London: Anglo-EMI, 1970. Collection of three vintage black-and-white borderless double weight reference photographs Julie Ege, taken as test shots for the 1971 film. Ege is shown sitting in cloth folding chair with her name on it, in various positions designed to hide her breasts as unsuccessfully as possible. Ege, an...
Los Angeles: Selznick International Pictures, 1939. Early Continuity script (pre-production), stamped "TEMPORARY," with a credit for Alfred Hitchcock's wife and frequent screenwriter Alma Reville. "TEMPORARY" script includes screenwriting credit for Michael Hogan, who, along with Philip MacDonald, were given adaptation credits in the final film. Alfred Hitchcock's first American project, the...
Italy: Produzioni Europee Associati [PEA], 1975. Vintage oversize borderless black-and-white double weight photograph from the set of the 1975 Italian film. With the stamp of photographer Deobrah Imogen Beer (as Deobrah Beer) on the verso, along with a typescript snipe. Also described in an ink notation on the verso is...
N.p. Alfieri, 1969. Vintage oversize double weight color photograph of Dennis Hopper and Jack Nicholson, at an outdoor press conference held in front of the Carlton Hotel at the Cannes Film Festival, where Hopper was awarded the Cannes First Film Prize. Shot by Marc Alfieri, and signed by him in...
N.p. N.p., 2004. Vintage double weight photograph of Amos Vogel, taken by Gerard Malanga and gifted by Malanga to Vogel in 2004. Malanga's trademark name blindstamp is at the bottom right corner of the image, and he has inscribed the verso: "Amos Vogel, founder of Cinema 16 / October 22...
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N.p. N.p., Circa 1940s. Draft English language script of Camus' 1944 play. Ribbon copy typescript on onionskin, circa 1940s, largely faithful to the 1947 Stuart Gilbert English translation, "Caligula and Cross Purpose," but with modifications made apparently for a smaller production. The adaptation includes the removal of incidental characters (patricians...
London: Camera Press, circa 1950. Vintage borderless photograph of author W. Somerset Maugham at his residence at the villa La Mauresque at Cap Ferrat on the French Riviera, circa 1950. Mimeo snipe "IMAPRESS" sticker, "IMAPRESS" stamp, "CAMERA PRESS, LTD" stamp and struck (with holograph ink) "Parimage" stamp on the verso. 8...
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Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1966. Vintage double weight, borderless still photograph of actress Shirley MacLaine from the 1966 film. Nominated for three Academy Awards. Although not indicated on the photograph, shot, struck, and mounted by the film's still photographer, Bob Willoughby. Full provenance available. After studying with Saul Bass...
N.p. N.p., 1973. Lengthy typed letter signed from Stan Brakhage to Will Petersen, roughly 500 words, dated May 28, 1973. Petersen was the director of the Creative Arts Center at West Virginia University, and Brakhage's letter confirms an upcoming talk at the university and answers in some detail a number...
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Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1951. First Draft Continuity script for the 1952 film. AFI Catalog notes that the film went into production on December 26, 1951, making this a draft that was probably an iteration or two short of the shooting script. Notable adaptation of Hugo’s 1862 novel, with Michael Rennie...
New York: Fluxus Editions, 1972. First Edition, one of 250 copies (this being No. 34). Although not called for, this copy SIGNED by Mekas on the verso of the front board. Designed by George Maciunas. Featuring poetry by Mekas alongside photographs of his native Lithuania. Published the same year as...
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1949. Revised First Continuity script for the 1950 film noir, here under the film's working title, "Death on a Side Street." That title has been struck through in pencil, with the film's final title, "One Way Street," written just above it. Copy belonging to studio...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1976. Draft script for the 1977 film. Presumed estimating script, with "Budgeting" in holograph ink on the front wrapper. Notations in holograph blue and black ink throughout. A film made at what was arguably the maturation point for the Women's Liberation movement that began in the...
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1942. Collection of seven vintage keybook photographs from the 1942 film. Mimeo snipe and "Approved Advertising Advisory Council Apr 21 1942 Hollywood" stamp on verso of each. Political activist Leopold Dilg (Cary Grant) is framed when a lumber mill burns down and a man is...
N.p. N.p., Circa 1930. Vintage double weight photograph of Josephine Baker, circa 1930. With photographer Murray Korman's studio logo in white at bottom right corner of the recto. Baker moved to France in 1925, where she quickly gained success as a dancer and actress, starring in several films throughout the...
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New York: Richard Fields, Circa 1968. Draft script for the musical which premiered in 1968 by the Lincoln Center Workshop at the Forum Theatre. Numeric holograph annotation in holograph pencil on verso of last leaf. One of two musical plays written by actor Austin Pendleton. "Booth is Back in Town!" was...
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....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1981. Final shooting script for the 1981 film "Death Hunt," directed by Peter Hunt and starring Charles Bronson and Lee Marvin. Actor Lee Marvin's leather-bound presentation copy, with Marvin's name in gilt at the bottom right corner of the front board, and is INSCRIBED on the...
New York: Frank Shay, 1916. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Eugene O'Neill on the front endpaper with a line from the play: "For Keith Baker / 'a good shipmate he was and is, none better' / Eugene O'Neill / Dec. '38." The first publication of "Bound East for Cardiff," O'Neill's first...
Paris: Les Films du Carrosse / Les Productions Artistes Associes, 1975. Collection of 4 vintage black-and-white press photographs from the set of the 1975 film. Three of the four photographs show Truffaut and his crew working on the set, both in front of the camera and behind it, and the...
Burbank, CA: Walt Disney Pictures, 1981. Revised script for the 1983 film. Written for the screen by Ray Bradbury, based on his 1962 novel. After a carnival comes to Green Town, the good citizens are compelled to follow their deepest desires, caught under the spell of the malevolent Mr. Dark...
Los Angeles: CBS Television Network, 1981. Wardrobe breakdown pages and shooting schedule for the 1981 television film which originally aired on October 24, 1981 on CBS. Archive belonging to an unknown crew member in the wardrobe department with holograph annotations on every page and 94 Polaroid photographs tipped onto pages...
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Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1944. Final Shooting script from the 1945 film. With credit on the title page for screenwriter Anita Loos, who would go uncredited in the final film. Based on the classic 1943 coming-of-age novel by Betty Smith. Nominated for Best Screenplay, and James Dunn won for Best...
New York: Island Records, 1980. Vintage black and white double-sided poster for U2's 1980 US tour promoting their debut album "Boy" and hit single "I Will Follow." One side of the poster advertises press responses to U2's debut album "Boy," alongside a list of the band's upcoming US tour dates, while...
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Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1935. Vintage photograph of author Dashiell Hammett, star George Raft, and director Frank Tuttle on the set of the 1935 film noir. Snipe, stamps, and annotations on the verso, all indicating that this photo was used a number of times since it was struck in 1935. Based...
London: Tekli Film Productions / Animated Motion Pictures, 1963. Final shooting script for the 1963 film, "The Yellow Teddybears," here under both that title and the film's working title, "The Yellow Golliwog," and released in the US as "Gutter Girls." Directed by Robert Hartford-Davis and written for the screen by...
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Los Angeles: Beacon Productions, 1946. Final Draft script for the 1947 film. Copy likely belonging to an uncredited costume designer, with annotations in holograph pencil throughout. Groucho Marx's first solo film appearance, and his first with a real mustache as opposed to one made with grease paint. Marx plays an...
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1961. First Edition. The author's first book. Basis for the classic 1963 film, "Hud," directed by Martin Ritt, and starring Paul Newman, Patricia Neal, and Melvyn Douglas, the latter two in Oscar-winning performances. Easily Near Fine in a Near Fine, price-clipped dust jacket. A strip...
New York: Sabinson, 1969. Collection of 6 vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1969 Broadway play, written by and starring Woody Allen, as well as Allen's first production with a young Diane Keaton. Each photo with a mimeograph snipe on the verso crediting photographer Leo Stern and the Sabinson Agency...
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...
N.p. N.p. Vintage borderless photograph of experimental theater director Robert Wilson in Paris on the occasion of the Paris Autumn Festival, October 1974. With typed description and agency stamps on the verso. Robert Wilson founded The Byrd Hoffman School of Byrds, an experimental performance group in 1968. He is well known...
N.p. N.p., Circa 1975. Draft script for the 1976 play, which premiered at the Ambassador Theatre in New York on January 8. With a single holograph pencil annotation (phone number for a cast or crew member) on the title page. A group of black inmates try to survive amidst dehumanizing treatment...
New York: Edward J. Clode, 1927. First Edition. In the first state dust jacket, priced $2.00 and with a blurb for this title on the front flap and an advertisement for Richard H. Watkin's "Half a Clue" on the rear flap. From the collection of Otto Penzler. In the early days of...
Hollywood: Turman-Foster, 1975. First Draft script for an unproduced film. Based on noted African American writer and academic Cecil Brown's 1969 debut novel. An cynical, silver-tongued black man from the rural south makes a living through scamming and stealing, which he considers informal reparation for the injustices he has faced...
New York: J.B. Lippincott, 1973. First printing of this edition, and first American edition in hardcover. INSCRIBED in the year of publication on the front endpaper to Denver Post book editor Clarus Backus: "For Clair and Earlene / Thank you for one of those very good, very rare evenings /...
N.p. N.p., circa 1956. Draft script for the 1956 Broadway musical, which opened at the Broadway Theatre on March 22, 1956, and ran for 383 performances before closing on February 23, 1957. With a three page “prop inventory” bound in at the rear. Based on a story by Will Glickman...