N.p. N.p., 1967. Collection of 8 borderless reference photographs from the French release of the 1967 film. Arguably Jean-Pierre Melville's crowning achievement (though we feel there are no low points among his crime films), wherein Delon plays an icy hitman who is utterly anonymous, living alone in a single bedroom...
Tokyo: Nikkatsu, 1963. Draft script for the 1963 film. Text in Japanese. Based on the novel by Haruhiko Oyabu. A police detective tracking down stolen weapons, stumbles upon an underworld feud and turns the tide of the conflict into a full scale massacre. White titled perfect bound wrappers. Title page...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1965. Draft script for the 1966 film. Presentation copy belonging to actress Juanita Moore, bound in full red leather, with twelve reference photographs from the film tipped in, and containing two inscriptions from actress Debbie Reynolds. The first inscription by Reynolds, on the verso of...
London: Cinema 5, 1977. Early Draft British script for the 1977 comedy directed by Terry Gilliam, based on the poem by Lewis Carroll from "Through the Looking Glass" (1871). Terry Gilliam's first solo directorial effort after co-directing "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" with Terry Jones. A comedy in the...
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1973. Revised Final Script for the 1974 film, "The Longest Yard," directed by Robert Aldrich, written for the screen by Tracy Keenan Wynn and Albert S. Ruddy (though only Wynn is credited here), and starring Burt Reynolds, Eddie Albert, and Bernadette Peters. Ex-football star Burt Reynolds ends...
Troy, MI: Anchor Bay Entertainment, 1969. First Draft script for the 1971 film. With several annotations in holograph pencil and ink throughout. Here under the working title "Somewhere in the Mountains There is a Last Valley." Based on the 1959 novel by J.B. Pick. Cited often by actor Michael Caine...
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N.p. Osmond Television, Circa 1976. Final script for the seventh episode of season two of the 1975-1979 television series, which originally aired on November 5, 1976. Presentation copy belonging to noted African American television actor Haywood Nelson, with his name to the front binder and his holograph ink annotations to...
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...
Rome: Copisteria Attilia, 1970. Draft script for the 1971 film, here under the working title "Stress." With two holograph ink annotations to the front wrapper and title page noting the name of the film. Text in English. Two young hippies who smuggle pornography for a living hide out in a....
Los Angeles: Omnibus Productions Inc. / National Broadcasting Company [NBC], 1972. Revised Final Shooting Script for the 1973 television movie, which originally aired on March 18, 1973 on NBC. Numerical notation in holograph ink on the title page. Based on the 1937 novella by John Steinbeck, filmed once before by...
N.p. N.p., Circa 1930s. Vintage photograph of artist Josep Maria Sert and his wife, sculptor Isabelle Roussandana Mdivani, in front of Sert's mural "The Marriage of Quiteria," located in the Waldorf Astoria's Sert Room, which contains 15 murals by the artist. With a mimeo snipe on the verso. Sert's other...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1955. Five vintage candid reference photographs from the 1955 film, showing variously, actors Marlon Brando, Frank Sinatra, composer Frank Loesser, and director Joseph L. Mankiewicz on the set. The first photo, double weight, shows Marlon Brando, as Skye Masterson, surreally socking one of his gangster...
London: John Lane, 1917. First Edition. A classic of horror fiction from Robbins, about a trio of circus freaks who escape captivity in the circus, open a curiosity shop, and use it as a base from which to launch a devastating crime wave. Basis for two films, the first a....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1943. First Edition. INSCRIBED to Frank Partos on the half title page: "For Frank Partos / with love / Raymond Chandler." Partos and Chandler co-wrote the screenplay for "And Now Tomorrow" (1944), one of Chandler's few screenwriting efforts. As a screenwriter, Partos was responsible for some...
N.p. N.p., 1972. Second Draft script for the 1973 film. Laid in with the script is a four-page rehearsal and shooting schedule. Not to be confused with the 1973 film directed by Joseph Losey and starring Jane Fonda. Based on the 1879 play by Henrik Ibsen, about a woman named Nora...
New York: B Movies, 1978. Vintage flyer for the 1978 experimental short film. Beth and Scott B were two of the key figures in the avant garde No Wave scene of the late 1970s and early 1980s New York, making six films together between 1978 and 1981. Beth B would...
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1930. First Edition. Basis for the 1931 film directed by John M. Stahl. Included with the book is an extraordinary original bi-fold program for the April 17, 1931 Hollywood premiere of Stahl's film at the Carthay Circle Theatre in Los Angeles, printed in black and gold...
Rome: Solaris Cinematografica, 2000. Eighth Draft script for the 2001 television film, which originally aired on January 22 on Channel 5. Copy belonging to script supervisor Franca Invernizzi, with her extensive holograph annotations on nearly every page (and many page versos) regarding camera shots, takes, timing, and dialogue. Bound in...
Las Vegas: Sanford International Entertainment, Inc., 1985-1989. Archive of Draft script and production materials for the 1989 film. The script, here under the working title "Fists of Steel Part 1," contains two annotations of page numbers in holograph ink. Included in the archive are two investment proposals, a seven page...
Beverly Hills, CA: E-K-Corporation / United Artists, 1971. First draft script for the 1973 film, written nine months before the production began. From the estate of film producer Elliott Kastner, whose best known credits include "The Missouri Breaks" (Arthur Penn, 1976), and “Heat” (Michael Mann, 1996). Based on Chandler’s 1953 novel, the...
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...
Neuilly-sur-Seine, France: Societe Nouvelle de Cinematographie [SNC], 1965. Collection of 16 vintage lobby cards for the French release of the 1965 film. The set is housed in its original titled brown paper envelope from the film's distributor, Societe Nouvelle de Cinematographie (SNC). Based on the 1962 novel "Obession" by Lionel...
New York: Theatre de Lys / Edison Theatre, 1970-1971. Archive of ten photographs, two programs, and an early mimeograph summary of performances for a little-seen production of Kurt Vonnegut's play, "Happy Birthday, Wanda June," directed by Michael J. Kane. Photographs by Bert Andrews, with his stamp on the verso of...
Milwaukee, WI: Nightstand Books, 1959. No. 1503. First Edition, first printing of Ellison's most desired title, with the code "NB 1503 a S n" as called for at the bottom left corner of the front wrapper. About Near Fine, a bright, clean copy with the slightest bit of wrinkle (but...
New York: William Morrow, 1940. First American Edition, preceded by the UK edition published by Heinemann the same year. Basis for the 1949 film, directed by Ken Annakin and starring Michael Denison. Near Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Tap to the lower front corner. Faint foxing to the edges...
London: Tekli Film Productions / Animated Motion Pictures, 1963. Final shooting script for the 1963 film, "The Yellow Teddybears," here under both that title and the film's working title, "The Yellow Golliwog," and released in the US as "Gutter Girls." Directed by Robert Hartford-Davis and written for the screen by...
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N.p. N.p., 1970. Draft script for the 1970 play, which premiered on October 7 at the Theatre de Lys in New York. Copy No. 38 notated in holograph ink on the title page. An open homage to Homer's "Odyssey," wherein a big game hunter returns home after eight years away only...
N.p. N.p., 1940. Vintage matte-finish photograph of actor, dancer, and activist Josephine Baker, inscribed by Baker in holograph ink to the recto: "Pour la maison / un souvenir de Josephine Baker / 1940" ("For the house / a memento from Josephine Baker / 1940"). With the logo of Harcourt photography...
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N.p. N.p., 1975. Draft script for the 1975 play, which premiered on June 18, 1975 at the Shubert Theatre in Boston. With a single holograph ink annotation to the title page. One of Tennessee Williams' later and more experimental works, a meditation on moral decay and the decline of the American...
Rome: Arco Films, 1967. Vintage borderless photograph from the set of the 1967 Italian film. Director Pier Paolo Pasolini is seen behind the camera, shooting Silvia Mangana and Franco Citti. Short typescript description in Italian and Roma Press rubber stamp on the verso. A sparse, intensely personal modern adaptation of...
New York: Reader's Digest Press, 1976. First Edition. Basis for the 1983 television film directed by Gary Nelson and starring Johnny Cash and Andy Griffith. SIGNED on the front endpapers, half-title, and title page by Nelson, Cash, Griffith, and other actors in the film, including Robert Schenkkan and Earl Poole...
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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Los Angeles: Warner Brothers / Reprise Records, 1964. Original maquette for the US stereo release of The Kinks' classic 1964 debut album, "You Really Got Me," released by Reprise Records in November 1964. The photograph and design, made by Klaus Schmalenbach for the Warner Bros / Reprise Records in-house art...
N.p. N.p., Circa 1956-1959. Original illustrated humorous essay by Terry Southern and William Pene Dubois, satirizing (or perhaps elucidating) the dress habits of their distinguished friend, American screenwriter William Rose. Southern and Dubois met in the late 1950s, both under the tutelage of William Styron, while both of them were...
N.p. N.p., 1956. Collection of four vintage double-weight matte-finish photographs of actor Jack Lemmon in his home in 1956. Two with printed mimeo snipes affixed to the verso, along with the stamp of Photoplay (two dated DEC 11 1956 and two dated JAN 15 1957). Lemmon won the Academy Award for...
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New York: Library Publishers, 1955. First American Edition, originally published in the UK by Derek Verschoyle the previous year. Photo illustrated throughout, with different images than the UK edition. An early examination of the negative influence of pop culture on the American public, with sections on film, pin ups, pulp...
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