London: Secker and Warburg, 1964. First UK Edition, preceded in 1963 by the French and American editions. Basis for the 1968 film and the many sequels that followed, including the recent 2011 franchise rebirth, "Rise of the Planet of the Apes." A touch of foxing to the page fore-edges, else...
New York: Cort Theatre, 1963. First Draft script for the 1963 Broadway play. Based on the 1962 novel by Ken Kesey. First produced at the Cort Theater, opening on November 12, 1963 and closing on January 25, 1964, for a total of 82 performances, starring Kirk Douglas and Gene Wilder...
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 notations 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: Frederick A. Stokes, 1926. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on a pasted-down note to the front endpaper: "For Sydney Williams / With the very best of the author, who wishes he were here in the land of good wines / Louis Bromfield." Winner of the Pulitzer Prize...
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. David Allen Coe, 1982. First Edition. Near Fine in trade wrappers as issued. SIGNED by David Allen Coe on the front wrapper. The maverick country singer's primitively printed autobiography, detailing his time in 11 different correctional institutions--from juvenile detention centers to prison--beginning at age 9, followed by a career...
Berlin: Verlag Ernst Wasmuth, 1924. First Edition. Very Good plus without dust jacket. Moderate fading to the extremities of the blue cloth boards, with some light dampstaining to the front board and a few underlines in red pencil to the text. Bookplate to the front pastedown. Contains black and white...
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1969. Final Draft script for the 1970 film. After selling his original screenplay, Erich Segal was approached by Paramount to adapt his own work into a novel, to be published ahead of the film to help publicize it. The novel was an instant best seller, and the...
Tokyo: Toho Company /, 1973. Draft script for the 1973 Japanese film. Based on the 1972-1973 manga written by Kazuo Koike and Kazuo Kamimura. The story of a woman with a sword in the end of her umbrella who seeks vengeance against the men who murdered her father and raped...
Los Angeles: RKO Radio Pictures, 1936. Estimating script for the 1937 film, here under the working title "Stepping Toes." A ballet star (Astaire) start falls in love with a young tap dancer (Rogers) on a trans-Atlantic voyage, but rumors of their relationship precede them to their destination. The seventh of ten...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1949. Revised Final script for the 1950 film. Bound presentation belonging to producer Sol C. Siegel with his name in gilt on the front board. With 53 studio still photographs tipped in throughout, four pages of retakes and added scenes tipped in at the rear, as...
Los Angeles: United Artists / Contemporary Productions / Harold Hecht Productions, 1960. Draft script for the 1961 film, "The Young Savages" (here under its working title, "A Matter of Conviction"), SIGNED by director John Frankeheimer on the front wrapper. Directed by Frankenheimer, based on the 1959 novel, "A Matter of...
Secaucus, NJ: The Citadel Press, 1984. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Gregory Peck to film critic and academic Judith Crist, who provides the introduction: "For Judith / With great appreciation and warm regards / Gregory Peck." Laid in are two very interesting pieces of ephemera: a photocopy of a rave review...
N.p. Various, Circa 1966-1996. Archive of material from the estate of Michael Dreyfuss, violinist for progressive folk-rock band McKendree Spring, including material spanning over four decades, with the majority of the material dating from the band's heyday in the 1970s. This listing includes 15 posters, 817 pages of material from...
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N.p. Matrixbest production, 1977. Seventh Draft script for an unproduced film. Holograph signature and copy number 80 in black marker by production designer John Beard on the title page. Beard is best known for his work on "Brazil" (1985), "The Meaning of Life" (1983), "Bad Timing" (1980), and "Life of...
London: Gaumont, 1935. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the UK release of the 1935 film, a shot of stars Robert Donat and Madeleine Carroll in one of the film's less stressful moments. Hitchcock's adaptation of Buchan's novel proved, as usual, to be an improvement on the source material, adding two...
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1933. Second Script for the 1933 film. Rubber-stamped on the front wrapper, "FILE COPY / RETURN TO SCRIPT DEPT. / PARAMOUNT STUDIO - HOLLYWOOD," and "1837 / MASTER FILE." The film's original title, "Don't Call Me Madam," is present on the front wrapper, crossed through, with the...
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...
New York: Music Theatre, Inc, circa 1960. Draft script for the 1965 play. Revival run at New York City Center April 28 to May 9, 1965 for a total of 15 performances. Props and costume plot bound in. Based on "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" and "Blood Pressure", two...
Paris: Jean-Louis Seigner, 2001. Vintage oversize photograph of Roman Polanski on location in Warsaw in 2001 during the production of his 2002 film. Based on the 1946 memoir by Wladslaw Szpilman, about his survival in the Nazi-occupied Warsaw Ghetto during World War II. Winner of the Palme d’Or at Cannes...
Munich: Peter-Presse / Atlas Films, 1965. Original 1965 German A1 poster for the 1963 US film. Designed by Heinz Edelman From the collection of noted film historian Amos Vogel. Full provenance available. An iconoclastic, utterly American underground film best understood by way of the reactions it receives from viewers outside the...
Shanghai: Browhite Arts, 1930. First Edition. Very Good plus, with red and gilt stamping to the front board, without dust jacket as issued. Light rubbing at the extremities and light page toning.
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1960. Vintage oversize, double weight, borderless film still from the 1960 musical film depicting Shirley MacLaine involved in a hand of cards with assistant director Joseph E. Rickards while Frank Sinatra and director Walter Lang look on. Based on the 1953 Broadway musical by Abe Burrows...
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists / The Mirisch Corporation, 1967. First Draft script for the 1968 film, here under its working title, "The Crown Caper." INSCRIBED on the title page by director and producer Norman Jewison: "To -- / With regards / Norman Jewison." Written for the screen by Alan...
Beverly Hills, CA: Faces, 1974. Original one-sheet poster for the 1974 film. One of four variants issued by Cassavetes' production company Faces, Inc., this variant picturing John Cassavetes, Peter Falk, and Gena Rowlands as part of its design. Along with "Faces" (1968), considered to be one of the groundbreaking director's...
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...
London: The Archers, 1947. Complete set of 8 UK color front-of-house cards from the first-run screening of the 1947 film. Each with the contemporary rubber stamp of Girosign, Ltd., on the verso. Front-of-house cards served the same purpose in the UK as lobby cards in the US, but were generally...
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1966. Draft script for the 1967 film. Based on the 1963 novel by Patrick Ryan. Copy likely belonging to John Lennon, with lines for his character "Gripweed" circled or stricken exclusively in holograph ink throughout. Also included is a separate Call Sheet for Monday, October...
Paris: Filmsonor, Circa 1958. Collection of 109 vintage black-and-white still photographs for the 1958 French film. All photographs with mimeograph series number on the verso. Images of cast and crew expertly captured, including director Patelliere working with cameraman on the set. Photographs range in size, several with white borders, several...
Paris: Gallimard Serie Noire No. 185, 1953. First French Edition, preceding all others. Basis for the classic 1955 French heist film, "Rififi," one of the classics of noir, directed by Jules Dassin. Extremely scarce in the original hardcover binding, much more so in dust jacket. Very Good plus in a....
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1940. Draft script for the 1941 film. Based on the 1937 book by Lieutenant Beirne Lay, Jr. Veronica Lake's first major film, the role that would make her a star. Here she plays a seductress who attempts to woo two separate pilots in training (Ray Milland and...
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...
Sao Paolo: Metron, 1989. First Edition. INSCRIBED and dated 14.2.90 by the artist on the front endpaper: "Por caros Nomita e George, Este immenso prazer em recebe-los aqui, assim tao espontaneamente. Meu abraco amigo e os uatos de felicidades, o Carlos Bracher, Ouro Preto, 14.2.90." Fine in a Near Fine...
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Hollywood: Paramount Pictures. Final Draft script for the 1955 film. Actor Van Heflin's copy, with his name on the front wrapper and his holograph notations throughout. Based on the novel "Jovanka e le altre" by Urgo Pirro. Once branded himself by the House Un-American Activities Committee, award-winning director Martin Ritt...
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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...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1965. Revised Final script for the 1966 film. Actor Van Heflin's working copy, with his notations throughout. 1960s remake of the 1939 John Ford Western. Studio self-wrappers, noted as REVISED FINAL on the front wrapper, dated June 15, 1965, with credits for screenwriter Landon. 130 leaves...