N.p. N.p., Circa 1960s. Archive of 62 vernacular photographs, likely taken by an American GI stationed on a US base in postwar Germany, with 57 of those photographs depicting a fascination with Volkswagen Type 1 Beetle cars that borders on obsession.At least three different Beetles are depicted in the collection, including a myriad of artfully-shot close-up's of body damage, interiors...

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1960. Final Shooting script for the 1960 film. Loosely based on the 1912 novel by Arthur Conan Doyle, a team of scientists, led by Professor Challenger (Claude Rains), launch an expedition into a remote plateau in the Amazonian jungle in search of dinosaurs. Initially intended by director Irwin Allen to be a star studded blockbuster in...

N.p. Platinum Associates, 1985. Draft script for the 1987 adult film, circa 1985. Screenwriter and star Seka’s working copy, with “Seka’s Personal Script used on th [sic] set / c. 1984-85” in holograph ink on the front wrapper, her passages highlighted in holograph yellow ink, and notations in holograph ink and pencil throughout. Director Richard Pacheco’s initials “DHP” on nearly.....

Englewood, NJ: The As Stable Publications, 1926. First Edition. One of 300 copies published (this being No. 172). An early play by Hemingway, extremely scarce, particularly in this condition and including the envelope.Near Fine in sewn wrappers, original mailing envelope (also Near Fine) and a handsome folding clamshell case with gilt spine lettering. Hanneman A5.

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1958. Final script for the 1959 film. Based on the 1958 novel by Oakley Hall. A key revisionist Western from the cycle that began in the mid-1950s and continues to the present. A mean-spirited, Wyatt Earp-like frontier marshal, Fonda agrees to protect the small town of Warlock from an outlaw gang, but only if he's permitted...

Buenos Aires: Argentina Sono Film, 1952. Original program for the 1952 Danish release of the film. Based on Richard Wright's 1940 novel, and with numerous images of the author, who plays the lead role in the film. Text in Danish.In a move that placed him in a category with Mickey Spillane, Richard Wright accepted an offer to star as leading...

Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1977. First Draft script for the 1979 film, here under the working title "The Windsor Project." Toxic environmental waste creates a mutant bear that terrorizes the Maine countryside. Set in Maine, shot on location in Crofton, British Columbia. Black titled wrappers. Title page present, dated 12/25/77, noted as First Draft, with credits for screenwriter David Seltzer...

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...

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 the 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, with his name in gilt on the front board. A woman breaks off her engagement with her fiance when he becomes violent after she has an abortion, only to be stalked by him when she later has a child with her new husband. An...

Buenos Aires: Argentina Sono Film, 1951. Original lobby card for the 1951 film. Based on Richard Wright's 1940 novel. Rare. In a move that placed him in a category with Mickey Spillane, Richard Wright accepted an offer to star as leading man in a film based on the primary character in his own novel. Wright was cast after initial choice...

Boston: Self published, 1902. Collection of 8 original dry plate glass negatives featuring images of Boston and New York area trolleys, circa 1902-1914 but developed shortly after, shot and struck by photographer Paul W. Rowell, with his last name in holograph pencil on a few of the accompanying manila envelopes. Each slide with identifying notations etched prior to development, and...

Los Angeles: George Barris - Irwin Schaeffer Production, 1978. Revised Draft script for the 1978 film. Copy belonging to writer George Barris, with his name in holograph ink on the title page, holograph notations and paper clip page markers throughout. A sleazy nightclub owner tries to help the comeback of a young disco star.Shot on location in Los Angeles, California...

N.p. N.p., 1966. Notebook belonging to an unknown pharmacist detailing the pharmacy's on hand stock of amphetamines, barbiturates, tranquilizers, and other drugs which contained one or more of those in combination, and noted "effective Feb. 1 - 1966." Also noted is that the inventory was compiled in accordance with recently passed Drug Abuse Control Amendment Act of 1965, which, in...

New York: Robert M McBride, 1926. Second printing. INSCRIBED by the author to Roland Young, who played Cosmo Topper in the legendary 1937 screwball comedy (as well as its two sequels): "To Roland Young: The most disarming "gentleman Johnnie" that ever advanced the lines of G.B.S. [George Bernard Shaw]. From Thorne Smith." Roland Young's bookplate is opposite the inscription on...

Boston: Little, Brown, 1929. First American Edition, preceded by the German Edition and the UK edition. Playwright and screenwriter Sidney Howard's copy, signed by him on the front endpaper in holograph pencil, and with his brief notations throughout in holograph pencil, including lengthy, mostly illegible notes on the rear endpapers. Basis for the Academy Award winning 1930 film directed by...

Culver City, CA: Associated Producers Inc., 1959. Draft script for the 1959 film. Sequel to Kurt Neumann's "The Fly," and taking place one year after the conclusion of that film. Phillipe Delambre (Brett Halsey) takes up his father's work of matter transmission, and with his uncle Francois (Vincent Price) they accidentally produce a monstrous creature, a man with the head...

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...

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1955. First Edition, first printing. The first collection of these Chandler short stories in hardcover, no US equivalent. Light bump to the heel, and very faint speckling to the spine panel, else Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket. A lovely copy.

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...

Universal City: Universal, 1983. Archive of three scripts for the 1983 film, including a Second Draft, Third Draft, and Revised Final Draft, with the Second and Third Draft scripts appearing under the working title "Capitol Cab." Scripts belonging to producer Cassius Weathersby, with his name on the cover sheet for revision pages dated 5/16/83 laid into the Revised Final script...

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...

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: Petersham Pictures / United Artists, 1966. Draft British 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...

Universal City: Dreamworks, 2007. Draft rainbow revision script for the 2008 film. Copy belonging to Second Unit Clearance Coordinator Ashley Kravitz, her name in holograph pencil on an included one line schedule. Included are eight revision pages differing from those in script, two different one line schedules, and other ephemera relating to production. One of the best comedies of the...

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: 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: 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: Macmillan, 1965. First Edition. Fine in a bright, Near Fine dust jacket. INSCRIBED by Josef Von Sternberg on the front endpaper to Philip Scheuer, Los Angeles Times film critic: "To Phil - / from Jo / with affection." The brilliant director's personal summary of his extremely chaotic ride through the Hollywood machine, including vivid and interesting accounts of...

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...

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...

US: Clasa-Mohme / Azteca Films, 1955-1980. Collection of 67 vintage Mexican lobby cards for films released between 1955-1980. Included are lobby cards for 61 Mexican films or co-productions, and 6 international Spanish language films released in Mexico, all of which were distributed by either Clasa-Mohme or Azteca Films. Cards are full color and universally bright, illustrated or photo-illustrated, each with...

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...

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...

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1946. Third Draft script for the 1949 film. Based on the 1933 film, which in turn was based on the 1868 novel by Louisa May Alcott. An early David O. Selznick production script for the film, which was canceled due to a studio strike, and which would later be purchased by M-G-M and created with...

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.....

Los Angeles: New World Pictures, 1977. Draft script for the 1977 film. Photocopied and cobbled together during production for used by actress Elizabeth Rogers (who played Priscilla in the film), with her name in holograph ink on the title page and holograph notations in ink and pencil throughout.Ron Howard's directorial debut, made during his brief tutelage under Roger Corman. Young...

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...

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1941. Vintage photograph of director Fritz Lang and stars Joan Bennett and Walter Pidgeon on the set of the 1941 film. With a mimeo snipe on the verso and two punch holes in the left margin. Based on the 1939 novel "Rogue Male" by Geoffrey Household. The first of Fritz Lang's ant-Nazi films after he fled...

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...

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.

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1967. 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 best wishes...

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: "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: Ecco, 1981. First Edition. First issue, with publisher's price of $14.95 present at the top right corner of the front flap. The author's first collection of stories, and his first book published in the US. A lovely copy, and one of only a handful of first issue examples we have encountered. INSCRIBED by Wolff to fellow author Chris...