N.p. N.p., 1965. Archive of four vintage black-and-white double weight still photographs from the 1966 film. Shot and struck by special photographer John Bryson. The photographs feature Frankenheimer, actor James Garner, and cinematographer Lionel Linden. Bryson was a photojournalist for Life magazine and many other publications, and was also a....
London: British Nation Films, 1942. Original British program for the 1942 film. A fascinating piece, in that it consists almost entirely of a long transcription by Pressburger of the true-life narrative by Sir George Corbett, which forms the basis for the film. Photo illustrations from the film throughout. Saddle-stapled illustrated...
London: Allen and Unwin, 1920. First edition, first issue with type broken on page 35, line 32. Some offsetting to the second blank, some fading to the book spine, still easily Near Fine in an about Fine dust jacket with light rubbing at the spine ends. A very nice copy...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1965. Final Draft script for the 1966 film. Secret agent Derek Flint is a smooth-talking Renaissance man—martial arts master, polyglot, ballet dancer—who works for the international intelligence agency Z.O.W.I.E. When several fellow agents are discovered mysteriously murdered, his agency tasks Flint with finding and stopping the killers...
New York: HarperCollins, 1996. Tony Hillerman's original typescript for his novel "The Fallen Man," with his original holograph corrections in ink. Housed in a plain orange publisher's box, with a memo from Hillerman, on his stationery, affixed to the lid. The history of the manuscript is explained in three documents...
N.p. N.p., 1971. Vintage borderless photograph of Andy Warhol and the cast of the 1971 play. Holograph ink annotation on the verso crediting photographer Jack Mitchell, identifying the subjects, and giving a date of "5/71." Based on tape-recorded telephone conversations between Andy Warhol and Brigid Berlin about her family’s private life...
New York: Coward McCann, 1931. First Edition. The author's fifth book. Jacket illustration by Glenn Cravath. Very Good plus in a bright, Very Good plus example of the scarce dust jacket. Some fading to the book's quarter binding, and jacket has a tiny, nearly undetectible hole at the center of...
Los Angeles: International Cinema, 1976. Revised Treatment script for the 1980 disaster film. Partially erased holograph pencil notation ("444") on front wrapper. Based on the 1969 novel "The Day the World Ended" by Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan-Witts detailing the 1902 volcanic eruption of Mount Pelée on Martinique. The Master...
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1935. First Edition. INSCRIBED in the year of publication by the author to legendary film director Tod Browning: "To Tod Browning / with admiration / Horace McCoy / Hollywood, August, 1935." A wonderful association. Horace McCoy was a Hollywood screenwriter in 1935, and at the...
New York: Random House, 1948. First Edition. REVIEW COPY, with a publisher's review slip in red type, specific to this title, laid in. With a typed note signed from Ben Washer of Paramount Studios to actress Mary Nash, on Paramount stationery, affixed to the front pastedown. The note describes how...
N.p. N.p., Circa 1960s. Collection of seven vintage black and white photographs of a performance by El Teatro Campesino at the Village Theatre in New York, circa 1960s. With printed mimeo snipes affixed to the verso, along with the stamp of photographer Marion Bernstein. From the archive of the PIX...
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N.p. N.p., 1968. Two vintage borderless photographs from the set of the 1968 French experimental film mixing documentary with surreal imagery and fictitious characters. With mimeo snipe on one and holograph annotations on the other. From the last scene of the film featuring "Eve Democracy," a graffiti artist played by...
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...
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1930. First Edition. Born in England, David Betts drifted around the American West before coming to New York and finding work driving cabs. He was dubbed "The Taxi Philosopher" after publishing several letters featuring his views on life and in the "New York Evening Post" during...
London: Eon Productions, 1972. Shooting script for the 1973 film. With a holograph ink annotation on the title page, noting copy No. 56. Roger Moore's first turn as 007, and the eighth film in the franchise overall. Based on the 1954 novel by Ian Fleming, which sees Bond go up...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1944. Final Shooting script from the 1945 film. With credit on the title page for screenwriter Anita Loos, who would go uncredited in the final film. Based on the classic 1943 coming-of-age novel by Betty Smith. Nominated for Best Screenplay, and James Dunn won for Best...
N.p. N.p., Circa 1965. Vintage press photograph of Diana Rigg as Emma Peel, the iconic female character in the classic British television series, "The Avengers." Here Rigg stands on a polar bear skin rug laid out near the shoreline of an unknown British locale. Shot by photographer Terry O'Neill to...
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Paris: Denoel, 1952. First French Edition (and correct first). INSCRIBED by Narcejac on the front endpaper and signed by Boileau just below. A French review copy, with the necessary PRESSE punch-stamp present on both the rear panel of the jacket and the book. An absolutely pristine, extraordinarily well-preserved example. "Celle...
N.p. N.p., 1985. Vintage borderless photograph of Christo Vladimirov Javacheff in his studio, New York City, 1985. Snipe, agency and photographer's stamps, and holograph annotations on the verso. Christo Vladdimirov Javacheff and his wife Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon worked together on environmental artworks for nearly 50 years. Christo is pictured here...
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New York: Godwin, 1936. First Edition. Rare in dust jacket, this being the only copy we have ever handled. The author's second book, a sensational and ultimately somewhat prescient look at artificial insemination and the "ectogenic child." One of three pulp novels Fuller wrote prior to bringing the same sensibilities to...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1933. Collection of 70 vintage double weight reference photographs from the 1933 film, including seven of cast and crew at work on the set, three of which feature director Tod Browning. Also included is a later print of a fourth image of Browning on the...
Rome: Albert and Charles Boni, 1951. Original Italian program for the 1951 film, based on the novel "Toto il buono" by Cesare Zavattini. SIGNED by Vittorio De Sica at the bottom of the title page. One of the director's classics, pure visual storytelling, made just after "Bicycle Thieves" (1948) and...
N.p. ITC Entertainment, 1976. Draft script for the 1976 German-Italian-British film. A train traveling in Europe has been exposed to a deadly disease, and the passengers are forbidden to leave the train. Terrorism and disaster follow, with a star-studded cast, including Richard Harris, Martin Sheen, and producer Carlo Ponti's wife...
Paris: Viaduc Productions, 1974. Vintage oversize borderless reference photograph from the 1974 film, showing actress Jane Birkin in a plaid miniskirt, but no top, freezing in an unheated Paris apartment. With holograph annotations regarding layout on the verso, along with a mimeo snipe, a provenance stamp, and a stamp dated...
N.p. N.p., 1973. Vintage borderless oversize candid photograph of Jane Birkin by her best known photographer Jean-Pierre Fizet. Here she lounges poolside, wearing more than usual (i.e., a hat). With Fizet's rubber stamp and multiple agency stamps on the verso, along with a date of 1973. 11 x 8.5 inches. Very...
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N.p. N.p., 1989. Original portrait of Shirley MacLaine, taken circa 1960s, Shot, struck, and mounted by photographer, Bob Willoughby, and INSCRIBED by him on the verso: "To Michael [and] Deirdre / Happy Daze! / Bob Willoughby / 11-24-89 / Coolmaine Castle." Full provenance available. After studying with Saul Bass at...
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...
Los Angeles: Selznick International Pictures, 1939. Early Continuity script (pre-production), stamped "TEMPORARY," with a credit for Alfred Hitchcock's wife and frequent screenwriter Alma Reville. "TEMPORARY" script includes screenwriting credit for Michael Hogan, who, along with Philip MacDonald, were given adaptation credits in the final film. Alfred Hitchcock's first American project, the...
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...
N.p. N.p., 1935. Archive of 24 vernacular photographs documenting a 1935 summer road trip through the badlands of South Dakota, Idaho, and Wyoming. Each photograph with holograph ink annotations identifying location to the margins, and holograph pencil annotations to the verso noting locations and dates, along with the stamp of...
N.p. N.p., 1928. Two vintage oversize photographs from the first stage production of "The Front Page" in 1928, showing two different trio shots of the reporters who grace the majority of the play. The first photo, a double weight 8 x 10 by Florence Vandamm with her blindstamped name on...
UK: Warwick Film Productions, 1960. Collection of 35 vintage, double weight, reference photographs from the 1960 film. One photograph showing actors Yvonne Mitchell and Peter Finch relaxing on the set, a second photograph with holograph annotations regarding layout on the verso. A dramatization of the libel and criminal cases involving...
New York: David Merrick Arts Foundation, Circa 1975. Draft script for the 1975 Broadway production, which premiered October 30, 1975 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, for a run of 156 performances, closing on March 13, 1976. Numeric annotation in holograph pencil on front wrapper, and copy No. 4 noted in...
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1969. Collection of nine vintage borderless studio still photographs from the 1969 film. Mimeo snipe on verso. Based on the 1965 novel by James Leo Herlihy. A classic and a cornerstone film of the New Hollywood cinema. Would-be gigolo Joe Buck (John Voight) and ailing...
N.p. N.p., N.d. Typescript draft for an unproduced film. A soldier's father is killed when witnessing a gang hit in Los Angeles and the soldier, on 30 day leave from his tour in Vietnam in order to attend his father's funeral, is out for revenge. A blunt condemnation of violent gangs...
Berlin: Nero-Film AG, 1931. Vintage oversize double weight photograph from the 1931 film. Based on the true story of psychopathic serial killer Hans Beckert, nicknamed the "Vampire of Dusseldorf," here played by Peter Lorre. A brilliant image from this crime thriller classic in which the search is on for Lorre...