Washignton, DC: National Clearinghouse for Drug Abuse Information, 1971. Collection of four pamphlets issued by the National Clearinghouse for Drug Abuse Information in conjunction with the US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare containing medical, societal, and legal information on the following drugs: marijuana (here written "marihuana"), LSD, narcotics (opiates), and sedatives. Illustrated in a bright, psychedelic style typical for.....

Chicago: Motion Picture Exhibitors League of America, 1912. Vintage program for the Second National Convention of the Motion Pictures Exhibitors League of America, held in Chicago from August 13-17, 1912. Photo-illustrated throughout with portraits of members, as well as numerous period advertisements, including ones for films, projectors, and other material for movie theatres. Rare, with no copies in OCLC.9 x......

London: J.M. Dent and Sons, 1928. First Edition. Publisher's file copy, with a label marking it as such tipped-in to the front pastedown, and blindstamped "FILE COPY" on the front flyleaf.Basis for the 1946 film noir directed by Robert Florey and starring Peter Lorre, Victor Francen, Andrea King, and Robert Alda.Near Fine, lacking the scarce dust jacket. Spine faintly faded.....

New York: Exposition Press, 1960. First Edition. Review copy with publisher's prospectus laid in. Rare, this being the only copy we have ever encountered. A crime novel about a Black man whose "passion for light-complexioned women leads him to destruction." According to the jacket copy, Cunningham is also the author of what is "believed to be the world's longest letter.".....

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1971. Vintage US silkscreen banner poster for the 1971 film. Based on Frank Pierson's 1970 novel, about an ex-con who initiates a cascade of chaos when he decides to rob his upscale apartment building. Actor Christopher Walken's feature film debut, as well as a breakthrough role for Sean Connery, who was previously stuck being typecast.....

Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1973. Vintage US silkscreen banner poster for the 1973 film.George Roy Hill again enlists Paul Newman and Robert Redford as his leads, following his 1969 hit "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," with an even greater success.Jaunty tale of two confidence men taking a crime boss in for the long con in revenge for the murder.....

Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1973. Vintage US silkscreen banner poster for the 1973 film. Based on Frederick Forsyth's 1971 novel about the titular professional assassin hired by a militant French underground organization to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle. Set in and shot on location in Paris, Versailles and Hautes-Alpes. 82 x 24 inches (208 x 61 cm). Rolled. Very.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1960s, 1980s. Draft script and Second Rough Draft for an unproduced, English-language film, circa 1960s and 1980s, about the life of St. Martin de Porres. Laid in one of the scripts is a typed note identifying Martin as the subject of the script and noting the date of his canonization. Although the scripts appear to have been.....

Rocca di San Casciano, Italy: Cappelli, 1964. First Edition. Text in Italian.The screenplay and affiliated commentary for the 1960 film, illustrated with black and white film stills and production photographs. Very Good plus in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Light foxing to the top page edge, with light soil and creasing to the front endpapers, with a vintage bookseller's.....

Rocca di San Casciano, Italy: Cappelli, 1960. First Edition. Text in Italian.The screenplay and affiliated commentary for the 1960 film, illustrated with black and white film stills and production photographs.Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Slightly bowed boards, with light soil to the endpapers and a vintage bookseller's price sticker to the rear pastedown. Jacket is lightly faded.....

London: George Allen and Unwin, 1952. First UK Edition, preceding all others. Tremendous association copy, INSCRIBED by author and director Lindsay Anderson to noted Czech-British filmmaker Karel Reisz, with a quote from the film: "Karel and Julia / from Lindsay / Woman: as a warning / Louis: as a lesson / Secret People E. 13". A remarkable and extremely detailed.....

Springfield, MA: Willey, 1891. First Edition. Rare. A contemporary history of African-American newspapers, with chapters on various presses, beginning in 1827 and continuing through the book's publication, over 70 biographical sketches of editors and journalists, including a separate chapter dedicated to African American woman journalists, and essays on the state of the Black press and its relationship to "Anglo-Saxon" newspapers.....

New York: Skateman Industries, 1979. Promotional booklet for a film version of Neal Adams' original character Skateman, distributed prior to the publication of the 1983 comic book of the same name. The internally produced booklet estimates audience appeal and net gross for a feature film, and proposes a number of multimedia franchise spin-offs, including a television series, record contract, and.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1968. Treatment script for the 1968 Italian film, here under the working title "Tenderly." With a label for the Paul Kohner casting agency to the first leaf, and a single holograph ink annotation to the title page. Text in English.After 15 years apart, a neurotic doctor reconnects with his childhood sweetheart, a free-spirited young woman. Set in.....

Hollywood: Apatow Productions, 2007. Producer's archive for the 2007 comedy, including extensive production schedules, props lists, and set and wardrobe files. Also included is a final cast, crew, and contacts list, dated May 18, 2007, bound separately with black coil binding.A childhood tragedy leads musician Dewey Cox up the ladder to stardom, cycling through nearly every musical genre imaginable on.....

N.p. N.p., 1978. Draft script for the 1985 film. Text in English.Based on the 1960 German novel, wherein a crew of bored sailors stationed on a floating lighthouse must suddenly fight to defend their vessel from a criminal trio seeking to overtake the ship. An early draft of the script, written seven years before the film's release.Set and shot on.....

Munich: Terrafilm, Circa 1977. Draft script for an unproduced film, original ribbon copy typescript. Laid in with the script is a two-page typed letter addressed to casting agent Paul Kohner from Terra Film producer Lothar H. Krischer and director Karoly Makk, with holograph ink annotations to the first page. Also included is a telegraph from Krischer to Kohner introducing the.....

Los Angeles: Toonerville Films, 1977. Archive of two scripts for the 1978 film belonging to the film's editor Lou Lombardo. First script:Fifth revision draft script for the 1978 film, here under the working title(s) of "'The Adventures of Pedro and Man' or 'Cheech and Chong's Greatest Hits,'" in leather presentation binding belonging to producer and supervising editor Lou Lombardo with.....

N.p. N.p., 1984. Revised Second Draft script for the 1985 "American Playhouse" episode, originally aired on PBS on January 21, 1985. Based on the 1937 novel of the same name. A Swedish stranger arrives at a small family-run dairy farm out of the blue, asking for work, promising strong effort in exchange for very little pay. While the family is.....

Burbank, CA: Walt Disney Productions, 1957-1959. Collection of 288 vintage contact sheets and 3 photographs from the 1957 to 1959 ABC television series from Walt Disney Productions. The contact sheets contain nearly 3000 stills and on the set shots from the television series. The three full sheet photos are locations, 2 interiors of a church and 1 of a courtyard.By.....

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1991. Shooting script for the 1992 film. With rainbow revisions throughout.Two broke basketball hustlers--one black, one white--throw down on the court, eventually deciding to team up and growing to understand each other in spite of their differences.Set and shot in Los Angeles, California.Red titled wrappers. Title page present, dated 5-13-91, noted as Shooting Draft, with credits.....

Burbank, CA: NBC Television Network, 1951-1959. Collection of 35 vintage contact sheets from the 1951 to 1959 NBC television series. Stills as well as on the set shots of Jack Webb and Ben Alexander as well as a host of supporting actors.The well loved early police drama created by and starring Jack Webb as Sgt. Joe Friday. Origin for the.....

N.p. N.p., Unknown. Partial Draft script for an unproduced film by noted screenwriter Earl Felton. With a few holograph ink annotations, likely by Felton. Incomplete as issued, housed in a custom spring binder with Earl Felton's name embossed in gilt at the bottom right corner of the front board.The prodigal son of a rancher comes home to take over the.....

Los Angeles: Jerry Merton Productions, Unknown. Draft script for an unproduced film. With a small holograph ink annotation to the front wrapper reading "# 40".Based on popular Western writer Zane Grey's 1923 short story about a prospector who finally strikes gold, attributing the fortune to his lucky mule Jenet.Set in the American Southwest. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present, with.....

N.p. N.p., circa 1925. Vintage double weight photograph of New Haven's Olympia Theatre, circa 1925 with "Vincent Studio" in print on lower right. The Olympia Theatre, located at 140-144 Temple Street in New Haven, Connecticut, opened on September 13, 1915, seated 2,373 and was equipped with a Wurlitzer theatre pipe organ. It changed it's name when purchased by Paramount Studios.....

Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1944. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1944 film of a pensive Charles Laughton and Ella Raines with director Robert Siodmak. Mimeo snipe on the verso. One of the great noirs of the early 1940s, a high point for actor Charles Laughton and the third of a trilogy of masterpieces by Robert Siodmak (beginning with "Phantom.....

Burbank, CA: Walt Disney Productions, 1973. Production bible and Revised Final script for the 1974 film belonging to an unknown crew member. Housed in a hand painted "Island at the Top of the World" cloth 3 ring binder with plastic dividers between documents. Script contains copious annotations throughout, primarily dialogue changes, adjustments and strikes, and occasionally timing notes. The script.....

Burbank, CA: Walt Disney Productions, 1969. Revised Treatment for an unproduced film. An extensive, 95 page treatment for an unproduced animated Disney feature, "Scruffy," "Prod. 7282" and "March 31, 1969" printed on the front wrapper, with "Prod. 7282 - 3/25/69" on upper right of all numbered leaves. Written by the screenwriting team of William Raynor and Myles Wilder, who worked.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1941. Two vintage oversize borderless double weight speciall photographs from the set of the 1941 film, shot, struck, and mounted on board by MGM photographer Bert Lynch. Both are signed by Lynch in holograph pencil just below the bottom right edge of the respective photographs. Both feature Nelson Eddy and Rise Stevens, with Eddy in.....

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1963. Revised Draft script for the 1964 film. With a few holograph pencil annotations throughout, mostly relating to line revisions and props. Based on the 1959 French play by Jean Anouilh. King Henry II's malcontent relationship with the Church leads to the appointment of his close friend Thomas Becket as the Archbishop of Canterbury. Henry does not.....

[unknown]: Brut Productions, 1975. Revised Draft script for the 1975 television film, here under the working title "Welcome to Xanadu," which originally aired on ABC on October 10, 1975. Copy belonging to an unknown crew member, with holograph ink annotations to the front wrapper and title page.Based on the 1968 novel "Welcome to Xanadu" by Nathaniel Benchley. A fugitive mental.....

New York: Westerly Disco, 1997. First Draft script for the 1998 film, the third in director Whit Stillman's trilogy involving upper-crust Upper East Side intellectuals and their woes in the 1970s and 1980s.Based largely on Stillman's experiences in various Manhattan nightclubs in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Two young publishing house assistants living in New York in the early.....

New York: Challenger Productions, 1965. Ribbon copy typescript of a Preliminary Treatment script for an unproduced film. The manuscript does not name the author, however, we can reasonably presume this is Robert Newman's known treatment for Isak Dinesen's "Seven Gothic Tales," under the title "The Gothic Tales," which we have offered once in the past, with that copy having a......

Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1981. Final draft script for the 1982 film, with annotations in holograph ink striking dialogue on 3 pages.Jerry Belson's cocaine fueled spoof on Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 novella, "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde," could have only been made in the early 1980's. With tag lines like, "They told Dr. Jekyll to take his.....

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927. First Edition. Very Good plus in a Very Good plus price-clipped dust jacket. Vintage bookstore label to the front pastedown. Boards slightly bowed, with light dampstaining to the fore edge of the page block. Jacket is lightly soiled overall, with a few splashes and a one-inch closed tear to the front panel.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1936. First Edition. An anecdotal history of the exploits of Governor Thomas Crittenden, best known for his role in the successful capture of the outlaws Frank and Jesse James.Near Fine in a Good dust jacket. Slight lean, light soil to the bottom page edge. Jacket chipped to the extremities, with a portion of "THE" on.....

Hollywood: Allied Artists Productions, 1956. Draft script for the 1957 film noir, here under the working title "Night Target." A strike through the printed title and "Footsteps in the Night" and "1956" written in holographic ink on the wrapper with the name of an uncredited crew member written in holograph pencil on upper right of wrapper.The final of five Los.....

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1981. Draft script for the 1981 film. Script belonging to sound mixer Les Lazarowitz, with his name in holograph ink on the title page, and three pages of annotations in holograph marker and ink with reference to sound work laid in. Also laid in is a separate Sound EFX Breakdown with sections underlined in holograph.....

New York: Vanguard, 1942. First Edition. SIGNED by author to the front endpaper.Very Good plus in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Slight spine lean, boards lightly soiled to the edges, with foxing to the endpapers. Jacket soiled and lightly toned, with a single small hole to the jacket's rear flap fold.

N.p. Mid Century Films, 1951. Vintage post-production script for the 1951 film, trimmed at two edges and in a later supplied wrapper. A mysterious planet is on a collision course with earth when an extraterrestrial visits scientists stationed on a remote Scottish island.Yellow titled wrapper, supplied later. Title page present, dated September, 1951. 47 leaves, with last page of text.....

New York: William Morrow, 1940. First American Edition, preceded by the UK edition published by Heinemann the same year.Basis for the 1949 film of the same name, directed by Ken Annakin and starring Michael Denison.Near Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Tap to the lower front corner. Faint foxing to the edges of the jacket flaps, with light.....

London: William Heinemann, 1953. First UK Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the title page: "For Winifred Bowing / with every good wish / from / Nevil Shute Norway."Near Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Jacket lightly toned to the spine, flap folds, and tops of the flaps, but complete without any major tears or chips.

Burbank, CA: Walt Disney Productions, 1955. Draft script for the 1956 film, here under the working title "Children of the Covered Wagon." Walt Disney's working copy, with "Walt Disney," in holograph ink on upper left margin of Walt Disney Productions label on the front wrapper (not in Disney's hand), and annotations in red, blue and graphite holograph pencil throughout, all.....

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1968. First Edition. INSCRIBED on the half-title page in black ink by Nabokov: "For David Shaw / from Vladimir Nabokov / [butterfly drawing] / Montreux / June 5, 1969."Copy belonging to screenwriter David Shaw, with his ownership name to the right of Nabokov's inscription, and his extensive annotations in preparation for writing the screenplay throughout. The annotations.....

N.p. N.p., 1996. Master Revised Script for the 1997 film. "#128" in holograph ink on top right of front wrapper.The art of the con propels a few of screenwriter and director David Mamet's classic neo-noir films, notably "House of Games" (1987), "The Spanish Prisoner" (1997), and "Heist" (2001). "The Spanish Prisoner " is Mamet's most labyrinthine confidence game of corporate.....

New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1927. First Edition. First issue, with "Cantry" at the spine title of the book's backstrip.Basis for the 1960 film starring Burt Lancaster and Jean Simmons, and directed by Richard Brooks. One of Lewis' most popular novels, and one that created an uproar among the religious evangelical communities that it satirizes. It stands among "Main Street," "Babbitt,".....

New York: Harper and Row, 1963. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper: "For David Nottman / Larry McMurtry." Jacket is bright and clean but for some light soil to the rear panel, and has the publisher's $4.95 price rubber stamped in red at the bottom of the front flap. Basis for the 1974 film Lovin' Molly.....

N.p. N.p., 1976. Archive of six autograph letters signed and one typed letter signed from Kathy Acker to fellow experimental novelist Rudolph Wurlitzer, twenty five pages total, undated, but written during the first half of 1976 based on dates mentioned in the body of one of the letters. From the collection of Rudolph Wurlitzer, with provenance. Acker and Wurlitzer were.....

Burbank, CA: Walt Disney Productions, 1954. Final Shooting Script for the 1954 film, with blue, yellow, and green revisions throughout. Based on the 1870 novel "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" by Jules Verne. Walt Disney's "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" was one of the most expensive and ambitious productions of its time. A 200 foot submarine, a 225 pound.....

N.p. Flag Films, 1945. Two vintage oversize double weight studio still photographs from the 1945 film. Two Cinemagence stamps on verso of each photograph. The marriage of two young lovers, Bernard (Georges Marchal) and Claire (Michelie Presle), is thwarted because of a feud between their parents (over whether or not Bernard's great-great-grandmother slept with the Emperor). Bernard's father thinks the.....