London: Macmillan, 1941. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the first UK Edition. Basis for the classic 1942 film starring Ronald Colman, one of the most dreamy, delirious romances ever to be committed to celluloid. The first proof copy we have ever encountered, and we imagine most likely the last.Plain brown paper wrappers with publisher's label showing title, author, and publisher's imprint on.....

Sivakasi, India: Standard Fireworks, Circa 1960s. Archive of over 140 full color, illustrated advertisements clipped from either distributors' sample catalogs or from actual fireworks packaging for a wide array of products offer by Standard Fireworks/Rajaratnam Fireworks Industries, to this day India's largest manufacturer of loud, brightly colored, recreational explosives. Ads affixed with cello tape to a generic, spiral bound scrapbook.....

Los Angeles: Vanguard Films, 1944. Temporary Shooting script for the 1945 film, here under the working title, "The House of Dr. Edwards." In a custom cloth covered clamshell box with black leather spine label and titles and decoration in gilt. Based on the 1927 novel "The House of Dr. Edwardes" by Hilary Saint George Saunders and John Palmer. Nominated for.....

(Los Angeles): N.p., 1981. An archive of material relating to James Ellroy's novel "Blood on the Moon." The author's third published book and his first to be published in hardcover, here under the early title "L.A. Death Trip."Included are:The first draft of the manuscript for the novel, INSCRIBED by Ellroy on one of two title pages (with another unused title.....

New York City: Raindance, 1970. Collection of the first two issues of "Radical Software" magazine. Second printing of Issue One, with the issue number on the front wrapper and a history of the printings on the rear. Issue Two is a first printing, with a separate questionnaire soliciting feedback from the reader included. A early and influential journal from the.....

N.p. N.p., 1972. Original poster for a performance by Roy Ayers Ubiquity on Friday, October 27, 1972 at the New Africa House on the University of Massachusetts Amherst campus. 17.5 x 21.5 (44 x 55 cm) framed. Very Good with light toning and dampstains. Unexamined out of frame.

London: Strange Attractor Press, 2018. First Limited Edition, one of 500 non-numbered copies (as issued). Red cloth-covered boards with image debossed in black on the front board, with illustrated dust jacket. Both the design of the book and the dust jacket are specific to the limited edition.Included with the limited edition, as called for, is separate book entitled "The Sinister.....

New York: F.P. Films, Circa 1975. Revised Draft script for the 1975 Western film.One of only two original screenplays written solely by noted author Thomas McGuane, preceding "The Missouri Breaks" in 1976. A cult favorite, and one of a string of wonderful films with literary origins to be directed by Frank Perry between 1968 and 1987, "Rancho Deluxe" is a......

Hollywood: RKO Radio Pictures, 1937. Treatment script for the 1939 musical, here under the working title "Castles in the Air".Based on real-life ballroom dancers Irene and Vernon Castle, who rekindled an interest in Western ballroom dancing in the early 20th century. The real Irene Castle served on the film's production team and was purportedly quite difficult to please, criticizing actor.....

New York: Oscard Associates, circa 1986. Draft script for the 1988 film, two copied annotations of a circled "3" and "4" on one page.From the estate of American film producer Elliott Kastner (1930-2010), from Kastner’s Pinewood office in London. Kastner was an American film producer, whose best known credits include "Where Eagles Dare" (1968), "The Long Goodbye” (Robert Altman, 1973).....

N.p. Televison Film Production, circa late 1940's. Draft shooting script for an unproduced British television film, circa late 1940's. Note on title page, in holograph ink, in hand of "Punch" editor E. V. Knox, "See article on this subject [arrow] Argus," "(EVK)" to right of note, with "(sent by producers)" below. Eight page "Foreword" bound in after title page, details.....

N.p. N.p., 1977. Draft script for the 1977 film. Copy belonging to actor Martin Landau, with his signature on the title page, and holograph ink and pencil annotations throughout. Laid in with the screenplay are a 33-page shooting schedule, an 18-page revised shooting schedule signed by Landau, ten photographically reproduced call sheets with copied handwritten annotations, a typed set of.....

Unknown: Unknown, Circa 1968. Draft script for the 1968 film. A stark black comedy about a man sentenced to death who mistakenly survives his hanging, leading to a two-hour debate among his executioners over how best to handle the situation. Loosely based on a 1958 crime and execution, and a rare (for its time) discussion of the discrimination faced by.....

Jackson, MS: R.H. Henry, 1891. First Edition.Very Good, lacking the dust jacket, with contemporary owner signature to the front endpaper and pastedown. Spine a bit cocked, lightly rubbed to the extremities with some fraying to the crown and heel, light foxing to the page edges, and a few small splashes to the front board.

Studio City, CA: World Amusement Company, 1979. Revised Draft script for the 1980 film, here under the working title "Alien Warning". Actor Martin Landau's copy, with his holograph ink and pencil annotations throughout. Laid in with the script are a 22 page typed shooting schedule and three copied handwritten call sheets for the eighth, ninth, and eleventh days of shooting.A......

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1958. Draft script for the 1959 film, belonging to actor Martin Landau with Landau's prominent signature in holograph pencil on top of first page, and annotations in holograph ink and pencil throughout, primarily making note of action and dialogue for Landau's character Leonard, with the notable exception of his notation of James Mason's phone number.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1964. Draft script for the 1965 film, with the name of cinematographer "Paul Vogel" followed by what appears to be "81" in holograph pencil on the first revision page, page 55. Laid in is a 17 page shooting schedule, dated 4-22-64, with two brief annotations in holograph pencil, "(arroflex (zoom)" and "camera car."Based on the.....

N.p. N.p., circa 1973. Vintage promotional flyer/handbill of Hank Williams, Jr. and The Cheatin' Hearts for Sunn Amplifiers "Amps in Action" advertising campaign. Hank Williams, Jr. and The Cheatin' Hearts teamed up for a 1972 - 1973 tour and released one album, now out of print, the instrumental "Just Pickin' ... No Singin" in 1973.11 x 8.5 inches (28 x......

Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1933. Collection of 18 vintage photographs from the 1933 film, including four studio still photographs, three on the set photographs, and eleven reference photographs, showcasing the outlandish costumes, makeup and sets of the extraordinary production. All photographs have mimeo snipe on verso and date stamp, one "OCT 16 1933," one "OCT 23 1933," twelve "OCT 25.....

Los Angeles: Harlequin Productions, 1977. First Draft script for the 1979 film. Noted as copy No. 1 in holograph ink on the front wrapper. Laid in with the script is a business card for agent Daryl A. Marshak of Fred Amsel and Associates.Bert Convy is Tommy Everett, an aging tennis pro who decides to finance his dream of opening his.....

Los Angeles: Chocolate Chip / Pinto, 1973. Final Draft script for the 1974 blaxploitation film. Copy belonging to an unknown crew member, with their holograph pencil and ink annotations throughout, many noting camera cuts and props to be used during production.Four estranged cousins (three black, one white) convene at a mansion called Skull Mountain to attend the reading of their.....

Los Angeles: Loma Vista Vilma, 1945. Final Draft script for the 1946 film. An escaped Nazi war criminal in hiding seeks to reclaim the stolen valuables he has stashed in a Casablanca hotel, and has steadily murdered the hotel's managers to maintain control of the property. The newest manager, however, is Groucho Marx as Ronald Kornblow, a blissfully unaware womanizer.....

Los Angeles: Deathbeast Productions, Circa 1977. Draft script for the 1977 science fiction film, here under the working title "Mysterious Planet". With a mix of holograph annotations and copied annotations, mostly noting grammatical revisions.A spaceship is forced to make an emergency landing on a distant planet which, while similar in appearance to Earth, is the home of multitudes of dinosaurs--including.....

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1945. Final draft script for the 1945 film noir. With mathematical annotations in holograph pencil on two pages.Based on the 1928 play by Lowell Brentano and Fulton Oursler, about a gumshoe hired by a carnival psychic to find a long-lost sister. Perviously filmed in 1931, directed by William C. Menzies, and starring Edmund Love and Lois.....

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century Fox, 1956. Final draft script for the 1956 film. Wrappers trimmed to conform to text block, separating spine from wrapper abd cropping copy number stamp "650" and re-written in holograph ink. Production number adjusted in holograph pencil with ".5." "#3" in holograph in on edge of spine.Based on Marcelle Maurette's 1952 stage play, about a scheme.....

N.p. Hammer Film Productions, 1959. Collection of ten vintage photographs (two reference photographs and eight studio still photographs) from the 1959 film.Three photos shown. Please inquire for additional images.Although a remake of the hit 1932 Universal film, Hammer Film's "The Mummy" borrowed its plot largely from Universal's "The Mummy's Hand" (1940) and "The Mummy's Tomb" (1942), with the climax taken.....

Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1945. Vintage studio still photograph of Onslow Stevens lighting Lon Chaney, Jr.'s way up a macabre stone stairway from the 1945 film. The last entry in Universal's famed "monsters" canon, a direct sequel to 1944's "House of Frankenstein," which appropriately hosted Universal's "big three" monsters, all in Dracula's house, including the Prince of Darkness himself (John.....

Los Angeles: Selznick International Pictures, 1939. Final Shooting script for the 1940 film noir. Presentation copy belonging to producer David O. Selznick, bound in red quarter calf with gilt titles, with Selznick's name on the front board. Tipped in variously throughout the script are ten publicity photos and film stills, highlighting key moments in the film.Alfred Hitchcock's elegant, dreamlike adaptation.....

N.p. N.p., 1934. Vintage double weight, borderless photograph of actor Richard B. Harrison used to promote the touring production of the 1930 Pulitzer Prize winning play. With the stamp of photographer Alfredo Valente on the verso, and a mimeo snipe noting that the upcoming performance at Ohio University will be the 1460th since it debuted on Broadway four years earlier.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1920s. Archive to twelve vintage photographs of remote controlled car demonstrations, circa 1920s. One photograph with the stamp of photographer JR Schmidt, with his Cincinnati, OH address. A second photograph with a holograph annotation reading "New Orleans LA / Feb - 1927."Also known as phantom automobiles, the cars were controlled via radio signals from a second vehicle.....

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers / Seven Arts, 1969. Six vintage temporary tattoos issued as a promotional item for the 1969 film. With the both the original envelope housing the tattoos, and Warner Brothers mailing envelope addressed to film critic, photographer, and poet Michael S. Dworkin. The decals are inspired by the designs for the tattoo makeup worn up Rod Steiger.....

N.p. ABC Circle Films, 1974. Draft script for the 1975 television film, first aired on ABC on March 6, 1975. Prominent underlined "29" in holograph pencil on top right of front wrapper. Set in late Edwardian London, aging actress Jessica Medicott (Katharine Hepburn) is being sued for breach of promise and hires her old suitor, lawyer Sir Arthur Granville-Jones (Laurence.....

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1992. Third draft script for the 1993 British film, likely having belonged to actor Peter Halliday. Laid in are six Call Sheets, five of which contain the name of Peter Halliday have the actor's name highlighted, one of which has his name written (incorrectly as "Peter Haliday") on the verso in holograph ink, one two.....

N.p. N.p., circa 1983. Draft script for an unproduced Spanish film. Spanish language. "Satanik" written in holograph marker in a large stylized fashion on front wrapper. Stamp of Spanish film company "Copercines" on front wrapper. Title page stamped with "Filmoteca Nacional de Espana" (National Film Library of Spain) "Procedencia" (Origin) with the name Manzanos written in holograph ink, boxed below.....

Paris: Nouvelles Editions de Films, 1958. French language draft script for the 1958 film. Based on the 1777 erotic novel "Point de Lendemain" by Dominique Vivant, released in the US as "The Lovers." Louis Malle's second film, about a wealthy woman who becomes bored with both her emotionally distant husband and her lover, and abruptly leaves them both to take.....

N.p. RKO Radio Pictures, 1935. Two vintage oversize double weight studio still photographs from the 1935 film by photographer Robert W. Coburn. Striking matte-finished photographs, printed with irregular margins. One from the climactic church scene as Gypo Nolan (Victor McLaglen), arms outstretched, implores God's forgiveness for betraying his friend Frankie, whose mother (Una O'Connor) is kneeling in the pew behind.....

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1927. First American Edition, preceded by the UK edition published by The Bodley Head the same year. In the first issue dust jacket with the author's name misspelled on the front panel. Very Good in a Good dust jacket. Vintage bookstore stamp to the front pastedown. Boards, page edges, and endpapers lightly soiled, with slight bowing to the.....

Boston: Michael Joseph, 1938. First UK Edition, and the correct first of "Flying Colors," preceding the single volume publication. SIGNED by the author on a special Book Society bookplate designed by Rex Whistler. The third Hornblower novel published, and the eighth in series chronology, published together with the second. Along with "The Happy Return", the three form the basis for.....

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 comtesse perverse" and "Le journal intime dune nymphomane," all by.....

Burbank, CA: Otto Preminger Films, 1959. Vintage photograph of Lee Remick, Duke Ellington and Jimmy Woode rehearsing on the set of the 1959 film. Preminger's "Anatomy of a Murder" was the first major Hollywood film to feature a score by an African-American composer. The jazz score, composed by Ellington and Billy Strayhorn (uncredited) and performed by Ellington's Orchestra won three.....

N.p. Gloria Productions, 1930. Vintage double weight studio still photograph from the 1930 film. Stamps on the verso reading: "Gloria Swanson in 'What a Widow' Directed by Allan Dwan United Artists Picture" and "United Artists Corporation."Gloria Swanson plays Tamarind Brook, a young woman whose elderly husband died and left her $5 million. Embarking on a trip to Paris she becomes.....

N.p. Produzioni Europee Associate, 1975. Collection of six vintage borderless studio still photographs from the 1975 film. German mimeo snipe on verso of five of the photographs, "bitte zuruck" stamp on verso of three of the photographs and a "UNIKAT" sticker on the verso of 1 of the photographs. Pasolini's final film, set during the last days of fascist rule.....

N.p. Films du Berry, 1976. Collection of four vintage borderless studio still photographs and one contact sheet from the 1976 film. Two larger gloss finish photographs and two smaller matte finish photographs and contact sheet containing eleven images.Jean Michel Rollin Roth Le Gentil, more commonly known as Jean Rollin, had gained notoriety (and some scandal) with his early French vampire.....

London: Haworth Productions Ltd., Circa 1968. Second Draft script for the 1968 film. With the ownership name of cinematographer Douglas Holcombe in holograph ink on the title pageIn 1183 England, the sons of King Henry II and his wife plot to overtake the throne. Nominated for seven Academy Awards and winning three, including Best Screenplay and Best Actress. Set in.....

London: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1965. First Draft script for the 1966 film. Based on Jack D. Hunter's 1964 novel of the same name, about a selfish German aviator determined to gain the highest medal for valor, the Blue Max, by shooting down 20 aircraft. Set in Germany and France, shot on location in Dublin, Ireland. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present.....

N.p. N.p., 1973. Collection of seven vintage vernacular color snapshots from the 1973 film, five featuring actress Gilda Arancio being tortured by kidnappers. One shot (shown) shows Arancio and Joëlle Coeur on their initial hike in the woods, and the final shot shows Coeur late in the film, where she is experiencing what could be described as Stockholm Syndrom. A......

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1952. Revised Final Draft script for the 1953 film noir. With a single small holograph pencil annotation to the verso of the final leaf. While honeymooning in Niagara Falls, newlyweds Polly and Ray soon realize that something is deeply wrong with Rose and George Loomis, another couple vacationing at the Falls whom they have befriended. Considered.....

N.p. Distribuidores Reunidos, 1976. Collection of five vintage borderless studio still photographs from the 1976 film. French adult film released as "Jeanne et Paul" in France and directed by Serge Korber under the pseudonym John Thomas, starring Emmanuelle Pareze and Bob Asklof. 5 x 7 inches (13 x 18 cm). Near Fine, light curling and minor edge wear...

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1946. Final script for the 1946 film.Based on the 1944 comedic mystery novel by Craig Rice, about the children of a widowed mystery novelist attempting to solve a murder in their neighborhood with the help of a handsome police lieutenant.Blue titled wrappers, noted as FINAL, rubber-stamped copy No. 66 and production No. 100, dated MARCH 2.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1970s. Archive of 288 vernacular color photographs of country music acts from the 1970s, housed in a contemporary photo album, with the subject of nearly every photograph identified by holograph ink captions. Occasional additional notations give a date range between 1972-1980 for the photographs, with most being dated 1977-1979. The photographs primarily consist of performers on stage.....