N.p. ITC Entertainment, 1976. Draft script for the 1976 German-Italian-British film. A train traveling in Europe has been exposed to a deadly disease, and the passengers are forbidden to leave the train. Terrorism and disaster follow, with a star-studded cast, including Richard Harris, Martin Sheen, and producer Carlo Ponti's wife...
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1979. Final Draft script for the 1980 film. Production designer's copy, with holograph pencil notations throughout denoting objects, transportation, and scenarios that will require advance work. Also laid in is a Shooting Call, dated 5/24/79, and noted as the second date of shooting. A blend...
Paris: Cinedis, 1957. Collection of 130 vintage black-and-white still photographs and 3 medium-format negatives for the 1957 French-Italian film. The collection consists of two unique but complimentary pieces, one being a set housed in the original paper box with "Crumiere / Paris" paper label, and notations on the box top...
Tokyo: Toei Animation, circa 1968. Vintage post-production script for the animated 1968 Japanese film "Horus: Prince of the Sun," also known under the title "The Little Norse Prince." This listing also includes a pamphlet of character designs for the film. A milestone in the history of Japanese animation, heralded as...
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N.p. N.p., 1973. Draft script for the 1973 play. Based on the 1950 Broadway play "Out of this World" by Cole Porter, Dwight Taylor, Reginald Lawrence. George Oppenheimer, NY columnist, playwright and screenwriter, streamlined his interpretation for a tasteful revamp to fit a smaller stage. The musical opened Off-Broadway at...
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1995. First printing of this edition. Octavo, blue cloth with navy blue quarter leather and silver titles, in a matching blue cloth slipcase. One of 250 numbered copies (this being No. 67). Collects poems from "Moby Dick," "Battle-Pieces and Aspects of War," "John Marr and Other...
Paris: Films A2, 1987. Collection of 3 vintage oversize studio photographs from the 1987 film. Co-directed by acclaimed photographer and filmmaker Robert Frank (his only feature length fiction film) and acclaimed wirter Rudy Wurlitzer, who wrote the screenplay, "Candy Mountain" is a musician's road movie, heavily influenced by the lives...
Universal City: Dreamworks, 2007. Draft rainbow revision script for the 2008 film. Copy belonging to Second Unit Clearance Coordinator Ashley Kravitz, her name in holograph pencil on an included one line schedule. Included are eight revision pages differing from those in script, two different one line schedules, and other ephemera...
New York: William Morrow, 1939. First printing of this edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper: "To Noni / Who wrote it / From the guy who paid her for doing it / Erle Stanley Gardner." According to Dorothy Hughes' biography of Gardner, Noni Bibler was one of...
New York: Parallel Productions, n.d. First Draft script for an unproduced film. Based on the 1969 novel "A Time of Predators" by Joe Gores. An association between two prolific American authors, one a genre writer and the other an America novelist and director of the influential Iowa Writers' Workshop for...
New York: Signet Books, 1951. No. 852. First printing of this edition. INSCRIBED by the author to Signet Books founder Kurt Enoch: "Dear Kurt / Hope you enjoy this one / Same old Mike with a new twist / Sincerely / Mickey Spillane." From the Kurt Enoch collection, with a....
N.p. N.p., 1940. Vintage double weight publicity photograph of Josephine Baker for the 1936 Broadway musical, Ziegfeld Follies. INSCRIBED by Baker in black marker on the recto: "Mademoiselles / Sunny Templeman / With best wishes from / Josephine Baker / 1940." With a studio insignia for Murray Corman photography studio...
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Bryn Mawr, PA: Theodore Presser, 1958. First American Edition, and first English language edition, originally published in Austria in 1955 by Universal Edition. First issue of an eight issue journal by composers and theorists Karlheinz Stockhausen and Herbert Eimert. Each issue focused on a single topic in contemporary music, this...
Paris: Gaumont, 1987. Vintage oversize borderless photograph of Jean-Luc Godard from the 1987 film. With holograph notations on the verso. An experimental film that irreverently mixes genres, twisting together a broad range of references to literature, film comedy, and the history of cinema. Starring Godard himself as a filmmaker, thus...
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New York: Coward-McCann, 1958. First American Edition. First issue, tan boards and price of "$3.50" on the front jacket flap. REVIEW COPY, with slip and author photograph laid in. Photograph by Avakian. Southern's first novel. Light foxing to the top edges and jacket verso, and a hint of toning to...
Hollywood: RKO Radio Pictures, 1941. First Edition, large quarto. The deluxe annual for RKO Studios' 1941-1942 season. Notable among the offerings featured are two full color Disney features ("Fantasia" and "Bambi"), several literary adaptations, including "Sister Carrie" and "The Little Foxes," actors Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Ginger Rogers, Bette Davis...
N.p. Ramco Productions, 1970. Draft script for the 1970 film. Two criminals, Elsie and Johnny, cross paths with Morgan, a down-and-out man who used to be a minister before his life fell apart and he took to drinking. Johnny coerces Elsie into posing as an evangelical healer and under Morgan's tutelage...
Italy: Arco Films / Lux Compagnie Cinematographique de France, 1964. Vintage photograph of director Pier Paolo Pasolini and crew on the set of his 1964 film, "The Gospel According to St. Matthew," by photographer Angelo Novi. A magnificent shot, capturing the immediacy of the crew (and a philosophically distracted Pasolini)...
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New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1939. First Edition. Copy belonging to director Jacques Tourneur, with his name in holograph red pencil on the front endpaper. Published the same year as Tourneur's directorial debut, "They All Come Out." Tourneur would go on to direct 70 films over a 40 year career, including the...
New York: Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS], 1948. Treatment script for an unproduced film, as well as a produced radio broadcast script for the May 25th,1948 CBS radio adaptation. Holograph ink on front wrapper, noting title, screenwriter Daniel Tardash, and story based on the 1946 novel by Isak Dinesen (writing under...
New York: Macaulay, 1939. First Edition. Association copy, INSCRIBED by the author in the year and month of publication to fellow screenwriter Walter C. Roberts: "January 3rd 1939 / To Walter C. Roberts / In friendship and as a belated Xmas gift. / Your friend / Martin M. Goldsmith." With...
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...
Burbank, CA: Buena Vista Pictures, 2000. Archive of two scripts for the 2000 film, including the shooting script with blue and pink revisions bound in, and yellow revisions bound separately, with the studio's production number rubber stamped randomly on the pages throughout. Copy belonging to Bruce Willis' stand-in, Allen Strange...
New York: Chelsea Theater Center, Circa 1971. Draft script for the US premiere of Jean Genet's 1961 play, which opened on November 30, 1971 and ran through December 25, 1971 at the Chelsea Theatre Center in Brooklyn, NY. Genet began writing the play, about life in a poor village in...
Chile: Nascimento, 1954. First printing of this edition. One of 1000 numbered copies (this being No. 680) SIGNED by the author. This copy retains the scarce insert on green paper that was issued with all copies, a bibliographic note on the genesis and publication history of the poem by Jorge...
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New Yorkand London: Grove Press / Evergreen Books, 1959. First Edition, a trade softcover original (no hardcover equivalent issued), issued in conjunction with the release of the 1959 film. With a stunning grouping of signatures, all in the same ink and very likely executed on the same day: the film's...
Glendale, CA: Allied Artists, 1963. Vintage black-and-white keybook photograph of director Nicholas Ray on the set of his 1963 film, "55 Days at Peking." Shot by still photographer Dennis Stock, and with a mimeograph snipe on the verso crediting Ray, screenwriter Philip Yordan, and actors Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, and...
N.p. N.p., 1941. Purchase, Rights, and Royalties agreement between James M. Cain and Alfred A. Knopf for Cain's book, "Mildred Pierce," SIGNED by both Cain and Knopf, and dated May 8, 1941. Cain has also initialed several corrections and deletions. The book went on to become one of Cain's best-loved...
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Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1972. Original maquette demonstrating an early poster design concept for the 1973 film, featuring the an original mounted silver gelatin photograph of the legendary streetlit scene of Father Merrin's first arrival to Georgetown in the film. A minimal design, without the credits information seen in the completed...
Mexico: Producciones Barbachano Ponce, Circa 1959. Three vintage photographs from the set of the 1959 film. All likely shot on the same day, and on a set in a rural location. Buñuel appears in each photo wearing a pith helmet, in the first with cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa, the second with...
San Francisco: Galeria de la Raza, 1978. Original color silkscreen print,One of an edition of 300 printed. SIGNED AND DATED IN 1978 by the artist. Published by the Galeria de la Raza, La Raza Silkscreen Center, San Francisco, and the artist. 23 x 17.5 inches. Fine condition, unframed.
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1941. Draft script for the 1941 film. Actor Van Heflin's copy. A delightful comedy about a man who does not believe in jealousy, much to the annoyance of his lovely wife, who constantly finds herself accosted by other men. Lacking front wrapper, rear wrapper is...
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1965. Revised Draft script for the 1965 film. Actor Dana Andrews' working copy, with his name label on the front wrapper, and name in holograph ink on two pages. From Andrews' estate, with a letter of provenance from Andrews' daughter, Katharine Smith. Script printed in Spain...
N.p. N.p., 1956-1957. An archive of 6 autograph letters signed by Kenneth Millar (a.k.a. Ross Macdonald), 4 to book illustrator, longtime friend, and Santa Barbara neighbor Don Freeman, and 2 to an old professor and mentor from Ontario, Frank Stirling. A fascinating and unique collection of correspondence from Millar, full...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1926. Draft script for the 1927 Silent film. Based on the 1913 yellow peril play by Henry Maurice Vernon and Harold Owen, and previously adapted for the screen in 1919, directed by Maurice Elvey, and starring Matheson Lang. Lon Chaney, in full yellowface, murders his...
Burbank, CA: American Broadcasting Company [ABC], 1969. Collection of 217 individually numbered contact sheets, amounting to 2650 images, from the 1969 film. Housed in two original three-ring binders from the film's publicity department. The occasional frame is circled or crossed through in red marker. A robust collection that documents nearly...