France: Arcadie Productions, 1975. Two vintage color and five borderless, black and white reference photographs from the 1975 film. One of ten films made by the French novelist Robbe-Grillet, ostensibly about the target of a kidnapping plot hiding out at a high society brothel, but in reality an exercise in image making, fourth wall breaking, and the exploration of Robbe-Grillet's.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1962. Early Draft script for the 1964 film. A treatment unrecorded in IMDB, as the final rewrite and screen credit went to novelist-screenwriter Sally Benson. A superb, unheralded 1960s thriller in which an innocent man is convicted of murder, spends 10 years in an insane asylum, and at the start of the movie escapes and.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1962. Draft script for the 1963 film "The V.I.P.'s," seen here as "Very Important Persons," which has been struck through with "The V.I.P.'s" written above in holograph pencil. Rubber-stamped FILE COPY, and number 5974 on the front wrapper. Notations to dialogue throughout, in holograph pencil, red pencil, and blue and black ink. A star-studded drama.....

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.....

Stockholm: Svensk Filmindustri, 1953. Original Swedish poster for the 1953 film. A rich, powerful Bergman film that charts the frustrations and humiliations of several performers in a traveling circus troupe. The story takes a domino approach to personal disintegration, with the humiliation of one character leading to another character making a retaliatory decision that leaves them just as destitute. A......

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.....

N.p. Stan Brakhage, 1967. Original two color hand printed poster advertising the two first public screenings of the 1967 film, as well as selections from Brakhage's "Songs" and a live lecture by Brakhage. The only poster for a Brakhage screening we have ever encountered, as none of Brakhage's films ever received wide distribution and the kind of poster advertisement that.....

New York: Film-Makers' Cinematheque, 1966. First Edition. The second issue of a monograph series published by Jonas Mekas' Film-makers' Cinematheque. With a brief typed note signed by Stan Brakhage's wife, Jane Brakhage, to a Jim Adams in San Francisco, letting Mr. Adams know where a copy of the journal "Metaphors" can be ordered. Also included in a tall side-stitched two-color.....

Paris: Albina Productions, 1971. Original French theatrical release poster for the first of three films made by Robert Bresson in the 1970s. "Quatre nuits d'un reveur" is based on a short story by Dostoevsky titled "White Nights," originally published in the magazine "Annals of the Fatherland" in 1846. A typically precise, stylized, and carefully choreographed outing by Bresson, rarely screened.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1930. Collection of six vintage photographs from the 1930 film. All but one with a mimeo snipe on the verso. Based on the 1913 play by Edward Sheldon, about an aristocratic young man who falls in love with an opera star. Nominated for Best Director for Clarence Brown and Best Actress for Greta Garbo, who.....

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.....

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., 1974. Original eight-panel artwork by Ernie Bushmiller for the March 3, 1974 deluxe Sunday installment of his seminal comic strip Nancy. This particular strip features both Nancy, Aunt Fritzi, and Nancy's dog Poochie. As with American cinema, it was the French who first championed the studied simplicity of Bushmiller's un-deconstructible combination of rigid artistic style and even more.....

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1937. Publisher's prospectus for the First Edition. A perhaps unique and certainly rare piece advertising the release of Cain's second novel, containing the title-page, first chapter, and a specifications leaf. In a custom clamshell box with dark red cloth, quarter bound in dark red leather, titles in gilt. Box Very Good with some wear along.....

New York: Viking Press, 1933. First Edition. An undisputed Caldwell classic, about a decidedly unhinged family in Georgia that includes a gold-crazed father, a wanton daughter, a rebellious suitor, and a mysterious albino. Basis for the 1958 film directed by Anthony Mann and starring Robert Ryan and Aldo Ray. Near Fine in a sharp, Near Fine dust jacket. Some discoloration.....

Manhattan Beach, CA: Lightstorm Entertainment, 1991. Revised Draft script for the 1991 film. Pages watermarked "T20029" and bearing the ownership watermarks of director Cameron's production company, Lightstorm Entertainment. The film would eventually be produced by Carolco Pictures, the same company that distributed the "Rambo" films and produced Oliver Stone's "The Doors" (1991). Schwarzenegger returns to play one of his most.....

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.....

UK: Attica Film Company, 1957. Collection of 234 vintage French photographs for the 1957 UK film. Printed in Paris, where the film opened in October 1957, a month following the British release. Housed in original box with "Les Stencils Altic Fabriques en France" paper labels, and French promotional "week of gaiety in your neighborhood" title labels. Within are 18 paper.....

Vienna: Illustrierter Film-Kurier, 1933. Vintage Austrian film program for the 1933 US film. Cinema paper relating to "King Kong" is rare, this being the only example we have offered. Text in German. Issue No. 637 of "Illustrierter Film-Kurier," one of the oldest European film magazines, which ran weekly from 1929 to 1956. Like its German counterpart, "Film-Kurier," each issue focused.....

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1954. Final White script for the 1956 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. An adaptation of the 1925 operetta of the same name by Rudolf Friml which is based on Justin Huntly McCarthy's 1901 romantic novel and play "If.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1957. Draft script for an unproduced film. Copy belonging to Ben Colman, after previously being owned by screenwriter Maxwell Shane, with both of their names and addresses on the first page. Based in part on an adventure story by Daniel Defoe. The film opens with a man trying to drown himself in the ocean as he reflects.....

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.....

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.....

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1966. Collection of 7 vintage black-and-white test photographs from the 1966 feature film, released the same year as the debut 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.....

Canada: Mount Everest Enterprises, 1975. Final Draft script for the 1976 Canadian film. Uncredited producer Don Carmody's working script, with his ownership name in holograph ink on the first leaf. Notations in holograph pencil and ink throughout by Carmody and (more extensively) by the script supervisor, presumably Lynne Twentyman, on both rectos and versos. Twentyman worked on the film under.....

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.....

Neuilly-sur-Seine, France: Gaumont, 1915. Original double weight matte finish still photograph from the legendary 1915 silent film serial. With the Gaumont logo at the lower right corner. Shown here is Musidora as Irma Vep conferring with another member of The Vampires, an anarchist criminal gang at the center of the story. The director's magnum opus, "Les vampires" is one of.....

Los Angeles: American International Pictures [AIP], 1976. Draft script for the 1977 film. One of the best unheralded revenge thrillers of the 1970s, with William Devane taking an unusual turn as a sympathetic character, though forced to be quite cold-blooded. Playing a Vietnam veteran with absolutely nothing left to lose, Devane beats a warpath from Texas to Mexico in pursuit.....

London: Brut Productions / NBC, 1973. British Draft script for the 1973 film. Included are 4 vintage double weight black-and-white reference photographs of Glenda Jackson from the film. A romantic comedy with a touch of pathos that was a box-office hit on both sides of the Atlantic, in which George Segal and Glenda Jackson can't seem to stop running into.....

Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, Circa 1976. Early Draft script for the 1977 film. At 200 pages, this draft is 36 pages longer than the longest of the three we have encountered, meaning almost certainly that it is a First Draft or very close.The plot of William Friedkin's suspense thriller originated with the same Georges Arnaud novel that inspired Henri-Georges.....

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.....

N.p. N.p., 1987. Original two-color DayGlo silkscreen poster for a performance by Psychic television at the Electric Ballroom in London held on September 24, 1987. Poster designed by Psychic television founder and frontman Genesis P-Orridge. An event that marked the end of Psychic television's first incarnation, with Alex Fergusson as P-Orridge's main collaborator, a noisy, improvisational, experimental pop juggernaut. The.....

Paris: Columbia Films / Anouchka Films / Orsay Films, 1964. Vintage French Grande poster for the 1964 French film. An outrageous and comical crime film, which Godard himself described as "'Alice in Wonderland' meets Franz Kafka." Based on Dolores Hitchens' 1958 novel "Fools' Gold." Shot on location in Paris. 46 x 63 inches (117 x 160 cm), folded. A small.....

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.....

Paris: B.M.P. Films, Circa 1950. Draft script for the 1950 French film, "The Treasure of Cantenac," here under its title of origin, "Le Tresor de Cantenac," on the title page, with the film's working title, "Un miracle," also on the title page. French copy company rubber stamp, and faint pencil annotations, on the front wrapper. Pre-New Wave items are scarce.....

Beverly Hills, CA: James B. Harris Productions, Circa 1973. Draft script for the 1973 cult film, here under the working title "Never Call It Loving." Based on John Collier's 1938 short story. A woman drugged and kept asleep for years as a carnival attraction is bought and awakened by a jazz musician. The musician begins to realize, however, that reality.....

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1928. Original oversize tabloid style pressbook for the 1928 silent film. With many images of the iconic Louise Brooks, both illustrated and photographed, and replete with many essays on the making of the film. Included as well is an illustrated section showing some of the various available poster styles and other advertising accessories. A key film for.....

Gallup, NM: Southwesterner Books, 1989. First Edition. One of 26 lettered copies, this being a non-lettered presentation copy, with a full-color drawing by Franklin laid in. SIGNED by Hillerman, Franklin, and the publisher. A collection of in-depth interviews with the author about his writing process, illustrated throughout. Fine in a Fine slipcase.

New York: Boni and Gaer, 1948. First edition. INSCRIBED by actor Paul Robeson in the year of publication on the front endpaper: "All best wishes / and thanks / Paul Robeson / April 28, 1948."Many African-American witnesses subpoenaed to testify at the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) hearings in the 1950s were asked to denounce Paul Robeson (1888–1976) in.....

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1936. Draft script for the 1936 film. A very interesting early draft of the script, with a cast page that includes George Raft, who was replaced by Fred MacMurray late in pre-production. Raft left the production when Ted Tetzlaff was announced as the director, as Tetzlaff had caused Lombard to outshine Raft in the duo's previous film.....

Tokyo: Nikkatsu, circa 1956. First Draft script for the 1956 film. Title in English on rear wrapper. Based on a 1946 children’s novel by Michio Takeyama, about a conscience-driven Japanese soldier who adopts the lifestyle of a Buddhist monk after he fails to get his countrymen to surrender to an overwhelming force. Nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film Academy.....

Tokyo: Nikkatsu, 1963. Draft script for the 1963 film. Text in Japanese. A metaphor for the Twentieth Century Japanese experience, particularly through World War II, told through the perspective of a woman named Tome, born into a lower class family. She finds herself in a cycle of self-defeat, repeating the same mistakes that have always plagued her. Yellow titled perfect.....

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.....

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: Dial, 1969. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page. The author's first book. Jacket design by Tuba Studio. Very Good plus in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Slight spine lean, front board slightly bowed. Light rubbing to the jacket, with toning to the spine and folds, and a single short closed tear.

New York: The Monacelli Press, 1995. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Rem Koolhaas on the title page, in the year after publication: "To Rochelle / Rem Koolhaas / 1-2-96."Koolhaas' magnum opus, a profusely illustrated guide to his process. Conceptual in its design and execution, much like the architect's work. Near Fine, with only the slightest rubbing to the sensitive yellow spine.....

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1938. Vintage black-and-white studio still photograph from the set of the 1938 film noir antecedent. Shown are director Fritz Lang and George Raft on the set. Stamps on the verso crediting photographer C. Kenneth Lobben, Paramount, and an exclusivity notice. 8 x 10 inches (20 x 25 cm) with wide margins. Near Fine. Complete collation details available.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1936. Original US herald for the 1936 film. Lang's first Hollywood film and second talkie, considered one of his finest efforts, and one of three films in 1936 that propelled Spencer Tracy to the upper echelons of stardom. An important precursor to film noir, which would develop directly from the expressionist style Lang and others.....