N.p. N.p., 1979. Vintage photograph of artist Robert Rauschenberg in the pressroom of the "Miami Herald," in December of 1979. With holograph notations on the verso identifying Rauschenberg and crediting photographer John Doman, as well as numerous date stamps, on the verso. Rauschenberg was at the newspaper office to create an original lithograph for the cover of the December 30...
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1963. Vintage borderless photograph from the 1963 film, showing star Steve McQueen conferring with director John Sturges and a third, overdressed individual on outdoor prison camp location. With a United Artists credit stamp on the verso. A heavily fictionalized version of the real-life mass escape by Allied POWs from a German prison camp, based on...
Los Angeles: Embassy Pictures, 1981. Vintage photograph showing director David Cronenberg and crew shooting a scene from actress Jennifer O'Neil's point-of-view on the set of the 1981 film. With a mimeo snipe on the verso. A shadowy security company seeks to use "scanners," people with various psychic abilities, as weapons, but are opposed by an underground movement vying for world...
N.p. N.p., 1964. Archive of 1 color and 19 black-and-white photographs of the Shell 4000 Rally car race, held from April 18-24, 1964. Fifteen photographs with the stamp of photographer Robert C. Ragsdale on the verso, one photograph each with the stamps of photographers W.B. Edwards and Victor Leagas. The Shell 4000 Rally was held annually between 1961 and 1968...
N.p. N.p., Circa 1957. Archive of 27 oversize, double weight photographs of Indy race cars, taken at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, circa 1957. Two photographs with the stamp of photographer J.O. Wilson on the verso. Each of the photographs is of a single car riding at high speed with its racer, taken at the same angle, making for a great stylistic.....
Los Angeles: Floyd Clymer, 1949. First Edition. Photobook compiling images, illustrations, and information from the first three issues of Veda Orr's self-published, mimeograph "Lake Pictorial" Hot Rod annuals. With 8 full page illustrations by artist Dick Teague, all dated 1947. In 1937, after being introduced to the sport by her husband, legendary drag racer Karl Orr, Veda Orr became the first...
![Archive of 170 QSL cards for CB [Citizens Band] radio operators, circa 1970s. CB, Ham Radio](/pictures/thumb/144920.jpg?v=1560892660)
N.p. N.p., Circa 1970s. Archive of 170 QSL cards from CB [Citizens Band] radio operators, all from the collection of a CB Radio enthusiast in the 1970s. QSL cards are written confirmation of the receipt of a radio broadcast, sent from the listener to the broadcaster, or between both parties of a two-way communication. Originally sent to radio stations to.....
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1976. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Carver's first book of short stories. A couple of tiny scratches to the teal topstain, else Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket. A superb copy.
N.p. N.p., circa 1964. Vintage photograph of Nat "King" Cole, circa 1964, dressed for departure. With holograph notations on the verso. 8 x 10 inches (20.5 x 25.5 cm). Near Fine.
New York: Farrar and Rinehart, 1945. First Edition. An exceptionally bright copy of a key Woolrich title normally found the worse for wear. Basis for the 1948 film noir written for the screen by Jonathan Latimer and starring Edward G. Robinson. Near Fine in an about Near Fine dust jacket without a trace of the usual fading to the spine...
New York: Walker, 1965. First Edition. A late collection of stories, notoriously difficult to find in collector's condition. Fine and unread in a beautiful, about Fine dust jacket with only the most minute rubbing at the spine ends and folds.
New York: Random House, 1941. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Schulberg in the year of publication, almost certainly to a fellow Paramount house screenwriter, on the front endpaper: "For Charley / With affectionate regards / From the guy in the adjoining cell. / Budd / March 29, 1941." Regardless of whether the inscribee is Charles Brackett, Charles MacArthur, or some Charley...
N.p. N.p., 1976. Vintage borderless photograph of director Wim Wenders and cinematographer Robby Muller on the set of the 1976 film. Bruno Winter (Rudiger Vogler) is a film projection repair man on the Western side of the East German border. He meets Robert Lander (Hanns Zischler), a depressed doctor who has just broken up with his wife. Robert joins Bruno in.....
![Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan [The Undiscovered Country] (Original screenplay for the 1982...](/pictures/thumb/144873.jpg?v=1560892652)
Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1981. Revised Final Draft script for the 1982 film, seen here under the working title "The Undiscovered Country" (a title that actually wound up being used for a subsequent installment in the franchise). In the undisputed, eminently re-watchable classic amongst the Star Trek feature films, Admiral Kirk is back to save the universe by preventing Khan Noonien...
New York: Random House, 1969. First Edition. INSCRIBED by James Crumley on the title page to fellow author Chris Offutt: "Offutt = Here we are in Missoula when our name [sic] have just been in the New Yorker / James Crumley / 9/9/97." The author's first book, a story of the US Army in peacetime during 1962, set on a base...
![Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Hardcover, inscribed by Anita Loos to George Cukor]. George Cukor,...](/pictures/thumb/144856.jpg?v=1560892650)
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1926 [1925]. Hardcover. Thirteenth printing, published in May 1926 (first printing having been published in November 1925). INSCRIBED by Anita Loos to director George Cukor on the front endpaper some years later: "April 7, 1954 / So now after 25 years you want my autograph! / My love you've always had / Anita." With Cukor's...
N.p. N.p., 1971. Vintage hand painted metal sign advertising Itala Pilsen beer, which hung prominently in the Sicilian cafe frequented by Michael Corleone in "The Godfather." From the collection of Sam Verts, who worked as the Assistant Art Director on the film, with full provenance. 19.75 x 13 inches (50 x 33 cm). Very Good plus, with expected wear at...
![Meetings In The Forest [Les Rendez-Vous en Foret] (Original photograph from the 1972 film). Alain...](/pictures/thumb/144851.jpg?v=1560892649)
Paris: Argos Films, 1971. Vintage photograph of Catherine Jourdan and Heinz Bennent from the 1972 film. An experimental fantasy film full of erotic themes set in a fairytale-like forest. 8.5 x 10.5 inches (22 x 26.6 cm). Near Fine.
![Le Trou [The Hole] (Original photograph from the set of the 1960 film). Jacques Becker, Jose...](/pictures/thumb/144848.jpg?v=1560892648)
Paris: Cinedis, 1960. Vintage borderless photograph of director Jacques Becker and actor Jean Keraudy on the set of the 1960 film. With holograph notations on the verso. Based on Jose Giovanni's 1957 first novel, "Le Trou" (The Break). True story of the 1947 Le Sante Prison break, with one of the real escapees, Keraudy, playing his own character in the...
N.p. N.p., 1940. Vintage double weight publicity photograph of Josephine Baker for the 1936 Broadway musical, Ziegfeld Follies. INSCRIBED by Baker in black marker on the recto: "Mademoiselles / Sunny Templeman / With best wishes from / Josephine Baker / 1940." With a studio insignia for Murray Corman photography studio in New York in white at the bottom right corner. Ziegfeld...
![Band of Outsiders [Bande a Part] (Original photograph from the set of the 1964 film). Jean-Luc...](/pictures/thumb/144840.jpg?v=1560892643)
Paris: Columbia Films / Anouchka Films / Orsay Films, 1964. Vintage borderless photograph of actors Sami Frey, Anna Karina, and Claude Brasseur rehearsing the 1964 film's iconic dance sequence, which they did daily for a month prior to shooting. With holograph notations and agency stamps on the verso. An outrageous and comical crime film, which Godard himself described as "'Alice in...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1975. Vintage photograph of Tim Curry as Dr. Frank N. Furter in the classic 1975 film. With holograph notations on the verso. 10 x 8 inches (25 x 20 cm). Near Fine. National Film Registry. Weldon 1983.
Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1930. Vintage photograph from the set of the 1930 film. With holograph notations and a typed description on the verso. A pre-Code musical comedy regarded as a masterpiece of the emerging musical genre and remembered primarily for the song "Beyond the Blue Horizon." Based on the 1900 novel, "Monsieur Beaucaire" by Booth Tarkington, later adapted as...
Neuilly-sur-Seine, France: Gaumont, 1958. Vintage borderless photograph from the 1958 film. With holograph notations and an agency stamp on the verso. The director's second of four films featuring the inimitable Monsieur Hulot. In this chapter, Hulot strays from his rather ordinary Paris neighborhood and into a modern, suburban one, where technological chaos reigns. Nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes...
United Kingdom: Alan Clore Films, 1968. Vintage borderless photograph of the bottom half of Jane Birkin (with Jean Harlow and Greta Garbo looking on) from the 1968 film. With holograph notations on the verso. The absent minded professor Oscar Collins (Jack MacGowran) follows a beam of light coming through his wall to find his next door neighbor, Penny Lane, a....
Beverly Hills, CA: Brandywine Productions, 1969. Vintage borderless photograph of Glenda Jackson, Vladek Sheybel and Oliver Reed from the 1969 film. With a typed description on the verso. Based on D.H. Lawrence's 1920 novel of the same name. While at a wedding in a small mining town in post World War I England, two sisters, Ursula (Jennie Linden) and Gudru...
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1947. Vintage photograph of director Charles Vidor and stars Rosalind Russell and Melvyn Douglas speaking to Orson Welles on the set of the 1947 film. Welles was directing the classic Columbia Pictures film, "The Lady from Shanghai" at the same time. Mimeo snipe and agency stamps on the verso. Janet Ames (Rosalind Russell) seeks out five...
![Violette [Violette Noziere] (Original photograph from the 1978 film). Claude Chabrol, Jean-Marie...](/pictures/thumb/144817.jpg?v=1560892629)
France: Filmel, 1978. Vintage borderless photograph of Isabelle Huppert and Jean Carmet from the 1978 film. With holograph notations on the verso. Based on the 1975 novel of the same name by Jean-Marie Fitere which tells the true story of Violette Noziere (Isabelle Huppert), a French teenager who in the 1930s worked as a prostitute while living with her parents...
Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1966. Vintage photograph of actors Julie Christie and Oskar Werner, director Francois Truffaut, and various members of the crew on the set of the 1966 film. With holograph notations on the verso. Based on the 1953 novel by Ray Bradbury. Shot on location in England and France. 9.5 x 7.5 inches (24.13 x 19 cm). Near Fine. Weldon 1983.
New York: Music Vanguard, 1935. Complete two issue run of "Music Vanguard" magazine, listed as Vol. 1, issue 1 March-April 1935 and Vol. 1, issue 2 Summer 1935. Rare. "Music Vanguard" focused on the relationship between music and social justice, with a particular focus American socialist thought, noting in the introduction to the first issue the "wish to interrelate diverse elements...
Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1973. Draft script for the 1975 film. One of the most haunting and truly underrated films of the 1970s, Schlesinger's "The Day of the Locust" translates Nathanael West's 1939 masterpiece into a dark, funny, and ultimately devastating commentary on the Hollywood system and its effect on the lives and dreams of an array of characters lost...
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1955. Two vintage keybook photographs from the 1955 film, one showing director Elia Kazan behind the camera, the other showing actors James Dean and Nick Dennis goofing around behind the scenes with dialog director Guy Thomajan. Typed notations identifying the subjects on the versos. Based on the 1952 novel by John Steinbeck. Winner of Best Dramatic...
Universal City: Universal, 1969. Vintage borderless press photograph of director Alfred Hitchcock and his wife Alma Reville in Paris, scouting locations for his film "Topaz." With a mimeo snipe crediting photographer Daniel Angely and the stamp of the UK press agency Camera Press on the verso. Based on the 1967 novel by Leon Uris, about a French agent who helps...
New Haven: Yale Univerity Press, 1955. First Edition, two volumes bound in red cloth housed in a black cloth covered slipcase. Issued for Carl Van Vechten's 75th birthday. Warmly INSCRIBED by Van Vechten on the front endpaper of the first volume to noted screenwriter Anita Loos: "For Anita with admiration and love from Carl / Christmas, 1955 / New York."...
![Housekeeping [House Keeping] (First Edition, TRIAL DUST JACKET ONLY). Marilynne Robinson](/pictures/thumb/144793.jpg?v=1560892617)
New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux [FSG], 1980. Trial dust jacket for the first edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's critically acclaimed and beloved work. This version differs strikingly from the final jacket in that the lettering for the author and title on the front panel and spine are in a deep orange rather the blue-black color ultimately used. The...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1956. Vintage still photograph of Gene Kelly from the 1956 film. With holograph notations on the verso. Comprised of three separate stories told only through dance and mime. Each featuring Gene Kelly in the lead role, first as Kelly the clown in "Circus", a Marine in "Ring Around The Rosy" and as Sinbad in "Sinbad...
London: Hammer Films, 1961. Vintage photograph from the 1961 film. With holograph notations on the verso. Based on the 1933 novel "The Werewolf Of Paris" by Guy Endore. Set in Eighteenth Century Spain. A child is adopted by a wealthy man and his maid who learn years later that he is in fact a werewolf whose only chance of breaking...
N.p. N.p., 1970. Vintage borderless photograph of Merce Cunningham, 1970. With holograph notations and an agency stamp on the verso. 7 x 9.25 inches (17.75 x 24 cm) Near Fine.
N.p. N.p., 1971. Vintage double weight photograph of Muhammad Ali, 1971. With holograph notations and an agency stamp on the verso. Muhammad Ali is shown driving the streets of New York after his conviction for refusing to report for induction into the United States military was reversed. 10 x 8 inches (25.4 x 20.3 cm) Near Fine.
New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux [FSG], 1993. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the title page to fellow author Chris Offutt: "To Chris Offutt, with Admiration / JK Eugenides." An early Eugenides signature. Eugenides' first novel, and basis for the debut film by director Sofia Coppola. Offutt is the author of “Kentucky Straight” and other short story collections...
New York: Random House, 1975. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page. An intimate portrait of a marriage, Salter's well-received fourth novel. From the collection of author Chris Offutt. Offutt is the author of “Kentucky Straight” and other short story collections, novels, nonfiction, and memoirs, and, in 1996, was named one of the twenty Best Young American Novelists.....
New York: Doubleday, 1978. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Joy Williams' scarce second novel, which many claim was "killed" from going into a second printing by an especially scathing review by New York Times writer Anatole Broyard. The novel would remain out of print until Fairy Tale Press rereleased it in 2008 with an introduction...
Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1972. Draft script for the 1974 blaxploitation film. Copy belonging to Unit Production Manager Doc Merman whose name is written in holograph pencil on the front wrapper along with notes: "To Brad, Merry Xmas", and "AC Dye", referring to a product used to detect leaks in automotive Air Conditioning cooling systems, likely needed for "Willie Dynamite's"...
New York: Harper, 1961. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page. From the collection of author Chris Offutt. Offutt is the author of “Kentucky Straight” and other short story collections, novels, nonfiction, and memoirs, and, in 1996, was named one of the twenty Best Young American Novelists by “Granta” magazine. He has also written for popular television shows.....
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1953. Temporary Complete script for the 1954 film. File copy, with rubber stamp to the front wrapper. Loosely based on a chapter from the 1949 book "Gods, Graves, and Scholars" by C.W. Ceram. Robert Taylor plays a rough and tumble archaeologist who is convinced by another archaeologist's daughter (Eleanor Parker) to go searching for evidence...
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 holograph notations at the inclusion of his dialogue and appearances. George...
New York: Random House, 1948. First Edition. Laid in is an original red-and-white publisher's slip with advance publicity about the then-forthcoming film adaptation of Lucille Fletcher's play. The only published book source for the 1948 film, which was originally a play by Lucille Fletcher. Ms. Fletcher adapted the play for the film version in 1948, and this a novelization, based...
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1972. Fourth Draft script for the 1973 film. Copy belonging to still photographer Ron Munkasci. Burt Lancaster is a retiring CIA agent whose trainee (Alain Delon) is ordered to kill him, due to suspected treason with the Russians. The screenwriting debut of David W. Rintels. Set in Europe and the United States, shot on location...
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1969. Draft script for the 1970 film. Liza Minnelli gives a strong, non-musical performance as a woman who has been disfigured by a vengeful boyfriend, and who finds comfort in a friendship with two other social outcasts. Nominated for the Palme d'Or. Shot on location in Massachusetts and California. Illustrated titled card wrappers, with a credit for...
![The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! [Police Squad] (Original screenplay for the 1988...](/pictures/thumb/144699.jpg?v=1560895272)
Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1987. Revised Draft script for the 1988 film, seen here under the title "Police Squad." Production designer John J. Lloyd's working copy, with his name and numerous notations on the front wrapper, and throughout the script. Based on the television show "Police Squad!" (1982), created by Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and David Zucker. The classic origins...
![The Outside Man [Une homme est mort] (Original screenplay for the 1972 film). Jacques Deray, Ian...](/pictures/thumb/144675.jpg?v=1560895270)
Beverly Hills, CA: Cite Films / Jacques Bar / United Artists, 1972. Draft French script for the 1972 neo-noir film. An international co-production, produced in France but shot entirely in English, directed by the noted French auteur Jacques Deray. Shot on location at many unusual decayed and shabby sites in the Los Angeles area, notably Venice Beach. Jean-Louis Tritignant stars...
N.p. Recorded Picture Company, 1978. Revised Draft British script for the 1978 film. Winner of the Prix de Jury at Cannes, and nominated for the Palme d'Or. Based on the short story by Robert Graves. Soundtrack by Michael Rutherford and Tony Banks of the progressive rock band Genesis. A quiet, chilling horror film with experimental leanings. Shot on location along the...
![Rue de Paris [Rue des Prairies] (Collection of 322 original photographs for the 1959 film). Denys...](/pictures/thumb/144663.jpg?v=1560892603)
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 the page, and in mimeograph on the verso, all credited...
Paris: Cinedis, 1961. Archive of 749 original black-and-white keybook still photographs from the 1961 French-Italian film. Over 200 are loose, the remainder being affixed with cello tape on thick stock in two folio "Lavis aquarelle" spiral bound notebooks with maroon faux leather front wrappers, one title label present. Each photo is numbered in holograph pencil on the versos, 13 photos...
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1969. Final Draft script for the 1970 film. After selling his original screenplay, Erich Segal was approached by Paramount to adapt his own work into a novel, to be published ahead of the film to help publicize it. The novel was an instant best seller, and the film became the highest grossing of the year, leading to...
New York City: Plymouth Theatre, 1954. Draft script for the 1954 play. With holograph notations throughout. The two-act play first opened on Broadway at the Plymouth Theatre on January 20, 1954 and ran for a total of 415 performances, closing January 22, 1955. Based on Wouk's 1951 Pulitzer Prize winning novel "The Caine Mutiny". A courtroom drama recounting second-in-command Steve Maryk's...
New York: Viking Press, 1938. First American Edition, preceding the UK edition by one month. In a three quarter black leather binding with red cloth, gilt spine titles, and new white endpapers. Black topstain. Near Fine condition. Probably the greatest of the author's "entertainments," basis for the highly underrated 1947 British film noir written for the screen by Greene and Terence...
Las Vegas: New Frontier Hotel, Circa 1950s. Original menu from the Venus Room in the New Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada, circa the mid-1950s. Designed by Saul Bass, with his name to the front panel. Likely an early Bass design, bearing striking resemblance to his billboard designs for the 1956 film "On the Threshold of Space." Originally built with...
N.p. N.p., 1957. Original slightly oversize borderless photograph of composer Darius Milhaud and actors Gerard Philipe, Francoise Arnoul, and Micheline Presle in San Francisco, 1957. With holograph notations on the verso. 12 x 8.5 inches (30.5 x 22 cm) Near Fine.
![The Magnificent Tramp [Archimede, le clochard] (Collection of 11 original photographs from the...](/pictures/thumb/144628.jpg?v=1560892597)
Paris: Intermondia Films / Pretoria / Cinedis, 1959. Collection of 11 original black-and-white single weight still photographs from the 1959 French-Italian film. Featuring Jean Gabin dancing gaily in a pub with costar Doll, and a photo of costar Cowl smoking a cigarette, with a single photo credited to photographer Dole on the recto, mimeograph number on the verso, showing a....
![The Magnificent Tramp [Archimede, le clochard] (Collection of 134 original photographs from the...](/pictures/thumb/144627.jpg?v=1560892593)
Paris: Intermondia Films / Pretoria / Cinedis, 1959. Collection of 134 original black-and-white single weight still photographs from the 1959 French-Italian film. Featuring Jean Gabin dancing gaily in pub with costar Doll, two photos of Gabin kicking a ball and in a manilla envelope addressed to "M. de La Maziere, and images of costar Cowl smoking a cigarette. Several photos...
New York: Janus Films, 1974. Draft script for the 1974 British film. A young man who has had a premonition of his death is called up to train and fight with the British forces during World War II, ultimately ending in his actual death in battle on D-Day. Shot in black and white on vintage Kodak film stock, with about half...
N.p. N.p., 1971. Vintage borderless photograph of writers James Baldwin and Jean Genet speaking at a press conference in defense of writer and activist George Jackson, on trial at the time, facing the death penalty, 1971. 12 x 8 inches (30.5 x 20.5 cm) Near Fine.
Paris: Filmsonor / Dear Film Produzione, 1962. Collection of 27 original borderless single weight black-and-white still photographs from the 1962 English-language film noir, an international co-production that was produced in France and Italy. Sophia Loren is featured extensively throughout, with other photos of Anthony Perkins and Gig Young. Based on an original idea by Andre Versini. Lisa (Loren) and her...
New York: Hotel Astor, 1936. Original lunch menu from the Times Square Hotel Astor in New York City, dated Wednesday October 7, 1936. The successor to the Astor family's Waldorf-Astoria hotel, an essential element of Times Square's growth into an entertainment location, and a widely-known bar for pickups, the Hotel Astor notably encouraged gay men to frequent the bar for pickups...
Los Angeles: American Film Institute [AFI], 1977. Collection of six vintage oversize borderless double weight photographs from the 1977 film. With agency stamps on the verso of five of the photographs and a label with the film's title in French and English affixed to the recto of four photographs at the lower left corner. David Lynch's first feature film. The AFI...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1975. Vintage photograph from the set of the 1975 film, showing Gene Wilder and Leo McKern in a bed together. Boldly and humorously INSCRIBED with a film quote by Wilder to McKern: "You a little tired?? XXX." Small holograph pencil snipe to the verso. Wilder's directorial debut from his own original script, a musical comedy about Sigerson...
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 a friend. Melville's final film. Shot on location in Paris...
Rome: Riama Film, 1960. Vintage oversize borderless double weight press photograph of Anouk Aimee from the 1960 film. With agency stamps on the verso. Fellini's most pivotal film, if not his finest. Unlike the more sentimental and abstract films that would follow, "La Dolce Vita" is an unflinching 7-day journey through 1960s Rome, with Mastroianni, a jaded journalist at the...
![The Madness of Dr. Tube [La Folie du Docteur Tube] (Two original photographs from the 1915 film)....](/pictures/thumb/144596.jpg?v=1544116790)
France: Le Film d'Art, 1915. Photograph from the 1915 French experimental short film, struck circa 1936. With holograph notations and agency stamps on the verso. Dr. Tube develops a powder that distorts reality after ingestion. He tests it out on himself, a dog, and a two couples. An early experimental film that uses distorted lenses and mirrors to create special...
N.p. N.p., 1970. Two vintage borderless photographs from a French screening of "Once Upon a Time in The West". One photograph depicts director and screenwriter Sergio Leone at the box office. 8.5 x 10.5 inches (22 x 27 cm) Near Fine.
Paris: N.p., 1972. Vintage photograph of Liza Minnelli and Romy Schneider in Paris, 1972. With holograph notations and an agency stamp on the verso. 10.5 x 8 inches (26.5 x 20.5 cm) Near Fine.
Munich: Bavaria Atelier, 1978. Vintage borderless photograph of Rainer Werner Fassbinder on the set of the 1978 film. With holograph notations on the verso. Based on the 1936 novel of the same name by Vladimir Nabokov. Herman Herman (Dirk Bograde), a Russian immigrant and Jewish business owner in Berlin is targeted by Nazis. While slowly loosing his mind he fixates...
N.p. N.p., 1981. Vintage photograph of William Burroughs and John Giorno at the Fifth International Convention of The Freudian Movement at The Plaza Hotel, New York, 1981. With a typed description on the verso. Giorno was an American poet and performance artist, best known for his early multimedia poetry experiments and events, including "Dial-A-Poem." He was also the subject of Andy.....
![Too Late to Love [Pourquoi viens-tu si tard...] (Collection of 370 original keybook still...](/pictures/thumb/144588.jpg?v=1560892586)
Paris: Ulysse Production / Cinedis, 1959. Collection of 370 original black-and-white keybook still photographs from the 1959 French film, consisting of two unique and complimentary pieces, one being a studio film still keybook with 97 contact prints of small format transparencies, most with 12 images per print, amounting to over 1,000 images captured, nearly all images with series number etched...
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 man!," and further annotated by Kean in holograph ink. The listing...
![Choice of Arms [Le Choix Des Armes] (Two original contact sheets from the 1981 film). Alain...](/pictures/thumb/144586.jpg?v=1544116787)
Paris: Sara Films, 1981. Two vintage contact sheets from the 1981 French film. With two holes punched into the left margin of each. Noel (Yves Montand), a retired gangster living on a large estate outside Paris with his wife Nicole (Catherine Deneuve) is met by two fugitives, one is Serge (Pierre Forget), an old accomplice who is dying from a....
![The Phantom Of Liberty [Le fantome de la liberte] (Original photograph from the set of the 1974...](/pictures/thumb/144583.jpg?v=1544116786)
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1974. Vintage borderless photograph of Luis Bunuel, Julien Bertheau, and Michel Piccoli on the set of the 1974 film. With holograph notations on the verso. A nonlinear surrealist comedy that challenges bourgeois notions of morality. 9.5 x 6.25 inches (24 x 16 cm). Near Fine. Criterion Collection 290. Rosenbaum 1000.
N.p. N.p., circa 1950. Vintage photograph of director Joseph L. Mankiewicz and producer Darryl F. Zanuck, circa 1950. Mimeo snipe with holograph notations and agency stamp on the verso. Joseph L. Mankiewicz holds a copy of the 1941 novel "The Keys of The Kingdom" by A.J. Cronin which he adapted for the screen in 1944. Mankiewicz and Zanuck worked together on...
Los Angeles: Carolco International N. V., 1987. Vintage photograph of Alan Parker and Mickey Rourke on the set of the 1987 film, sporting the fashions of the day. With holograph notations and agency stamp on the verso. Private detective Harold Angel (Mickey Rourke) is hired by a mysterious Louis Cyphre (Robert De Niro) to track down the whereabouts of a....
![Monsieur Hulot's Holiday [Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot] (Original photograph from the 1953...](/pictures/thumb/144577.jpg?v=1544116784)
France: Discina films, 1954. Vintage borderless photograph of Jaques Tati while on a promotional tour for the 1953 film. Blue mimeo snipe on verso. The film that introduced Jacques Tati's bumbling and hilarious Monsieur Hulot to the world. The first of five films featuring the Monsieur Hulot character. Nominated for an Academy Award. Shot on location on the coast of France...
![Experiment In Evil [Le testament de Docteur Cordelier] (Original photograph from the 1959 film)....](/pictures/thumb/144576.jpg?v=1544116784)
France: Radio-Television Francaise (RTF), 1959. Vintage photograph of Jean Renoir and members of the crew on the set of the 1959 film. With holograph notations 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 on French television and an...
Germany: Nero-Film AG, 1932. Vintage double weight press photograph of Brigitte Helm for the 1932 film. With holograph notations on the verso. Based on the 1919 novel "L'Atlantide" by French writer Pierre Benoit, and a remake of the 1921 film of the same name by Jacques Feyder. The film was shot in French, German, and English, each version starring Brigitte Helm...
Rome: Lux Film, 1962. Two vintage borderless photographs of director Francesco Rosi on the set of the 1962 film. With holograph notations and photographer Patrick Morin's rubber stamp on the verso of each. Based on the crimes and confidants of Italian bandit Salvatore Giuliano (played by Cammarata), who rose to prominence within the Mafia after the 1943 Allied invasion of...
Paris: Gaumont, 1983. Two vintage borderless photographs of director Andrzej Wajda on the set of the 1983 Polish-French film. With holograph notations on the verso. Based on the 1929 play "The Danton Case" by Polish writer Stanislawa Przybyszewska. Set in 1793, Georges Danton has returned to Paris from his solitary residence in the countryside just as the Committee for Public...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1955. Vintage photograph of director Joseph L. Mankiewicz and dancer Carey Leverette on the set of the 1955 film. With printed description and holograph notations on the verso. Based on the 1950 Broadway musical, in turn based on the short stories "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" and "Blood Pressure" by Damon Runyon. Nominated for...
N.p. N.p., circa 1970. Vintage double weight photograph of cartoonist Charles Schulz holding a copy of his 1973 collection of Peanuts comics titled, "Thompson is in Trouble", circa 1973. With holograph notations and a stamp crediting photographer Gardy Weickert on the verso. 8 x 10 inches (20.5 x 25.5 cm). Near Fine.
West Germany: Rhombus Film, 1952. Two vintage photographs of Zarah Leander on the set of the 1952 film. With holograph notations on the verso. Based on the 1952 novel by Tibor Yost. The second role in Zarah Leander's 1950s comeback after her career as a major star during the Nazi era 7 x 5 inches (17.75 x 12.7 cm). Near Fine.
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Paris: Fida Cinematografica, 1970. Vintage borderless photograph of director Claude Sautet on the set of the 1970 French-Italian film. With holograph notations on the verso. Based on the 1967 novel "Intersections" by Paul Guimard, who also worked on the screenplay. Nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes, and remade in 1994 as "Intersection," directed by Mark Rydell and starring Richard...
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Los Angeles: Essex Productions, 1979. Final Draft script for the 1984 horror film. Copy belonging to makeup artist John Carl Buechler, with his name in holograph ink on the title page and two Polaroid photographs laid in. Six friends are stalked and murdered while on a camping trip. Shot on location in Idyllwild, California. Green titled wrappers. Title page present...
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Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1974. Vintage borderless photograph of Luis Bunuel, Pierre Lary, Jean Rochefort, and Julien Bertheau on the set of the 1974 film. With holograph notations on the verso. A non-linear surrealist comedy that challenges bourgeois notions of morality. 9.5 x 17.75 inches (24 x 25.5 cm). Near Fine. Criterion Collection 290. Rosenbaum 1000. Weldon 1996.
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 notations and agency stamps on the verso of each. Perhaps Scorsese's most underrated film, "The King of Comedy" is a brilliant study of celebrity worship and American media culture by way of an...
N.p. N.p., 1959. Vintage photograph of Francois Truffaut, Jean Cocteau, Jean-Pierre Leaud, and others at the 1959 Cannes Film Festival. With holograph notations and agency stamps on the verso. Francois Truffaut won the award at the 1959 festival for best director for his film "400 Blows". 5 x 7 inches (12.7 x 17.7 cm) Near Fine.
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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 photographs (though the stills are not included with the manual)...
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Paris: C.A.P.A.C., 1962. Collection of four vintage photographs from the 1962 French comedy film. With holograph notations on the verso of each. Pierre (Pierre Etaix) follows his parents wishes to get married, but rather than romancing Laurence (Laurence Lignieres), the upbeat woman next door who has taken a liking to him, he yearns for Stella (France Arnel), a famous singer.....
Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1966. Vintage photograph from the 1966 film. With holograph notations on the verso. Rooks' first film, a semi-autobiographical account of a man who travels to France to undergo a drug-withdrawal cure. With cameos by a virtual who's-who of counterculture figures of the time, including Allen Ginsberg (as "Messiah"), William S. Burroughs (as "Opium Jones"), Ravi Shankar...
Hollywood: Malabar, 1962. Vintage borderless photograph from the 1962 film. With holograph notations and agency stamp on the verso. A group of hunters track and capture wild animals for a zoo, their job complicated by the arrival of a photojournalist. The film's scenes of animal capture, which consisted of chasing them down in jeeps until exhausted, were performed live, with...
Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1969. Collection of six vintage oversize borderless photographs from the 1969 British film. With holograph notations and an agency stamp on the verso of each. One of the best heist films of the twentieth century: funny, complex, and altogether beautiful to watch. Michael Caine and Noel Coward bring the erudite and the cockney together to make...
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Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1959. Early Draft script, consisting of mixed thermofax printing and ribbon copy typescript, for the 1960 film. One of the most well-loved, classic heist films, "Ocean's Eleven" is the quintessential Rat Pack picture, in which a group of World War II veterans attempts a series of high-profile casino robberies in Las Vegas on New Year's Eve. Steven...
N.p. N.p., 1955. Vintage borderless photograph of director Julien Duvivier in Saint-Tropez, France, 1955. Mimeo snipe and an agency stamp on the verso. 5 x 7 inches (12.7 x 17.75 cm) Near Fine.