London: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1964. Final Shooting script for the 1965 UK film. Included is a vintage color studio still from the UK release of the film. A British newspaper offers a prize to the winner of a cross-channel air race, bringing aviators from around the world to compete for the chance at victory, grabbing the attention of various women. Gert...
New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1928. First Photoplay Edition. Photo-illustrated with eight film stills. Based on the 1928 silent film, four men who volunteer as fighter pilots for the Layfette Escadrille during World War I, directed by William A. Wellman, and starring Gary Cooper and Faye Wray. The film is now considered lost. Very Good plus in a Very Good...
New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1928. First Photoplay Edition. Photo-illustrated with eight film stills. Based on the 1928 silent film, four men who volunteer as fighter pilots for the Layfette Escadrille during World War I, directed by William A. Wellman, and starring Gary Cooper and Faye Wray. The film is now considered lost. Slight lean, else Near Fine in a....
New York: Bonhams Auctions, 2017. Mild bump to one corner, else Fine and unread in illustrated wrappers. Perfect bound. Illustrated profusely in color throughout. Includes collectibles and items from throughout the early US space program.
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1940. Draft script for the 1940 film. Nominated for an Academy Award. A young hotshot pilot joins an elite flying squadron and has to prove himself to his commanding officer and fellow pilots by taking on a dangerous mission. Made with the cooperation of the US Navy, who lent a real life squadron to the...
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1940. Continuity and Dialogue Script for the 1939 film. A skilled pilot falsely accused of having crashed a civilian transport airplane tries to maintain his honor at an Alaskan air hangar while attempting to clear his name. White wrappers, noted as production No. 1098, dated December 9, 1940, with credits for Anne Nagel, William Lundigan...
Berlin: Deutsche Film Hansa, Circa 1959. Vintage borderless black-and-white press photograph of demure Maria Perschy on the set of the 1959 West German film. Copyright rubber stamp, and notations in holograph pencil, on the verso. The daughter (Perschy) of a traffic cop (Erhardt) falls in love with a race-car driver (Schumann). Perschy made her first Hollywood film in 1962, in...
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1934. Final script for the 1935 film. Presentation copy belonging to screenwriter Partos, bound in red leather with gilt titles. An early Cary Grant picture, in which he plays a pilot who goes blind just as he is perfecting an autopilot system for use on planes. He is deeply affected by the loss of his vision, and...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1959. Vintage US one-sheet poster for the 1959 film. "Quebec Bureau de censure du cinema" rubber stamp. Notation in holograph pencil on the verso. Logan (Brodie) is an alcoholic Korean War veteran who experiences an emotional breakdown after a flight simulation. He overcomes his setbacks and becomes instrumental in the launch of a new fighter jet...
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1992. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket.
Hollywood: RKO Radio Pictures, 1940. Vintage US insert poster for the 1940 film. A disgraced alcoholic pilot regains his honor by helping a company to develop a new type of aircraft wing. Nathaniel West's final screenplay before his death. 36 x 14 inches (91.5 x 35.5 cm), folded. Very Good, with pinhole tears and short closed tears at the extremities...
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1955. Draft script for the 1955 film. A crew of Air Force soldiers are called in for a difficult bombing mission on the border of Manchuria and North Korea, and while the mission is successful in the end it takes a hefty toll on the group. White untitled wrappers. Title page present, with credits for...
London: London Weekend Television, 1981. Draft camera script for the 1982 episode "Hands Across the Sea," from the British miniseries "We'll Meet Again." Copy belonging to make-up artist Teresa Kelly, with a sheet of her notes about each character's makeup laid in. The series follows the goings-on of a British air base when a group of American airmen take over...
Paris: Hachette, 1919. First Edition. Inscribed by the author on the verso of the first blank. Very Good in illustrated boards. Hinges cracked, binding loose, with mild soil to the boards and rubbing at the extremities. A humorous cartoon book, based on World War I aviation adventures and stories, told from JeanJean’s unique perspective. Text in French.
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1985. Collection of four vintage studio still photographs from the 1985 television re-release. A brilliant yet socially awkward aeronautical engineer predicts that the newest airplane model, the Raindeer, will break up mid-flight after reaching 1,440 hours of use due to accumulated stress. The engineer, Theodore Honey (played by James Stewart), tries desperately to prove his prediction...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1951. Vintage US one sheet poster for the 1951 US film. A brilliant yet socially awkward aeronautical engineer predicts that the newest airplane model, the Raindeer, will break up mid-flight after reaching 1,440 hours of use due to accumulated stress. The engineer, Theodore Honey (played by James Stewart), tries desperately to prove his prediction and alert...
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1933. Final Script for the 1933 film. A pregnant woman (played by Ann Harding) whose husband dies in a plane crash gives her newborn son up for adoption to prevent him from growing up in a broken home. When the adoptive mother dies six years later, Harding attempts to rebuild a relationship with the boy...
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1940. Continuity and Dialogue Script for the 1941 film. A pair of lucky newsreel reporters are told that footage they've made of a new dam is going to be used by two foreign saboteurs in order to destroy the dam, at which point the reporters would be held responsible. The duo must then outsmart the...
New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1944. First Edition. A fictitious account of a young couple's dangerous flight over the Alps, based on Mrs. Lindbergh's own experiences with her husband. Near Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Light foxing to the top page edges, and offsetting to the rear endpapers. Jacket is bright but for toning to the spine and...
Beverly Hills, CA: Keller Photo, circa early 1970s. Vintage black-and-white double weight candid photograph of Charles Lindbergh, undated but would appear to have been taken at a function in California in the early 1970s. With the rubber stamp of the Keller Photo Agency of Beverly Hills on the verso, with a reference number stamped in red. 8 x 10 inches...
Marietta, GA: Deeds Publishing, 2010. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page, and initialed on the author's blindstamp. Additionally INSCRIBED by the author on the half-title page: "To Linda / This comes highly recommended by our buddy Phil. He suggested that you call Paramount before Warner gets it. Come fly with us and enjoy! / C.K. McCusker...
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1962. Master revised typescript for the 1963 film. Likely belonging to producer Robert Arthur, with "Mr. Arthur" and "Master Copy" in blue and black holograph ink to the front wrapper respectively, likely unique or one of only a handful made prior to mimeograph issue. In 1944, Capt. Josiah J. Newman is the doctor in charge...
N.p. Platinum Associates, 1985. Original draft script for the 1987 film, circa 1985. Screenwriter and starring actress Seka's working copy, with her passages highlighted in holograph yellow ink, and marginalia in holograph ink and pencil throughout. Director Richard Pacheco's initials "DHP" on nearly every page, and his editorial notations throughout, in holograph ink, and "Seka's Personal Script used on th...
New York: Perigee, Doubleday, 1981-1985. Archive of four hand-painted paper models, 107 page layout illustrations, and various research materials related to seven "World at Your Feet" paper model books by illustrator Alan Rose, all dealing with various forms of transportation. This listing includes the page illustrations and original master model for the popular DC3 plane, which measures in at over...
New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1927. First Photoplay Edition. Photo-illustrated with stills from the film. Based on the 1927 film, directed by William A. Wellman and starring Clara Bow and Gary Cooper, winner of two Academy Awards, including Best Picture, the only silent film to win that award. Near Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Owner name to...
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1957. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the US release of the 1957 film. Based on the 1935 novel "Pylon" by William Faulkner. 8 x 10 inches (20 x 25 cm). Near Fine.
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1955. Revised Shooting Final script for the 1956 film. Dramatic depiction of tests actually conducted on ejection seats of Stratojet bombers in Florida in the early 1950s. These tests were conducted by the US Air Forces as preparation for space travel. Shot on location at the Air Proving Grounds Command in Florida, and in New Mexico...