New York: Liveright, 1933. First Edition. Boldly INSCRIBED by the author opposite the title page: "Best wishes of / A. Merritt." Basis for the 1936 film, "The Devil Doll," directed by Tod Browning, written for the screen by Garrett Fort, Guy Endore and Erich von Stroheim, and starring Lionel Barrymore and Maureen O'Sullivan. Fine in a strong Very Good plus.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1953. Draft script for the 1953 Broadway stage musical. Working copy of an unknown cast member, with his profuse holograph pencil annotations throughout. "Can-Can" was one of the most successful musicals of the early 1950s. It ran at New York's Shubert Theatre, opening on May 7, 1953 and closing on June 25, 1955, for a total.....
![I Live in Fear [Ikimono no kiroku] (Original screenplay for the 1955 Japanese film). Akira...](/pictures/thumb/150567.jpg?v=1604208507)
Circa 1955. Japanese post-production script for the 1955 film, with the approval stamp of Elrin (along with the approval number, 1836, in holograph ink) on the front wrapper. Elrin was Japan's censorial review body at the time. Text and titles in Japanese. An elderly factory owner is increasingly fearful of what he believes to be Japan's looming, inevitable destruction in.....
Tokyo: Toho Company, Circa 1948. Draft script for the 1948 Japanese film. Text and titles in Japanese. The first of sixteen film collaborations between director Akira Kurosawa and actor Toshiro Mifune. Kurosawa's seventh film saw him exploring the inter workings and motivations of the yakuza and machismo. Censorship was tight regarding the occupation, forbidding American criticism, leading Kurosawa to slip in.....
Tokyo: Shochiku Films, 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 leading.....
Culver City, CA: Tri-Star [TriStar] Pictures, 1984. Revised Final script and shooting schedule for the 1984 film. Copy belonging to an uncredited crew member, with his holograph annotations throughout in blue ink. Doc Jenkins (Willie Nelson) is an aspiring singer/songwriter whose ambition is thwarted by a bad contract with a record label. With the help of former singing partner Blackie.....
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, knights, poets, guards, and servants), with their dialogue frequently merged.....
New York: Andy Warhol Film, 1965. Vintage mimeograph poster advertising the world premiere of Andy Warhol’s seminal films, "Vinyl" and "Poor Little Rich Girl" on June 19-20, 1965 at the Filmmaker’s Cinematheque in New York. Photo-illustrated with a repeating image of Edie Sedgwick and Gerard Malanga from the film. Technically, this was only the premiere of "Poor Little Rich Girl,".....
New York: Andy Warhol Film, 1968. Vintage poster for the 1967 film. The film originally screened at the Hudson Theater in New York in a 99-minute version. In early 1968, a 110-minute cut played at the Cinematheque 16 in Los Angeles. This poster, which mentions the Los Angeles screenings and contains a blurb from the likely corresponds to the latter.....
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1957. Collection of four vintage photographs from the 1958 film. Mimeo snipe and Columbia Pictures copyright stamp with credit for photographer Van Pelt on verso of all photographs. One of the weirdest and most wonderful of the Columbia B-noirs, and a very faithful adaptation of Fredric Brown's byzantine 1949 novel, with Anita Ekberg (pre-"La Dolce.....
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1954. Revised Final Draft script for the 1955 film. The 8th and final collaboration of James Stewart and Anthony Mann, and the second film to be released in VistaVision. "Dutch" (Stewart) is a professional baseball player and an ex-pilot who fought during WWII who is recalled to service with the US Air Force. Many speculate that the.....
Various cities: Various. An archive of books and personal material belonging to Arline de Haas, noted author of the photoplay edition for the first talking film, “The Jazz Singer” (1927). Included is her leather-bound presentation copy of her novelization of the film, a work that caused a fundamental and multi-level shift in the world’s conception of cinema and dramatic storytelling.....
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1947. First Draft script for the 1948 film noir. The carbon typescript from which the mimeograph copies issued by the studio were made, so noted in holograph pencil on the front wrapper in the hand of studio secretary Marion Pecht ("Copy from which we mimeod 1st draft"). Holograph pencil and ink corrections throughout, mostly to.....
San Diego: San Diego Timing Association, 1951-1964. Archive of vintage programs, bulletins, flyers, and newspaper clippings published by and relating to the San Diego Timing Association, a foundational sanctioning organization in US drag racing. In postwar America, the return of risk-loving, unmarried ex-GIs with advanced mechanical skills and extra money to spend led to the rise in popularity of illegal street.....
Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1958. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper: "For Johanna / Bernard Malamud." The author's third book and first collection of short stories, although his first five published stories were not collected until 1989, in "The People and Uncollected Stories." One of the author's more difficult titles. Very Good plus in.....
Moore Park, Australia: Embassy Pictures, 1965. Final Draft script for the 1965 film. Copy belonging to actor Hank Jones, who played the role of Chuck, with his name to the front wrapper in black ink. With 19 pages of deleted scenes laid in. Loosely based on the 1904 H.G. Wells novel "The Food of the Gods and How It Came.....
New York: Columbia Records, 1991. Original matte photograph of Bob Dylan by photographer Don Hunstein, shot circa 1960, struck for the first time in 1991 for use as shooting artwork on the cover of the 1991 box set. The image of Dylan in the photograph on offer extends substantially beyond what can be seen on the cover of the box.....
New York: Pressman Williams, 1970. Draft script for the 1973 film. Copy belonging to cinematographer Gregory Sandor, with his name in holograph pencil on the verso of the title page, and holograph pencil annotations throughout. Danielle is a beautiful model separated from her conjoined twin, Dominique. When her neighbor, an aspiring journalist, suspects Danielle of a brutal murder, the horror of.....
Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1942. Draft script for the 1946 film, in maroon leather presentation binding belonging to William Bendix, with his name in gilt on front board, and title in gilt on spine. Copy lacking last part of Sequence "C" and Sequence "D," possibly due to reports that multiple endings had been considered and filmed, due to the uncertain.....
Culver City, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1929. Vault Copy Draft script for the 1929 film, stamped three times with "Vault Copy," and annotation of the name of uncredited crew member "Mr. Cohn" on front wrapper in holograph pencil. Based on the 1928 novel by S.S. Van Dine, the fourth of twelve Philo Vance mystery novels. The body of man nicknamed "Cock.....
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], Circa 1930s. Vintage photograph of actor, comedian, and director Buster Keaton, circa 1930s. With a reference library stamp on the verso dated MAY 19 1933, along with a second stamp with a later date. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus, with light wear to the corners neatly reinforced with Scotch tape on the verso.
N.p. N.p., 1943. Shooting Final Draft script for the 1946 film, in maroon leather presentation binding belonging to William Bendix, with his name in gilt on front board, and title in gilt on spine. Bound in, preceding title page, is a note in holograph ink, not in Bendix's hand, on the verso of a 1945 desk calendar page, "Bendix Played.....
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1931. First White script for the 1931 Pre-Code film. An early starring performance for Carole Lombard, made prior to her 1934 star breakthrough in Howard Hawks' "Twentieth Century." Included is a studio still photograph of Lombard and Lilyan Tashman from the film, with the unusual feature of having an associated quote from the scene added to the.....
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1933. Draft script for the 1934 film. The second Tarzan film to star Johnny Weissmuller, with Jane famously portrayed by Maureen O'Sullivan. One of the best Tarzan films, and a landmark film in the history of film censorship. A big budget followup to MGM's first Tarzan film, "Tarzan and His Mate" featured a lengthy balletic.....
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: Museum of Modern Art, 1968. Vintage poster for an exhibition of work associated with an unrealized Christo project, intended to wrap the New York Museum of Modern Art. INSCRIBED by the artist on the poster in orange crayon: "For Betsy Jones / Christo 1968." In early 1968 Christo and Jeanne-Claude proposed to wrap the Museum of Modern Art in.....
![Use Your Imagination [Out of this World] (Original script for the 1973 play). Cole Porter, George...](/pictures/thumb/142586.jpg?v=1523397380)
N.p. N.p., 1973. Draft script for the 1973 play. Based on the 1950 Broadway play "Out of this World" by Cole Porter, Dwight Taylor, Reginald Lawrence. George Oppenheimer, NY columnist, playwright and screenwriter, streamlined his interpretation for a tasteful revamp to fit a smaller stage. The musical opened Off-Broadway at the Equity Library Theatre in March 1973. Writer Howard Thompson.....
New York: Random House, 1968. First Edition. The author's second novel. About Fine in a Near Fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket spine titles lightly faded, with two short closed tears to the crown (titling unaffected).
London: Gagosian Gallery, 2009. First Edition. The catalogue for an exhibition featuring five new paintings by Cy Twombly, held in London at the Gagosian Gallery, February 12 - May 9, 2009. Five fold-out full-size color illustrations, and one fifteen page booklet in tan side-stitched wrappers, housed in a tan slipcase. Booklets Near Fine, slipcase Very Good plus, with light wear.....
![Lady of the Pavements [The Love Song] (Original screenplay for the 1928 film). D W. Griffith, Sam...](/pictures/thumb/149230.jpg?v=1595632768)
N.p. N.p., Circa 1928. Draft script for the 1928 silent film. An early version of the script written by Gerrit J. Lloyd and Sam Taylor. Copy belonging to screenwriter Sam Taylor, with his name in holograph pencil annotation to the front wrapper and two annotations to the script: one to the verso of page 68 and one to page 133.....
New York: Vanguard, 1936. First Edition. INSCRIBED by author Daniel Fuchs on the half-title page, in an early hand: "With best wishes / Daniel Fuchs." Fuchs' second novel, and the second book in his Williamsburg trilogy. Very Good plus in a Very Good or better dust jacket. Some darkening at the gutters as always found. Jacket is lightly toned overall, with small.....
New York: Vanguard, 1937. Advance Reading Copy in wrappers, preceding the First Edition. Owner name in holograph ink on the half-title page. Rare, this being the only example we have ever encountered. The second novel in the author's Williamsburg Trilogy, also later collected as "The Brooklyn Novels." The first two depicted Jewish life in Williamsburg, and this final one, in Brighton.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1937. Draft script for an unproduced play. Based on the 1937 novel by Daniel Fuchs, about a small-town racketeer who suffers a mental breakdown when his turf is threatened by a ruthless, sinister gangster. The novel was later adapted into the 1947 film noir "The Gangster," with a screenplay written by Fuchs and Dalton Trumbo. Set in the fictional.....
Los Angeles: American Film Institute [AFI], Circa 1973. Vintage borderless photograph of director David Lynch, actor Jack Nance, and cinematographer Herbert Cardwell on the set of the 1977 film. holograph annotations on the verso. "Eraserhead," Lynch's first feature film, was was shot piecemeal on an AFI backlot in Los Angeles over a period of five years beginning in 1972. In.....
![Rue de Paris [Rue des Prairies] (Collection of 322 original photographs for the 1959 film). Denys...](/pictures/thumb/144663.jpg?v=1560892603)
Paris: Les Films Ariane, 1959. Collection of 322 original black-and-white keybook still photographs from the 1959 French-Italian film. Small photos affixed with cello tape on thick stock in a folio "Lavis aquarelle" brand spiral bound notebook with maroon faux leather front wrapper. Each photo is numbered in holograph ink on the page, and in mimeograph on the verso, all credited.....
Boston: Little, Brown, 1964. Advance Preview Edition, preceding the First Edition. Publisher's review slip laid in. Promotional publication of two stories by the author, "Florence Green is 81" and "Me and Miss Mandible," in anticipation of Barthelme's first book, a collection of stories. Loose leaves, mimeograph duplication. Fine, housed in original Near Fine red publisher's box. An attractive copy of.....
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1976. Final Shooting script for the 1977 film. With 33 revision pages bound in at the rear. Copy belonging to uncredited cast or crew member Robert Harrison, with his name in holograph pencil at the top right corner of the front wrapper, and his name in holograph pencil or ink at the top right corner.....
![Nude on the Moon [Moon Dolls] (Original poster for the 1961 film). Doris and Raymond Phelan...](/pictures/thumb/136499.jpg?v=1541282473)
Los Angeles: J.E.R. Pictures, 1961. Original one sheet poster for the 1961 film. A rare artifact from the second of eight nudism-related films produced and directed by the prolific sexploitation director Doris Wishman. Working with a large sum of inherited money, two scientists build a rocket to take them to the Moon. Once there, they discover that the Moon's surface.....
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.
Los Angeles: Clover Productions, 1954. Final Draft script for the 1955 film. Copy belonging to S. John Launer who played Capt. Dave Harris, holograph 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.....
N.p. Golden State Productions, 1956. Draft script for the 1956 film, belonging to actress Adele Jergens, with her signature prominently written on center of front wrapper, and printed title inked over, both in holograph ink. Annotations throughout, striking and adjusting dialogue and circling the character of Jenny, played by Jergens, in holograph ink and pencil. Jergens; paper clips, all along.....
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1955. Vintage reference photograph of actors James Dean and Julie Harris examining a small scale model of a farm on the set of the 1955 film. With holograph ink and pencil annotations identifying Harris and Dean to the verso. Based on the 1952 novel by John Steinbeck, about two brothers who struggle for the attentions and.....
Italy: Vera Films, circa 1969-1970. Vintage borderless photograph from the 1970 Italian film. With the stamp of photograph Mario Tursi on the verso. An iconic photograph from an iconic film, a study in corruption in which a police inspector investigates a crime that he himself has committed. Winner of the 1971 Academy Award for Best Foreign Film and the Cannes.....
London: Robert Hale, 1957. First UK Edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page. A very presentable copy of what is, in our experience, perhaps the author's rarest title, much more difficult than the already-scarce American edition published by Houghton Mifflin the previous year. Very Good plus in a Very Good or better dust jacket. Faint ring stain.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1967. Revised Draft script for the 1967 film. One of the great Westerns, and one that epitomizes the revisionist trend sparked by Elmore Leonard's early novels of the 1950s and 1960s. Newman plays a white man who was raised by the Apaches, and has since had to straddle two worlds, feeling truly comfortable in neither. While.....
N.p. Veriscope, 1897. Two vintage fragments from a 63mm film print of the 1897 boxing match between "Gentleman" Jim Corbett and Bob Fitzsimmons. The first fragment consists of six frames depicting the fighters in a clinch, while the second consists of four frames depicting the fighters in the center of the ring about to trade punches. At over 100 minutes.....
New York: Doubleday, 1957. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author Ernie Kovacs to versatile concert pianist and actor Oscar Levant on the front endpaper: "To Oscar / What a shit I am to be so late in getting there — But — I have been writing and taping shows — and will be done about mid next week. Am not.....
![Il bidone [The Drum] (Collection of four original photographs from the 1955 Italian film)....](/pictures/thumb/151466-1.jpg?v=1610079382)
N.p. N.p., Circa 1955. Collection of four vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1955 Italian film. With the stamp of still photographer G.B. Poletto on the verso, and one with a printed mimeo snipe specific to the film's French release affixed to the verso. A trio of small-time, ruthless con artists undergo crises of conscience after facing the condemnation of their.....
![RKO] Radio Pictures 1933-1934 British Programme [Program] Annual. Film Studio Annuals](/pictures/thumb/152585.jpg?v=1624657805)
London: Radio Pictures Ltd., 1933. First Edition, large quarto. Deluxe annual for RKO Radio Pictures "Radio's 1933-34 British Productions." An ambitiously designed Pre-Code RKO annual, with various paper stocks and finishes, horizontal and vertical spreads, two and three page fold-outs, pop-ups, a five-page receding circular die-cut around the RKO Radio Pictures logo, and four sanguine colored conte-style portraits of Constance.....
N.p. N.p., 1957. Collection of six vintage photographs, five showing the exteriors of RKO Studios buildings, including the Administration Building, RKO-Pathe Studios, and the entryway gate in the 1930s and 1950s, and one showing a 1957 reception given for the new heads of RKO Pictures, Thomas O'Neil and Walter E. Branson. Four with archive stamps on the verso. All photos.....
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1967. Rehearsal Script for the 1968 film. Notations in holograph ink on page 29, noting changes to dialogue for characters Buzz and Howard (Ronald Colby, Al Freeman, Jr.), as well as a faint pencil notation on the front wrapper, presumably indicating a copy number. Warner Brothers optioned the musical shortly after its premiere in 1947, but.....
![Stolen Kisses [Baisers voles] (Original double weight photograph from the set of the 1968 film)....](/pictures/thumb/134991.jpg?v=1492979038)
Paris: Les Films du Carrosse, 1968. Vintage borderless black-and-white double weight photograph from the set of the 1968 French film noir. With a rubber stamped date of March 12, 1970 on the verso, along with numerous press annotations and markings. A wonderful candid shot of Truffaut, Jade, and Leaud sitting on a park bench during principal shooting of the film.....
![The Story of Adele H [L'histoire d'Adele H.] (Collection of 4 photographs from the 1975 film)....](/pictures/thumb/135604a.jpg?v=1492979149)
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 fourth is a lovely shot of Truffaut in uniform next.....
Culver City, CA: RKO, 1946. Revised Final Script for the 1946 film, with stamps "Revised Final Script," "Please Return to RKO Story Files," and production number "1838" on front wrapper. Carbon typescript on onionskin. Based on Philip Van Doren Stern's 1943 short story, "The Greatest Gift," about a man at the end of his rope during Christmas. Generally considered one of.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1968. Third Revised Screenplay for the 1970 film. An important early effort for screenwriter Francis Ford Coppola, who would go on a few years later to direct some of the most important films of the 1970s . An epic and irreverently stylized film biography, focusing on General George S. Patton's career as a tank commander in.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1973. Collection of 29 vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1973 film. One image showing director Franklin J. Schaffner and cinematographer Fred J. Koenekamp shooting on location Based on the 1969 autobiography by Henri Charriere, a wrongly imprisoned safecracker who plans his escape from a French Guiana labor camp with the help of a fellow inmate. Shot on.....
Los Angeles: Samuel Goldwyn Productions, 1946. Treatment script for an unproduced film by screenwriters Daniel Fuchs and Phil Rapp, dated 10/16/46. First page of carbon typescript treatment is a contract with Samuel Goldwyn Productions, Inc., signed and dated by Fuchs in holograph ink, with date illegible. Daniel Fuchs began his writing career in his mid-twenties with the novels "Summer in.....
New York: Producers Theatre, circa 1956. Draft script for the 1956 Broadway revival. With annotations in holograph ink and pencil throughout. An idealistic young woman, Barbara Undershaft, serves as a Major in the Salvation Army, bringing aid to the destitute and poor. Her estranged father reappears in her life, causing complications when he wants to make donations to her cause.....
Burbank, CA: Fox Broadcasting Company / Warner Brothers Television / Sweet Freedom Productions / Main Sequence Productions, 1993-1994. Archive of original scripts for all 27 episodes of "The George Carlin Show," which ran on Fox for two seasons in 1994 and 1995, with multiple drafts of each episode, totaling 196 scripts. Also included are several key pieces of ephemera relating.....
![Nancy Steele Is Missing [The Lost Nancy Steele] (Original screenplay for the 1937 film, Darryl F....](/pictures/thumb/134535.jpg?v=1568145693)
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1936. First Draft Continuity [pre-production] script for the 1937 film, "Nancy Steele Is Missing!," seen here under its working title, "The Lost Nancy Steele." Producer Darryl F. Zanuck's working copy, with his name and extensive annotations in holograph pencil on the title page and rear wrapper recto, and brief annotations throughout. Additionally, the script also includes.....
N.p. Avon Productions, 1959. Draft script for the 1959 film. Copy belonging to actor Martin Landau, with his name and character's name to the front wrapper in holograph pencil. Included with the script are two film programs and a set of laid-in revision pages. A black comedy based on the 1958 play by Alec Coppel, about a television writer who shoots.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1932. Original photo album archive consisting exclusively of exquisitely shot vernacular photographs from George Pal's studio in Germany, shot shortly after he left his native Hungary, where he developed his famous Puppetoons technique of stop-motion animation. With Pal's bookplate to front free end-paper and his ownership stamp to inside front and back covers. 68 vintage photographs, all.....
![The Magnificent Tramp [Archimede, le clochard] (Collection of 134 original photographs from the...](/pictures/thumb/144627.jpg?v=1560892593)
Paris: Intermondia Films / Pretoria / Cinedis, 1959. Collection of 134 original black-and-white single weight still photographs from the 1959 French-Italian film. Featuring Jean Gabin dancing gaily in pub with costar Doll, two photos of Gabin kicking a ball and in a manila envelope addressed to "M. de La Maziere, and images of costar Cowl smoking a cigarette. Several photos.....
London: Eskenazi, 1995. First Edition. Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at Eskenazi between June 6 and July 8, 1995. Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket.
London: Eon Productions, 1972. Shooting script for the 1973 film. With a holograph ink annotation on the title page, noting copy No. 56. Roger Moore's first turn as 007, and the eighth film in the franchise overall. Based on the 1954 novel by Ian Fleming, which sees Bond go up against a Caribbean dictator moonlighting as a Harlem drug lord.....
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1938. Draft script for the 1938 film. Based on the short story "Private Pettigrew's Girl" by Dana Burnet, and published in "The Saturday Evening Post" on September 14, 1918. Copy belonging to an unknown crew member, with holograph pencil annotations throughout. Jimmy Stewart plays an idealistic soldier who convinces a Broadway star (Margaret Sullavan) to.....
Bern, Switzerland: Kunsthalle Bern, 1969. Softcover. Exhibition catalog from the legendary 1969 exhibition, curated by Harald Szeemann, one of the first shows to merge postminimalism, conceptual art, land art, and arte povera. Light brown printed cardboard covers with metal clip binding and alphabetized finger tabs. Text in English, German, French and Italian. Very Good, contemporary owner signature and date to.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1952. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper: "To E.F. / With appreciation for all your kind encouragements / Fondly / Harold R." Basis for the 1958 film "King Creole," directed by Michael Curtiz and starring a different king, Elvis Presley, in what is generally considered to be his best film, as.....
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: 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.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1958. Revised Final script for the 1959 film. Copy belonging to Clifton Webb, with every inclusion of his character's dialogue, underlined in holograph ink. Notations on nearly every page in holograph pencil, including penciled vertical lines indicating that a scene is complete. Based on the 1957 play by Ronald Alexander. An older couple (Webb and Wyman).....
New York: Lincoln Center / List Art Poster and Print Program, 1968. Original serigraph designed by artist Henry Pearson for the Sixth New York Film Festival, held at Lincoln Center on September 17-28, 1968. One of 144 copies (this being No. 138) SIGNED and NUMBERED by Pearson. The New York Film Festival was founded in 1963 by Amos Vogel and.....
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.....
![The Dawn Patrol [Flight Commander] (Archive of 34 vernacular photographs from the set of the 1930...](/pictures/thumb/151357.jpg?v=1621288306)
Los Angeles: First National Pictures, 1930. Archive of 68 vernacular photographs, housed in a contemporary photo album, each photo with descriptions in silver holograph ink just below it, and distributed in three sections as follows: (1) 34 photos taken on the set of "The Dawn Patrol" (Howard Hawks, 1930), an aviation drama set during World War I. Included are shots.....
N.p. Caddo Company, 1930. Vintage program for the premiere of the 1930 Pre-Code film, which was famously held as a gala event at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. Howard Hughes' most expensive and ambitious production, a story about World War I combat pilots, today still a dazzling work of blockbuster action and actual aerial biplane footage. Originally conceived as a silent.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1940-1960. Archive of 22 single weight and 7 double weight photographs of newspaper columnist Inez Wallace circa 1940s-1960s, tipped onto the pages of a large format photo album, complete with a holograph marker title page and mimeograph caption list at the front. Featuring seven oversized photographs of Wallace, as well as several photographs and other ephemera related.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1971. Draft script for the 1971 film. With what we assume to be translator Alan Blair's handwritten ink annotations throughout the script, mostly in English but occasionally in Swedish, noting many substantive revisions and deletions. Text in English. Bergman's first English language film, shot in England and Sweden, and his first film to involve a major American.....
New York: Anchor Press / Doubleday, 1976. First Edition. INSCRIBED in Swedish by director and author Ingmar Bergman on the front endpaper, and rare thus. Remainder spray to bottom page edges, else Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Lightly soiled boards and endpapers. Jacket is soiled at the verso, otherwise with light wear at the spine ends.
![SPYS [Wet Stuff] (Original screenplay for the 1974 film). Irvin Kershner, Fred Freeman Lawrence...](/pictures/thumb/145606.jpg?v=1560892777)
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1972. Revised script for the 1972 film under the working title "Wet Stuff." A spy spoof film featuring Elliot Gould and Donald Sutherland as CIA agents on the run from the CIA, the KGB, Chinese Communists and an anarchist group after botching a Russian ballerina's defection. Shot on location in London and Paris. Blue titled wrappers.....
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 (Jonathan Pryce) who can grant those desires on one condition.....
N.p. N.p., circa 1931. Archive of 14 vintage photographs of movie theaters circa 1931. Each with a holograph pencil notation on the verso identifying the theater and city. Three photographs with the photographer's stamp bearing his name and Reading, PA address on the verso. Films by Warner Brothers, Fox, Columbia, Paramount, and RKO are represented in the archive. Seven of.....
Burbank, CA: National Broadcasting Company [NBC] / Mark VII, 1957. Final Draft script for Season 7, episode 17 of the 1951-1959 television series, which originally aired January 16, 1958 on NBC. Script belonging to Lyn Thomas, who played Mona Morgan in the episode, with her holograph name in red ink on the front wrapper, and her lines circled in holograph.....
![Borsalino [Marseille 1930] (Original screenplay for the 1970 film). Jacques Deray, Eugene...](/pictures/thumb/148989.jpg?v=1624312421)
Paris: Adel Productions, Circa 1969. Draft script for the 1970 French film noir, here under the working title "Marseille 1930." Text in French. Annotation on front wrapper of release title, written large and boldly in cursive holograph pencil, with working title on title page. Erased annotations in holograph pencil still visible on upper left of title page of names of actors.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1937. Second printing. INSCRIBED by the author in the year after publication: "To Miriam Geiger / In memory of pleasant times / James M. Cain / Feb 17, 1938." Jacket art by W. A. Dwiggins. One of Cain's least-appreciated novels, a hard-boiled story about a dethroned opera singer who meets the love of his life while.....
![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.....
![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 Prince.....
Santa Ana, CA: RKO Radio Pictures, 1942. Final Draft screenplay for the 1942 film. Copy belonging to legendary screenwriter Dudley Nichols, inscribed by Nichols to Los Angeles Times film critic Phil Scheuer on the title page: "By Dudley Nichols / Confidential! / For Phil Scheuer from D. Nichols—with admiration." Nichols' ownership name is also in holograph pencil at the top.....
![Bob le Flambeur [Bob the Gambler] (Original oversize photograph from the 1956 French film noir)....](/pictures/thumb/152432.jpg?v=1618523170)
N.p. N.p., Circa 1956. Vintage oversize borderless reference photograph from the 1956 French film noir, showing actor Roger Duchesne surrounded by Gallic toughs. With holograph ink annotations to the verso. Faced with an unlucky streak and debts to pay, a former bank robber turned gambler plans a heist of the Deauville casino during Grand Prix weekend. A key French New.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1957. Collection of four vintage oversize borderless reference photographs from the 1957 film, showing actor Jerry Lewis in the opening alleyway sequence. With the stamps of still photographer Bill Avery and editor Bud Fraker on the verso. A well-intentioned janitor is mistaken by a local cop for a teenage gang member, and is conscripted into a police.....
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1972. Final Draft script for the 1973 film, dated August 16, 1972. With name of uncredited cast or crew member "B. Morgan" in holograph pencil on the front wrapper. Two drifters set out on a journey east from California towards Pittsburgh, hoping to start a business together when they arrive. A key film from the New Hollywood.....
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London: Strange Attractor Press, 2018. First Limited Edition, one of 500 non-numbered copies, as issued. With a sealed white card envelope containing a set of full-color postcards and an illustrated bookplate signed by author Stephen Thrower, with the currently unknown limitation number stamped in red at the bottom of the plate. Included with the limited edition, as called for, is.....
New York: Modern Age, 1942. First Edition of the author's first book, one of three hardcover titles he produced before moving to paperback originals. Review Copy, with publisher's typescript review slip laid in. The only review copy we have ever seen, and only the third jacketed copy. Modern Age was a short-lived entity, very nearly a vanity press, and copies.....
Burbank, CA: Walt Disney Pictures, 1988. Revised First Draft script for the 1991 film. Based on 1982 graphic novel by Dave Stevens, an early entry into the superhero movie canon, following the success of 1989’s "Batman," and a cult classic in its own right. In 1930s Hollywood, stunt pilot Cliff Secord (Billy Campbell) comes into possession of a jet-pack after.....
Beverly Hills, CA: Faces, 1974. Original one-sheet poster for the 1974 film. One of four variants issued by Cassavetes' production company Faces, Inc., this variant picturing Peter Falk's shadowed countenance. Along with "Faces" (1968), considered to be one of the groundbreaking director's most important and uncomfortable films, a painfully intimate study of a couple—and a family—in deep emotional crisis. 27.....
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Hollywood: Faces, 1979. Fifth Draft script for the 1980 film, here under the working title "One Summer Night." Name of uncredited editor Jack McSweeney and "#36" in holograph ink on top right of title page. After her neighbors are killed in a mob hit, a woman goes on the run with their young son, who is in possession of a......
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1973. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page and dated 21 October 1983. Importantly, the dust jacket is not price-clipped and shows a price of $5.95 on the front flap. Only the second such copy we have ever handled. Very Good plus in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Bookplate of noted collector Duke.....
Various cities: Art Institute of Chicago / Yale University Press, 2011. Hardcover. First Edition. Jacket corners lightly bumped, else Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket.
Universal City: Universal Studios, 1955. First Draft script for the 1956 film. With a few holograph ink annotations throughout, mostly correcting grammatical and spelling errors, and a holograph ink annotation to the front wrapper reading "File Copy." The third and final installment in the Creature from the Black Lagoon series, and longtime Universal Pictures assistant director Arthur Sherwood's directorial debut. Having.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1950. First Edition. Doubly inscribed to legendary genre fiction editor and enthusiast Anthony Boucher. The first inscription, at the front endpaper, reads: "To the Bouchers / with affection / Kenneth Millar / (see Dedication —>)." The second inscription is at the Dedication page, which reads TO TONY, and very cleverly makes use of both Millar's.....
New York: Film Culture Magazine, 1963. First Edition. This copy is INSCRIBED by Brakhage at the blank opposite his introduction to poet Kenneth Irby: "To Ken Irby / That I should meet "Roadrunner" here in these circumstances at this time of most wonderful day I take as the best of all possible signs / Stan Brakhage / SF - 2.....