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N.p. Emilio Lari, 1975. Vintage borderless double weight photograph. "Emilio Lari" and "17/11" rubber stamps on verso.A young Jodie Foster photographed by the Italian born, movie stills photographer, Emilio Lari in 1975. The following year (1976) would be the breakthrough year for Foster, going on to star in Martin Scorsese's...

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Burbank, CA: Amblin Entertainment, 1983. Eighth Draft script for the 1984 film, yellow stock, including 19 additional goldenrod revision pages. Copy belonging to an unknown crew member, with their name in holograph ink on front wrapper and the first page of the revision. Hole shadows but with script and revision...

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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...

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Cincinnati, OH: Stewart Kidd and Co, 1912. First Edition. Near Fine in a Near Fine, price-clipped example of the rare dust jacket. Book and jacket are lightly rubbed at a few extremities, else and exceptional copy of a key Strindberg drama.

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N.p. N.p., 1968. Two vintage borderless photographs from the set of the 1968 French experimental film mixing documentary with surreal imagery and fictitious characters. With mimeo snipe on one and holograph annotations on the other. From the last scene of the film featuring "Eve Democracy," a graffiti artist played by...

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London: Cassell, Petter, Galpin, circa 1889. Three parts in one, preceded by the original 4-volume folio edition published privately in the 1840s and the quarto editions that followed in the 1850s. 120 hand-colored lithographs after Roberts' drawings, with accompanying text by Reverend George Croly. Divided into 3 sections: I. Jerusalem...

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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...

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Rome: Dell Publishing, 1984. Original poster for the 1984 opera directed by Robert Wilson with music by Philip Glass, David Byrne, Gavin Bryars, and others, as performed at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma in March of 1984. "The CIVIL warS" was originally conceived as six movements, created in six different...

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Paris: Les Films Concordia, 1963. Original French program for the 1963 film. Based on the novel "Il Disprezzo" by Alberto Moravia. With a tiny rubber stamp contemporary to issue reading, "Interdit au moins de 18 ans" ("No under 18 admitted"). Godard's lush Technicolor landmark that transformed Brigitte Bardot from a....

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N.p. N.p., 1980. First Draft script for the 1983 film. Accompanied by a twenty-page German language program and single-page English promotional synopsis for the film. An early draft, written by screenwriter Jeffrey Boam a year after the novel's release at the request of Lorimar Film Entertainment, before they shuttered their...

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N.p. N.p., Circa 1937. Treatment script (here called a "Suggested Screen Treatment") for the 1939 film by British playwright and screenwriter Mordaunt Shairp. Annotation in holograph pencil on upper left of front wrapper, partially lost because of chipping. Shairp, during his brief three year run as a screenwriter, worked previously...

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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...

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Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1939. Final Script for the 1939 film, "Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence," directed by Ricardo Cortez, adapted from a story by Dalton Trumbo, written for the screen by Leonard Hoffman and Ben Grauman Kohn (though Trumbo is not credited here), and starring Glenn Ford, Nicholas...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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New York: Random House, 1949. First Edition. Basis for the blistering and important 1951 film noir, directed by William Wyler and starring a young and very angry Kirk Douglas. Fine and unread in a Near Fine dust jacket. A collector's copy, with spine coloring and book topstain both a deep...

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London: Wardour Films / Universum Film [UFA], 1927. Original program for the London premiere of the film on March 21st, 1927 at the Marble Arch Pavilion, preceded in English by the US release earlier that month but with different title cards. Director Lang's expressionist masterpiece, based on the novel and...

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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...

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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author and former president on the front endpaper: "The Complements of Herbert Hoover." Near Fine in an about Fine, price-clipped dust jacket. Spine lightly faded, with offsetting on the front endpaper, and the Herbert Hoover postage stamp on the...

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New York: Coward McCann, 1931. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the First Edition. The author's fifth book. Very Good in printed wrappers. Spine faded, light dampstain to the lower front wrapper, separation to the front hinge.

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New York: Interstar, 1978. Revised Shooting script for the 1980 film. Vigilante crime drama focuses on a Vietnam vet who reeks revenge on the streets of New York for his friend who was mugged and subsequently crippled. In the vein of "Death Wish" (1974), but with more flame-throwing, more whores...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Burbank, CA: American Broadcasting Company [ABC], 1964. Five Draft scripts in deluxe presentation bindings for the 1961 television series. Stella Stevens' personal copies. Episodes represented include: "Autumn Without Red Leaves," "But Who Shall Beat the Drums," "You Fish or You Cut Bait," "A Bird in the Solitude Singing," and "August...

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Culver City, CA: RKO Radio Pictures, 1938. Final Draft script for the 1939 film. INSCRIBED by actor Gene Reynolds, who played a young Douglas Corrigan in the movie: "For Art / From Corrigan-as-a-boy / Gene Reynolds / Mar - 71" in holograph ink on an inset page preceding the script...

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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...

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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...

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Burbank, CA: American Broadcasting Company [ABC], 1964. Revised Final script for Season 1 Episode 31 of the 1964-1966 television show "The Outer Limits," originally aired April 27, 1964 on ABC. Robert Duvall plays a disaffected CIA agent sent to infiltrate an alien flying saucer that has crash landed. He finds...

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New York: Simon and Schuster, 1959. First Edition. Near Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket. A touch of toning to the edges of the text block. Jacket is bright, with some nicks at the spine ends and a couple of corners. A bright copy of this scarce McBain...

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New York: Hyperion, 1982. First edition. Oblong folio. Cloth clamshell portfolio containing a bifolium limitation leaf and fifteen (15) photographs, each numbered and SIGNED by the artist. One of 100 numbered copies (there were also five lettered copies). Plates Fine, portfolio Very Good. The sensitive portfolio cloth is rubbed and...

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N.p. N.p., 1974. Draft script for an unproduced play. Noted in the script as being based on an unpublished novel, likely an expansion of Sylvester Leaks' short story "Trouble, Blues, and Trouble," which was included in Langston Hughes' landmark 1967 anthology "The Best Short Stories by Negro Writers". Leaks was...

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Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1941. Original pressbook for the 1941 film. Also included is a supplement titled "Intelligence in Motion Picture Advertising," by Kenneth Collins, in essence a second pressbook, as well as a second supplement featuring further ad campaigns and exhibitor's information. Date stamps to the pressbook and Collins...

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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...

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