New York: Morrow Junior Books, 1969. First Edition. Near Fine in a Near Fine, price-clipped dust jacket. A touch of foxing to the top page edges and the rear panel, else an exceptional copy. Like many juvenile westerns, this title was distributed primarily to libraries, making collectible copies quite scarce. Juvenile Western.
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 2010. Full Blue Shooting script for the 2011 film (the remake). With "CAST READ THRU" printed on each page. Although not indicated, copy belonging to first assistant director Marty Eli Schwartz, from his collection. Remake of the classic 1984 film, about a teenager who moves to a rural town and comes into conflict with the local preacher...
N.p. N.p., Circa 1960. Collection of 30 vintage press photographs and contact sheets from promotional events for the 1960 French-Italian film, here under the original French title, "Terrain vague." Starring child actors Bras and Gaubert are seen elegantly dressed, Gaubert holding a bouquet, Bras nonplussed, and the two onstage before a microphone, joined by the gala host, taken by photographer...
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London: Three Kings Films, Ltd., 1964. Draft script for the 1965 film. With several substantive holograph emendations to dialogue throughout. A British "teen" comedy, with a title that borrows the title (and spirit) of Conrad Hilton's 1957 autobiography. A family inherits a seaside hotel and has trouble filling it up until their son's rock group begins bringing in the crowds...
Glendale, CA: Allied Artists, 1957. Collection of 4 vintage black-and-white studio still photographs from the 1957 film. Included are two film still photos and two advertisement layout photos. Mimeo snipes once affixed to the versos of the film stills (detached but present). Director Corman at his noir-est. The Black Widows, a teenage girl gang led by Helen (Spain, an early...
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Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1981. First Draft script for the 1982 film, here under its working title "Fast Times." Copy belonging to Reeves Nevo, Nevo was the leader of Reeves Nevo and the Cinch, the prom band in the film who play "Wooly Bully" and "Life in the Fast Lane." Nevo's band obtained a solid following in the 1980s...
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1949. First Edition. The author's classic depiction of teen-age gangs in Harlem, complete with a glossary of gang terminology, that would be published (like so many of his "juvenile delinquent" novels) later the same year as a pocket paperback. Jacket art by H. Lawrence Hoffman, who began his career drawing for Thrilling Mystery Novels magazine...
New York: Atheneum, 1970. First Edition. Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket. Jacket is very lightly toned, else a pristine, unread copy of this science fiction highspot.
Hollywood: RKO Radio Pictures, 1957. Vintage linen backed keybook photograph from the set of the 1957 film. Mimeo snipe on the verso. Hal Ditmar (James MacArthur), the teenage son of a wealthy movie producer gets in a fight the manager of a theater and struggles to convince either the police or his father that he acted in self-defense. Shot on...
Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1988. Third Draft for an unproduced film. Mike is an unruly teenage boy who gets sent to a psychiatric hospital after being charged with stealing a car. Gray untitled wrappers. Title page present, dated November 4, 1988, noted as Third Draft, with credits for screenwriter Maxine Herman.125 leaves, with last page of text numbered 124...
Burbank, CA: Walt Disney Productions, 1975. Two vintage color studio still photographs from the 1975 film. Two children with extraordinary abilities are sought by a millionaire and his attorney who wish to exploit the children's supernatural powers. Shot on location in California. 10 x 8 inches (25.5 x 20.5 cm). One holograph pencil notation to the verso, else Near Fine. Complete collation details available on request.
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Los Angeles: United Artists / Contemporary Productions / Harold Hecht Productions, 1960. Draft script for the 1961 film, "The Young Savages" (here under its working title, "A Matter of Conviction"), SIGNED by director John Frankeheimer on the front wrapper. Directed by Frankenheimer, based on the 1959 novel, "A Matter of Conviction," by Evan Hunter (who also wrote as Ed McBain)...
New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1938. First Edition. With a first issue jacket priced at $2.00 on the front flap. Nicely INSCRIBED by the author on the half title page, beginning with a nice illustrated floral doodle: "[flourish] Signed especially for Margaret Paradise by the author-artist Lois Lenski / October 1938." Margaret Paradise was a Connecticut schoolgirl in 1938, with...
London: Twentieth Century-Fox, Circa 1958. Collection of 3 vintage full-color still photographs from the 1958 UK release of the 1957 US film. Based on George Agnew Chamberlain's 1941 novel, "The Phantom Filly," about a juvenile delinquent and his stay at a run down Kentucky ranch. Eventually he gains an interest in all things mechanical, including the hot sports car owned...
London: Twentieth Century-Fox, Circa 1958. Collection of 7 vintage full-color still photographs from the 1958 UK release of the 1957 US film. Based on George Agnew Chamberlain's 1941 novel, "The Phantom Filly," about a juvenile delinquent and his stay at a run down Kentucky ranch. Eventually he gains an interest in all things mechanical, including the hot sports car owned...
New York: Fadsin Cinema Associates, 1970. Very Early Draft script for the 1977 film, preceding its release by at least seven years. First generation photocopied script containing photocopied notations throughout. Owner name in holograph ink on the front wrapper Based on the 1964 novel by Joanne Greenberg (as Hannah Green). Deborah Blake (Quinlan), a young mental patient, is transferred to several...
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Montreal: Cooperatio Productions, 1964. Collection of 5 vintage studio still photographs from the 1964 film. Film titles, small numerical notations in holograph ink and pencil, and photographer rubber-stamps on the versos, with credits for STUDIO DE PHOTOGRAPHIE and Claude Charron. Two mimeo snipes are present but detached. Lucien (Hamelin) is a middle-class teenager actively involved in campus politics, inciting protests...
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Montreal: Cooperatio Productions, 1964. Vintage Canadian black-and-white lobby card from the 1964 film. In original mailing envelope from "Office National du Film Canada," and "Trouble-fete" in holograph ink on the front. Handsome starring actor Rodrigues is seen in police accouterments, checking his perimeters. Lucien (Hamelin) is a middle-class teenager actively involved in campus politics, inciting protests and fighting to change...
Montreal: Cooperation Productions, 1964. Original French scenario script for the 1964 film, here under the original French-Canadian title, "Trouble-fete." Bound at the front of the script is a Canadian program from the premiere of the film in Montreal, Friday, March 20, 1964. The program features film reviews by Jean Le Moyne and Jacques Godbout, and extensive film credits. Lucien (Hamelin)...
Los Angeles: Hal Roach Studios, 1936. Archive of material relating to the 1936 "Our Gang" short film. Included are 15 leaves, mixed typescript and carbon typescript, for a master draft of the promotional text for the film, including a synopsis, character descriptions, and numerous promotional and exploitation schemes. Numerous substantive holograph pencil corrections to the Synopsis page. 15 pages, rectos...
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1983. Shooting script for the 1984 film. With a few holograph notations in ink and pencil throughout. A teenager moves to a rural town and comes into conflict with the local preacher and his "no dancing" ordinance. The film's soundtrack reached number 1 on the Billboard charts, and featured six Top 40 hits, including three Top 10...
London: OUP, 1966. First Edition. The author's third older juvenile. Corners a bit bumped, else Near Fine in a Very Good jacket with two horizontal marks from where a cheap jacket protector was removed.
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Amarillo, TX: Gold Air Shows, 1961. Draft script for the 1961 film. Copy belonging to actor Robert Arthur, who played Frankie, with his name on title page in holograph pencil and holograph pencil and ink notations, additions and changes to his scenes throughout. Laid in is a one page statement. Three juvenile criminals are being held at a youth detention...
Paris: Intermondia Films, 1957. Vintage borderless studio still photograph from the 1957 French film. Mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. A coming-of-age film about a young Cambodian boy who adopts and raises a young elephant. Shot on location in Cambodia. 7.5 x 9 inches. Near Fine. Complete collation details available on request.
Paris: Self-published, 1961-1962. Original French toy and home goods sales catalogue and supplements for the "Comptoir general de la bimbeloterie" company in Paris, 1961-1962. Illustrated with black-and-white vignette photographs of items for sale, each represented with a serial number, accompanied by a corresponding descriptive price catalogue. Thousands of toys, puzzles, board games, sports equipment, and miniatures are featured, including Pierres...
Garden City: Doubleday, 1947. First Edition. Author's first book, a novel about teenage street gangs in 1940s Brooklyn, basis for the 1949 film noir "City Across the River," directed by Maxwell Shane and starring Stephen McNally, Thelma Ritter and Tony Curtis, in his screen debut. Rubbing to the top and bottom board edges, else Fine in an about Near Fine...
Hollywood: RKO Radio Pictures, Circa 1955. Vintage full-color still photograph from the 1955 UK release of the 1954 US film. A comedy based on a play about a struggling Hollywood screenwriter who mentions to a policeman his ideas about a serious film involving a juvenile delinquent. On Christmas Eve, to his surprise, the policeman drops off a seventeen year-old delinquent...
Milwaukee, WI: Nightstand Books, 1959. No. 1503. First Edition, first printing of Ellison's most desired title, with the code "NB 1503 a S n" as called for at the bottom left corner of the front wrapper. About Near Fine, a bright, clean copy with the slightest bit of wrinkle (but no creasing) near the bottom of the spine panel, and...
N.p. N.p., Circa 1969. Archive of 59 original color photographs taken by Cleveland teenager Richard Wargo at various concerts, primarily in the Cleveland area, but with three sets of photographs venturing to Houston and Austin, TX and Atlantic City, NJ, all circa 1969. Subjects include Led Zeppelin, The Who, Jethro Tull, James Gang, and others. Eight of the photographs are...
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists / Mirisch Corporation, 1961. Vintage photograph from the set of the 1961 film, showing directors Robert Wise and Jermone Robbins seated on a camera crane, surrounded by members of the crew. With the stamps of press agencies Globe Photos and International Magazine Service, the latter dated May 29, 1961, on the verso. Based on the...
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists / Mirisch Corporation, 1961. Vintage photograph from the set of the 1961 film, showing director Robert Wise looking through a viewfinder while his co-director Jermone Robbins looks through a pair of sunglasses. Based on the 1957 Broadway musical with book by Arthur Laurents, music by Leonard Bernstein, and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Robbins, who would...
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists / Mirisch Corporation, 1961. Vintage photograph of Natalie Wood from the 1961 film. With holograph notation on the verso identifying the film. Based on the 1957 Broadway musical with book by Arthur Laurents, music by Leonard Bernstein, and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Robbins, who would go on to direct the film with Robert Wise, served...
N.p. N.p., 1973. Set of five vintage black and white promotional photographs made to publicize the 1973 film documentary in Europe. Each photograph is rubber stamped on the verso: "JUVENILE COURT / Frederick Wiseman / USA 1973." A rare set of photos,the only photographic ephemera advertising a Frederick Wiseman documentary we have ever handled. Wiseman's sixth documentary, typically unsentimental and...