Beverly Hills, CA: The Mirisch Corporation / United Artists, 1967. Collection of five original title card maquettes for the 1967 film hand lettered by Harold Adler. Based on the 1965 novel by John Ball. Harold Adler was a calligrapher who created hand lettered titles on over 100 films, worked frequently with Alfred Hitchcock, and was a favorite of legendary title.....

London: The Rank Organization, 1958. French theatrical release poster for the seminal 1958 British docudrama, "A Night to Remember," here under it's French title, "Atlantique Latitude 41 Degrees."Probably the most distinctive poster produced for the film. Novelist Ambler and director Baker set out to make a film that depicted the sinking of the Titanic as accurately as possible, with no.....

New York: Gnome Press, 1950. First Edition. Presumed "Armed Forces" edition, or the publisher's short-lived attempt to produce paperbacks, bound in wrappers identical to the jacket art of the hardcover edition. More scarce than the hardcover, a stopper for Asimov collectors. Asimov's classic work, a collection of short stories that had immediate and lasting impact on both science fiction and.....

Chicago: Earl Seubert, 1970. Vintage borderless black-and-white photograph of Richard Avedon holding up a photograph of Rennie Davis (of the Chicago Seven) for an exhibition held in Chicago in June 1970. Shot by Tribune photographer Earl Seubert, with his stamp on the verso, as well as several date stamps (all from June 1970), and a clip of the published photo.....

New York: Music Vanguard, 1935. Complete two issue run of "Music Vanguard" magazine, listed as Vol. 1, issue 1 March-April 1935 and Vol. 1, issue 2 Summer 1935. Rare."Music Vanguard" focused on the relationship between music and social justice, with a particular focus American socialist thought, noting in the introduction to the first issue the "wish to interrelate diverse elements.....

Stockholm: Svensk Filmindustri, 1961. Vintage oversize Swedish still photograph from the 1961 film. With the Svensk Filmindustri logo at the bottom right corner. In a typically heavy moment from the film, Max Von Sydow (Martin) and Lars Passgard (Minus) stand together in a moment of silence. Shot by the film's cinematographer, the legendary Sven Nykvist. 11 x 9 inches. In.....

N.p. N.p., 1973. Vintage borderless oversize candid photograph of Jane Birkin by her best known photographer Jean-Pierre Fizet. Here she lounges poolside, wearing more than usual (i.e., a hat). With Fizet's rubber stamp and multiple agency stamps on the verso, along with a date of 1973.11 x 8.5 inches. Very Good plus, with light creasing to the right edge and.....

N.p. United States Productions, Inc, 1959. Revised Estimating script for the 1960 film belonging to actor Martin Landau, here under the working title "The Life and Death of Legs Diamond." Laid in are five carbon typescript pages of script with Landau's name written in holograph ink to upper right and annotations including the director's name and phone number, time to.....

Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1947. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Bradbury on the front endpaper in 1948 to film director Preston Sturges: "For Preston Sturges / With my best wishes—and with my thanks for the good entertainment you have provided me with over the years / from / Ray Bradbury / May 5, 1948." A stellar association copy of Bradbury's.....

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.....

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1971. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author. REVIEW COPY with a publisher’s slip and promotional letter laid in. Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. The author’s third book.

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.....

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.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Faces, 1974. Original poster for the US premiere of the 1974 film at Columbia I and Columbia II on 2nd Avenue at 64th Street in New York. Cassavetes had only screened the film at two festivals prior to the date advertised here, the San Sebastian Film Festival on September 20, 1974 and the New York Film Festival.....

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1943. Revised Draft script for the 1943 film. Co-written for the screen by Raymond Chandler and Frank Partos. Chandler's contribution to the script had mostly to do with Alan Ladd's character and his tough dialogue (elements sneered at by the media upon the film's release). Laid in is an 8-page shooting schedule on blue stock, a 6-page.....

New York: Association Press, 1973. First Edition. INSCRIBED in the year of publication by Hirschfeld with a humorous drawing to playwright Edward Chodorov and his wife on the front endpaper: "For Eddie (p. 171) and darling Rose - dear old friends / [caricature] / Hirschfeld / 11/73." Chodorov's play "Decision" is one of 82 reviews by Atkinson, all illustrated by.....

Paris: Cinedis, 1961. Archive of 749 vintage keybook photographs from the 1961 French-Italian film. Over 200 are loose, the remainder being affixed with cello tape on thick stock in two folio sized spiral bound notebooks with one title label present. Each photograph is numbered in holograph pencil on the versos, 13 photographs credit photographer Water Limot, 18 with his name.....

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.....

New York: The Weinstein Company, 2006. Revised Draft script for the 2007 film. Copy belonging to actor Sam Riley, who played the role of Joy Division lead singer Ian Curtis, with three photographs and three autograph notes signed laid in. The letters are written during production, and discuss filming. Two photos are of Riley on set as Ian Curtis, and.....

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1937. Vintage photograph of director Michael Curtiz with Wayne Morris, Edward G. Robinson, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, and Veda Ann Borg on the set of the 1937 film. Mimeo snipe on the verso. Based on the short story by Francis Wallace published in 1936 in the Saturday Evening Post.When bellhop Ward Guisenberry (Wayne Morris) knocks out.....

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.....

New York: Ziff-Davis, 1945. First Edition. REVIEW COPY, with tipped-in publisher's slip on the front endpaper. Basis for the classic 1947 film directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and starring Gene Tierney, Rex Harrison, and George Sanders. Very Good plus in a Very Good or better, price-clipped dust jacket. Slight spine lean, light rubbing to the boards. Jacket verso lightly foxed.....

New York: Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS], 1948. Treatment script for an unproduced film, as well as a produced radio broadcast script for the May 25th,1948 CBS radio adaptation. Holograph ink on front wrapper, noting title, screenwriter Daniel Tardash, and story based on the 1946 novel by Isak Dinesen (writing under the pseudonym of Pierre Andrezel). Daniel Taradash would go on.....

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1966. Collection of seven vintage black-and-white test photographs from the 1966 feature film, released the same year as the premiere of the seminal television series. Included is a rear shot of the Batmobile, designed by George Barris, replete with its completely current 1966 Gotham City license plates. The other six photos in the set are test.....

London: P.S. King and Son LTD., 1938. First Edition. One of 500 privately printed copies. Rebound in three quarter leather and marbled boards with gilt title and raised bands. Very Good plus. Light dampstaining to the heel crown, light toning and foxing to the front and rear endpapers.

London: Edgar Wallace Mystery Theater / Merton Park Productions, 1963. Final Script for the 1964 British film, later rebroadcast as Season 5, Episode 5 of "The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theater." Based on the 1929 novel "The Big Four" by Edgar Wallace. "The Edgar Wallace Mysteries" constituted a run of 47 films, all produced at Merton Park Studios for Anglo-Amalgamated between.....

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 annotations throughout in red pencil, primarily.....

New York: Random House, 1939. First Edition. Two interwoven stories, "Wild Palms" and "Old Man," told in alternating chapters. Republished in 1990 under Faulkner's intended title, "If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem."Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. Vintage bookstore label to the rear pastedown. Light toning to the spine. Jacket spine and edges lightly toned, with nicking to the.....

Rome: Daimo Cinematografica, 1978. Vintage borderless black-and-white double weight photograph of director Federico Fellini from the set of his 1978 film. With the stamp of photographer Pierluigi Praturlon on the verso. In this image, Fellini toys with the idea of learning the tympani while wearing a dust mask. Born in Rome, Praturlon (better known simply as Pierluigi) embarked upon a......

Paris: Cinema D'Aujourd'hui no. 21 / Editions Seghers, 1964. Later printing, trade softcover. INSCRIBED by film, theatre, and opera director Visconti on the half title page: "Pour Pierre / Luchino Visconti." An early critical study on one of the key figures in post-World War II Italian cinema, a colleague of both Roberto Rossellini and Federico Fellini. Visconti is best know.....

New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1941. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Fisher to Hollywood producer Milton Sperling, who produced the first adaptation of Fisher's fiction to the screen, the seminal 1941 noir, "I Wake Up Screaming": "For Milton Sperling / In sincere appreciation - and with very best wishes for his success, health and happiness / Steve Fisher / Sept. 15, 1941.".....

London: Michael Joseph, 1938. First UK Edition, and the correct first of "Flying Colors," preceding the single volume publication. The third Hornblower novel published, and the eighth in series chronology, published together with the second. Along with "The Happy Return", the three form the basis for the 1951 film "Captain Horatio Hornblower," directed by Raoul Walsh, and starring Gregory Peck.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1930. First Temporary Draft script for the 1930 film "A Lady's Morals," seen here under the title "Jenny Lind." Copy belonging to musical director Arthur Freed, with his holograph pencil name to the front wrapper and his annotations throughout. Metropolitan Opera diva Grace Moore stars as Jenny Lind, the 1850's Swedish opera sensation whose exceptional.....

Rome: Dania Film, 1980. Collection of 10 vintage borderless color photographs from the 1980 film. Most with brief holograph annotations on the verso. A reporter and a psychic try to close the gates of Hell after a priest's suicide on holy ground causes the dead to rise, from the "godfather of gore" Fulci. 9.5 x 7 inches. Fine. Arrow 1459.....

N.p. N.p., 1969. Revised draft script for an unproduced film, carbon typescript on onionskin, unbound, housed in an envelope with a "Winkast Programming Limited" label with "Hadrian VII Screenplay Stage play" scratched out and "'THE TRUMPH' BY JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH" written in in green holograph marker.From the estate of film producer Elliott Kastner, whose best known credits include "The Long.....

Buenos Aires: Editorial Sudamericana, 1967. First Argentine Edition, preceding all others. The correct first edition of the Nobel Prize winner's masterpiece, published three years prior to the US edition, and the book that gained Garcia Marquez prominence amongst Latin American writers like Mario Vargos Llosa and Carlos Fuentes. A bright, attractive copy of a genuinely scarce high spot of Latin.....

San Francisco: Galeria de la Raza, 1972. Original color silkscreen print, 26 x 20 inches. One of an edition of approximately 75 printed. Though not called for, SIGNED AND DATED IN 1972 by the artist. Co-opting familiar images from popular culture, Garcia's work articulates themes of social justice, human rights and economic exploitation. "Ceylon tea" provides a sarcastic "deep reading".....

Paris: N.p., Circa 1960. Two vintage photographs of director Jean-Luc Godard, dark sunglasses and cigarette accounted for, reviewing still photographs for his 1960 film, "A bout de souffle." Shot by Philippe R. Doumic. Both photographs with Godard's name stamped in blue on the verso. Both photos 5 x 7 inches. Fine.

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.....

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 manilla envelope addressed to "M. de La Maziere, and images of costar Cowl smoking a cigarette. Several photos.....

London: Routledge, 1938. First Edition. A fictitious "autobiography" of a London prostitute, written by Greene and Matthews under a pseudonym to avoid political scandal. The book was withdrawn from the market by the publisher after warnings were issued by various moralistic institutions in England, and the first edition remains very scarce. The extent of Greene's involvement in the authorship has.....

France / Italy: Les Films Ariane, Circa 1956. Collection of over 80 vintage borderless single weight candid and glamor photographs and film negatives, black-and-white and color, and color transparencies, for the 1956 French-Italian film. Most of the images are glamour portraits of the film's leading women: Dany Carrel, Nicole Courcel, Giorgia Moll, and Beatrice Altariba. Several color transparencies show Brigitte.....

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929. First Edition, first printing of the author's first book, and the first book appearance of the Continental Op.Very Good lacking the dust jacket. A solid, clean copy. Slightest lean, spine colors very lightly faded, a couple of small spots on the rear board and light fading to the topstain, a bit of scattered light.....

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.....

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1938. Final Draft script for the 1938 film. From the library of producer Mark Hellinger, who wrote the film's screenplay, bound in red three-quarter leather with gilt titles and designs, marbled endpapers, raised bands, trimmed edges, and Hellinger's name in gilt on the front board. Also included is a typescript on onionskin stock, with the title.....

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1968. Final script for the 1969 film. A landmark of New Hollywood cinema, and arguably the high spot (as well as the beginning) of an incredible streak of inventive cinematic achievements directed by George Roy Hill in the 1960s and 1970s that included "Slaughterhouse-Five" (1972), "The Sting" (1973), and "Slap Shot" (1977). Loosely based on fact.....

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author and former president on the front endpaper: "The Complements of Herbert Hoover." Near Fine in an about Fine, price-clipped dust jacket. Spine lightly faded, with offsetting on the front endpaper, and the Herbert Hoover postage stamp on the front pastedown. Jacket spine has just a hint of toning.....

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.....

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: 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.....