N.p. John Kender, 1972. Vintage double weight black-and-white press photograph of director Jacques Tati, walking against traffic at the corner of 45th Street and 7th Avenue in New York City. With the stamp of photographer John Kender on the verso. Unfailingly sublime, here Tati is shown during his visit to...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1972. Revised script for the 1972 film under the working title "Wet Stuff". A spy spoof film featuring Elliot Gould and Donald Sutherland as CIA agents on the run from the CIA, the KGB, Chinese Communists and an anarchist group after botching a Russian ballerina's defection...
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....
Rome: Titanus, 1960. Two vintage borderless double weight photographs from the 1960 film. With holograph annotations and an agency stamp on the verso of each. Rosaria (Katina Paxinou), recently widowed, moves to Milan from the countryside with four of her sons to join her eldest. Each take different paths as...
Beverly Hills, CA: Orion, 1985. Final Draft script for the 1986 film. Holographic ink annotations throughout with casting director Alixe Gordin signature. An unusually titled film, alternately known as "Murder by Illusion," follows the staged 'murder' of a mob informant and its chaotic aftermath. Written by novice screenwriters, and originally...
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1974. First American edition in hardcover, originally published as a paperback original by Fawcett in 1964. Fine in an about Fine dust jacket. Bookplate of noted collector Duke Collier on the front endpaper. Just a touch of rubbing in a couple of spots, with none of the...
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1926 [1925]. Hardcover. Thirteenth printing, published in May 1926 (first printing having been published in November 1925). INSCRIBED by Anita Loos to director George Cukor on the front endpaper some years later: "April 7, 1954 / So now after 25 years you want my autograph!...
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London: The Rank Organization, 1957. Original British quad poster for the 1957 British film noir A low budget British film noir that brought Rod Steiger across the ocean in order to put his formidable character acting skills into what became a critically praised film. Shot in Spain (but represented as Mexico)...
Paris: Gallimard Serie Noire No. 185, 1953. First French Edition, preceding all others. Basis for the classic 1955 French heist film, "Rififi," one of the classics of noir, directed by Jules Dassin. Extremely scarce in the original hardcover binding, much more so in dust jacket. Very Good plus in a....
New York: Hearst Magazines, 1949. The first appearance of the novel, in an abridged pre-publication format, preceding the version published by Hamish Hamilton in the UK later the same year, and the US edition, published just after that. Chandler's fifth novel, written after several years working as a screenwriter, and dripping...
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1939. First American Edition. Near Fine in a Very Good plus, price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket shows only a few small chips and tiny closed tears at the extremities, with some light evidence that there was once some reinforcement at the verso, now professionally removed. Basis...
Paris: Les Films du Carrosse, 1968. Vintage borderless black-and-white double weight photograph from the 1968 French film noir. With a notation in holograph ink that the photo comes from the collection of Patrice Enard on the verso. Based on the classic 1940 crime novel by Cornell Woolrich, a Haycraft Queen...
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London: Carol Reed Productions, Circa 1948. Vintage candid photograph from the UK release of the 1949 film. From the archive of Maurice Bessy, with his stamp on the verso, along with the stamp of photographer Leslie Baker, and another for Carol Reed Productions and The London Films Studios in Shepperton...
N.p. N.p., 1968. A collection of nine vintage, borderless photographs, four oversize, of Ray Charles in Paris, October 1968. All five of the smaller photographs have stamps of photographer Araldo Crollalanza on the verso, four with have Italian mimeo snipes. All four oversize photographs have stamps of photographer Crollalanza and...
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1930. First Edition. Born in England, David Betts drifted around the American West before coming to New York and finding work driving cabs. He was dubbed "The Taxi Philosopher" after publishing several letters featuring his views on life and in the "New York Evening Post" during...
Los Angeles: Medallion Pictures, circa 1965. Draft script for the 1965 film "House of the Black Death," seen here under the title "The Widderburn Horror." Based on the novel "The Widderburn Horror" by Lora Crozetti. A bizarre Poverty Row second feature (the only script we've ever seen from Medallion Pictures)...
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Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1942. Revised Final Script for the 1942 horror film, based on the 1936 novel by Jessie Douglas Kerruish. A well-crafted (and in some ways, superior) variation on Universal's "Wolfman" films of the 1930s and 1940s, released as a double-feature with the equally intriguing "Dr. Renault's Secret"...
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...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1966. Collection of 7 vintage black-and-white test photographs from the 1966 feature film, released the same year as the debut of the seminal television series. Included is a rear shot of the Batmobile, designed by George Barris, replete with its completely current 1966 Gotham City license...
N.p. N.p., circa 1974. Two original vintage borderless photographs of model and actress Caroline Munro, circa 1974. A successful career as a major model and cover girl quickly led Munro to small film roles in the late 1960's, such as "Casino Royale" and "Where's Jack?." By the early 1970's Munro was...
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Berlin: Film-Kurier, 1929. Original program for the legendary 1929 silent film. Replete with beautiful gravure-printed production photographs, including a stunning deep focus shot on the rear panel from a party scene in the film, with Louise Brooks at the center of attention. Film-Kurier was the first German film journal, published...
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Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1955. Vintage contact sheet containing 12 test images of a sultry Kim Novak in a somewhat otherworldly parlor room setting, shot by noted photographer Peter Basch for the 1955 film. With Basch's name and studio address along two margins of the recto, and two different...
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1969. Final Draft script for the 1970 film. Here under its slightly different, hyphenated working title. A seminal New York comedy and an Arthur Hiller high spot, shot on location in the city in early 1970. A document of the times, it captures the city's lovable insanity...
Los Angeles: Times-Mirror Press, 1923. First Edition. Association copy, INSCRIBED by Zanuck in the year of publication to silent film actor Harry Fox: "To Harry Fox / If you enjoyed this effort one-tenth as much as I have often enjoyed you, I'm satisfied / Darryl Francis Zanuck / '23." A....
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...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1987. Second Revised Draft script for the 1988 film. Copy belonging to "B. Daniel" with their name in holograph ink on the front wrapper. A crackerjack thriller, perhaps the best action film of all time, based on Roderick Thorp's 1979 novel, "Nothing Lasts Forever." The film...
Hollywood: RKO Radio Pictures, 1940. Revised Estimating script for the 1941 film, here under the working title "Harold Lloyd #1." Copy belonging to Marguerite Chapman who played Cecilia Grange, with her name in holograph pencil on the title page. With holograph pencil annotations throughout. Steve (O'Brien), a quiet executive at...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1953. Draft script for the 1953 Broadway stage musical. Working copy of an unknown cast member, with his profuse holograph pencil annotations throughout. "Can-Can" was one of the most successful musicals of the early 1950s. It ran at New York's Shubert Theatre, opening on May 7...
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1988. Lined revised final draft script for the 1989 film in leather presentation binding belonging to editor Louis Lombardo, with name in gilt on front board, title in gilt on front board and spine. Signed on upper right of wrapper by editor "Tony Gibbs" in holograph...
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1977. Revised Final Shooting script for the 1978 film. Copy belonging to actress Anne Ramsey, who played "Spinster #2" in the film, with her name in holograph ink on the front wrapper, and brief ink annotations to preliminary pages. Ramsey's notable film credits include "The Goonies" (1985)...
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...
Paris: N.p., 1936. Vintage borderless photograph from an anti-fascist meeting in Paris in 1936, featuring novelist Andre Malraux speaking on a microphone with Nobel Prize winner Andre Gide seated at a table next to him. Photographer's rubber stamp to the verso, accompanied by holograph annotations in pencil, black ink, and...
N.p. UFA, 1941. First Edition. Hungarian film annual for German films released between 1939 and 1941, containing full page advertisements for 31 films, several with stunning illustrated transparency overlays. Bound in printed wooden boards, as issued. The majority of the films were released by UFA, although Terra-Filmkunst and Wien Film...
Various cities: Walt Disney Pictures / HanWay Films, 1926-1967. Album of thirty lobby cards and photographs from thirteen animated films, all SIGNED or INSCRIBED by animation directors to fellow animator Les Gibbard. Lotte Reiniger,Norman McLaren, John Hubley, Arthur Babbitt, Grim Natwick, and four of Disney's famed "nine old men," Frank...
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Various cities: Various. An archive of books and personal material belonging to Arline de Haas, noted author of the photoplay edition for the first talking film, “The Jazz Singer” (1927). Included is her leather-bound presentation copy of her novelization of the film, a work that caused a fundamental and multi-level...
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Paris: Gok in Sipahio lu, Circa 1970. Vintage borderless black-and-white press photograph of George Harrison at press conference for the release of his legendary 1970 album, "All Things Must Pass." Shot by noted Turkish photographer Gok in Sipahio lu, with his Parisian press stamp on the verso. Without question, 1970...
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