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.....

N.p. N.p., 1993. Draft script for the 1993 film. Copy belonging to art director Michael Lamont, with his name in holograph ink on the verso of the front wrapper, and to the top edges of several leaves.Based on the 1985 play. The true story of the doomed autumn romance of novelist and theologian C.S. Lewis and American poet Joy Gresham.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1970s. Archive of ten vintage photographs of a full-size clay car model, which appears to be a prototype of a mid-1970s second generation Pontiac Firebird. Two photographs with holograph touch-up work to the images, all with annotations in holograph pencil noting catalog numbers on the verso. The photographs in the archive do not explicitly identify the model.....

London: Carol Reed Productions, Circa 1948. Vintage candid black-and-white still photograph from the UK release of the 1949 film. Shown are Carol Reed and his crew setting up a shot while Graham Greene looks on, a rare shot of the two collaborators at work together. Stamped on the verso is, "A CAROL REED PRODUCTION / "THE THIRD MAN" / PRODUCED.....

France / Italy: Filmsonor, Circa 1960. Collection of 16 vintage borderless single weight still photographs from the 1960 French film noir. A remarkable collection, including still photographs from the film, candid shots, and shots from the set. On-set images include director Jacques Becker with his camera and with the actors, actors Marc Michel and Michel Constantin, and other members 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.....

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,".....

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.....

Mexico: Producciones Barbachano Ponce, 1958. Draft script for the 1959 film. Presentation copy belonging to director Luis Bunuel, and SIGNED by Bunuel on the front wrapper. Also laid in is a program from the film's American premiere on May 18, 1960, also SIGNED by Bunuel. Blue ink holograph annotations in the same hand to the verso of the last page.....

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1971. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author. REVIEW COPY with a publisher’s slip and promotional letter laid in. Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. The author’s third book.

Altadena, CA: Twelvetrees Press, 1987. First Edition. Presentation copy, one of an undetermined number of copies stamped "BURNS ARCHIVE NO." on the verso of the title page (this copy hand-numbered 59) and INSCRIBED by the author to noted bookseller Joanna Grimes on the verso of the title page, below the limitation statement: "Presented to / Joanna Grimes of the Old.....

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.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1940s. Draft English language script of Camus' 1944 play. Ribbon copy typescript on onionskin, circa 1940s, largely faithful to the 1947 Stuart Gilbert English translation, "Caligula and Cross Purpose," but with modifications made apparently for a smaller production. The adaptation includes the removal of incidental characters (patricians, knights, poets, guards, and servants), with their dialogue frequently merged.....

Paris: Productions Sigma, 1939. Vintage double weight photograph from the 1939 film. Shot and struck by the film's still photographer Raymond Voinquel, with his name in tiny print at the bottom left corner of the image, and the film title at the bottom right. A striking image, shot from the top of a tall tenement stairwell looking straight down, as.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Faces, 1974. Original one-sheet poster for the 1974 film. One of four variants issued by Cassavetes' production company Faces, Inc., this variant picturing John Cassavetes, Peter Falk, and Gena Rowlands as part of its design. Along with "Faces" (1968), considered to be one of the groundbreaking director's most important and uncomfortable films, a painfully intimate study of.....

London: George G Harrap and Co, 1923. Large quarto. First Edition. Issued by Harrap in an edition of 2000 copies in 1923, 250 of which were distributed by Stokes in the US. With 48 richly colored plates interspersed with sheets of calligraphic text. Housed in a custom maroon quarter-leather clamshell case, with marbled paper-covered boards, gilt spine lettering and design.....

Burbank, CA: Walt Disney Pictures, 1981. Revised script for the 1983 film. Written for the screen by Ray Bradbury, based on his 1962 novel. After a carnival comes to Green Town, the good citizens are compelled to follow their deepest desires, caught under the spell of the malevolent Mr. Dark (Jonathan Pryce) who can grant those desires on one condition.....

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1967. Rehearsal Script for the 1968 film. Notations in holograph ink on page 29, noting changes to dialogue for characters Buzz and Howard (Ronald Colby, Al Freeman, Jr.), as well as a faint pencil notation on the front wrapper, presumably indicating a copy number. Warner Brothers optioned the musical shortly after its premiere in 1947, but.....

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1942. Revised Final Script for the 1942 film musical, "Springtime in the Rockies," directed by Irving Cummings, based on the screenplay for the 1936 comedy "Second Honeymoon," written for the screen by Walter Bullock, Ken Englund, Jacques Thery, and Philip Wylie and starring Betty Grable, Carmen Miranda, John Payne, Cesar Romero, Edward Everett Horton, and Harry.....

Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1985. Archive of script material for the 1987 film, including: Revised draft script for the 1987 film. Copy belonging to producer Robert Weiss, With holograph annotations throughout.Additional production material including handwritten and typed notes with pages of ideas proposed and dismissed during development.A set of 18 color 4 x 6 inch vintage vernacular photographs from the.....

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.....

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.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Cite Films / Jacques Bar / United Artists, 1972. Draft French script for the 1972 neo-noir film. An international co-production, produced in France but shot entirely in English, directed by the noted French auteur Jacques Deray. Shot on location at many unusual decayed and shabby sites in the Los Angeles area, notably Venice Beach. Jean-Louis Tritignant stars.....

Los Angeles: Selznick International Pictures / Vanguard Films, 1946-1949. An archive of 10 scripts and supporting materials for the 1948 film, "Portrait of Jennie," directed by William Dieterle, based on the 1940 novel by Robert Nathan, written for the screen by Peter Berneis, Leonardo Bercovici, and Paul Osborn, and starring Joseph Cotten, Jennifer Jones, Ethel Barrymore, and Lillian Gish. Painstakingly.....

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1962. Collection of four vintage contact sheets for the 1962 film, featuring 64 images of actor Jane Fonda and 9 images of actor Capucine. With holograph ink and red pencil annotations to the rectos. Based on the 1956 novel by Nelson Algren, about the women in an upscale New Orleans brothel, whose lives are thrown.....

Fort Lee, NJ: Fox Film, 1916. Vintage program for four special engagement showings of the 1916 film on November 27-28 and December 5-6, 1916 at Clunes Theatre in Los Angeles, with a striking four color exterior and interior composite of five black and white studio still images. The film, like all of director J. Gordon Edwards’ and nearly all of.....

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.....

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.....

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: Michael Joseph, 1938. First UK Edition, and the correct first of "Flying Colors," preceding the single volume publication. SIGNED by the author on a special Book Society bookplate designed by Rex Whistler. The third Hornblower novel published, and the eighth in series chronology, published together with the second. Along with "The Happy Return," the three form the basis for.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1968. Vintage borderless photograph of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo and director John Frankenheimer on the set of the 1968 film. With holograph annotations and agency stamp on the verso. Directed by Frankenheimer, based on the 1966 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Bernard Malamud, written for the screen by Dalton Trumbo, and starring Alan Bates, Dirk Bogarde, and.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1932. Vintage borderless black-and-white double weight publicity still of charismatic Arctic adventurer Peter Freuchen, shot by George Hurrell, likely taken to promote the 1934 release of "Eskimo," based on his 1927 book "Storfanger" and 1929 book "Die Flucht ins weisse Land." Intimately INSCRIBED at length by Freuchen on the recto, to the left, right, and.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1937. Draft script for an unproduced play.Based on the 1937 novel by Daniel Fuchs, about a small-town racketeer who suffers a mental breakdown when his turf is threatened by a ruthless, sinister gangster. The novel was later adapted into the 1947 film noir "The Gangster," with a screenplay written by Fuchs and Dalton Trumbo.Set in the fictional.....

Lancaster, OH: N.p., Circa 1890s. Original manuscript scrapbook of poker memorabilia, presented to the Lancaster, Ohio Poker Club by "two victims" of the club, identified as Ecaroh Nidri and Trebor Niarud (almost certainly pseudonyms) on the first page. Charmingly illustrated throughout with 14 original photographs of the club's members, as well as multiple tipped-in objects, including three gambling tokens, a......

New York: William Morrow, 1937. First Canadian Edition. Fine in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, unrubbed but lightly worn at spine ends and with three small chips on back panel. An exceptional copy of a very scarce title in dust jacket. The only indication that this the Canadian edition is the clipped price and a small rubber stamp on the.....

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.....

New York City: Raindance, 1970. The first two issues of "Radical Software" magazine. Second printing of Issue One, with the issue number on the front wrapper and a history of the printings on the rear. Issue Two is a first printing, with a separate questionnaire soliciting feedback from the reader laid in. Early and influential journal from the very beginnings.....

Neuilly-sur-Seine, France: Societe Nouvelle de Cinematographie [SNC], 1965. Collection of 16 vintage lobby cards for the French release of the 1965 film. The set is housed in its original titled brown paper envelope from the film's distributor, Societe Nouvelle de Cinematographie (SNC). Based on the 1962 novel "Obession" by Lionel White, about a unhappily married man who goes on a......

Paris: N.p., 1968. Vintage borderless oversize photograph from a 1968 press conference in support of Cinematheque Francaise founder Henri Langloius, featuring Jean-Luc Godard, Jean Renoir, Jean Rouch, and Louis Daquin. Photographer's rubber stamp and light black ink holograph annotations on the verso. This photograph originates from a meeting held in support of Henri Langlois, founder and director of the influential.....

N.p. N.p., 1976. Revised Draft script for the 1977 film, here with the slightly different working title "Empire of Ants." Loosely based on the 1905 short story by H.G. Wells. American International Pictures (AIP) third and final film in their H.G. Wells trilogy, beginning with "The Food of the Gods" (1976), directed and written by Bert I. Gordon and starring.....

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.....

First Draft script for the 1972 film. A very early version written by Charles Grodin, who would go uncredited on the final film. A comedy that is pretty difficult to overestimate: even though it was not directed by Woody Allen, it was the template for the many great films he would subsequently write and direct in the 1970s, in terms.....

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.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1933. An early draft, in script format, of the 1933 novel, "Gabriel Over the White House," written by Thomas Frederic Tweed. This draft was developed the same year into the 1933 pre-Code film directed by Gregory LaCava, written for the screen by Carey Wilson, and starring Walter Huston, Franchot Tone, and Jean Parker. The novel.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1979. Draft script for an unproduced film, likely a first draft. Based on James Crumley's 1978 gritty masterwork of crime fiction, featuring Crumley's recurring detective C.W. Sughrue scouring America's sleazy underbelly in search of a girl gone missing from Haight-Ashbury a decade earlier.After Walter Hill's critical and commercial success with "Warriors" (1979), and the critical success of.....

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.....

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1981. Final shooting script for the 1981 film "Death Hunt," directed by Peter Hunt and starring Charles Bronson and Lee Marvin. Actor Lee Marvin's leather-bound presentation copy, with Marvin's name in gilt at the bottom right corner of the front board, and is INSCRIBED on the first blank by producer Albert S. Ruddy: "Lee / Thank.....

Spain: Profilmes, 1976. Collection of 25 vintage borderless photographs for the international release of the 1976 Spanish exploitation film. Also included in the original plain brown paper envelope and a glossy, full color, two sided flyer for the film, featuring a synopsis in English, French and Spanish. Two friends travel to a remote village to investigate the mysterious death of.....