London: George Allen and Unwin, 1952. First UK Edition, preceding all others. Tremendous association copy, INSCRIBED by author and director Lindsay Anderson to noted Czech-British filmmaker Karel Reisz, with a quote from the film: "Karel and Julia / from Lindsay / Woman: as a warning / Louis: as a lesson / Secret People E. 13". A remarkable and extremely detailed.....

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.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1966. Collection of 20 vintage borderless photographs from the 1966 film, 18 reference photographs and 2 fashion photographs of Rosaleen Murray and Ann Norman. Mimeo snipes on the verso of three of the photographs. Inspired by the 1959 short story "Las Babas del Diablo" by Julio Cortazar.Michelangelo Antonioni's first English-language film, marking the beginning of the final.....

New York: N.p., Circa 1957-1959. Draft script for the 1959 play. Copy belonging to producer Stanley Chase, with his name and address to a sticker on the title page. The script contains the printed lyrics for every musical number, with dialogue and stage direction interspersed. Arlen's original 1946 musical, "St. Louis Woman," with lyrics by Johnny Mercer, was based on.....

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.....

France / Italy: Filmsonor, Circa 1960. Collection of 16 vintage borderless single weight still photographs from the 1960 French film noir. A remarkable collection, including still photographs from the film, candid shots, and shots from the set. On-set images include director Jacques Becker with his camera and with the actors, actors Marc Michel and Michel Constantin, and other members of.....

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1930. First Edition. Born in England, David Betts drifted around the American West before coming to New York and finding work driving cabs. He was dubbed "The Taxi Philosopher" after publishing several letters featuring his views on life and in the "New York Evening Post" during the 1920s. Proletarian through and through, "I'm Lucky At That".....

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

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers / Seven Arts, 1969. Six vintage temporary tattoos issued as a promotional item for the 1969 film. With the both the original envelope housing the tattoos, and a Warner Brothers mailing envelope addressed to film critic, photographer, and poet Michael S. Dworkin. The decals are inspired by the designs for the tattoo makeup worn up Rod.....

Culver City, CA: Sage Productions / Columbia Pictures, 1958. Original pressbook for the 1958 film noir. Based on the 1949 Frederic Brown novel. One of the weirdest and most wonderful of the Columbia B-noirs, a very faithful adaptation of Fredric Brown's byzantine mystery novel, with Anita Ekberg (pre-"La Dolce Vita") put to good use as a dancing siren, and the.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1924. Continuity Draft script for the 1925 film. Studio File Copy, rubber-stamped on the front wrapper. Brief notation on one page in holograph pencil. Based on Tod Robbins' 1917 novel, a classic of horror fiction about a trio of circus freaks who escape captivity in the circus, open a curiosity shop, and use it as.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1962. Collection of nine vintage studio still photographs from the 1962 film, four borderless, two with bottom border, and three with narrow borders. Bunuel's masterpiece, and the penultimate film from his Mexico period. An incisive, eerie, surrealist comedy about a group of bourgeois guests at a dinner party who realize they inexplicably cannot leave the house. Nominated.....

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.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Faces Music, 1976. Original poster for the 1976 film, this being the Ben Gazzara style, with Gazzara in a "puffy shirt". One of eight known one sheet styles (no priority) issued by Faces Distribution for the film. Faces was a company as radical as the director himself, and made small runs of posters in a wide variety.....

Culver City, CA: Faces Music / Columbia Pictures, 1970. Vintage oversize double weight photograph of Ben Gazzara on the set of the 1970 film. 9.25 x 12.25 inches. In an archival mat. Near Fine.

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.....

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.....

Studio City, CA: World Amusement Company, 1979. Revised Draft script for the 1980 film, here under the working title "Alien Warning". Actor Martin Landau's copy, with his holograph ink and pencil annotations throughout. Laid in with the script are a 22 page typed shooting schedule and three copied handwritten call sheets for the eighth, ninth, and eleventh days of shooting.A......

New York: Macmillan, 1977. First Edition. INSCRIBED to playwright and film director David Mamet and his then-wife, actress Lindsay Crouse, in the year of publication on the title page: "For two beautiful people / Lindsay and David / Harold Clurman / Dec. 21, 1977."A remarkable association, connecting three generations of historic figures in world theatre. Ibsen, the book's subject, was.....

Ottawa, Canada: Crawley Films Limited, 1963-1966. Archive of press material and photographs for the 1963 Canadian film, and for the twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of the production company, Crawley Films. F.R. "Budge" Crawley was Canada's answer to Hollywood's Sam Goldwyn, and he produced hundreds of films during his 40-year career, including the Academy Award-winning 1975 documentary, "The Man Who.....

Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1985. Archive of script material for the 1987 film, including: Revised draft script for the 1987 film. Copy belonging to producer Robert Weiss, With holograph annotations throughout.Additional production material including handwritten and typed notes with pages of ideas proposed and dismissed during development.A set of 18 color 4 x 6 inch vintage vernacular photographs from the.....

Los Angeles: CBS Television Network, 1981. Wardrobe breakdown pages and shooting schedule for the 1981 television film which originally aired on October 24, 1981 on CBS. Archive belonging to an unknown crew member in the wardrobe department with holograph annotations on every page and 94 Polaroid photographs tipped onto pages throughout. A cult classic. Charles "Bubba" Ritter (Larry Drake) is.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1960s. Collection of three vintage borderless photographs of Catherine Deneuve and David Bailey dancing at a space-themed party in France, circa 1960s. Accompanying the photographs is a contact sheet featuring the images of the photographs, with holograph pencil annotations on the recto. Photographs 7 x 9.5 inches. Very Good plus.Contact sheet 12 x 9.25 inches. Very Good.....

N.p. N.p., circa early 1950s. Two vintage black and white photographs advertising the legendary Ohrbach's department store in the Wilshire Prudential Insurance Company building (today home of the Screen Actors Guild). An strong example the apex of its mid-century design in Los Angeles. Stamped on the verso by Woro Studio, the agency who shot and struck the photographs for the.....

Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1957. First Draft script for the 1960 film. Copy belonging to associate producer James H. Ware with his name on the front wrapper, and his annotations throughout in holograph pencil and ink. Ware was a major presence in British and American cinema, best known for his work on "Beat the Devil" (1953), "Room at the.....

Paris: Film-Production Carl Dreyer, 1932. Vintage double weight matte finish French still photograph from the 1932 film. Shown is Rena Mandel as Gisele. "Vampyr" was a German-French co-production, and Dreyer, who maintained strict creative control over his films, has production companies in both Berlin and Paris. This photo was issued from the Paris office, with a label crediting Film-Production Carl.....

Boston: Little, Brown, 1952. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Fante in 1956 to Richard Quine: "For Dick Quine, / Whom I love, respect, admire, applaud, and whistle at—with unspeakable enthusiasm. / John Fante / Aug 8, 1956 / Malibu." Quine was an American film director and producer, responsible for "Bell, Book, and Candle" (1958), "Strangers When We Meet" (1960), "The World.....

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.....

New York: The Ring Publishing Co, 1929. First Edition. SIGNED by Jack Dempsey on the front endpaper. Not to be confused with the much more common Author's Autograph Edition. Very Good lacking dust jacket. Light rubbing to spine ends, joints, and corners,with a tiny bit of loss at the upper front joint, a bumped bottom front corner, and mild soil.....

London: Michael Joseph, 1965. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the First Edition. Very Good in brown wrappers as issued. Spine lean and some vertical wrinkling to same. Generic bookplate SIGNED by the author laid in (i.e., not attached). A very presentable copy of the earliest state of this title.

N.p. N.p., 1975. Original poster for a performance by COUM Transmissions held on February 18, 1975 at the Stedelijk Academy in Ghent, Belgium. The third in a series of five performances in the "Omissions" series, the previous two taking place that same month in Belgium and the final two in May and June in Germany. Scarce, with OCLC locating just.....

London: Cinema 5, 1977. Early Draft British script for the 1977 comedy directed by Terry Gilliam, based on the poem by Lewis Carroll from "Through the Looking Glass" (1871). Terry Gilliam's first solo directorial effort after co-directing "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" with Terry Jones. A comedy in the Python style—and with much of the Python cast—owing much to.....

London: Romulus, 1961. Draft script for the 1962 film. Copy belonging to producer James H. Ware with his name and annotations in holograph ink and pencil throughout. Ware was a major presence in British and American cinema, best known for his work on "Beat the Devil" (1953), "Room at the Top" (1959), "Our Man in Havana" (1959), "Charade" (1963), and.....

New York: Appleton-Century, 1947. Octavo. First Edition. Fine in a lovely, Near Fine dust jacket. Jacket shows only the most minute rubbing at the extremities, and without a trace of the spine fading endemic to the this title. Goodis' fourth book, one of five hardcover titles published prior to the author's permanent switch in preference to the world of paperback.....

London: ITC, Circa 1971. First Draft script for the 1972 British television film which aired on ABC on January 15, 1972 and was theatrically released in Europe. Copy number "29" in holograph marker on title page.This early First Draft was written by screenwriter Philip Levene, best known for his screenwriting and consultant work on the television series "The Avengers" from.....

Secaucus, NJ: The Citadel Press, 1984. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Gregory Peck to film critic and academic Judith Crist, who provides the introduction: "For Judith / With great appreciation and warm regards / Gregory Peck." Laid in are two very interesting pieces of ephemera: a photocopy of a rave review from The Columbus Dispatch, with a holograph ink notation from.....

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1997. Master Draft script for the 2000 film, preceding the film's release by three years. Notations on the front wrapper in holograph pencil. Based on Chabon's 1995 novel. Professor Grady Tripp (Douglas) teaches creative writing in Pittsburgh, struggles writing his second novel, and smokes marijuana in his free time. His wife has left him, and he is.....

Stockholm: Libraryman, 2010. First Edition. One of 15 unnumbered copies with a chromogenic print SIGNED by director Hal Hartley affixed to the last leaf. A collection of selected film still photographs from the noted independent filmmaker's oeuvre, beginning with his 1988 debut "The Unbelievable Truth" up to the 2011 film "Meanwhile", with stills from "Amateur" (1994), "Flirt" (1995), and "Henry.....

Vienna: Werner Herzog Filmproduktion, 1979. Vintage borderless reference still from the 1979 German film showing director Werner Herzog and actor Bruno Ganz, along with some extras, on the set between takes. Herzog's highly interpretive remake of F.W. Murnau's 1922 silent classic, "Nosferatu," and the second of five films Herzog made with actor Klaus Kinski. 9.25 x 7 inches. Fine.

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1969. Final Draft script for the 1970 film. Here under its slightly different, hyphenated working title. A seminal New York comedy and an Arthur Hiller high spot, shot on location in the city in early 1970. A document of the times, it captures the city's lovable insanity in countless ways, from airports to garbage strikes to Central.....

Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1935. Treatment script for the 1936 film. Seen under the early working title "The Shining Spectre". Boris Karloff plays scientist Janos Rukh, who discovers a radioactive meteor in Africa that in turn causes him to become radioactive as well. His colleague Dr. Felix Benet (Bela Lugosi) develops a serum that holds the toxin at bay.....

Los Angeles: Selznick International Pictures, 1939. Early Continuity script (pre-production), stamped "TEMPORARY," with a credit for Alfred Hitchcock's wife and frequent screenwriter Alma Reville. "TEMPORARY" script includes screenwriting credit for Michael Hogan, who, along with Philip MacDonald, were given adaptation credits in the final film.Alfred Hitchcock's first American project, the elegant, dreamlike adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's 1938 novel of.....

London: Gaumont, 1935. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the UK release of the 1935 film, a shot of stars Robert Donat and Madeleine Carroll in one of the film's less stressful moments. Hitchcock's adaptation of Buchan's novel proved, as usual, to be an improvement on the source material, adding two key female characters and removing a couple of serious plot.....

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.....

Poland: S. P. Eagle / Romulus Horizon, Circa 1957. Original Hungarian poster for the 1965 film. In the final days of WWII, a 17-year-old boy wanders the countryside. He is captured by Soviet troops, then released, then captured once more. He has donned a German uniform for warmth and is imprisoned at a remote barracks, where he strikes up an.....

Culver City, CA: RKO Radio Pictures, 1939. Bound presentation script for the 1939 film, based on the 1933 short story by Gordon Malherbe Hillman originally published in "American Magazine." SIGNED by members of the cast and crew, including stars John Barrymore, Peter Holden, Virginia Weidler, and Donald McBride, director Garson Kanin, screenwriter John Twist, and producers Cliff Reid and Pandro.....

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.....

Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou / Herscher, 1983. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Klein to Ira Lowe on the half-title page: "to Ira, / a little catalog not made, heureusement in USA (see page 7) / All my best / Bill."Ira Lowe was a Washington, DC based lawyer who specialized in the arts and, over the course of a lengthy career, represented.....

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.....

Tokyo: Toho, Circa 1970. Draft script for the 1970 Japanese film. With holograph ink and pencil annotations to the rear wrapper and throughout the text. Included with the script is a mimeographed shooting schedule. Text and titles in Japanese. Annotations relate to the following: (a) names of the chosen cast members, (b) set rehearsals and camera rehearsals, (c) times for.....