New York: E.P. Dutton, 1939. First Edition. A very nice copy of an important title, probably the premiere monograph of New York images, predicting the series ideas of Ruscha and many others. Near Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Corners lightly bumped, a little soiling to the boards. Jacket has three small internal repairs (not restoration), and a......

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 York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1937. Advance Reading Copy, preceding the First American Edition. Very Good in publisher's standard card wrappers, stating "SPECIAL ADVANCE COPY: For private and confidential use only." Tipped on to the front wrapper, as issued, is the full-color illustration from the first edition jacket. Basis for the 1943 film directed by Raoul Walsh, written for the.....

New York: N.p., 1980. Original two-color silkscreen poster for "The Trap Door" (1980), by Beth B and Scott B, starring Jack Smith and John Ahearn, featuring numerous New York artists, including Jenny Holzer, Gary Indiana, Richard Prince, and William Rice. Printed on the verso, upside down, is a proof image of the poster with a variant design and color scheme.....

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.....

London: C. Hitch and C. Davis, 1735. Two volumes. First Edition. About Near Fine in rebound three-quarter leather, with marbled paper boards and gilt decoration and titles, raised bands. Minor offsetting, a hint of toning to page edges, and mild soil. A comprehensive set, containing in formation on how to dye cloth, create inks, weave tapestries, and other archaic information.....

Paris: Cinedis, 1959. Collection of 269 vintage black-and-white photographs for the 1959 French film. The collection consists of two unique and complimentary pieces, one being a film still keybook with 68 contact prints of small format negatives, most with 12 images per print, amounting to over 800 images captured. Nearly all images with series number bordering the image, and credits.....

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.....

Stockholm: Svensk Filmindustri, 1963. Original Swedish illustrated poster for the 1963 film. The second entry in Bergman's legendary and highly personal "Faith" trilogy, a series of films that launched a new and important phase in the director's career. "Winter Light" takes place in entirely within a three-hour period on a Sunday afternoon in November, mixing the affections and repulsions of.....

N.p. Regal Films, 1958. Draft script for the 1958 film. Copy belonging to actress Lyn Thomas, with annotations throughout relating to her character in the film, Laura. A space probe returns to earth bearing an unusual extraterrestrial fungus which, when accidentally mixed with human blood, turns into space rust. The rust expands rapidly, threatening to consume the entire planet. Produced.....

Paris: Denoel, 1952. First French Edition (and correct first). INSCRIBED by Narcejac on the front endpaper and signed by Boileau just below. A French review copy, with the necessary PRESSE punch-stamp present on both the rear panel of the jacket and the book. An absolutely pristine, extraordinarily well-preserved example. "Celle Qui N'Etait Plus" was the writing team's first effort, basis.....

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1942. Draft script for the 1942 film. Actor Van Heflin's copy. A 1942 film musical with a somewhat controversial trajectory. Seven years after its release, Hungarian playwright and concentration camp survivor Ferenc Herczeg sued MGM for plagiarizing his 1903 play, "Seven Sisters." Paramount legally adapted the play into a film in 1915. However, during the 1941.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1933. Collection of 70 vintage double weight reference photographs from the 1933 film, including seven of cast and crew at work on the set, three of which feature director Tod Browning. Also included is a later print of a fourth image of Browning on the set. From the estate of Tod Browning, housed in a......

N.p. N.p., 1944. Original four-panel artwork by Ernie Bushmiller, dated August 31, 1944, from his seminal comic strip Nancy, INSCRIBED to fellow cartoonist Ed Dodd in holograph ink: "To my friend - Ed Dodd / with best wishes / Ernie Bushmiller." This particular strip features Nancy, Sluggo and an un-named, non-recurring character, a buck-toothed girl speaking circa 1944 Beatnik jive.....

Paris: N.p., circa late-1950s. Vintage borderless double weight photograph, circa the late 1950s, depicting world renowned Spanish cellist and composer Pablo Casals playing the cello, while his wife Marta looks on in the background. Rubber stamps for photographer Helene Jeanbrau, the Dalmas Photography Agency, and the International Magazine Service, with light holograph annotations in pencil and blue pencil on the.....

Italy: Lotar Film, 1974. Collection of four vintage photographs from the 1974 film. Each with the stamp of collector A. Marinie on the verso, one photograph with holograph annotations regarding layout. Italian director Cavani's international breakthrough, a deeply controversial film about a Holocaust survivor who renews her sadomasochistic sexual relationship with her Nazi torturer after a chance encounter, which threatens.....

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.....

New York: Parallel Productions, n.d. First Draft script for an unproduced film. Based on the 1969 novel "A Time of Predators" by Joe Gores. An association between two prolific American authors, one a genre writer and the other an America novelist and director of the influential Iowa Writers' Workshop for 18 years. Set in San Francisco. Black titled wrappers. Title.....

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1931. Revised Final Script for the 1932 pre-Code film, an early starring role for Carole Lombard. Rubber stamped as a Paramount File Copy at the top right corner of the front wrapper. Penelope Newbold is a wealthy divorcée looking to remarry. She falls for her physician, Dr. Karl Bemis, but ends up marrying Bill Hanaway. Bill then.....

Tokyo: Graphic-sha Publishing, 1994. First Edition. SIGNED by author Manek Daver on the half-title page. One of the best conceived and executed references ever published on the design work behind classic American jazz albums, focusing on some of the best designers (Andy Warhol, Herman Leonard, David Stone Martin) and labels (Blue Note, Debut, Southland). Illustrated in color and black-and-white throughout.....

Paris: Les Films Ariane, 1959. Collection of 322 original black-and-white keybook still photographs from the 1959 French-Italian film. Small photos affixed with cello tape on thick stock in a folio "Lavis aquarelle" brand spiral bound notebook with maroon faux leather front wrapper. Each photo is numbered in holograph ink on the page, and in mimeograph on the verso, all credited.....

United Kingdom: Pinewood Studios / American International Pictures [AIP], 1962. Shooting script for the 1963 film. Based on the simultaneously-published novel "The Mindbenders" by screenwriter James Kennaway. Copy from the StudioCanal archives, with a letter of provenance laid in. A professor brainwashes himself to stop loving his wife in an attempt to clear the name of a colleague, suspected to.....

N.p. N.p., 1956. Original scenario artwork by Bill Constable for the 1956 film, depicting the characters played by Taylor and Clift walking through a wood late at night, their way lit only by a lantern. Signed by Constable at the bottom right. Archivally matted (no frame), with a description of the film in a die cut window in the matte.....

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1977. Final Draft script for the 1977 film. Copy belonging to Director of Photography Rex Metz, with his notes, cast and crew lists, shooting schedules, and a photo of Metz on the set with Eastwood and other crew members on set. An aging, alcoholic cop is given the task of escorting a witness from Las Vegas.....

New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, 1935. First Edition. One of 310 numbered copies (this being No. 131) SIGNED by the author. Faulkner's tale of barnstorm aviation, a pursuit which took his brother Dean's life a few months after the book was published. Basis for the 1958 Douglas Sirk film "The Tarnished Angels" featuring Robert Stack, Rock Hudson and.....

Hollywood: RKO Radio Pictures, 1941. First Edition, large quarto. The deluxe annual for RKO Studios' 1941-1942 season. Notable among the offerings featured are two full color Disney features ("Fantasia" and "Bambi"), several literary adaptations, including "Sister Carrie" and "The Little Foxes," actors Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Ginger Rogers, Bette Davis, and Gary Cooper. 1941 marked the beginning of the decade.....

Hollywood: RKO Radio Pictures, Circa 1934. Draft script for the 1935 film. In a custom quarter leather clamshell box.The second of two films based on Liam O’Flaherty’s 1925 novel, the first being Arthur Robison’s 1929 British feature, about a former Republic Army member during the Irish War of Independence, who turns in one of his comrades to the British in.....

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1972. Vintage oversize borderless double weight black and white photograph from the 1972 film. An amazing image, showing Max von Sydow looming above—and seemingly beyond—a very possessed young Linda Blair. One of the great genre films of the 1970s that accomplished the uncommon feat of being an over-the-top sensation upon its release and gaining subsequent status.....

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1972. Draft script for the 1973 film. Nick (Williams) is a federal agent tracking down a heroin ring, with the help of a few recruits he's trained, and seeking revenge for his deceased daughter. Prostitution, Vietnam War vets, and a Jewish ex-con make the nearly three-hour hit an explosive dose of action. Set in France, shot on.....

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.

Unknown: I.P.C. Pictures, 1969. Draft script for the 1971 film, here under the working title "Catcher in the Raw." At a California hot springs resort, a shady therapist helps eight carefully selected applicants find themselves and "experience their bodies," a process which mostly involves consuming large amounts of LSD, meditative screaming, and slow-motion basketball games. Louis Garfinkle's sole directorial credit.....

New York: Cannon, 1972. Draft script for the 1972 film, here under the working title "Zora." Something of an arthouse predecessor to what became a cavalcade of holiday slasher and horror films. The film's cult status was helped by featuring Warhol superstars Mary Woronov, Candy Darling, and Ondine, experimental film icon Jack Smith, and artist Susan Rothenberg, as well as.....

New York: Interstar, 1978. Revised Shooting script for the 1980 film. Vigilante crime drama focuses on a Vietnam vet who reeks revenge on the streets of New York for his friend who was mugged and subsequently crippled. In the vein of "Death Wish" (1974), but with more flame-throwing, more whores and junkies, and more exterminating. A cult classic. Shot on.....

Paris: Les Films de la Pleiade, 1962. Collection of four vintage borderless photographs from the 1962 film. With holograph annotations and rubber stamps on the versos. Based in part on the nonfiction study "Ou en est la prostitution" by Marcel Sacotte, who also contributed to the screenplay. Godard’s least “intellectual” film is also one of his finest, a touching drama.....

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.....

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1989. Shooting script for the 1990 film. With rainbow revision pages throughout.Sequel to the 1988 action thriller, based on the 1987 novel by Walter Wager. Two years after the Nakatomi Tower incident, hard-nosed cop John McClane returns to save Dulles International Airport from grenade-wielding ex-military mercenaries. Set in Washington, DC, and shot on location in Colorado.....

Copenhagen: Schoenberg Publishers, 1948. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author to photographer and former student John Wood on the front endpaper: "Jan. 1951 / To John Wood, a fine photographer [and] person. / with compliments / Keld Helmer-Petersen." An important, early book of color photography, prefiguring the work of William Eggleston and Stephen Shore by nearly three decades. Scarce in.....

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1951. Lobby card for the 1951 film, Hitchcock's classic adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's existential crime novel by way of Raymond Chandler's pulp sensibilities. 14 x 11 inches. Near Fine with some light soil. Grant US. Hardy, The BFI Companion to Crime. Selby Masterwork. Silver Classic Noir. Spicer US.

Los Angeles: United Artists / Contemporary Productions / Harold Hecht Productions, 1960. Draft script for the 1961 film, "The Young Savages" (here under its working title, "A Matter of Conviction"), SIGNED by director John Frankeheimer on the front wrapper. Directed by Frankenheimer, based on the 1959 novel, "A Matter of Conviction," by Evan Hunter (who also wrote as Ed McBain).....

Tokyo: Imamura Productions, 1979. Draft script for the 1979 film. Text in Japanese. With a single notation in holograph ink. Based on Ryuzo Saki’s novel, about real life con man, thief, and multiple murderer Akira Nishiguchi (changed to Iwao Enokizu in the film), told in multiple flashbacks as he awaits execution for his crimes. Black titled perfect bound wrappers. Title.....

Tokyo: Toho Company, 1966. Draft script for the 1966 film. Text in Japanese. A pornographer is keeping a low profile to keep out of the way of the mob, while also is trying to keep the various people in his life happy, including his stepdaughter, stepson, mistress, and wife (who believes her first husband was reincarnated as a carp). White.....

N.p. Mafilm, 1977. Dialogue script for the 1979 Hungarian film "Allegro Barbaro." The second 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. Shot on location in Hungary. Gray titled wrappers, dated 1977. Title page not present, presumably as issued. 122 leaves.....

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.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1978-1982. Vintage double weight matte finish photograph, a self portrait taken by Andre Kertesz while seated in a barber's chair, showing both the front and back of his head, just after having received a haircut. With the stamp of Kertesz's long time printer, Igor Bakht, on the verso. 8 x 10 inches (20 x 25 cm). Fine.....

New York: Doubleday, 1957. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author Ernie Kovacs to versatile concert pianist and actor Oscar Levant on the front endpaper: "To Oscar / What a shit I am to be so late in getting there -- But -- I have been writing and taping shows -- and will be done about mid next week. Am not.....

Tokyo: Shochiku Films Ltd., 1990. Draft script for the 1991 film, dated May 28, 1990, about a year before its release. A tale of three generations in a postwar Japanese family and their responses to the atomic bombing of Japan. When the film played at the Tokyo Film Festival, critics of Japanese militarism said Kurosawa had ignored the historical facts.....

Berlin: Film-Kurier, 1924. Original German programs for duology "Die Nibelungen," one each for "Die Nibelungen: Siegfried" and "Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge." Based on the thirteenth century epic poem "Nibelungenlied." Text in German. Film-Kurier was the first German film journal, published daily beginning in 1919. Film-Kurier's classic era lasted until 1933, when its publisher, Alfred Weiner, had to flee Germany because.....

Berlin: Ullstein, 1920. First Edition, preceding all others. One of the most important film sources of the twentieth century, basis for Fritz Lang's 1922 silent masterpiece, Dr. Mabuse the Gambler. Dr. Mabuse was one of the earliest examples of film noir characterization, and remained an obsession with Lang until the end of his film career. Black paper-covered boards with green.....

London: Cineguild, 1946. Two vintage black-and-white reference photographs, featuring director David Lean, actors Alec Guinness and John Mills, cinematographer Guy Green, camerman Bob Huke, and others on the set of the 1946 film. Both photos with mimeograph snipes detailing who is in the shot. From the estate of Guy and Celia Green. 8 x 10 inches (20 x 25 cm).....

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1946. Third Draft script for the 1949 film. Based on the 1933 film, which in turn was based on the 1868 novel by Louisa May Alcott. An early David O. Selznick production script for the film, which was canceled due to a studio strike, and which would later be purchased by MGM and filmed with.....