Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1958-1960. Archive of scripts and revision pages for 56 episodes of the hip private-eye detective television series "Peter Gunn." Copies belonging to screenwriter Lewis Reed, with his holograph name to the front wrapper of each episode. Included are screenplays for nearly half of the 114-episode run of the noir influenced television series starring the sophisticated, sharp-dressed.....

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1965. Original UK script for the 1965 film. One of the most ambitious films about World War II made during the 1960s, an epic story that details the events leading to the title confrontation, the bloodiest battle that the US fought in WWII and one of the key turning points in the war. Filmed almost entirely.....

Wisconsin: Walter Barnsdale, 1901. Vintage US one sheet lithographic poster for the 1901 documentary film short. One of the earliest silent documentary film shorts, created by early Wisconsin film pioneer Walter Barnsdale, who traveled around the state screening some of the first films ever made, including "Prison Bars," a film featuring the Wright Brothers, and a Western starring sharpshooter Buffalo.....

Stockholm: Svensk Filmindustri [SF], 1970. Vintage black-and-white borderless double weight Swedish press photograph from the 1971 film, shot in 1970. Stamps on the verso for the Pressens Bild Ab Feature-Service in Sweden, as well as a Swedish mimeo snipe describing the scene, dated October 1970 and crediting still photographer Jorgen Persson, and a subsequent French press stamp.  Pictured left.....

London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1956. First UK Edition, preceding all others. Published in the US as "The Stars My Destination." A high spot of science fiction literature, hugely influential on the later genre of cyberpunk, and a favorite of many authors, including William Gibson, Michael Moorcock, and Neil Gaiman. Near Fine in a bright, Near Fine dust jacket. Just a......

Paris: France Cinema, 1962. Collection of 75 original black-and-white film still photographs for the 1962 French-Italian film, here under the original French title. Starring actress Saval is prominently featured, as is costar Poiret, with metal crutches in tow, and actress Maillan. Several images show members of the crew during filming, rainy scenes, cars, and large cameras. All with numerical annotations.....

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1976. Revised Draft script for the 1977 film, here under a working title, "The Heretic." Illegible name in holograph ink on one page. Dr. Gene Tuskin (Fletcher) works with troubled children, perhaps none more troubled than Regan MacNeil (Blair), who suffers from bad dreams and repressed memories of demonic possession. Dr. Tuskin's hypnotism reveals that the.....

London: Palace [Absolute Beginners] Limited, 1985. Final Draft script for the 1985 film musical. With a single holograph ink notation to the title page.Based on the 1959 novel. A rock musical set in London during the late 1950s, following two former lovers on their parallel paths to fame. David Bowie, an acquaintance of director Julien Temple, agreed to write a......

Paris: Sunchild Productions, 1977. Collection of eight vintage photographs from the 1977 film. In a fine outing from a director who basically made no missteps, protagonist Charles drifts Bressonially through politics, religion and psychoanalysis, rejecting them all. Once he realizes the depth of his disgust with the moral and physical decline of the world he lives in, he decides that.....

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. Draft script for the 1962 film. With director Luis Bunuel's holograph pencil and ink annotations throughout noting changes and additions to dialogue, and the name of Russian-American director Victor Stoloff in holograph ink to the front of the folder housing the script. Stoloff was associated with Bunuel during Bunuel's brief sojourn in America, and is interviewed.....

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.

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1942. Draft script for the 1942 film. Nominated for two Academy Awards. Third of the seven classic and highly successful "Road" movies Bob Hope made with Bing Crosby. Yellow titled wrappers, dated February 4, 1942, with credits for screenwriters. Title page integral with the front wrapper, as issued. 130 leaves on yellow stock, mimeograph duplication. Pages Near.....

N.p. Golden State Productions, 1956. Draft script for the 1956 film, belonging to actress Adele Jergens, with her signature prominently written on center of front wrapper, and printed title inked over, both in holograph ink. Annotations throughout, striking and adjusting dialogue and circling the character of Jenny, played by Jergens, in holograph ink and pencil. Jergen's paper clips, all along.....

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1936. Vintage double weight press portrait photograph of Frank Capra, by photographer Alfredo Valente, to promote the 1937 film. Mimeo snipe, photographer "Alfredo Valente" stamp, filing stamp with annotations in holograph pencil, dated "6-25-36," and "Kenneth G. Lawrence" stamp, all on verso.Based on the 1933 novel by James Hilton. Remade in 1973 as a musical.....

Burbank, CA: Edgar J. Scherick and Associates, 1978. Second Draft script for the 1978 television film. One of director John Carpenter's earliest efforts as a screenwriter, released the same year as "Halloween" and the television movie "Someone's Watching Me." Originally aired on NBC on September 27, 1978. While written as a vehicle for Suzanne Somers, some actors that would soon.....

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1943. Shooting script for the cornerstone 1944 film noir, dated September 25, 1943, based on the 1943 novella by James M. Cain, and written for the screen by Raymond Chandler and Billy Wilder. The AFI Catalog indicates that shooting began on September 27, 1943, this script being dated two days earlier.The script includes two ending sequences: (1).....

New York: Arthur Cantor and E.E. Fogelson, 1963. Draft script for the 1964 Broadway play. INSCRIBED by Chayefsky to the play's producer, Kip Cohen on the title page in the year prior to the play's debut: "Nov 9/63 / To Kip Cohen / Without whom there would be no 'Passion of' / Paddy." "The Passion of Josef D." opened at.....

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1929. Final White Draft script for the 1930 film. Studio file copy, rubber-stamped on the front wrapper. Based on Joseph Conrad's 1915 novel, "Victory," the second of ten feature adaptations, preceded by Maurice Tourneur's 1919 film. Heyst (Arlen) is a hermit on an island who offers shelter to a redhead named Alma (Carroll), and the two live.....

N.p. ITC Entertainment, 1976. Draft script for the 1976 German-Italian-British film. A train traveling in Europe has been exposed to a deadly disease, and the passengers are forbidden to leave the train. Terrorism and disaster follow, with a star-studded cast, including Richard Harris, Martin Sheen, and producer Carlo Ponti's wife, Sophia Loren. Green titled wrappers. Title page present, dated 1976.....

Various cities: Various. An archive of books and personal material belonging to Arline de Haas, noted author of the photoplay edition for the first talking film, “The Jazz Singer” (1927). Included is her leather-bound presentation copy of her novelization of the film, a work that caused a fundamental and multi-level shift in the world’s conception of cinema and dramatic storytelling.....

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

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.....

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.....

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1952. Vintage publicity photograph of Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel) and young actor Tommy Rettig from the 1953 film. Mimeo snipe and stamp crediting photographer Van Pelt on the verso. The only feature film written by Geisel (Dr. Seuss), who wrote the story, co-wrote the screenplay and the lyrics to songs. A Technicolor musical fantasy.....

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.....

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1976. First Draft script for the 1976 film. The third entry in the wildly popular and paradigm-shifting crime film franchise set in San Francisco, featuring Clint Eastwood as "Dirty" Harry Callahan, a cop who cares little for bureaucracy. This entry finds Harry working with similar resistance alongside a new female partner, and introduces new ethnic content.....

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.....

France: Cinedis, Circa 1960. Archive of 207 vintage borderless single weight still photographs and contact sheets from the 1960 French film. Numerical annotations on the verso of nearly all photos in holograph pencil, several cropped contact sheets mounted on larger sheets. Housed in a vintage French Kodak brand photo paper box, with most contact sheets in a two-ring binder (similar.....

Rome: Riama Film, 1960. Original borderless double weight photograph of the extraordinary set piece at night and in the rain, shot by legendary photographer Pierluigi Praturlon, from the 1960 film. Multiple stamps on the verso, including Pierluigi's, the film's title logo, and the film's production company Cineriz. Born in Rome, Praturlon (better known simply as Pierluigi) embarked upon a career.....

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1948. Original pressbook for the 1948 film, "Treasure of the Sierra Madre," directed by John Huston and starring Humphrey Bogart and Walter Huston. Very Good plus condition, folded once. 16 pages, 11 x 17 inches. Extremely scarce.

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1961. Original scenario artwork for the 1962 film, depicting the main drag of the town of Osage, with various townspeople going about their business. Archivally mounted and double matted, with a description in a die cut window in the matte just below the artwork. Unexamined out of frame. Winner of the Academy Award for Best.....

France: Champs-Elysees Productions / Lux Film, 1960. Archive of 19 borderless reference photographs from the 1960 film. Ten of the photographs depicting crew at work on the set, four of which feature director Franju. Three photographs with the stamp of photographer P. Brard on the verso. Based on the novel by Jean Redon, about a doctor who goes to horrific.....

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.....

London: N.p., Circa 1953. Original typescript draft for the 1954 play. With brief holograph annotations throughout, mostly by a proofreader. Laid in note addressed to Alec Clunes, manager of the Arts Theatre in London, submitting script for review. First performed at the Aldwych Theatre in London May 1954, and then again in the US at the ANTA Playhouse in New.....

New York: William Morrow, 1936. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper: "To Noni / With best from the 'boss' / Erle Stanley Gardner." According to Dorothy Hughes' biography of Gardner, Noni Bibler was one of Gardner's early assistants, and clearly took down much of this novel from dictation. Dampstain affecting the rear board edges, the topstain.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1946. Vintage double weight reference photograph of director Tay Garnett discussing a scene with Lana Turner and an intense John Garfield on the set of the 1946 film. Mimeo snipe on verso. Based on the 1934 novel by James M. Cain. Remade in 1981 in a grim, nihilistic adaptation by David Mamet (his screenwriting debut).....

N.p. N.p., 1959. Collection of three vintage photographs from performances of The Living Theatre's 1959 play. One photograph from the original 1959 production, with a printed caption in English on the verso. The other two photographs from a 1961 production in Paris, with the stamp of photographer Roger Pic on the versos. All three photographs with holograph annotations in French.....

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.....

Paris: Parc Film, 1967. Collection of five vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1967 French film. All but one with a stamp specific to the film's French release on the verso.A day in the life of suburban housewife Juliette Jeanson (Vlady), who intersperses her daily routine of housework, cleaning, and shopping with appointments as a call girl. One of director.....

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.....

Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1964. Collection of 15 vintage, borderless reference photographs from the 1964 film, all but one with a mimeo snipe on the verso. The third James Bond film overall, but the first to achieve blockbuster status, and still arguably the best (and still inarguably the one with the best theme song), introducing many of the elements.....

London: n.p., 1968. Original ribbon copy typescript screenplay, with two sets of comments from script readers, for an unproduced film, "Girl," written for the screen by Donald Ford and Derek Ford. From the collection of British director Robert Hartford-Davis, with whom the Ford brothers worked on several films during the 1960s. This script was intended to be something of a......

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.....

N.p. N.p., 1966. Heavily corrected original typescript for a story by Dieter Dengler and ghost-writer Trevor Armbrister, "Dengler" (here with the hand-corrected title, "Vietnam Exclusive: I Escaped from a Red Prison"). The story first appeared in the December 3, 1966 issue of the "Saturday Evening Post," and was adapted many years later by noted German director Werner Herzog for his.....

Los Angeles: Photoplayer's Club of Los Angeles, 1915. Vintage souvenir program for the Third Annual Photoplayer's Club of Los Angeles Ball, held February 13, 1915. Photo-illustrated throughout with portraits of silent film actors, directors, producers, and others, and containing numerous advertisements for Los Angeles businesses and services, most with some connection to the film industry. Scarce, with only two copies.....

Tokyo: Imamura Productions, 1980. Draft script for the 1981 film. Text in Japanese. A period drama featuring a man returning from exile in America during the Edo era and begins searching for his wife. He gets caught up in revolutionary fervor and his emotions get the best of him. Orange titled perfect bound wrappers, rubber stamped production number 133, dated.....

Budapest: Mafilm / Mosfilm, 1967. Original maquette for the Hungarian poster for 1967 film. A combination of original artwork (tempera paint) and applied lettering designs. Designed by Antal Revesz. One of the masterpieces of Hungarian cinema. A Russian-Hungarian co-production, "The Red and the White" was originally commissioned to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the October Revolution in Russia in which.....

New York: Darien House, 1977. First Edition. Author, actor and huckster historian Ricky Jay's first book, a hilarious, photo illustrated treatise on the use of playing cards as weapons, with chapters on technique, practice, stunts and self-defense. The scarce cloth edition (a simultaneous softcover edition was also published). Fine in a Fine dust jacket. Jacket has a tiny nick at.....