Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1955. Two vintage keybook photographs from the 1955 film, one showing director Elia Kazan behind the camera, the other showing actors James Dean and Nick Dennis goofing around behind the scenes with dialog director Guy Thomajan. Typed notations identifying the subjects on the versos. Based on the 1952 novel by John Steinbeck. Winner of Best Dramatic... (read more) about East of Eden (Two original keybook photographs from the 1955 film)

Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1960. First Draft script for the 1961 film. Based on the actual events and judgments in Nuremburg, Germany following World War II, an American tribunal tries and convicts four judges who acted by means of the law to promote the legal status of eugenics, violence and war crimes against civilians, and ethnic cleansing in the... (read more) about Judgment at Nuremburg (Original screenplay for the 1961 film)

Yokohama, Kanagawa: Kurosawa Production Co., circa 1980. Draft script for the 1980 Japanese film. Holograph pencil notations throughout regarding casting, including the use of professional or amateur actors, as well as a notation regarding lead actor Katsu Shintaro, who was fired on the first day of shooting. The story of a low-class criminal taught to be the decoy (or kagemusha)... (read more) about Kagemusha (Original screenplay for the 1980 film, with hologrph notations)

Los Angeles: Samuel L. Bronkowitz, 1977. Shooting script for the 1977 film. Working copy belonging to producer Robert K. Weiss, with his ownership name in holograph orange ink at the top right corner of the front wrapper. Photocopied notations throughout. Written by and starring the Zucker brothers, the duo who would eventually make their fame with similarly irreverent comedy hits... (read more) about The Kentucky Fried Movie (Original screenplay for the 1977 film)

Munich: Universum Film [UFA], 1927. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the original German release of the 1927 film. With the UFA logo at the bottom right corner. Director Lang's expressionist masterpiece, based on the novel and written for the screen by then-wife von Harbou, one of the most enduring and influential films of the silent era. Still photographs from the... (read more) about Metropolis (UFA still photograph from the 1927 film)

London: Fritz Lang Film / UFA / W and F, 1928. Original UK program for the 1928 German film, released in the UK as "The Spy." Lang's followup to "Metropolis," and penultimate silent film, an underrated spy versus spy thriller containing some of the most virtuosic set pieces of the director's career, including a spectacular train crash at the film's... (read more) about Spies [Spione, The Spy] (Original UK Film Program)

Berlin: August Scherl, 1928. First Edition, preceding all others, including the movie tie-in edition, published later the same year by Scherl. Rare in dust jacket. Basis for the German silent film classic by Fritz Lang, with a screenplay adapted by von Harbou from her novel. Released in the US as "Woman in the Moon." Like "Metropolis," a novel that was... (read more) about Frau im Mond [Woman in the Moon] (First Edition)

Paris: Les Films 13, 1966. Collection of four vintage photographs from the 1966 film. With agency stamps and holograph notations 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... (read more) about A Man And A Woman [Un Homme Et Une Femme] (Collection of four original photographs from the 1966...

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1955. Four original costume designs intended for Jerry Lewis' character in the 1955 film "Artists and Models," with holograph notations and illustrations painted by costume designer Edith Head. The illustrations largely feature simple shirt-and-pants combinations. One, a white t-shirt and nerdily rolled-up blue jeans, features a silk scarf belt next to which Head has emphatically written "NO!"A.... (read more) about Four original costume designs for the film "Artists and Models" done by Edith Head...

Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1952. Shooting script for the 1953 film, "Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," Very Good plus in original gray titled wrappers with black titles, with the Universal International Pictures logo at the bottom center. Dated December 15, 1952, 103 pages, with SECOND DRAFT SCREENPLAY noted on the front wrapper and the title... (read more) about Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Original screenplay for the 1953 film)

New York: The Witkin Gallery, 1980. First Edition. One of 50 copies (this being No. 27) SIGNED in pencil by Wendell MacRae on the front endpaper, with laid-in original photograph, SIGNED and numbered in pencil. Publisher's blue cloth, titles gilt. Near Fine with no dust jacket as issued, in a Near Fine slipcase with a number sticker on the spine... (read more) about Wendell MacRae, Photographs: 1927 to 1949 (Signed Limited Edition, with original signed photograph)

N.p. N.p., 2004. Vintage double weight photograph of Amos Vogel, taken by Gerard Malanga and gifted by Malanga to Vogel in 2004. Malanga's trademark name blindstamp is at the bottom right corner of the image, and he has inscribed the verso: "Amos Vogel, founder of Cinema 16 / October 22, 2004 / Gerard Malanga." Below is Malanga's stamped copyright. Included... (read more) about Photograph of Amos Vogel by Gerard Malanga, 2004, signed by Malanga

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1955. Original one sheet for the 1955 film. The seventh of nine spectacular revisionist Westerns Anthony Mann directed between 1950 and 1960, and his fifth with James Stewart. One of the best and leanest films by the acclaimed director-actor pairing, one you will hear come up in a discussion that always includes "Winchester '73" (1950)... (read more) about The Man From Laramie (Original Film Poster)

New York: Film Culture Magazine, 1963. First Edition. This copy is INSCRIBED by Brakhage at the blank opposite his introduction to poet Kenneth Irby: "To Ken Irby / That I should meet "Roadrunner" here in these circumstances at this time of most wonderful day I take as the best of all possible signs / Stan Brakhage / SF - 2... (read more) about Film Culture: Issue Number 30 - Fluxus Issue (First Edition, Inscribed by Stan Brakhage)

New York: Signet Books, 1956. First Edition, a paperback original. INSCRIBED by Henry Miller to publisher Kurt Enoch: "For Kurt Enoch / avec mes hommages / Henry Miller 8/27/56." From the Kurt Enoch collection, with a letter of provenance included. "Devil in Paradise" is Miller's autobiographical narrative of hosting a hellish houseguest at his home in Big Sur. Kurt Enoch... (read more) about A Devil in Paradise (First Edition, inscribed by the author in 1956 to his publisher)

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], circa 1944. Substantial collection of 12 original preliminary advertising concept art sketches. Executed variously in graphite, charcoal, and gouache on onion skin paper, each leaf mounted on to white paper stock, some with notations at the margins. Includes one finished color ad mat printed proof. A broad and varied advertising campaign, including two drafts for... (read more) about Meet Me in St. Louis (Archive of concept art sketches for advertisements promoting the film's...

N.p. N.p., Circa 1962. Double weight photograph of Thelonious Monk at the piano, circa 1962. Struck by photographer Jim Marshall circa 1990s, with his stamp, holograph identification number and date (noting "1962or3") on the verso. As a photographer for both record labels and magazines such as "Rolling Stone," Jim Marshall was one of the most prolific and influential chronicles of... (read more) about Original double weight photograph of Thelonious Monk, circa 1962

N.p. N.p., Circa 1956. Vintage photograph of Marilyn Monroe and then-husband Arthur Miller arriving in London for Monroe's filming of "The Prince and the Showgirl" (1957) with Laurence Olivier. With a mimeo snipe on the verso, along with photo agency stamps and copyright sticker. 7 x 9.25 inches (18 x 23 cm). Near Fine. (read more) about Original photograph of Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller

New York: Signet Books, 1960. First printing of this edition, and first printing in paperback. SIGNED by O'Connor on the title page to publisher, Kurt Enoch. From the Kurt Enoch collection, with a letter of provenance included. O’Connor’s second novel, published four years before her death, follows the struggle of a young boy with fate, and epitomizes the Southern Gothic..... (read more) about The Violent Bear It Away (First Edition in paperback, signed by the author in 1960 to her publisher)

Tokyo: Shockiku Ofuna, 1960. Draft script for the 1960 film. Text in Japanese. A young woman is hitchhiking when the driver who picks her up attempts to molest her. A young gangster comes to her aid and then leads her on a wild relationship through the Japanese underground towards the eventual destruction of both of them. White titled perfect bound... (read more) about Cruel Story of Youth (Original screenplay for the 1960 film)

New York: Filmways Pictures, 1980. Revised Draft script for the 1981 film. Included is a second script, a revised draft in wrappers containing the latest revisions, and two shooting schedules, one detailing shooting dates beginning Week Three, and one detailing dates beginning about Week Nine. Notations throughout both scripts in holograph ink and pencil. Based on screenwriter Tesich's own coming-of-age... (read more) about Four Friends (Original screenplay for the 1981 film)

Rome: Igor Film, 1966. Two oversize borderless double weight black and white photographs from the 1966 film. With a few identifying notations in holograph pencil and ink on the verso. Italian neorealist director Gillo Pontecorvo’s careful, documentary style account of the guerrilla war for Algerian independence from France, concentrating on the historical, titular battle. A landmark achievement in world cinema... (read more) about The Battle of Algiers [La battaglia di Algeri] (Two oversize double weight photographs from the...

Beverly Hills, CA: Selznick International, 1939. Archive of five scripts from the 1939 film, including a Temporary Draft script and four post-production scripts: 1939 One Line Continuity for the 1936 Swedish version, Cutting Continuity for a re-release (October 20, 1947), and two drafts, release and re-release, of the Dialogue Continuity (September 22, 1939 and October 20, 1947, respectively). Nominated for... (read more) about Intermezzo (Archive of scripts for the 1939 film)

N.p. Veriscope, 1897. Two vintage fragments from a 63mm film print of the 1897 boxing match between "Gentleman" Jim Corbett and Bob Fitzsimmons. The first fragment consists of six frames depicting the fighters in a clinch, while the second consists of four frames depicting the fighters in the center of the ring about to trade punches. At over 100 minutes... (read more) about The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight (Original 63mm film fragments from the 1897 film)

New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. First Edition. Boldly SIGNED by Sonny Rollins in black marker on the front endpaper, along with a small doodle of a sixteenth note couplet. Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket. Full provenance available. (read more) about Open Sky: Sonny Rollins and His World of Improvisation (First Edition, Signed by Sonny Rollins)

N.p. N.p., circa 1960. Archive of scripts for an unproduced film version, circa 1960, of the Dostoevsky novel. Included are a plot summary, typescript draft, and draft script for an unproduced film, based on Fyodor Dostoyevsky's 1866 novel. Archive belonging to director Robert Rossen, with his holograph notations throughout. A classic of Russian literature presented here in a modern retelling... (read more) about Archive of three scripts for Crime and Punishment (Screenplays for an unproduced film,...

Culver City, CA: Tri-Star [TriStar] Pictures, 1984. Revised final script and shooting schedule for the 1984 film. Copy belonging to an uncredited crew member, with his holograph notations throughout in blue ink. Doc Jenkins (Willie Nelson) is an aspiring singer/songwriter whose ambition is thwarted by a bad contract with a record label. With the help of former singing partner Blackie... (read more) about Songwriter (Original screenplay for the 1984 film)

New York: Harper, 1961. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page.From the collection of author Chris Offutt. Offutt is the author of “Kentucky Straight” and other short story collections, novels, nonfiction, and memoirs, and, in 1996, was named one of the twenty Best Young American Novelists by “Granta” magazine. He has also written for popular television shows..... (read more) about The Arm of Flesh (Signed First Edition)

Universal City, CA: Republic Pictures / Pax Films / Universal Pictures, 1943, 1961. Forrest J. Ackerman's copy of scripts from two key science fiction films, bound together (including original front wrappers) in red buckram, with Ackerman's name in gilt at the bottom right corner of the front board. "The Lady and the Monster": Shooting script for the 1944 film. The... (read more) about Lady and the Monster / The Day the Earth Caught Fire (Original screenplays, Forrest J. Ackerman's...

N.p. Recorded Picture Company, 1978. Revised Draft British script for the 1978 film. Winner of the Prix de Jury at Cannes, and nominated for the Palme d'Or. Based on the short story by Robert Graves. Soundtrack by Michael Rutherford and Tony Banks of the progressive rock band Genesis.A quiet, chilling horror film with experimental leanings. Shot on location along the... (read more) about The Shout (Original screenplay for the 1978 film)

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1967. Final Shooting script for the 1968 film. SIGNED by actor George Segal on the title page, with a brief inscription. Based on the 1964 novel by William Goldman. Christopher Gill (Steiger) is a serial killer who always seems to elude police detective Brummel (Segal). Green titled wrappers, with Paramount logo in white and die cut title... (read more) about No Way to Treat a Lady (Original screenplay for the 1968 film, signed by George Segal)

New York: Signet Books, 1951. No. 915. First printing of this edition. INSCRIBED by the author to Signet Books founder Kurt Enoch: "Hi Kurt / I'm just hoping this sells as many as you printed! / Sincerely / Mickey Spillane." From the Kurt Enoch collection, with a letter of provenance included. Kurt Enoch was the founder of Signet Books and... (read more) about The Big Kill (First Edition in paperback, inscribed to Signet Books founder Kurt Enoch)

Seattle, WA and Fayetteville, AR: Mill Mountain Press / Lost Roads 1977, No. 7-12. First Edition. The poet's magnum opus, published one year before his suicide in 1978. Stanford's landmark primitive style of poetry, which involved strange tall tales and recurring characters, rivers, and a constant focus on death, has attained an almost mythical status among students of avant-garde and... (read more) about The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You (First Edition)

Germany: Filmverleih Die Lupe GmbH, 1960. German poster for the original release of the legendary 1960 jazz documentary, set at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival in Rhode Island, shot in high style by commercial and fashion photographer Bert Stern. In addition to the iconic figures noted on the poster, the film also features Theolonious Monk, Jimmy Giuffre, Dinah Washington, Chuck... (read more) about Stern: Jazz an einem Sommerabend [Jazz on a Summer's Day]

New York: Vanguard Press, 1930. First Edition. Fine copy, with no soiling to the fragile yellow cloth and the top edge still richly colored. In the rare dust jacket, Near Fine, which is remarkably clean and bright, with no tears, chips or rubbed spots. Of the few copies we have ever seen, easily the best. Stout’s sixth novel. (read more) about Seed on the Wind (First Edition)

Munich: Dreilander Verlag, 1919-1920. Collection of 38 issues of the landmark Weimar-era periodical highlighting fantasy, horror, and early science fiction stories. Text in German. One of the world's first fantasy periodicals, (alongside the Swedish "Hugin") "Der Orchideengarten" featured a mix of new German stories alongside translations of foreign literature (largely French), including works by Victor Hugo, Guy de Maupassant, Voltaire... (read more) about Der Orchideengarten: Phantastiche Blatter [The Orchid-Garden: Fantastic Pages] Magazine...

N.p., Various dates, mostly circa 1961 - 1963. Three composition books. Small quartos. Modest wear, mostly Near Fine. Illustrated entirely by Ben Talbert, one of the most important artists in the Los Angeles circle that revolved around Wallace Berman and his publication Semina. Berman and his circle were at the forefront of avant-garde cultural and artistic experimentation on the West... (read more) about Three Notebooks of Sketches and Plans for Installations, with related material

Japan: Toho Company, Ltd., 1964. Original Japanese B2 poster for the 1964 film. With the English language title for the film discreetly rubber stamped onto the poster in two spots, and with a tiny copyright notice in black at the bottom right corner for the Toho Company, dated 1964. A masterpiece of 1960s Japanese cinema, based on the novel by... (read more) about Woman in the Dunes [Suna no onna] (Original Japanese poster for the 1964 film)

Paris: Les Films du Carrosse, 1968. Vintage borderless black-and-white double weight photograph from the set of the 1968 French film noir. With a rubber stamped date of March 12, 1970 on the verso, along with numerous press notations and markings. A wonderful candid shot of Truffaut, Jade, and Leaud sitting on a park bench during principal shooting of the film... (read more) about Stolen Kisses [Baisers voles] (Original double weight photograph from the set of the 1968 film)

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... (read more) about Home (Signed First Edition)

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1941. Draft script for the 1941 film. Actor Van Heflin's copy. A delightful comedy about a man who does not believe in jealousy, much to the annoyance of his lovely wife, who constantly finds herself accosted by other men. Lacking front wrapper, rear wrapper is goldenrod, as used by Van Heflin. 138 leaves, mimeograph, with... (read more) about The Feminine Touch [Female of the Species] (Original screenplay for the 1941 film, Van Heflin's...

Rome: Titanus, 1962. Original double weight, borderless photograph of Claudia Cardinale on the set of director Luchino Visconti's 1963 film, "Il Gattopardo," taken in 1962 during shooting. With the blue rubber stamp of an Italian press agency, Publifoto, on the verso. In the photograph, Ms. Cardinale studies an Italian version of the script while having her hair done for a.... (read more) about Claudia Cardinale on the set of "The Leopard"

New York: Factory Films, 1968. Vintage black-and-white double weight still photograph of director Paul Morrissey and actor Joe Dallesandro, shot during the making of Andy Warhol's 1968 film "Flesh." Photographer Werner Bokelberg's rubber stamp and holograph pencil notations to the verso. Morrissey's first production for Warhol, Dallesandro's second leading role, and an intentionally envelope-pushing film, Dallesandro plays a bisexual prostitute... (read more) about Photo of Paul Morrissey and Joe Dallesandro on the set of "Flesh" (Original double...

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, Circa 1947. Vintage press photograph of Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, and the film's still photographer Robert Coburn on the set of 1947 film noir. Mimeograph snipe on the verso notes that here Welles and Coburn are discussing the Jean Louis clothing designs for the film with Ms. Hayworth. Shot by Van Pelt, with his stamp... (read more) about The Lady from Shanghai (Original photograph of Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth from the set of the...

Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1948. Vintage photograph of actress Marlene Dietrich and director Billy Wilder on the set of the 1948 film. With printed snipe on the verso. Set in occupied Berlin after World War II, Phoebe Frost (Jean Arthur), an Iowa congresswoman, enlists Captain John Pringle (John Lund) to assist her in an investigation of a former Nazi entertainer... (read more) about A Foreign Affair (Original photograph from the set of the 1948 film)

New York: Putnam, 1946. First Edition. Warmly INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper. Basis for the 1956 film classic directed by Douglas Sirk and starring Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack and Dorothy Malone. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Jacket has a dampstain at the bottom rear flap, visible mainly at the verso, book not affected... (read more) about Written on the Wind (Signed First Edition)

New York: N.p., 1961. Exact Playing Version script for the original run of the 1960 Broadway play, dated January 1961. With a photograph of the cast onstage, inscribed by four members of the cast or crew to an unknown crew member laid in. Premiered November 10, 1960 and closed March 4, 1961, with a total of 132 performances at the... (read more) about Period of Adjustment (Original script for the 1960 play)

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1954. Vintage double weight still photograph from the 1954 film, nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Based on the 1951 Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Herman Wouk. Shot, struck, and mounted by the film's still photographer, Bob Willoughby, with his ASMP rubber stamp on the verso. Full provenance available. After studying with Saul... (read more) about The Caine Mutiny (Original double weight photograph from the 1954 film)

N.p. N.p., 1969. Vintage oversize double weight candid photograph of Alan Arkin, Art Garfunkel, and Martin Sheen on the set of Mike Nichols' "Catch-22" in 1969. Shot and struck by the film's still photographer, Bob Willoughby. The photographer has written at the top of the verso, in holograph pencil: "Candid during rehearsal / The boys break up in briefing room... (read more) about Alan Arkin, Art Garfunkel, and Martin Sheen on the set of "Catch-22" (1969)

Syracuse, NY: N.p., circa 1940-1960. Album containing 367 vintage vernacular photographs (350 black and white and seventeen color) compiled by Syracuse, New York resident Margaret Embree. The collection includes images of Mrs. Embree's family life, as well as images of her longtime employment at the Iroquois China Company in Solvay, New York and the Thermold Plastics Corporation of Canastota, New... (read more) about Photo album of Margaret Embree, including images of women factory workers during World War II