Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1940. Final Script for the 1940 film musical, "Tin Pan Alley," directed by Walter Lang, based on the story "Life is a Song" by Pamela Harris, written for the screen by Robert Ellis and Helen Logan, and starring Alice Faye, Betty Grable, Jack Oakie, and John Payne. In a pairing that would a few years later.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1971. Vintage audio recording on three quarter inch tape, three minutes and 30 seconds long, of John Lennon and Yoko Ono on Radio Free London circa 1971. The couple spend the time advocating for free speech and on behalf of the founders of "Oz" magazine, then on trial for obscenity and "conspiracy to corrupt public morals.""Oz" was.....

Rome: de Laurentiis International Manufacturing Company, 1973. First Draft script for the 1974 Italian poliziotteschi film "Crazy Joe," here under the working title, "Crazy Joey." Lewis John Carlino would receive final credit, although not credited here, as screenwriter. Rubber-stamped Feb. 14, 1973, on the first page. A remarkable transplant of American New Hollywood stalwarts (and some of their elders) to.....

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1971. Vintage US silkscreen banner poster for the 1971 film. Based on Frank Pierson's 1970 novel, about an ex-con who initiates a cascade of chaos when he decides to rob his upscale apartment building. Actor Christopher Walken's feature film debut, as well as a breakthrough role for Sean Connery, who was previously stuck being typecast.....

Santa Barbra, CA: Capra Press, 1981. First Edition. One of 26 lettered copies (this being Letter "V") SIGNED by author Ross Macdonald and Eudora Welty, who contributes the introduction. An autobiography of sorts for Macdonald, quite elegant, comprised of sections composed by him at various points in his career. Fine in black leather, in a paper-covered slipcase as issued, with.....

London: William Heinemann, 1944. W. Somerset Maugham's holograph ink sketch showing his jacket design concept for the American edition of his greatest novel, "The Razor's Edge," executed in holograph black ink on a blank Western Union telegram form. Remarkably, the design, a somewhat more elaborate version of the stark UK jacket, was not only considered by the publisher but followed.....

New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1940. First Edition. Boldly SIGNED by the author on the front flyleaf. Copy belonging to Tony Bill, producer of the 1973 film The Sting, with letter of provenance included. Bill won the Oscar for Best Picture for the film, which also won Best Director, Best Screenplay, and four others, and was nominated for three more, including Best.....

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.....

Los Angeles: 1963. Promotional broadside, designed to resemble an oversized postcard, for the Los Angeles premiere of Adolfas Mekas' feature film debut, "Hallelujah the Hills," along with the debut of Kenneth Anger's short film, "Scorpio Rising." Mekas was the brother of Jonas Mekas, a film critic, filmmaker, and essentially father figure of the avant-garde New American Cinema of the 1960s.....

New York: Fluxus Editions, 1972. First Edition, one of 250 copies (this being No. 34). Although not called for, this copy SIGNED by Mekas on the verso of the front board. Designed by George Maciunas. Featuring poetry by Mekas alongside photographs of his native Lithuania. Published the same year as his documentary "Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania," about his.....

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1943. Second Revised Final draft script for the 1944 film. A few annotations of names or checks in holograph pencil on the top outer corner of verso. A dramatization of the trials that took place in Japan during World War II, eight American aircrew members are taken prisoner by the Japanese Army. They are forced to.....

Paris: The Obelisk Press, 1937. First Edition. Author's non-numbered presentation copy, boldly inscribed by Henry Miller to William Saroyan in the year of publication: "To / Bill Saroyan / the everlasting Armenian with the pneumatique gift! / Always yours, / Henry Miller / Paris / 8/12/37."A wonderful association between two literary giants of the twentieth century, and signed in the.....

N.p. N.p., 1977. Draft script for the 1977 film. Copy belonging to actor Martin Landau, with his signature on the title page, and holograph ink and pencil annotations throughout. Included is an 18-page revised shooting schedule signed by Landau, and additional material related to production.The USSR and NASA must join forces and double their nuclear firepower to destroy a massive.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1929. Draft script for the 1929 silent film. Holograph pencil annotations throughout by an unknown editor, with an unsigned typescript note of revisions to producer Hunt Stromberg bound in at the front of the script. Lon Chaney's penultimate film appearance, and his last silent film, as he would develop walking pneumonia during the film's production.....

New York: E.P. Dutton, 1923. First Edition. Described on the jacket as "the novel of The Woman in Business," and dedicated "To the Working Women of America." Charles Norris was the brother of novelist Frank Norris, and the husband of author Kathleen Norris. A native of Chicago, Norris worked as a journalist for some years before finding success as a......

London: Benmar Productions, Circa 1971. Revised Draft script for the 1971 Spanish/UK Western, here under the original release title "A Town Called Bastard." Copy belonging to actor Martin Landau, with his holograph ink annotations on the title page. Laid in with the script are a number of production documents, including a set of approximately 50 revision pages with annotations by.....

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.....

N.p. N.p., 1965. Collection of three reference photographs featuring Roman Polanski and Catherine Deneuve on the set of the 1965 film. Shot by still photographer Laurie Turner. Two of the photos in this set reflect one another, one showing Polanski in the foreground and Deneuve in a mirror, and the other in reverse. The third shows Polanski at work on.....

Paris: Films Polski, 1962. Collection of eight vintage French photographs from the 1962 Polish film. Starring actors and images of the sailboat are seen, including a few candid moments, and a full-length portrait of actor Anna Ciepielewska. Nearly all with numerical annotations in holograph pencil on the versos. Also included is an original French language press packet for the film.....

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. First American Edition. INSCRIBED by the author and legendary film director on the title page, in his late (and as with all his autographs from this period, typically unsteady) hand: "For Elizabeth / from Michael Powell / Dallas." Powell directed many of the twentieth century's most enduring British film classics, including "The Red Shoes,".....

London: Associated British Picture, 1951. Shooting script for the 1957 British film musical, UK issue. Included are 184 pages of typescript revisions, in separated gatherings. All told an impressive amount of material relating to the development of the film, from the treatment stage through to the shooting script.Based on the 1929 novel by J.B. Priestley. A high-spirited British musical, generally.....

San Francisco: University of California Berkley Museum, 1970. Original poster for one of the most important events in the Bay Area of California in 1970, a performance by Steve Reich to celebrate the opening of the UC Berkeley Art Museum. With a striking triangular design, mounted as issued, with a label on the verso crediting the Richell Gallery of Houston.....

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.....

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1965. Revised Draft script for the 1967 film. Copy belonging to an uncredited member of production, with annotations throughout in holograph ink. One of the great Westerns, and one that epitomizes the revisionist trend sparked by Elmore Leonard's early novels of the 1950s and 1960s. Newman plays a white man who was raised by the Apaches.....

Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, 1978. First Edition. INSCRIBED in blue ink to novelist and film theorist William F. Van Wert: "pour Bill Van Wert/mon amical souvenir/Robbe-Grillet." The star of the Minuit logo on the front panel is hand-colored in the same ink, presumably by Robbe-Grillet. Text in French. Van Wert corresponded with Robbe-Grillet during his dissertation "The Theory and.....

Boston: Little, Brown, 1938. First Edition (Arundel Edition), one of 1075 copies (this being No. 618) SIGNED and numbered by both Kenneth Roberts and illustrator N.C. Wyeth. This copy is additionally inscribed by Kenneth Roberts to legendary director John Ford: "Doubly inscribed for John Ford / with the admiration of his fellow doctor / Kenneth Roberts / Doctorhurst, Maine /.....

Italy / France: Produzioni Cinematografiche Associate / Franco London Films, 1954. Vintage borderless photograph from the set of the 1954 film, showing Ingrid Bergman tied to the titular stake, with actor Tullio Carminati beside her, and director Roberto Rossellini in the foreground. With stamps identifying the film (under the English language title "Joan at the Stake") and the New York.....

London: Jonathan Cape, 1981. First UK Edition, preceding all others. SIGNED by the author on the title page. The author's breakthrough novel, and winner of the Booker Prize. About Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket, with a hint of the usual fading to the spine.

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.....

New York: Jerome Hellman Productions, circa 1969. Draft script for the 1969 film. Copy belonging to the film's still photographer Ron Munkasci, with this name in red holograph ink at the top right corner of the title page.A classic of the New Hollywood cinema, based on the 1965 novel of the same name by James Leo Herlihy. A would-be gigolo.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1990s. Double weight photograph of Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin, circa 1960s. Struck by the photographer Jim Marshall circa 1990s, with his stamp and holograph identification number 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 rock music.....

New York: McBride, 1927. First Edition. An attractive copy of this uncommon Smith title, a meditation on wayward youth that is a departure from his trademark ribald humor. Inner front hinge lightly cracked, minor soil to the rear board, else Near Fine lacking the rare dust jacket.

New York: Robert M McBride, 1926. First Edition. Basis for the classic 1937 screwball comedy, directed by Norman Z. McLeod and starring Roland Young, Cary Grant, and Constance Bennett. Fine in a Very Good plus, unrestored exaample of the rare dust jacket. Jacket is bright, with a few short closed tears and some shallow creasing at the spine ends.

Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists / Parklane Productions, 1954. Original one sheet poster for the 1954 film noir. One of the best psychological B-noirs of the 1950s, beautifully photographed by Franz Planer and tightly directed, with a plot strain that is kin to "Somewhere in the Night" (1946) and "Impact" (1949): a newly-minted amnesiac struggling to piece together just exactly.....

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1942. Collection of seven vintage keybook photographs from the 1972 film. Mimeo snipe and "Approved Advertising Advisory Council Apr 21 1942 Hollywood" stamp on verso of each. Political activist Leopold Dilg (Cary Grant) is framed when a lumber mill burns down and a man is killed. Escaping prison, he hides out in former schoolmate (and.....

New York: Farrar and Rinehart, 1935. First Edition. A departure from the Nero Wolfe series, chronicling the adventures of three Kansas school teachers who visit New York City for the first time. A very presentable copy, uncommon in jacket. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Binding slightly cocked, with a touch of soil to the front endpaper. Jacket.....

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1949. Vintage black and white still photograph from the 1949 film, a candid shot of Grable and Sturges on the set. Rubber stamped with the date DEC 1948 (the film opened in May 1949), and with a snipe on the verso reading: "Betty Grable, dirty face and all, stands with producer-director Preston Sturges between shooting scenes.....

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.....

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

N.p. N.p., Circa 1969-1974. Two vintage double weight photographs of The Rolling Stones, circa 1969-1974, with Mick Taylor in the lineup after the departure of Brian Jones. With the stamp of photographer Curt Gunther on the verso of each photograph. From the archive of "Cash Box" magazine. First photograph 9 x 9.5 inches. Small bruise, else Near Fine. Second photograph.....

Bloomington: N.p., circa 1974. Archive of research materials used by William F. Van Wert in preparing his dissertation "The Theory and Practice of the Cine-Roman" (Arno Press, 1978). Included are responses to a questionnaire and an album of film stills. Focusing on the filmmakers of the Rive Gauche movement, which slightly preceded the French New Wave and ran parallel through.....

N.p. N.p., 1970. Draft script for the 1970 play, which premiered on October 7 at the Theatre de Lys in New York. Copy No. 38 notated in holograph ink on the title page.An open homage to Homer's "Odyssey", wherein a big game hunter returns home after eight years away only to discover he has been declared legally dead, his wife.....

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1966. Original one sheet poster, designed as a pin-up, for the 1966 science fiction film. The very scarce Style D poster featuring a young and exquisitely beautiful Raquel Welch in all her glory. Oddly, a far superior image to the more famous one from "One Million Years B.C.," also released in 1966. This particular poster variant.....

London: Lord Grade, 1978. Draft script for the 1978 film, here under the working title "Titoli di Testa". Copy belonging to script supervisor Franca Invernizzi, with her extensive holograph annotations on nearly every page (and many page versos) regarding camera shots, takes, timing, and dialogue. Bound in after the script is an annotated list of scenes, and several handwritten pages.....

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.....

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.....

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1947. First Edition. Basis for Francois Truffaut's 1969 film noir, "Mississippi Mermaid" ("La Sirene du Mississippi"), starring Catherine Deneuve and Jean-Paul Belmondo; and more recently the 2001 neo-noir, "Original Sin," starring Antonio Banderas and Angelina Jolie. Near Fine in a bright, Very Good plus dust jacket. Light fading to the board edges, with a rich, unfaded topstain.....

Paris: Albina Productions, 1975. Vintage photograph of Romy Schneider dressed as Marlene Dietrich in a scene from the 1975 film. With the stamp of photographer Giancarlo Botti on the verso, as well as printed mimeo snipes in both English and French. Based on the 1972 novel "La Nuit americaine" by Christopher Frank. A photographer meets a failed actress who is.....