Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1993. Draft script for the 1994 film. In order to track down a gang of hacker crooks known for skydiving onto the buildings they plan to rob, a disgraced cop turns to a skydiving expert to learn the tricks of the trade and infiltrate the criminal team. Shot on location in Florida, California, and Washington, DC. Red titled.....
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.....
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Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1936. Final Shooting script for the 1936 film, here under the working title "Turmoil." With holograph annotations in ink and blue pencil to the front wrapper and title page, and a single holograph pencil notation to the verso of page 80. Based on the 1930 novel "Job." Grieved by the death of his wife, an Austrian.....
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Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1940. Final script for the 1940 film. With holograph pencil and ink annotations to the front wrapper and title page. A loose adaptation of the pre-Code melodrama "Bad Girl" (1931), which was in turn based on the 1928 novel by Vina Delmar. Newlyweds Johnny and Dottie have trouble staying within their budget due to Dottie's extravagant spending.....
Los Angeles: Turbulence Productions, 1996. Revised Fourth Draft script for the 1997 film. After both pilots and the navigator are killed mid-flight by two prisoners on board, a brave flight attendant must direct the plane to safety. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present, dated May 6, 1996, noted as Revised Fourth Draft, with credits for screenwriter Jonathan Brett and revisions by Steven.....
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.....
Culver City, CA: RKO Radio Pictures, 1938. Final Draft script for the 1939 film. INSCRIBED by actor Gene Reynolds, who played a young Douglas Corrigan in the movie: "For Art / From Corrigan-as-a-boy / Gene Reynolds / Mar - 71" in holograph ink on an inset page preceding the script. With blue and white revisions pages (including some detail for.....
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 annotations 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.....
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.
Culver City, CA: 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, folded. Very Good, with pinhole tears and short closed tears at the extremities, cello tape.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1939. Final script for the 1939 film. With a single holograph pencil notation to the front wrapper. A commercial pilot grounded for reckless flying decides to start his own flying school, which becomes the profitable hub of a new government-funded civilian pilots' training program. Blue titled wrappers, noted as FINAL on the front wrapper, rubber-stamped copy No.....
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: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1965. First Draft script for the 1966 film. Based on Jack D. Hunter's 1964 novel, about a selfish German aviator determined to gain the highest medal for valor, the Blue Max, by shooting down 20 aircraft. Set in Germany and France, shot on location in Dublin, Ireland. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present, dated April, 1965, noted.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1939. Collection of four vintage keybook set design photographs from the 1939 film, with keybook tab extension removed at the left margin but with linen tape remaining on the verso of same. A strange and underappreciated adventure story, set at a remote sea trading port, sort of a South American version of "Casablanca"—but rather than World War II.....
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Los Angeles: First National Pictures, 1930. Archive of 68 vernacular photographs, housed in a contemporary photo album, each photo with descriptions in silver holograph ink just below it, and distributed in three sections as follows: (1) 34 photos taken on the set of "The Dawn Patrol" (Howard Hawks, 1930), an aviation drama set during World War I. Included are shots.....
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.....
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1930. 16 page vintage program for the 1930 film, announcing its showing at Broadway theaters in New York, with abundant black and white photographs of actors, aerial stunts, and Howard Hughes throughout. Hughes' most expensive and ambitious production, a story about World War I combat pilots, today still a dazzling work of blockbuster action and actual.....
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.
Universal City: Universal International Pictures, 1958. Post-production Continuity and Dialogue script for the 1959 film. Based on the 1951 novel "And Ride a Tiger." After his jet crashes during the Korean War, an Air Force pilot suffering post-traumatic stress flashbacks meets the family of his navigator, who was killed in the crash, and finds himself falling for his friend's widow. White titled.....
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Hollywood: Rayan Productions, 1967. First Corrected Draft script for the 1969 film. With a holograph pencil notation to the title page, and a single holograph ink notation to the first page of text. Dissatisfied with a lack of recognition in their careers, a retired British Secret Service agent and an aspiring author concoct a scheme to hijack a government shipment of.....
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.....
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1933. Final Script for the 1933 pre-Code 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.....
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.....
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Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, Circa 1936. Continuity and Dialogue script (pre-production) for the 1936 film, here under the working title "Twenty Hours by Air." With faint holograph pencil annotations throughout. Typescript in black and red type. What should be a routine transcontinental flight from New York to San Francisco is complicated by its shady passengers, which include three jewel thieves, a strange.....
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.....
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1935. Draft script for the 1936 film. With a single holograph pencil notation to the front wrapper, incomplete as stamped. Lieutenant Pat Tornell, a pilot newly sworn into the US Coast Guard's airborne division, realizes he will be working closely with his former school rival, Lieutenant Dan Conlon. The two men try to outperform each other at every.....
N.p. N.p., 1942. Draft script for the 1942 film. With holograph pencil annotations to the front wrapper. Prior to the United States' entrance into World War II, two Americans cross the Atlantic to join the Royal Air Force, where they raid Nazi bases, encounter romance and tragedy, and learn the importance of international teamwork. With the cooperation of the British Ministry.....
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Santa Monica, CA: Trimark Pictures, 1999. Draft script for the 1999 film. With a holograph ink notation to the front wrapper, and a single holograph ink notation to the verso of page 67. The sequel to the 1997 film. A group of people who have recently completed a therapy program designed to conquer fear of flying celebrate by taking a......
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. N.p., Circa 1988. Draft script for an unproduced film. Controversy divides a small southern town when a mixed-race man decides to revive his father's ancient Staggerwing plane in time to ride it in the town's Fourth of July parade. Set in the northwest Arkansas Ozarks. Black wrappers with silver titles. Title page present, with credits for screenwriter Harry Minetree. 124.....
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Hollywood: Tom Productions, 1951. Draft script for the 1951 film, here under the working title "Off We Go!" With holograph pencil annotations throughout. An unskilled G.I. desperate to leave his lowly post as a tailgunner asks his girlfriend, who owns a cafe on the air base, to flirt with his commanding officer in order to get him a promotion. Instead of.....
Los Angeles: APJAC Productions, 1964. Treatment script for an unproduced film, with blue revision pages throughout. Bound in with the script are a number of black and white photograph illustrations of World War I aviators and airplanes, as well as a handmade bound-in paper pouch containing 11 color reference photographs of early airplanes, clipped from an issue of Life Magazine. A......
Universal City: Universal Pictures, Circa 1937. Post-production Continuity and Dialogue script for the 1937 film. With a single holograph pencil notation. A young woman relocates with her Navy pilot husband to his base in Honolulu, Hawaii, and tries to adapt to the challenges of military life. An early appearance by breakthrough African American actor Louise Beavers, known for her extensive portrayals.....
Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1941. Post-production script for the 1942 film. An aviation drama celebrating Pan-American oceanic flyers, wherein a young foreign correspondent agrees to take on one last mission to investigate a missing jewels case in Bombay, India before retiring his wings and settling down with his fiancee. An early appearance by noted Dominican actress and so-called "Queen of Technicolor".....
Culver City, CA: MGM, 1933. Dialogue and Continuity script (pre-production) for the 1935 film. An early draft written by story writer James Kevin McGuinness. A gruff sergeant forces his reticent son into pilot training, hoping that the boy will follow in his footsteps as a star aviator. Touted at the time as a vehicle for American military recruitment and defense preparedness.....
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.....
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Universal City: Universal International Pictures, 1950. Final Shooting script for the 1951 film, here under the working title "Prisoner of War." With detailed, extensive holograph ink and pencil annotations throughout the script. Likely copy belonging to Harold Medford with many annotations ending in "HM" throuhgout Disoriented and exhausted from multiple missions over occupied France, an American bomber squadron is forced to.....
![An Annapolis Story [The Annapolis Story] (Original screenplay for the 1955 film). Don Siegel,...](/pictures/thumb/146075.jpg?v=1571357481)
Hollywood: Allied Artists Productions, 1954. Draft script for the 1955 film, here under the working title "The Annapolis Story." With small holograph ink annotations throughout, mostly noting the scene entrances of different characters throughout the script. Two sibling cadets at the Annapolis Naval Academy fall for the same girl, creating a love triangle that can only be resolved by one.....
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. Near Fine.
Studio City, CA: Charles Fries Productions, 1977. Draft script for the 1978 television film, which originally aired December 17, 1978 on NBC. Broadcast on the 75th anniversary of the Wright brothers' famous 1903 airplane flight. The story of the invention of the first successful powered flying machine. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present, dated 10/7/77, with credits for screenwriters William Kelley and.....
Portland, OR: N.p., 1978. Collection of 63 vernacular color photographs of the scene of the crash of commercial United Airlines Flight 173 that occurred on December 28, 1978 in suburban Portland, Oregon. Five photographs are shown. To see a watermarked set of the entire collection, please inquire. Likely shot by an investigator or airline employee, the photographs in this archive depict.....
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1933. First Draft script for the 1933 film. With holograph pencil annotations to the front wrapper. Lt. Henry Crocker, a blithe Royal Air Force pilot, realizes that the constant violence of war is beginning to take a harsh toll on Lt. Jerry Young, his flying ace buddy, who is showing signs of cracking up. When Young breaks down.....
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.....
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1938. Draft script for the 1938 film. With holograph pencil annotations to the front wrapper. Included with the script are four pages of mimeographed notes regarding main title billing for the film. Two aviators' friendship is tested when a love triangle forms between them and their shared childhood sweetheart. Another tribute to the glories of aviation by director.....