Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1996. Revised Third Draft script for the 1996 film. The second film featuring the characters from the television show Star Trek: The Next Generation, following 1994’s Star Trek Generations, and the eighth feature film overall in the ongoing Star Trek franchise. Notably, the first Star Trek film...
Paris: Gaumont, 1958. Original French program for the 1958 film. The director's second of four films featuring the inimitable "Monsieur Hulot." In this chapter, Hulot strays from his rather ordinary Paris neighborhood and into a modern, suburban one, where technological chaos reigns. A delightfully designed program, with four 5.5 x....
Milan: Edizioni Futuriste di Poesia, 1916. First Italian Edition, preceding all others. A book length expansion of the musical theories first put forth by Russolo in a 1913 manifesto to fellow Futurist composer Francesco Balilla Pratella. Text in Italian. Perhaps the earliest treatise on the use of noise as an...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1965. Draft script for the 1966 film, here under the working title "There's No Place Like Space," belonging to cinematographer Paul Vogel, with "Camera" written in holograph pencil at the top right corner of the front wrapper. A vehicle to promote the band Herman's Hermits in...
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1923. First Edition. Near Fine in a striking, Very Good plus example of the rare dust jacket. Jacket is lightly nicked at the corners and spine ends, with some separation at the middle of the rear flap fold. A superb copy overall.
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...
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...
New York: Farrar and Rinehart, 1940. Near Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Binding very slightly cocked, else book is quite clean. Jacket is bright, with some fading to the red spine title, some brief staining on the rear panel, and tiny chips at a couple of corners...
Chicago: Earl Seubert, 1970. Vintage borderless black-and-white photograph of Richard Avedon holding up a photograph of Rennie Davis (of the Chicago Seven) for an exhibition held in Chicago in June 1970. Shot by Tribune photographer Earl Seubert, with his stamp on the verso, as well as several date stamps (all...
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New York: Island Records, 1980. Vintage black and white die-cut standee promotional poster for U2's 1980 debut album "Boy." Though "Boy" was reviewed at the time as relatively unpolished yet still having potential, U2 has gone on to be one of the most widely-recognized bands in the world. Over the years...
US: Lone Star Yellow Rose, 1976. Draft script for the 1977 film. Copy belonging to producer Cassius Weathersby, with holograph annotations on nearly every page. Also included are contractual agreements and releases for Weathersby, call sheets, budgets and other financial information, and a press release containing a synopsis of the...
Hollywood: RKO Radio Pictures, 1932. Vintage double weight reference photograph from the 1932 film. A rare glimpse behind the scenes of a film that was a triumph of design, practical effects, and cinematography. Fay Wray, the actors playing the natives of Kong Island, and the crew prepare for one of...
Hollywood: Universum Film [UFA] / Paramount Pictures, 1927. Original advertising herald for the US release of the 1927 film, a shortened 115 minute version re-cut by American playwright Channing Pollock, who is credited on the herald. Interestingly, the herald credits the film as joint production of Paramount and UFA, apparently...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948. First Edition. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket, with a small rubber stamp for the "Booth Memorial Hospital" on the front endpaper. Bump to the heel, some minute rubbing at the corners. An attractive copy of the author's fourth novel.
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1947. First Draft script for the 1948 film noir. The carbon typescript from which the mimeograph copies issued by the studio were made, so noted in holograph pencil on the front wrapper in the hand of studio secretary Marion Pecht ("Copy from which we mimeod...
Moscow: Mosfilm, 1966. Collection of three vintage borderless black-and-white reference photographs from the French release of the 1966 film. With the archival stamp of the noted cinema historian Maurice Bessy on the verso of each photo. A stunning set of battle scene photos, including one three-part panoramic shot, demonstrating the...
Paris: Classiques du Cinema no. 10 / Editions Universitaires, 1962. Later printing, trade softcover. INSCRIBED by Carl Theodor Dreyer, in a slightly shaky hand, on the title page: "To Pierre Goulliard / Carl Th. Dreyer." Danish director Dreyer began in the cinema as a creator of intertitle cards for silent films...
Tokyo: Toho Company, circa 1959. Early Draft script for the 1959 Japanese film, crediting Masahiro Makino as the director, who would be later replaced by Toshio Sugie. Text in Japanese. Based on a story by novelist Juro Miyoshi, originally released in 1937 as two parts, "Saga of the Vagabonds Part...
London: Privately printed, 1806. Second edition (stated). Publisher's brown leather, with black leather spine label and gilt titles. Very Good condition overall. Two owner names on the first blank. Edgeworn. Pages foxed and occasionally water-stained at the edges.
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...
Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1953. Vintage photograph of director Budd Boetticher and Julie Adams relaxing in a tree, from the 1953 film. Mimeo snipe on verso. An early Technicolor Western from seminal American director Budd Boetticher. Gringo miner Gallager (Van Heflin) is caught up in the Mexican revolution of 1910-1911...
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...
Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Ministerstwa Obrony Narodowej, 1961. First Polish Edition, preceding all others. Not published in another language until the French edition in 1964, and not in English until the Walker edition in 1970. Lem's seminal novel about a vast ocean world that resists communication from the outside by imposing hallucinations...
N.p. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1982. Fifth draft rainbow script for the 1983 film. Wrapper has title and date written in holograph ink, "The Year of Living Dangerously," "January 1982." Four leaves of the script have annotations in holograph pencil, one noting missing page number and added scene, the others noting deleted...
New York: Jonas Mekas, 1969. Vintage large format poster for the 1969 experimental film by shot and edited by Jonas Mekas from his "film diary" footage shot between 1965 and 1969. Either unique or very nearly so, with no examples found in OCLC or institutions worldwide. The poster also doubles...
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Soviet Union: Mosfilm, 1969. Working post-production script for the 1969 film. Combination of typescript and carbon typescript, with annotations in red holograph ink throughout. Laid in is a vintage borderless reference photograph from the film. An unusual internal script from the production of the Soviet-Italian co-production that was ultimately distributed...
Burbank, CA: American Broadcasting Company [ABC], 1972. Final Draft script for the 1972 television movie. Copy belonging to prop assistant Paul Marco, with his name in holograph ink on the front wrapper and title page, with other production ephemera laid in. Based on the infamous 1971 novel by Beatrice Sparks...
Paris: Franco London Films, 1952. Original French program for the 1953 film, starring Gina Lollobrigida. A typically artful Rene Clair production, which like the director's earlier "Le Silence est d'Or" presents a highly stylized (and lushly romanticized) vision of a bygone France. A young composer, bored and irritated with the...
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N.p. N.p., 1978. Vintage borderless black-and-white double weight photograph from the set of a 1978 Playboy magazine shoot. A timed shot of Anita Ekberg and her photographer Angelo Frontoni on the sidelines. Frontoni began his career as a fashion photographerm and is most celebrated for the artistic nudes he did...
N.p. N.p., Circa 1932. Original photo album archive consisting exclusively of exquisitely shot vernacular photographs from George Pal's studio in Germany, shot shortly after he left his native Hungary, where he developed his famous Puppetoons technique of stop-motion animation. With Pal's bookplate to front free end-paper and his ownership stamp...
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...
New York: William Morris Agency, Circa 1950. Treatment script for an unproduced film called "Don't Bury Me At All," written by Robert Penn Warren and Max Shulman. An unusual collaboration between screenwriter Max Shulman ("The Affairs of Dobie Gillis," 1953) and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Robert Penn Warren. A cursory look...
France: N.p., Circa 1961. Collection of 91 vintage candid photographs featuring director Rene Clair and members of the cast and crew at release parties for the 1961 film. Clair is seen with fans, giving a speech, signing autographs, conducting a recorded interview, and cavorting with stars of the film like...
Beverly Hills, CA: Faces, 1974. Original poster for the US premiere of the 1974 film at Columbia I and Columbia II on 2nd Avenue at 64th Street in New York. Cassavetes had only screened the film at two festivals prior to the date advertised here, the San Sebastian Film Festival...
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Hollywood: Paramount Pictures. Final Draft script for the 1955 film. Actor Van Heflin's copy, with his name on the front wrapper and his holograph annotations throughout. Based on the novel "Jovanka e le altre" by Urgo Pirro. Once branded himself by the House Un-American Activities Committee, award-winning director Martin Ritt...
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Cleveland, OH: N.p., 1944-1949. Archive of 204 black and white 4 x 5 inch inter-negatives from the Cleveland, Ohio branch of the Hearst-owned Telenews theater chain, dating from 1944 to 1949 and including images of some eventful days during the course of World War II, such as Victory Over Japan...