Beverly Hills, CA: Crown International Pictures, 1969. Original title card maquette hand lettered by Harold Adler for the 1969 film. 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 sequence designers Saul Bass and Pablo Ferro. In addition to "The Fantastic Plastic Machine".....

New York: Arthur Allen Studios, 1915-1925. Photo album portfolio sold to subscribers by Allen from his Arthur Allen Studios circa 1915-1925, containing more than 40 pages of original nude photographic prints pasted onto stiff pages. Each photo is discreetly rubber stamped (1 to 40) at the bottom right corner. Each leaf has between two and four different images, with many.....

Hollywood: Berkshire Productions, Circa 1965. Draft script for the 1968 film, with titled written on front wrapper very boldly in holograph marker, script containing a few copied annotations, striking dialogue and altering actions. From an original story from producer and director Josef Shaftel.When no one will pay the ransom for the return of retired Mob Boss Cesare Celli (Vittorio De.....

Italy: Nepi Film, 1960. Vintage borderless photograph from the set of the 1961 film. A candid aerial photograph of Mastroianni, Moreau, and two other cast members conversing around a table. With a stamp for Telecine and a few annotations on the verso. The second film in the trilogy that begins with "L'Avventura" (1960) and ends with "L'Eclisse" (1962). Shot on.....

Burbank, CA: Acrobat Films, Circa 1973. Shooting script for the 1973 film. Based on the 1970 novel by Darryl Ponicsan. Two foul-mouthed sailors are assigned a shore patrol to escort a young seaman to a Navy prison in Maine to begin a heavy-handed eight year sentence. The pair decides to take their captive out for a few adventures before his.....

N.p. N.p., 1961-1968. Archive of 48 vintage photographs of car accidents scenes in the Columbia County, New York area, from the years 1961-1965, 1966, and 1968. With the stamp Lee's Studio in Chatham, NY on the verso of the majority of photographs, along with occasional holograph annotations. Most photographs housed in sleeves with annotations detailing dates, locations, and occasionally noting.....

Chicago: Earl Seubert, 1970. Vintage borderless black-and-white photograph of Richard Avedon holding up a photograph of Rennie Davis (of the Chicago Seven) for an exhibition held in Chicago in June 1970. Shot by Tribune photographer Earl Seubert, with his stamp on the verso, as well as several date stamps (all from June 1970), and a clip of the published photo.....

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1931. Later printing. Jacket front panel and copyright page both state "15th Printing." SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper. Winner of the 1931 Pulitzer Prize for Literature. Barnes also wrote "Dishonored Lady," a play twice adapted to film. Beginning in the 1890s, the story follows an upper-middle class girl from youth to adulthood, struggling within.....

New York: Janus Films, 1964. Collection of thirteen vintage studio still photographs from the US release of the 1963 Swedish film. Three with mimeo snipe and "R.R. Stuart Collection" stamp on the verso.The third entry in Ingmar Bergman's trilogy of faith and redemption, preceded by "Through A Glass Darkly" (1961) and "Winter Light"(1963). A stark and enigmatic allegory fueled by.....

N.p. N.p., 1982. Vintage double weight photograph of artist Joseph Beuys, shot in 1982 by photographer Klaus Behr. With Behr's stamp on the verso. At this time Beuys was approaching the height of long delayed recognition on an international level. The Guggenheim Museum held a major retrospective in 1979, ultimately the only major exhibition of Beuys' work to be held.....

N.p. N.p., Circa, 1973. Vintage borderless double weight color photograph of Jane Birkin poolside on the set of the 1975 film.9.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine.

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.....

Paris: C. Darmon, 1980. Collection of 16 vintage color French lobby cards from the 1980 French theatrical release of the 1980 US television miniseries. First broadcast in three parts on NBC on January 27 through 29, 1980 in the US, released theatrically in France. Based on the 1950 novel by Ray Bradbury. A three-episode miniseries which imagines a future world.....

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-stapled two-color.....

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.....

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 annotations. 8 x 10.....

Mexico City: Ultramar Films, 1952. Draft script for the 1954 Mexican film. Included is a typed letter signed from the film's producer Edward L. Alperson, on his custom rough-edged stationery, discussing the possibility of distribution within the US. Distribution was eventually taken on by United Artists, and Daniel O'Herlihy received a Best Actor nomination for his performance. Also included are.....

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.....

Prague: Ceskoslevenske Divadelni a Literarni Jednatelstvi, 1954. Draft script for a 1954 production of the play originally written in 1920 by Karel Capek, produced in Prague. Rubber stamped production No. 5460 on the front wrapper. Issued by the Czechoslovak Theater and the original Prague literary agency for Capek’s groundbreaking sci-fi play, the first fictional work to introduce the word “robot”.....

Los Angeles: George Barris - Irwin Schaeffer Production, 1978. Revised Draft script for the 1978 film. Copy belonging to writer George Barris, with his name in holograph ink on the title page, holograph annotations and paper clip page markers throughout. With a cast that includes Fabian, Barris, and Casey Kasem.A sleazy nightclub owner tries to help the comeback of a......

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1943. Revised Draft script for the 1943 film. Co-written for the screen by Raymond Chandler and Frank Partos. Chandler's contribution to the script had mostly to do with Alan Ladd's character and his tough dialogue (elements sneered at by the media upon the film's release). Laid in is an 8-page shooting schedule on blue stock, a 6-page.....

Los Angeles: The Malpaso Company, Circa 1973. Draft script for the 1974 film, undated and without revisions, likely a first draft. Loosely based on Douglas Sirk's 1955 film "Captain Lightfoot," starring Rock Hudson, Jeff Morrow, and Barbara Rush. Michael Cimino's directorial debut.A veteran bank robber teams up with a young, happy-go-lucky thief to reunite his old gang to pull off.....

New York: Putnam, 1925. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author: "To: Sidney Williams - who ushered 'Grass' into Philadelphia / and made it grow / and to whom the author of this book owes a very real debt of gratitude / Merian C. Cooper." Based on the silent documentary film, released the same year. Scarce to find in jacket or.....

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1938. Revised Final Script for the 1938 film, "Just Around the Corner" (here under the working title, "Lucky Penny"), directed by Irving Cummings, based on a story by Paul Girard Smith, written for the screen by Ethel Hill, J.P. McEvoy, and Darrell Ware, and starring Shirley Temple, Joan Davis, Charles Farrell, and Bert Lahr. The film.....

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.....

Paris: Les Grands Films Classiques, 1968. Vintage 1968 French half grande poster for the 1929 French film. Luis Bunuel's debut as a filmmaker, a legendary short film co-created by Salvador Dali, was originally screened at a cine-club, with no posters or advertisement created. This poster, a montage of archival images from the film (including the legendary image of the woman's.....

Paris: Filmsonor, 1962. Collection of 67 original single weight borderless film stills for the 1962 French-Italian film, here under the original French title, "Cartouche." Action sequences, men in military regalia, and romantically charged images of Belmondo and Cardinale, with most representing Belmondo either charming people or dueling with swords. Housed in original brown envelope, noted as "CARTOUCHE" on the flap.....

Paris: Viaduc Productions, 1974. Vintage oversize borderless reference photograph from the 1974 film, showing actress Jane Birkin in a plaid miniskirt, but no top, freezing in an unheated Paris apartment. With holograph annotations regarding layout on the verso, along with a mimeo snipe, a provenance stamp, and a stamp dated 4 OCT 1973.A dark comedy following a shy bank employee.....

Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1942. Archive of three scripts and one post-production script for the 1942 film.First is a First Draft script, under the working title "'Sherlock Holmes' (#2)," by screenwriters Edward T. Lowe and Scott Darling, dated March 24, 1942. Ribbon copy typescript on onionskin, with annotations in holograph pencil on several pages, inquiries about plotline, question marks, as.....

Paris: Studio Soulat-Boussus, 1928. Vintage double weight photograph from the set of the 1928 film. Shot by Jean Soulat and Mauric Boussus of Studio Soulat-Boussus in Paris, with respective stamps on the verso. An excessively rare photograph from Dreyer's masterpiece, capturing Maria Falconetti in what one could accurately described as "in character." Franconetti became a stage actress in Paris in.....

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.....

New York: Signet Books, 1948. First Separate Edition. INSCRIBED by Faulkner to publisher Kurt Enoch: "William Faulkner / New York / 5 Feb 1950 / Mr. Enoch." Faulkner inscriptions of this significance are rare. From the Kurt Enoch collection, with a letter of provenance included. This first separate publication of "The Old Man," proposed to Enoch by Faulkner himself, transforming.....

Universal City: Universal Studios, 1990. Early First Draft script for the 2008 film, dated 1990, from screenwriter Robin Swicord. Swicord, who received a joint Story credit with screenwriter Eric Roth in the film's final release, was first hired by Columbia Pictures to adapt Fitzgerald's short story as early as 1985, by 1989 the project moved to Universal Studios with producer.....

Culver City, CA: 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.....

US: Gulfmine Ltd, 1986. Sixth Draft script for the 1987 film. SIGNED by screenwriter and source novel author Frederick Forsyth on the title page, with an additional typed note signed referencing the script from Forsyth on his letterhead included. With both holograph and copied annotations by him on every page, with most of the holograph annotations being changes to dialogue.Adapted.....

N.p. N.p., 1965. Archive of four vintage black-and-white double weight still photographs from the 1966 film. Shot and struck by special photographer John Bryson. The photographs feature Frankenheimer, actor James Garner, and cinematographer Lionel Linden. Bryson was a photojournalist for Life magazine and many other publications, and was also a noted character actor, most notable for his appearance as a......

London: Constable, 1936. First UK Edition, preceded by the US edition published by Vanguard the same year. Rare in this edition. The author's second novel.Very Good plus in a Very Good price-clipped dust jacket. Slightest lean, light soil to page edges and faint fading to the backstrip. Jacket with a lightly toned spine and top edge, and a light vertical.....

New York: William Morrow, 1934. First Edition. Warmly 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. Near Fine in a Very Good example of the scarce dust jacket. Jacket has a couple of.....

New York: Cannon Films, 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.....

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.....

Studio City, CA: EMI Television Programs, 1976. Two Revised draft scripts, Part I and Part II, comprising the complete script, for the 1977 television film, which was broadcast in two parts on CBS on April 13 and 14, 1977.First script, titled "Howard: The Amazing Mr. Hughes" on front wrapper, and titled "'Howard The Amazing Mr. Hughes' Part I" on first.....

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.....

London: Tekli Film Productions / Animated Motion Pictures, 1963. Final shooting script for the 1963 film, "The Yellow Teddybears," here under both that title and the film's working title, "The Yellow Golliwog," and released in the US as "Gutter Girls." Directed by Robert Hartford-Davis and written for the screen by Donald and Derek Ford. Director Robert Hartford-Davis' working copy, with.....

Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1934. Draft script for the 1934 film, here under the working title "Honor Bright." In an attempt to go straight, a con man and his girlfriend take in his young daughter, who has been living with his deceased wife's wealthy family. One of Shirley Temple's earliest starring roles, and her first and only on-screen appearance with.....

Culver City, CA: RKO Radio Pictures, 1938. Vintage double weight photograph of Katharine Hepburn, Howard Hawks, and a resting Cary Grant on the set of the 1938 film. One of the foundational entries in the canon of American screwball comedies. Based on the short story by Hagar Wilde which originally appeared in Collier's Weekly magazine on April 10, 1937.Zoologist David.....

New York: Magic Lantern Inc, 1971. Draft script for the 1974 film. Based on the 1927 novel by Hermann Hesse. A depressed half-man half-animal (played by Max von Sydow) is introduced to the hallucinogenic world of the "Magic Theater," where he seeks redemption via a metaphysical transcendence. The film took seven years of complicated pre-production to create, including building a......

Los Angeles: Vanguard Films, 1944. Temporary Shooting script for the 1945 film, here under the working title, "The House of Dr. Edwards." Based on the 1927 novel, "The House of Dr. Edwardes" by Hilary Saint George Saunders and John Palmer. Producer David O. Selznick wanted to make a "psychiatric" story for the screen and Alfred Hitchcock persuaded Selznick to buy.....

N.p. Alfieri, 1969. Vintage oversize double weight color photograph of Dennis Hopper and Jack Nicholson, at an outdoor press conference held in front of the Carlton Hotel at the Cannes Film Festival, where Hopper was awarded the Cannes First Film Prize. Shot by Marc Alfieri, and signed by him in black ink at the lower left margin: "Photo Alfieri /.....

Los Angeles: Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS], 1968. Original scenario artwork for the 1968 comedy television show. Set design sketch for the living room of Lucy's apartment, including the oft-pictured brick fireplace, and Lucy herself coming down the stairs. The third of Lucille Ball's television comedy sitcoms, following her famed "I Love Lucy" (1951-1957) and "The Lucy Show" (1962-1968). While "The.....

New York: Praeger, 1970. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Cage in 1971 to Ellsworth Snyder: "for Ellsworth Snyder, / with admiration and friendship / John Cage, Madison '71." Ellsworth Snyder and Cage were longtime friends. Snyder performed the composer's work on many occasions, perhaps most infamously at Cage's much-protested 1965 appearance at the University of Illinois: "At one point [Snyder] crawled.....