Paris: Editions Georges Marton, circa 1938. Original carbon typescript for the 1938 play in agency wrappers. The play debuted at the Theatre des Mathurins in Paris on January 11, 1938 and ran for 100 performances. First published in the collection "Pieces noires" (Calmann-Levy, 1942) and published in English as "Restless Heart" (Methuen, 1957). Beige agency wrappers, 108 leaves, with last...

Budapest: Szikra Kiadas, 1948. First Hungarian Edition, preceding all others. Lengthily INSCRIBED by the author in Hungarian in the year preceding publication on the first blank leaf, ending with "Budapest / 47.XII.14." A rare signature. A renaissance man in the world of early cinema, Balazs began writing film criticism, poetry, librettos, and screenplays in 1907, and died after a very...

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, 1960. Original Swedish poster for the 1960 film. A landmark twentieth century film whose irregular but inspired dramatic structure and juxtaposition of beauty and savagery has inspired many other great films, from "The Last House on the Left" (1972) to "Irreversible" (2002). The first of two Bergman efforts to win the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film...

New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1913. First Edition. SIGNED by Biggers on the front endpaper. Near Fine lacking dust jacket. Gilt intact on front board and spine, tissue guard frontis intact. Neat owner stamp to front endpaper, else a lovely copy of the author's first book. Housed in a custom paper slipcase.

London: Anglo-EMI, 1970. Collection of three vintage black-and-white borderless double weight reference photographs Julie Ege, taken as test shots for the 1971 film. Ege is shown sitting in cloth folding chair with her name on it, in various positions designed to hide her breasts as unsuccessfully as possible. Ege, an actress and model, is best known for this film, where...

N.p. N.p., Circa 1973. Draft script of playwright Christopher Bond's 1973 retelling of the Victorian tale of Sweeney Todd, which would form the basis of Stephen Sondheim's popular musical half a decade later after Sondheim saw Bond's play at the Theatre Royal Stratford East in London in 1973. The first retelling of Sweeney Todd in which Todd is given a....

France: Compagnie Cinematographie de France, 1959. Vintage borderless press photograph from the 1959 film, showing director Robert Bresson on a Paris metro set, going over a script while actor Martin LaSalle and crew look on. With the stamp of French photo agency Dalmas and holograph pencil notations regarding layout and identifying the image on the verso. Bresson's first wholly original...

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1925. Draft script for the 1926 silent film "The Blackbird," seen here under the working title "The Mocking Bird." Lon Chaney again serves as a versatile "man of a thousand faces," here playing the role of high-profile thief The Blackbird who lives a double-life as a beloved local bishop. He falls in love with a....

Paris: Greenwich Film Productions, 1971. Original double weight, wide margin photograph of Luis Bunuel and screenwriter Jean-Claude Carriere by Mary Ellen Mark, taken outdoors during the shooting of Bunuel's "The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie." Notated on the verso as having been taken in 1971, with a separate rubber stamp showing a date of 1980, presumably when the photograph was...

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.

New York: Dial Press, 1958. First printing of this edition (first published in 1929). INSCRIBED by W.R. Burnett to press agent and Hollywood figure Jimmy Starr in the year of publication on the second blank: "Apr 14 '58 / Dear Jimmie / Here's the new edition of Little Caesar. I know you have quite a collection of my books--thought you'd...

Middletown, CT: Wesleyan, 1961. First Edition. Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Jacket is lightly nicked at the spine ends and corners (with one nick at the upper spine panel), but is still quite bright and clean. INSCRIBED by Cage at the front endpaper: "For Pramray Whitney / John Cage / together in chaos."

Los Angeles: Clover Productions, 1954. Final Draft script for the 1955 film. Copy belonging to S. John Launer who played Capt. Dave Harris, holographic ink and pencil notations on his scenes throughout An ex-Nazi mad scientist uses radio-controlled atomic-powered zombies in his quest to help an exiled American gangster return to power. Penned by legendary German American science fiction and...

Los Angeles: Lorimar, 1979. Second Draft Screenplay for the 1981 film. Copy belonging to actor Jim S. Cash, who played one of the Twin Oaks tavern customers, with his ownership name in holograph ink on the front wrapper. Various editorial notations throughout in holographic ink and pencil. Directed by Bob Rafelson, and based on the 1939 novel by James M....

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...

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1939. First Edition. An attractive, unrestored example of the author's first book, a cornerstone of noir detective fiction, and basis for the Howard Hawks film noir, starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. Near Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Jacket is uniformly toned, but quite nice, with a couple of corner nicks and...

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...

Munich: P. R. Wilk / Neue Filmkunst / Walter Kirchner, circa 1961. Original early 1960s German A1 poster for the 1946 French film, illustrated by Isolde Baumgart. From the collection of noted film historian Amos Vogel. Full provenance available. A classic 1946 French romantic fantasy film adaptation of the traditional fairy tale of the same name written by Jeanne-Marie Le...

New York: Parallel Productions, n.d. First Draft script for an unproduced film. Based on the 1969 novel "A Time of Predators" by Joe Gores. An association between two prolific American authors, one a genre writer and the other an America novelist and director of the influential Iowa Writers' Workshop for 18 years. Set in San Francisco. Black titled wrappers. Title...

Helsinki: Eurographica, 1992. First Edition. One of 1000 copies (this being No. 1) signed by all of the contributors except Patricia Highsmith, and including an original etching of Julian Symons by artist Jeffrey Morgan. Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket. The volume is divided into three sections (short stories, poetry, and prose), and has contributions by his peers...

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1935. First Edition. Winner of both the 1935 Harper Prize and the Pulitzer Prize. Very Good plus in a Very Good, unclipped first state dust jacket. Book has light foxing to the boards and page edges, with toning to two pages where a laid-in newspaper clipping on the Pulitzer Prize win has aged. Rear flap...

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...

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1965. Revised Final script for the 1966 film. Actor Van Heflin's working copy, with his notations throughout. 1960s remake of the 1939 John Ford Western. Studio self-wrappers, noted as REVISED FINAL on the front wrapper, dated June 15, 1965, with credits for screenwriter Landon. 130 leaves, mimeograph, with blue and yellow revision pages throughout, dated variously...

London: P.S. King & Son LTD., 1938. First Edition. One of 500 privately printed copies. Rebound in three quarter leather and marbled boards with gilt title and raised bands. Very Good plus. Light dampstaining to the heel crown, light toning and foxing to the front and rear endpapers.

N.p. N.p., 1978. Vintage borderless black-and-white double weight photograph from the set of a 1978 Playboy magazine shoot. A timed shot of Anita Ekberg and her photographer Angelo Frontoni on the sidelines. Frontoni began his career as a fashion photographerm and is most celebrated for the artistic nudes he did of some of the most famous of Italian and foreign...

Paris: Editions de la Sirene, 1921. First Edition. Includes three original illustrations: two are primarily typographic layouts, one centered around Charlie Chaplin (each is lacking the applied paste-up elements, in the case of the Chaplin image, it lacks the photographic image that was pasted on and that appears in the finished illustration), and the third and most interesting is the...

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1958. Final script for the 1959 film. Based on the novel of the same name by Pulitzer Prize winning author A.B. Guthrie, Jr., the third installment in Guthrie's trilogy about the Old West. SIGNED by actor Don Murray on the title page. An unusual Western, with touches of the darkness characteristic of film noir, "These Thousand...

London: Michael Joseph, 1965. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the First Edition. Very Good in plain brown wrappers as issued. Spine lean and some vertical wrinkling to same. Generic bookplate SIGNED by the author laid in (i.e., not attached). A very presentable copy of the earliest state of this title.

Paris: President Films, 1976. Vintage black-and-white borderless still photograph from the French release of the 1976 French film. Three stamps on the verso for Cine-Revue magazine (dated variously between 9/2/76 and 2/3/77), as well as a studio stamp for President Films, crediting the title, Birkin, Dallesandro, and Gainsbourg. The petite waitress Johnny works and lives in a truck stop, lonely...

New York: William Morrow, 1935. First Edition. Publisher's file copy, with "OFFICE FILE COPY" stamped on the rear panel of the jacket and several penciled notations and deletions on the front flap and front endpaper. Near Fine in a Very Good or better dust jacket. Evidence of removal on the front pastedown, else book is quite clean. Jacket has no...

New York: Cannon, 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 as...

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1963. Final Draft script for the 1964 film. Copy belonging to actor Michael Miller, with his name on three laid-in call sheets dated 7/27/63. Also included is a 13-page contract dated 5/1/63, between Paramount and actor Miller for his services rendered, with notations in holograph ink and type corrections throughout. Finally, a full-color 24-page film program is...

Paris: Gaumont, 1987. Vintage oversize borderless photograph of Jean-Luc Godard from the 1987 film. With holograph notations on the verso. An experimental film that irreverently mixes genres, twisting together a broad range of references to literature, film comedy, and the history of cinema. Starring Godard himself as a filmmaker, thus blurring the fictional category from the outset. Made the same...

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1966. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Martha Graham to the late, legendary film director Sidney Lumet at the half-title page: "For Sidney Lumet / Martha Graham." Sidney Lumet's astounding catalog of films slightly predicted (and later joined) the work of the great filmmakers of the 1970s, with a laundry list of five-star achievements that includes "Dog...

Newark: Newark Theatre, Circa 1915. Original handbill for a theatrical run of D.W. Griffith's "Birth of a Nation" (1915) at the Newark Theatre in Newark, New Jersey. Noted on the bill are cast members Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Donald Crisp, and Raoul Walsh (here spelled "Raul Walsh"), who played John Wilkes Booth. Also noted on the bill is that the...

Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1945. Original treatment (titled "Characters and Premise") and complete set of continuities for the 1945 13-episode film serial, including a continuity for the trailer, constituting a virtually complete record. Hammett debuted his Nazi-fighting agent in 1934 in comic book form, with artwork by the legendary Alex Raymond. A film adaptation was made by Universal in...

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1989. First Draft script for the 1990 film, here under its working title "58 Minutes." Based on Walter Wager's 1987 novel, "58 minutes." John McClane (Willis) attempts to save Dulles Airport from South American drug lords who have seized electronic communications between the airplanes and the airport. Shot on location in Michigan, California, and Colorado. Preceded...

Vienna: Werner Herzog Filmproduktion, 1979. Vintage borderless reference still from the 1979 German film showing director Werner Herzog and actor Bruno Ganz, along with some extras, on the set between takes. Herzog's highly interpretive remake of F.W. Murnau's 1922 silent classic, "Nosferatu," and the second of five films Herzog made with actor Klaus Kinski. 9.25 x 7 inches (23 x 18 cm). Fine.

New York: HarperCollins, 1996. Tony Hillerman's original typescript for his novel "The Fallen Man," with his original holograph corrections in ink. Housed in a plain orange publisher's box, with a memo from Hillerman, on his stationery, affixed to the lid. The history of the manuscript is explained in three documents that accompany the typescript: (1) a letter from the editorial...

Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1960. Vintage US one sheet poster for the 1960 film. Canadian release sticker affixed to the recto, denoting, "Bureau de Surveillance du Cinema."A game-changing horror film, considered by anyone to be one of Hitchcock's three best, in which the director took the bold step of killing off his protagonist without mercy at the end of...

Tokyo: CameraArt, 1961. First Edition, with the requisite pamphlet featuring English translations of the text laid in. The first of Hosoe's many collaborations with choreographer Tatsumi Hijikata, using Butoh dancers to create stylized, abstract portraits of relationships between men and women, and the book which brought the photographer to international acclaim. Fine and unread in a Near Fine dust jacket...

Tokyo: Imamura Productions, 1979. Draft script for the 1979 film. Text in Japanese. With a single notation in holograph ink. Based on Ryuzo Saki’s novel, about real life con man, thief, and multiple murderer Akira Nishiguchi (changed to Iwao Enokizu in the film), told in multiple flashbacks as he awaits execution for his crimes. Black titled perfect bound wrappers. Title...

Tokyo: Toho Company, 1966. Draft script for the 1966 film. Text in Japanese. A pornographer is keeping a low profile to keep out of the way of the mob, while also is trying to keep the various people in his life happy, including his stepdaughter, stepson, mistress, and wife (who believes her first husband was reincarnated as a carp). White...

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1959. First library edition, though not ex-library. Fine in maroon cloth covered boards with white titles and a Very Good plus dust jacket. Jacket has moderate bruising to the front panel, with professional repair to holes and tears at the verso. Bottom corner of the front flap clipped. A very presentable copy of the fifth...

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1947. Second Revised Final script for the 1947 film. INSCRIBED by screenwriter Richard Murphy during production of the film on the title page: "For Max - / With thanks for everything, but especially the advise that led to doing this magillah - / Murph." With a holograph ink notation in Murphy's hand on the verso of...

N.p. N.p., Circa 1978-1982. Vintage double weight matte finish photograph, a self portrait taken by Andre Kertesz while seated in a barber's chair, showing both the front and back of his head, just after having received a haircut. With the stamp of Kertesz's long time printer, Igor Bakht, on the verso. 8 x 10 inches (20 x 25 cm). Fine.

Paris: Trinacra Films, 1977. Vintage double weight photograph from the set of the 1977 film, shot by still photographer Etienne George. Shown are director Francois Leterrier and his crew to the left on a dolly, and actress Sylvia Kristel on the right in a state of semi-undress. The last film in the original "Emmanuelle" trilogy. An interior shot, apparently meant...

Atelier 41 / New World Pictures, 1975. Original Polish poster for the 1975 film, designed by B. Tankowska. Director Akira Kurosawa had long been a fan of V.K. Arsenyev's nonfiction account of his travels in the Ussuri basin in the Russian Far East, during which Arsenyev encountered and befriended a canny Nanai trapper, who subsequently became the guide for his...

Paris: Robert and Raymond Hakim / Paris Film, circa 1936. Draft script for the 1937 French film. An English-language version of the text issued by the Hakim brothers for use in the US. James M. Cain and John Howard Lawson adapted the story for a US film version in 1938, titled "Algiers," directed by John Cromwell and starring Charles Boyer...