New York: Coward-McCann, 1958. First American Edition. First issue, tan boards and price of "$3.50" on the front jacket flap. REVIEW COPY, with slip and author photograph laid in. Photograph by Avakian. Southern's first novel. Light foxing to the top edges and jacket verso, and a hint of toning to...
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures / Famous Lasky Corporation, 1928. Final Draft script for the 1928 film, here under the working title "Quick Lunch." Included is a separately bound, 8-page sequence synopsis for the film. W.C. Fields' last silent film, but only the beginning of his fame. Wealthy Sam Hunter (Chester Conklin)...
Burbank, CA: Buena Vista Pictures, 2000. Archive of two scripts for the 2000 film, including the shooting script with blue and pink revisions bound in, and yellow revisions bound separately, with the studio's production number rubber stamped randomly on the pages throughout. Copy belonging to Bruce Willis' stand-in, Allen Strange...
San Francisco: Galeria de la Raza, 1978. Original color silkscreen print,One of an edition of 300 printed. SIGNED AND DATED IN 1978 by the artist. Published by the Galeria de la Raza, La Raza Silkscreen Center, San Francisco, and the artist. 23 x 17.5 inches. Fine condition, unframed.
New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1939. First Edition. Copy belonging to director Jacques Tourneur, with his name in holograph red pencil on the front endpaper. Published the same year as Tourneur's directorial debut, "They All Come Out." Tourneur would go on to direct 70 films over a 40 year career, including the...
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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Los Angeles: Selznick International Pictures / Vanguard Films, 1945. First Draft script for the 1947 screwball comedy, "The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer" (here under its working title, "Suddenly It's Spring"), directed by Irving Reis, written for the screen by Sidney Sheldon, and starring Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, Shirley Temple, and...
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N.p. Mafilm, 1977. Dialogue script for the 1979 Hungarian film "Allegro Barbaro." The second of Jancso's two-part dramatized history of Hungary, from the turn of the century to World War II, as told by the conflicted son of a wealthy landowner. Shot on location in Hungary. Gray titled wrappers, dated...
New York: Praeger, 1970. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Cage in 1971 to Ellsworth Snyder: "for Ellsworth Snyder, / with admiration and friendship / John Cage, Madison '71." Ellsworth Snyder and Cage were longtime friends. Snyder performed the composer's work on many occasions, perhaps most infamously at Cage's much-protested 1965 appearance...
New York: Signet Books, 1954. First printing of this edition, and first printing in paperback. INSCRIBED by the author on the title page in the year of publication to publisher Kurt Enoch: "To Kurt Enoch / with my best wishes / Sincerely yours / Richard Wright / Paris May 8...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1941. Draft script for the 1941 film. Actor Van Heflin's copy. A delightful comedy about a man who does not believe in jealousy, much to the annoyance of his lovely wife, who constantly finds herself accosted by other men. Lacking front wrapper, rear wrapper is...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1958. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper. Near Fine and unread in a Very Good plus, price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket has the usual fading to the colors at the heel, and some creasing and light rubbing at the crown. Presents quite...
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1972. Original maquette demonstrating an early poster design concept for the 1973 film, featuring the an original mounted silver gelatin photograph of the legendary streetlit scene of Father Merrin's first arrival to Georgetown in the film. A minimal design, without the credits information seen in the completed...
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1957. Final Draft script for the 1958 film. Actor Van Heflin's copy, with his notations throughout. A young officer in the army of Empress Catherine of Russia is on his way to his new duty station at a remote outpost. During a blinding snowstorm he comes upon...
Paris: Cinedis, 1957. Collection of 130 vintage black-and-white still photographs and 3 medium-format negatives for the 1957 French-Italian film. The collection consists of two unique but complimentary pieces, one being a set housed in the original paper box with "Crumiere / Paris" paper label, and notations on the box top...
Paris: DisCina, 1946. Vintage double weight studio photograph from the French release of the 1946 film. Credit at the bottom margin for photographer G.P. Aldo. 8.25 x 10.5 inches (27 x 21 cm). In a museum quality frame. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 6.
Italy: Arco Films / Lux Compagnie Cinematographique de France, 1964. Vintage photograph of director Pier Paolo Pasolini and crew on the set of his 1964 film, "The Gospel According to St. Matthew," by photographer Angelo Novi. A magnificent shot, capturing the immediacy of the crew (and a philosophically distracted Pasolini)...
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Bryn Mawr, PA: Theodore Presser, 1958. First American Edition, and first English language edition, originally published in Austria in 1955 by Universal Edition. First issue of an eight issue journal by composers and theorists Karlheinz Stockhausen and Herbert Eimert. Each issue focused on a single topic in contemporary music, this...
Paris: Various, 1946-1964. Collection of 19 original French programs for French, German, Italian, and Spanish films, with a single US film, here under the original French titles, 1946-1964. All feature color wrappers, some illustrated with color stills from the film, and highlights include "Madame du Barry" (1954, Christian-Jaque), "Madame Butterfly"...
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N.p. Veriscope, 1897. Two vintage fragments from a 63mm film print of the 1897 boxing match between "Gentleman" Jim Corbett and Bob Fitzsimmons. The first fragment consists of six frames depicting the fighters in a clinch, while the second consists of four frames depicting the fighters in the center of...
London: Navarone Productions, 1977. Revised Draft script for the 1978 British-American film. Copy belonging to property master Tony Teiger (presumed), with "Props." in holograph ink on the title page. Based on Alistair MacLean's 1968 novel, and sequel to J. Lee Thompson's 1961 Academy Award-winning film, "The Guns of Navarone," also...
New York: Macaulay, 1939. First Edition. Association copy, INSCRIBED by the author in the year and month of publication to fellow screenwriter Walter C. Roberts: "January 3rd 1939 / To Walter C. Roberts / In friendship and as a belated Xmas gift. / Your friend / Martin M. Goldsmith." With...
Stockholm: Svensk Filmindustri (SF), 1970. Vintage black-and-white borderless double weight Swedish press photograph from the 1971 film, shot in 1970. Stamps on the verso for the Pressens Bild Ab Feature-Service in Sweden, as well as a Swedish mimeo snipe describing the scene, dated October 1970 and crediting still photographer Jorgen...
London: N.p., Circa 1953. Original typescript draft for the 1954 play. With brief holograph notations throughout, mostly by a proofreader. Laid in note addressed to Alec Clunes, manager of the Arts Theatre in London, submitting script for review. First performed at the Aldwych Theatre in London May 1954, and then...
London: AVCO Embassy Pictures, 1973. Draft script for the 1974 film. From the collection of still photographer Bob Willoughby. Rainbow copy with blue, pink, and white leaves. Included are six vintage black-and-white reference still photographs from the film. Bob Willoughby (1927-2009) studied with Saul Bass at the Kann Institute of...
N.p. N.p., 1940. Vintage double weight publicity photograph of Josephine Baker for the 1936 Broadway musical, Ziegfeld Follies. INSCRIBED by Baker in black marker on the recto: "Mademoiselles / Sunny Templeman / With best wishes from / Josephine Baker / 1940." With a studio insignia for Murray Corman photography studio...
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New York: Signet Books, 1951. No. 915. First printing of this edition. INSCRIBED by the author to Signet Books founder Kurt Enoch: "Hi Kurt / I'm just hoping this sells as many as you printed! / Sincerely / Mickey Spillane." From the Kurt Enoch collection, with a letter of provenance...
London: Edgar Wallace Mystery Theater / Merton Park Productions, 1963. Final Script for the 1964 British film, later rebroadcast as Season 5, Episode 5 of "The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theater." Based on the 1929 novel "The Big Four" by Edgar Wallace. "The Edgar Wallace Mysteries" constituted a run of 47...
N.p. N.p., 1941. Purchase, Rights, and Royalties agreement between James M. Cain and Alfred A. Knopf for Cain's book, "Mildred Pierce," SIGNED by both Cain and Knopf, and dated May 8, 1941. Cain has also initialed several corrections and deletions. The book went on to become one of Cain's best-loved...
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London: Robert Hale, 1963. Original artwork study for the dust jacket front panel and spine panel of the UK edition of James M. Cain's "Mignon," published by Robert Hale in 1963. The artwork consists of ink and watercolor on textured stock, with a transparent negative overlay lending browns and blues...
Rome: Lux Film, 1961. Draft script for the 1961 film. Based on the 1949 novel by Frederic Wakeman. Actor Van Heflin's working copy, with his holograph notations throughout. After a drunken boating accident leaves him adrift in the ocean with his young son, a man (Heflin) reflects on his past...
New York: Parallel Productions, n.d. First Draft script for an unproduced film. Based on the 1969 novel "A Time of Predators" by Joe Gores. An association between two prolific American authors, one a genre writer and the other an America novelist and director of the influential Iowa Writers' Workshop for...
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...
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N.p. N.p., 1973. Draft script for the 1973 play. Based on the 1950 Broadway play "Out of this World" by Cole Porter, Dwight Taylor, Reginald Lawrence. George Oppenheimer, NY columnist, playwright and screenwriter, streamlined his interpretation for a tasteful revamp to fit a smaller stage. The musical opened Off-Broadway at...
Berlin: Jovis Verlag / Arte Editions, 2002. First Edition. SIGNED by Werner Herzog on the title page title page. A wonderful compendium of still photographs in both color and black-and-white, taken over the years on the sets of Werner Herzog's films. With text throughout in English, French, and German by...
Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1934. Draft script for the 1934 film, here under the working title "Honor Bright." With holograph pencil notations to the front wrapper. In an attempt to go straight, a con man and his girlfriend take in his young daughter, who has been living with his deceased wife's...