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... (read more)
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... (read more)
New York: Billy Rose Theatre, 1962. Collection of 14 vintage black-and-white still photographs from the original Broadway production of the 1962 play at the Billy Rose Theatre. "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" debuted on Oct. 13, 1962 and ran until May 16, 1964, for a total of 664 performances. The play swept the Tony awards that year, winning Best Play... (read more)
![Entree des artistes [The Curtain Rises] (Original screenplay for the 1938 film). Marc Allegret, Andre Cayatte Andre Cavin, Henri Jeanson, Louis Jouvet, director, screenwriter, starring.](/pictures/thumb/106085.jpg?v=1418079894)
Paris: Regina / Kassler, 1938. Original screenplay for the 1938 French drama, "Entree des artistes" [The Curtain Rises], one of the best-loved Louis Jouvet dramas of the 1930s, wherein Jouvet played exactly what he was in real life: an actor and teacher of drama. One of only a handful of screenplays from 1930s French films that we have ever seen... (read more)
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1939. First American Edition. Near Fine in a Very Good plus, price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket shows only a few small chips and tiny closed tears at the extremities, with some light evidence that there was once some reinforcement at the verso, now professionally removed. Basis for the classic 1944 film noir directed by Jean Negulesco... (read more)
New York: Film-makers' Cinematheque, 1966. Original film program for the 1966 screening of six Kenneth Anger films, being shown on the Spring Equinox (March 21, 1966). Screened at Jonas Mekas's Film-maker's Cinematheque coopperative theater, then located at 125 West 41st Street in New York. Films at the screening included "Kustom Kar Kommandos," "Fireworks," "Scorpio Rising," "Eaux d'artifice," and a prelude... (read more)
![Red Desert [Il deserto rosso] (Original photograph from the 1964 film). Michelangelo Antonioni, Carlo Di Palma, richard Harris Monica Vitti, Xenia Valderi, Carlo Chionetti, director, cinematographer, starring.](/pictures/thumb/144491.jpg?v=1544116777)
Rome: Film Duemila, 1964. Vintage oversize photograph of Monica Vitti on the set of the 1964 film. Agency stamps and holograph notations on the verso, and press demarcation tape and holograph notations (on the tape) on the recto. Antonioni's first color film, and the last in a quartet of films made between 1959 and 1964 about women in modern culture... (read more)
Italy: Nepi Film, 1960. Vintage oversize double weight borderless photograph from the 1961 film. A candid, on-the-set photograph of director Michelangelo Antonioni, cinematographer Gianni Di Venanzo, Jeanne Moreau, and others working on a balcony shot, part of the long party sequence that makes up the last third of the film. The second film in the trilogy that begins with "L'Avventura"... (read more)
N.p. N.p., circa 1947-1963. Album containing 95 vintage black and white photographs and one color promotional print of open-wheel automobiles, focusing on well-known drivers, and with an emphasis on Indianapolis Motor Speedway winners. An uncommonly large, collection of promotional photographs of various well-known race car drivers from the late 1940s through the 1960s, collected by enthusiast John E. Cory, with... (read more)
Beverly Hills, CA: EK Corp. / United Artists, Circa 1974. Early Draft British script for the 1974 British heist film. Based on Gerald Browne's 1972 novel, adapted by Charles Grodin. Howard Chesser (Grodin) is a diamond merchant supervising the cutting of a large and rare diamond. When the diamond is stolen, he is blackmailed and pulled into a jewel heist... (read more)
![Der Sichtbare Mensch oder die Kultur des Films [The Visible Man] (First Edition, inscribed to Leonard Frank). Bela Balasz.](/pictures/thumb/122144.jpg?v=1418835607)
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... (read more)
![Seven Days' Leave [The Old Lady Shows Her Medals] (Original screenplay for the 1930 film). J. M. Barrie, John Farrow, Dan Totheroh, John Cromwell, Richard Wallace, Gary Cooper, play, screenwriter, directors, starring.](/pictures/thumb/115912.jpg?v=1418079923)
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1929. Final White Script for the 1930 film. Laid into the script is a vintage black and white reference photograph from the film, rubber stamped "MEDALS" on the verso. Based on the 1918 play, "The Old Lady Shows Her Medals," by J.M. Barrie. The second talkie to be based on a J.M. Barrie story, which like the... (read more)
Budapest: Singer es Wolfner Irodalmi Intezet, 1927. First Hungarian Edition. Screenplay for the 1927 silent film, a photoplay edition with a photographic image of the film's star, Pola Negri, on the front wrapper. With the logo of the film's Hungarian distributor, Royal Apollo, on the front wrapper at the bottom right corner. Biro wrote the 1917 play, "Szinmu negy felvonasban,"... (read more)
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1937. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the Blackmon to author Peggy Gaddis (Erolie Pearl Gaddis Dern, 1895-1966) on the front endpaper, in the year of publication: "Affectionately, to the Best of Friends / Peggy Gaddis / From the author / Anita Blackmon (Mrs. Harry Pugh Smith) / August 29, 1937." Blackmon wrote extensively as Mrs. Harry Pugh Smith... (read more)
![Celle Qui N'Etait Plus [Diabolique] (First French Edition). Pierre Boileau, Thomas Narcejac.](/pictures/thumb/117736.jpg?v=1469481303)
Paris: Denoel, 1952. First French Edition (and correct first). The writing team's first effort, basis for Henri-Georges Clouzot's 1955 masterpiece, Les Diaboliques (or Diabolique in the West), starring Simone Signoret. A cornerstone film source title. Very Good plus in a Very Good or better dust jacket. Some light creasing to the spine, slightest lean, jacket is lightly soiled on the... (read more)
![...D'entre les morts [Vertigo] (First Edition). Pierre Boileau, Thomas Narcejac.](/pictures/thumb/131410.jpg?v=1418080785)
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... (read more)
![La Planete des Singes [The Planet of the Apes] (First French Edition, True First). Pierre Boulle.](/pictures/thumb/107547.jpg?v=1470253018)
Paris: Le Cercle du nouveau livre, 1963. First French Edition, preceding all others, one of an unspecified limitation of numbered copies. Published in the US in 1963 (Planet of the Apes) then in the UK in 1964 (Monkey Planet), and finally the basis for the imaginative and very successful 1968 film, Planet of the Apes, starring Charlton Heston and Roddy... (read more)
New York: Documentext, 1982. First Edition. deluxe issue, one of 200 numbered copies (this being No. 71) SIGNED by Brakhage. Fine in a Fine example of the unprinted laminated dust jacket, as issued. A collection of essays, letters, and interviews by Brakhage, perhaps the most important and influential experimental filmmaker of the twentieth century, one who’s work, housed at the... (read more)
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... (read more)
![Quatre nuits d'un reveur [Four Nights of a Dreamer] (Original French poster). Robert Bresson, Fyodor Dostoevsky, director, story.](/pictures/thumb/126562.jpg?v=1450911278)
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... (read more)
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1928. Draft script for the 1929 silent film. Lon Chaney plays a (heavily-scarred) wild animal trapper whose daughter's upcoming marriage is threatened by the return of her femme fatale mother. The mother harbors bitterness to Chaney, and seeks revenge on him by attempting to woo her daughter's fiance, thwarted by a gorilla Chaney releases from... (read more)
Paris: Robert et Raymond Hakim / Sud-Films Distribution, 1967. Vintage black-and-white borderless press photograph of director Luis Bunuel with cinematographer Christian Matras and the cast on the set of the 1967 film. With a European press agency stamp on the verso ("Photo exclusive / EUROPANEWS"), a date stamp of April 8, 1969, and a few other notations. 8 x 10 inches (20 x 25 cm). Very Good to Near Fine. (read more)
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. (read more)
Altadena, CA: Twelvetrees Press, 1990. First Edition. Presentation copy, INSCRIBED by the author to noted bookseller Joanna Grimes on the blank leaf opposite the title page: "Presented to / Joanna Grimes / Much thanks for your years of help and support in my photohistorical projects / Stanley B. Burns, M.D. / 21 February 1991." Laid in is an accompanying typed... (read more)
N.p. N.p., 1972. Original eight-panel artwork by Ernie Bushmiller for the September 24, 1972 deluxe Sunday installment of his seminal comic strip Nancy. This particular strip features Nancy and Sluggo. 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 rigidly governed humor. In 2012... (read more)