Chicago and New York: Ziff-Davis, 1946. First Edition. The only novel by radio personality Forbes, basis for the classic 1948 film noir (also known today under its UK title, "The Scar"), shot by John Alton and starring Paul Henreid and Joan Bennett. Near Fine in a Very Good, price-clipped dust...
N.p. N.p., Circa 1960s, 1980s. Draft script and Second Rough Draft for an unproduced, English-language film, circa 1960s and 1980s, about the life of St. Martin de Porres. Laid in one of the scripts is a typed note identifying Martin as the subject of the script and noting the date...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985. First Edition of the author's first book. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Jacket is extremely bright, with a touch of rubbing at the spine ends and corners.
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1944. First Edition. Fine in a bright, about Near Fine dust jacket, lightly chipped at spine ends and lightly rubbed at hinges. A sharp copy of the author's first novel which introduced one of the giants of twentieth century crime fiction to the public. Rare.
Tokyo: Nikkatsu, 1958. Draft script for the 1958 film. Text in Japanese. The first film to be credited to Suzuki by his assumed name, a man released from prison needs money and goes to retrieve diamonds sought after by fellow yakuza members. White titled perfect bound wrappers. Title page present...
Durham, NC: Fine Books Press, 2007. First Limited Edition. One of 52 copies lettered from a to zz (this being ww), SIGNED and lettered by the author. Publisher's gray quarter-leather cloth, backed in maroon, with red ribbon marker, gilt front and spine title, in a matching gray cloth slipcase with...
Paris: Gaumont, Circa 1958. Vintage oversize photograph of director Jacques Tati humorously overwhelmed by celluloid during the making of the 1958 film. 9 x 12 inches (22.5 x 30 cm). In an archival mat. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 111.
Lausanne, Switzerland: Editions L'Age D'Homme, 2005. First Edition, a trade softcover original. INSCRIBED by director Alexandre Sokourov on the half title page: "Pierre Goulliard / [unknown] / Alexandre Sokourov / 2007." In 2007, Sokourov, a prolific Russian filmmaker of increasing complexity and daring, was nominated for the Palme d'Or at...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1937. Publisher's prospectus for the First Edition. A perhaps unique and certainly rare piece advertising the release of Cain's second novel, containing the title-page, first chapter, and a specifications leaf. In a custom clamshell box with dark red cloth, quarter bound in dark red leather...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1946. Revised Final script for the 1947 film "Boomerang." Brief secretarial notation in holograph pencil on the verso of the last leaf. Based on a Reader's Digest article (1945) by Fulton Oursler (as Anthony Abbot), in turn based on an actual incident involving a Catholic priest and...
Paris: Cady Films, 1949. Original French program for the 1949 Jacques Tati film, "Jour de Fete," the director's first feature-length movie, about a day in the life of a rural French postman, illustrated throughout in color by Rene Peron. Rather than being a typical program with biographies, photographs, film stills...
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...
London: Cassell, 1968. First UK Edition, preceding all others. INSCRIBED by Sassoon on the half title page: "To Gerald Naborro / Thank you / Vidal Sassoon / Dorchester Hotel / 26.4.68 / It was very kind of you." A memoir by the legendary hair designer, written when he was 40 years...
Los Angeles: Artists Alliance, Circa 1948. Draft script for the 1948 film. With a single holograph pencil notation to the front wrapper. A modern take on the Pygmalion myth, adapted from the 1943 Broadway hit musical, with music by Kurt Weill, lyrics by poet Ogden Nash, and a book co-written by...
Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou / Herscher, 1983. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Klein to Ira Lowe on the half-title page: "to Ira, / a little catalog not made, heureusement in USA (see page 7) / All my best / Bill." Ira Lowe was a Washington, DC based lawyer who specialized in the...
N.p. N.p., 1961. Vintage oversize double weight candid photograph of Gregory Peck and producer Sy Bartlett conferring on the set of "Cape Fear" in 1961, during the final scene in which Peck's character Sam Bowden fights in swamp water with Max Cady (Robert Mitchum). Shot, struck, and mounted by the...
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...
Los Angeles: Saul Bass and Associates, 1960. Original glossy photographic title card for plate No. 3 in the title sequence from Stanley Kubrick's 1960 film, "Spartacus." This plate was used for the portion of the title card sequence showing "LAURENCE OLIVIER as Crassus." Only a small portion of the photographic...
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New York: Simon and Schuster, 1934. First Edition. REVIEW COPY, with publisher's card laid in. Also laid in is the additional perforated fold out reviews that originally accompanied the first issue jacket. Winner of the 1935 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Near Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Just...
Paris: Trinacra Films, 1977. Vintage double weight photograph from the set of the 1977 film, shot by still photographer Etienne George. Shown are director Francois Leterrier and his crew to the left on a dolly, and actress Sylvia Kristel on the right in a state of semi-undress. The last film...
N.p. Red Lion, 1968. Presentation script for the 1969 film, copy belonging to producer Harry Mandell, with his name in gilt on the front board. A woman breaks off her engagement with her fiance when he becomes violent after she has an abortion, only to be stalked by him when...
New York: William Morrow, 1939. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Gardner to one of his secretaries: “To Noni, Who wrote it—from the guy who only had to talk it. Yours, Erle Stanley Gardner.” About Fine in a bright, Near Fine dust jacket, which is lightly worn at top of spine and corners...
N.p. N.p., 1970. Two vintage borderless photographs from a French screening of "Once Upon a Time in The West". One photograph depicts director and screenwriter Sergio Leone at the box office. 8.5 x 10.5 inches (22 x 27 cm) Near Fine.
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...
Burbank, CA: Walt Disney Productions, 1954. Final Shooting Script for the 1954 film, with blue, yellow, and green revisions throughout. Based on the 1870 novel "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" by Jules Verne. Walt Disney's "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" was one of the most expensive and ambitious productions...
Los Angeles: American-International Pictures, 1958. Draft script for the 1958 film, here under the working title "The Spider." SIGNED by director Bert I. Gordon. With holograph pencil annotations throughout. Fodder for for an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 (Season 4, Episode 13. Sept 14, 1991), where director Gordon was...
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...
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1965. Revised Draft script for the 1965 film. Actor Dana Andrews' working copy, with his name label on the front wrapper, and name in holograph ink on two pages. From Andrews' estate, with a letter of provenance from Andrews' daughter, Katharine Smith. Script printed in Spain...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1938. Draft script for the 1938 film. Based on the short story "Private Pettigrew's Girl" by Dana Burnet, and published in "The Saturday Evening Post" on September 14, 1918. Copy belonging to an unknown crew member, with holographic pencil annotations throughout. Jimmy Stewart plays an...
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1968. Third printing. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper in the year after publication: "For Sissi Brandon / with warmest regards / Charles Portis / March 18, 1969." We have handled a number of signed and inscribed titles by Portis over time, but...
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1975. Collection of 8 vintage full color lobby cards from the 1976 film. This set dated 1975, one year before the film's official release, produced for press advertisement. A film that would prove to be the turning point in the careers of director Martin Scorsese...
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...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1972. Revised script for the 1972 film under the working title "Wet Stuff". A spy spoof film featuring Elliot Gould and Donald Sutherland as CIA agents on the run from the CIA, the KGB, Chinese Communists and an anarchist group after botching a Russian ballerina's defection...
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 annotations to the verso. Morrissey's first production for Warhol, Dallesandro's second leading role...
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Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1974. Draft script for the 1975 film. Bound presentation script belonging to producer Howard Pine with his named embossed on the front board. With annotations in holograph pencil and ink throughout. A sequel to the 1968 film "Funny Girl," this is a fictionalized account of...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1952. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper: "To E.F. / With appreciation for all your kind encouragements / Fondly / Harold R." Basis for the 1958 film "King Creole," directed by Michael Curtiz and starring a different king, Elvis Presley, in...