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.....

New York: Sabinson, 1969. Collection of 6 vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1969 Broadway play, written by and starring Woody Allen, as well as Allen's first production with a young Diane Keaton. Each photo with a mimeograph snipe on the verso crediting photographer Leo Stern and the Sabinson Agency, along with a credits blurb. "Play It Again, Sam" was.....

New York: Film-makers' Cinematheque, 1966. First Edition. 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' 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.....

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.....

London: George Routledge and Sons, 1874. Small quarto. First printing of this edition. First published in 1842 by Rudolph Ackerman in London. Thirty-five color illustrations by Henry Alken, all present. One page of ads at the rear. Marbled boards in half-bound red morocco leather, compartments, titles and designs all gilt, marbled endpapers, top page edges gilt, all other page edges.....

Paris: Cinedis, 1959. Collection of 269 vintage black-and-white photographs for the 1959 French film. The collection consists of two unique and complimentary pieces, one being a film still keybook with 68 contact prints of small format negatives, most with 12 images per print, amounting to over 800 images captured. Nearly all images with series number bordering the image, and credits.....

Stockholm: Svensk Filmindustri, 1963. Original Swedish illustrated poster for the 1963 film. The second entry in Bergman's legendary and highly personal "Faith" trilogy, a series of films that launched a new and important phase in the director's career. "Winter Light" takes place in entirely within a three-hour period on a Sunday afternoon in November, mixing the affections and repulsions of.....

New York: Wayne County Defense Fund, 1976. Original poster advertising “The Fantabulous New York Rock Party,” held at the Manhattan Center in New York on May 30, 1976. An ironic moment in New York punk and art scene history, some of the earliest evidence that the movement created to mock celebrity status was beginning to see itself in terms of.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1931. Draft script for the classic 1931 pre-Code film. Copy belonging to Joan Crawford, bearing the holograph inscription "Miss Crawford" on the front wrapper. Classic pre-Code romantic melodrama, following Mariane's (Joan Crawford) rise from country girl to sophisticated high class mistress, who falls for an aspiring politician (Clarke Gable), though her existence may harm her.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1933. Collection of 70 vintage double weight reference photographs from the 1933 film, including seven of cast and crew at work on the set, three of which feature director Tod Browning. Also included is a later print of a fourth image of Browning on the set. From the estate of Tod Browning, housed in a......

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.....

Los Angeles: Conquest Productions, 1985. Draft script for the 1987 film, preceding its release by 2 years. Production designer's working copy, with production design material highlighted on nearly every page in yellow (and occasionally underlined in ink) throughout. Bound in at the rear are a crew list (humorously titled "Crue List") 2-page cast list, a "suppliers" list, a weather information.....

N.p. N.p., 1977. Original three-panel artwork by Ernie Bushmiller for the October 11, 1977 daily strip of his seminal comic strip Nancy. This particular strip features Nancy and Sluggo enveloped in a fog created with Ben Day dots in a very stylish Pop Art manner. As with American cinema, it was the French who first championed the studied simplicity of.....

N.p. N.p., 1944. Original four-panel artwork by Ernie Bushmiller, dated August 31, 1944, from his seminal comic strip Nancy, INSCRIBED to fellow cartoonist Ed Dodd in holograph ink: "To my friend - Ed Dodd / with best wishes / Ernie Bushmiller." This particular strip features Nancy, Sluggo and an un-named, non-recurring character, a buck-toothed girl speaking circa 1944 Beatnik jive.....

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1942. First American Edition, and first edition under this title. Preceded by the UK edition, titled "Uneasy Freehold" published by Peter Davies in 1941. Basis for the 1944 film classic, directed by Lewis Allen and starring Ray Milland, recently named by Martin Scorsese as his favorite horror film of all time. Near Fine in a Very.....

Los Angeles: 187 Corp / Artisan Entertainment, 1993. Shooting script for the 1993 television film. An anthology film directed by two masters of horror, Tobe Hooper and John Carpenter, and sporting a cameo by a third, Wes Craven. Three separate vignettes, each with increasing tension, and featuring many celebrity cameos. John Carpenter was commissioned by The Showtime Network to compete.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Faces Music, 1976. Original poster for the 1976 film, this being the "blurred dancer" style. One of eight known one sheet styles (no priority) issued by Faces Distribution for the film. Faces was a company as radical as the director himself, and made small runs of posters in a wide variety of non-standard sizes and using an.....

Hollywood: Faces, 1979. Fifth Draft script for the 1980 film, here under the working title "One Summer Night." Name of uncredited editor Jack McSweeney and "#36" in holograph ink on top right of title page. After her neighbors are killed in a mob hit, a woman goes on the run with their young son, who is in possession of a......

New York: Hearst Magazines, 1949. The first appearance of the novel, in an abridged pre-publication format, preceding the version published by Hamish Hamilton in the UK later the same year, and the US edition, published just after that.Chandler's fifth novel, written after several years working as a screenwriter, and dripping with his contempt for Hollywood. Basis for the 1969 neo-noir.....

Austria: Neue Filmkunst / Walter Kirchner, Circa 1947. Original 1947 Austrian A1 poster for the 1935 French film, the first sound adaptation of the novel by Dostoyevsky, and still a key version of the often-filmed story. Design by Hans Hillmann. From the collection of noted film historian Amos Vogel. Full provenance available. Pierre Blanchar stars as sociopathic student Raskolnikov and.....

Paris: DisCina, 1946. Vintage double weight studio photograph from the French release of the 1946 film. Credit at the bottom margin for photographer G.P. Aldo. 8.25 x 10.5 inches (27 x 21 cm). In a museum quality frame. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 6.

New York: Pressman Williams, 1970. Draft script for the 1973 film. Copy belonging to cinematographer Gregory Sandor, with his name in holograph pencil on the verso of the title page, and holograph pencil annotations throughout.Danielle is a beautiful model separated from her conjoined twin, Dominique. When her neighbor, an aspiring journalist, suspects Danielle of a brutal murder, the horror of.....

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.....

Hollywood: RKO Radio Pictures, 1945. Original one sheet poster for the 1945 film noir. An overlooked gem from Dick Powell's second life as a noir icon, an anti-fascist espionage tale with a labyrinthine, Chandler-worthy plot, and an unforgettable standoff at the end. The undisguised, left-leaning overtones throughout contributed significantly to the blacklisting of both producer Adrian Scott and director Dmytryk.....

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1929. Early Treatment script for the 1929 film, the first Sherlock Holmes film to have been produced with sound, and the first to include the Holmes utterance, "Elementary, my dear Watson" (a phrase never used by Doyle), though that statement regrettably does not appear in this draft. The first known treatment was written by Oliver P. Garrett.....

Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1973. First Edition. INSCRIBED to philanthropist and Time magazine publisher Henry Luce III by both authors on the front endpaper: "To Hank Luce / Charles and Ray / Jan 1, 1973." Profusely photo illustrated history of early computing with many two-color diagrams and photographs, detailing the technological advances of the collaboration between design and engineering.....

New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, 1935. First Edition. One of 310 numbered copies (this being No. 131) SIGNED by the author. Faulkner's tale of barnstorm aviation, a pursuit which took his brother Dean's life a few months after the book was published. Basis for the 1958 Douglas Sirk film "The Tarnished Angels" featuring Robert Stack, Rock Hudson and.....

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1933. Second Script for the 1933 film. Rubber-stamped on the front wrapper, "FILE COPY / RETURN TO SCRIPT DEPT. / PARAMOUNT STUDIO - HOLLYWOOD," and "1837 / MASTER FILE." The film's original title, "Don't Call Me Madam," is present on the front wrapper, crossed through, with the new title "Tillie and Gus" written in holographic ink above.....

New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1941. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Fisher to Hollywood producer Milton Sperling, who produced the first adaptation of Fisher's fiction to the screen, the seminal 1941 noir, "I Wake Up Screaming": "For Milton Sperling / In sincere appreciation - and with very best wishes for his success, health and happiness / Steve Fisher / Sept. 15, 1941.".....

Burbank, CA: Walt Disney Productions, 1954. Final Shooting Script for the 1954 film, with blue, yellow, and green revisions throughout. Based on the 1870 novel "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" by Jules Verne. Walt Disney's "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" was one of the most expensive and ambitious productions of its time. A 200 foot submarine, a 225 pound.....

Los Angeles: Selznick International Pictures, 1939. Shooting script for the classic 1939 film, complete in two volumes. Copy belonging to casting director Fred Schuessler, with his last name in holograph pencil to the front wrapper and holograph ink and pencil annotations throughout, noting deletions and new characters. Included with the script is a two-page typed contract between Selznick International Pictures.....

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.....

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1970. Draft British script for the 1971 UK film. Working copy belonging to actress Billie Whitelaw, SIGNED by Whitelaw on the front wrapper, with her holograph annotations throughout in pencil and red and blue ink. Included are four vintage black-and-white still photographs from the film. Director Stephen Frear's debut feature film, and the first film.....

New York: Haywire Press, 1986. First edition. Large oblong folio. Embossed silk cloth in embossed cloth slipcase. Engraved title page. Copy number 28 of 50 copies (there were also six lettered artist's copies). Twenty-five exquisitely printed gravure images, each numbered and signed by Friedlander. Gravure printing by Thomas Palmer. Slight sunning to the delicate pink silk of the spine, still.....

Venice, CA: Blum Group, 1977. Third Draft script for the 1978 film. A Hollywood agent has racked up huge gambling debt and needs to quickly pay back the bookie. He organizes a group of talented skateboarders and enters them into a major competition with a $20,000 prize. Shot on location in California. Lime green titled wrappers. Title page present, dated.....

Unknown: I.P.C. Pictures, 1969. Draft script for the 1971 film, here under the working title "The Catcher in the Raw." At a California hot springs resort, a shady therapist helps eight carefully selected applicants find themselves and "experience their bodies," a process which mostly involves consuming large amounts of LSD, meditative screaming, and slow-motion basketball games. Louis Garfinkle's sole directorial.....

US: Cannon, 1985. Draft script and archive for the 1986 film belonging to actor Lainie Kazan, who played Sylvia in the film, with her holograph annotations throughout, and various other ephemera, including call sheets, cast and crew lists, two thumbnail sized photographs of her in character, and 16 additional revised script pages with occasional handwritten annotations. Most significantly, included is.....

New York: Viking Press, 1939. First American Edition. Basis for the 1945 espionage film directed by Herman Shumlin, and starring Charles Boyer, Lauren Bacall and Peter Lorre. Very Good plus in a Very Good dust jacket. Slight lean, with light soiling to the spine, and residue from sticker removal to the front endpapers. Jacket with corresponding residue to the verso.....

Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists / The Bound for Glory Company, 1975. Revised script for the 1976 film, "Bound for Glory," directed by Hal Ashby, based on the autobiography of Woody Guthrie, written for the screen by Robert Getchell, and starring Robert Getchell (screenwriter); David Carradine, Ronny Cox, Melinda Dillon, and Randy Quaid. SIGNED by David Carradine on the title.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1935. Dashiell Hammett's original submitted Treatment script for the first sequel to "The Thin Man," here referred to only as "Thin Man Sequel," and ultimately titled "After the Thin Man." With a single holograph correction by Hammett, and letter of provenance from Hammett's daughter Josephine Hammett Marshall regarding the discovery of the treatment in the.....

London: Haskins Press, 1975. Limited Edition, preceded by the original 1965 edition. One of 1500 copies (this being No. 511) SIGNED by the photographer on the tipped in limitation page. Fine in an about Near Fine jacket. Jacket lightly toned and rubbed, with a few short closed tears at the spine ends and a light crease to the bottom of.....

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1951. Lobby card for the 1951 film, Hitchcock's classic adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's existential crime novel by way of Raymond Chandler's pulp sensibilities. 14 x 11 inches. Near Fine with some light soil. Grant US. Hardy, The BFI Companion to Crime. Selby Masterwork. Silver Classic Noir. Spicer US.

Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1964. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the 1964 film. In the photo, Hitchcock leans over Tippi Hedren, who sits at a typewriter, portraying her character in the office where she works as a secretary. With a mimeograph snipe on the verso. 8 x 10 inches (20 x 25 cm). Near Fine.

N.p. N.p., 1926. Vintage double weight press photograph from Hollywood beach house party, held on June 19, 1926, attended by the movie's industry elite of the day. Dated snipe on the verso notes that among those in the photo are Rudolph Valentino (who would die two months later in New York City), Pola Negri, Fatty Arbuckle, Norma Talmadge, Louella Parsons.....

Marina Del Rey, CA: Kings Road Productions, Circa 1982. Draft script for the 1982 film. With a small newspaper clipping promoting the film laid in.Based on the 1976 novel by Ray Russell. A small New England town is stalked by a demonic figure who attacks and sexually assaults women. While filming, director John Hough and actor John Cassavetes decided to.....

New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1939. First Edition. Copy belonging to director Jacques Tourneur, with his name in holograph red pencil on the front endpaper. Published the same year as Tourneur's directorial debut, "They All Come Out."Tourneur would go on to direct 70 films over a 40 year career, including the first three horror films for legendary producer Val Lewton, "Cat.....

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: Children's Songs, Inc., circa 1949. Original manuscript and typescript for "The Howdy Doody Show" theme song "It's a Howdy Doody World," created by and belonging to the song's composer Edward Kean, INSCRIBED by Kean in the margin: "From Edward Kean / to / the very special Scott Petersen man!," and further annotated by Kean in holograph ink.The listing.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1970-1971. Vintage double weight black-and-white weight still press photograph taken by photographer Dmitri Casterine on the set of the 1972 film sometime between fall 1970 and spring 1971. In the photograph, director Kubrick lies on his back with a camera, setting up a shot of a giant porcelain penis, while actor Malcolm McDowell puts his face into.....