Baltimore: Dreamland, 1970. Original flyer for the 1970 film. From the collection of frequent Waters collaborator Alan Rose. A flyer for the premiere private screenings of Waters' second feature film. The flyer notes that there are to be 9 screenings on April 10, 11, and 12, 1969, shows at 8PM...
Los Angeles: Expanding Cinema, 1966. Shooting final for the 1966 film. Copy belonging to actor Peter Haskell, with his holograph annotations throughout and his shooting schedule laid in. Mary Ellen Bute's final film, and one of the only cinematic adaptations of James Joyce's masterfully complex work of fiction, "Finnegans Wake."...
Los Angeles: 1963. Promotional broadside, designed to resemble an oversized postcard, for the Los Angeles premiere of Adolfas Mekas' feature film debut, "Hallelujah the Hills," along with the debut of Kenneth Anger's short film, "Scorpio Rising." Mekas was the brother of Jonas Mekas, a film critic, filmmaker, and essentially father...
N.p. N.p., Circa 1971. Original script for two plays by Academy Award winning screenwriter Howard Koch. Copy belonging to an unknown actor who played the character of Norm in "Dead Letters," with his lines highlighted and holograph annotations regarding dialogue and action throughout. In a preliminary note, Koch describes "Dead...
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Beverly Hills, CA: Selznick International, 1939. Archive of five scripts from the 1939 film, including a Temporary Draft script and four post-production scripts: 1939 One Line Continuity for the 1936 Swedish version, Cutting Continuity for a re-release (October 20, 1947), and two drafts, release and re-release, of the Dialogue Continuity (September 22, 1939 and October 20, 1947, respectively). Nominated for...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1962. Original US three-sheet poster for the 1962 film. An iconic image for an iconic film. Kubrick's rendition of Nabokov's masterpiece is legendary in its own right, a work that stands ten feet above the rhetoric later raised by Nabokov's son and the resulting forgettable...
France: Cine France, 1927. Original French program for the 1927 film, with a flyer for the world premiere at the Palais Garnier in Paris laid in. One of the late masterpieces of the silent era, following Napoleon’s early life through his appointment as Commander in Chief of the Army and...
Hollywood: M. J. Frankovich Productions, 1968. Final Draft script for the 1969 film. With a single holograph notation on the title page. Quintessential New Hollywood comedy-drama about two West Coast couples as they navigate the changing social and sexual climate of the late 1960s. Nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best...
London: DJM, 1970. Original UK promotional poster for the 1970 album. Elton John's third album, a breakthrough on every level. A concept album by a Brit based on American country and western and Americana themes—not something anyone would have expected to be a classic, and an album that didn't produce...
Paris: Various, 1946-1964. Collection of 19 original French programs for French, German, Italian, and Spanish films, with a single US film, here under the original French titles, 1946-1964. All feature color wrappers, some illustrated with color stills from the film, and highlights include "Madame du Barry" (1954, Christian-Jaque), "Madame Butterfly"...
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Paris: Cinedis, 1957. Collection of 150 vintage black-and-white keybook contact sheet photographs and 8 loose photographs for the 1957 French-Italian film. The film is represented in test shots, set design shots, and many candid moments from the set, including dramatic high-contrast images of starring actors, Bardot amply represented in the...
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1995. First printing of this edition. Octavo, blue cloth with navy blue quarter leather and silver titles, in a matching blue cloth slipcase. One of 250 numbered copies (this being No. 67). Collects poems from "Moby Dick," "Battle-Pieces and Aspects of War," "John Marr and Other...
New York: Dial Press, 1962. First Edition. Near Fine and unread in a brilliant, Fine dust jacket. Some tiny stains on the rear board, else as sharp a copy as one could hope for. Not an uncommon title, but rarely found in superior condition.
Santa Barbara, CA: Cordelia Editions, 1982. First Edition. One of 15 roman-numbered copies issued (this being No. III), SIGNED by both Kenneth Millar and Margaret Millar. Brief owner notation on the rear endpaper, now partially erased, else Fine in full blue leather, with a photo of the two authors with...
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Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co., 1917. First Edition. Blank book-style yearbook (largely still blank) belonging to Elizabeth Floding with numerous inscriptions and well wishes from various students and faculty, including a four-line Gellett Burgess poem written to Floding by Margaret Mitchell: "I never saw a purple cow, I never...
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1963. First Edition. The author's first book. About Fine in a Near Fine, first issue dust jacket. Small sticker shadows to the front and rear pastedowns. Jacket has light fading to the yellow of the spine panel and a hint of rubbing at the spine ends and...
Los Angeles: Vanguard Films, 1946. Final Shooting script for the 1947 film. Based on the 1933 novel by Robert Hitchens, this script dates from the time of the film's production, after having been shelved for over ten years. With credits on the front wrapper for both Alfred Hitchcock and Alma...
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1941. Draft script for the 1941 film. The 1941 version of "The Black Cat" is neither a remake of Edgar G. Ulmer's 1934 Karloff-Lugosi film of the same name, nor does it bear much relation to the Edgar Allan Poe story (though, in fairness, neither...
New York: Farrar and Rinehart, 1944. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper in the year of publication to actress Kay Campbell: "For Kay Campbell / who is almost my favorite actress - and so damned nice (plus attractive) besides / Love and kisses from / Charlie...
N.p. N.p., circa 1947-1963. Archive of 95 vintage black and white photographs and one color promotional print of open-wheel automobiles, focusing on well-known drivers, and with an emphasis on Indianapolis Motor Speedway winners. An uncommonly large archive of promotional photographs of various well-known race car drivers from the late 1940s...
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New York: Maysles Films, 1970. Archive including the paste-up maquette, proof, and final print of a photo-montage variant poster for the 1970 film, made for its premiere in New York City, and posted strictly on walls around the city. A poster design that, unlike the final one used, conveys the...
Paris: Cinema d'Aujourd'hui no. 44 / Edition Serghes, 1966. First Edition, a trade softcover original. INSCRIBED by director John Huston on the half title page: "To Pierre Goulliard / with my best regards / John Huston." An early, critical look at the iconic director of such enduring classics as "The Maltese...
N.p. N.p., 1966. Original manuscript for a draft of legendary singer-songwriter James Taylor's early song, "Knockin' Around the Zoo," composed shortly after his stay at the Belmont Psychiatric Hospital for severe depression when he was 17 years old. To the best of our knowledge, this is the earliest known handwritten...
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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...
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1940. Original American program for the 1940 film, with original illustrations by Al Hirschfeld. For his follow-up to the classic "Modern Times," Chaplin chose to do what only a handful of other films dared to do in 1940—make fun of Hitler. Though several of Chaplin's...
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1977. First Edition in hardcover. SIGNED by the author on the half title page. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Just a touch of foxing to the top page edges, and slightest fading to the jacket spine. An attractive copy. Travis McGee.
Paris: N.p., circa late-1950s. Vintage borderless double weight photograph, circa the late 1950s, depicting world renowned Spanish cellist and composer Pablo Casals playing the cello, while his wife Marta looks on in the background. Rubber stamps for photographer Helene Jeanbrau, the Dalmas Photography Agency, and the International Magazine Service, with...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1925. First American Edition. INSCRIBED in the year of publication by the author on the front endpaper: "To Mrs. Norman / from / Liam O'Flaherty / Sept 27th 1925." The author's landmark first novel, a Haycraft Queen cornerstone, and basis for two films, one in...
Rome: Titanus, 1962. Original double weight, borderless photograph of Claudia Cardinale on the set of director Luchino Visconti's 1963 film, "Il Gattopardo," taken in 1962 during shooting. With the blue rubber stamp of an Italian press agency, Publifoto, on the verso. In the photograph, Ms. Cardinale studies an Italian version...
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Burbank, CA: National Broadcasting Company [NBC], 1976. First Draft script in two volumes for the 1976 television miniseries based on Arthur Hailey's 1975 novel. Presentation script belonging to producer Ross Hunter with Hunter's name on the front board of each volume. Boris Sagal directed this star-studded miniseries based on Arthur...
Beverly Hills, CA: Walter Wagner / United Artists, circa 1967. Original late 1960s Polish R61 poster for the Polish re-release of the 1939 US film, designed by Jerzy Treutler. From the collection of noted film historian Amos Vogel. Full provenance available. John Ford’s smash hit and enduring masterpiece, "Stagecoach" revolutionized...
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1937. Vintage photograph for the 1937 film, showing stars Lombard, McMurray, and Butterworth relaxing with director Leisen behind the scenes. With an archive stamp of Argentine writer and film critic Israel Chas de Cruz, and holograph ink annotations identifying the subjects on the verso. The second of...
Berlin: Film-Kurier, 1929. Original program for the legendary 1929 silent film. Replete with beautiful gravure-printed production photographs, many unique to this publication. Film-Kurier was the first German film journal, published daily beginning in 1919. Film-Kurier's classic era lasted until 1933, when its publisher, Alfred Weiner, had to flee Germany because...
N.p. N.p., 1956, 1963. Small archive consisting of two notes from film director and author Kenneth Anger to his friend, British film critic Roy Edwards. Two items are dated 1956 and 1963, pretty much the epicenter of Anger's coming into prominence as a film director of importance, with the releases...
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London: Black Dog Publishing, 1999. First Edition, originally issued as a trade softcover original. This copy rebound by Wiering Books in gray cloth with black titles and rule and an original Throbbing Gristle thunderbolt patch inset onto the front board. Artistically INSCRIBED by Throbbing Gristle frontman and COUM founder Genesis...
Boston: Self published, 1902. Collection of eight original dry plate glass negatives featuring images of Boston and New York area trolleys, circa 1902-1914 but developed shortly after, shot and struck by photographer Paul W. Rowell, with his last name in holograph pencil on a few of the accompanying manila envelopes...
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