Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1977. Revised Final Shooting script for the 1978 film. Copy belonging to actress Anne Ramsey, who played "Spinster #2" in the film, with her name in holograph ink on the front wrapper, and brief ink annotations to preliminary pages. Ramsey's notable film credits include "The Goonies" (1985)...
New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1941. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Fisher to Hollywood producer Milton Sperling, who produced the first adaptation of Fisher's fiction to the screen, the seminal 1941 noir, "I Wake Up Screaming": "For Milton Sperling / In sincere appreciation - and with very best wishes for his success...
Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1985. Archive of script material for the 1987 film, including: Revised draft script for the 1987 film. Copy belonging to producer Robert Weiss, With holograph annotations throughout. Additional production material including handwritten and typed notes with pages of ideas proposed and dismissed during development. A set of 18...
Los Angeles: Pan Arts / American Broadcasting Company [ABC], 1987. Shooting script for the 1988 film comedy. Director George Roy Hill's working copy, with his typically profuse holograph annotations throughout, as well as handwritten drafts and drawings for establishing shots, scene setups, screen credits, sequences, ideas, etc. Also included are...
Mexico: Producciones Barbachano Ponce, 1958. Draft script for the 1959 film. Presentation copy belonging to director Luis Bunuel, and SIGNED by Bunuel on the front wrapper. Also laid in is a program from the film's American premiere on May 18, 1960, also SIGNED by Bunuel. Blue ink holograph annotations in...
London: Faber and Faber, 1960. First UK Edition. INSCRIBED by Stravinsky in the year of publication on the title page: "To Ralph and Mirandi / With love / I. Stravinsky / [illegible] Nov-60." Also inscribed by Craft on the title page: "Love / Miranda and Ralph / Paris / Nov...
New York: Bill Doll and Company, 1961. Two vintage borderless studio still photographs from the US release of the 1961 Italian film. Large Astor Release snipe on verso, one with "R.R. Stuart Collection" stamp on verso. Fellini's most pivotal film, if not his finest. Unlike the more sentimental and abstract...
London: Warden Productions, 1972. Draft script for the 1973 British film, with notation of underlined "A-9" in holograph ink on top right of title page. Young couple Robert (David Hemmings) and Claire (Gayle Hunnicutt) tragically lose their 6-year old son David (Adam Bridge) in an accidental drowning. Claire, traumatized, breaks...
London: Cineguild, 1946. Two vintage black-and-white reference photographs, featuring director David Lean, actors Alec Guinness and John Mills, cinematographer Guy Green, camerman Bob Huke, and others on the set of the 1946 film. Both photos with mimeograph snipes detailing who is in the shot. From the estate of Guy and...
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures / Hammer Films, 1961. Deluxe publicity manual for the 1962 film. Based on H.L. Lawrenece's 1960 novel "The Children of Light". An extensive publication, containing cast and crew lists and biographies, a synopsis of the film, stories from the film's production, and captions for still...
Various cities: Various studios, 1951-1964. Collection of 49 vintage still photographs from various film adaptations of Tennessee Williams plays. All stills are black and white and US issue unless otherwise noted. Included are: A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (1951, Elia Kazan) 1 press photograph of Marlon Brando and Kim Hunter, with TCF stamp...
Culver City, CA: RKO Radio Pictures, 1952. Collection of 3 vintage borderless black-and-white still photographs from the 1952 film noir. One of the photos is a candid shot of a young Marilyn Monroe, leaning against a camera track and talking to her male counterpart lead, Keith Andes. The candid photo...
France: Arcadie Productions, 1975. Two vintage color and five borderless, black and white reference photographs from the 1975 film. One of ten films made by the French novelist Robbe-Grillet, ostensibly about the target of a kidnapping plot hiding out at a high society brothel, but in reality an exercise in...
Beverly Hills, CA: Faces Distribution, 1976. Original US insert poster, "dancer in dressing room" style, for the 1976 film, picturing actress Catherine Wong in a pensive pose. One of eight known one sheet styles (no priority) issued by Faces Distribution for the film. Faces was a company as radical as...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1966. Final Script for the 1966 film, "Fantastic Voyage," directed by Richard Fleischer, written for the screen by Harry Kleiner, and starring Raquel Welch, Edmond O'Brien, and Donald Pleasance. One of the seminal science fiction films of the 1960s, novelized the same year by Isaac Asimov...
Redding, CT: C.E. Ives, 1922. First Edition. A self-published volume of songs by Charles Ives, selected from a volume published earlier the same year, titled "114 Songs". Like "114 Songs," this was printed for distribution among the composer's friends, and judging from the small number of copies in world libraries...
Beverly Hills, CA: Walter Shenson Films / United Artists, 1965. Collection of four vintage black-and-white still photographs from the release of the 1965 British-American film. All four of the boys wonderfully represented here, gals in tow, having a fine time on the ice (John and George), in the jungle (Paul)...
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...
Paris: Les Films Ariane, 1959. Collection of 322 original black-and-white keybook still photographs from the 1959 French-Italian film. Small photos affixed with cello tape on thick stock in a folio "Lavis aquarelle" brand spiral bound notebook with maroon faux leather front wrapper. Each photo is numbered in holograph ink on...
New York: Dial, 1948. First Edition. Basis for the 1950 film noir, "Where the Sidewalk Ends," directed by Otto Preminger and starring Gene Tierney. About Fine in an about Fine dust jacket. Pages slightly toned at the edges as usual, else book is unread. Jacket is bright, fresh, and colorful, with...
Koln, Germany: Schauspielhaus, 1984. Original poster for the 1984 opera directed by Robert Wilson with music by Hans Peter Kuhn, Philip Glass, David Byrne, and others, as performed at the Schnauspielhaus in Cologne, Germany, on January 19, 1984. Later performed again in Cambridge, Massachusetts, it was to this production that...
Wisconsin: Walter Barnsdale, 1901. Vintage US one sheet lithographic poster for the 1901 documentary film short. One of the earliest silent documentary film shorts, created by early Wisconsin film pioneer Walter Barnsdale, who traveled around the state screening some of the first films ever made, including "Prison Bars," a film...
Paris: Carthago Films, Circa 1985. Shooting script, undated, for the 1986 film. With substantive working annotations in variously colored holograph ink on a few pages. Noted as copy No. 7 in red ink at the top right corner of the first blank. One of Polanski's most underrated efforts, in many...
N.p. N.p., 1929. Purchase, Rights, and Royalties agreement between James M. Cain and Alfred A. Knopf for Cain's first book, Our Government. SIGNED by both Cain and Knopf, with numerous hand corrections and initials by both parties, the most notable being a notation by Knopf on the first page that...
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Berlin: Film-Kurier, 1924. Original German programs for duology "Die Nibelungen," one each for "Die Nibelungen: Siegfried" and "Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge". Based on the thirteenth century epic poem "Nibelungenlied". Text in German. Film-Kurier was the first German film journal, published daily beginning in 1919. Film-Kurier's classic era lasted until 1933...
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New York: William Morris Agency, Circa 1950. Treatment script for an unproduced film called "Don't Bury Me At All," written by Robert Penn Warren and Max Shulman. An unusual collaboration between screenwriter Max Shulman ("The Affairs of Dobie Gillis," 1953) and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Robert Penn Warren. A cursory look...
Culver City, CA: RKO Radio Pictures, 1945. Early Draft script for the 1946 film. An early draft written by playwright Clifford Odets during his Hollywood tenure, at a point when RKO was considering Gary Cooper and Cary Grant as possible leads in the film. Eventually RKO sold the property to...
London: N.p., Circa 1953. Original typescript draft for the 1954 play. With brief holograph annotations 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...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox / APJAC Productions, 1968. First Draft script for the 1970 film, here under the working title "Planet of the Apes Revisited". The second and decidedly the most bizarre of the wildly popular five-film series begun with 1968’s The Planet of the Apes, about a group of astronauts...
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N.p. N.p., Circa 1960s. Collection of three vintage borderless photographs of Catherine Deneuve and David Bailey dancing at a space-themed party in France, circa 1960s. Accompanying the photographs is a contact sheet featuring the images of the photographs, with holograph pencil annotations on the recto. Photographs 7 x 9.5 inches...
New York: Random House, 1940. First Edition. Association copy, INSCRIBED by Odets in the year of publication to his wife, noted actress Luise Rainer: "To Luise / Amiga de mi corazon / Clifford / 4/40." Small splash to bottom page edges, else Near Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket...
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1923. First Edition. Described on the jacket as "the novel of The Woman in Business," and dedicated "To the Working Women of America". Charles Norris was the brother of novelist Frank Norris, and the husband of author Kathleen Norris. A native of Chicago, Norris worked as...
London: Constable, 1936. First UK Edition, preceded by the US edition published by Vanguard the same year. Rare in this edition. The author's second novel. Very Good plus in a Very Good price-clipped dust jacket. Slightest lean, light soil to page edges and faint fading to the backstrip. Jacket with a....
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1966. Revised Final Script for the 1967 film musical, "Thoroughly Modern Millie," directed by George Roy Hill, written for the screen by Richard Morris, and starring Julie Andrews, James Fox, Mary Tyler Moore, and Carol Channing. Oscar-winning director George Roy Hill's working copy, with his...
Secaucus, NJ: The Citadel Press, 1984. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Gregory Peck to film critic and academic Judith Crist, who provides the introduction: "For Judith / With great appreciation and warm regards / Gregory Peck." Laid in are two very interesting pieces of ephemera: a photocopy of a rave review...
Czechosolvakia: N.p., 1961. Original A1 poster, issued circa 1961, for the Czechoslovakian release of the 1960 Italian film. From the collection of noted film historian Amos Vogel. Full provenance available. Artwork by Fremund. 22.5 x 32.25 inches. A few professional repairs to tears at the edges, rolled, on archival linen...
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