Burbank, CA: Edgar J. Scherick and Associates, 1978. Second Draft script for the 1978 television film. One of director John Carpenter's earliest efforts as a screenwriter, released the same year as "Halloween" and the television movie "Someone's Watching Me." Originally aired on NBC on September 27, 1978. While written as a vehicle for Suzanne Somers, some actors that would soon.....

N.p., 1959. Draft script for the 1959 play. First presented at the Martinique Theatre, New York City, on October 28, 1959 running for 256 performances. Based on Dos Passos' USA trilogy of novels written between 1930 and 1937, turned dramatic revue by Paul Shyre and John Dos Passos. Shyre's adaptation consists of three actors and three actresses portraying a total.....

N.p. N.p., 1969. Revised draft script for an unproduced film, carbon typescript on onionskin, unbound, housed in an envelope with a "Winkast Programming Limited" label with "Hadrian VII Screenplay Stage play" scratched out and "'THE TRUMPH' BY JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH" written in in green holograph marker.From the estate of film producer Elliott Kastner, whose best known credits include "The Long.....

Universal City: Universal Studios, 1955. First Draft script for the 1956 film. With a few holograph ink annotations throughout, mostly correcting grammatical and spelling errors, and a holograph ink annotation on the front wrapper reading "File Copy."The third and final installment in the Creature from the Black Lagoon series, and longtime Universal Pictures assistant director Arthur Sherwood's directorial debut. Having.....

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

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

New York: The Vanguard Press, 1967. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the front flyleaf in the year of publication: "For Gunter — / With best wishes / Joyce Carol Oates / 9-22-67." Finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction (1968), and winner of the M.L. Rosenthal Award (1968). The author's second novel. First of the "Wonderland Quartet".....

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1949. Three vintage photographs of Patricia Neal applying makeup on the set of the 1949 film. Adapted to the screen by Ayn Rand from her novel, one of only three screenplays she wrote during her brief tenure in Hollywood. In approaching the film adaptation of Rand's iconoclastic work, King Vidor dispensed with typical Hollywood production techniques.....

Tokyo: Toei, Circa 1974. Draft script for the 1974 Japanese film. Text and titles in Japanese. Based on a series of magazine articles written by journalist Koichi Iiboshi, which were in turn based on memoirs written by yakuza crime boss Kozo Mino. The fifth, and final, film in director Kinji Fukasaku's yakuza pentalogy, following feuding gangs in post-war Hiroshima. Set.....

N.p. N.p., ca. 1972. Draft script for an unproduced film, "Player Piano," based on Kurt Vonnegut's first novel. After his directorial debut with Jules Feiffer's "Little Murders" in 1971, Alan Arkin wrote this adaptation of Vonnegut's legendary science fiction novel and announced plans to direct in the summer of 1972, with Edward Pressman and Burtt Harris producing. Green titled wrappers.....

New York: Callaway Editions, 1982. First Edition. One of 1,000 hardbound copies SIGNED by the photographer on a tipped in page, issued simultaneously in 2,000 signed softcover editions. 62 full-page black and white plates. A visually stunning photographic reportage of the Ohio River Valley, as commissioned by the Akron Art Museum. Fine and unread in a Near Fine dust jacket.....

London: George Allen and Unwin, 1952. First UK Edition, preceding all others. Tremendous association copy, INSCRIBED by author and director Lindsay Anderson to noted Czech-British filmmaker Karel Reisz, with a quote from the film: "Karel and Julia / from Lindsay / Woman: as a warning / Louis: as a lesson / Secret People E. 13." A remarkable and extremely detailed.....

Mexico City: Ultramar Films, 1952. Draft script for the 1954 Mexican film. Included is a typed letter signed from the film's producer Edward L. Alperson, on his custom rough-edged stationery, discussing the possibility of distribution within the US. Distribution was eventually taken on by United Artists, and Daniel O'Herlihy received a Best Actor nomination for his performance. Also included are.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1960s. Vintage borderless photograph of French-American conceptual artist Marcel Duchamp, circa 1960s. With the stamp of photographer Philippe Collin on the verso. 9.5 x 7 inches. Very Good plus.

London: Ned Sherrin, 1969. Early Draft script for the 1970 British film, with annotations in holograph ink on four pages, a "1." on the title page, and three underlining locations. Script preceded by six pages of notes on story, cast of characters, and notes on principal characters. An ad man is tasked with creating a new, sexy image for a......

N.p. N.p., Circa 1937. Binder of vintage photographs compiled by Mary Norris, a nursing student at Evangelical Deaconess Hospital in Marshalltown, Iowa, circa 1937. The photographs provide a detailed visual account, with notations throughout, of her time at the Hospital as a student nurse in training.Included are over 100 vernacular photographs, generally featuring classmates, professors, doctors, and her fiance, Donald.....

New York: Putnam, 1925. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author: "To: Sidney Williams - who ushered 'Grass' into Philadelphia / and made it grow / and to whom the author of this book owes a very real debt of gratitude / Merian C. Cooper." Based on the silent documentary film, released the same year. Scarce to find in jacket or.....

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1950. Revised First Draft Continuity script for the 1951 film. Included is an index to the script breakdown, detailing various scenes and script page numbers with revisions. Copy belonging to Dane Anderson, an uncredited member of the crew, with his name on the front wrapper of the script breakdown, and annotations throughout, in holograph pencil. File.....

N.p. N.p., 1962. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Monica Vitti sitting on a sofa and staring into the existential void, from the 1962 film. "ROMA's Press Photo" stamp on verso, with address in Rome for same. A woman's newfound relationship with a power-hungry stockbroker gradually erodes as she becomes dissatisfied with his shallow interests. The final film in Antonioni's modernity.....

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.....

Manchester: Factory Records, 1988. FAC 235. First Edition. Issued privately by The Hacienda club in Manchester to friends of the establishment, as their 1988 Christmas gift. Flip-book (or "manual video") illustrated by avant-garde filmmaker and conceptualist Robert Breer and photographer Wiliam Wegman, bound such that the book slants to the left to enable easy flipping. On the front wrapper, in.....

Boston: Little, Brown, 1930. First American Edition. First book in Hamilton's "20,000 Streets Under the Sky" trilogy. INSCRIBED by the author to his wife, and dated in the year and month of their marriage (as well as the year of publication): "To Lois / from / her own private novelist / Patrick Hamilton / 8th August 1930."Very Good lacking dust.....

Hollywood: M.J. Frankovich Productions, 1968. Final Draft script for the 1969 film. With a single holograph notation on the title page.Quintessential New Hollywood comedy-drama about two West Coast couples as they navigate the changing social and sexual climate of the late 1960s. Nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Original Screenplay.Set and shot on location in Nevada and California.Yellow titled.....

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1970. Early Draft script for the 1972 film, "Portnoy's Complaint," based on the 1969 novel by Philip Roth, written for the screen and directed by Ernest Lehman, and starring Richard Benjamin, Karen Black, and Lee Grant. Cinematographer Philip Lathrop's working copy, with his holograph name at the top of the title page. A planning script likely.....

N.p. N.p., 1953. Original program for the notorious Broadway flop, "Carnival in Flanders." An interesting and rare piece documenting a directorial and writing effort from the strange final years of Sturges' career. The program was printed well prior to Sturges' arrival to the production—as a result, though the musical was never staged prior to his involvement, it still credits the.....

Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1943. Draft script for the 1943 film. Heavily annotated draft, from which the October 5, 1943 mimeograph master was made, so noted in holograph pencil at the top right corner of the front wrapper. First film in the "Inner Sanctum" series. Universal struck a deal with publishers Simon and Schuster in 1943, obtaining screen rights.....

New York: Farrar and Rinehart, 1937. First Edition. Near Fine in a Very Good example of the rare dust jacket. Jacket has some chipping at the spine ends and corners, though no titling is affected. In a custom clamshell box. Stout's fourth novel, the first (and only) Dol Bonner mystery, published in between two Nero Wolfe novels, "The Rubber Band".....

New York: Viking Press, 1964. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper on the day after Christmas, in the year of publication: "December 26-1964 - / To Elizabeth Boyne - / at the / suggestion of my wife, who / says you are comely and canny / so I wish you well - / Rex Stout." A......

Jacksonville, FL: Norman Film Studios, 1919. Original US one sheet poster for the 1919 silent film, like all of the Norman Studio films, featuring an all-African American cast, and marketed to African-American movie theaters. Norman Studios produced eight silent films between 1915 and 1928, one of over 30 film studios that operated in Jacksonville, Florida during this era. All but.....

Tucson, AZ: Nazraeli Press, 2002. First Edition. One of 500 copies, this being No. 55, SIGNED by Robert Adams. Number 12 in the Nazaeli Press One Picture Book series. Containing one tipped in vintage photographic print, four duotone reproductions of photographs by Adams, and three poems by Carolyn Dunn. Scarce. A touch of soil to the boards, About Fine and.....

Los Angeles: Gershwin-Kastner Productions, 1965, 1967. First Draft script and a Revised Estimating script for the 1968 film. The First Draft script is early, written well over two years before the film's release. The Revised Estimating script is on all yellow stock, except for distribution page (white), and pink "This Script Is Not Final and Is Given to You for.....

Berlin: Decla-Bioscop AG, 1921 [1920]. Vintage double weight matte finish reference photograph from the seminal 1920 silent film. Samuel Goldwyn discovered "Caligari" on a trip abroad, and released this film in the US in 1921, at which time 11 x 14 inch photos such as this one were printed on matte paper. Reference number "4" noted in holograph pencil at.....

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1960. Vintage double weight, borderless photograph of Frank Sinatra, Shirley MacLaine, and Maurice Chevalier from the 1960 musical film, based on the 1953 Broadway musical by Abe Burrows with music and lyrics by Cole Porter. Shot, struck, and mounted by the film's still photographer, Bob Willoughby, with his ASMP rubber stamp and holograph annotations on the.....

Paris: Cathargo Films, Circa 1986. Draft script for the 1986 film. Copy belonging to production designer Pierre Guffroy, with his first name in holograph ink to the title page, and his holograph annotations regarding props and special effects throughout. Dashing Captain Red (Walter Matthau) and his young assistant The Frog (Cris Campion) traverse the Atlantic Ocean, enjoying a bawdy, swashbuckling.....

Talent Associates/N.S.I. / ABC Pictures, 1970. Final Draft script for the 1971 film, here under the working title, and title of the source material, "The Siege of Trencher’s Farm." Based on Gordon M. Williams’s 1969 novel. Director Sam Peckinpah and screenwriter David Z. Goodman kept only the central concept of the siege itself, but completely altered the circumstances around it.....

Los Angeles: Lippert Pictures, 1949. Oversize vintage black-and-white double weight still photograph of director Samuel Fuller with the cast and crew of the 1949 film, dated Nov. 24, 1948. Fuller's auspicious directorial debut, one of three films he made for independent producer Robert Lippert before moving to Hollywood studios. An intense portrait of guilt and psychological torment, the film, based.....

Tokyo: Toho Company, 1966. Draft script for the 1966 film. Text in Japanese. A pornographer is keeping a low profile to keep out of the way of the mob, while also is trying to keep the various people in his life happy, including his stepdaughter, stepson, mistress, and wife (who believes her first husband was reincarnated as a carp). White.....

Chicago: The Goodlion, 1972. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Brakhage on the front endpaper to to publisher Barney Rosset: "Dear Barney / In thanks for all you've given, made possible / Thanks / Stan Brakhage."Barney Rosset was the founder of the Grove Press, which, in addition to its obvious importance, helped usher Brakhage's work into institutions in the 1970s by "publishing".....

N.p. N.p., 1993. Third Draft agency script for the 1994 film, here under the working title "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption." Based on the 1982 novella "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption" by Stephen King. An exploration of two decades of friendship between two convicts, Andy Dufresne, wrongly convicted of murdering his wife and her lover, and Red, a contraband smuggler.....

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers / Seven Arts, Circa 1968. Vintage concept artwork for the 1968 film. A striking two-color op-art design by uncredited artist Norbert Jobst, who had previously worked in title design for the 1967 film "Games." The dimensions of the artwork suggests it was designed for a pressbook or film program. Mounted and laminated, and stamped with a......

N.p. Steve Schapiro, Circa 1979. Vintage black-and-white photograph of Woody Allen and Mariel Hemingway, circa 1979 during the shooting of Allen's seminal film, "Manhattan." With the stamp of photographer Steve Schapiro and his agency, Transworld Enterprises, on the verso. 8 x 10 inches, with irregular margins as struck. Near Fine.

New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux [FSG], 1967. UNCORRECTED PROOF of the author's second novel, preceding the first edition. Copiously annotated, sometimes quite critically, other times effusively, by novelist Frederick Tuten, who reviewed the book. Scarce in an advance issue, with an association. In a custom blue cloth clamshell box with leather spine label and titles in gilt.Pink card wrappers.....

Rome: Arco Films, circa 1967. Typscript Treatment script for the 1967 film belonging to Anthony Quinn, whose name is in holograph ink on the first page of text. Notation in red ink on the first blank reading "The role is Caterina."Based on the 1923 novel of the same name by Joseph Conrad. Set during the French Revolution, a former pirate.....

New York: Robert M. McBride, 1927. First Edition. An uncommon Smith title, a meditation on wayward youth that is a departure from his trademark ribald humor. Offsetting to the last two rear blanks, else Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Vintage bookstore label to the rear pastedown. Jacket is lightly soiled, with some minor nicking, but without loss and.....

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., Circa 1939. Vintage reference photograph from the 1939 film, showing actors Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, and Jack Haley working to secure Frank Morgan's air balloon, moments before taking off from the Emerald City. With the stamps of Israel Film Archive on the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler.Based on the 1900.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1979. Draft script for an unproduced film, likely a first draft. Based on James Crumley's 1978 gritty masterwork of crime fiction, featuring Crumley's recurring detective C.W. Sughrue scouring America's sleazy underbelly in search of a girl gone missing from Haight-Ashbury a decade earlier.After Walter Hill's critical and commercial success with "Warriors" (1979), and the critical success 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.....