London: British Broadcasting Corporation [BBC], 1967. Final Draft script for the 1967 BBC television special "Chicago in the Roaring Twenties," seen here under the working title "The Bootleggers." Based on British broadcaster and naturalist Kenneth Allsop's 1961 book "The Bootleggers." A BBC special in which the infamous gangster Al Capone's Chicago mafia reign is illustrated in song and dance, directed.....

Lancaster, OH: N.p., Circa 1890s. Original manuscript scrapbook of poker memorabilia, presented to the Lancaster, Ohio Poker Club by "two victims" of the club, identified as Ecaroh Nidri and Trebor Niarud (almost certainly pseudonyms) on the first page. Charmingly illustrated throughout with 14 original photographs of the club's members, as well as multiple tipped-in objects, including three gambling tokens, a......

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1970. Vintage reference photograph from the 1970 film. With a mimeo snipe on the verso. Based on the 1968 play also by screenwriter Frank D. Gilroy. An aging, lovelorn Las Vegas chorus girl begins an affair with a musician with a compulsive gambling habit.Set in Las Vegas, and shot on location in Paris and Las.....

Kansas City, MO: A.M. Wilson / The Sphinx, 1913. First Edition. A small pamphlet detailing tricks of the trade for magicians and performers, written during the height of the vaudeville era. Very Good in stapled wrappers. Stamp from the Magic House of Charles on the title page. Bruise on the front wrapper, with some light toning to the edges. Page.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1972. Draft script for the 1972 film, belonging to uncredited crew member J.T. Woods, with their name in holograph pencil on top of front wrapper, and with annotations in holograph marker of layout diagrams on recto and verso of front wrapper, and with names and a phone number in holograph ink, on verso of back.....

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 holograph 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.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1956. Vintage oversize borderless reference photograph from the 1956 French film noir, showing actor Roger Duchesne surrounded by Gallic toughs. With holograph ink annotations to the verso. Faced with an unlucky streak and debts to pay, a former bank robber turned gambler plans a heist of the Deauville casino during Grand Prix weekend. A key French New.....

Los Angeles: Samuel Goldwyn Company, 1984. Vintage reference photograph from the 1984 film, showing actors John Lurie and the mystical Eszter Balint. With a printed xerographically duplicated label affixed to the bottom right corner of the verso. Director Jim Jarmusch's first effort, "Permanent Vacation" (1980), was his final thesis at New York University's film school. As with the earliest films.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1955. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1955 film, showing actor Marlon Brando playfully strangling actor Frank Sinatra. Holograph pencil and ink annotations to the verso, along with a date stamp reading 8 APR 1957, and a provenance stamp. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler.Based on the 1950 Broadway musical, which.....

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1966. First Draft script for an unproduced film called "The Operators," written by novelist Norman Bogner, and set in London in the 1960s. A crime-based drama about ex-cons and their cons. Brief notation in holograph ink on two pages. Bogner's other credits include "Privelege" (1967, screenwriter, his only film), "Emerald Soup" (1963 television series, story editor).....

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1964. Collection of 4 black and white stills photographs from the 1964 film. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1963. Vintage studio still photograph of Dean Martin and Ursula Andress from the 1963 film.Gambling, wenching, and struggles for control define this iconic Rat Pack film, with a stellar supporting cast including Victor Buono, Charles Bronson, Anita Ekberg, and Ursula Andress. Set in Galveston, Texas, shot on location in Red Rock Canyon and Mojave, California. 8.....