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.
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1946. Revised Final script for the 1947 film "Boomerang". Brief secretarial notation in holograph pencil on the verso of the last leaf. Based on a Reader's Digest article (1945) by Fulton Oursler (as Anthony Abbot), in turn based on an actual incident involving a Catholic priest and...
New York: Lust / Unlust, 1977-1978. Archive of artwork, photography, overlays, and layout design for the vinyl 45 RPM single release of Alex Chilton's "Bangkok" b/w "Can't Seem to Make You Mine". Includes the original silver gelatin photograph used for the cover artwork, with a credit for the photography studio...
Rome: N.p., 1962. Archive of four vintage borderless photographs of Anita Ekberg from the 1962 film. With holograph annotations in pencil and the photographer Paul Ronald's stamp on the versos. A four-episode anthology exploring different aspects of morality and love. Anita Ekberg is featured here in Federico Fellini's "Le Tentazioni...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1946. Final script for the 1946 film. Based on the 1944 comedic mystery novel by Craig Rice, about the children of a widowed mystery novelist attempting to solve a murder in their neighborhood with the help of a handsome police lieutenant. Blue titled wrappers, noted as FINAL, rubber-stamped...
N.p. N.p., 1985. Vintage borderless photograph of Christo Vladimirov Javacheff in his studio, New York City, 1985. Snipe, agency and photographer's stamps, and holograph annotations on the verso. Christo Vladdimirov Javacheff and his wife Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon worked together on environmental artworks for nearly 50 years. Christo is pictured here...
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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....
Berlin: Jovis Verlag / Arte Editions, 2002. First Edition. SIGNED by Werner Herzog on the title page. A wonderful compendium of still photographs in both color and black-and-white, taken over the years on the sets of Werner Herzog's films. With text throughout in English, French, and German by Herzog and...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1940. Final draft script for the 1940 film. Notation on front wrapper in holograph purple ink adding ".9A" to the production number. Notations in holograph pencil in script adding tics to dialogue and names on the verso of pages. Laid in are 3 blue "retake" pages...
New York: Godwin, 1936. First Edition. Rare in dust jacket, this being the only copy we have ever handled. The author's second book, a sensational and ultimately somewhat prescient look at artificial insemination and the "ectogenic child". One of three pulp novels Fuller wrote prior to bringing the same sensibilities to...
N.p. N.p., N.d. Typescript draft for an unproduced film. A soldier's father is killed when witnessing a gang hit in Los Angeles and the soldier, on 30 day leave from his tour in Vietnam in order to attend his father's funeral, is out for revenge. A blunt condemnation of violent gangs...
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1931. Vintage photograph of Albert Einstein and his wife Elsa on a Warner Brothers film set, February 3, 1931. In early 1931, Einstein and his wife visited several studios and sets to see European directors at work. Here, Einstein, his wife (sitting at his left) and cinematographer J....
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Hildesheim, Germany: Olms Presse, 1981. First Edition, a trade softcover original. INSCRIBED by Volker Schlondorff on the title page: "Pour Pierre Goulliard / Volker Schlondorff / 1 juillet 83." An all-inclusive study of the director's work, from "Young Torless" (1966) through "The Circle of Deceit" (1988). Along with contemporaries Werner Herzog...
New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, 1935. First Edition. One of 310 numbered copies (this being No. 131) SIGNED by the author. Faulkner's tale of barnstorm aviation, a pursuit which took his brother Dean's life a few months after the book was published. Basis for the 1958 Douglas Sirk...
Los Angeles: Vanguard Films, 1944. Temporary Shooting script for the 1945 film, here under the working title, "The House of Dr. Edwards". Based on the 1927 novel "The House of Dr. Edwardes" by Hilary Saint George Saunders and John Palmer. Producer David O. Selznick wanted to make a "psychiatric" story...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1950. Revised First Draft Continuity script for the 1951 film. Included is an index to the script breakdown, detailing various scenes and script page numbers with revisions. Copy belonging to Dane Anderson, an uncredited member of the crew, with his name on the front wrapper of...
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1961. Vintage photograph from the 1961 film. An image with an intentional" trick of the light," showing Monroe playing paddle ball as a crew member runs a cable in foreground. A famously difficult shoot, and just as famously, the final film of both Gable's and...
New York: E .P. Dutton, 1972. First Edition. Humorously INSCRIBED by avant garde composer and former Black Mountain faculty member John Cage on the front flyleaf: "This is a book I haven't read. / John Cage." A history of Black Mountain College, the experimental college located in North Carolina that...
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Paris: Les Films Ariane, 1964. Collection of 343 vintage black-and-white photographs from the set of the 1964 film, "That Man from Rio," here under the original French title, "L'homme de Rio". Most are rubber-stamped on the versos indicating film studio, Les Films Ariane, still photographer Trigo, Brazilian magazine "O Cruzeiro...
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...
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1938. Draft script for the 1939 film. Director George Marshall's working copy, with his profuse substantive annotations throughout. Ne'er-do-well circus owner Larsen E. Whipsnade (W.C. Fields) struggles to keep his performers and carnival business just a few steps ahead of the law in order to...
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...
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.
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1974. Draft script for the 1975 film. Bound presentation script belonging to producer Howard Pine with his named embossed on the front board. With annotations in holograph pencil and ink throughout. A sequel to the 1968 film "Funny Girl," this is a fictionalized account of...
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...
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1955. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper to Delbert Mann: "To Delbert / Who needs no / inscription (p. 259). Thank you very much , Del / Paddy." In a custom clamshell box with red cloth and black calf quarter binding...
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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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...
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...
Chicago and New York: Ziff-Davis, 1946. First Edition. The only novel by radio personality Forbes, basis for the classic 1948 film noir (also known today under its UK title, "The Scar"), shot by John Alton and starring Paul Henreid and Joan Bennett. Near Fine in a Very Good, price-clipped dust...
Paris: Productions Sigma, 1939. Vintage double weight photograph from the 1939 film. Shot and struck by the film's still photographer Raymond Voinquel, with his name in tiny print at the bottom left corner of the image, and the film title at the bottom right. A striking image, shot from the...
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...
N.p. N.p., 1944, 1946, 1949. Archive of four letters between Carl Theodore Dreyer and film historian and eventual "Cahiers du Cinema" co-founder Joseph-Marie Lo Duca primarily regarding Lo Duca's proposed sound-added release of Dreyer's 1927 silent masterpiece "The Passion of Joan of Arc," and the French release of Dreyer's 1943...
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New York: Powerhouse, 2001. First Edition. Review copy with publisher's slip laid in. SIGNED by the photographer on the title page. Fine and unread without dust jacket as issued.
Paris: Editions 213 / Steidl, 2015. Deluxe Limited Edition portfolio. One of five copies (this being copy No. 1) of photographer Sophie Bramly's portfolio of 47 matte finish photographic prints in both black and white and color, depicting the emerging hip hop scene of 1980s New York. Signed and numbered...
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Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, ca. 1959. Draft script for the 1960 film "Ocean's Eleven," seen here as "Oceans Eleven or And the Angels Sing." Copy belonging to actor Peter Lawford, with his name to the front wrapper and his holograph annotations throughout. Lawford owned the rights to the film, and...
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