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...
Berlin: Jovis Verlag / Arte Editions, 2002. First Edition. SIGNED by Werner Herzog on the title page. A wonderful compendium of still photographs in both color and black-and-white, taken over the years on the sets of Werner Herzog's films. With text throughout in English, French, and German by Herzog and...
Soviet Union: Mosfilm, 1983. Vintage borderless photograph from the set of the 1983 film, showing director Andrei Tarkovsky striking a contemplative pose while behind the camera. With a holograph ink notation on the verso identifying the film. The only vintage photograph of the great director at work on location we...
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1976. Original press kit for the 1976 film. Included in the press kit are 13 vintage black and white film still photographs, two pages of photo captions, and a 17 page booklet of production information. A film that would prove to be the turning point...
Early Draft script (though noted as a "Final Draft screenplay") for the 1971 film dated two years prior to its release. The number "243" is annotated in faded holograph ink at the top right corner of the title page. An important, slightly experimental X-rated comedy that is ground zero in the...
Rome: Riama Film, 1960. Vintage oversize borderless double weight press photograph of Anouk Aimee from the 1960 film. With agency stamps on the verso. Fellini's most pivotal film, if not his finest. Unlike the more sentimental and abstract films that would follow, "La Dolce Vita" is an unflinching 7-day journey...
Paris: Regina / Kassler, 1938. Original screenplay for the 1938 French drama, "Entree des artistes" [The Curtain Rises], one of the best-loved Louis Jouvet dramas of the 1930s, wherein Jouvet played exactly what he was in real life: an actor and teacher of drama. One of only a handful of...
Hollywood: RKO Radio Pictures, 1941. Two vintage borderless black-and-white reference still photographs from the 1941 film. Both stills with annotations on the verso, one with an RKO Radio Pictures rubber stamp. The first still shows a young Kane (Orson Welles), at a celebration for the inauguration of his newspaper, "The...
Los Angeles: Trimark Pictures, 1994. Draft script for the 1995 film. The directorial debut of Noah Baumbach. After college graduation, Grover's girlfriend Jane decides to move to Prague to write. When he declines to join her, Grover instead moves in with some college friends and sets about separating himself from...
Beverly Hills, CA: Faces Distribution, 1976. Original US insert poster, "Seymour Cassell" style, for the 1976 film. One of eight known one sheet styles (no priority) issued by Faces Distribution for the film. Faces was a company as radical as the director himself, and made small runs of posters in...
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1977. Final Draft script for the 1977 film. Copy belonging to Director of Photography Rex Metz, with his notes, cast and crew lists, shooting schedules, and a photo of Metz on the set with Eastwood and other crew members on set. An aging, alcoholic cop is...
London: Chambers, 1935. First Edition, preceding all others. A phenomenally popular novel in the UK and Ireland upon publication, and basis for the iconic 1952 John Ford film, "The Quiet Man," starring John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara. The UK edition went well into multiple printings, the small first printing having...
Copenhagen: Schoenberg Publishers, 1948. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author to photographer and former student John Wood on the front endpaper: "Jan. 1951 / To John Wood, a fine photographer [and] person. / with compliments / Keld Helmer-Petersen." An important, early book of color photography, prefiguring the work of William...
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Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, Circa 1959. Vintage double weight press photograph of Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller on location at Coronado Beach. Shot by photographer Tess Michaels for United Artists (so noted on the verso). Several holograph pencil and ink annotations on the verso, as well as an inventory...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1962. Draft script for the 1963 film "The V.I.P.'s," seen here as "Very Important Persons," which has been struck through with "The V.I.P.'s" written above in holograph pencil. Rubber-stamped FILE COPY, and number 5974 on the front wrapper. Notations to dialogue throughout, in holograph pencil...
Glendale, CA: Allied Artists, 1968. Draft script for the 1968 film. Seen here under its literal English translation "A Struggle for Rome" on the front wrapper, with credits for production company C.C.C. Film (CCC Filmkunst). Extensive annotations throughout, unattributed, in various colors of holograph ink and in pencil, including substantive...
N.p. N.p., 1945-1963. An archive of 18 mimeograph manuscripts for short stories, novels, and screenplays, many never published or produced, by W.R. Burnett. All identified by stamp, label or cover sheet as being from H.N. Swanson, Inc., Burnett's literary agent. Four of the scripts are ribbon copy typescript or carbon...
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Paris: Etudes Cinematographiques no. 30 - 31, 1964. First Edition. SIGNED by Akira Kurosawa in both Japanese and Roman letters. Founded in 1960 by professor and literary critic Georges-Albert Astre and literature and film critic Henri Agel, "Etudes Cinematographiques" distinguished itself from the other foundational French film journals "Cahiers du...
New York: Fawbush Editions and Solo Press, 1985. First Edition, one of 20 roman numeral copies (this being No. V) out of a total limitation of 120. SIGNED by both the author and illustrator. Folio-sized loose leaves, printed on 300 gram Arches paper, with 9 lithographs and two tipped-in color...
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1976. First Draft script for the 1976 film. The third entry in the wildly popular and paradigm-shifting crime film franchise set in San Francisco, featuring Clint Eastwood as "Dirty" Harry Callahan, a cop who cares little for bureaucracy. This entry finds Harry working with similar resistance...
N.p. N.p., Circa 1932. Vintage photograph of director Rene Clair in the midst of an outdoor shot with his cinematographer Georges Perinal on location for the 1933 film. A wonderful image, capturing Clair and Perinal as they set up the kind of shot that distinguished the director's work: viewing an...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1946. Third Draft script for the 1949 film. Based on the 1933 film, which in turn was based on the 1868 novel by Louisa May Alcott. An early David O. Selznick production script for the film, which was canceled due to a studio strike, and...
New York: Covici-Friede, 1928. First Edition. One of 275 copies (this being No. 53) SIGNED and numbered by the author. Illustrated by Alexander King. Quarter-cloth, with art deco-style, patterned paper-covered boards. Lacking the scarce publisher's slipcase. An epic poem about an aging Afrcan-American boxer and his last night in the...
Boston: Little, Brown, 1976. First Edition of the author’s superb first novel, winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award. Fine in a Fine dust jacket.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1939. First Edition. An attractive, unrestored example of the author's first book, a cornerstone of noir detective fiction, and basis for the Howard Hawks film noir, starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. Near Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Jacket is uniformly toned...
New York: William Morrow, 1937. Uncorrected Proof, preceding the First Edition. Good to Very Good in publisher's self-wrappers, with a publication date of April 12, 1937 and projected price of $2.00 rubber-stamped on the front endpaper. Spine lean and roll, vertical creasing to the spine panel, small stain to the...
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...
London: Commies From Mars / Initial Pictures, 1985. Third Draft script for the 1986 film, "Sid and Nancy," here under the working title, "Love Kills." INSCRIBED by Kate Simon in holograph ink on the verso of the last page of text. Simon was "a friend of Alex Cox's and [she]...
Hollywood: RKO Radio Pictures, 1945. Original one sheet poster for the 1945 film noir. An overlooked gem from Dick Powell's second life as a noir icon, an anti-fascist espionage tale with a labyrinthine, Chandler-worthy plot, and an unforgettable standoff at the end. The undisguised, left-leaning overtones throughout contributed significantly to...
Germany: Filmverleih Die Lupe GmbH, 1960. German poster for the original release of the legendary 1960 jazz documentary, set at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival in Rhode Island, shot in high style by commercial and fashion photographer Bert Stern. In addition to the iconic figures noted on the poster, the...
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Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1978. Revised Final Draft script for the 1979 film. Sequel to the 1976 box office hit, this time Rocky must again fight world champion Apollo Creed to regain his honor and prove that his last success wasn't simply a fluke. He is cautioned against the...
Daytona Beach, FL: N.p., 1958. Collection of 24 vintage vernacular photographs documenting the final NASCAR race at Daytona Beach, Florida, 1958. Occasional holograph pencil annotations or rubber stamps to the versos. The photographs in this collection document the final year the iconic Daytona NASCAR race took place on two miles...
Paris: Filmsonor, Circa 1958. Collection of 109 vintage black-and-white still photographs for the 1958 French film. All photographs with mimeograph series number on the verso. Images of cast and crew expertly captured, including director Patelliere working with cameraman on the set. Photographs range in size, several with white borders, several...
New York: J.J. Augustin, 1945. First Edition. A presentable copy. Very Good plus in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Slight lean, with light foxing to the page edges. Jacket is lightly soiled, with light chipping to the extremities. Roth 101, p. 114-115. Parr and Badger, Vol. I, p. 200.
Paris: Arts et M'tiers Graphiques, 1933. First Edition. 60 full-page, black and white plates. Brassai's first and most notable photobook. A nocturnal exploration of Parisian culture, and one of the most celebrated and influential collections of urban photography ever published. Compiled in a somewhat eery sequence of encounters set around...
n.p. N.p., 1950. First Draft script for an unproduced film. Copy belonging to Ben Colman, credited for adding additional dialogue, holograph pencil signature on front wrapper. Holograph ink and pencil annotations throughout. Based on the true story of John Wesley Powell's dangerous inaugural navigation of the Colorado River through the...