Neuilly-sur-Seine, France: Argos Films, 1959. Collection of eight vintage, borderless reference photographs from the 1959 film. Four photographs with the stamp of production company Argos Films, seven with a sticker noting they are from the collection of film historian, collector, and founder of the Tele Cine Documentation (TCD) cinema photo...
London: ITC, Circa 1971. First Draft script for the 1972 British television film which aired on ABC on January 15, 1972 and was theatrically released in Europe. Copy number "29" in holograph marker on title page. This early First Draft was written by screenwriter Philip Levene, best known for his screenwriting...
Denmark: Zentropa Entertainments, 1998. Vintage press kit for the 1998 film. Includes eight page film program, plus a single-fold pamphlet and six vintage borderless color film still photographs. From the Tele Cine Documentation archive, originally known as the Collection Daniel Bouteiller, with their sticker and a Zentropa Productions sticker to...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1943. Second Revised Final draft script for the 1944 film. A few annotations of names or checks in holograph pencil on the top outer corner of verso. A dramatization of the trials that took place in Japan during World War II, eight American aircrew members are...
Shepperton: London Film Productions, 1949. Vintage reference photograph of director Carol Reed, music director Hubert Clifford, film editor Oswald Hafenrichter, and notably the composer of the film's soundtrack, Anton Karas, on the set of the 1949 film noir. With two printed mimeo snipes affixed to the verso, along with a....
Paris: Jean-Louis Seigner, 2001. Vintage oversize photograph of Roman Polanski on location in Warsaw in 2001 during the production of his 2002 film. Based on the 1946 memoir by Wladslaw Szpilman, about his survival in the Nazi-occupied Warsaw Ghetto during World War II. Winner of the Palme d’Or at Cannes...
London: Michael Powell [Theatre], circa 1960. Vintage borderless photograph from the set of the 1960 film, showing actor Carl Boehm taking in a scene being shot out of frame, with the prop film camera his character is hopelessly devoted to in front of him, and a real film camera just...
N.p. N.p. Vintage borderless photograph of experimental theater director Robert Wilson in Paris on the occasion of the Paris Autumn Festival, October 1974. With typed description and agency stamps on the verso. Robert Wilson founded The Byrd Hoffman School of Byrds, an experimental performance group in 1968. He is well known...
New York: Viking Press, 1964. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper on the day after Christmas, in the year of publication: "December 26 - 1964 - / To Elizabeth Boyne - / at the / suggestion of my wife, who / says you are comely and...
Los Angeles: Vanguard Films, 1944. Temporary Shooting script for the 1945 film, here under the working title, "The House of Dr. Edwards". Based on the 1927 novel "The House of Dr. Edwardes" by Hilary Saint George Saunders and John Palmer. Producer David O. Selznick wanted to make a "psychiatric" story...
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1944. Revised Draft script for the 1945 film. Carbon typescript, with brief annotations throughout in holograph pencil. Noted as "Cockle Script" on the front wrapper. Leslie Charteris wrote the original screen story (but not the screenplay) for this film, and subsequently published the story as...
N.p. N.p., 1953. Collection of six vintage borderless double weight reference photographs from the 1953 French film. Based on the 1950 novel by Georges Arnaud. Director Henri-Georges Clouzot's breakthrough masterpiece, a tense, literally volatile thriller which follows a team of four luckless Europeans who have been hired by an American oil...
N.p. N.p., 1967. Double weight photograph of an appropriately blissed out Brian Jones, a cooly aloof Nico, and a typically scary and intense Dennis Hopper (staring straight at the camera), taken at the Monterey Pop Festival in June 1967. Struck by photographer Jim Marshall circa 1990s, with his stamp, holograph...
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...
Los Angeles: Clover Productions, 1954. Final Draft script for the 1955 film. Copy belonging to S. John Launer who played Capt. Dave Harris, holograph ink and pencil annotations on his scenes throughout An ex-Nazi mad scientist uses radio-controlled atomic-powered zombies in his quest to help an exiled American gangster return...
Los Angeles: American International Pictures [AIP], 1976. Draft script for the 1977 film. One of the best unheralded revenge thrillers of the 1970s, with William Devane taking an unusual turn as a sympathetic character, though forced to be quite cold-blooded. Playing a Vietnam veteran with absolutely nothing left to lose...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1947. Temporary Draft script for the 1948 film. Laid in is nine pages of test material. Copy belonging to Robert Arthur, who played Ken McLaughlin, with his name in holograph ink on the front wrapper. A mare has been lured away by a wild stallion, angering...
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1965. Presentation script for the 1965 film, given by Jerry Lewis to producer Howard Pine, with a leather label bearing the gilt inscription "Good Luck. Always, Jerry" on the front pastedown. Pine's working script, with annotations in holograph ink and pencil throughout. Housed in a....
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...
New York: Janus Films, 1964. Collection of thirteen vintage studio still photographs from the US release of the 1963 Swedish film. Three with mimeo snipe and "R.R. Stuart Collection" stamp on the verso. The third entry in Ingmar Bergman's trilogy of faith and redemption, preceded by "Through A Glass Darkly" (1961)...
N.p. Regal Films, 1958. Draft script for the 1958 film. Copy belonging to actress Lyn Thomas, with annotations throughout relating to her character in the film, Laura. A space probe returns to earth bearing an unusual extraterrestrial fungus which, when accidentally mixed with human blood, turns into space rust. The...
London: Robert Hale, 1963. Original artwork study for the dust jacket front panel and spine panel of the UK edition of James M. Cain's "Mignon," published by Robert Hale in 1963. The artwork consists of ink and watercolor on textured stock, with a transparent negative overlay lending browns and blues...
Paris: Albien Michel, 1930. First French Edition (and correct first). Presentation copy, INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper. The large paper edition, one of 40 copies (this being No. 31) printed on Hollande paper. Basis for two superb films: director Jean Renoir's "La Chienne" (1931) and the American...
New York: Signet Books, 1954. First printing of this edition, and first printing in paperback. INSCRIBED by the author on the title page in the year of publication to publisher Kurt Enoch: "To Kurt Enoch / with my best wishes / Sincerely yours / Richard Wright / Paris May 8...
Los Angeles / London: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1950. Final Shooting script for the 1951 film, here under its working title, "No Highway". Profusely annotated by a studio secretary on the inside rear wrapper, over time, regarding at least eight script revisions, with dates ranging from 10/4/50 to 11/13/50. Based on the...
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1974. Draft script for the 1975 film. Bound presentation script belonging to producer Howard Pine with his named embossed on the front board. With annotations in holograph pencil and ink throughout. A sequel to the 1968 film "Funny Girl," this is a fictionalized account of...
New York: Factory Films, 1968. Vintage black-and-white double weight still photograph of director Paul Morrissey and actor Joe Dallesandro, shot during the making of Andy Warhol's 1968 film "Flesh". Photographer Werner Bokelberg's rubber stamp and holograph pencil annotations to the verso. Morrissey's first production for Warhol, Dallesandro's second leading role...
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Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1955. Two vintage keybook photographs from the 1955 film, one showing director Elia Kazan behind the camera, the other showing actors James Dean and Nick Dennis goofing around behind the scenes with dialogue director Guy Thomajan. Typed annotations identifying the subjects on the versos. Based on...
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1971. Vintage US silkscreen banner poster for the 1971 film. Based on Frank Pierson's 1970 novel, about an ex-con who initiates a cascade of chaos when he decides to rob his upscale apartment building. Actor Christopher Walken's feature film debut, as well as a breakthrough...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1930. First Temporary Draft script for the 1930 film "A Lady's Morals," seen here under the title "Jenny Lind". Copy belonging to musical director Arthur Freed, with his holograph pencil name to the front wrapper and his annotations throughout. Metropolitan Opera diva Grace Moore stars...
Hildesheim, Germany: Olms Presse, 1981. First Edition, a trade softcover original. INSCRIBED by Volker Schlondorff on the title page: "Pour Pierre Goulliard / Volker Schlondorff / 1 juillet 83." An all-inclusive study of the director's work, from "Young Torless" (1966) through "The Circle of Deceit" (1988). Along with contemporaries Werner Herzog...
N.p. N.p., Circa 1957. Archive of 27 oversize, double weight photographs of Indy race cars, taken at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, circa 1957. Two photographs with the stamp of photographer J.O. Wilson on the verso. Each of the photographs is of a single car riding at high speed, taken at...
New York: E .P. Dutton, 1972. First Edition. Humorously INSCRIBED by avant garde composer and former Black Mountain faculty member John Cage on the front flyleaf: "This is a book I haven't read. / John Cage." A history of Black Mountain College, the experimental college located in North Carolina that...
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Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1943. Revised Draft script for the 1943 film. Co-written for the screen by Raymond Chandler and Frank Partos. Chandler's contribution to the script had mostly to do with Alan Ladd's character and his tough dialogue (elements sneered at by the media upon the film's release). Laid in...
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1957. First Library Edition, but not an ex-library copy. About Fine in brown cloth covered boards and a Near Fine, price clipped dust jacket. Just a hint of a spine lean, with a gift inscription to the front end paper. Jacket is bright and intact...
France / Italy: Les Films Ariane, Circa 1956. Collection of over 80 vintage borderless single weight candid and glamor photographs and film negatives, black-and-white and color, and color transparencies, for the 1956 French-Italian film. Most of the images are glamour portraits of the film's leading women: Dany Carrel, Nicole Courcel...