Stockholm: Svensk Filmindustri, 1961. Original Swedish photographic style poster for the 1961 Swedish film. The first entry in Bergman's legendary and highly personal "Faith" trilogy, which won the director his second Best Foreign Film Oscar, and defined what came to be called his "chamber dramas." A young woman is released...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1968. Vintage borderless photograph of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo and director John Frankenheimer on the set of the 1968 film. With holograph annotations and agency stamp on the verso. Directed by Frankenheimer, based on the 1966 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Bernard Malamud, written for the screen...
Culver City, CA: RKO Radio Pictures, 1941. Two vintage borderless black-and-white reference still photographs from the 1941 film. Both stills with annotations on the verso, one with an RKO Radio Pictures rubber stamp. The first still shows a young Kane (Orson Welles), at a celebration for the inauguration of his...
Burbank, CA: Walt Disney Pictures, 1988. Revised First Draft script for the 1991 film. Based on 1982 graphic novel by Dave Stevens, an early entry into the superhero movie canon, following the success of 1989’s "Batman," and a cult classic in its own right. In 1930s Hollywood, stunt pilot Cliff...
Los Angeles: Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS], 1968. Original scenario artwork for the 1968 comedy television show. Set design sketch for the living room of Lucy's apartment, including the oft-pictured brick fireplace, and Lucy herself coming down the stairs. The third of Lucille Ball's television comedy sitcoms, following her famed "I...
N.p. Grand National Pictures, 1935. Early Draft script for the 1939 film, "The Mysterious Mr. Reeder," here under the working title (and the title Monogram Pictures used for its 1940 re-release), "The Mind of Mr. Reeder." Copy belonging to screenwriter Bryan Edgar Wallace (Edgar Wallace's son), with his name and...
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Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1950. Revised First Draft Continuity script for the 1951 film. Included is an index to the script breakdown, detailing various scenes and script page numbers with revisions. Copy belonging to Dane Anderson, an uncredited member of the crew, with his name on the front wrapper of...
Florence, MA: Red Trillium Press / Aqui en la lucha, 2009. First Edition. One of a deluxe edition limited to 50 copies (this being No. 15) signed by the photographer Eduardo Hernandez Santos, with two signed original prints all housed in a gray clamshell case. A photographic exploration of one...
Los Angeles: First National Pictures, 1929. Two vintage photographs from the 1929 film. Based on the 1927 novel by Cornell Woolrich, one of six Fitzgerald-esque novels written by the author before he turned to a life of crime (writing). A spoiled rich girl falls for a poor chauffeur, but their...
New York: Two Faces / New Yorker Films, 1969. Vintage poster for the 1969 film, an experimental mix of documentary and fiction. Poster designed by Robert Frank. Director Robert Frank's first feature film, in which he follows poet Peter Orlvosky and his mentally ill brother Julius as they move through...
Paris: Films Polski, 1962. Collection of eight vintage French photographs from the 1962 Polish film. Starring actors and images of the sailboat are seen, including a few candid moments, and a full-length portrait of actor Anna Ciepielewska. Nearly all with numerical annotations in holograph pencil on the versos. Also included...
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1930. First Edition. Born in England, David Betts drifted around the American West before coming to New York and finding work driving cabs. He was dubbed "The Taxi Philosopher" after publishing several letters featuring his views on life and in the "New York Evening Post" during...
London and New York: Track / MCA, 1974. Original promotional poster for the 1974 album. In the autumn of 1973, while members of The Who were preparing for the film version of "Tommy," John Entwistle was put in charge of compiling an album to counter the widespread bootlegging of the...
N.p. N.p., 1975. An unproduced British Draft script for the "Vile Bodies," based on the 1930 novel by Evelyn Waugh and written for the screen by John Wells. Assembled mostly from mechanically-reproduced leaves, with two leaves (pp. 138-139) being ribbon copies. Written as a screenplay, with dialogue and location information...
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1968. An extraordinary archive of ephemera from the 1968 neo-noir film, the centerpiece of which is a large piece of original artwork by production designer Alexander Trauner. Also included are a US one sheet poster, US half sheet poster, US insert poster, US pressbook, Australian daybill poster...
Chicago: The Reilly and Britton Co., 1917. First Edition. Blank book-style yearbook (largely still blank) belonging to Elizabeth Floding with numerous inscriptions and well wishes from various students and faculty, including a four-line Gellett Burgess poem written to Floding by Margaret Mitchell: "I never saw a purple cow, I never...
Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, 1978. First Edition. INSCRIBED in blue ink to novelist and film theorist William F. Van Wert: "pour Bill Van Wert/mon amical souvenir/Robbe-Grillet." The star of the Minuit logo on the front panel is hand-colored in the same ink, presumably by Robbe-Grillet. Text in French. Van...
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists / The Bound for Glory Company, 1975. Revised script for the 1976 film, "Bound for Glory," directed by Hal Ashby, based on the autobiography of Woody Guthrie, written for the screen by Robert Getchell, and starring Robert Getchell (screenwriter); David Carradine, Ronny Cox, Melinda Dillon...
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1947. Archive of seven vintage single and double weight fashion publicity photographs from the 1947 film. Mimeograph snipe on the verso of a few photos notes the Jean Louis clothing designs for the film. Photographers’ rubber stamp also to the versos. Based on the 1938...
Bensenville, IL: Open Skull Press, 1966. First Edition. One of "no more than" 400 copies. Published by Douglas Blazek's Open Skull Press, and INSCRIBED by Bukowski to Blazek in the year of publication on the inside front wrapper: "For Doug Blazek / As if a man don't have just enough...
Beverly Hills, CA: Walter Shenson Films / Subafilms / United Artists, 1965. Vintage photograph from the 1965 film "Help!," showing The Beatles in a candid moment between takes, surrounded by members of the British Army while shooting an outdoor performance scene on Salisbury Plain. With the stamp of photographer Robert...
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...
New York: Signet Books, 1950. First printing of this edition, and first printing in paperback of Nabokov's first novel, originally titled "Kamera Obscura." INSCRIBED by Nabokov for publisher Kurt Enoch: "Vladimir Nabokov / IV.1950." From the Kurt Enoch collection, with a letter of provenance included. Apart from the rarity of...
N.p. N.p., Circa 1929. Vintage double weight photograph from the French release 1930 film. With the logo of the French production company Films Sonores Tobis at the bottom left corner of the image. Shot by the film's cinematographer Georges Perinal. Shown are Pola Illery and Gaston Modot in an intimate...
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New York: New York University Press / Halifax: The Press of Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 1974. First Edition. First issue wrappered binding, without the UNIVERSAL EDITION notation on the spine, and without the added note about typographical corrections by Reich at the end of his Introduction. Association...
Czechoslovakia: N.p., 1957. Vintage keybook, likely unique, for the 1957 film comedy, containing 119 vintage double weight photographs, featuring both scenes from the film and candid photographs from the set. The photos are tipped in two to a page in a contemporary photo album with a title page credits in...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, Circa 1980. Archive of seven scripts for the 1982 film. Included is a first draft, third draft, and five undated drafts, one of which appears under the working title "Carlotta: A Haunted Lady." Two scripts with holograph annotations present. From the estate of Frank De Felitta...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1942. Revised Final Script for the 1942 horror film, Based on the 1936 novel by Jessie Douglas Kerruish. A well-crafted (and in some ways, superior) variation on Universal's "Wolfman" films of the 1930s and 1940s, released as a double-feature with the equally intriguing "Dr. Renault's Secret"...
N.p. N.p., 1978. Vintage borderless black-and-white double weight photograph from the set of a 1978 Playboy magazine shoot. A timed shot of Anita Ekberg and her photographer Angelo Frontoni on the sidelines. Frontoni began his career as a fashion photographerm and is most celebrated for the artistic nudes he did...
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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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...
Los Angeles: Triune Films, 1980. First Draft script for the 1980 horror film. Accompanying the script is a bi-fold two-color card program issued to the press upon the film's release. One of the strangest American horror films of 1980, largely unseen until a pair of restorations brought it back to...
N.p. N.p., Circa 1933. Original dialogue notes for the 1933 Tod Browning film, "Fast Workers." Handwritten notes on two pages of legal-size notebook paper in holograph pencil, presumed to belong to one of the screenwriters for the film. The notes are as follows, with several lines marked through in various...
New York: Fluxus Editions, 1972. First Edition, one of 250 copies (this being No. 34). Although not called for, this copy SIGNED by Mekas on the verso of the front board. Designed by George Maciunas. Featuring poetry by Mekas alongside photographs of his native Lithuania. Published the same year as...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1955. Original scenario artwork by Charles K. Hagedon for the 1955 film musical, a somber and colorful scene depicting two men in a boat floating near the ice, with various others in cold weather suits floating in the water, heads just above the surface, around...
London: The Archers, 1946. Vintage black-and-white photograph from the 1946 film. With the stamp of the production company, The Archers, on the verso, crediting photographer Eric Gray, along with a mimeo snipe describing the scene, in which Peter (David Niven) has a discussion with The Conductor on the steps of...
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