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".....

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1969. Original title card maquette hand lettered by Harold Adler for the 1969 film. Based on the "Alexandria Quartet" by Lawrence Durrell. 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.....

Burbank, CA: Palomar Pictures, 1969. Vintage borderless double weight photograph of Woody Allen's mug shot, from the 1969 film. Woody Allen's first film as a director, one of the great American comedies, the film that set the template for Allen's 1970s work. A massive archive documenting the birth of an utterly new and unique voice in cinema, one that would.....

London: C. Hitch and C. Davis, 1735. Two volumes. First Edition. About Near Fine in rebound three-quarter leather, with marbled paper boards and gilt decoration and titles, raised bands. Minor offsetting, a hint of toning to page edges, and mild soil. A comprehensive set, containing in formation on how to dye cloth, create inks, weave tapestries, and other archaic information.....

Stockholm: Svensk Filmindustri, 1961. Vintage oversize Swedish still photograph from the 1961 film. With the Svensk Filmindustri logo at the bottom right corner. In a typically heavy moment from the film, Max Von Sydow (Martin) and Lars Passgard (Minus) stand together in a moment of silence. Shot by the film's cinematographer, the legendary Sven Nykvist. 11 x 9 inches. In.....

Berkeley: Berkley Graphics Arts, 1968. Collection of five vintage bumper stickers from the 1968 political campaigns run via a collaboration between the Black Panthers and the Peace and Freedom Party. Each of the stickers were made for various Peace and Freedom Party political campaigns, including: Mario Savio for California state senator, Black Panther founders Huey Newton and Bobby Seale, and.....

N.p. United States Productions, Inc, 1959. Revised Estimating script for the 1960 film belonging to actor Martin Landau, here under the working title "The Life and Death of Legs Diamond". Laid in are five carbon typescript pages of script with Landau's name written in holograph ink to upper right and annotations to dialogue of lead character Legs in holograph pencil.....

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1942. Final Script for the 1943 film, "Tonight We Raid Calais" [here titled simply "Project 47"], directed by John Brahm, written for the screen by Waldo Salt, and starring Lee J. Cobb, John Sutton, Beulah Bondi, and Howard Da Silva. John Sutton plays a British intelligence officer, sent into occupied France with a small unit to.....

Paris: Arts et M'tiers Graphiques, 1933. First Edition. 60 full-page, black and white plates. Brassai's first and most notable photobook. A nocturnal exploration of Parisian culture, and one of the most celebrated and influential collections of urban photography ever published. Compiled in a somewhat eery sequence of encounters set around the darkest corners of 1930's Paris. Brassai does not shy.....

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: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1970. First Edition. Owner name on the front and rear endpapers, a hint of foxing on endpapers, else about Fine in a Fine, fresh dust jacket. The author’s second book.

New York: Penguin Books, 1947. No. 621. First printing of this edition. SIGNED by James M. Cain on the first blank. From the Kurt Enoch collection, with a letter of provenance included. Kurt Enoch was the founder of Signet Books and a publisher whose desire was to bring great literature and genre fiction out of the libraries and into the.....

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”.....

Culver City, CA: RKO, 1946. Revised Final Script for the 1946 film, with stamps "Revised Final Script," "Please Return to RKO Story Files," and production number "1838" on front wrapper. Carbon typescript on onionskin.Based on Philip Van Doren Stern's 1943 short story, "The Greatest Gift," about a man at the end of his rope during Christmas. Generally considered one of.....

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 Peter Falk's shadowed countenance. Along with "Faces" (1968), considered to be one of the groundbreaking director's most important and uncomfortable films, a painfully intimate study of a couple—and a family—in deep emotional crisis. 27.....

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1945. Post-production Release Dialogue Script for the 1946 film. The only script associated with the legendary noir that we have ever seen, and presumably the earliest continuity, dated 7 months prior to the film's release. "The Blue Dahlia" got off to a shaky start, as Raymond Chandler could not finish the screenplay on schedule, and was finally.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1940s. Collection of four vintage borderless photographs of actor and dancer Cyd Charisse playfully dancing and posing in a black leotard in front of a wall-size dance studio mirror. With the stamp of photographer M. Pevsner to the verso. Texas-born dancer Charisse studied under legendary ballet dancers Adolph Bolm and Bronislava Nijinska as a child, and debuted.....

Easthampton: Cheloniidae Press, 1985. First printing of this edition. One of 15 deluxe "state proof" copies (this being No. 14) SIGNED by both the artist, Alan James Robinson and the binder, David Kelm on the colophon page. Bound in full alum tawed pigskin with an inset bas relief paper cast illustration to the front board. Illustrated with five drypoint etchings.....

Vienna: Illustrierter Film-Kurier, 1933. Vintage Austrian film program for the 1933 US film. Cinema paper relating to "King Kong" is rare, this being the only example we have offered. Text in German. Issue No. 637 of "Illustrierter Film-Kurier," one of the oldest European film magazines, which ran weekly from 1929 to 1956. Like its German counterpart, "Film-Kurier," each issue focused.....

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.....

Rome: G. Ricordi, 1971. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the title page: "To Maggie - the direct cause of this piece. / With thanx! [sic] / James / 28 March, 1972 / Roma." Printed musical score, reproduced from the composer's original holograph score. An early pioneer of computer music, James Dashow is also a composer of electro-acoustic music.....

Paris: Les Films Ariane, 1964. Collection of 343 vintage black-and-white photographs from the set of the 1964 film, "That Man from Rio," here under the original French title, "L'homme de Rio". Most are rubber-stamped on the versos indicating film studio, Les Films Ariane, still photographer Trigo, Brazilian magazine "O Cruzeiro " and French film title, several with annotations in holograph.....

New York: Roger L. Stevens / Joel Schenker, 1963. Two draft revisions of the script for the 1963 play. Based on the 1961 memoir, "My Life in Court," by Louis Nizer. Copies belonging to actor Van Heflin, with his noted throughout. Van Heflin played the lead character in the play, lawyer Robert Sloane. Nominated for a Tony Award. The play.....

New York: Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS], 1948. Treatment script for an unproduced film, as well as a produced radio broadcast script for the May 25th,1948 CBS radio adaptation. Holograph ink on front wrapper, noting title, screenwriter Daniel Tardash, and story based on the 1946 novel by Isak Dinesen (writing under the pseudonym of Pierre Andrezel). Daniel Taradash would go on.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1950. Revised Composite script for the 1951 film. Two front wrappers present, one with the script department receipt intact, both noting changes (dated 5-12-50) to the script. Tom and Ellen Bowen (Astaire and Powell) are siblings with a dance act in New York. Their agent books them a gig in London while the Royal Wedding.....

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.....

Los Angeles: Charles Fries Productions, 1977. Archive of five scripts for four episodes from Season One of "The Amazing Spider-Man" television series in 1977. All belonging to actor Michael Pataki, who played police captain Barbera in the series, each with his holograph name on either the front wrapper or title page, and his lines and stage directions circled throughout, with.....

Boston: Little, Brown, 1914. First Edition. Although uncredited in the final production, Edginton’s novel is the basis for the stage play "My Lady Friends" (The New York Times, “One Farce – Seven Authors,” December 14, 1919). The play, in turn, became the basis for the Broadway musical "No, No, Nanette," which was then filmed twice, once in 1930 and again.....

Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1941. Draft script for the 1941 film, here under the working title "The Great Man", with holograph annotations on nearly every page. W.C. Fields' last starring film before his death in 1946. Told as a "real life" film starring Fields as himself, "Never Give a Sucker an Even Break" is an off-beat and slightly bizarre.....

N.p. Televison Film Production, circa late 1940's. Draft shooting script for an unproduced British television film, circa late 1940's. Note on title page, in holograph ink, in hand of "Punch" editor E. V. Knox, "See article on this subject [arrow] Argus," "(EVK)" to right of note, with "(sent by producers)" below. Eight page "Foreword" bound in after title page, details.....

Culver City, CA: Sierra Pictures / RKO Radio Pictures, Circa 1948. Draft script for the 1948 film, "Joan of Arc," here under its working title, "Joan of Lorraine". Original scripts from Fleming's films are rarely seen on the market. Based on Maxwell Anderson's play, "Joan of Lorraine". Anderson's play debuted on Broadway in 1946, ran for 199 performances at the.....

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.....

Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1944. Draft script for the 1945 film. "To Central Files" in holograph pencil on the front wrapper, and a credit for screenwriter Bricker. The sixth and final Inner Sanctum installment, featuring spiritualists, a haunted house, and a murder by suffocation, in what was seemingly a last gasp from the studio's film series. Sadly, the film's.....

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.....

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: Callaway Editions, 1982. First Edition. One of 1,000 hardbound copies SIGNED by the photographer on a tipped in page, issued simultaneously in 2,000 signed softcover editions. 62 full-page black and white plates. A visually stunning photographic reportage of the Ohio River Valley, as commissioned by the Akron Art Museum. Fine and unread in a Near Fine dust jacket.....

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, Circa 1980. Archive of seven scripts for the 1982 film. Included is a first draft, third draft, four undated drafts, and one draft under the working title "Carlotta: A Haunted Lady". Two scripts with holograph annotations present. From the estate of Frank De Felitta. Based on the 1978 novel of the same name about a real.....

Paris: Les Films Concordia, 1963. Collection of 3 vintage black and white reference photographs from the French release of the 1963 film. Head shots of Brigitte Bardot and Michel Piccoli, one of each, and one especially striking shot of the two together. Godard's lush Technicolor landmark that transformed Brigitte Bardot from a sex symbol into an art object, while simultaneously.....

Paris: Les Films Imperia / Films Around the World, 1960. Original French pressbook for the 1960 film. A fascinating object, created in a die-cut style we have never seen duplicated, made by Films Around the World, the distributor that picked up the film for international distribution. The only copy we have ever seen. With a middle splash page containing a......

London: Routledge, 1938. First Edition. A fictitious "autobiography" of a London prostitute, written by Greene and Matthews under a pseudonym to avoid political scandal. The book was withdrawn from the market by the publisher after warnings were issued by various moralistic institutions in England, and the first edition remains very scarce. The extent of Greene's involvement in the authorship has.....

N.p. N.p., 1932. Two vintage reference photographs from the 1932 film, showing actors Paul Muni, George Raft, Karen Morley, Purnell Pratt, and others.Based on the 1930 book by Armitage Trail, which was in turn based on the true exploits of notorious Prohibition-era mob boss and bootlegger Al Capone. Along with "Public Enemy" (released only a few months prior), generally considered.....

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1946. Advance Reading Copy, preceding the First Edition. About Fine in illustrated wrappers. Just a hint of toning, brief offsetting at the front endpapers from something once laid in, and light rubbing at the spine ends. Basis for the well-loved 1948 film comedy starring Cary Grant, Myrna Loy and Melvyn Douglas. Wrapper design and interior.....

Kyoto, Japan: File, 1994. First Edition. A monograph of Hopper's photographs from a 1991 visit to Tokyo and a 1994 visit to Kyoto, published in Kyoto in 1994. Only one printing is known and to our knowledge these photographs have never appeared in book form since. Fine saddle stitched two-color photo illustrated wrappers.

Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1961. Vintage photograph from the 1961 film. An image with an intentional" trick of the light," showing Monroe playing paddle ball as a crew member runs a cable in foreground. A famously difficult shoot, and just as famously, the final film of both Gable's and Monroe's careers, it also ranks among their best work, as.....

Culver City, CA: Yorktown Productions, 1990. Second draft script for the 1991 film in red leather presentation binding belonging to editor Lou Lombardo with his name in gilt on front board, title in gilt on front board and spine. With 26 8" x 10" film still and on the set photographs affixed to leaves throughout. 18 page Cast List and.....

New York: Collier, 1940-1942. First Edition. Thirty-seven issues of Collier's Magazine, dated variously between April 20,1940 and July 11, 1942, all featuring Crockett Johnson's first magazine comic, "The Little Man with the Eyes". This collection represents roughly a third of Johnson’s work for Collier’s. Johnson’s popularity as a sketch artist grew with the publication of “Harold and the Purple Crayon”.....

Burbank, CA: Walt Disney Pictures, 1988. Revised First Draft script for the 1991 film. Based on 1982 graphic novel by Dave Stevens, an early entry into the superhero movie canon, following the success of 1989’s "Batman," and a cult classic in its own right. In 1930s Hollywood, stunt pilot Cliff Secord (Billy Campbell) comes into possession of a jet-pack after.....

Los Angeles: Sonny Amusement Enterprises / S.A.C.L., 1950. Collection of 15 vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1950 Spanish-Argentine film. The financial success of the 1949 exploitation film "She Shoulda Said No," a morality tale involving the use of marijuana, prompted distributors to import this film from Argentina for distribution in the US. It was a success on the exploitation.....

New York: Greenwich Film Productions, 1985. Draft script for the 1985 film. With holograph pencil annotations throughout. Text, titles, and annotations in Japanese.Based on Shakespeare's play "King Lear". An elderly warlord in medieval Japan divides his vast empire among his three sons. The power corrupts them and turns them on each other, as well as their father. Nominated for four.....

Germany: Decla-Bioscop / UFA, 1924. Original program for the German premiere of the films "Die Nibelungen: Sigfried" and "Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge" on February 14, 1924, based on the thirteenth century epic poem "Nibelungenlied". Contains a brief essay by von Harbou, and three additional short essays on the making of the film. Photo illustrated throughout with stills of characters from.....