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.....

Rome: Film Duemila, Circa 1964. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Monica Vitti and Richard Harris from the 1964 film. "Deserto Ross" stamp on verso. Antonioni's first color film, and the last in a quartet of films made between 1959 and 1964 about women in modern culture (preceded by "L'avventura," "La Notte," and L'Eclisse"), and the lie of happiness and better.....

Tokyo: Nikkatsu, 1981. Collection of eight vintage studio still photographs from the 1981 film. The famed Japanese photographer's only cinematic work, a "pink" film for Nikkatsu Studio's "Roman Porno" series, known alternately as "High School Girl Fake Diary," "The Pseudo-Diary of a High School Girl," and "Diary of a High School Girl" in English. Pink film is a broad genre.....

N.p. N.p., 1965. Original poster for the 1965 tour by Joan Baez and Bob Dylan. This poster given by Baez to Tisha Fein, longtime talent coordinator and producer for the Grammys, with Fein's holograph notation to the verso: "Joan Baez gave me this when we did her Midnight Special tribute—Tisha Fein." A musical variety series, "The Midnight Special" aired on.....

N.p. Ignacio Banos, 2005. First Edition, one of 5500 numbered copies (this being No. 1287). A deluxe history of the early years of the iconic guitar, profusely illustrated with both black-and-white and full color photographs. Near Fine in lightly rubbed illustrated boards without dust jacket as issued. In a Near Fine publisher's slipcase, with light rubbing, and the original publisher's.....

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1931. Later printing. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper: "For Virginia Allan / from Margaret Ayer Barnes." Winner of the 1931 Pulitzer Prize for Literature. Barnes also wrote "Dishonored Lady," a play twice adapted to film. Beginning in the 1890s, the story follows an upper-middle class girl from youth to adulthood, struggling within a changing.....

New York: Janus Films, 1964. Collection of thirteen vintage studio still photographs from the US release of the 1963 Swedish film. Three with mimeo snipe and "R.R. Stuart Collection" stamp on the verso.The third entry in Ingmar Bergman's trilogy of faith and redemption, preceded by "Through A Glass Darkly" (1961) and "Winter Light"(1963). A stark and enigmatic allegory fueled by.....

Berkeley: Berkley Graphics Arts, 1968. Collection of five vintage bumper stickers from the 1968 political campaigns run via a collaboration between the Black Panthers and the Peace and Freedom Party. Each of the stickers were made for various Peace and Freedom Party political campaigns, including: Mario Savio for California state senator, Black Panther founders Huey Newton and Bobby Seale, and.....

New York: Horace Liveright, 1930. First Edition, in the rare dust jacket. The final two pages of the book are dedicated to a glossary of Harlem slang. A Jazz Age novel, with proletarian leanings, about an ill-fated love affair between an idealistic young woman from Connecticut and a rambling snake oil salesman who travel from to New York, where they.....

Chicago: The Goodlion, 1972. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Brakhage on the front endpaper to to publisher Barney Rosset: "Dear Barney / In thanks for all you've given, made possible / Thanks / Stan Brakhage."Barney Rosset was the founder of the Grove Press, which, in addition to its obvious importance, helped usher Brakhage's work into institutions in the 1970s by "publishing".....

N.p. N.p., 1973. Lengthy typed letter signed from Stan Brakhage to Will Petersen, roughly 500 words, dated May 28, 1973. Petersen was the director of the Creative Arts Center at West Virginia University, and Brakhage's letter confirms an upcoming talk at the university and answers in some detail a number of Petersen's questions. With Brakhage's holograph signature in black ink.....

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.....

Glendale, CA: Allied Artists, 1968. Collection of eight vintage studio still photographs from the US release of the 1967 French film. Bunuel's first color film, about a bored and directionless young housewife who begins working in a brothel while her husband is at work, with tragic consequences for him and a jealous client involved in organized crime. Winner of the.....

Culver City, CA: RKO Radio Pictures, 1946. Estimating script for the 1947 film, dated April 3, 1946. James M. Cain’s ultimately uncredited rewrite of Geoffrey Homes’ early draft, based on Homes’ 1946 novel, "Build My Gallows High," which was at that time still unpublished. A rare script, which confirms a claim still listed as unsubstantiated by the AFI Catalog, which.....

Paris: Societe d'Exploitation et de Distribution de Films, 1938. Set of 3 black-and-white still photographs from the US premiere of the 1964 film. Each with a mimeo snipe affixed to the verso, as issued, noting that the film is making its debut at the Esquire Theatre in Los Angeles. Also on the verso is a stamp for the US distributor.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1959. Vintage oversize borderless photograph of Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro and Argentinean rebel fighter Ernesto "Che" Guevara in Havana in 1959. With the rubber stamp of photographer Roger Pic to the verso.11.5 x 9 inches. Very Good plus, with light diagonal creasing to the corners.

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: Various, 1946-1964. Collection of 19 original French programs for French, German, Italian, and Spanish films, with a single US film, here under the original French titles, 1946-1964. All feature color wrappers, some illustrated with color stills from the film, and highlights include "Madame du Barry" (1954, Christian-Jaque), "Madame Butterfly" (1954, Carmine Gallone), "Les Diaboliques" (1955, Henri-Georges Clouzot), US film.....

London: Amicus Productions, 1974. Draft script for the 1974 British horror anthology film. Copy belonging to actor Ian Carmichael, with his holograph ink and pencil annotations throughout. Laid in with the screenplay is a signed photograph of Carmichael and a manuscript note signed by the actor, dated 18/8/73, giving the script to a Mrs. Mugford for her "celebrity sale." Based.....

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1949. Final Draft script for the 1950 film. With a "New York Legal Department" rubber stamp to the front wrapper and extensive holograph pencil annotations throughout, likely by a professional reader, regarding differences between the source novel by Thomas B. Costain and the script. Based on Costain's 1945 novel, and partially conceived as a sequel to.....

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1957. Second Revised Final script for the 1957 film. Director Michael Curtiz's presentation copy, in tan leather with gilt titles and Curtiz's name at the bottom right corner of the front board. A highly fictionalized portrayal of the life and career of Prohibition era torch singer/actress Helen Morgan. This film marked Curtiz's return to Warner Bros.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] / Charles H. Schneer Productions / Peerford, 1981. Final Revised Draft script for the 1981 film. British script for the US-UK co-production, with the address of UK production company Peerford on the title page. The final film to feature creature design and visual effects by pioneering stop motion animator Ray Harryhausen, a fitting send off.....

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.....

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.....

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

London: Macmillan, 1975. First UK Edition of the author's first book. INSCRIBED by Dexter on the front endpaper in the year of publication to Joan Spencer: "Bless you for supporting me, Joan! / Best wishes / Colin Dexter / Xmas 1975." Ms. Spencer was a colleague of Dexter's at the Oxford and Cambridge Joint Examination Board, where she ran the.....

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1929. Early Treatment script for the 1929 film, the first Sherlock Holmes film to have been produced with sound, and the first to include the Holmes utterance, "Elementary, my dear Watson" (a phrase never used by Doyle), though that statement regrettably does not appear in this draft. The first known treatment was written by Oliver P. Garrett.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1977. Final Draft script for the November 7, 1977 television episode, "The Crypt," season 1, episode 7 of the science fiction series "Logan's Run." This episode is based on an original story by Harlan Ellison. Copy belonging to an uncredited crew member named Chuck Sereci, with his name in holograph pencil on the front wrapper.....

Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1929. Vintage linen-backed keybook photograph of the famous nightclub set of the 1929 film. The photograph highlights not only the spectacular production design, but the camera crane developed by director Paul Fejos, which enabled the cumbersome cameras at the time to fluidly move at nearly every conceivable angle, and at the speed of 600 feet per.....

Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1938. Draft script for the 1939 film. Director George Marshall's working copy, with his profuse substantive annotations throughout. Ne'er-do-well circus owner Larsen E. Whipsnade (W.C. Fields) struggles to keep his performers and carnival business just a few steps ahead of the law in order to avoid foreclosure. Meanwhile, Whipsnade's co-ed daughter Vicky attempts to navigate.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1938. Vintage Style D US one sheet poster for the 1938 US film. Based on the 1936 novel by Erich Maria Remarque, and to our knowledge, F. Scott Fitzgerald's only credited adaptation of a literary work by another author. Three young German soldiers vie for the love of a dying woman in the years following.....

Burbank, CA: Walt Disney Productions, 1958. Final Shooting script for the first half of the 1958 film, thus incomplete as issued, dated April 9, 1958. With lead actor Sal Mineo’s name in holograph ink on two revision leaves, and his character’s name in pencil on the front wrapper. Laid in is a small leaf with holograph ink notations including the.....

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1973. Final Draft script for the 1974 film. A satirical neo-noir following a professional hit man who is contracted by a local mob boss to take out the competition, but soon finds himself the target of several personal attacks in retaliation. Shot on location in Seattle, Washington and Silver Springs, Florida. Blue titled wrappers, noted as.....

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1953. Revised Shooting Final script for the 1954 film. Actor Van Heflin's copy. Includes a 10-page shooting schedule. Loosely based on the St. Albans Raid, the northernmost land action of the American Civil War. The film took great liberties, changing both the time and motivation for the raid. In the film, a group of Confederate POWs.....

Los Angeles: Lippert Pictures, 1949. Oversize vintage black-and-white double weight still photograph of the cast and crew for the 1949 film, dated Nov. 24, 1948. Fuller's auspicious directorial debut, one of three films he made for independent producer Robert Lippert before moving to Hollywood studios. An intense portrait of guilt and psychological torment, the film, based on the life of.....

New York: Hyperion, 1982. First edition. Oblong folio. Cloth clamshell portfolio containing a bifolium limitation leaf and fifteen (15) photographs, each numbered and SIGNED by the artist. One of 100 numbered copies (there were also five lettered copies). Plates Fine, portfolio Very Good. The sensitive portfolio cloth is rubbed and scuffed overall, but with no tears or abrasions.

Paris: Les Films Concordia, 1963. Collection of 3 vintage black and white reference photographs from the French release of the 1963 film. Head shots of Brigitte Bardot and Michel Piccoli, one of each, and one especially striking shot of the two together. Godard's lush Technicolor landmark that transformed Brigitte Bardot from a sex symbol into an art object, while simultaneously.....

New York: Macaulay, 1939. First Edition. Association copy, INSCRIBED by the author in the year and month of publication to fellow screenwriter Walter C. Roberts: "January 3rd 1939 / To Walter C. Roberts / In friendship and as a belated Xmas gift. / Your friend / Martin M. Goldsmith." With the front panel and front flap of the excessively rare.....

Los Angeles: Beacon Productions, 1946. Final Draft script for the 1947 film. Copy likely belonging to an uncredited costume designer, with annotations in holograph pencil throughout. Groucho Marx's first solo film appearance, and his first with a real mustache as opposed to one made with grease paint. Marx plays an incompetent theatrical agent whose only client is Carmen Miranda, in.....

Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1945. Original treatment (titled "Characters and Premise") and complete set of continuities for the 1945 13-episode film serial, including a continuity for the trailer, constituting a virtually complete record. Hammett debuted his Nazi-fighting agent in 1934 in comic book form, with artwork by the legendary Alex Raymond. A film adaptation was made by Universal in.....

London: Haworth Productions, Circa 1968. Second Draft script for the 1968 film. With the ownership name of cinematographer Douglas Holcombe in holograph ink on the title pageIn 1183 England, the sons of King Henry II and his wife plot to overtake the throne. Nominated for seven Academy Awards and winning three, including Best Screenplay and Best Actress. Set in England.....

N.p. Leland Hayward Productions, 1958. Vintage photograph of Ernest Hemingway and Spencer Tracy on the set of the 1958 film. Mimeo snipe on the verso. Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Ernest Hemingway, published in 1952. Winner of an Academy Award, and nominated for two more, including Best Actor for Spencer Tracy, one of nine nominations he would.....

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

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.....

Kyoto: Daiei Studios, circa 1957. Draft script for the 1958 Japanese film. Based on the 1956 novel "Kinkakuji" ("Temple of the Golden Pavilion") by Yukio Mishima, which is loosely based on the actual event of the burning of the Reliquary (or Golden Pavilion) of Kinkaku-ji in Kyoto by a young Buddhist acolyte in 1950. The book was one of three.....

Redding, CT: C.E. Ives, 1922. First Edition. A self-published volume of songs by Charles Ives, selected from a volume published earlier the same year, titled "114 Songs." Like "114 Songs," this was printed for distribution among the composer's friends, and judging from the small number of copies in world libraries (OCLC locates 12 libraries with copies, whereas 106 are listed.....

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. Near Fine.

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

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986. Final corrected manuscript for Stuart Kaminsky's novel, "The Man Who Shot Lewis Vance," ultimately published in book form by St. Martin's Press in 1986. Included is a typed letter signed by Pam Hoenig, assistant editor at St. Martin's Press, on the publisher's stationery, dated January 27, 1986, addressed to Kaminsky and confirming that the.....

London: Geoffrey Bles, 1928. First Edition. Rare in jacket. A pulp thriller about a criminal mastermind, known only as The Ghoul, who has plunged London into a crime wave. Basis for the 1933 film of the same name, directed by T. Hayes Hunter and starring Boris Karloff. The film added mystical elements to the story in order to capitalize on.....