N.p. N.p., 1994. Collection of 17 reference photographs from the set of the 1995 film featuring Abel Ferrara, Lili Taylor, cinematographer Ken Kelsch, screenwriter Nicholas St. John, and other cast members, photographed in a single evening around Manhattan's Puck Building and Keith Haring's Pop Shop, by writer, editor, and filmmaker Shade Rupe. Struck in 2020 from Rupe's original negatives, these.....

Tokyo: Film Art Association, 1949. First Draft script for the 1949 Japanese film noir. Holograph ink and pencil annotations on two leaves. Text in Japanese. Generally considered to be the greatest film noir made in Japan, and hugely influential on American film noir of the 1950s and 1960s. White titled wrappers. 96 leaves, with last page of text numbered 96.....

Los Angeles: Selznick International Pictures, 1939. Early Continuity script (pre-production), stamped "TEMPORARY," with a credit for Alfred Hitchcock's wife and frequent screenwriter Alma Reville. "TEMPORARY" script includes screenwriting credit for Michael Hogan, who, along with Philip MacDonald, were given adaptation credits in the final film.Alfred Hitchcock's first American project, the elegant, dreamlike adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's 1938 novel of.....

Los Angeles: Selznick International Pictures / Vanguard Films, 1934-1948. An archive of 7 scripts, including rough drafts, screenplays, post-production scripts and support documentation for the 1947 film, "The Paradine Case," directed by Alfred Hitchcock, based on the 1933 novel by Robert Hichens, written for the screen by a host of screenwriters, including Hitchcock, Alma Reville, David O. Selznick, and others.....

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.....

Indianapolis: O'Dell and Shields Studios, 1955-1956. Two vintage photo albums documenting Dean Van Lines Indy car team before, during, and after the Indianapolis 500 in 1955 and 1956, with legendary driver Jimmy Bryan at the helm. Several photographs stamped on the verso by the O'Dell and Shields Studios of Indianapolis, longtime contract photographers for the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Dean, a......

Budapest: Csoma Bela - MOKEP, 1981. Vintage Hungarian A2 poster from the 1981 Hungarian film, here under its Hungarian title "Szabadgyalog." A talented but destructive, alcoholic, and apathetic violinist Andras (Andras Szabo, who also composed music for the film), destroys his marriage, is kicked out of music school, and devolves from creating music to becoming a disc jockey in Tarr's.....

New York: E.P. Dutton, 1939. First Edition. A very nice copy of an important title, probably the premiere monograph of New York images, predicting the series ideas of Ruscha and many others. Near Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Corners lightly bumped, a little soiling to the boards. Jacket has three small internal repairs (not restoration), and a......

Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, Circa 1959. Vintage double weight press photograph of Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller on location at Coronado Beach. Shot by photographer Tess Michaels for United Artists (so noted on the verso). Several holograph pencil and ink annotations on the verso, as well as an inventory rubber stamp. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.

Burbank, CA: National Broadcasting Company [NBC], 1976. First Draft script in two volumes for the 1976 television miniseries based on Arthur Hailey's 1975 novel. Presentation script belonging to producer Ross Hunter with Hunter's name on the front board of each volume. Boris Sagal directed this star-studded miniseries based on Arthur Hailey's fastidious novel. The laboriously researched story follows the happenings.....

London: John Lane, 1917. First Edition. A classic of horror fiction from Robbins, about a trio of circus freaks who escape captivity in the circus, open a curiosity shop, and use it as a base from which to launch a devastating crime wave. Basis for two films, the first a silent classic in 1925 directed by Tod Browning and starring.....

France / Italy: Affiches Gaillard / Cineriz, Circa 1961. Archive of 139 vintage borderless single weight still photographs from the 1961 Italian-French film. Seen in the images is starring actor Fernandel and other members of the cast in action, and a few images of the film crew at work. Notations in holograph pencil, and photographer Civirani's rubber stamp, on the.....

N.p. N.p., 1953. Vintage oversize borderless matte-finish double weight photograph of Charlton Heston receiving a massage on the set of the 1953 film. With the stamp of photographer Bill Avery on the verso. A Chief of Scouts mistrusts the Apache tribe after the chief refuses to sign a peace treaty, but his concerns are disregarded by the US Army. Bill.....

Paris: Les Films 13, 1966. Collection of four vintage photographs from the 1966 film. With agency stamps and holograph annotations on the versos. Anne Gauthier (Anouk Aimee) and Jean-Louis Duroc (Jean-Louis Trintignant) meet as they drop their children off at boarding school. She works as a script supervisor and he as a race-car driver. They quickly become friends and as.....

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1955. Revised Shooting Final Script for the 1956 film. With holograph annotations throughout. Also included is a call sheet and nearly complete scene breakdowns for the film. A dramatic depiction of The United States' early tests and developments of space travel technology, and the experiences of the future astronauts that underwent strenuous and risky trials. A......

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1965. Final Draft script for the 1966 film.Secret agent Derek Flint is a smooth-talking Renaissance man—martial arts master, polyglot, ballet dancer—who works for the international intelligence agency Z.O.W.I.E. When several fellow agents are discovered mysteriously murdered, his agency tasks Flint with finding and stopping the killers, leading him on a groovy wild goose chase across the.....

N.p. N.p., 1980. First Draft script for the 1983 film. Accompanied by a twenty-page German language program and single-page English promotional synopsis for the film. An early draft, written by screenwriter Jeffrey Boam a year after the novel's release at the request of Lorimar Film Entertainment, before they shuttered their film division and the rights went to Dino De Laurentiis.....

London: Cineguild, 1946. Two vintage black-and-white reference photographs, featuring director David Lean, actors Alec Guinness and John Mills, cinematographer Guy Green, camerman Bob Huke, and others on the set of the 1946 film. Both photos with mimeograph snipes detailing who is in the shot. From the estate of Guy and Celia Green. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection.....

N.p. N.p., 1967. Double weight photograph of an appropriately blissed out Brian Jones, a cooly aloof Nico, and a typically scary and intense Dennis Hopper (staring straight at the camera), taken at the Monterey Pop Festival in June 1967. Struck by photographer Jim Marshall circa 1990s, with his stamp, holograph identification number, and annotations identifying the subjects and location on.....

New York: Filmmakers' Cinematheque, 1965. An archive of two original posters for Don Snyder's multi-media presentation, "Spectro-Mach 1," along with extensive manuscript annotations, diagrams, and charts. Instructions include visual and aural cues for projectionists and musicians, detailed instructions for presentation sequence (numbered 1 to 13 across the versos of the two posters), random project development annotations, and a handwritten note.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1976. Final Shooting script for the 1977 film. With 33 revision pages bound in at the rear. Copy belonging to uncredited cast or crew member Robert Harrison, with his name in holograph pencil at the top right corner of the front wrapper, and his name in holograph pencil or ink at the top right corner.....

New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1966. First Edition. 153 duotone plates. Contains 179 pages of beautiful photogravure illustrations and photos by Van der Elsken, documenting the artist's 14-month tour around the world. Text printed on brown textured paper. Fine and unread in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Fine and unread in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Lengthy owner.....

New York: Dial Press, 1962. First Edition. Near Fine and unread in a brilliant, Fine dust jacket. Some tiny stains on the rear board, else as sharp a copy as one could hope for. Not an uncommon title, but rarely found in superior condition.

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.....

New York: Doubleday, 1957. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author Ernie Kovacs to versatile concert pianist and actor Oscar Levant on the front endpaper: "To Oscar / What a shit I am to be so late in getting there — But — I have been writing and taping shows — and will be done about mid next week. Am not.....

Manchester: Factory Records, 1981. Vintage promotional sticker announcing upcoming releases from Factory Records from July through December, 1981. Included are the release dates, Factory Records number, artist and title information, and format. Featuring the rarely seen FCL (Factory Records Division) designation and logo. The period covered by the sticker includes releases by Joy Division, the double album of studio and.....

Paris: Mercure de France, 1970. First French Edition, preceding all others. Warmly INSCRIBED by Truffaut to French cinema historian and writer Maurice Bessy on the half-title page. Bessy is best known for various associations with Orson Welles, most notably his work with the director on "Mr. Arkadin." Truffaut's second book, containing his screenplays for the first four Antoine Doinel films.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1960s. Two vintage black and white borderless oversize photographs of Frank Sinatra smoking a cigarette in his shirtsleeves, apparently backstage, talking with the camera crew on the set of an unknown film, circa 1960s. With the stamps of photographer Zinn Arthur and Topix on the verso.14 x 11 inches. Near Fine.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986. Final corrected manuscript for George Baxt's novel, "The Alfred Hitchcock Murder Case," featuring his series character Jacob Singer, set in England between 1925-1936. Ribbon copy typescript, with holograph pencil corrections by the author throughout. First published in 1986 by St. Martin's Press. 251 pages, Near Fine. In a custom clamshell box, with red leather.....

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1952. Revised Draft script for the 1953 film. With screenwriter Daniel Fuchs' holograph pencil and ink annotations throughout, most noting substantive revisions and deletions.Loosely based on Jean-Paul Le Chanois' 1951 French film "Without Leaving an Address." An ill-tempered New York cabbie helps an Irish immigrant with an infant son locate her missing husband. Set and shot.....

Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1969. Three vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1969 film, a highlight of early New Hollywood cinema. One shows actor Harold Blankenship, the other with actors Robert Forster, Peter Bonerz, and Janet Langhart. One with a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso along with the stamp of Paramount Pictures, the other with the stamp of.....

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1958. Revised Final script for the 1959 film. Copy belonging to Clifton Webb, with every inclusion of his character's dialogue, underlined in holograph ink. Notations on nearly every page in holograph pencil, including penciled vertical lines indicating that a scene is complete. Based on the 1957 play by Ronald Alexander. An older couple (Webb and Wyman).....

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1980. Revised Final Draft script for the 1981 film. Rainbow copy, with several sets of revision leaves in pink, yellow, blue, orange, and green. Written for the screen by Dennis Potter, based on his screenplay for the 1978 BBC television series. One of Steve Martin's earliest and most bizarre critical successes, and along with "The.....

Los Angeles: Photoplayer's Club of Los Angeles, 1915. Vintage souvenir program for the Third Annual Photoplayer's Club of Los Angeles Ball, held February 13, 1915. Photo-illustrated throughout with portraits of silent film actors, directors, producers, and others, and containing numerous advertisements for Los Angeles businesses and services, most with some connection to the film industry. Scarce, with only two copies.....

Stockholm: Svensk Filmindustri, 1952. Collection of eight vintage reference photographs, seven borderless, from the 1952 Swedish film. Three with mimeo snipes on the verso, and all with holograph ink and pencil annotations as well as the stamp of Svensk Filmindustri.While vacationing at a summer home, four sisters-in-law tell each other stories from their respective marriages, ranging from illicit affairs to.....

Tokyo: Shinchosha, Circa 1988. Draft script for the 1988 Japanese animated film. Text and titles in Japanese. Based on Akiyuki Nosaka's semi-autobiographical short story, following the final days of two Japanese children during World War II. Nosaka purportedly heartily approved of the choice to adapt his story as an animated film, noting that he believed it would have been impossible.....

N.p. N.p., 1955. Vintage satin-finish black and white photograph of James Dean and friends sitting at Googie's Diner in Hollywood in May 1955, four months before the car accident which would end Dean's life. With the stamp of Photoplay Magazine archive on the verso. Photographer Phil Stern worked as a photographer for LOOK magazine during the mid and late 20th.....

France: 79th Division, 1919. An archive of material from James M. Cain's estate, originally from his office, relating to the newspaper edited (and largely written) by James M. Cain, The Lorraine Cross, during his service with the 79th Division of the US Army of the Allied Expeditionary Force in World War I. Included are:James M. Cain's own copy of the.....

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1993. Rainbow Draft script for the 1994 film. One of the best action films of the 1990s, which launched the career of Sandra Bullock, turned Keanu Reeves into a star, and Dennis Hopper into a catchphrase. Director and screenwriter Joss Whedon went uncredited as the film's script doctor, and screenwriter Graham Yost went on to create.....

N.p. N.p., 1960-1961. Collection of three typed letters signed from director Jean Renoir to Atlantic Monthly Press publisher Seymour Lawrence, planning a meeting and discussing the forthcoming publication of the director's book, "Renoir," a biography of Renoir's father. Three concise but personable letters, in which Renoir discusses his travel plans and the reception of his latest film, "Picnic on the.....

Paris: Les Films Concordia, 1963. Original French program for the 1963 film. Based on the novel "Il Disprezzo" by Alberto Moravia. With a tiny rubber stamp contemporary to issue reading, "Interdit au moins de 18 ans" ("No under 18 admitted"). Godard's lush Technicolor landmark that transformed Brigitte Bardot from a sex symbol into an art object, while simultaneously making him.....

Paris: Athos Films, 1965. Vintage French moyenne poster for the 1965 film. The influence of "Alphaville" as the first crime film to be set in a sci-fi context cannot be underestimated, and even the film's legitimate proteges, such as "Blade Runner," don't quite capture its strange sexuality. Shot on location in Paris. 23 x 30 inches, folded. Light holograph pencil.....

N.p. N.p., 1968. Two vintage borderless photographs from the set of the 1968 French experimental film mixing documentary with surreal imagery and fictitious characters. With mimeo snipe on one and holograph annotations on the other. From the last scene of the film featuring "Eve Democracy," a graffiti artist played by Anne Wiazemsky who is followed by a film crew on.....

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.....

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1949. First Edition. Author's copy, with his ownership name and notation on the front endpaper: "Jim Thompson / RARE COPY / PLEASE RETURN." Remnants of Thompson's previous address label on same, as well as an attempted erasure of his old telephone number in holograph ink. From the estate of Jim Thompson, and with a letter.....

N.p. N.p., 1965. Archive of four vintage oversize 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.....

Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1969. Vintage black-and-white borderless reference photograph from the US release of the 1969 film. Jon Voight plays a naive Texan who moves to New York to hustle his body and finds himself in an unlikely friendship with an ailing con artist played by Dustin Hoffman. Winner of three Academy Awards including Best Picture, and nominated.....

New York: Jonas Mekas, 1969. Vintage large format poster for the 1969 experimental film by shot and edited by Jonas Mekas from his "film diary" footage shot between 1965 and 1969. Either unique or very nearly so, with no examples found in OCLC or institutions worldwide. The poster also doubles as liner notes for the film, briefly describing the scenes.....

N.p. N.p., 1940. Vintage matte-finish photograph of actor, dancer, and activist Josephine Baker, inscribed by Baker in holograph ink to the recto: "Pour la maison / un souvenir de Josephine Baker / 1940" ("For the house / a memento from Josephine Baker / 1940"). With the logo of Harcourt photography studio in Paris to the bottom right corner.Baker moved to.....

London: Warwick Film Productions, 1960. First Draft script for the 1960 UK film. File copy belonging to the film's director Ken Hughes, with a typescript note tipped on to the title page requesting its return to the director and noting it is the only script in existence for the film. Peter Finch delivers a strong performance as the inimitable author.....