Vienna: Illustrierter Film-Kurier, 1931. Vintage Austrian program for the 1931 German film. Lang's first sound film, Peter Lorre's breakthrough role, and the film Lang considered to be his masterpiece—an assertion that has found much agreement since. The only second piece of ephemera from the film we have ever offered. Text in German. Issue No. 262 of "Illustrierter Film-Kurier," one of.....

N.p. N.p., 1959-82. Notebook belonging to legendary amateur filmmaker Sid Laverents containing 73 pages of holograph notes on various film and camera tests, lighting, settings, and other technical aspects of filmmaking made between circa 1959 and 1982. Included are 21 film strips laid or tipped into the notebook, with accompanying annotations, and each generally between three to four inches in.....

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.....

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.....

Los Angeles: Fox Film Corporation, 1933. Final Script for the 1933 film, "Berkeley Square," directed by Frank Lloyd, written for the screen by John L. Balderston and Sonya Levien, based on Balderston's play. Starring Leslie Howard. A pre-Code film adaptation of Balderston's stage fantasy in which a scientist (Leslie Howard) is fascinated by the 18th century and winds up being.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1965. Draft script for the 1966 film, here under the working title "There's No Place Like Space," from the collection of cinematographer Paul Vogel, presumably his working copy, with "Camera" written in holograph pencil at the top right corner of the front wrapper.A vehicle to promote the band Herman's Hermits in much the same vein.....

N.p. N.p., 1897. Vintage borderless photograph from the 1897 short film, with the number 542 in holograph pencil on the verso, with a still image from the film corresponding to that number on the website Catalogue Lumiere showing a similar scene. While the importance of the Lumiere Brothers to the invention and popularity of the moving image is well known.....

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1967. First Edition, and first printing of this omnibus edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper in the year of publication: "For Dorothy and Clarence / Still the best in-laws in the world / Ken / See p. vii of 'Foreword.'" The cited page reveals that Millar would write daily at his sister-in-law's.....

New York: William Morrow, 1939. First Edition. Very Good in a Good plus example of the scarce dust jacket. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper: "To Margie and Babe / with all my love / Daniel Geoffrey Homes Mainwaring." Book is slightly cocked and a bit shaken, otherwise clean with green titles and design quite bright and unfaded;.....

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1954. Revised Final Draft script for the 1955 film. The 8th and final collaboration of James Stewart and Anthony Mann, and the second film to be released in VistaVision. "Dutch" (Stewart) is a professional baseball player and an ex-pilot who fought during WWII who is recalled to service with the US Air Force. Many speculate that the.....

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1947. Original Pressbook for the 1947 film noir. A little-seen noir with an interesting history. Based on the 1940 film, "The Letter," which is in turn an adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's 1926 short story of the same title (first collected in "The Casuarina Tree"). Written for the screen by David Goodis and James Gunn. The.....

Burbank, CA: Walt Disney Productions, 1969. Revised First Draft script for the classic 1971 Disney film, "The Million Dollar Duck," here under the working title, "Mr. Webfoot Waddle". Based on a story by Ted Key, notable writer who created the famous time-traveling duo, Mr. Peabody and Sherman, both regular characters on the cult classic television series, "The Bullwinkle Show" (1960-1964).....

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.....

Tokyo: Omega Project, circa 2001. Shooting script for the controversial 2001 Japanese film. All titles and text in Japanese. Based on Hideo Yamamoto's 1998 manga, wherein a disturbed man is manipulated by a sadomasochistic crime lord into increasingly violent acts against yakuza gang members.Set and shot on location in Tokyo. White titled wrappers with black-and-white manga panels on the fore-edge.....

Mexico City: Libreria Madero, 1969. First Mexican Edition, preceding all others. Slim quarto, perfect-bound softcover. A cornerstone of Latin American pop photography, and included in "The Latin American Photobook". Designed by Vicente Rojo, with photographs by Hector Garcia, one of the most important Mexican photojournalists. A private edition published by a prominent Mexico City bookstore and distributed gratis to its clients.....

N.p. N.p., circa 1974. Two vintage borderless photographs of model and actress Caroline Munro, circa 1974.A successful career as a major model and cover girl quickly led Munro to small film roles in the late 1960's, such as "Casino Royale" and "Where's Jack?". By the early 1970's Munro was on contract to Hammer Films and became a full time actress.....

Chile: Nascimento, 1954. First printing of this edition. One of 1000 numbered copies (this being No. 680) SIGNED by the author. This copy retains the scarce insert on green paper that was issued with all copies, a bibliographic note on the genesis and publication history of the poem by Jorge Sanhueza. The first definitive edition of the poems, including the.....

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1930. First Edition. Basis for the 1931 film directed by John M. Stahl. Included with the book is an extraordinary original bi-fold program for the April 17, 1931 Hollywood premiere of Stahl's film at the Carthay Circle Theatre in Los Angeles, printed in black and gold on lavender cardstock, styled to emulate the novel's dust jacket.....

Tokyo: Shochiku, Circa 1959. Draft script for the 1959 Japanese film. Text and titles in Japanese. With holograph pencil annotations throughout, ostensibly noting the placement of a certain character's lines.Angered by their parents' refusal to buy them a television set, two young brothers decide to go on a silence strike against all adults, leading to a number of comic misunderstandings.....

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.....

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1968. Two vintage candid photographs from the 1968 film. With holograph annotations on the verso of each. A seminal horror film, one of the finest genre pictures ever made, from the earliest days of the New Hollywood cinema, bringing together Hollywood newcomer Roman Polanski, old-time producer William Castle, young star Mia Farrow, and John Cassavetes. Set and.....

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1980. Early Draft script for the 1980 film, with Roman Polanski credited as screenwriter on the title page. Sole credit ultimately went to Mann Rubin, who rewrote the script extensively. Polanski was originally slated to direct the film as well, but was replaced by Brian G. Hutton after he fled the country in the face.....

Universal City: Universal City Studios, 1979. First Draft script for the 1981 film, here under the working title "Family Dream". With the signature of an unknown crew member to the top right corner of the front wrapper. A cynical ex-convict is hired to drive a group of orphaned special needs children and their schoolteacher across the country from Pennsylvania to.....

Shepperton: London Film Productions, 1949. Vintage reference photograph of director Carol Reed, music director Hubert Clifford, film editor Oswald Hafenrichter, and notably the composer of the film's soundtrack, Anton Karas, on the set of the 1949 film noir. With two printed mimeo snipes affixed to the verso, along with a studio stamp.An unemployed pulp fiction novelist travels to postwar Vienna.....

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 /.....

N.p. N.p., 1973. Collection of seven vintage vernacular color snapshots from the 1973 film, five featuring actress Gilda Arancio being tortured by kidnappers. One shot (shown) shows Arancio and Joëlle Coeur on their initial hike in the woods, and the final shot shows Coeur late in the film, where she is experiencing what could be described as Stockholm Syndrom. A......

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1932. First Draft script for the 1932 pre-Code film (though it is what would later be known as a revised shooting script, as it was a rewrite issued during shooting). AFI Catalog provides some context around the October 20, 1932 date on the script, revealing a somewhat troubled production that resulted in a fine film: "On 23.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1939. Draft script for an unproduced film by Rafael Sabatini. A fine leatherbound copy with gilt lettering and decorated endpapers.One of prolific screenwriter Rafael Sabatini's final projects. A romanticized, swashbuckling account of the adventures and loves of Italian explorer Christopher Columbus, here re-imagined as the Spanish "Cristobal Colon" from Castile. Delays in the production of the film.....

Florence, MA: Red Trillium Press / Aqui en la lucha, 2009. First Edition. One of a deluxe edition limited to 50 copies (this being No. 15) signed by the photographer Eduardo Hernandez Santos, with two signed original prints all housed in a gray clamshell case. A photographic exploration of one of Havana's hidden communities. Interweaving stark photography with excerpts from.....

New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1939. First Edition. With the rare publisher's wraparound band, noting that this the only play to have ever received both the Pulitzer Prize and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award (Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire" was bestowed the same honor in 1948). Basis for the 1948 film directed by H. C. Potter and starring.....

Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1973. Draft script for the 1975 film. Based on the the 1939 novel by Nathanael West, and equal to it as a dark, funny, and ultimately devastating commentary on the Hollywood system and its effect on the lives and dreams of those caught up in it. Nominated for two Academy Awards, considered by many to be.....

Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1942. Draft script for the 1942 film. Copy belonging to studio secretary Marion Pecht, with her name in holograph pencil on page 141. Winston Miller is credited as a screenwriter on the front wrapper, but he went uncredited upon the film's release. Reuniting the stars of Universal's "The Spoilers" (also 1942), and based on a......

Los Angeles: Dan Curtis Productions, 1972. Two Revised Draft scripts, "Frankenstein - Part 1" and "Frankenstein - Part 2," for the two part television film "Frankenstein," which aired two, two hour episodes on January 16 and 17, 1973 on ABC's "Wide World of Mystery". Name of uncredited crew member "David Dyer" and "filming 12-18-72" on top right of each script.....

N.p. N.p., circa 1970. One page, typescript, with a couple of typeover corrections. A fascinating muse of Southern's crafting of the "Easy Rider," screenplay, focusing on how he actually wrote Jack Nicholson's role for Rip Torn, with a detailed explanation of why Torn did not ultimately fill the role. Full provenance available on request. Blank office stock, recto only, 8.5.....

N.p. N.p., circa 1969. Original ribbon copy typescript for Tay Garnett's screenplay adaptation of Mickey Spillane's 1967 novel. Profusely annotated by Garnett in blue and red ink on every page, and with a annotations by him at the top right corner of the first leaf: "First Draft (Work Copy)," "Screenplay by Tay Garnett," and "From Mickey Spillane's novel".Raoul Walsh eventually.....

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.....

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.....

N.p. Genjiro Amato, 1991. Draft script for the 1991 film. Text in Japanese. A semi-fictional account of Japanese artists Yumeji Takehisa, who falls in love with a widow and then becomes a rival with the ghost of her dead husband, and her husband's murderer. Purple titled perfect bound wrappers. Title page present. 116 leaves, with last page of text numbered.....

N.p. John Kender, 1972. Vintage double weight black-and-white press photograph of director Jacques Tati, walking against traffic at the corner of 45th Street and 7th Avenue in New York City. With the stamp of photographer John Kender on the verso. Unfailingly sublime, here Tati is shown during his visit to New York for the November 1972 US premiere of his.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Walter Shenson Films / Subafilms / United Artists, 1965. Vintage photograph from the 1965 film "Help!", showing The Beatles in a candid moment between takes, surrounded by members of the British Army while shooting an outdoor performance scene on Salisbury Plain. With the stamp of photographer Robert Cohen and holograph annotations on the verso. 7.25 x 5.....

Paris: Les Films du Carrosse / Les Productions Artistes Associes, 1975. Collection of 4 vintage black-and-white press photographs from the set of the 1975 film. Three of the four photographs show Truffaut and his crew working on the set, both in front of the camera and behind it, and the fourth is a lovely shot of Truffaut in uniform next.....

Paris: Parc Film, 1966. Archive of 46 vintage reference stills for the 1966 French film. Each photograph numbered using two different numbering systems in holograph marker and pencil. A single photograph shows director Varda with Catherine Deneuve on the set. A writer and his pregnant wife, mute from a car accident, move to a remote village while he works on.....

Paris: Franfilmdis / Argui-Film, 1933. Vintage double weight borderless reference photograph for the landmark 1933 silent film by Jean Vigo. With the stamp of photographer Mars Marstrich on the verso. Although he only made four films before his death from tuberculosis at the age 29, Jean Vigo would come to have an outsized influence on cinema, particularly the French New.....

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 /.....

New York: Janus Films, 1961. Three vintage studio still photographs from the US release of the 1958 film. Based on the 1948 novel by Jerzy Andrzejewski.The last film in the "war" trilogy that began Polish director Wajda's career as a director, preceded by "Pokolenie" (1955) and "Kanal" (1957). A strong anti-war statement, framed in the personae of two men given.....

Baltimore: Dreamland, 1970. Original flyer for the 1970 film. From the collection of frequent Waters collaborator Alan Rose. A flyer for the premiere private screenings of Waters' second feature film. The flyer notes that there are to be 9 screenings on April 10, 11, and 12, 1969, shows at 8PM, 10PM, and midnight, at the First Unitarian Church ("new location.....

New York: Random House, 1972. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Westlake on the title page: "To Mike / Donald Westlake." The third Parker novel to be issued in hardcover. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Small bump to the heel, bookplate on the front endpaper; jacket shows touch of color-fading to the jacket spine lettering as almost always found.....

Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1966. Collection of five vintage borderless black-and-white studio still photographs from the set of the 1966 film. All photographs show Billy Wilder giving direction, including scenes in a bedroom, on a football field, in a cemetery, and more. Walter Matthau won an Academy Award for his role in the film. 8 x 10 inches. Near.....

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1971. Vintage oversize double weight candid photograph of Alan J. Pakula, Donald Sutherland, and Jane Fonda on the set of "Klute" in the summer of 1970. Shot, struck, and mounted by the film's still photographer, Bob Willoughby. The photographer has written at the top of the verso, in holograph ink: "Donald Sutherland, Alan Pakula, and Jane.....

New York: Farrar and Rinehart, 1945. First Edition. An exceptionally bright copy of a key Woolrich title normally found the worse for wear. Basis for the 1948 film noir written for the screen by Jonathan Latimer and starring Edward G. Robinson. Near Fine in an about Near Fine dust jacket without a trace of the usual fading to the spine.....