Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1963, 1986. Archive of three title card maquettes hand lettered by Harold Adler for the 1963 film. Also included are two fascinating autograph letters, both elaborately designed and executed in a calligraphic style, from Adler to author, illustrator, and editor Fridolf Johnson relating to Adler's work with Hitchcock. Harold Adler was a calligrapher who created...
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers / Seven Arts, 1967. Four title card maquettes hand lettered by Harold Adler for the 1967 film. Based on the 1947 musical by E.Y. Harburg and Fred Saidy, who also adapted the story to the screen. The four maquettes in this archive are stylistically similar, but quite different from the titles used in the finished film...
New Haven, CT: The Yale University Press, 1934. First Edition. The author's first book, a collection of poetry. Far and away the best copy we have ever encountered. Near Fine in a spectacular, Near Fine dust jacket. The book is very slightly toned along the top edge and along the hinges, as almost always found. The jacket is stunning, with...
New York: Arthur Allen Studios, 1915-1925. Photo album portfolio sold to subscribers by Allen from his Arthur Allen Studios circa 1915-1925, containing more than 40 pages of original nude photographic prints pasted onto stiff pages. Each photo is discreetly rubber stamped (1 to 40) at the bottom right corner. Each leaf has between two and four different images, with many...
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1965. Original UK script for the 1965 film. One of the most ambitious films about World War II made during the 1960s, an epic story that details the events leading to the title confrontation, the bloodiest battle that the US fought in WWII and one of the key turning points in the war. Filmed almost entirely...
Italy: Nepi Film, 1960. Vintage borderless photograph from the set of the 1961 film. A candid aerial photograph of Mastroianni, Moreau, and two other cast members conversing around a table. With a stamp for Telecine and a few notations on the verso. The second film in the trilogy that begins with "L'Avventura" (1960) and ends with "L'Eclisse" (1962). Shot on...
![Give My Regards to Broadway [Off to Buffalo] (Original screenplay for the 1948 film). Lloyd...](/pictures/thumb/140099.jpg?v=1492980441)
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1947. Final script for the 1948 film. With a single note on the verso of the last page in holograph blue ink. Shot under the name "Off to Buffalo" as is presented here. Vaudeville is a fading form of entertainment and prospects are grim for the Norwick family, a juggling act struggling to find work. They...
N.p. N.p., 1940. Vintage double weight publicity photograph of Josephine Baker for the 1936 Broadway musical, Ziegfeld Follies. INSCRIBED by Baker in black marker on the recto: "Mademoiselles / Sunny Templeman / With best wishes from / Josephine Baker / 1940." With a studio insignia for Murray Corman photography studio in New York in white at the bottom right corner. Ziegfeld...
![Der Sichtbare Mensch oder die Kultur des Films [The Visible Man] (First Edition, inscribed to...](/pictures/thumb/122144.jpg?v=1418835607)
Vienna: Deutsch-Osterreichischer Verlag, 1924. First German Edition, preceding all others, this being the hardcover variant published simultaneously with a more common wrappered edition. INSCRIBED by Balazs in German on the half-title page to German expressionist writer Leonhard Frank: "Leonhard Frank / in herlzlicher Freundschaft / Bela Balazs / Berlin / 8.Feb.1927." A rare signature, and a strong association between two...
Munich: Grauf Haufen and Frank Trebbin, 1993. First Edition. An utterly obsessive, minutely detailed examination of Spanish exploitation director Jess Franco's illustrious career, divided into two sections: an extensive, photo-illustrated filmography that includes analysis and reproductions of even the most obscure country-of-origin posters and advertisement for each film, and a set of interviews by Franco's contemporaries (and Franco himself), including...
N.p. N.p., 1957. Draft script for an unproduced film. Holograph ink on front wrapper, noting title, screenwriter Leonardo Bercovici, and a story based on Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1860 novel. Bercovici's screenwriting credits include; "The Bishop's Wife" in 1947, starring Cary Grant, Loretta Young and David Niven, and "Portrait of Jennie," in 1949, starring Jennifer Jones and Joseph Cotten. His other films...
![The Touch [Beroringen] (Original still photograph from the set of the 1971 film). Ingmar Bergman,...](/pictures/thumb/134578.jpg?v=1492978988)
Stockholm: Svensk Filmindustri (SF), 1970. Vintage black-and-white borderless double weight Swedish press photograph from the 1971 film, shot in 1970. Stamps on the verso for the Pressens Bild Ab Feature-Service in Sweden, as well as a Swedish mimeo snipe describing the scene, dated October 1970 and crediting still photographer Jorgen Persson, and a subsequent French press stamp. Pictured left...
![Through a Glass Darkly [Sasom i en spegel] (Original art style poster for the 1961 film). Ingmar...](/pictures/thumb/130180.jpg?v=1434404443)
Stockholm: Svensk Filmindustri, 1961. Original Swedish illustrated poster for the 1961 Swedish film. The first entry in Bergman's legendary and highly personal "Faith" trilogy, which won the director his second Best Foreign Film Oscar, and defined what came to be called his "chamber dramas." A young woman is released from a mental institution, and moves to an island where her...
N.p. N.p., 1982. Vintage double weight photograph of artist Joseph Beuys, shot in 1982 by photographer Klaus Behr. With Behr's stamp on the verso. At this time Beuys was approaching the height of long delayed recognition on an international level. The Guggenheim Museum held a major retrospective in 1979, ultimately the only major exhibition of Beuys' work to be held...
![Archive of 89 photographs from various pre-Code films starring Julie Bishop [Jacqueline Wells],...](/pictures/thumb/138844.jpg?v=1492980117)
Various cities: Various Publishers, 1933-1934. Archive of 89 photographs belonging to actress Julie Bishop, featuring film still and publicity photographs from five pre-Code films made in 1933 and 1934 while she was still being credited under her birth name, Jacqueline Wells. The photographs have been tipped into a contemporary photo album, with the exception of three photographs, which are laid...
New York: Wayne County Defense Fund, 1976. Original poster advertising “The Fantabulous New York Rock Party,” held at the Manhattan Center in New York on May 30, 1976. An ironic moment in New York punk and art scene history, some of the earliest evidence that the movement created to mock celebrity status was beginning to see itself in terms of...
London: Hutchinson, 1956. First Edition. also first edition in English and first in hardcover, preceded by the French edition. Second issue dust jacket with a price-clip at the bottom of the front flap and a price of 12/6 net to the left of the clip. Basis for Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 classic film, Vertigo, starring James Stewart and Kim Novak. Near...
![Monkey Planet [Planet of the Apes] (First UK Edition). Pierre Boulle](/pictures/thumb/128537.jpg?v=1418080370)
London: Secker and Warburg, 1964. First UK Edition, preceded in 1963 by the French and American editions. Basis for the 1968 film and the many sequels that followed, including the recent 2011 franchise rebirth, "Rise of the Planet of the Apes." A touch of foxing to the page fore-edges, else Fine in a Fine, price-clipped dust jacket, without even a....
N.p. N.p., 1977. Original photocopy art print by experimental composer Glenn Branca. SIGNED by Branca on the verso, with his holograph notation noting "#1 of 5." 8.5 x 11 inches (22 x 28 cm). Near Fine with a shallow diagonal crease to one corner.
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures / Pennebaker Productions, 1961. Collection of four vintage oversize double weight matte finish photographs from the 1961 film. Based on the 1956 novel "The Authentic Death of Hendry Jones" by Charles Neider. Marlon Brando's only directorial effort, after his production company fired original screenwriter Sam Peckinpah and director Stanley Kubrick, and he rewrote the script, first with...
New York: Galeria Bonino, 1967. Complete set of four matching exhibition catalogs for a staggered series of installations by avant-garde film director Robert Breer, held at the Galeria Bonino in New York between 1965 and 1970. The first catalog is for an exhibition at the gallery titled "Constructions and Films," and was held in early 1965, noted as Exhibition No...
Paris: Gallimard, 1975. First French Edition, preceding all others, of the author's treatise on cinematography, with the rare red belly band with the director's name in large white letters. Wrapper and belly band both Fine.
![Possessed [The Mirage] (Original screenplay for the 1931 film). Clarence Brown, Edgar Selwyn,...](/pictures/thumb/140728.jpg?v=1492980595)
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1931. Draft script for the classic 1931 pre-Code film. Copy belonging to Joan Crawford, bearing the holograph inscription "Miss Crawford" on the front wrapper. Classic pre-Code romantic melodrama, following Mariane's (Joan Crawford) rise from country girl to sophisticated high class mistress, who falls for an aspiring politician (Clarke Gable), though her existence may harm her...
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.
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1928. Draft script for the 1929 silent film. Lon Chaney plays a (heavily-scarred) wild animal trapper whose daughter's upcoming marriage is threatened by the return of her femme fatale mother. The mother harbors bitterness to Chaney, and seeks revenge on him by attempting to woo her daughter's fiance, thwarted by a gorilla Chaney releases from...
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...
Rome: Vides Cinematografica, 1980. Set of 10 master typescripts for the ambitious 1982 television mini-series, all dated June 1980, used as a master for printing the final scripts. Anthony Burgess was one of the series writers (credited on the title page of each segment), and Ennio Morricone composed the original score. Present are scripts for all 8 segments of the...
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.
N.p. N.p., 1981. Vintage photograph of William Burroughs and John Giorno at the Fifth International Convention of The Freudian Movement at The Plaza Hotel, New York, 1981. With a typed description on the verso. Giorno was an American poet and performance artist, best known for his early multimedia poetry experiments and events, including "Dial-A-Poem." He was also the subject of Andy.....
Los Angeles: Expanding Cinema, 1966. Shooting final for the 1966 film. Copy belonging to actor Peter Haskell, with his holograph notations throughout and his shooting schedule laid in. Mary Ellen Bute's final film, and one of the only cinematic adaptations of James Joyce's masterfully complex work of fiction, "Finnegans Wake." Shot over a two year period, Bute was tasked with...
New York: Signet Books, 1949. No. 759. First printing of this edition. INSCRIBED by the author to Signet Books founder Kurt Enoch: "To Kurt Enoch / With my best congratulations on a job well-done / James M. Cain / Hyattsville, MD / December 26, 1949." From the Kurt Enoch collection, with a letter of provenance included. Kurt Enoch was the...
New York: Signet Books, 1950. No. 811. First printing of this edition. INSCRIBED by the author to Signet Books founder Kurt Enoch: "To Kurt Enoch / 'Long may they weave." From the Kurt Enoch collection, with a letter of provenance included. Kurt Enoch was the founder of Signet Books and a publisher whose desire was to bring great literature and...
![R.U.R.: Rossum's Universal Robots [Kolektivní drama o vstupní komedii a trech dejstvích]...](/pictures/thumb/143642.jpg?v=1524590062)
Prague: Ceskoslevenske Divadelni a Literarni Jednatelstvi, 1954. Vintage script for a 1954 production of the play originally written in 1920 by Karel Capek, produced in Prague. Rubber stamped production No. 5460 on the front wrapper. Issued by the Czechoslovak Theater and the original Prague literary agency for Capek’s groundbreaking sci-fi play, the first fictional work to introduce the word “robot”...
![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...
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1937, 1938, 1941. First Limited Edition. One of 950 copies (of which this No. 61) SIGNED by the author at the front of volume one, all volumes consistently numbered. Elegantly bound in contemporary black half-calf, pink cloth boards, titles, designs and rule gilt, top page edges gilt, combed marbled endpapers, and maroon ribbon markers. All volumes, with...
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1945. Post-production Release Dialogue Script for the 1946 film. The only script associated with the legendary noir that we have ever seen, and presumably the earliest continuity, dated 7 months prior to the film's release. "The Blue Dahlia" got off to a shaky start, as Raymond Chandler could not finish the screenplay on schedule, and was finally...
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...
![Sous les toits de Paris [Under the Roofs of Paris] (Original double weight photograph from the...](/pictures/thumb/135596.jpg?v=1492979148)
N.p. N.p., Circa 1929. Vintage double weight photograph from the French release 1930 film. With the logo of the French production company Films Sonores Tobis at the bottom left corner of the image. Shot by the film's cinematographer Georges Perinal. Shown are Pola Illery and Gaston Modot in an intimate moment, shot at night from outside a horizontal folding window...
![Quatorze Juillet [July 14] (Original photograph from the 1933 film). Rene Clair, Georges Perinal,...](/pictures/thumb/135598.jpg?v=1492979148)
N.p. N.p., Circa 1932. Vintage photograph of director Rene Clair in the midst of an outdoor shot with his cinematographer Georges Perinal on location for the 1933 film. A wonderful image, capturing Clair and Perinal as they set up the kind of shot that distinguished the director's work: viewing an intimate scene through a window from the street. This film...
New York: New American Library (NAL), 1968. First Edition. First issue, with NAL printed in red at the foot of the jacket spine. Basis for (and released simultaneously with) Stanley Kubrick's 1968 science fiction classic, written for the screen by Kubrick and Clarke based on Clarke's short story, "The Sentinel." The standard by which all science fiction films since have...
Paris: DisCina, 1946. Collection of four vintage borderless photographs of Jean Marais on the set of the 1946 film. With mimeo snipe, holograph notations, and agency stamps on the verso of each photograph. A sequence of photographs showing how Marais would transform himself from actor to "animal." A classic 1946 French romantic fantasy film adaptation of the traditional fairy tale written...
![Le testament d'Orphee [Testament of Orpheus] (Original French lobby card photo). Jean Cocteau,...](/pictures/thumb/128562.jpg?v=1442008820)
Paris: Cinedis, 1960. Original black-and-white photographic lobby card from the 1960 film, "Testament of Orpheus," Jean Cocteau's final work in the cinema. The last film in Cocteau's "Orphic" trilogy, following "The Blood of a Poet" (1930) and "Orphee" (1950). The only film in the trilogy featuring Cocteau himself, as an aging poet who knows he is dying (as indeed he...
Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1969. Collection of six vintage oversize borderless photographs from the 1969 British film. With holograph notations and an agency stamp on the verso of each. One of the best heist films of the twentieth century: funny, complex, and altogether beautiful to watch. Michael Caine and Noel Coward bring the erudite and the cockney together to make...
New York: Maloney, 1937. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the first leaf: "To Bert Nichols / just for being 'Nick' / Will Connell." Very Good plus in black and white spiral-bound wrappers. Wrappers are slightly rubbed along the spiral binding and at a couple of corners. Illustrated throughout with lovely full-page gravures. Internally, a very clean, sharp copy. A rare signature.
![Dangerous Paradise [Victory] (Original screenplay for the 1930 film). Joseph Conrad, William A....](/pictures/thumb/131052.jpg?v=1451421592)
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1929. Final White Draft script for the 1930 film. Studio file copy, rubber-stamped on the front wrapper. Based on Joseph Conrad's 1915 novel, "Victory," the second of ten feature adaptations, preceded by Maurice Tourneur's 1919 film. Heyst (Arlen) is a hermit on an island who offers shelter to a redhead named Alma (Carroll), and the two live...
![That Night in Rio [The Road to Rio] (Original screenplay for the 1941 film). Irving Cummings,...](/pictures/thumb/116133.jpg?v=1497548078)
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1940. Revised Final Script for the 1941 film musical, "That Night in Rio" (here under the working title, "The Road to Rio"), directed by Irving Cummings, based on the 1934 play, "The Red Cat" by Rudolph Lothar and Hans Adler, written for the screen by Jessie Ernst, George Seaton, Bess Meredyth, Hal Long, and Samuel Hoffenstein...
Los Angeles: Mark Hellinger Productions / Universal, 1947. Collection of 6 vintage photographs from the 1947 film. 5 are studio still photographs, and one is a reference photograph. Criterion Collection 383. 8 x 10 inches (20 x 25 cm). Near Fine. Grant US. Hardy, The BFI Companion to Crime. Selby Masterwork US. Silver Classic Noir. Spicer US.
Munich / Paris: UFA / L'Alliance Cinematographique Europeenne, 1933. Two vintage black-and-white still photographs from the original French release of the 1933 film. With the UFA logo at the lower left corner of each. Each still mounted on UFA / ACE boards as issued, with credit for both studios and text in French. A late attempt by UFA to reach...
Rome: N.p., 1962. Archive of four vintage borderless photographs of Anita Ekberg from the 1962 film. With holograph notations in pencil and the photographer Paul Ronald's stamp on the versos. A four-episode anthology exploring different aspects of morality and love. Anita Ekberg is featured here in Federico Fellini's "Le Tentazioni del Dottor Antonio", a fantastical story about a doctor who...
![Too Late to Love [Pourquoi viens-tu si tard...] (Collection of 370 original keybook still...](/pictures/thumb/144588.jpg?v=1560892586)
Paris: Ulysse Production / Cinedis, 1959. Collection of 370 original black-and-white keybook still photographs from the 1959 French film, consisting of two unique and complimentary pieces, one being a studio film still keybook with 97 contact prints of small format transparencies, most with 12 images per print, amounting to over 1,000 images captured, nearly all images with series number etched...
![Princess of Cleves [La princesse de Cleves] (Archive of 14 original photographs and ephemera from...](/pictures/thumb/144012.jpg?v=1532553926)
Paris: Cinedis, 1961. Archive of 14 original single weight black-and-white photographs, and various ephemera, from the 1961 film, here under the original French title. The photographs, numbered on the versos in holograph pencil, detail costumes for starring actors Marina Vlady and Jean Marais, an exhibit of film stills and costume designs at a bookshop called "Lavocat," costumes displayed at tge...
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"...
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, Circa 1981. Vintage borderless black-and-white reference photograph from the 1982 film. Shot by still photographer Stephen Vaughan. Shown are Ridley Scott and Harrison Ford conferring as Ford sits in his "spinner" vehicle. 10 x 8 inches (25.5 x 20.5 cm). Fine.
London: Allen and Unwin, 1920. First edition, first issue with type broken on page 35, line 32. Some offsetting to the second blank, some fading to the book spine, still easily Near Fine in an about Fine dust jacket with light rubbing at the spine ends. A very nice copy of the author's first book, preceding the American edition, documenting...
N.p. N.p., 1941. Original play script for the premiere production of Joseph Kesselring's "Arsenic and Old Lace" in 1941, copy belonging to the show's producers (and erstwhile playwrights) Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse, with their property stamp at the bottom right corner of the front wrapper. Housed n a custom clamshell box. Clearly a working copy, with numerous substantitve corrections...
Los Angeles: Charles Fries Productions, 1977. Archive of five scripts for four episodes from Season One of "The Amazing Spider-Man" television series in 1977. All belonging to actor Michael Pataki, who played police captain Barbera in the series, each with his holograph name on either the front wrapper or title page, and his lines and stage directions circled throughout, with...
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1976. First Draft script for the 1976 film. The third entry in the wildly popular and paradigm-shifting crime film franchise set in San Francisco, featuring Clint Eastwood as "Dirty" Harry Callahan, a cop who cares little for bureaucracy. This entry finds Harry working with similar resistance alongside a new female partner, and introduces new ethnic content...
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...
![Dial Red O [Code 3] (Original screenplay for the 1955 film). Bill Elliott, Daniel B. Ullman,...](/pictures/thumb/145765.jpg?v=1562104257)
Glendale, CA: Allied Artists, 1954. Shooting script for the 1955 film noir, here under the working title "Code 3," with the working title crossed through on the front wrapper and "Dial Red O" written above it twice, once in holograph pencil and once in holograph ink. Copy belonging to an uncredited crew member, with notations throughout in red pencil, primarily...
New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, 1934. First Edition. One of 360 copies (this being No. 279) SIGNED by Faulkner. The author's second collection of stories, including "Turn About," basis the 1933 Howard Hawks film, "Today We Live," starring Joan Crawford, Gary Cooper, Robert Young and Franchot Tone and with a script co-written by Faulkner, his first Hollywood credit...
Los Angeles: Cinema Center Films / Duo Films / Solar Productions, 1968. Revised Draft script for the 1969 film. Accompanying the script is a shooting schedule, dated 8/22/68. Based on Faulkner's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1962 novel, his last book. Boon (McQueen) and his buddy are reivers, or thieves, who steal the McCaslin family's new car, a Winton Flyer. They are out...
Neuilly-sur-Seine, France: Gaumont, 1913. Vintage double weight matte finish photograph from the legendary 1913 silent film serial. Printed onto heavy card stock for use as the equivalent of a modern day lobby card. With the Gaumont logo at the lower right corner. The first of Feuillade's three film serial masterpieces, followed by "Les Vampires" (1915) and "Judex" (1916). Feuillade took...
N.p. N.p., Circa 1930s. Vintage double weight photograph of director Robert J. Flaherty with a camera, circa the 1930s. With holograph pencil notations on the verso. Known as the father of documentary, Flaherty mixed real life footage with staged events to capture portraits of people surviving in extreme environments in films such as "Nanook of the North" (1922), "Moana" (1926)...
![Wreckers of Civilisation [Civilization]: The Story of COUM Transmissions and Throbbing Gristle...](/pictures/thumb/133226.jpg?v=1434404490)
London: Black Dog Publishing, 1999. First Edition, originally issued as a trade softcover original. This copy rebound by Wiering Books in gray cloth with black titles and rule and an original Throbbing Gristle thunderbolt patch inset onto the front board. Artistically INSCRIBED by Throbbing Gristle frontman and COUM founder Genesis P-Orridge on the second blank: "To Andy / cari saluti...
London: Edward Arnold, 1936. Later printing. SIGNED by E.M. Forster on the title page. Additionally INSCRIBED by W.H. Auden on the front endpaper: "To Bill and Phil / with best wishes for their future happiness. / from / Wystan." Forster was an influence and favorite of Auden's, with Auden dedicating "Journey to a War" (1939), written with Christopher Isherwood, to him...
Paris: Films A2, 1987. Collection of 3 vintage oversize studio photographs from the 1987 film. Co-directed by acclaimed photographer and filmmaker Robert Frank (his only feature length fiction film) and acclaimed wirter Rudy Wurlitzer, who wrote the screenplay, "Candy Mountain" is a musician's road movie, heavily influenced by the lives of Frank and Wurlitzer. Cast full of notable musicians such...
![Prophecy [The Windsor Project] (Original screenplay for the 1979 film). John Frankenheimer, David...](/pictures/thumb/145744.jpg?v=1565816268)
Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1977. First Draft script for the 1979 film, here under the working title "The Windsor Project." Toxic environmental waste creates a mutant bear that terrorizes the Maine countryside. Set in Maine, shot on location in Crofton, British Columbia. Black titled wrappers. Title page present, dated 12/25/77, noted as First Draft, with credits for screenwriter David Seltzer...
London: N.p., Circa 1953. Original typescript draft for the 1954 play. With brief holograph notations throughout, mostly by a proofreader. Laid in note addressed to Alec Clunes, manager of the Arts Theatre in London, submitting script for review. First performed at the Aldwych Theatre in London May 1954, and then again in the US at the ANTA Playhouse in New...
New York: Atheneum, 1976. First Edition. Lengthily INSCRIBED on the front flyleaf in the year of publication: "9 July, 1976 / To Joan Alhadeff - The realest lady of all the real ladies / To Morrie Alhadeff - Half angel, half hustler, all street, and all smart - / With affection - / Alan Furst." Fine in a Fine dust...
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: William Morrow, 1936. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper: "To Noni / With best from the 'boss' / Erle Stanley Gardner." According to Dorothy Hughes' biography of Gardner, Noni Bibler was one of Gardner's early assistants, and clearly took down much of this novel from dictation. Dampstain affecting the rear board edges, the topstain...
New York: William Morrow, 1966. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author to his niece on the front endpaper: "To 'Nordy' / With all best wishes from / Uncle Erle / Erle Stanley Gardner." Fine in a Fine dust jacket. A superb copy. Perry Mason.
New York: William Morrow, 1940. First Edition. Warmly INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper: "To Noni / Who wrote the damn thing leaving me only with the job of dictating it / Yours / Erle Stanley Gardner. According to Dorothy Hughes' biography of Gardner, Noni Bibler was one of Gardner's early assistants, and clearly took down much of...
Burbank, CA: American Zoetrope / Warner Brothers, 1971. Vintage black-and-white oversize double weight still photograph from the 1971 film. Shown are George Lucas and an assistant setting up a shot of Robert DuVall, with Lucas placing calipers on DuVall's head. With the Warner Brothers studio stamp on the verso, along with a notation regarding the shot and its reference number...
Hollywood: Icon Entertainment, 1994. Draft script for the 1995 film. An early draft, produced prior to the film having an association with Mel Gibson's production company, Icon Entertainment International. Winner of five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, and nominated for another five, including Best Original Screenplay. Orange titled wrappers, production No. 53, dated March 24, 1994, with...
Neuilly-sur-Seine, France: Societe Nouvelle de Cinematographie (SNC), 1965. Vintage oversize double weight photograph of director Jean-Luc Godard behind the camera on the set of the 1965 film. Shot by photographer Georges Dudognon in the summer of 1965, with his stamp on the verso. In a custom museum-quality frame, archivally mounted, with UV glass. 9 x 12 inches (22.5 x 30...
![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...
Chicago: Ziff-Davis / Alliance Books, 1943. First Edition. Association copy, lengthily INSCRIBED in the year of publication on the front endpaper to fellow screenwriter Walter C. Roberts, citing New York City as his currently location and noting in part: "I have not forgotten... how instrumental you were in launching me. Ever since 1931 you expressed faith in my talent, while...
Los Angeles: Republic Pictures, 1957. Early Draft script for the 1957 film, "The Beginning of the End," directed by Bert I. Gordon, based on a story by Gordon (indicated here, though not credited in the film), written for the screen by Fred Freiberger and Lester Gorn, and starring Peter Graves and Peggie Castle. One of two Republic features produced by...
Paris: Dargaud Films, Circa 1976. Draft script for the 1976 French-British film. Based on the "Asterix" comic book series by writer Goscinny and illustrator Uderzo, a series that began in 1959, serialized in Pilote magazine, and ran until Goscinny's death in 1977, afterwards written by Uderzo until 2009. The series has spawned thirteen films, four of them live-action, games, and...
New York: Exhibitor's Trade Review, 1920. First Edition. Magazine-style format featuring biographical essays by Hastings, profusely illustrated with reproduced images from Griffith's films and newspaper articles about the director. One of the best and earliest overviews of the legendary director. 9.5 x 12 inches (24 x 30.25 cm), printed saddle-stitched wrappers. Good lacking the dust jacket, folded horizontally, several cello...
New York: Pro-Distributors Publishing Company, 1929. First appearance of the Dashiell Hammett novel, (part 3 of 5 parts), "The Maltese Falcon," in the November 1929 issue of the Black Mask pulp magazine. The five parts were collected and published as a novel by Alfred A. Knopf in 1930. The turning point in Hammett's career. The author stuck exclusively with Continental...
New York: Open Book, 1982. Limited Edition. One of 350 copies, of which only 100 were for sale (and this being No. 56), signed by both Harrison and Guest on the half-title page. Fine and unread without dust jacket as issued. A charming edition of poetry accompanied by black and white images of Guest's sculptural work.
N.p. N.p., 1928. Two vintage oversize photographs from the first stage production of "The Front Page" in 1928, showing two different trio shots of the reporters who grace the majority of the play. The first photo, a double weight 8 x 10 by Florence Vandamm with her blindstamped name on the recto, shows Lee Tracy (later played by Rosalind Russell...
Berlin: Nicolaischen Buchhandlung, 1821. First Edition. Octavo. xxvi, 355, [1, imprint], with a secondary title page, opposite the primary title page at the left, reading "Naturrecht und Staatswissenschaft im Grundrisse." Publisher's original paper-covered boards, red leather spine panel with title and rule in gilt, page edges stained red. Completely unrestored, with wear along the edges and hinges, and at the...
![James Earl Jones as Jack Jefferson [Jack Johnson] in The Great White Hope (Original photograph,...](/pictures/thumb/134907.jpg?v=1492979029)
N.p. N.p., circa 1968. Vintage black-and-white photograph of James Earl Jones as Jack Jefferson in the 1968 Howard Sackler play "The Great White Hope." INSCRIBED by Jones to fellow actor Hilda Haynes, making reference to her role in the production as the mother to his character. From the estate of Hilda Haynes. Based on the life of heavyweight champion Jack...
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...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1951. First Draft Continuity script for the 1952 film. AFI Catalog notes that the film went into production on December 26, 1951, making this a draft that was probably an iteration or two short of the shooting script. Notable adaptation of Hugo’s 1862 novel, with Michael Rennie as Jean Valjean and Debra Paget as Cosette. Debra Paget...
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1961. Vintage photograph from the 1961 film. An image with an intentional" trick of the light," showing Monroe playing paddle ball as a crew member runs a cable in foreground. A famously difficult shoot, and just as famously, the final film of both Gable's and Monroe's careers, it also ranks among their best work, as...
New York: Farrar and Rinehart, 1944. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper in the year of publication to actress Kay Campbell: "For Kay Campbell / who is almost my favorite actress - and so damned nice (plus attractive) besides / Love and kisses from / Charlie Jackson / March 2nd, '44." Campbell is best known for...
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. N.p., 1973. Vintage borderless press photograph of Alejandro Jodorowsky directing his third film, "The Holy Mountain." Mimeo snipe on the verso credited to the director's Mexican production company, Procinemex, describing the details of the photo in Spanish. 9.5 x 7.5 inches (24 x 19.5 cm). Near Fine.
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1955. First Edition. Second issue jacket, export issue, with "30-60" printed at the bottom of the front flap, but lacking the additional "No. 5671A" code, and with no price. Just a hint of rubbing to the extremities of both the book and jacket, else Fine in illustrated paper covered boards and a Fine, price clipped...
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...
![Scandal Sheet [Dark Page] (Archive of production material for the 1952 film). Phil Karlson,...](/pictures/thumb/145051.jpg?v=1560892691)
Culver City, CA: Edward Small Productions, 1947. Archive of production material for the 1952 film noir consisting of the following: breakdown, set list, wardrobe plot, shooting schedule, and a summary of detail budget. With a type written letter outlining the contents of the archive from producer Edward Small to Dan O'Shea, signed by Edward Small in holograph ink and dated...
![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...
New York: Harcourt, Brace, and World, 1966. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Cliff Robertson, who portrayed the title character in the 1968 film adaptation of Keyes' novel, "Charly." Fine in a Fine dust jacket. An impeccably fresh, Fine copy of Keyes' science fiction classic, normally found well-worn. Basis for the 1968 film, Charly, considered by many to be Cliff Robertson's finest...
![Grands soirs et petits matins [Mayday] (Original photograph from the set of the 1977 film)....](/pictures/thumb/135608.jpg?v=1492979150)
N.p. William Klein, 1968. Vintage photograph, shot by director-photographer William Klein, during the making of his landmark documentary. With Klein's stamp on the back, noting his address in Paris. In making his cinema verite documentary about the occupation of the Sorbonne begun during the May, 1968 protests in Paris, Klein received unprecedented access to student leaders, activists, various committee meetings...
![No Highway in the Sky [No Highway] (Original screenplay for the 1951 film). Henry Koster, Nevil...](/pictures/thumb/129241.jpg?v=1436995901)
Los Angeles / London: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1950. Final Shooting script for the 1951 film, here under its working title, "No Highway." Profusely annotated by a studio secretary on the inside rear wrapper, over time, regarding at least eight script revisions, with dates ranging from 10/4/50 to 11/13/50. Based on the 1948 novel by Nevil Shute. The second pairing of Jimmy...
New York: William R. Scott, 1955. First Edition. About Fine in illustrated boards and a Very Good or better dust jacket. Slight spine lean, with a contemporary gift inscription to the front endpaper. Jacket has a few closed tears at the extremities, with a one and a half inch tear to the top of the front panel and light chipping...