Santa Monica, CA: Hemdale Presentations, 1983. Final Shooting script the 1985 film. Title page has date of "11/8/83" in blue holographic pen on top right corner. Draft script for the 1985 film. All pages with a photocopied production number "0065" on top right corner. A cult classic which reinvented the zombie genre as a punk comedy. The first of the zombie...
Hollywood: The Selznick Company, 1959. Leatherbound presentation copy of Second Draft script for the 1962 film. Presented to studio executive David O. Selznick, with his initials in gilt on front board. Henry King's adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald classic final novel, and director King's final film as well. King was a prolific director and one of the most commercially...
Los Angeles: The Associates & Aldrich Company, 1970. Draft script for the 1971 neo-noir film. Leaves of script (pages 1-118) on blue paper with "'The Grissom Gang' 4/6/70" on top left. "The Grissom Gang" is the second film adaptation of James Hadley Chase's notorious 1939 crime novel "No Orchids for Miss Blandish," the first having been made in Britain in...
![Cartas del Parque [Fur Elise] (Original screenplay for the 1988 film). Gabriel Garcia Marquez,...](/pictures/thumb/145794.jpg?v=1561412462)
Draft script for the 1988 film, here under the working title "Fur Elise". An unpublished manuscript by author Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The title page reads: "'Fur Elise' Por Gabriel Garcia Marquez," "Primera version, del guion literario. La Habana, Agosto y 1986" (First version of the literary script. Havana, August of 1986.). Script is preceded by a Story Treatment (first four...
Glendale, CA: Allied Artists Pictures, 1974. Draft script for the 1974 film. "Office Copy" in holograph ink on the title page. "Three the Hard Way" sees three of the biggest stars of the blaxploitation era uniting for the first time to stop white supremacists from unleashing a poison that only kills African Americans into the water supplies of Washington DC...
Englewood, NJ: The As Stable Publications, 1926. First Edition. Near Fine in sewn wrappers, original mailing envelope (also Near Fine) and a handsome folding clamshell case with gilt spine lettering. One of 300 copies published (this being No. 172). An early play by Hemingway, extremely scarce, particularly in this condition and including the envelope. Further, we have never before encountered...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1978. Draft script for the 1979 film. Illustrated front wrapper based on Saul Bass' poster design for the film. Copy belonging to uncredited crew member David Hitchcock, with his name in holograph ink on the front wrapper. Holographic notations throughout primarily indicating deleted scenes. Also included is a carbon typed letter signed by Otto Preminger...
![Ten Wanted Men [Randolph Scott #9] (Original screenplay for the 1955 film, script supervisor's...](/pictures/thumb/145774.jpg?v=1560895285)
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1954. Final Draft script for the 1955 Technicolor Western film, here under the working title "Randolph Scott #9," with "Ten Wanted Men" added in blue holograph pencil to the front wrapper. With extensive holograph notations throughout dealing with continuity, timing, and camera set ups, presumably made by the script supervisor. After a rancher gives refuge...
N.p. N.p., 1897. Vintage borderless photograph from the 1897 short film, with the number 542 in holograph pencil on the verso, with the a still image from the film corresponding to that number on the website Catalogue Lumiere showing a similar scene. While the importance of the Lumiere Brothers to the invention and popularity of the moving image is well...
![The Outlaw [Outlaw] (Original screenplay for the 1943 film). Howard Hughes, Jules Furthman, Jack...](/pictures/thumb/145725.jpg?v=1560892794)
Los Angeles: Howard Hughes Productions, 1940. Second Revised Draft Estimating Script for the 1943 film, here referred to simply as "Outlaw." With a note from on the final page indicating that the script is incomplete as of November 12, 1941, and that the remainder of the script will be delivered by Howard Hughes on set. Fictionalized versions of Billy the...
London: Eon Productions, 1962. Vintage black-and-white studio French press photograph of Sean Connery and Ursula Andress from the famous beach set of the 1962 film. With holograph notations and crop markings on the verso. 8 x 10 inches (20 x 25 cm).
N.p. N.p., Circa 1973. Draft script of playwright Christopher Bond's 1973 retelling of the Victorian tale of Sweeney Todd, which would form the basis of Stephen Sondheim's popular musical half a decade later after Sondheim saw Bond's play at the Theatre Royal Stratford East in London in 1973. The first retelling of Sweeney Todd in which Todd is given a....
N.p. Red Lion, 1968. Presentation script for the 1969 film, copy belonging to producer Harry Mandell. An early, grim New Hollywood entry, directed by Val Lewton veteran Mark Robson, and one of the first screenwriting efforts by Larry Cohen. Cathy Palmer (Carol White) has an abortion and breaks off the engagement with her fiancé, Kenneth Daly (Scott Hylands), after he shows.....
![Shall We Dance [Stepping Toes] (Original screenplay for the 1935 film). Fred Astaire, Ginger...](/pictures/thumb/145692.jpg?v=1560892787)
Los Angeles: RKO Radio Pictures, 1936. Estimating script for the 1937 film, here under the working title "Stepping Toes." A ballet star (Astaire) start falls in love with a young tap dancer (Rogers) on a trans-Atlantic voyage, but rumors of their relationship precede them to their destination. The seventh of ten films Fred Astaire and Ginger Rodgers would make together, and...
Paris: Jazz News, 1948-1950. Archive of the original, complete eleven issue run of "Jazz News" magazine, published in Paris from 1948-1950. Text in French. Photo-illustrated throughout. Founded by music producer, club and label owner, and promoter Eddie Barclay, the magazine provided an international view of post-War European jazz, with article from critics outside France, including American Walter "Gil" Fuller and Belgians.....
Los Angeles: Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS], 1957. Collection of draft scripts for six episodes of Season Two of the 1956-1961 television show, bound as a single volume, and including memos, cast lists, rehearsal schedules, text for sponsored content, station breaks, and talking heads, and other material related to production. With rainbow revision pages and holograph notations throughout. "Playhouse 90" ran...
![He Knows You're Alone [The Uninvited] (Original screenplay for the 1980 film). Armand...](/pictures/thumb/145623.jpg?v=1560892779)
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1979. Second Draft script for the 1980 film here under the working title "The Uninvited". An early slasher film about a killer who stalks and kills brides-to-be and whoever he encounters in his pursuit of them. Shot on location in New York City. Black titled studio duplicating service wrappers. Title page present, dated October 13, 1979...
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1977. REVISED DRAFT for the 1978 film. SPIN. The Beatles' legendary 1967 masterwork is turned into a film musical, represented by a star-studded ensemble, with appearances by Donald Pleasence, George Burns (only actor with speaking lines not accompanied by song), Steve Martin, Alice Cooper, Jack Bruce, Keith Carradine, Carol Channing, Donovan, Leif Garrett, Etta James...
London: William Heinemann, 1977. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page. The third Courtney novel. Very Good plus in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Faint foxing to the top page edge, small bruise to the front pastedown. Jacket Light fading to the spine, shallow diagonal crease to the front flap, and faint foxing to the same.
![S*P*Y*S [Wet Stuff] (Original screenplay for the 1974 film). Irvin Kershner, Fred Freeman...](/pictures/thumb/145606.jpg?v=1560892777)
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1972. Revised script for the 1972 film under the working title "Wet Stuff". A spy spoof film featuring Elliot Gould and Donald Sutherland as CIA agents on the run from the CIA, the KGB, Chinese Communists and an anarchist group after botching a Russian ballerina's defection. Shot on location in London and Paris. Blue titled wrappers...
Hollywood: Jed Buell Productions / Columbia Pictures, Circa 1938. Draft script for the 1938 film. Copy belonging to actor Joseph Herbst, with his last name in holograph pencil to the front wrapper. Herbst played the part of the sheriff in the film, and a year later would also go on to act as a Munchkin villager in "The Wizard of...
US: Gulfmine Ltd, 1986. Sixth Draft script for the 1987 film. SIGNED by screenwriter and source novel author Frederick Forsyth on the title page, with an additional typed note signed referencing the script from Forsyth on his letterhead included. With both holograph and copied annotations by him on every page, with most of the holograph annotations being changes to dialogue. Adapted...
N.p. N.p., 1965. Draft script for the 1965 Broadway premiere of the 1961 play. Included are five pages of notes regarding lighting, dated June 1965. Based on 1952 book "The Devils of Loudun" by Aldous Huxley, a fictionalized account of real life events surrounding accusations of mass hysteria and heretical religious beliefs that took place in Loudon, France in the...
New York: J.B. Lippincott, 1939. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper: "To George and Sally / Who were so good as the Inspector and Mrs. Simmons when we did the play in Fairfield / June 1942 / James Ronald." An important historical inscription. The book was published in 1939, and was apparently produced as a local play...
Los Angeles: Jerry Lewis Productions / Paramount Pictures, 1963. Final White Script, with rainbow revisions, for the 1964 comedy. With occasional holograph notations throughout. Intended as a sequel to Jerry Lewis' classic "The Bellboy," originally titled "Son of Bellboy," Lewis once again plays a bellboy named Stanley. This time, a group of movie executives choose him as an easily manipulated...
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1966. Draft script for the 1967 film. Based on the 1963 novel by Patrick Ryan. Copy likely belonging to John Lennon, with lines for his character "Gripweed" circled or stricken exclusively in holograph ink throughout. Also included is a separate Call Sheet for Monday, October 24, 1966, mentioning Lennon and his character specifically. "How I Won...
![Wolfman Jack's Disco Party [The Disco Party], Riviera Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada October 11-17,...](/pictures/thumb/145579.jpg?v=1560892768)
Las Vegas: N.p., Circa 1979. Draft script for the 1979 live show "Wolfman Jack's Disco Party," which took place at the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas, premiering on October 11 and running until the 17th, with two shows a night. Copy belonging to musical director Rick Warren, with his name in red felt ink to the front wrapper and his...
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1942. First Edition. Haycraft Queen Cornerstone. A Woolrich high spot, basis for the 1944 film directed by Robert Siodmak and starring Ella Raines and Franchot Tone. From the collection of Otto Penzler. About Fine in a Near Fine, price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket is exceptional for this title, with a touch of wear at the spine ends and a....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1938. First Edition. The author's third book, a Hollywood novel. From the collection of Otto Penzler. Easily the most difficult McCoy first edition to find in superior condition, as the jacket spine tends to fade almost completely away. This copy Near Fine in every respect, with only slight toning to the jacket spine panel, and 1-inch...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1937. Publisher's prospectus for the First Edition. A perhaps unique and certainly rare piece advertising the release of Cain's second novel, containing the title-page, first chapter, and a specifications leaf. In a custom clamshell box with dark red cloth, quarter bound in dark red leather, titles in gilt. Box Very Good with some wear along...
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1926. First Edition. The author's first book, with art deco jacket design by Bobritsky, priced $2.00. From the collection of Otto Penzler. Woolrich's first novel, one of six novels written in the style of F. Scott Fitzgerald and other Jazz Age writers, before his permanent turn to crime fiction. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket...
New York: Random House, 1939. First Edition. Wonderfully INSCRIBED by the author to actor Paul Muni's wife: "For Bella Muni / Dear Bella / Early in our acquaintance, I reckoned my obligation to you in the terms of light-years / But lately I've lost count and given up. / Sincerely / Max." From the collection of Otto Penzler. After debuting at...
New York: Lawrence A. Spivak issuing as Bestseller Mystery / Jonathan Press Mystery / Mercury Mystery, 1943-1962. Complete collection of eight digest size paperback originals by Dashiell Hammett published between 1943-1962, all representing the first separate appearances of a given story (having previously appeared in pulp magazines such as "Black Mask"). Housed in a lovely black custom clamshell slipcase and...
New York: Edward J. Clode, 1927. First Edition. In the first state dust jacket, priced $2.00 and with a blurb for this title on the front flap and an advertisement for Richard H. Watkin's "Half a Clue" on the rear flap. From the collection of Otto Penzler. In the early days of the seminal pulp magazine"Black Mask," writer Carroll John Daly was.....
New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux [FSG], 1967. UNCORRECTED PROOF of the author's second novel, preceding the first edition. Copiously annotated, sometimes quite critically, other times effusively, by novelist Frederick Tuten, who reviewed the book. Scarce in an advance issue, with an association. In a custom blue cloth clamshell box with leather spine label and titles in gilt. Pink card wrappers...
New York: Viking Press, 1994. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the First Edition. Includes a 40-page segment excised from the published book. Not to be confused with the more common advance reader's edition, which has a pictorial wrapper and does not include the excised text. Spine panel lightly faded, else Fine in pictorial wrappers.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1955. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper to Delbert Mann: "To Delbert / Who needs no / inscription (p. 259). Thank you very much , Del / Paddy." In a custom clamshell box with red cloth and black calf quarter binding, titles in gilt. Delbert Mann, in addition to his notable work...
New York: Covici-Friede, 1935. First edition, second issue of Odet’s first book, containing his first three plays, “Awake and Sing!,” “Waiting for Lefty,” and “Till the Day I Die,” all of which were written for and premiered by the Group Theatre in the first half of 1935. Copy belonging to Emanuel "Manny" Fried, an understudy to Group Theatre co-founder Harold.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1960s-1970s. Draft script for an unproduced film "Twist." Copy belonging to director Ken Hughes, with his notations throughout. A police investigator shoots a longtime nemesis while chasing him after a heist, and must cope with the loss of his greatest equal. Set in England. Tall black wrappers, with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title.....
London: Signal Films, circa 1975. Shooting Script for the 1975 film. Sequel to the 1966 film "Alfie," and based on the 1970 novel by Bill Naughton. Copy belonging to director/screenwriter Ken Hughes, with his heavy annotations throughout. Alan Price takes on the role previously played by Michael Caine of Alfie, a womanizing truck driver who finally finds a woman he...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1949. First Edition. Likely unique copy from the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] library, with the following identification markers on the front endpaper (1) a standard 1950s-era MGM receipt label affixed to the center of the page, (2) three rubber stamps running down the center that read "VAULT COPY," (3) three rubber stamps (each marked through) also running...
New York: Macmillan, 1970. First Edition. Copy from the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] library, with two of their rubber stamps on the front endpaper at the bottom center, one that reads "FILE COPY," overstamped by another that reads "VAULT COPY," at the top center. Also on the front endpaper is a holograph notation of "#10"at the top right, and a tiny date...
![Family Nest [Csaladi Tuzfeszek] (Original promotional script for the 1977 film). Bela Tarr,...](/pictures/thumb/145506.jpg?v=1560892755)
Budapest: Balsz Bela Studio, 1977. Vintage post-production promotional script for the 1977 Hungarian film. Includes a prose narrative describing the film story, reviews, quotes, and critical essays. Text in Hungarian. Easily the most rigidly philosophical promotional script ever issued, with the narrative portion being essentially one long run-on sentence wherein Tarr describes his intentions for his first film. It would be...
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 that has no chips or tears but is very lightly and uniformly rubbed.
![Cromwell [Oliver Cromwell] (Original screenplay for the 1970 film). Ken Hughes, Alec Guinness...](/pictures/thumb/145470.jpg?v=1560892751)
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1961. Early Draft script for the 1970 film "Cromwell," seen here under the title "Oliver Cromwell." Copy belonging to director/screenwriter Ken Hughes, with his annotations throughout. With 11 pages of reproductions from "The Commonweal" newspaper from August and September 1885 laid into the front of the script, along with a drawing of how to add...
London: Warwick Film Productions, 1960. First Draft script for the 1960 UK film. File copy belonging to the film's director Ken Hughes, with a typescript note tipped on to the title page requesting its return to the director and noting it is the only script in existence for the film. Peter Finch delivers a strong performance as the inimitable author...
Boston: Little, Brown, 1940. First Edition. Noted Alabama author's first novel, set in the Old South, published with the help and support of Margaret Mitchell. Norris did not publish another book until 1958, and then not again until 1985. In 1994 and 1997 she completed her writing career with two collections of poetry. Her work has remained a subtle staple...
US: Le-Sac Productions, 1960. Collection of 20 vintage studio still photographs from the 1960 film. One still with numerical notations in holograph pencil on the verso. Starring actor Ericson is prominently featured in the collection, engaged in action, romance, and brandishing a Tommy gun. One photo from the set shown. Please inquire to see others. Based on real-life bank-robber Floyd (1904-1934), and...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1940. Vintage black-and-white studio still photograph from the 1940 film. Starring actress Ruth Hussey is seen in action stealthily snapping photographs. Rubber-stamps on the verso crediting "Silver Screen Archives" and photographer Clarence S. Bull. Based on Barry's 1939 eponymous play. A socialite (Hepburn) with plans to marry is interrupted by her ex-husband (Grant) and a tabloid...
New York: Limelight Editions, 1992. First Edition. Copy belonging to "Playboy" magazine founder Hugh Hefner, with his holograph underling, notations, and paper clip page markers throughout, primarily to sections regarding Playmate Dorothy Stratten, Playboy, or himself. Together with Hefner's copy of the First Edition of Peter Bogdanovich's "The Killing of the Unicorn: Dorothy Stratten 1960-1980." From the estate of Hugh...
Princeton, WI: Kitchen Sink Press, 1986. First Edition, published simultaneously in hardcover. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper to "Playboy" magazine founder Hugh Hefner: "To Hef / With warm good regards / Will Eisner." From the estate of Hugh Hefner, with full provenance included. Hefner was a stated fan of Eisner's "The Spirit" growing up, and of comics...
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1950. First Edition, stated on the copyright page. Price of $2.50 present at the top right corner of the front flap. Extremely scarce in the first printing. Very Good in a Very Good, lightly frayed dust jacket.
South Brunswick and New York: AS Barnes, 1967. First Edition. INSCRIBED and dated in the year of publication by the author on the front endpaper to "Playboy" founder Hugh Hefner: "To Hef / with love / Bunny Yeager / 12/67." From the estate of Hugh Hefner, with full provenance included. As a model and photographer, Yeager's association with Hefner and...
N.p. N.p., 1979. Vintage two sided flyer, which doubles as an invitation, for "Max Julien's 1st Annual Spook Festival," held on April 13, 1979. Proceeds from the event, which was billed as a Halloween costume party (and held on Friday the 13th), benefitted the Western States Black Research Center Building Fund, and scenes from the party were filmed for Julien's...
N.p. N.p., Circa 1970s. Vintage photograph of Muhammad Ali standing between an unidentified man and film producer Cassius Weathersby, circa 1970s. Also included is a souvenir photographic postcard of Ali, Weathersby, and others at a dinner honoring Ali. Weathersby's credits include the blaxploitation classics "Cleopatra Jones," "Trouble Man," "Watttstax," and "The Spook Who Sat by the Door," among many other.....
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1953. First Edition. Association copy, INSCRIBED by Roy Chanslor to film director Nicholas Ray on the front endpaper: "To Nick Ray / For a very happy and fruitful association! / Roy." The inscription refers to Ray's film version of Chanslor's book, one of the strangest and most important Westerns ever committed to celluloid, and a....
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1978. First Edition. Dedication copy, INSCRIBED by McMurtry to one of the book's three dedicatees, Peter Bogdanovich on the dedication page: "[Peter's name circled] / Your contribution to this hetic effort was immense / But fortunately so ineffable that for once you probably won't be blamed / Love / Larry." McMurtry refers here to the...
New York: Farrar and Rinehart, 1944. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper prior to publication to actress Nila Mack on the front pastedown: "Dec 17th '43 / For Nile / Dearest of friends / Of course what really want to say, I'm feeling too keenly and deeply to express / Anyhow, who knows better than you...
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 notations in the same hand to the verso of the last page...
Early Draft script (though noted as a "Final Draft screenplay") for the 1971 film dated two years prior to its release. The number "243" is annotated in faded holograph ink at the top right corner of the title page. An important, slightly experimental X-rated comedy that is ground zero in the history early 1970s sexual climate in America, predicting the more...
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1955. Revised Final Draft script for the 1956 film, with rainbow revisions. Released just two years after "On the Waterfront" (1954), the multi-award-winning collaboration between Elia Kazan and Budd Schulberg, and based on Budd Schulberg's 1947 novel about a once respected sportswriter now forced to work for a crooked promoter who is taking advantage of...
US: Lone Star Yellow Rose, 1976. Draft script for the 1977 film. Copy belonging to producer Cassius Weathersby, with holograph notations on nearly every page. Also included are contractual agreements and releases for Weathersby, call sheets, budgets and other financial information, and a press release containing a synopsis of the film. The owner of a popular club and record label...
Huntsville, TX: Texas Review Press, 2006. First Edition, hardcover issue. Association copy, INSCRIBED by Williamson to fellow author Chris Offutt on the half-title page: "For Chris / In admiration of your work, and with appreciation for your friendship / Eric Miles Williamson." The author has also SIGNED the title page in the same ink. From the collection of Chris Offutt. Offutt...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985. First Edition of the author's first book. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Jacket is extremely bright, with a touch of rubbing at the spine ends and corners.
Los Angeles: California Pictures, 1979. Collection of 51 vintage borderless, color photographs from the 1979 film. Also included are eight large format negatives for photographs in the collection. Two US Navy divers, taken prisoner by the Japanese in the Philippines, are forced to search for millions of dollars worth of silver that the retreating American forces dumped into Manila Bay...
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1967. First Edition. First Edition. First issue jacket with a price of "$5.95" and a Wallace Stegner blurb on the front flap, and a photo of Stone on the rear jacket panel. The author's first book. Warmly INSCRIBED by Stone to fellow author Chris Offutt in the year of publication: "For Chris Offutt / With admiration, esteem, and...
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1974. First Edition. Warmly INSCRIBED by Stone to fellow author Chris Offutt in the year of publication: "For Chris Offutt / With congratulations and best wishes until we meet again / Robert Stone." A tremendous association. Winner of the National Book Award and basis for the violent 1978 neo-noir film, Who'll Stop the Rain, directed by Karel Reisz...
Culver City, CA: Columbia, 1974. Vintage flyer for the 1974 film, likely for a specific theatre, as it advertises "Starts May 1," about three weeks after the film's initial release on April 10. A blaxploitation Western take on Bonnie and Clyde, about two Robin Hood-esque bank robbers in the American Southwest who long for a quiet life. Shot on location...
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1971. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Harrison to fellow author Chris Offutt on the title page: "Chris / To a fine writer! / Jim Harrison / [cartoon face drawing]." Basis for the 1996 film "Carried Away," directed by Bruno Barreto and starring Dennis Hopper, Amy Irving, and Amy Locane. A tremendous association between two generations of the...
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1971. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Harrison to fellow author Chris Offutt on the title page: "To Chris / Jim Harrison." Additionally SIGNED by Harrison (in the same pen) on the second blank: "Jim Harrison / 4/88." A tremendous association between two generations of the most important chroniclers of the American South and Midwest. A tremendous association...
New York: Delacorte, 1979. First printing of this edition. Three volumes. Publisher's beige buckram, gilt spine titles, housed in a matching printed paper slipcase. One of 250 copies (this being No. 105) SIGNED by the author on the first leaf of "Legends of the Fall." The other two volumes are INSCRIBED by Harrison to fellow author Chris Offutt: "To Chris...
New York: Ecco, 1981. First Edition. First issue, with publisher's price of $14.95 present at the top right corner of the front flap (i.e., unclipped). INSCRIBED by Wolff to fellow author Chris Offutt on the half title page: "For Chris / Whose stories I love / Toby / Sept 23, 1994." The author's first collection of stories, and his first book...
Venice, CA: Blum Group, 1977. Third Draft script for the 1978 film. A Hollywood agent has racked up huge gambling debt and needs to quickly pay back the bookie. He organizes a group of talented skateboarders and enters them into a major competition with a $20,000 prize. Shot on location in California. Lime green titled wrappers. Title page present, dated...
N.p. N.p., Circa 1963. Three vintage photographs of French actor, director, and clown Pierre Etaix, circa 1963. Two with the stamp of Interpress and one with the stamp of Agence Diffusion Presse (ADP) photo agencies on the verso. One of the Interpress photographs also has a mimeo snipe dated 12/1/63 and mentioning Etaix's 1962 film "The Suitor." Photographs trimmed, sized...
New York: Macmillan, 1926. First Edition. Black was raised in Missouri, was a hobo and a burglar in the late 19th and early twentieth century, outliving the last days of the Wild West. "You Can't Win" is his fictionalized autobiography of those days, emphasizing the futility of criminal endeavors while disparaging the state of prisons and the criminal justice system...
Universal City: Universal, 1960. Vintage borderless photograph from the set of the 1960 film, showing star Kirk Douglas lying down on the job, the mirror image of the word IESVS (Jesus) written in the sand behind him. Based on the 1951 novel by Howard Fast, a fictionalized account of a real life slave revolt against the Roman Empire. Along with...
Culver City, CA: Columbia, 1962. Collection of four vintage contact sheets for the 1962 film, featuring 64 images of actor Jane Fonda and 9 images of actor Capucine. With holograph ink and red pencil notations to the rectos. Based on the 1956 novel by Nelson Algren, about the women in an upscale New Orleans brothel, whose lives are thrown into...
N.p. N.p., 1972. Vintage borderless, oversize photograph of directors Sergio Leone and Henri Verneuil, and composer Ennio Morricone, conversing in what appears to be a screening room. With credit for photographer Vincent Rossell and the year in the holograph marker in the upper left corner of the recto. Rossell was the still photographer for Verneuil's 1973 espionage film "The Serpent,"...
France: Gray-Film, 1974. Vintage oversize, borderless, color photograph of director and star Jacques Tati on the set of the 1974 French film. Tati's final film, in which the beloved director plays a circus clown. Shown out of competition at Cannes, and then released in France as a television movie. 11.75 x 9.5 inches (30 x 23 cm). Near Fine. BFI. Criterion Collection 731. Rosenbaum 1000.
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France: Radio-Television Francaise (RTF), 1959. Vintage borderless photograph of director Jean Renoir and actor Jean-Louis Barrault on the set of the 1959 film. With the stamp of photographer Albert Decamps on the verso. Renoir's loose adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 novella "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," premiering at the Venice Film Festival, followed by airing...
![Love on the Ground [L'Amour par terre] (Original photograph on the set of the 1984 film). Jacques...](/pictures/thumb/145127.jpg?v=1560892694)
Neuilly-sur-Seine, France: Gaumont, 1984. Vintage borderless photograph of director Jacques Rivette and actors Geraldine Chaplin and Facundo Bo on the set of the 1984 film. Fiction and reality begin to mix when a theatre troupe begins to rehearse a play in a mysterious mansion. 7 x 4.5 inches (18 x 11 cm). Near Fine.
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Culver City, CA: Edward Small Productions, 1947. Archive of production material for the 1952 film noir consisting of the following: breakdown, set list, wardrobe plot, shooting schedule, and a summary of detail budget. With a type written letter outlining the contents of the archive from producer Edward Small to Dan O'Shea, signed by Edward Small in holograph ink and dated...
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, Circa 1976. Early Draft script for the 1977 film. At 200 pages, this draft is 36 pages longer than the longest of the three we have encountered, meaning almost certainly that it is a First Draft or very close. The plot of William Friedkin's suspense thriller originated with the same Georges Arnaud novel that inspired Henri-Georges...
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1972. Original maquette demonstrating an early poster design concept for the 1973 film, featuring the an original mounted silver gelatin photograph of the legendary streetlit scene of Father Merrin's first arrival to Georgetown in the film. A minimal design, without the credits information seen in the completed original "purple style" poster design, and with a proposed (but...
N.p. Matrixbest production, 1977. Seventh Draft script for an unproduced film. Holograph signature and copy number 80 in black marker by production designer John Beard on the title page. Beard is best known for his work on "Brazil" (1985), "The Meaning of Life" (1983), "Bad Timing" (1980), and "Life of Brian" (1979). A fabled project helmed by Russ Meyer, along with...
N.p. N.p., 1972. Archive of 19 color vernacular photographs of the 1972 French Grand Prix, part of the Formula One World Championship, held July 2 at the Charade Circuit near Clermont-Ferrrand, France, the final year the race was held on this course. The photographs in the archive are taken by a spectator from several different vantage points along the course...
N.p. N.p., Circa 1970s. Archive of 22 color test photographs of automobile crashes testing highway safety hi-dro cushion cell barriers along an unopened section of I-95 in Philadelphia. Each photograph with a holograph reference number on the verso, one with a notation detailing the device being tested and location. Hi-dro cushion cell barriers are a type of impact attenuator, designed.....
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1970. Collection of five vintage reference photographs from the 1970 film. Four of the photographs have been trimmed, three with partially trimmed mimeo snipes on the verso, Antonioni’s great American experiment, and the only film the director ever made in the United States, written for the screen by a young Sam Shepard. Though made from...
London: Compton Films, 1966. Three vintage press photographs of director Roman Polanski and actor Catherine Deneuve at the world premiere of "Repulsion" on January 7, 1966 in Paris. With press agency mimeo snipes on the verso, one from AFP and two from AGIP. Polanski's second film, and first in English, which originally screen at the Cannes Film Festival the previous...
N.p. N.p., 1982. Vintage photograph of artist Joseph Beuys sitting amongst a crowd at an anti-NATO demonstration held in Bonn, Germany on October 6, 1982. Also scene in the photograph are German Green Party Member of Parliament Gert Bastian, and Beuys' wife, Eva Wurmbach. With the stamps of press agencies Poly-Press and Lynx on the verso. 8.5 x 6.5 inches...
N.p. N.p., Circa 1930s. Vintage photograph of artist Josep Maria Sert and his wife, sculptor Isabelle Roussandana Mdivani, in front of his 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 work includes the interior of the Vic Cathedral in Spain.....
N.p. N.p., 1970. Archive of 18 color vernacular photographs of a drag race competition held at the National Trail Raceway in Hebron, OH in September of 1970. Included are images of cars, both racing and still, spectators, and drivers, all taken from ground level. Among the cars identified in the archive are Bill Shewsberry's La-Dart, Chuck Poole's Chuchwagon, and Bill...
Paris: Films sans Frontieres, 1974. Vintage borderless press photograph showing director Marco Ferreri on the set of the 1974 French-Italian film, with camera and crew behind him. With stamps of photographer Bernard Prim and French magazine "Paru dans le point," as well as holograph notations, on the verso. A farcical reenactment of the events leading up to, and including, The...
UK: EMI, 1974. Vintage photograph from the 1974 film, showing director Sidney Lumet hanging onto a train on location at a rail station, along with members of the cast on the platform. Based on the 1934 novel by Agatha Christie, which finds her series detective Hercule Poirot investigating a murder aboard a train, with the suspects portrayed by a who's who...
Paris: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1974. Vintage borderless photograph showing director Luis Bunuel (wearing badass sunglasses) and producer Serge Silberman conferring during the shooting of the 1974 film. A non-linear surrealist satire of Bunuel's usual targets, in this case bourgeois morality and class-based societal structures. 9.5 x 6.5 inches (24 x 17 cm). Near Fine. Criterion Collection 290. Rosenbaum 1000.
Culver City, CA: Columbia, 1966. Vintage borderless photograph from the set of the 1966 Western, showing director Richard Brooks and crew getting ready to shoot a close up of actor Lee Marvin letting loose with a machine gun. Based on the 1964 novel "A Mule for the Marquesa" by Frank O'Rourke, about four men hired to by a wealthy Texan...
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1980. Vintage photograph of a relaxed director Martin Scorsese and actor Robert De Niro conferring in the ring on the 1980 film. Based on the 1970 memoir by former middleweight champion Jake LaMotta, about his struggles in and outside the ring. Nominated for eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor for...
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1959. Vintage photograph from the 1959 film, showing director John Ford sharing a cigar with in-costume actor Hoot Gibson during a break in shooting an outdoor scene. With the stamp of a private collector on the verso. A Union cavalry brigade's mission behind Confederate lines is complicated when they are forced to take a woman...
UK: Connoisseur Films, 1970. Collection of five vintage borderless photographs from the 1970 film noir. Each with the stamp of French magazine "Telecine" on the verso. A teenage boy takes a job at a local swim club, becoming obsessed with his older coworker, trying to sabotage her engagement to another man. 9.5 x 7.25 inches (24 x 20 cm). Near Fine. Grant UK. Weldon 1996.
Burbank, CA: New Line Cinema, 1997. Collection of five vintage borderless photographs from the 1997 film. Director Paul Thomas Anderson's second film, bringing him to widespread acclaim, about a young man's career in the porn industry during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Nominated for three Academy Awards, including Best Original Screenplay for Anderson, Best Supporting Actress for Julianne Moore...