. Fine in a lovely, Near Fine dust jacket. Jacket shows only the most minute rubbing at the extremities, and without a trace of the spine fading endemic to the this title. Goodis' fourth book, one of five hardcover titles published prior to the...
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...
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1967. Three vintage borderless black-and-white photographs taken on the set of the 1967 film: (1) director Norman Jewison sitting alone, (2) Jewison directing Rod Stieger, and (3) Jewison directing a key early scene featuring actors Arthur Malet, Sidney Poitier, and Rod Steiger. With holograph ink...
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...
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...