Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1969. Original title card maquette hand lettered by Harold Adler for the 1969 film. Based on the "Alexandria Quartet" by Lawrence Durrell. Harold Adler was a calligrapher who created hand lettered titles on over 100 films, worked frequently with Alfred Hitchcock, and was a favorite of legendary title sequence designers Saul Bass and Pablo Ferro. In...
![La Sauvage [Restless Heart] (Original script for the 1938 play). Jean Anouilh](/pictures/thumb/137449.jpg?v=1492979630)
Paris: Editions Georges Marton, circa 1938. Original carbon typescript for the 1938 play in agency wrappers. The play debuted at the Theatre des Mathurins in Paris on January 11, 1938 and ran for 100 performances. First published in the collection "Pieces noires" (Calmann-Levy, 1942) and published in English as "Restless Heart" (Methuen, 1957). Beige agency wrappers, 108 leaves, with last...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1970. Vintage double weight photograph of director Michelangelo Antonioni and members of the cast and crew on the set of the 1970 film. Shot by noted photographer Bruce Davidson. With holograph notations in pencil and blue pen on the verso. Antonioni’s great American experiment, and the only film the director ever made in the United...
![Filmkultura [Theory of the Film] (First Edition, inscribed the year prior to publication). Bela...](/pictures/thumb/122140.jpg?v=1434404413)
Budapest: Szikra Kiadas, 1948. First Hungarian Edition, preceding all others. Lengthily INSCRIBED by the author in Hungarian in the year preceding publication on the first blank leaf, ending with "Budapest / 47.XII.14." A rare signature. A renaissance man in the world of early cinema, Balazs began writing film criticism, poetry, librettos, and screenplays in 1907, and died after a very...
N.p. N.p., 1971. Vintage borderless photograph of writers James Baldwin and Jean Genet speaking at a press conference in defense of writer and activist George Jackson, on trial at the time, facing the death penalty, 1971. 12 x 8 inches (30.5 x 20.5 cm) Near Fine.
![The Gendarme of Champignol [Le gendarme de Champignol] (Archive of photographs and keybook...](/pictures/thumb/144110.jpg?v=1534366297)
Paris: Cinedis, 1959. Collection of 269 vintage black-and-white photographs for the 1959 French film. The collection consists of two unique and complimentary pieces, one being a film still keybook with 68 contact prints of small format negatives, most with 12 images per print, amounting to over 800 images captured. Nearly all images with series number bordering the image, and credits...
New York: The Vanguard Press, 1944. First Edition. The author's first book, with a price of $2.50 at the bottom of the jacket front flap as called for. Near Fine in a bright, about Near Fine dust jacket, with a lovely, deep brown topstain. Backstrip and jacket spine panel both very slightly sunned, with some minor wear at the spine...
![The Virgin Spring [Jungfrukallan] (Original poster for the 1960 film). Ingmar Bergman, Ulla...](/pictures/thumb/130114.jpg?v=1434404443)
Stockholm: Svensk Filmindustri, 1960. Original Swedish poster for the 1960 film. A landmark twentieth century film whose irregular but inspired dramatic structure and juxtaposition of beauty and savagery has inspired many other great films, from "The Last House on the Left" (1972) to "Irreversible" (2002). The first of two Bergman efforts to win the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film...
Stockholm: Svensk Filmindustri (SF), 1956. Vintage borderless photograph, showing Bergman conversing with Bengt Ekerot, in costume as Death, on the set of the 1957 film. With the copyright stamp of Svensk Filmindustri, as well as some addition Swedish language stamps, and a date stamp of November 24, 1956 on the verso. The only production ephemera from the film we have...
New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1913. First Edition. SIGNED by Biggers on the front endpaper. Near Fine lacking dust jacket. Gilt intact on front board and spine, tissue guard frontis intact. Neat owner stamp to front endpaper, else a lovely copy of the author's first book. Housed in a custom paper slipcase.
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1937. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the Blackmon to author Peggy Gaddis (Erolie Pearl Gaddis Dern, 1895-1966) on the front endpaper, in the year of publication: "Affectionately, to the Best of Friends / Peggy Gaddis / From the author / Anita Blackmon (Mrs. Harry Pugh Smith) / August 29, 1937." Blackmon wrote extensively as Mrs. Harry Pugh Smith...
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 actress and model, is best known for this film, where...
New York: ANTA Playhouse, 1961. Draft script for the 1961 Broadway play, "A Man for All Seasons." William Redfield's copy, though not noted as such on the script. The play premiered at the Globe Theatre in London in 1960, then made its Broadway debut at the ANTA Playhouse on Nov 22, 1961, running for a total of 637 performances. The...
N.p. N.p., Circa 1973. Draft script of playwright Christopher Bond's 1973 retelling of the Victorian tale of Sweeney Todd, which would form the basis of Stephen Sondheim's popular musical half a decade later after Sondheim saw Bond's play at the Theatre Royal Stratford East in London in 1973. The first retelling of Sweeney Todd in which Todd is given a....
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1927. Shooting script for the 1928 film. Original typescript with descriptive text in black type and intertitles in red type. Holograph ink and pencil notations on the front wrapper, noting starring performers, draft type, and crediting screenwriter Meehan. With a few notations in holograph pencil throughout. Based on the 1923 Broadway play by David Belasco...
France: Compagnie Cinematographie de France, 1959. Vintage borderless press photograph from the 1959 film, showing director Robert Bresson on a Paris metro set, going over a script while actor Martin LaSalle and crew look on. With the stamp of French photo agency Dalmas and holograph pencil notations regarding layout and identifying the image on the verso. Bresson's first wholly original...
Volcano, HI: Dennis McMillan, 1985. First Edition. One of 350 numbered copies (this being No. 320) SIGNED by Newton Baird, who contributes the foreword. In our experience, this title is far and away the scarcest of the 19 volumes in McMillan's series collecting Fredric Brown's uncollected contributions to the pulps.
![The Blackbird [The Mocking Bird] [The Black Bird] (Original screenplay for the 1926 film). Tod...](/pictures/thumb/140430.jpg?v=1492980533)
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1925. Draft script for the 1926 silent film "The Blackbird," seen here under the working title "The Mocking Bird." Lon Chaney again serves as a versatile "man of a thousand faces," here playing the role of high-profile thief The Blackbird who lives a double-life as a beloved local bishop. He falls in love with a....
![Fever Mounts at El Pao [La fievre monte a El Pao] (Original photograph of Bunuel on the set of...](/pictures/thumb/138216.jpg?v=1515088096)
Mexico: N.p., 1959. Vintage oversize borderless black-and-white press photograph of director Luis Bunuel and cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa behind the camera in Mexico during the making of the 1959 film (a French-Mexican co-production released during Bunuel's Mexican period). Mexican stamp of photographer Georges Yves Massart on the verso. Handwritten text on the verso reads (in Spanish): "One of the scenes should...
Paris: Greenwich Film Productions, 1971. Original double weight, wide margin photograph of Luis Bunuel and screenwriter Jean-Claude Carriere by Mary Ellen Mark, taken outdoors during the shooting of Bunuel's "The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie." Notated on the verso as having been taken in 1971, with a separate rubber stamp showing a date of 1980, presumably when the photograph was...
Paris: Robert et Raymond Hakim / Sud-Films Distribution, 1967. Vintage black-and-white borderless still photograph of Catherine Deneuve and director Luis Bunuel on the set of the 1967 film. With the French producer's stamp on the verso ("Robert et Raymond Hakim"), and a printed list of credits in French. Buñuel's first color film, about a young housewife who begins working in...
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1971. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author. REVIEW COPY with a publisher’s slip and promotional letter laid in. Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. The author’s third book.
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1932. First Edition. An exceptionally attractive copy of this uncommon Burnett title, basis for the 1941 film, "Dance Hall," with Cesar Romero and Carole Landis. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Hanna 525.
New York: Dial Press, 1958. First printing of this edition (first published in 1929). INSCRIBED by W.R. Burnett to press agent and Hollywood figure Jimmy Starr in the year of publication on the second blank: "Apr 14 '58 / Dear Jimmie / Here's the new edition of Little Caesar. I know you have quite a collection of my books--thought you'd...
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 limitation statement: "Presented to / Joanna Grimes of the Old...
Middletown, CT: Wesleyan, 1961. First Edition. Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Jacket is lightly nicked at the spine ends and corners (with one nick at the upper spine panel), but is still quite bright and clean. INSCRIBED by Cage at the front endpaper: "For Pramray Whitney / John Cage / together in chaos."
New York: John Cage, 1953. Poster brochure advertising a festival concept, developed by John Cage and David Tudor, designed to feature recitals, readings, dance classes, lectures, and panel discussions. Composers, musicians, poets, and thinkers on board for the festival of "experimental" works included Cage, Tudor, Merce Cunningham, and Mary Caroline Richards. Rather than being a poster for a particular planned...
Los Angeles: Clover Productions, 1954. Final Draft script for the 1955 film. Copy belonging to S. John Launer who played Capt. Dave Harris, holographic ink and pencil notations on his scenes throughout An ex-Nazi mad scientist uses radio-controlled atomic-powered zombies in his quest to help an exiled American gangster return to power. Penned by legendary German American science fiction and...
France: 79th Division, May 8, 1919. An archive of material from James M. Cain's estate, originally from his office, relating to the newspaper edited (and largely written) by James M. Cain, The Lorraine Cross, during his service with the 79th Division of the US Army of the Allied Expeditionary Force in World War I. Included are: James M. Cain's own copy...
Los Angeles: Lorimar, 1979. Second Draft Screenplay for the 1981 film. Copy belonging to actor Jim S. Cash, who played one of the Twin Oaks tavern customers, with his ownership name in holograph ink on the front wrapper. Various editorial notations throughout in holographic ink and pencil. Directed by Bob Rafelson, and based on the 1939 novel by James M....
Los Angeles: Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS], 1979. Two Draft scripts for the 1981 film. One is a First Draft script, dated December 1979, the other is an Agency script in promotional titled wrappers, undated. Directed by Bob Rafelson, and based on the 1939 novel by James M. Cain, "Postman" was one of the gems of early 1980 cinema (along with...
![Le jour se leve [Daybreak] (Original double weight photograph from the 1939 film). Marcel Carne,...](/pictures/thumb/135595.jpg?v=1492979148)
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 top of a tall tenement stairwell looking straight down, as...
London: Black Spring Press, 1988. First Edition, first printing. SIGNED and dated by Cave just after the title page: "Nick Cave / 1990." Author, songwriter, screenwriter, and actor Cave's first book, which went into multiple printings. A collection of early lyrics from his recordings with The Birthday Party and the Bad Seeds (up to and including the Bad Seeds' record...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1939. First Edition. An attractive, unrestored example of the author's first book, a cornerstone of noir detective fiction, and basis for the Howard Hawks film noir, starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. Near Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Jacket is uniformly toned, but quite nice, with a couple of corner nicks and...
Universal City: Universal / Chaplin Film Productions, 1967. Vintage oversize, borderless, double weight photograph, taken during a break in filming, showing director Charlie Chaplin about to enthusiastically cut into a giant birthday cake while star Sophia Loren looks on. With holograph notations on the verso. Chaplin's final film as a director, and his only color film, viewed by many, including...
![Crime et chatiment [Crime and Punishment] [Schuld und Suhne] (Original poster for the 1935 film)....](/pictures/thumb/132230.jpg?v=1418060195)
Austria: Neue Filmkunst / Walter Kirchner, Circa 1947. Original 1947 Austrian A1 poster for the 1935 French film, the first sound adaptation of the novel by Dostoyevsky, and still a key version of the often-filmed story. Design by Hans Hillmann. From the collection of noted film historian Amos Vogel. Full provenance available. Pierre Blanchar stars as sociopathic student Raskolnikov and...
![Purple Noon [Plein Soleil] (Collection of six original photographs from the 1960 film). Rene...](/pictures/thumb/144426.jpg?v=1540241270)
France / Italy: Robert and Raymond Hakim, 1960. Collection of six vintage borderless still photographs from the 1960 film. With rubber stamps on the verso of each. Based on the 1955 novel "The Talented Mr. Ripley" by Patricia Highsmith. One of greatest of the French post-noirs, and easily one of the finest adaptations of Patricia Highsmith's work, told in a....
![Es war einmal - La Belle et la Bete [Beauty and the Beast] [La belle et la bete] (Original poster...](/pictures/thumb/132225.jpg?v=1418060193)
Munich: P. R. Wilk / Neue Filmkunst / Walter Kirchner, circa 1961. Original early 1960s German A1 poster for the 1946 French film, illustrated by Isolde Baumgart. From the collection of noted film historian Amos Vogel. Full provenance available. A classic 1946 French romantic fantasy film adaptation of the traditional fairy tale of the same name written by Jeanne-Marie Le...
N.p. David Allen Coe, 1982. First Edition. Near Fine in trade wrappers as issued. SIGNED by David Allen Coe on the front wrapper. The maverick country singer's primitively printed autobiography, detailing his time in 11 different correctional institutions--from juvenile detention centers to prison--beginning at age 9, followed by a career as something of a renegade country singer. Coe's biggest single...
![Predator [A Time of Predators] (Original screenplay for an unproduced film). Frank Conroy, Joe...](/pictures/thumb/143020.jpg?v=1515181494)
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 18 years. Set in San Francisco. Black titled wrappers. Title...
Hollywood: RKO Radio Pictures, 1932. Vintage double weight reference photograph from the 1932 film. A rare glimpse behind the scenes of a film that was a triumph of design, practical effects, and cinematography. Fay Wray, the actors playing the natives of Kong Island, and the crew prepare for one of the film's most memorable scenes: Ann Darrow (Wray) being brought...
Helsinki: Eurographica, 1992. First Edition. One of 1000 copies (this being No. 1) signed by all of the contributors except Patricia Highsmith, and including an original etching of Julian Symons by artist Jeffrey Morgan. Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket. The volume is divided into three sections (short stories, poetry, and prose), and has contributions by his peers...
Ottawa, Canada: Crawley Films Limited, 1963-1966. Archive of press material and photographs for the 1963 Canadian film, and for the twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of the production company, Crawley Films. F.R. "Budge" Crawley was Canada's answer to Hollywood's Sam Goldwyn, and he produced hundreds of films during his 40-year career, including the Academy Award-winning 1975 documentary, "The Man Who...
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1935. First Edition. Winner of both the 1935 Harper Prize and the Pulitzer Prize. Very Good plus in a Very Good, unclipped first state dust jacket. Book has light foxing to the boards and page edges, with toning to two pages where a laid-in newspaper clipping on the Pulitzer Prize win has aged. Rear flap...
New York: Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS], 1948. Treatment script for an unproduced film, as well as a produced radio broadcast script for the May 25th,1948 CBS radio adaptation. Holograph ink on front wrapper, noting title, screenwriter Daniel Tardash, and story based on the 1946 novel by Isak Dinesen (writing under the pseudonym of Pierre Andrezel). Daniel Taradash would go on...
Hollywood: RKO Radio Pictures, 1945. Original one sheet poster for the 1945 film noir. An overlooked gem from Dick Powell's second life as a noir icon, an anti-fascist espionage tale with a labyrinthine, Chandler-worthy plot, and an unforgettable standoff at the end. The undisguised, left-leaning overtones throughout contributed significantly to the blacklisting of both producer Adrian Scott and director Dmytryk...
Culver City, CA: Columbia, 1962. Collection of four vintage contact sheets for the 1962 film, featuring 64 images of actor Jane Fonda and 9 images of actor Capucine. With holograph ink and red pencil notations to the rectos. Based on the 1956 novel by Nelson Algren, about the women in an upscale New Orleans brothel, whose lives are thrown into...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1965. Revised Final script for the 1966 film. Actor Van Heflin's working copy, with his notations throughout. 1960s remake of the 1939 John Ford Western. Studio self-wrappers, noted as REVISED FINAL on the front wrapper, dated June 15, 1965, with credits for screenwriter Landon. 130 leaves, mimeograph, with blue and yellow revision pages throughout, dated variously...
Paris: Film-Production Carl Dreyer, 1932. Vintage double weight matte finish French still photograph from the 1932 film. Shown is Rena Mandel as Gisele. "Vampyr" was a German-French co-production, and Dreyer, who maintained strict creative control over his films, has production companies in both Berlin and Paris. This photo was issued from the Paris office, with a label crediting Film-Production Carl...
London: P.S. King & Son LTD., 1938. First Edition. One of 500 privately printed copies. Rebound in three quarter leather and marbled boards with gilt title and raised bands. Very Good plus. Light dampstaining to the heel crown, light toning and foxing to the front and rear endpapers.
London: Edgar Wallace Mystery Theater / Merton Park Productions, 1963. Final Script for the 1964 British film, later rebroadcast as Season 5, Episode 5 of "The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theater." Based on the 1929 novel "The Big Four" by Edgar Wallace. "The Edgar Wallace Mysteries" constituted a run of 47 films, all produced at Merton Park Studios for Anglo-Amalgamated between...
N.p. N.p., 1978. Vintage borderless black-and-white double weight photograph from the set of a 1978 Playboy magazine shoot. A timed shot of Anita Ekberg and her photographer Angelo Frontoni on the sidelines. Frontoni began his career as a fashion photographerm and is most celebrated for the artistic nudes he did of some of the most famous of Italian and foreign...
Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1989. First Edition. An important monograph on the American farm subculture in the southwest United States. From the collection of abstract expressionist Alfonso Ossorio, with his ownership signature on the half title page. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Jacket has just a touch of rubbing, and a minute crimp at...
Paris: Editions de la Sirene, 1921. First Edition. Includes three original illustrations: two are primarily typographic layouts, one centered around Charlie Chaplin (each is lacking the applied paste-up elements, in the case of the Chaplin image, it lacks the photographic image that was pasted on and that appears in the finished illustration), and the third and most interesting is the...
Paris: Etudes Cinematographiques no. 30 - 31, 1964. First Edition. SIGNED by Akira Kurosawa in both Japanese and Roman letters. Founded in 1960 by professor and literary critic Georges-Albert Astre and literature and film critic Henri Agel, "Etudes Cinematographiques" distinguished itself from the other foundational French film journals "Cahiers du Cinema" and "Positif" by taking a broader, more traditionally academic...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1958. Final script for the 1959 film. Based on the novel of the same name by Pulitzer Prize winning author A.B. Guthrie, Jr., the third installment in Guthrie's trilogy about the Old West. SIGNED by actor Don Murray on the title page. An unusual Western, with touches of the darkness characteristic of film noir, "These Thousand...
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 supplement front wrappers, noted as "Feb 41," a month prior...
London: Michael Joseph, 1965. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the First Edition. Very Good in plain brown wrappers as issued. Spine lean and some vertical wrinkling to same. Generic bookplate SIGNED by the author laid in (i.e., not attached). A very presentable copy of the earliest state of this title.
New York: Callaway Editions, Inc., 1982. First Edition. One of 1,000 hardbound copies SIGNED by the photographer on a tipped in page, issued simultaneously in 2,000 signed softcover editions. 62 full-page black and white plates. A visually stunning photographic reportage of the Ohio River Valley, as commissioned by the Akron Art Museum. Fine and unread in a Near Fine dust...
Paris: President Films, 1976. Vintage black-and-white borderless still photograph from the French release of the 1976 French film. Three stamps on the verso for Cine-Revue magazine (dated variously between 9/2/76 and 2/3/77), as well as a studio stamp for President Films, crediting the title, Birkin, Dallesandro, and Gainsbourg. The petite waitress Johnny works and lives in a truck stop, lonely...
![La mala hora [In Evil Hour] (First Mexican Edition). Gabriel Garcia Marquez](/pictures/thumb/136221.jpg?v=1492979275)
Mexico: Era, 1966. First Mexican Edition, preceded by 1962 Madrid edition, but the first printing of the text as Garcia Marquez originally intended. One of just 2,000 copies, and much scarcer than the 1962 Madrid edition of which 5,000 copies were printed. In an author's note to this edition, Gracia Marquez takes issue with the liberties taken by a proofreader...
New York: William Morrow, 1935. First Edition. Publisher's file copy, with "OFFICE FILE COPY" stamped on the rear panel of the jacket and several penciled notations and deletions on the front flap and front endpaper. Near Fine in a Very Good or better dust jacket. Evidence of removal on the front pastedown, else book is quite clean. Jacket has no...
New York: Chelsea Theater Center, Circa 1971. Draft script for the US premiere of Jean Genet's 1961 play, which opened on November 30, 1971 and ran through December 25, 1971 at the Chelsea Theatre Center in Brooklyn, NY. Genet began writing the play, about life in a poor village in French controlled Algeria, in 1955, and a version was published...
![Silent Night, Bloody Night [Zora] (Original screenplay for the 1972 film). Theodore Gershuny, Ira...](/pictures/thumb/143600.jpg?v=1541362765)
New York: Cannon, 1972. Draft script for the 1972 film, here under the working title "Zora." Something of an arthouse predecessor to what became a cavalcade of holiday slasher and horror films. The film's cult status was helped by featuring Warhol superstars Mary Woronov, Candy Darling, and Ondine, experimental film icon Jack Smith, and artist Susan Rothenberg, as well as...
USA: Woodstock Editions, 2000. First Edition. One of 200 numbered suites of 14 three-color prints, each print SIGNED by Hans Gissinger. These prints are from Gissinger's monograph, published simultaneously in 2000 by Woodstock Editions. 25 x 39 inches. Fine condition. An exquisite production.
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1963. Final Draft script for the 1964 film. Copy belonging to actor Michael Miller, with his name on three laid-in call sheets dated 7/27/63. Also included is a 13-page contract dated 5/1/63, between Paramount and actor Miller for his services rendered, with notations in holograph ink and type corrections throughout. Finally, a full-color 24-page film program is...
![Contempt [Le Mepris] (Original French Program for the 1963 film). Jean-Luc Godard, Alberto...](/pictures/thumb/133500.jpg?v=1450306160)
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 sex symbol into an art object, while simultaneously making him...
![Keep Your Right Up [Une Place Sur La Terre Comme Au Ciel] (Original photograph from the 1987...](/pictures/thumb/144497.jpg?v=1547500031)
Paris: Gaumont, 1987. Vintage oversize borderless photograph of Jean-Luc Godard from the 1987 film. With holograph notations on the verso. An experimental film that irreverently mixes genres, twisting together a broad range of references to literature, film comedy, and the history of cinema. Starring Godard himself as a filmmaker, thus blurring the fictional category from the outset. Made the same...
London: Phaidon Press, 2002. First Edition. An attractive, comprehensive account of the urban history of Florence, including its art and architecture. Just about Fine and unread in a Near Fine dust jacket. A tight, clean copy with just a hint of bumping at the spine. Jacket has a half inch snag to the crown, else about Fine.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1966. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Martha Graham to the late, legendary film director Sidney Lumet at the half-title page: "For Sidney Lumet / Martha Graham." Sidney Lumet's astounding catalog of films slightly predicted (and later joined) the work of the great filmmakers of the 1970s, with a laundry list of five-star achievements that includes "Dog...
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1923. First Edition. Near Fine in a striking, Very Good plus example of the rare dust jacket. Jacket is lightly nicked at the corners and spine ends, with some separation at the middle of the rear flap fold. A superb copy overall.
Newark: Newark Theatre, Circa 1915. Original handbill for a theatrical run of D.W. Griffith's "Birth of a Nation" (1915) at the Newark Theatre in Newark, New Jersey. Noted on the bill are cast members Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Donald Crisp, and Raoul Walsh (here spelled "Raul Walsh"), who played John Wilkes Booth. Also noted on the bill is that the...
![The Treasure of Cantenac [Un Miracle] [Le Tresor de Cantenac] (Original screenplay for the 1950...](/pictures/thumb/135620.jpg?v=1492979153)
Paris: B.M.P. Films, Circa 1950. Draft script for the 1950 French film, "The Treasure of Cantenac," here under its title of origin, "Le Tresor de Cantenac," on the title page, with the film's working title, "Un miracle," also on the title page. French copy company rubber stamp, and faint pencil notations, on the front wrapper. Pre-New Wave items are scarce...
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1945. Original treatment (titled "Characters and Premise") and complete set of continuities for the 1945 13-episode film serial, including a continuity for the trailer, constituting a virtually complete record. Hammett debuted his Nazi-fighting agent in 1934 in comic book form, with artwork by the legendary Alex Raymond. A film adaptation was made by Universal in...
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1997. Master Draft script for the 2000 film, preceding the film's release by three years. Notations on the front wrapper in holograph pencil. Based on Chabon's 1995 novel. Professor Grady Tripp (Douglas) teaches creative writing in Pittsburgh, struggles writing his second novel, and smokes marijuana in his free time. His wife has left him, and he is...
![Die Hard 2 [58 Minutes] (Original First Draft screenplay for the 1990 film). Renny Harlin, Doug...](/pictures/thumb/140704.jpg?v=1546901515)
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1989. First Draft script for the 1990 film, here under its working title "58 Minutes." Based on Walter Wager's 1987 novel, "58 minutes." John McClane (Willis) attempts to save Dulles Airport from South American drug lords who have seized electronic communications between the airplanes and the airport. Shot on location in Michigan, California, and Colorado. Preceded...
Englewood, NJ: The As Stable Publications, 1926. First Edition. Near Fine in sewn wrappers, original mailing envelope (also Near Fine) and a handsome folding clamshell case with gilt spine lettering. One of 300 copies published (this being No. 172). An early play by Hemingway, extremely scarce, particularly in this condition and including the envelope. Further, we have never before encountered...
Vienna: Werner Herzog Filmproduktion, 1979. Vintage borderless reference still from the 1979 German film showing director Werner Herzog and actor Bruno Ganz, along with some extras, on the set between takes. Herzog's highly interpretive remake of F.W. Murnau's 1922 silent classic, "Nosferatu," and the second of five films Herzog made with actor Klaus Kinski. 9.25 x 7 inches (23 x 18 cm). Fine.
![Steppenwolf [Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf...For Madmen Only] (Original screenplay for the 1974...](/pictures/thumb/142743.jpg?v=1515181459)
New York: Magic Lantern Inc, 1971. Draft script for the 1974 film. Based on the 1927 novel by Hermann Hesse. A depressed half-man half-animal (played by Max von Sydow) is introduced to the hallucinogenic world of the "Magic Theater," where he seeks redemption via a metaphysical transcendence. The film took seven years of complicated pre-production to create, including building a....
New York: HarperCollins, 1996. Tony Hillerman's original typescript for his novel "The Fallen Man," with his original holograph corrections in ink. Housed in a plain orange publisher's box, with a memo from Hillerman, on his stationery, affixed to the lid. The history of the manuscript is explained in three documents that accompany the typescript: (1) a letter from the editorial...
Los Angeles: Selznick International, 1945. Vintage photograph of Ingrid Bergman from Alfred Hitchcock's 1945 film noir. Taken from a dream sequence design for the film by Salvador Dali, wherein Bergman turns into a statue of the Roman goddess Diana. The sequence was set up, and possibly filmed, but does not appear in the final cut of the film. Shot by...
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1960. Vintage US one sheet poster for the 1960 film. Canadian release sticker affixed to the recto, denoting, "Bureau de Surveillance du Cinema." A game-changing horror film, considered by anyone to be one of Hitchcock's three best, in which the director took the bold step of killing off his protagonist without mercy at the end of...
Kyoto, Japan: File, Inc., 1994. First Edition. A monograph of Hopper's photographs from a 1991 visit to Tokyo and a 1994 visit to Kyoto, published in Kyoto in 1994. Only one printing is known and to our knowledge these photographs have never appeared in book form since. Fine saddle stitched two-color photo illustrated wrappers.
Tokyo: CameraArt, 1961. First Edition, with the requisite pamphlet featuring English translations of the text laid in. The first of Hosoe's many collaborations with choreographer Tatsumi Hijikata, using Butoh dancers to create stylized, abstract portraits of relationships between men and women, and the book which brought the photographer to international acclaim. Fine and unread in a Near Fine dust jacket...
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Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1954. Final Draft script for the 1955 Technicolor Western film, here under the working title "Randolph Scott #9," with "Ten Wanted Men" added in blue holograph pencil to the front wrapper. With extensive holograph notations throughout dealing with continuity, timing, and camera set ups, presumably made by the script supervisor. After a rancher gives refuge...
Tokyo: Imamura Productions, 1979. Draft script for the 1979 film. Text in Japanese. With a single notation in holograph ink. Based on Ryuzo Saki’s novel, about real life con man, thief, and multiple murderer Akira Nishiguchi (changed to Iwao Enokizu in the film), told in multiple flashbacks as he awaits execution for his crimes. Black titled perfect bound wrappers. Title...
Tokyo: Nikkatsu, circa 1963. Draft post-production script for the 1963 film. Round robin copy, SIGNED by director Shohei Imamura and six members of the cast and crew on the front wrapper, including Sachiko Hidari, Kazuo Kitamura, Shoichi Ozawa, Jitsuko Yoshimura, and composer Toshiro Mayuzumi, with signatures dated in the mid-1990s. Text in Japanese. A metaphor for the Twentieth Century Japanese...
Tokyo: Toho Company, 1966. Draft script for the 1966 film. Text in Japanese. A pornographer is keeping a low profile to keep out of the way of the mob, while also is trying to keep the various people in his life happy, including his stepdaughter, stepson, mistress, and wife (who believes her first husband was reincarnated as a carp). White...
London: British Broadcasting Corporation [BBC], 1965. Draft script for the 1965 BBC television movie "Tea Party," adapted by Pinter from his 1963 short story. The film first aired live on March 25, 1965 on the BBC program "The Largest Theatre in the World." INSCRIBED by screenwriter Pinter on that day: "March 25th 1965 / To Peter Colin Holder / Congratulations...
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1959. First library edition, though not ex-library. Fine in maroon cloth covered boards with white titles and a Very Good plus dust jacket. Jacket has moderate bruising to the front panel, with professional repair to holes and tears at the verso. Bottom corner of the front flap clipped. A very presentable copy of the fifth...
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1934. First Edition. REVIEW COPY, with publisher's card laid in. Also laid in is the additional perforated fold out reviews that originally accompanied the first issue jacket. Winner of the 1935 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Near Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Just a slight lean, with light rubbing to the cloth on...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1947. Second Revised Final script for the 1947 film. INSCRIBED by screenwriter Richard Murphy during production of the film on the title page: "For Max - / With thanks for everything, but especially the advise that led to doing this magillah - / Murph." With a holograph ink notation in Murphy's hand on the verso of...
New York: J.J. Augustin, 1945. First Edition. A presentable copy. Very Good plus in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Slight lean, with light foxing to the page edges. Jacket is lightly soiled, with light chipping to the extremities. Roth 101, p. 114-115. Parr and Badger, Vol. I, p. 200.
N.p. N.p., Circa 1978-1982. Vintage double weight matte finish photograph, a self portrait taken by Andre Kertesz while seated in a barber's chair, showing both the front and back of his head, just after having received a haircut. With the stamp of Kertesz's long time printer, Igor Bakht, on the verso. 8 x 10 inches (20 x 25 cm). Fine.
Hollywood: The Selznick Company, 1959. Leatherbound presentation copy of Second Draft script for the 1962 film. Presented to studio executive David O. Selznick, with his initials in gilt on front board. Henry King's adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald classic final novel, and director King's final film as well. King was a prolific director and one of the most commercially...
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Paris: Trinacra Films, 1977. Vintage double weight photograph from the set of the 1977 film, shot by still photographer Etienne George. Shown are director Francois Leterrier and his crew to the left on a dolly, and actress Sylvia Kristel on the right in a state of semi-undress. The last film in the original "Emmanuelle" trilogy. An interior shot, apparently meant...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1968. Vintage oversize borderless double weight black and white set design photograph from the 1968 film. Shown is a sample interior from the space station featured near the beginning of the film, the "Hilton" sign marking Kubrick's groundbreaking use of ordinary commerce in a futuristic context. The director's sprawling, science fiction epic traces the evolution...
Atelier 41 / New World Pictures, 1975. Original Polish poster for the 1975 film, designed by B. Tankowska. Director Akira Kurosawa had long been a fan of V.K. Arsenyev's nonfiction account of his travels in the Ussuri basin in the Russian Far East, during which Arsenyev encountered and befriended a canny Nanai trapper, who subsequently became the guide for his...
Tokyo: Shochiku Films Ltd., 1990. Draft script for the 1991 film, dated May 28, 1990, about a year before its release. A tale of three generations in a postwar Japanese family and their responses to the atomic bombing of Japan. When the film played at the Tokyo Film Festival, critics of Japanese militarism said Kurosawa had ignored the historical facts...
Paris: Robert and Raymond Hakim / Paris Film, circa 1936. Draft script for the 1937 French film. An English-language version of the text issued by the Hakim brothers for use in the US. James M. Cain and John Howard Lawson adapted the story for a US film version in 1938, titled "Algiers," directed by John Cromwell and starring Charles Boyer...