London: Faber and Faber, 1958. First Edition. Copy belonging to the author's British agent, E.J. Carnell in London, with their label on the front endpaper, reading "NON-STOP / by / Brian W. Aldiss / First American Rights" in holograph manual type. A touch of rubbing to the rear panel, else Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket. Considered by.....

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1958-1960. Archive of scripts and revision pages for 56 episodes of the hip private-eye detective television series "Peter Gunn." Copies belonging to screenwriter Lewis Reed, with his holograph name to the front wrapper of each episode. Included are screenplays for nearly half of the 114-episode run of the noir influenced television series starring the sophisticated, sharp-dressed.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1962. Draft script for the 1963 film "The V.I.P.'s," seen here as "Very Important Persons," which has been struck through with "The V.I.P.'s" written above in holograph pencil. Rubber-stamped FILE COPY, and number 5974 on the front wrapper. Notations to dialogue throughout, in holograph pencil, red pencil, and blue and black ink. A star-studded drama.....

Durham, NC: Fine Books Press, 2007. First Limited Edition. One of 52 copies lettered from a to zz (this being ww), SIGNED and lettered by the author. Publisher's gray quarter-leather cloth, backed in maroon, with red ribbon marker, gilt front and spine title, in a matching gray cloth slipcase with the author's name in gilt. Fine and unread in a......

Los Angeles: Saul Bass and Associates, 1960. Original glossy photographic title card for plate No. 3 in the title sequence from Stanley Kubrick's 1960 film, "Spartacus." This plate was used for the portion of the title card sequence showing "LAURENCE OLIVIER as Crassus." Only a small portion of the photographic image here was used in the sequence, the entire photograph.....

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.....

N.p. N.p., 1956. Draft script for a 1956 student film. Front wrapper title in decorative holograph black ink, presumably by the screenwriter. Based on the 1890 story by Ambrose Bierce. 22 pages of storyboards, corresponding with the script that follows, all bound together. Decorative cast and crew invite to premiere and wrap party laid in. The second filmed version of.....

Paris: Denoel, 1954. First French Edition, preceding all others. The French crime fiction duo's third novel, preceding the British edition by two years and the American by three. Basis for the iconic 1958 film noir "Vertigo" directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring James Stewart, Kim Novak, and Barbara Bel Geddes. Not only is "Vertigo"' widely recognized as Hitchcock's masterpiece, it recently.....

New York: Documentext, 1982. First Edition. deluxe issue, one of 200 numbered copies (this being No. 71) SIGNED by Brakhage. Fine in a Fine example of the unprinted laminated dust jacket, as issued. A collection of essays, letters, and interviews by Brakhage, perhaps the most important and influential experimental filmmaker of the twentieth century, one who’s work, housed at the.....

Los Angeles: Essex Productions, 1979. Final Draft script for the 1984 horror film. Copy belonging to makeup artist John Carl Buechler, with his name in holograph ink on the title page and two Polaroid photographs laid in. Six friends are stalked and murdered while on a camping trip. Shot on location in Idyllwild, California. Green titled wrappers. Title page present.....

New York: John Day, 1931. First Edition. First issue with "flees" on page 100, and "John Day Publishing Company" on the copyright page. Lacking the scarce dust jacket. Basis for the 1937 film starring Paul Muni and Luise Rainer, who won an Academy Award for her role, and directed by Sidney Franklin. Buck won the Pulitzer Prize for "The Good.....

N.p. N.p., 1966. Set of three remarkable double weight photograph of Carol Burnett, Rock Hudson, Frank Gorshin, and Ken Berry on the set of one of Carol Burnett's earliest television specials, "Carol and Company," which aired on October 9, 1966. CBS tested the waters with Carol Burnett four times with specials between 1963 and 1966. This photograph was shot on.....

N.p. N.p., 1977. Original three-panel artwork by Ernie Bushmiller for the October 11, 1977 daily strip of his seminal comic strip Nancy. This particular strip features Nancy and Sluggo enveloped in a fog created with Ben Day dots in a very stylish Pop Art manner. As with American cinema, it was the French who first championed the studied simplicity of.....

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 annotations 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, 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 of the.....

New York: Signet Books, 1952. First printing of this edition. INSCRIBED by Caldwell to the publisher: "To Kurt Enoch / with the grateful thanks of Erskine Caldwell." The first paperback printing of the Broadway play, based on Caldwell's novel, with a new introduction written by Caldwell. Photo-illustrated with stills from the stage production. From the Kurt Enoch collection, with a......

Manhattan Beach, CA: Lightstorm Entertainment, 1991. Archive of material for the 1991 film, including a Revised Draft script, a set of handmade maquette sketches for planned computer generated imagery in the film, several sets of production documents including shooting schedules and props lists, a photocopy of actor Robert Patrick's revised contract, and several budget documents and receipts.Schwarzenegger returns to play.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Faces Distribution, 1976. Original US one sheet poster, montage style, for the 1976 film. One of eight known one sheet styles (no priority) issued by Faces Distribution for the film. Faces was a company as radical as the director himself, and made small runs of posters in a wide variety of non-standard sizes and using an artful.....

Paris: Cinedis, 1955. Collection of 867 original black-and-white keybook still photographs from the 1955 French film. Small snapshot photos pasted on thick stock in three large quarto "Lavis aquarelle" brand spiral bound notebook with maroon faux leather front wrapper and a paper title label affixed to the front wrapper. Nearly all photos numbered in holograph ink inside a small white.....

London: Michael Joseph, 1961. First UK Edition, preceding all others. Basis for the 1971 Australian film of the same name (released in some countries as "Outback") starring Donald Pleasance and Gary Bond, considered by many to be the greatest Australian film ever made. Very Good in a Very Good, price-clipped example of the scarce dust jacket. Book shows offsetting to.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Paramount Pictures, 1973. Second Draft script for the 1974 film. Copy belonging to uncredited crew member Gerad Dery, with his name in holograph ink on the front wrapper. One of the greatest crime films of the twentieth century and arguably a better film than its predecessor, Part II functions dually as both prequel and sequel in continuing.....

Daytona Beach, FL: N.p., 1958. Collection of 24 vintage vernacular photographs documenting the final NASCAR race at Daytona Beach, Florida, 1958. Occasional holograph pencil annotations or rubber stamps to the versos. The photographs in this collection document the final year the iconic Daytona NASCAR race took place on two miles of flat beach and two miles of Highway A1A before.....

New York: The Living Theatre, 1961. Original flyer for an exhibition of six films by Maya Deren held on February 20 and 27, 1961 at the Bleecker Street Cinema, and March 6 and 13, 1961 at The Living Theater. The flyer notes that music for two of the films, "Meshes in the Afternoon" and "The Very Eye of the Night".....

N.p. N.p., 1916. Vintage Swiss one sheet lithograph poster, made to promote the 1916 opening of Speck's Orient-Cinema in Zurich, during the heart of the silent film era. Designed and illustrated by costume and commercial designer Ernst Deutsch-Dryden. The poster's illustration portrays well-dressed clientele watching a Western movie, likely meant to represent a US import. During this period there was.....

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1933. Original film program for the 1933 film. With a striking image of Dietrich on the front wrapper, and much detail throughout regarding the production. Based on the novel by Hermann Suermann and the play by Edward Sheldon, about a country orphan who goes to Berlin to live with her aunt and who becomes the model for.....

London: AVCO Embassy Pictures, 1973. Draft script for the 1974 film. From the collection of still photographer Bob Willoughby. Rainbow copy with blue, pink, and white leaves. Included are six vintage black-and-white reference still photographs from the film. Bob Willoughby (1927-2009) studied with Saul Bass at the Kann Institute of Art in Los Angeles, worked as a photographer for magazines.....

N.p. N.p., 1983. Original handwritten manuscript draft for the 1984 novel. With Ellroy’s profuse and expectedly surgical corrections to his own text throughout, and with substantial content that did not make the published edition. With a letter of provenance from Ellroy’s then-editor and publisher Otto Penzler, tying the manuscript directly to its source. According to Penzler, Ellroy’s manuscripts would always.....

Rome: Riama Film, 1960. Vintage oversize borderless double weight press photograph of Anouk Aimee from the 1960 film. With agency stamps on the verso. Fellini's most pivotal film, if not his finest. Unlike the more sentimental and abstract films that would follow, "La Dolce Vita" is an unflinching 7-day journey through 1960s Rome, with Mastroianni, a jaded journalist at the.....

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1923. First Edition. Copy belonging to Academy Award-winning director William Wellman, with his signature to the front endpaper.Very Good plus overall, lacking the dust jacket. Vintage bookstore label to the rear pastedown. A few small tears to the edges of the advert pages at the rear, else a very presentable copy.Bruccoli A10.1.a.

London: Queen Anne Press, 2012. First Edition. Folio. Quarter white paper spine, black paper boards, gilt top page edges, titles, and design on the front board and spine, red endpapers and red ribbon marker. One of 250 numbered copies SIGNED by Gilbert. Bibliography at its best. Gilbert meticulously details every Fleming title, from the first draft of "Casino Royale" in.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1968. Vintage borderless photograph of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo and director John Frankenheimer on the set of the 1968 film. With holograph annotations and agency stamp on the verso. Directed by Frankenheimer, based on the 1966 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Bernard Malamud, written for the screen by Dalton Trumbo, and starring Alan Bates, Dirk Bogarde, and.....

New York: Haywire Press, 1986. First edition. Large oblong folio. Embossed silk cloth in embossed cloth slipcase. Engraved title page. Copy number 28 of 50 copies (there were also six lettered artist's copies). Twenty-five exquisitely printed gravure images, each numbered and signed by Friedlander. Gravure printing by Thomas Palmer. Slight sunning to the delicate pink silk of the spine, still.....

New York: William Morrow, 1946. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Gardner to the great American mystery writer Raymond Chandler. “To Raymond Chandler, from a fan. Yours, Erle.” Additionally signed in full and dated February 1948. An extraordinary association copy, linking two of the giants of American detective fiction, both Grand Masters of the Mystery Writers of America. Fine in a Fine.....

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.....

Neuilly-sur-Seine, France: Societe Nouvelle de Cinematographie (SNC), 1965. Collection of 16 vintage lobby cards for the French release of the 1965 film. The set is housed in its original titled brown paper envelope from the film's distributor, Societe Nouvelle de Cinematographie (SNC). Based on the 1962 novel "Obession" by Lionel White, about a unhappily married man who goes on a......

Los Angeles: International Cinema, 1976. Revised Treatment script for the 1980 disaster film. Partially erased holograph pencil notation ("444") on front wrapper. Based on the 1969 novel "The Day the World Ended" by Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan-Witts detailing the 1902 volcanic eruption of Mount Pelée on Martinique. The Master of Disaster, Irwin Allen's, final film which reunited Newman and.....

New York: Delacorte, 1979. First printing of this edition. Three volumes. Publisher's beige buckram, gilt spine titles, housed in a matching slipcase. One of 250 copies (this being No. 105) SIGNED by the author on the first leaf of "Legends of the Fall." The other two volumes are INSCRIBED by Harrison to fellow author Chris Offutt: "To Chris / Jim.....

London: Haskins Press, 1975. Limited Edition, preceded by the original 1965 edition. One of 1500 copies (this being No. 511) SIGNED by the photographer on the tipped in limitation page. Fine in an about Near Fine jacket. Jacket lightly toned and rubbed, with a few short closed tears at the spine ends and a light crease to the bottom of.....

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: Simon and Schuster, 1946. Advance Reading Copy, preceding the First Edition. About Fine in illustrated wrappers. Just a hint of toning, brief offsetting at the front endpapers from something once laid in, and light rubbing at the spine ends. Basis for the well-loved 1948 film comedy starring Cary Grant, Myrna Loy and Melvyn Douglas. Wrapper design and interior.....

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1992. Third draft script for the 1993 British film, likely having belonged to actor Peter Halliday. Laid in are six Call Sheets, five of which contain the name of Peter Halliday have the actor's name highlighted, one of which has his name written (incorrectly as "Peter Haliday") on the verso in holograph ink, one two.....

New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1939. First Edition. Copy belonging to director Jacques Tourneur, with his name in holograph red pencil on the front endpaper. Published the same year as Tourneur's directorial debut, "They All Come Out."Tourneur would go on to direct 70 films over a 40 year career, including the first three horror films for legendary producer Val Lewton, "Cat.....

N.p. Objektiv Film, 1977. Studio Dialogue script for the 1979 Hungarian film, seen here under the Hungarian title "Magyar rapszodia." Text in Hungarian. The first of Jancso's two-part dramatized history of Hungary, from the turn of the century to World War II, as told by the conflicted son of a wealthy landowner. Nominated for the 1979 Palme d'Or at Cannes.....

New York: Crowell-Collier Publishing, 1940-1942. First Edition. Thirty-seven issues of Collier's Magazine, dated variously between April 20,1940 and July 11, 1942, all featuring Crockett Johnson's first magazine comic, "The Little Man with the Eyes." This collection represents roughly a third of Johnson’s work for Collier’s. Johnson’s popularity as a sketch artist grew with the publication of “Harold and the Purple.....

N.p. N.p., 1936. Vintage oversize double weight press photograph from the 1936 Broadway play, capturing the entire cast in character in the large room where the entire story takes place. Shot by photographer Alfredo Valente, with his stamp on the verso. Basis for the 1937 film of the same name starring Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, and Adolphe Menjou. The play.....

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.....

Berlin: Film-Kurier, 1924. Original German programs for duology "Die Nibelungen," one each for "Die Nibelungen: Siegfried" and "Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge." Based on the thirteenth century epic poem "Nibelungenlied." Text in German. 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.....

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 three adaptations of the Broadway play "Burlesque," following "The Dance.....

New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1927. First Edition. First issue, with "Cantry" at the spine title of the book's backstrip.Basis for the 1960 film starring Burt Lancaster and Jean Simmons, and directed by Richard Brooks. One of Lewis' most popular novels, and one that created an uproar among the religious evangelical communities that it satirizes. It stands among "Main Street," "Babbitt,".....

London: N.p., Circa 1969. Draft script for the 1969 film. An early version of the screenplay with the provisional title "A Kestrel for a Knave". "6x" in black holograph marker on top right of title page.The second film (and breakthrough) by esteemed British social realist filmmaker Ken Loach. Based upon the 1968 novel by Barry Hines "A Kestrel for a......