London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1978. First Edition. SIGNED by Alan Jay Lerner on the title page. A memoir by lyricist and librettist Lerner, who in collaboration with his writing partner Frederick Loewe created some of the most enduring works of the American stage and cinema. Winners of 3 Tony Awards and 3 Academy Awards, he and Loewe are responsible for...
London: Don Letts, 1979. Original handbill for the London premiere of the 1977 film documentary, held at the Institute of Contemporary Arts Cinema Club, preceding the New York premiere of the film by nearly 10 months. The definitive London punk documentary. Shot by Don Letts on 8mm film almost exclusively at The Roxy in Covent Garden, London, during the club's...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1943. Complete script for the 1945 film, along with 41 vintage still photographs. Based on the 1890 novel by Oscar Wilde. Script is equivalent to a nearly 3-hour version of the classic film, finally released at a length of 110 minutes. Photographs break down to 14 reference photographs, 22 test photographs (Hurd Hatfield, Angela Lansbury...
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1917. First Edition. Lewis' fourth book and his first work of serious fiction, the story of a woman working in a man's world, an early call for sexual equality in the workplace. Lewis would continue on to a successful and lasting career as one of the major American authors from the early to mid twentieth...
New York: Filmmakers Newsletter / Filmmakers' Cinematheque, 1967-1971. Archive of 41 issues of "Filmmakers Newsletter," dating from the first four years of the magazine, including Vol. I, issue 1. Early issues of the magazine appear to be scarce, and putting together a collection of this size would be prohibitively difficult. Founded in 1967 by experimental filmmaker Carl Linder as "New...
Burbank, CA: Walt Disney Productions, 1981. Draft script for the 1982 film. Jeff Bridges plays a game designer who ends up in the very game he's been programming, and who must defeat the computer-generated image of his money-grubbing employer. The pinnacle of computer graphics technology at the time, a hybrid of back-lit live action and computer-generated visuals, "TRON" was one...
![The Damned [These Are the Damned] (Publicity manual for the 1962 film). Joseph Losey, Evan Jones,...](/pictures/thumb/144548.jpg?v=1557764124)
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures / Hammer Films, 1961. Deluxe publicity manual for the 1962 film. Based on H.L. Lawrenece's 1960 novel "The Children of Light." An extensive publication, containing cast and crew lists and biographies, a synopsis of the film, stories from the film's production, and captions for still photographs (though the stills are not included with the manual)...
Los Angeles: American Film Institute [AFI], 1977. Collection of six vintage oversize borderless double weight photographs from the 1977 film. With agency stamps on the verso of five of the photographs and a label with the film's title in French and English affixed to the recto of four photographs at the lower left corner. David Lynch's first feature film. The AFI...
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1966. Two pieces of original artwork from the 1966 film, likely created for proposed advertisement content. Both illustrations depict Paul Newman and Janet Leigh in bed together, Newman reclining and Leigh in a partial state of undress. Based on the 1949 Lew Archer novel "The Moving Target," by Ross Macdonald. The name of the main character...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948. First Edition. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket, with a small rubber stamp for the "Booth Memorial Hospital" on the front endpaper. Bump to the heel, some minute rubbing at the corners. An attractive copy of the author's fourth novel.
New York: Theatre 28 Company, 1971. Rehearsal Draft script for the short-lived play, MacLeish's last work. Based on Stephen Vincent Benet's short story "The Devil and Daniel Webster." Though originally intended to feature Dylan's songs exclusively for the soundtrack (some of his classics from the 1960s, and four songs that had appeared on the 1970 album "New Morning"), Dylan and...
New York: 2001. First Edition. SIGNED on the front endpaper by several notable Magnum photographers, including Bruce Davidson, Susan Meiselas, Dennis Stock, and others. An immediate, photographic retrospect on September 11, 2001, published just months after the attacks. Fine and unread with no dust jacket as issued.
Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1958. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper: "For Johanna / Bernard Malamud." The author's third book and first collection of short stories, although his first five published stories were not collected until 1989, in "The People and Uncollected Stories." One of the author's more difficult titles. Very Good plus in...
London: Jarrolds, Circa 1930s. First UK Edition, and first printing in English. An edition of this title so rare that we had been heretofore unaware of its existence, issued under the publisher's Jay Library series, at a price of 7/6. Basis for the classic 1930 film by Josef von Sternberg, starring Emil Jannings and a very young Marlene Dietrich, filmed...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1962. Vintage oversize, double weight, borderless photograph from the 1962 film, showing Leo McCarey directing William Holden from behind the camera while France Nuyen waits just offstage. With a mimeo snipe tipped on the verso crediting photographer Lawrence Schiller and stamps of the Holmes-Lebel and Camera Press agencies on the verso. Based on an originally screen...
New Orleans: B.E. Trice, 2005. First Edition, one of 325 copies (this being No. 139) SIGNED and numbered by the author on the limitation page. Basis for the 2008 Academy Award winning film. Fine in quarter leather binding and marbled paper covered boards, with a maroon cloth slipcase as issued.
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1995. First printing of this edition. Octavo, blue cloth with navy blue quarter leather and silver titles, in a matching blue cloth slipcase. One of 250 numbered copies (this being No. 67). Collects poems from "Moby Dick," "Battle-Pieces and Aspects of War," "John Marr and Other Sailors," and more. Faintly sunned at the spine of both...
Lausanne, Switzerland: Editions L'Age D'Homme, 1981. First Edition, a trade softcover original. INSCRIBED by Satyajit Ray on the half title page: "For Pierre Goulliard / Satyajit Ray / 1/4/83." Ray's contribution to twentieth century cinema is inestimable, and brought the reality of Indian culture to the world by way of gifted visual storytelling and directorial genius. He only visited America...
Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co., 1917. First Edition. Blank book-style yearbook (largely still blank) belonging to Elizabeth Floding with numerous inscriptions and well wishes from various students and faculty, including a four-line Gellett Burgess poem written to Floding by Margaret Mitchell: "I never saw a purple cow, I never hope to see one, I'll tell you one thing anyhow...
![Street of Shame [Akasen chitai] (Original screenplay for the 1956 film). Kenji Mizoguchi,...](/pictures/thumb/141466.jpg?v=1494029259)
Kanagawa, Japan: Dalei Studios, 1956. Draft script for the 1956 film. Text in Japanese. With notations on a few pages in holograph ink. Based on the novel "Susaki No Onna" by Yoshiko Shibaki. The last film of Mizoguchi, this film is a vivid portrayal of prostitution in 1950s Japan, shot before the Japanese government's anti-prostitution bill, told through the perspective...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1947. Complete set of eight lobby cards for the 1947 film. Based on the Raymond Chandler's 1943 novel, his fourth book and the fourth Philip Marlowe adventure. An unusual and ambitious film noir, and Montgomery's final film for MGM. In a concept that originated with Montgomery, who directed, the entire film is shot from Marlowe's...
![Evening Stream [The Lovelorn Geisha] (Original screenplay for the 1960 film). Mikio Naruse, Yuzo...](/pictures/thumb/143202.jpg?v=1522340690)
Tokyo: Toho Company, 1960. Draft script for the 1960 Japanese film. Holograph ink and stamp on the outer page edges. Production designer's script, with holograph underlining on numerous pages regarding objects needed for a given scene (swimsuits, sun cream, summer kimonos, Persian cat, etc.) Other notations, in the same hand, fill in the names of actors who have been chosen...
![The Desperados are in Town [The Outlaws are in Town] (Original screenplay for the 1956 film)....](/pictures/thumb/140205.jpg?v=1568317060)
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1956. Draft script for the 1956 film, here under the working title "The Outlaws are in Town." Copy belonging to Robert Arthur, who played Lonny Kesh, with his name on the front wrapper in holograph pencil and his holograph pencil and ink annotations throughout. Lonny Kesh (Arthur) works his family's farm in Georgia, but has big...
Hollywood: Jed Buell Productions / Columbia Pictures, Circa 1938. Draft script for the 1938 film. Copy belonging to actor Joseph Herbst, with his last name in holograph pencil to the front wrapper. Herbst played the part of the sheriff in the film, and a year later would also go on to act as a Munchkin villager in The Wizard of...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1926. Draft script for the 1927 Silent film. Based on the 1913 yellow peril play by Henry Maurice Vernon and Harold Owen, and previously adapted for the screen in 1919, directed by Maurice Elvey, and starring Matheson Lang. Lon Chaney, in full yellowface, murders his daughter after discovering she loves the son of a British...
New York: Random House, 1958. First Edition. Laid in is a typed letter signed by O'Hara, addressed to "Bill and Frank," on stationery from Long Island, NY. The letter is dated June 20, 1960 (in pencil), and in it O'Hara expresses his dislike of the public remarks made by Mark Robson, the director of the 1960 film, though Robson's name...
New York: Arts at St. Anna's, 1991. Original program for a performance by the Orchestra of St. Luke's, conducted by David Alan Miller, held at The Town Hall in New York City on June 8 and 9, 1981. The performance featured four pieces: "Freeform" and "Shivering Air," composed by Glenn Branca, "Sanctus," composed by John Cale, and "The Forest," composed...
Italy: Produzioni Europee Associati (PEA), 1975. Vintage oversize borderless black-and-white double weight photograph from the set of the 1975 Italian film. With the stamp of photographer Deobrah Imogen Beer (as Deobrah Beer) on the verso, along with a typescript snipe. Also described in an ink notation on the verso is the content of the photograph, wherein Pasolini is making a....
New York: Lincoln Center / List Art Poster and Print Program, 1968. Original serigraph designed by artist Henry Pearson for the Sixth New York Film Festival, held at the Lincoln Center on September 17-28, 1968. The New York Film Festival was founded in 1963 by Amos Vogel and Richard Roud, and to this day serves as a major taste-maker for...
New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1928. First Edition, in a later printing dust jacket. Jacket has a different design than that of the first printing, red with black titles and a yellow printed Pulitzer Prize Novel band. Winner of the 1929 Pulitzer Prize and Peterkin's most important book, with dialogue written in the Gullah dialect of South Carolina. Very Good plus in...
Hollywood: RKO Radio Pictures, 1932. Screenplay archive for the 1932 film. Archive consists of a Revised Final script and a typescript rewrite of the film's opening sequence onboard a yacht. The rewrite credits an unknown screenwriter named "Eliscu." Based on the Richard Connell short story first published in "Colliers" in 1924. A rare set of scripts for a groundbreaking film...
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1941. Draft script for the 1941 film. The 1941 version of "The Black Cat" is neither a remake of Edgar G. Ulmer's 1934 Karloff-Lugosi film of the same name, nor does it bear much relation to the Edgar Allan Poe story (though, in fairness, neither did the 1934 version). It is more of a horror-comedy...
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1980. Early Draft script for the 1980 film, with Roman Polanski credited as screenwriter on the title page. The screen credit ultimately went to Mann Rubin, who rewrote the script extensively. Based on the 1973 novel by Lawrence Sanders. Notable both for being one of Frank Sinatra's most understated performances (it was also his last...
New York: Macmillan, 1917. First Edition. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Ex-library copy, with only a few of the defects usually associated with such copies. Very Good plus, with circulation slip to the front pastedown, and with a few light splashes to the boards. Rear panel and flap of the scarce dust jacket present, with cello tape to a few...
Los Angeles: Selznick International Pictures / Vanguard Films, 1946. An archive of 3 scripts relating to an unproduced film version of "Joan of Arc" developed by Selznick International Pictures and Vanguard Films. The archive includes: Early partial treatment (but complete as issued) for an unproduced film, "Joan of Arc," written for the screen by Ben Hecht. The treatment ends with Joan...
New York: John Gibson and Multiples, 1972. Limited edition LP and printed score, one of 500 copies (this being no. 65) SIGNED and numbered by Reich. A live recording of a performance at The Town Hall, New York City, originally released in 1971. One of Reich's early masterpieces, "Drumming" employs the composer's trademark phasing technique and functions as a transitional...
New York: Carnegie Hall, 1979. Original poster for a WKCR Benefit Concert at Carnegie Hall, featuring Philip Glass, Steve Reich, John Cale, Leroy Jenkins, The Model Citizens, and others. April 1, 1979. Fine condition, on archival linen. In the 1970s and 1980s, Carnegie Hall--as well as forward-looking radio stations such as WKCR and WNYC--hosted a number of important performances by...
Paris: Paris Film, 1938. Vintage oversize black-and-white double weight still photograph from the 1938 film, a strong image of Jean Gabin in full train engineer regalia. Shot by acclaimed portrait photographer Sam Levin, who worked with Renoir on several other productions, including "La Grande Illusion" (1937) and "The Rules of the Game" (1939), and whose early photographs of Brigitte Bardot...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. First Edition. INSCRIBED to Richard Lupoff on the front endpaper in the year of publication: "For Dick Lupoff / Best of luck to a fellow Creature-Feature fan / Anne Rice / May, 1976." Anne Rice was still attending school in San Francisco at this time. The year also happened to be Lupoff's most prolific year...
![Paris nous appartient [Paris Belongs to Us] (Original French moyenne poster for the 1961 film)....](/pictures/thumb/137039.jpg?v=1492979430)
Paris: Ajym Films, 1961. Original French moyenne poster (affiche) for the 1961 French film. Winner of the 1962 Sutherland Trophy for best first or second feature by the British Film Institute. Scarce, with only two copies found in Cine-ressources. A labor of love released after numerous financial woes and a three-year production schedule, "Paris Belongs to Us" did not cause...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1952. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper: "To E.F. / With appreciation for all your kind encouragements / Fondly / Harold R." Basis for the 1958 film "King Creole," directed by Michael Curtiz and starring a different king, Elvis Presley, in what is generally considered to be his best film, as...
Pittsburgh, PA: Pittsburgh Pictures, 1973. Vintage US one-sheet poster for the 1973 film. A grim and violent cult classic that tells the story of an outbreak of a highly contagious and untreatable military-developed biological weapon that spreads through a rural Pennsylvania town after a plane transporting the disease crashes nearby. Remade by director Breck Eisner in 2010, starring Danielle Panabaker...
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1974. Draft script for the 1975 film. Bound presentation script belonging to producer Howard Pine with his named embossed on the front board. With notations in holograph pencil and ink throughout. A sequel to the 1968 film "Funny Girl," this is a fictionalized account of singer Fanny Brice and her marriage to impresario Billy Rose...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1955. Original scenario artwork by Charles K. Hagedon for the 1955 film musical, a somber and colorful scene depicting two men in a boat floating near the ice, with various others in cold weather suits floating in the water, heads just above the surface, around them. Signed by Hagedon at the bottom left corner. Archivally...
N.p. N.p., circa 1970s. Vintage borderless photograph of Yves Saint-Laurent, circa 1970s. Mimeo snipe, holograph notations and press agency stamps on the verso. Yves Saint-Laurent started his career working for Christian Dior. He succeeded Dior's position after his untimely death in 1957. Four years later he founded his eponymous fashion label that went on to be one of the most influential.....
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1972. Draft script for the 1973 film. Copy belonging to uncredited cast member Merritt Blake, with his name in holograph ink on the front wrapper. Jay Grobart (Reynolds) kills a man who raped and murdered his wife, Cat Dancing. He is arrested, but soon after is released and goes on a crime spree. He then...
London: Hammer Film Productions, 1970. Draft script for the 1971 film. Copy belonging to horror cult icon Ingrid Pitt, who assumed the role of the titular character, with her extensive holograph ink notations on nearly every page (and many page versos), including her blocking notes and detailed character analyses in both Polish and English. Loosely based on the apocryphal legend of...
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1949. First Edition. The author's first book, one of the best Westerns ever written, which in 1953 was adapted into one of the best films the genre has ever seen (with a script by A.B. Guthrie, Jr.), in which a lone gunfighter comes to the aid of a small community. Though not nominated, Alan Ladd gave an...
Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1930. Second Draft script for the 1930 pre-Code film. Cast list with holograph ink and pencil notations tipped in, and distribution receipt signed by composer and lyricist George Marion Jr. laid in. An early uncredited role for Carole Lombard, who performs the song "You Appeal to Me." A young man is set to inherit a large sum...
Hollywood: Lawrence Schiller Productions, 1981. Feature Draft script (television equivalent of a Shooting script) for the 1982 television film, which originally aired November 28, 1982 on NBC. Based on the 1979 Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Norman Mailer, who adapted his own book for the screen, about the final years in the life of convicted murderer Gary Gilmore, following his release...
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1977. Revised Draft script for the 1978 film. The Beatles' legendary 1967 masterwork is turned into a 1970s film musical, represented by a star-studded ensemble, with appearances by Donald Pleasence, George Burns (the only actor with speaking lines not accompanied by song), Steve Martin, Alice Cooper, Jack Bruce, Keith Carradine, Carol Channing, Donovan, Leif Garrett...
Universal City: Universal, 1983. Archive of three scripts for the 1983 film, including a Second Draft, Third Draft, and Revised Final Draft, with the Second and Third Draft scripts appearing under the working title "Capitol Cab." Scripts belonging to producer Cassius Weathersby, with his name on the cover sheet for revision pages dated 5/16/83 laid into the Revised Final script...
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1942. Final Draft script for the 1943 film. Copy belonging to actress Marguerite Chapman, who played Mary Boleslavski in the film, with her name on the front wrapper in holograph pencil. A battleship in World War II tests very poorly in fighting tests and will not be allowed to engage in combat in the war...
London: William Heinemann, 1937. First Edition. One of two books that Ms. Simpson wrote that were made into films directed by Alfred Hitchcock (the other being "Enter Sir John"). Later, her association with Hitchcock extended into the writing of dialogue for his films, including Sabotage and Murder. Extremely uncommon in dust jacket. Very Good plus in a Very Good dust...
UK: Connoisseur Films, 1970. Collection of five vintage borderless photographs from the 1970 film noir. Each with the stamp of French magazine "Telecine" on the verso. A teenage boy takes a job at a local swim club, becoming obsessed with his older coworker, trying to sabotage her engagement to another man. 9.5 x 7.25 inches (24 x 20 cm). Near Fine. Grant UK. Weldon 1996.
New York: Robert M McBride, 1926. First Edition. Basis for the classic 1937 screwball comedy, written for the screen by Eric Hatch (among others) and starring Cary Grant and Constance Bennett. Fine in a Very Good plus, unrestored example of the rare dust jacket. Jacket is bright, with a few short closed tears and some shallow creasing at the spine ends.
New York: Robert M McBride, 1926. Second printing. INSCRIBED by the author to Roland Young, who played Cosmo Topper in the legendary 1937 screwball comedy (as well as its two sequels): "To Roland Young: The most disarming "gentleman Johnnie" that ever advanced the lines of G.B.S. [George Bernard Shaw]. From Thorne Smith." Roland Young's bookplate is opposite the inscription on...
London: Arthur Barker, 1952. First UK Edition. Very Good plus in a Very Good dust jacket. Some light soil to the boards. Jacket has a chip at the crown (titling not affected) and a couple of smaller chips at the corners, with light rubbing overall. A very presentable copy of Spillane's first book, the first Mike Hammer mystery, and the...
New York: Signet Books, 1951. No. 852. First printing of this edition. INSCRIBED by the author to Signet Books founder Kurt Enoch: "Dear Kurt / Hope you enjoy this one / Same old Mike with a new twist / Sincerely / Mickey Spillane." From the Kurt Enoch collection, with a letter of provenance included. Kurt Enoch was the founder of...
St. Louis: N.p., 1912-1916. Album containing over 300 vintage black and white and sepia tone vernacular photographs belonging to St. Louis Cycling Club member Lloyd H. Faidley, shot between 1912 and 1916. Housed in a leather bound volume with gilt titles. An uncommonly large and intimate album illustrating the adventures of the oldest continuously operating cycling club in the United...
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1955. Final Draft script for the 1956 film. Copy belonging to actor Bob Nichols, who played the part of "Mort 'Pinky' Snythe," with his name on the front wrapper, and notations throughout, in holograph pencil. Based on Edna Ferber's 1952 novel. Bick Benedict (Hudson) and his wife Leslie (Taylor) are cattle ranchers in Texas, Leslie having...
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Hollywood: RKO Radio Pictures, 1949. Original one sheet poster for the 1949 film noir. A visually striking design for one of the most arresting noirs of the late 1940s, one that predicted Samuel Fuller's "Pickup on South Street" (1953), in which Communist intrigue and noir non-ethics are woven together to achieve maximum paranoia. 27 x 41 inches (105 x 89...
Bryn Mawr, PA: Theodore Presser, 1958. First American Edition, and first English language edition, originally published in Austria in 1955 by Universal Edition. First issue of an eight issue journal by composers and theorists Karlheinz Stockhausen and Herbert Eimert. Each issue focused on a single topic in contemporary music, this one focusing on the then-new field of electronic music. Very...
London: Faber and Faber, 1960. First UK Edition. INSCRIBED by Stravinsky in the year of publication on the title page: "To Ralph and Mirandi / With love / I. Stravinsky / [illegible] Nov-60." Also inscribed by Craft on the title page: "Love / Miranda and Ralph / Paris / Nov. 26-60." A companion volume to "Conversations with Igor Stravinsky," published...
![Akuma No Machi [Satan's Town] (Original screenplay for the 1956 film). Seijun Suzuki, Goro...](/pictures/thumb/141458.jpg?v=1494029254)
Tokyo: Nikkatsu, 1956. Draft script for the 1956 film. Text in Japanese. A yakuza boss and his right hand man escape from prison and examine their relationship, both matters of loyalty and betrayal, as well as the scams and crimes they pull in their criminal history. White titled perfect bound wrappers. Title page present. 41 leaves, with last page of...
Burbank, CA: Cinema Epoch, 1977. Draft script for the 1977 film. Text in Japanese. A female golfer tries to perform to the very best of her abilities but must contend with the men in her life, her neighbors, her family and a stalker who will not leave her alone. Pink titled perfect bound wrappers. Title page present. 118 leaves, with...
Moscow: Creative Unit of Writers, 1972. Original Russian poster for the seminal 1972 science fiction film. This is the export variant, with text in English. Often cited as one of the most important films in the history of cinematography, "Solaris" is a meditative psychological drama occurring mostly aboard a space station orbiting the fictional planet Solaris. The scientific mission has...
Neuilly-sur-Seine, France: Gaumont, 1958. Three vintage borderless photographs showing director Jacques Tati at work on the set of the 1958 film. With the stamps of the French Film Office's New York address, as well as film information, on the verso. The director's second of four films featuring the inimitable Monsieur Hulot. In this chapter, Hulot strays from his rather ordinary...
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...
Burbank, CA: Walt Disney Productions, 1969. Revised Final Draft script for the 1970 Disney film. Based on a story by Marty Roth, executive story editor for the television series, "The Dukes of Hazzard" (1979-1985). Coast Guard Ensign Garland (Morse) falls in love with sailing instructor Kate (Powers), but his bumbling leaves her disenchanted, until they team up to recover stolen...
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1978. First American edition, and first edition in hardcover. INSCRIBED by Truffaut on the half-title page in the year of publication: “To Laurie / Sincerely yours / Francois / 78 August 3.” Truffaut's third and final book, an absolute must for any film lover, comprised of many essays detailing his feelings on a wide variety...
New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1922. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper: "To B.T. Harts / with best wishes of the author / Jim Tully." With Tully's homemade "address label" on the front pastedown, with Tully's name and address in holograph black ink, in his hand. The author's first book, an autobiographical novel of the road. Bump...
Gottingen: Steidl, 2002. First Edition. SIGNED by the photographer on the title page. 49 full page, four-color plates. A series of images taken in and around Tunbjork's hometown and other middle-class enclaves in Sweden, capturing simultaneously the familiarity of the every-man as well as the underlying uniqueness rarely attributed suburban sprawl. Fine and unread in pink linen boards with no...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1965. First Edition. Fine and unread in an about Near Fine dust jacket, with a brilliant yellow topstain. Moderate toning to the jacket spine, with a small sticker shadow to the top of the rear panel, else Fine. An attractive and especially fresh copy of the author's second book.
N.p. N.p., 1968. Two-color ink drawing of Charlie Chaplin in silhouette, titled "Chaplin a' la Vigo's 'Zero de conduit'" by noted radical caricaturist Robert Osborn. The title makes reference to French filmmaker Jean Vigo's 1933 film, "Zero de conduite," and the drawing, unpublished, was a gift to Osborn's friend Amos Vogel, inscribed at the bottom left corner, "For Amos /...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1924. Vintage herald (or broadside) for the 1924 film. A clever and excessively rare bit of advertisement, designed as a "Wanted" poster, pulling together the main character from Frank Norris' novel (John "Doc" McTeague) a photo of "McTeague" (Gibson Gowland), and mention of a specific screening at San Francisco's Imperial Theatre on Market Street (today...
N.p. N.p., Circa 1940-1960. Archive of 22 single weight and 7 double weight photographs of newspaper columnist Inez Wallace circa 1940s - 1960s, tipped onto the pages of a large format photo album, complete with a holograph marker title page and mimeograph caption list at the front. Featuring seven oversized photographs of Wallace, as well as several photographs and other...
London: Chambers, 1935. First Edition, preceding all others. A phenomenally popular novel in the UK and Ireland upon publication, and basis for the iconic 1952 John Ford film, "The Quiet Man," starring John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara. The UK edition went well into multiple printings, the small first printing having always been extremely scarce, particularly in jacket. Very Good plus...
N.p. N.p., Circa 1969. Archive of 59 original color photographs taken by Cleveland teenager Richard Wargo at various concerts, primarily in the Cleveland area, but with three sets of photographs venturing to Houston and Austin, TX and Atlantic City, NJ, all circa 1969. Subjects include Led Zeppelin, The Who, Jethro Tull, James Gang, and others. Eight of the photographs are...
Burbank, CA: National Broadcasting Company [NBC] / Mark VII Ltd., 1957. Final Draft script for Season 7, episode 17 of the 1951-1959 television series, which originally aired January 16, 1958 on NBC. Script belonging to Lyn Thomas, who played Mona Morgan in the episode, with her holograph name in red ink on the front wrapper, and her lines circled in...
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1947. Archive of seven vintage single and double weight fashion publicity photographs from the 1947 film. Mimeograph snipe on the verso of a few photos notes the Jean Louis clothing designs for the film. Photographers’ rubber stamp also to the versos. Based on the 1938 novel "If I Die Before I Wake" by Sherwood King...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1960. Vintage oversize borderless black-and-white double weight press photograph from the set of the 1960 film. Shot by Jean Schmidt for the French magazine Cinema, with stamps for both parties on the verso. A cinematic experiment tailor made for Welles, in which three actors portray two roles each, spinning two intertwined stories of romantic triangles gone...
Glendale, CA: Allied Artists, 1955. Revised Shooting script for the 1956 film. Based on the 1945 novel by Jessamyn West, written for the screen by Jessamyn West, Robert Wyler, and Michael Wilson (though only West and Wyler are credited here) and starring Gary Cooper, Dorothy McGuire, and Anthony Perkins. Interestingly, Michael Wilson, who was ultimately granted sole screenwriting credit on...
London: MacGibbon and Kee, 1960. First Edition. Wiesel's classic account of idolatry and the destruction of religious faith during the Holocaust. Very Good plus in a bright, Very Good plus, price clipped dust jacket. Neat contemporary owner name and date (1965) on the front flyleaf. Jacket has no loss, just a touch of toning at the spine panel and some...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1975. Vintage photograph from the set of the 1975 film, showing Gene Wilder and Leo McKern in a bed together. Boldly and humorously INSCRIBED with a film quote by Wilder to McKern: "You a little tired?? XXX." Small holograph pencil snipe to the verso. Wilder's directorial debut from his own original script, a musical comedy about Sigerson...
New York: Putnam, 1942. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author in the year of publication on the front endpaper: "To Harry / Sincerely / Bob / Robert Wilder / 1942." Basis for the 1949 film noir directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Joan Crawford, Zachary Scott, and Sydney Greenstreet. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Spine fading, light...
New York: Crown Publishers, 1972. First hardcover edition, preceded by a paperback original published by Chicago Paperback House in 1962. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper, with typical dry wit: "To Palmer [and] Marge Carlson - / Your determination in getting this book almost -- almost -- matches Frank Mansfield's. My warmest personal regards. Yours, / Charles Willeford...
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1968. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Williams in the year of publication on the half-title page: "For -- and -- / In memory of one of history's most memorable four days, with love and other good things! / Miller / New Orleans / 3-3-68." Williams is the father of noted singer/songwriter Lucinda Williams, and this his third...
N.p. N.p., 1966. Draft script for an unproduced film. Copy belonging to crew member James H. Ware. Ware was a major presence in British and American cinema, best known for his work on "Beat the Devil" (1953), "Room at the Top" (1959), "Our Man in Havana" (1959), "Charade" (1963), and "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold" (1965). Based...
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1955. Vintage oversize double weight photograph of Frank Sinatra on the set of "The Man with the Golden Arm" in the fall of 1955. Shot and struck by the film's still photographer, Bob Willoughby. SIGNED by Willoughby on the verso, along his ASMP rubber stamp for both his New York and Ireland addresses. Full provenance...
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Munich: Lenbachhaus, 1982. Original poster for the 1982 exhibition of drawings created by director Robert Wilson, in conjunction with his play of the same name. The exhibition took place at Lenbachhaus, in Munich, Germany, from May 19th to June 13th, 1982. Wilson typically created preliminary drawings for his theatre works, as a means toward composing a scene. These pieces would...
Rome: Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, 1984. Original poster for the 1984 opera directed by Robert Wilson with music by Philip Glass, David Byrne, Gavin Bryars, and others, as performed at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma in March of 1984. "The CIVIL warS" was originally conceived as six movements, created in six different countries, that once premiered in their countries of...
New York: Ecco, 1981. First Edition. First issue, with publisher's price of $14.95 present at the top right corner of the front flap. The author's first collection of stories, and his first book published in the US. A lovely copy, and one of only a handful of first issue examples we have encountered. INSCRIBED by Wolff to fellow author Chris...
N.p. N.p., 1966. Two autograph letters signed from Cornell Woolrich to Don Yates, on stationery from the Sheraton-Russell Hotel in New York City, where Woolrich lived at the end of his life, each with the original mailing envelope postmarked April 30 and November 27, 1966 respectively. Also included is a Christmas card inscribed by Woolrich to Yates. Content from these...
Los Angeles: First National Pictures, 1929. Two vintage photographs from the 1929 film. Based on the 1927 novel by Cornell Woolrich, one of six Fitzgerald-esque novels written by the author before he turned to a life of crime (writing). A spoiled rich girl falls for a poor chauffeur, but their situation is partially reversed when her family loses all their...
New York City: Plymouth Theatre, 1954. Draft script for the 1954 play. With holograph notations throughout. The two-act play first opened on Broadway at the Plymouth Theatre on January 20, 1954 and ran for a total of 415 performances, closing January 22, 1955. Based on Wouk's 1951 Pulitzer Prize winning novel "The Caine Mutiny". A courtroom drama recounting second-in-command Steve Maryk's...
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Tokyo: Gendai Eigasha, 1969. Draft script for the 1969 film. Front wrapper notes a date of 1969 and credit as a Gendai Eigasha production. The second page is a elegaic introduction to the film story: "On the erotology and insurrection of sugi Sakae, who wrote of dancing as flowers strangled and left in spring, and It Noe, who lived her...
New York: Limelight Editions, 1992. First Edition. Copy belonging to "Playboy" magazine founder Hugh Hefner, with his holograph underling, notations, and paper clip page markers throughout, primarily to sections regarding Playmate Dorothy Stratten, Playboy, or himself. Together with Hefner's copy of the First Edition of Peter Bogdanovich's "The Killing of the Unicorn: Dorothy Stratten 1960-1980." From the estate of Hugh...