Santa Monica: RKO Radio Pictures, 1955. Second Revised Draft script for the 1956 film noir. Loosely based on the death of Russian-born financier Serge Rubinstein. Copy belonging to Guy Prescott, who plays an uncredited role in the film as the assistant to Captain LaFarge (played by Morris Ankrum), with Prescott's...
Los Angeles: American International Pictures [AIP], 1976. Draft script for the 1977 film. One of the best unheralded revenge thrillers of the 1970s, with William Devane taking an unusual turn as a sympathetic character, though forced to be quite cold-blooded. Playing a Vietnam veteran with absolutely nothing left to lose...
London: Anglo-EMI, 1970. Collection of three vintage black-and-white borderless double weight reference photographs Julie Ege, taken as test shots for the 1971 film. Ege is shown sitting in cloth folding chair with her name on it, in various positions designed to hide her breasts as unsuccessfully as possible. Ege, an...
Beverly Hills, CA: EK Corp. / United Artists, Circa 1974. Early Draft British script for the 1974 British heist film. Based on Gerald Browne's 1972 novel, adapted by Charles Grodin. Howard Chesser (Grodin) is a diamond merchant supervising the cutting of a large and rare diamond. When the diamond is...
Budapest: Mafilm / Mosfilm, 1967. Original maquette for the Hungarian poster for 1967 film. A combination of original artwork (tempera paint) and applied lettering designs. Designed by Antal Revesz. One of the masterpieces of Hungarian cinema. A Russian-Hungarian co-production, "The Red and the White" was originally commissioned to celebrate the...
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New York: Billy Rose Theatre, 1962. Collection of 14 vintage black-and-white still photographs from the original Broadway production of the 1962 play at the Billy Rose Theatre. "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" debuted on Oct. 13, 1962 and ran until May 16, 1964, for a total of 664 performances. The...
Los Angeles: Trimark Pictures, 1994. Draft script for the 1995 film. The directorial debut of Noah Baumbach. After college graduation, Grover's girlfriend Jane decides to move to Prague to write. When he declines to join her, Grover instead moves in with some college friends and sets about separating himself from...
New York: D. Appleton, 1914. First Edition. Color illustrations throughout by classic French illustrator Jacques Marie Gaston Onfroy de Breville (Job). Very Good plus lacking dust jacket. Owner book plate on the front pastedown, slight split along hinge, and light dampstain on the rear panel.
Culver City, CA: Faces Music / Columbia Pictures, 1970. Vintage oversize double weight photograph of Ben Gazzara on the set of the 1970 film. 9.25 x 12.25 inches (23.5 x 31 cm). In an archival mat. Near Fine.
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1970. Revised Final script for the 1970 film. One of the most important films of the New Hollywood cinema movement in the early 1970s, introducing Harry Callahan, a San Francisco cop with little regard for rules, but a great regard for ultra-violent justice. Filmed in an...
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1976. Original press kit for the 1976 film. Included in the press kit are 13 vintage black and white film still photographs, two pages of photo captions, and a 17 page booklet of production information. A film that would prove to be the turning point...
New York: New Regency Films, 1981. Collection of three vintage photographs from the shooting of the 1982 film. Mimeo snipe on the verso of one photograph and holograph annotations and agency stamps on the verso of each. Perhaps Scorsese's most underrated film, "The King of Comedy" is a brilliant study of...
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1935. First Edition. Author's first book, a hard-boiled Depression-era classic, basis for the 1969 film directed by Sydney Pollack and starring Jane Fonda, Michael Sarrazin, Susannah York and Gig Young (who won an Oscar for his role as the dance marathon promoter). Near Fine in a....
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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New York: Callaway Editions, Inc., 1982. First Edition. One of 1,000 hardbound copies SIGNED by the photographer on a tipped in page, issued simultaneously in 2,000 signed softcover editions. 62 full-page black and white plates. A visually stunning photographic reportage of the Ohio River Valley, as commissioned by the Akron...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1955. Revised Shooting Final Script for the 1956 film. With holograph annotations throughout. Also included is a call sheet and nearly complete scene breakdowns for the film. A dramatic depiction of The United States' early tests and developments of space travel technology, and the experiences of...
Berlin: Deutsche Universal-Film, 1933. Vintage one sheet theatre poster for the 1933 German film. Stamped on lower left with the German Film Review Office eagle stamp as Approved, "Genehmigt Filmprüfstelle Berlin" and numbered dated and signed in holograph ink, "22611, 16 AUG. 1933 Zimmerman." An early release in the National...
Yokohama, Kanagawa: Kurosawa Production Co., circa 1980. Draft script for the 1980 Japanese film. Holograph pencil annotations throughout regarding casting, including the use of professional or amateur actors, as well as a notation regarding lead actor Katsu Shintaro, who was fired on the first day of shooting. The story of...
Paris: Club des Producteteurs, Circa 1965-1966. Eight vintage oversize press photographs from the set of the 1965 film, shot for the French magazine Cinema 66, and with their stamp and stamped reference number on the verso of each. All the shots are striking and quite candid, several showing director William...
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2015. First Limited Edition. One of 300 non-numbered copies, with variant dust jacket issued especially for this edition. Includes a full color set of six postcards, and a color plate insert, as well as a 7-inch vinyl record in a full-color illustrated sleeve, featuring 3 pieces from Franco soundtracks ("La...
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Chicago: The Goodlion, 1972. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Brakhage on the front endpaper to to publisher Barney Rosset: "Dear Barney / In thanks for all you've given, made possible / Thanks / Stan Brakhage." Barney Rosset was the founder of the Grove Press, which, in addition to its obvious importance, helped...
Burbank, CA: Walt Disney Productions, 1966. Collection of 108 vintage contact sheets from the 1966 film with approximately 1100 images. Stills as well as on the set shots. The only film in which Walt Disney received a story credit, as "Retlaw Yensid." Disney's take on Daniel Dafoe's 1719 novel "Robinson Crusoe"...
New York: William R. Scott, 1955. First Edition. About Fine in illustrated boards and a Very Good or better dust jacket. Slight spine lean, with a contemporary gift inscription to the front endpaper. Jacket has a few closed tears at the extremities, with a one and a half inch tear...
Rome: Titanus, 1960. Two vintage borderless double weight photographs from the 1960 film. With holograph annotations and an agency stamp on the verso of each. Rosaria (Katina Paxinou), recently widowed, moves to Milan from the countryside with four of her sons to join her eldest. Each take different paths as...
New York: United Press Photo, 1956. Vintage press photograph of writer Ernest Hemingway and actor Gary Cooper in Havana during one of Cooper's visits to the author's home in 1956. Mimeo snipe, press agency stamp, and holograph annotations in pencil on the verso. 9 x 7 inches (23 x 18...
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Stockholm: Svensk Filminstitutet, 1986. Two vintage color photographs of Andrei Tarkovsky and cinematographer Sven Nykvist on the set of the 1986 film. With holograph annotations and an agency stamp on the verso of each. After the outbreak of World War III, a man in a remote cottage receives visions that...
New York: Bantam Books, 1973. No. R7678. First Edition, a paperback original. Melvin Van Peebles' copy, with his name, company name ("Y.E.A.H., Inc."), address, and phone number in holograph ink on the inside front wrapper. Contains the script and lyrics for Van Peebles' Broadway play, a series of 19 politically...
Paris: Parc Film, 1966. Archive of 46 vintage reference stills for the 1966 French film. Each photograph numbered using two different numbering systems in holograph marker and pencil. A single photograph shows director Varda with Catherine Deneuve on the set. A writer and his pregnant wife, mute from a car...
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...
N.p., Various dates, mostly circa 1961 - 1963. Three composition books. Small quartos. Modest wear, mostly Near Fine. Illustrated entirely by Ben Talbert, one of the most important artists in the Los Angeles circle that revolved around Wallace Berman and his publication Semina. Berman and his circle were at the...
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Hollywood: RKO Radio Pictures, 1941. First Edition, large quarto. The deluxe annual for RKO Studios' 1941-1942 season. Notable among the offerings featured are two full color Disney features ("Fantasia" and "Bambi"), several literary adaptations, including "Sister Carrie" and "The Little Foxes," actors Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Ginger Rogers, Bette Davis...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1924. First Edition. One of 2000 numbered copies (this being No. 1595). Publisher's patterned paper boards with green vellum spine and paper spine label. The author's first book, written four years prior to her 1928 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, "Scarlet Sister Mary." The first entry in...
Wengen, Switzerland: Alpine Films, 1965. Vintage oversize double weight photograph of Orson Welles and John Gielgud on location in Spain for the shooting of "Chimes at Midnight" in 1965. Shot and struck by noted photographer Nicolas Tikhomoroff, with his rubber stamp and the stamp of his Parisian agency, V.I.P., on...
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New York: Children's Songs, Inc., circa 1949. Original manuscript and typescript for "The Howdy Doody Show" theme song "It's a Howdy Doody World," created by and belonging to the song's composer Edward Kean, INSCRIBED by Kean in the margin: "From Edward Kean / to / the very special Scott Petersen...
France: Euro International Film, 1972. Vintage borderless photograph of Jean-Paul Melville on the set of the 1972 film. A police detective, played by Delon in a switch from his usual criminal roles in Melville's films, is on the trail of a gang of thieves, unaware that they are led by...
N.p. N.p., 1967. Vintage oversize double weight photograph of Peter O'Toole, Katharine Hepburn, Anthony Hopkins, and Timothy Dalton hosting a feast in a scene from "The Lion in Winter." Shot, struck, and mounted by the film's still photographer, Bob Willoughby. The photographer has written at the top of the verso...