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Hollywood, CA: Paramount Pictures, 1933. Original film program for the 1933 film. With a striking image of Dietrich on the front wrapper, and much detail throughout regarding the production. Based on the novel by Hermann Suermann and the play by Edward Sheldon, about a country orphan who goes to Berlin...

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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...

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Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1969. Revised First Draft script for the 1970 film. "Art" in holograph pencil on the front wrapper, and a few holograph notations in ink on page 2 noting various scene props, leads us to believe this belonged to a member of the film's art department, Dennis...

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London: Romulus, 1961. Draft script for the 1962 film. Copy belonging to producer James H. Ware with his name and notations in holograph ink and pencil throughout. Ware was a major presence in British and American cinema, best known for his work on "Beat the Devil" (1953), "Room at the...

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N.p. Regal Films, 1958. Draft script for the 1958 film. Copy belonging to actress Lyn Thomas, with notations throughout relating to her character in the film, Laura.A space probe returns to earth bearing an unusual extraterrestrial fungus which, when accidentally mixed with human blood, turns into space rust. The rust...

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Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1942. Final Script for the 1942 film comedy, "The Magnificent Dope" (here under the title "The Magnificent Jerk"), directed by Walter Lang, written for the screen by George Seaton, and starring Henry Fonda and Don Ameche. Don Ameche runs a Dale Carnegie-esque "success school" that isn't...

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Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1990-1991. An extensive archive of 26 scripts and related production memoranda for 19 episodes of the hit animated sitcom "The Simpsons," dating from the 1990 and 1991 second and third seasons. Collection belonging to Gracie Films Animation Production Manager Ken Tsumura, with his notations throughout, his...

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Munich: Lenbachhaus, 1982. Original poster for the 1982 exhibition of drawings created by director Robert Wilson, in conjunction with his play of the same name. The exhibition took place at Lenbachhaus, in Munich, Germany, from May 19th to June 13th, 1982. Wilson typically created preliminary drawings for his theatre works...

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New York: LIFE Magazine, 1960. An extremely uncommon film preview poster issued by LIFE magazine, to promote the first appearance of Hemingway's "The Dangerous Summer," which first ran in the magazine in two parts, in the September and October 1960 issues. The only example we have ever encountered. 26.5 x....

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1979. Original poster promoting the release of the 1979 album, the band's second collaborative effort with Brian Eno.Like its predecessor, "More Songs about Buildings and Food," "Fear of Music" accomplished several things at once. A rollicking (and today classic) single, "Life During Wartime" put the record immediately in the black...

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Florida: Three Arts Productions, 1956. Draft script for an unproduced play called "Rope," adapted for stage by Walter Lawrence from Arthur Laurents' screenplay for the 1948 film, which in turn was based on the 1929 play by Patrick Hamilton. Copy belonging to an uncredited cast member who played Phillip, with...

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N.p. N.p. 1944, 1946, 1949. Archive of four letters between Carl Theodore Dreyer and film historian and eventual "Cahiers du Cinema" co-founder Joseph-Marie Lo Duca primarily regarding Lo Duca's proposed sound-added release of Dreyer's 1927 silent masterpiece "The Passion of Joan of Arc," and the French release of Dreyer's 1943...

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N.p. N.p. 1934. Vintage photograph of writer, director, and artist Jean Cocteau by Boris Lipnitzki, taken on the set of his 1934 play, "La machine infernal." With the stamp of photo agency Rogers-Viollet crediting Lipnitzki on the verso. The play, based on the Greek myth of Oedipus, premiered on April 10...

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Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1947. Original US half sheet poster for the 1947 film adaptation of Chandler's fourth novel.An unusual and ambitious film noir, Montgomery's final MGM picture, the entire film shot from Marlowe's perspective with the protagonist only ever visible in reflections and during a few scenes when...

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New York: Harper and Row, 1970. First Edition. Fine in a lovely, Near Fine dust jacket. A bit of the usual fading to the jacket spine (but only to the titling), some slight rubbing at the spine ends and corners, else an exceptionally sharp, unread copy of Hillerman's first book.

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Hollywood, CA: Paramount Pictures, circa 1970. Revised Version script for the 1974 film. Holograph ink notations on the title page and one other page.The 1974 adaptation of Fitzgerald's classic 1925 novel has been praised for its lavish costumes and decadent set design. Coupled with an all star cast and a....

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Los Angeles: Famous Artists Productions, 1967. Vintage borderless black-and-white double weight press photograph from the set of the 1967 film comedy. With the stamp of photographer Pierluigi Praturlon on the verso.Born in Rome, Praturlon (better known simply as Pierluigi) embarked upon a career in photography in 1947. The young paparazzo...

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N.p. N.p. Circa 1978-1982. Vintage double weight matte finish photograph, a self portrait taken by Andre Kertesz while seated in a barber's chair, showing both the front and back of his head, just after having received a haircut. With the stamp of Kertesz's long time printer, Igor Bakht, on the...

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Various cities: Walt Disney Pictures / HanWay Films, 1926-1967. Album of thirty lobby cards and photographs from thirteen animated films, all SIGNED or INSCRIBED by animation directors to fellow animator Les Gibbard. Lotte Reiniger,Norman McLaren, John Hubley, Arthur Babbitt, Grim Natwick, and four of Disney's famed "nine old men," Frank...

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Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1981. Revised First draft script for the 1982 film. Laid in is a photocopied MGM memorandum from Steven Spielberg addressing the confidentiality of the "Poltergeist" project. Red numeric watermark on each page as called for.A quintessential entry in the horror film oeuvre, "Poltergeist" tells the...

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Los Angeles: American International Pictures [AIP], 1978. Revised draft script for 1979 film. Based on the 1977 novel by Jay Anson (and, purportedly, the real life experiences of a New York family). A young married couple move into a new house, one that turns out to be haunted. The film...

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N.p. Cinema V, 1969. Original silkscreen poster designed by legendary title and poster artist Saul Bass for the US release of the 1968 French film "Alexandre le bienheaureux." Printed at the Art Krebs Screen Studios in Los Angeles, and used for the film's premiere at the legendary Cinema II Theater...

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London: Chatto and Windus, 1930. First Edition. One of 260 copies (this being No. 120) SIGNED by the author. Light fading to the spine, else a bright Fine copy. A lovely copy of this play by the author of "Winnie the Pooh."

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Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1941. Draft script for the 1941 film, here under the working title %The Great Man,% with holograph annotations on nearly every page. W.C. Fields' last starring film before his death in 1946. Told as a "real life" film starring Fields as himself, "Never Give a....

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London: George G Harrap and Co, 1923. Large quarto. First Edition. Issued by Harrap in an edition of 2000 copies in 1923, 250 of which were distributed by Stokes in the US. With 48 richly colored plates interspersed with sheets of calligraphic text. Housed in a custom maroon quarter-leather clamshell...

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N.p. N.p. circa 1960s. Photograph of Louis Armstrong at home, holding his trumpet, with his wife Louise. Taken by noted jazz photographer Eddie Adams in the mid-1960s, printing date unknown. With the Eddie Adams Archive stamp on the verso, signed just below by his son, Edward Adams II. An unusually...

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Paris: Arts et M'tiers Graphiques, 1933. First Edition. 60 full-page, black and white plates. Brassai's first and most notable photobook.A nocturnal exploration of Parisian culture, and one of the most celebrated and influential collections of urban photography ever published. Compiled in a somewhat eery sequence of encounters set around the...

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Chicago: Earl Seubert, 1970. Vintage borderless black-and-white photograph of Richard Avedon holding up a photograph of Rennie Davis (of the Chicago Seven) for an exhibition held in Chicago in June 1970. Shot by Tribune photographer Earl Seubert, with his stamp on the verso, as well as several date stamps (all...

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Burbank, CA: National Broadcasting Company [NBC], 1976. Final and Revised Final drafts for four episodes the 1976 season and two episodes 1977 season of the NBC television series "Gibbsville," based on characters in John O'Hara's 1934 novel, "Appointment in Samarra." Gibbsville is the name of the town central to the...

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Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1980. Early draft script for the 1980 film, with Roman Polanski credited for screenwriting on the title page. The screen credit ultimately went to Mann Rubin, who rewrote the script extensively. Based on the 1973 novel by Lawrence Sanders.Notable both for being one of Frank...

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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1960. First Edition. Fine and unread in a Near Fine dust jacket with a touch of overall toning and light soil to the rear panel. An attractive copy of this non-Archer thriller, featuring young California lawyer Bill Gunnarson.

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Denver, CO: Wiseman Film Productions, 1964. Original one sheet poster for the 1964 film. Only one style of the poster is known to have been issued for its initial release.A seminal film from many points of view. The second feature to be directed by Shirley Clarke, one of the few...

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London: Smith, Elder and Comapny, 1858, 1867. Second Edition. Three volumes. Set belonging to US Army General, White House Staff Secretary, and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient Andrew Goodpaster, with a presentation bookplate on the front pastedown of each volume. Very Good plus. Rebound in full leather, with marbled endpapers...

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New York: Fluxus Editions, 1963. First Edition. Young's compositions for 1961, beginning on January 1 and repeating roughly every 13 days through December 31, were a reconceptualization of his "Composition 1960 No. 10" ("Draw a straight line and follow it"), which would become something of a guiding artistic principle for...

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Hollywood, CA: Paramount Pictures, 1937. Vintage photograph for the 1937 film, showing stars Lombard, McMurray, and Butterworth relaxing with director Leisen behind the scenes. With an archive stamp of Argentine writer and film critic Israel Chas de Cruz, and holograph pen notations identifying the subjects on the verso. The second...

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N.p. N.p. 1966. Heavily corrected original typescript for a story by Dieter Dengler and ghost-writer Trevor Armbrister, "Dengler" (here with the hand-corrected title, "Vietnam Exclusive: I Escaped from a Red Prison"). The story first appeared in the December 3, 1966 issue of the "Saturday Evening Post," and was adapted many...

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