Altadena, CA: Twelvetrees Press, 1987. First Edition. Presentation copy, one of an undetermined number of copies stamped "BURNS ARCHIVE NO." on the verso of the title page (this copy hand-numbered 59) and INSCRIBED by the author to noted bookseller Joanna Grimes on the verso of the title page, below the...
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)...
Austin, TX: Pyramid Publishing Company, 1972. First Edition. SIGNED by Roky Erickson on the front flyleaf. A book of poems written by Erickson, legendary singer and songwriter for the 13th Floor Elevators, during his stay at the Rusk Hospital for the Criminally Insane in Rusk, Texas. The only physical evidence...
New York: Random House, 1952. First Edition. The author's eighth novel, basis for the classic 1952 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Cary Grant and Grace Kelly. Near Fine, in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Jacket has a light dampstain to the rear flap fold, affecting the fore...
N.p. N.p., 1967. Collection of 8 borderless reference photographs from the French release of the 1967 film. Arguably Jean-Pierre Melville's crowning achievement (though we feel there are no low points among his crime films), wherein Delon plays an icy hitman who is utterly anonymous, living alone in a single bedroom...
Paris: Denoel, 1952. First French Edition (and correct first). INSCRIBED by Narcejac on the front endpaper and signed by Boileau just below. A French review copy, with the necessary PRESSE punch-stamp present on both the rear panel of the jacket and the book. An absolutely pristine, extraordinarily well-preserved example. "Celle...
Spain: Profilmes, 1976. Collection of 25 vintage borderless photographs for the international release of the 1976 Spanish exploitation film. Also included in the original plain brown paper envelope and a glossy, full color, two sided flyer for the film, featuring a synopsis in English, French and Spanish. Two friends travel...
New York: Gnome Press, 1950. First Edition. Presumed "Armed Forces" edition, or the publisher's short-lived attempt to produce paperbacks, bound in wrappers identical to the jacket art of the hardcover edition. More scarce than the hardcover, a stopper for Asimov collectors. Asimov's classic work, a collection of short stories that...
N.p. N.p., 1974. Original eight-panel artwork by Ernie Bushmiller for the March 3, 1974 deluxe Sunday installment of his seminal comic strip Nancy. This particular strip features both Nancy, Aunt Fritzi, and Nancy's dog Poochie. As with American cinema, it was the French who first championed the studied simplicity of...
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Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1932. Vintage borderless black-and-white double weight publicity still of charismatic Arctic adventurer Peter Freuchen, shot by George Hurrell, likely taken to promote the 1934 release of "Eskimo," based on his 1927 book "Storfanger" and 1929 book "Die Flucht ins weisse Land." Intimately INSCRIBED at length...
N.p. N.p., Circa 1933. Original dialogue notes for the 1933 Tod Browning film, "Fast Workers." Handwritten notes on two pages of legal-size notebook paper in holograph pencil, presumed to belong to one of the screenwriters for the film. The notes are as follows, with several lines marked through in various...
New York: Self published, 1942. First Edition. The uncommon author's self-published edition, published by Sinclair in January 1942 simultaneous to the Viking trade edition, and with "Published by the Author" on the title page as called for. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. About Fine and unread in a Very Good...
N.p. Stan Brakhage, 1967. Original two color hand printed poster advertising the two first public screenings of the 1967 film, as well as selections from Brakhage's "Songs" and a live lecture by Brakhage. The only poster for a Brakhage screening we have ever encountered, as none of Brakhage's films ever...
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Hollywood: RKO Radio Pictures, 1952. Collection of 3 vintage borderless black-and-white still photographs from the 1952 film noir. One of the photos is a candid shot of a young Marilyn Monroe, leaning against a camera track and talking to her male counterpart lead, Keith Andes. The candid photo has a....
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986. Final corrected manuscript for George Baxt's novel, "The Alfred Hitchcock Murder Case," featuring his series character Jacob Singer, set in England between 1925-1936. Ribbon copy typescript, with holograph pencil corrections by the author throughout. First published in 1986 by St. Martin's Press. 251 pages...
Boca Raton, FL: Penthouse, 1973. Vintage oversize, double weight, borderless still photograph from the 1973 film, based on the 1947 novel by Andrew Lytle. Shot, struck, and mounted by the film's still photographer, Bob Willoughby, with a holograph notation in his hand on the verso. Full provenance available. Culp and...
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....
Paris: Les Films de la Pleiade, 1962. Collection of four vintage borderless photographs from the 1962 film. With holograph annotations and rubber stamps on the versos. Based in part on the nonfiction study "Ou en est la prostitution" by Marcel Sacotte, who also contributed to the screenplay. Godard’s least “intellectual”...
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...
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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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...
N.p. N.p., 1975. An unproduced British Draft script for the "Vile Bodies," based on the 1930 novel by Evelyn Waugh and written for the screen by John Wells. Assembled mostly from mechanically-reproduced leaves, with two leaves (pp. 138-139) being ribbon copies. Written as a screenplay, with dialogue and location information...
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...
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...
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...
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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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1958. First Edition. The seventh book in the Lew Archer series. Generally considered the turning point in Macdonald's writing, where the author eclipsed the influence of Hammett and Chandler and found a distinctive voice as one of the greatest writers in hardboiled fiction. Near Fine...
Rotterdam: Rotterdamse Schouwburg, 1983. Original poster for the 1984 opera directed by Robert Wilson with music by Philip Glass, David Byrne, Gavin Bryars, and others, as performed in Rotterdam on September 11, 1983. "The CIVIL warS" was originally conceived as six movements, created in six different countries, that once premiered...
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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...
New York: William Morrow, 1937. Uncorrected Proof, preceding the First Edition. Good to Very Good in publisher's self-wrappers, with a publication date of April 12, 1937 and projected price of $2.00 rubber-stamped on the front endpaper. Spine lean and roll, vertical creasing to the spine panel, small stain to the...
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...
N.p. Robert Villa, 1974. Vintage double weight borderless press photograph of Pasolini, shot on location in the Middle East by noted photographer Roberto Villa. With Villa's ink stamp on the verso, along with the stamp of the Marka Archives. In 2008, Villa donated his vast archive to the Cineteca di...
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., 1966. Heavily corrected original typescript for a story by Dieter Dengler and ghost-writer Trevor Armbrister, "Dengler" (here with the hand-corrected title, "Vietnam Exclusive: I Escaped from a Red Prison"). The story first appeared in the December 3, 1966 issue of the "Saturday Evening Post," and was adapted many...
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Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1941. Draft script for the 1941 film, here under the working title "The Great Man", with holograph annotations on nearly every page. W.C. Fields' last starring film before his death in 1946. Told as a "real life" film starring Fields as himself, "Never Give a....
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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...