Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, Circa 1932. Draft script for an unproduced film. With holograph pencil notations to the front wrapper. Based on the 1898 story by John Luther Long. An early screenplay by American playwright Zoe Akins, who won a Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1935 for her adaptation of Edith Wharton's "The Old Maid." An American naval officer purchases, marries, and...
N.p. N.p., Circa 1990s. Vintage photograph of Muhammad Ali with documentary filmmaker and producer Lindsey Clennell, circa early 1990s. With a holograph notation on the verso identifying the subjects. In articles about Ali from 1988 and 1989, both the "New York Times" and "Washington Post" quote Clennell, and the "Times" mentions his traveling with Ali on a world tour. Clennell's...
Burbank, CA: American Broadcasting Company [ABC], 1969. Collection of 217 individually numbered contact sheets, amounting to 2650 images, from the 1969 film. Housed in two original three-ring binders from the film's publicity department. The occasional frame is circled or crossed through in red marker. A robust collection that documents nearly every facet of the film's production, including numerous candid images...
N.p. N.p., 1956, 1963. Small archive consisting of two notes from film director and author Kenneth Anger to his friend, British film critic Roy Edwards. Two items are dated 1956 and 1963, pretty much the epicenter of Anger's coming into prominence as a film director of importance, with the releases of "Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome" (1953) and "Scorpio Rising,"...
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1965. Revised Draft script for the 1965 film. Actor Dana Andrews' working copy, with his name label on the front wrapper, and name in holograph ink on two pages. From Andrews' estate, with a letter of provenance from Andrews' daughter, Katharine Smith. Script printed in Spain, where much of the film was shot on location, with...
![La Sauvage [Restless Heart] (Original script for the 1938 play). Jean Anouilh](/pictures/thumb/137449.jpg?v=1492979630)
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...
Tokyo: Nikkatsu, 1981. Collection of eight vintage studio still photographs from the 1981 film. The famed Japanese photographer's only cinematic work, a "pink" film for Nikkatsu Studio's "Roman Porno" series, known alternately as "High School Girl Fake Diary," "The Pseudo-Diary of a High School Girl," and "Diary of a High School Girl" in English. Pink film is a broad genre...
N.p. N.p., circa 1960s. Photograph of Louis Armstrong at home, holding his trumpet, with his wife Louise. Taken by noted jazz photographer Eddie Adams in the mid-1960s, printing date unknown. With the Eddie Adams Archive stamp on the verso, signed just below by his son, Edward Adams II. An unusually candid image we have never seen, to our knowledge unpublished.....
Los Angeles: RKO Radio Pictures, 1936. Treatment script for the 1937 film. Almost certainly the earliest draft associated with the film, a typescript prose synopsis. A ballet star (Astaire) falls in love with a young tap dancer (Rogers) on a trans-Atlantic voyage, but rumors of their relationship precede them to their destination. The seventh of ten films Fred Astaire and...
Cambridge: Sun and Moon, 1985, 1986. First Edition. Three volumes, with each volume SIGNED by the author on the title page. "City of Glass" in the first issue jacket without the publisher's seal on the spine. Each volume Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Light foxing to the page edges of "City of Glass."
Beverly Hills, CA: EK Corp. / United Artists, Circa 1974. Early Draft British script for the 1974 British heist film. Based on Gerald Browne's 1972 novel, adapted by Charles Grodin. Howard Chesser (Grodin) is a diamond merchant supervising the cutting of a large and rare diamond. When the diamond is stolen, he is blackmailed and pulled into a jewel heist...
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...
N.p. N.p., 1956. Draft script for a 1956 student film. Front wrapper title in decorative holograph black ink, presumably by the screenwriter. Based on the 1890 story by Ambrose Bierce. 22 pages of storyboards, corresponding with the script that follows, all bound together. Decorative cast and crew invite to premiere and wrap party laid in. The second filmed version of...
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: Hutchinson, 1956. First Edition. also first edition in English and first in hardcover, preceded by the French edition. Basis for Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 classic film, Vertigo, starring James Stewart and Kim Novak. Very Good plus in an about Very Good, first issue dust jacket with a price of 10/6 at the bottom of the front flap. Book is quite...
Moscow: Mosfilm, 1966. Collection of three vintage borderless black-and-white reference photographs from the French release of the 1966 film. With the archival stamp of the noted cinema historian Maurice Bessy on the verso of each photo. A stunning set of battle scene photos, including one three-part panoramic shot, demonstrating the massive scale of the film, shot on location in Dorogobuzh...
![La Planete des Singes [The Planet of the Apes] (First French Edition, True First). Pierre Boulle](/pictures/thumb/107547.jpg?v=1470253018)
Paris: Le Cercle du nouveau livre, 1963. First French Edition, preceding all others, one of an unspecified limitation of numbered copies. Published in the US in 1963 (Planet of the Apes) then in the UK in 1964 (Monkey Planet), and finally the basis for the imaginative and very successful 1968 film, Planet of the Apes, starring Charlton Heston and Roddy...
Chicago: The Goodlion, 1972. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Brakhage on the front endpaper to his friend and colleague Annette Michelson: "June 17, 1972 / To Annette / Some small echoing answer to your life's work...and in friendship - * / Stan / [at bottom of page] * and..." Michelson is today a Professor of Cinema Studies at New York University...
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...
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1979. Final Draft script for the 1980 film. A shining credit for John Travolta, based on an article in Esquire magazine (1978) by Aaron Latham. A country boy moves to the city to take a job with his uncle, meets a cowgirl and the two fall in love, and eventually get married. Another man threatens their relationship...
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...
N.p. N.p., 1945-1963. An archive of 18 mimeograph manuscripts for short stories, novels, and screenplays, many never published or produced, by W.R. Burnett. All identified by stamp, label or cover sheet as being from H.N. Swanson, Inc., Burnett's literary agent. Four of the scripts are ribbon copy typescript or carbon typescript, two of the scripts have been briefly annotated by.....
N.p. N.p., 1971. Original eight-panel artwork by Ernie Bushmiller for the January 31, 1971 deluxe Sunday installment of his seminal comic strip Nancy. This strip features Nancy and her dog Poochie. As with American cinema, it was the French who first championed the studied simplicity of Bushmiller's un-deconstructible combination of rigid artistic style and even more rigidly governed humor. In...
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...
New York: Signet Books, 1949. No. 759. First printing of this edition. INSCRIBED by the author to Signet Books founder Kurt Enoch: "To Kurt Enoch / With my best congratulations on a job well-done / James M. Cain / Hyattsville, MD / December 26, 1949." From the Kurt Enoch collection, with a letter of provenance included. Kurt Enoch was the...
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....
New York: United Artists, Circa 1980. Story script for an unproduced film based on the novella "Hand-Carved Coffins" by Truman Capote, originally published in his 1980 story collection "Music for Chameleons." An exact match to the published text in the novella, and credited on the title page to United Artists, thus clearly printed for their use and ultimately unproduced. One of...
N.p. N.p., 1979. Original arwork depicting exotic birds in a glorious psychedelic landscape, also known as Don Van Vliet's mind. Signed "Van Vliet / 79." From the collection of Beefheart guitarist Gary Lucas, for whom the painting was made. It was around this time that Van Vliet famously began to contribute artwork to the covers of two of his finest...
Burbank, CA: Fox Broadcasting Company / Warner Brothers Television / Sweet Freedom Productions / Main Sequence Productions, 1993-1994. Archive of original scripts for all 27 episodes of "The George Carlin Show," which ran on Fox for two seasons in 1994 and 1995, with multiple drafts of each episode, totaling 196 scripts. Also included are several key pieces of ephemera relating...
![Someone's Watching Me [High-Rise] (Original screenplay for the 1978 television movie). John...](/pictures/thumb/130336.jpg?v=1492802383)
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1978. Final Shooting script for the 1978 television movie "Someone's Watching Me!," here under the early working title, "High-Rise." Airing on NBC in the same year as Carpenter's runaway hit "Halloween," made-for-television thriller "Someone's Watching Me!" still has the typical Carpenter characteristics, in which a woman being stalked in her ultra-modern high rise apartment must confront her...
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...
Beverly Hills, CA: Faces Distribution, 1976. Original US insert poster, "Seymour Cassell" style, for the 1976 film. 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 artful...
Universal City: Universal / Chaplin Film Productions, 1967. Vintage oversize, borderless, double weight photograph, taken during a break in filming, showing director Charlie Chaplin about to enthusiastically cut into a giant birthday cake while star Sophia Loren looks on. With holograph notations on the verso. Chaplin's final film as a director, and his only color film, viewed by many, including...
![A King in New York [Un Roi à New York] (Archive of 234 original photographs from the 1957 film)....](/pictures/thumb/143119.jpg?v=1518459724)
UK: Attica Film Company, 1957. Collection of 234 vintage French photographs for the 1957 UK film. Printed in Paris, where the film opened in October 1957, a month following the British release. Housed in original box with "Les Stencils Altic Fabriques en France" paper labels, and French promotional "week of gaiety in your neighborhood" title labels. Within are 18 paper...
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...
New York: Janus Films, 1974. Draft script for the 1974 British film. A young man who has had a premonition of his death is called up to train and fight with the British forces during World War II, ultimately ending in his actual death in battle on D-Day. Shot in black and white on vintage Kodak film stock, with about half...
New York: Paramount Pictures, 1971. Second Draft script for the 1972 film. Laid in are a staff and crew list, and a photocopied (as issued) six page inter-office memo on Paramount letterhead regarding contract terms for Marlon Brando, dated February 9, 1971. With a notation of copy No. 11 in blue holograph ink on the title page. Based on the 1969...
![Just Around the Corner [Lucky Penny] (Original screenplay for the 1938 film). Irving Cummings,...](/pictures/thumb/116351.jpg?v=1434404382)
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1938. Revised Final Script for the 1938 film, "Just Around the Corner" (here under the working title, "Lucky Penny"), directed by Irving Cummings, based on a story by Paul Girard Smith, written for the screen by Ethel Hill, J.P. McEvoy, and Darrell Ware, and starring Shirley Temple, Joan Davis, Charles Farrell, and Bert Lahr. The film...
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 notations 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...
![Too Late to Love [Pourquoi viens-tu si tard...] (Collection of 370 original keybook still...](/pictures/thumb/144588.jpg?v=1560892586)
Paris: Ulysse Production / Cinedis, 1959. Collection of 370 original black-and-white keybook still photographs from the 1959 French film, consisting of two unique and complimentary pieces, one being a studio film still keybook with 97 contact prints of small format transparencies, most with 12 images per print, amounting to over 1,000 images captured, nearly all images with series number etched...
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, Circa 1981. Vintage borderless black-and-white reference photograph from the 1982 film. Shot by still photographer Stephen Vaughan. Shown are Ridley Scott and Harrison Ford conferring as Ford sits in his "spinner" vehicle. 10 x 8 inches (25.5 x 20.5 cm). Fine.
Stratford-on-Avon: The Shakespeare Head Press, 1908. Small octavo. One of 250 numbered copies printed on handmade paper, this being No. 137. Near Fine in publisher's black quarter-cloth and paper-covered boards with gilt titles.
London: Faber and Faber, 1960. Third UK printing. INSCRIBED by the author in the year of publication on the front endpaper: "Autographed for Justine and Larry -- / By Lawrence Durrell / Paris, 1960." Very Good in a Very Good or better dust jacket. Spine lean, extremities lightly bumped, and a small vintage seller sticker at the front pastedown. Jacket...
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...
London: Edgar Wallace Mystery Theater / Merton Park Productions, 1963. Final Script for the 1964 British film, later rebroadcast as Season 5, Episode 5 of "The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theater." Based on the 1929 novel "The Big Four" by Edgar Wallace. "The Edgar Wallace Mysteries" constituted a run of 47 films, all produced at Merton Park Studios for Anglo-Amalgamated between...
![The Off-Shore Pirate [The Offshore Pirate] (Collection of 6 original photographs from the 1921...](/pictures/thumb/142805.jpg?v=1516296131)
Los Angeles: Metro Pictures Corporation, 1921. Collection of six vintage production photographs from the lost 1921 film. Based on the short story "The Offshore Pirate" by F. Scott Fitzgerald, first published in the "Saturday Evening Post" on May 29, 1920. Actress Viola Dana's second film based on a F. Scott Fitzgerald story (the first being the 1920 film "A Chorus...
New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, 1935. First Edition. One of 310 numbered copies (this being No. 176) 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...
Rome: Riama Film, 1960. Vintage oversize borderless double weight press photograph of Anouk Aimee from the 1960 film. With agency stamps on the verso. Fellini's most pivotal film, if not his finest. Unlike the more sentimental and abstract films that would follow, "La Dolce Vita" is an unflinching 7-day journey through 1960s Rome, with Mastroianni, a jaded journalist at the...
Various cities: Various Publishers, 1966-1987. An archive of 74 pressbooks and ad supplements for hardcore adult films released between 1966-1987, including a few foreign releases. A broad spectrum of advertising material for films screening strictly in adult theaters, mostly from the pre-video era. Design approach varies widely: early pressbooks were issued in black-and-white, then in two-color, then four-color, typically using...
N.p. N.p., Circa 1930s. Vintage double weight photograph of director Robert J. Flaherty with a camera, circa the 1930s. With holograph pencil notations on the verso. Known as the father of documentary, Flaherty mixed real life footage with staged events to capture portraits of people surviving in extreme environments in films such as "Nanook of the North" (1922), "Moana" (1926)...
Burbank, CA: Walt Disney Productions, 1954. Final Shooting Script for the 1954 film. Based on the 1870 novel "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" by Jules Verne. Walt Disney's "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" was the most expensive and one of the most ambitious productions of it's time. A 200 foot submarine, a 225 pound diving suit, a specially built...
Hollywood: RKO Radio Pictures, Circa 1934. Draft script for the 1935 film. In a custom quarter leather clamshell box. The second of two films based on Liam O’Flaherty’s 1925 novel, the first being Arthur Robison’s 1929 British feature, about a former Republic Army member during the Irish War of Independence, who turns in one of his comrades to the British in.....
![Inner Sanctum] Pillow of Death (Original screenplay for the 1945 film). Wallace Fox, George...](/pictures/thumb/128915.jpg?v=1568059551)
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1944. Draft script for the 1945 film. Studio file copy, with "Central Files" in holograph pencil on the front wrapper. 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 failure superseded its...
London: Brut Productions / NBC, 1973. British Draft script for the 1973 film. Included are 4 vintage double weight black-and-white reference photographs of Glenda Jackson from the film. A romantic comedy with a touch of pathos that was a box-office hit on both sides of the Atlantic, in which George Segal and Glenda Jackson can't seem to stop running into...
N.p. N.p., 1965. Archive of four vintage 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 a....
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 notations 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...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1970. Revised Draft script for the 1971 film. SIGNED by director William Friedkin on the title page. Friedkin made his name with this gritty adaptation of Robin Moore's non-fiction account of east coast drug trafficking. Perhaps the greatest of the many 1970s crime films that were shot on location in New York City, with glorious period...
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...
New York: William Morrow, 1937. Uncorrected Proof, preceding the First Edition. Good to Very Good in publisher's self-wrappers, with a publication date of April 12, 1937 and projected price of $2.00 rubber-stamped on the front endpaper. Spine lean and roll, vertical creasing to the spine panel, small stain to the fore-edge of the first couple of leaves. A presentable copy...
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...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1931. Proposed Treatment script for the 1935 film. In a later white leatherette binding with Jean Harlow's name and the date of the treatment (Dec. 15, 1931) in gilt on the front board and the spine. Original front wrapper bound in. Based on the 1931 novel by Crosbie [here spelled Crosby] Garstin, with Garstin and...
London: Cinema 5, 1977. Early Draft British script for the 1977 comedy directed by Terry Gilliam, based on the poem by Lewis Carroll from "Through the Looking Glass" (1871). Terry Gilliam's first solo directorial effort after co-directing "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" with Terry Jones. A comedy in the Python style--and with much of the Python cast--owing much to...
USA: Woodstock Editions, 2001. First Edition. One of 200 numbered suites of 15 six-color offset prints, each print SIGNED by Hans Gissinger. These are from Gissinger's monograph, published simultaneously by Woodstock Editions in 2001. 25 x 39 inches, 111-lb. paper. Fine condition. An exquisite production.
![Contempt [Le Mepris] (Original French Program for the 1963 film). Jean-Luc Godard, Alberto...](/pictures/thumb/133500.jpg?v=1450306160)
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...
![Band of Outsiders [Bande a Part] (Original photograph from the set of the 1964 film). Jean-Luc...](/pictures/thumb/144840.jpg?v=1560892643)
Paris: Columbia Films / Anouchka Films / Orsay Films, 1964. Vintage borderless photograph of actors Sami Frey, Anna Karina, and Claude Brasseur rehearsing the 1964 film's iconic dance sequence, which they did daily for a month prior to shooting. With holograph notations and agency stamps on the verso. An outrageous and comical crime film, which Godard himself described as "'Alice in...
Paris: Les Films de la Pleiade, 1962. Collection of four vintage borderless photographs from the 1962 film. With holograph notations and rubber stamps on the versos. Based in part on the nonfiction study "Ou en est la prostitution" by Marcel Sacotte, who also contributed to the screenplay. Godard’s least “intellectual” film is also one of his finest, a touching drama.....
![One Plus [+] One [Sympathy for the Devil] (Two original photographs from the set of the 1968 film...](/pictures/thumb/144349.jpg?v=1568145288)
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 notations 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...
![Keep Your Right Up [Une Place Sur La Terre Comme Au Ciel] (Original photograph from the 1987...](/pictures/thumb/144497.jpg?v=1547500031)
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...
![Numero deux [Number Two] (Collection of 10 original photographs from the 1975 film). Jean-Luc...](/pictures/thumb/138832.jpg?v=1492980104)
Paris: Anne-age-Bela, 1975. Collection of ten vintage borderless photographs (five black-and-white and five in color) from the 1975 film. Generally considered the peak of the collaborative work on video done by Godard and Mieville, presenting scenes from the everyday interactions of a working class family, with a special focus on children. The film was shot on video, then played back...
Los Angeles: Republic Pictures, 1957. Early Draft script for the 1957 film, "The Beginning of the End," directed by Bert I. Gordon, based on a story by Gordon (indicated here, though not credited in the film), written for the screen by Fred Freiberger and Lester Gorn, and starring Peter Graves and Peggie Castle. One of two Republic features produced by...
Worcester, MA: Metacom Press, 1985. First Edition. One of 500 copies (this being No. 196) SIGNED and numbered by Gorey. Prospectus for the edition laid in. A cut-apart style book in illustrated tan wrappers with two side-stitched spines. The book is "read" by independently flipping the captions and illustrations on each side . A tiny crease to one corner of...
New York: Crown, 1952. First Edition. Basis for Sergio Leone's 1984 mob epic, "Once Upon a Time in America," starring Robert DeNiro and James Woods. Near Fine in an about Near Fine dust jacket with none of the usual fading to the spine panel, only a tiny hole at mid-spine (see image).
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...
![Now and Forever [Honor Bright] (Original screenplay for the 1934 film). Henry Hathaway, Sylvia...](/pictures/thumb/145941.jpg?v=1567201657)
Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1934. Draft script for the 1934 film, here under the working title "Honor Bright." With holograph pencil notations to the front wrapper. 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...
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: D. Appleton, 1914. First Edition. Color illustrations throughout by classic French illustrator Jacques Marie Gaston Onfroy de Breville (Job). Very Good plus lacking dust jacket. Owner book plate on the front pastedown, slight split along hinge, and light dampstain on the rear panel.
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1969. Final Draft script for the 1970 film. After selling his original screenplay, Erich Segal was approached by Paramount to adapt his own work into a novel, to be published ahead of the film to help publicize it. The novel was an instant best seller, and the film became the highest grossing of the year, leading to...
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...
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1942. First Edition. INSCRIBED by President Herbert Hoover on the front endpaper to Alvan Markle, Jr., and additionally signed by the book's co-author Hugh Gibson (in the same ink) just below Hoover's inscription, which reads: "To Alvan Markle, Jr. / With good wishes of Herbert Hoover and [signed separately] Hugh Gibson." Markle's ownership signature and date...
Kyoto, Japan: File, Inc., 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.
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1936. Draft script for the 1936 film. A very interesting early draft of the script, with a cast page that includes George Raft, who was replaced by Fred MacMurray late in pre-production. Raft left the production when Ted Tetzlaff was announced as the director, as Tetzlaff had caused Lombard to outshine Raft in the duo's previous film...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1951. First Draft Continuity script for the 1952 film. AFI Catalog notes that the film went into production on December 26, 1951, making this a draft that was probably an iteration or two short of the shooting script. Notable adaptation of Hugo’s 1862 novel, with Michael Rennie as Jean Valjean and Debra Paget as Cosette. Debra Paget...
Tokyo: Nikkatsu, 1959. Draft script for the 1959 film. Text in Japanese. Based on Sueko Yasumoto's novel, and one of the first examples of media dealing with the plight of zainchi or ethnically Korean Japanese citizens, and their identity and struggles. One man has always worked faithfully for the Toho Company and another man is working for an underworld boss...
New York: Farrar and Rinehart, 1944. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper in the year of publication to actress Kay Campbell: "For Kay Campbell / who is almost my favorite actress - and so damned nice (plus attractive) besides / Love and kisses from / Charlie Jackson / March 2nd, '44." Campbell is best known for...
New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1939. First Edition. A comprehensive history of American cinema up to the beginning of World War II, beginning with George Melies, the birth of the Hollywood studios, and D.W. Griffith, and ending with the dawn of the "auteur" era (Vidor, Lang, von Sternberg, Capra, Ford, etc.) A focused, factual look at cinema's first four decades. Profusely...
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...
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Poland: S. P. Eagle / Romulus Horizon, Circa 1957. Original Hungarian poster for the 1965 film. In the final days of WWII, a 17-year-old boy wanders the countryside. He is captured by Soviet troops, then released, then captured once more. He has donned a German uniform for warmth and is imprisoned at a remote barracks, where he strikes up an...
N.p. Filmes Cinematografica, 1976. Collection of 3 vintage borderless photographs from the 1976 film. Grazia Neri stamps on the verso. Jancso's "Private Vices, Public Pleasures" is loosely based on the death of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, believed having killed himself after shooting his lover in a suicide pact in 1882. Jancso's film presents Rudolf (Lajos Balazsovits) as a pan-sexual...
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Hulme, Manchester: Factory Records, 1979. Evocative original poster advertising a performance by Joy Division at the Factory in Hulme, Manchester, on July 13, 1979. The show was the band's first performance at the now-legendary club, following the release of their first LP, "Unknown Pleasures," in 1979. Accompanying the poster is a typed letter signed, dated 2008, with detailed provenance, by...
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Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1972. Revised script for the 1972 film under the working title "Wet Stuff". A spy spoof film featuring Elliot Gould and Donald Sutherland as CIA agents on the run from the CIA, the KGB, Chinese Communists and an anarchist group after botching a Russian ballerina's defection. Shot on location in London and Paris. Blue titled wrappers...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1943. Collection of 68 vintage keybook set design photographs from the 1947 film. Original brown card front wrapper present, with the film title printed on the front. Winner of four Academy Awards fincluding Best Actress for Jennifer Jones. Nominated for an additional eight, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor and twice for...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1968. Vintage oversize borderless double weight black and white set design photograph from the 1968 film. Shown is a sample interior from the space station featured near the beginning of the film, the "Hilton" sign marking Kubrick's groundbreaking use of ordinary commerce in a futuristic context. The director's sprawling, science fiction epic traces the evolution...
Tokyo: Shochiku Films Ltd., 1990. Draft script for the 1991 film, dated May 28, 1990, about a year before its release. A tale of three generations in a postwar Japanese family and their responses to the atomic bombing of Japan. When the film played at the Tokyo Film Festival, critics of Japanese militarism said Kurosawa had ignored the historical facts...
New York: La Mama ETC, 1975-1976. Archive of four posters from productions hosted by La Mama Experimental Theatre Club, including "Fragments of a Trilogy" (Andrei Serban & Elizabeth Swados, 1975), "A Rat's Mass" (Adrienne Kennedy & Cecil Taylor, 1976), "Anais" (Tom O'Horgan, 1976), and "Quarry" (Meredith Monk, 1976). Founded in 1961 by African-American "Off-Off Broadway" pioneer Ellen Stewart, La Mama...
Hollywood: RKO Radio Pictures, circa 1944. Collection of eight original preliminary advertising concept art sketches for the release of the seminal 1944 film noir. Executed variously in graphite, charcoal, and gouache on onion skin paper, each leaf tipped on to card stock at the corners, some with notations at the margins. The sketches reflect different styles and feature traces of...
Vienna: Illustrierter Film-Kurier, 1931. Vintage Austrian program for the 1931 German film. Lang's first sound film, Peter Lorre's breakthrough role, and the film Lang considered to be his masterpiece--an assertion that has found much agreement since. The only second piece of ephemera from the film we have ever offered. Text in German. Issue No. 262 of "Illustrierter Film-Kurier," one of...
London: William Heinemann, 1960. First UK Edition. Basis for the 1962 Robert Mulligan film, starring Gregory Peck, and winner of three Academy Awards, as well as a nomination for the Palme d'Or at Cannes the following year. Near Fine with a slight lean, in a bright Near Fine dust jacket. National Film Registry.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987. First Edition, a paperback original. Perfect bound in illustrated wrappers. Copy belonging to ex-Columbia Pictures chairman David Puttnam, and colorfully INSCRIBED by Spike Lee: "To David Puttnam / Thanks for everything / I appreciate it / Fuck Columbia!!! / love, Spike Lee." Housed in a custom slipcase. British film producer David Puttnam was chairman...
Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Ministerstwa Obrony Narodowej, 1961. First Polish Edition, preceding all others. Not published in another language until the French edition in 1964, and not in English until the Walker edition in 1970. Lem's seminal novel about a vast ocean world that resists communication from the outside by imposing hallucinations on its visitors. One of the most famous science fiction...