Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1925. Vintage double weight studio still photograph from the 1925 silent film. Bumbling newspaper clerk Henry Baxter is helplessly in love with a coworker in this silent-era comedy. The subject of his longing barely acknowledges his existence. His unrequited love coupled with his manager's devious daily taunts makes work tortuous for the poor clerk. He begins... (read more)

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1927. French pressbooks for two 1927 American silent films dealing with American sports: "Rough House Rosie" with Clara Bow (women's boxing) and "Casey at the Bat" (baseball). "Rough House Rosie" was made at the height of Clara Bow's reign as queen at Paramount, and is today a lost film. "Casey at the Bat" is based on the... (read more)

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1926. Vintage production photograph from the 1926 silent film. Mimeograph snipe to the verso. Featuring a concerned-looking Jay Gatsby, played by Warner Baxter, clutching his cap nervously while in uniform. The first of a string of adaptations of F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece, now lost save for its trailer, and the only adaptation of his novel to be... (read more)

Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1925. Vintage black-and-white studio still photograph of Rudolph Valentino from the 1925 film. Typed mimeo snipe on the verso. Based on Pushkin's 1841 novel "Dubrovsky." Dubrovsky (Valentino) is a Cossack in the Russian army who becomes a masked vigilante, and attempts to save his family from an evil carpetbagger. Unfortunately, he falls in love with... (read more)

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1924. Continuity Draft script for the 1925 film. Studio File Copy, rubber-stamped on the front wrapper. Brief notation on one page in holograph pencil. Based on Tod Robbins' 1917 novel, a classic of horror fiction about a trio of circus freaks who escape captivity in the circus, open a curiosity shop, and use it as... (read more)

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1925. Draft script for the 1926 silent film "The Blackbird," seen here under the working title "The Mocking Bird." Lon Chaney again serves as a versatile "man of a thousand faces," here playing the role of high-profile thief The Blackbird who lives a double-life as a beloved local bishop. He falls in love with a.... (read more)

N.p. Harry Langdon Corporation, 1926. Vintage photographic proof trial poster from the 1926 film. Harry Langdon plays Paul Bergot, a Belgian immigrant who has fallen in love with Mary Brown, a blind woman. Paul desperately searches for Mary, accidentally rescuing her town from crooks and bootleggers in the process. 8 x 10 inches (20.5 x 25.5 cm). Holograph ink notation... (read more)

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1927. Two vintage reference photographs for the 1927 film. Each with a printed snipe on the verso. Set during the Russian Revolution, Chaney plays a peasant who is promised food and a place to live if he safely escorts a Countess (Bedford) home. He does so, despite being captured and tortured by Bolsheviks. Later he... (read more)

New York: Various Publishers, circa 1916-1935. A collection of five children's books featuring the legendary silent movie star and humorist Charlie Chaplin as his inimitable Tramp character. The collection includes a picture book tie-in for his film "Easy Street," as well as a coloring book, an oversized comic book-style depiction of some of his stunts, and both an original copy... (read more)

Various cities: Various Publishers, circa 1957 - 1967. A collection of 10 original lobby cards for the Mexican releases of nine films directed by or featuring Charlie Chaplin. Highlights of this bright, charming collection include lobby cards for the Mexican releases of Chaplin's "Limelight," "King of New York," and "The Circus," as well as two variants for "The Chaplin Revue,"... (read more)

Chicago, IL: Time, Inc., 1972. An issue of LIFE magazine from April 21, 1972, featuring a 5 page cover story on Charlie Chaplin's first return to the United States after having renounced his citizenship in 1953. Universally acclaimed as an actor, director, and producer, Chaplin and his iconic Tramp character especially captured the hearts of the filmgoing population, and to... (read more)

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1928. Draft script for the 1928 silent film. Lon Chaney is an undercover police detective who attempts to catch a thief notorious for slipping out of criminal charges by killing any witnesses set to testify against him, though Chaney can't help but simultaneously get wrapped up with an attractive flapper along the way. Chaney hand-picked... (read more)

Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists / Elton Corporation, 1927. Original program for the 1927 silent film, one of the last great period adventures of the silent era. It was to be Fairbanks' last silent film (his next would be his sound debut in the 1929 Three Musketeers film, "The Iron Mask"), and was the film debut of Lupe Velez. A.... (read more)

Paris: Studio Soulat-Boussus, 1928. Vintage double weight photograph from the set of the 1928 film. Shot by Jean Soulat and Mauric Boussus of Studio Soulat-Boussus in Paris, with respective stamps on the verso. An excessively rare photograph from Dreyer's masterpiece, capturing Maria Falconetti in what one could accurately described as "in character." Franconetti became a stage actress in Paris in... (read more)

N.p. N.p., 1944, 1946, 1949. Archive of four letters between Carl Theodore Dreyer and film historian and eventual "Cahiers du Cinema" co-founder Joseph-Marie Lo Duca primarily regarding Lo Duca's proposed sound-added release of Dreyer's 1927 silent masterpiece "The Passion of Joan of Arc," and the French release of Dreyer's 1943 film "Day of Wrath." Included in the archive are carbon... (read more)

Los Angeles: Metro Pictures Corporation, 1921. Collection of six vintage production photographs from the lost 1921 film. Based on the short story "The Offshore Pirate" by F. Scott Fitzgerald, first published in the "Saturday Evening Post" on May 29, 1920. Actress Viola Dana's second film based on a F. Scott Fitzgerald story (the first being the 1920 film "A Chorus... (read more)

Neuilly-sur-Seine, France: Gaumont, 1915. Original double weight matte finish still photograph from the legendary 1915 silent film serial. With the Gaumont logo at the lower right corner. Shown here is Musidora as Irma Vep conferring with another member of The Vampires, an anarchist criminal gang at the center of the story. The director's magnum opus, "Les vampires" is one of... (read more)

Hollywood: Famous Players-Lasky Corporation / Paramount Pictures, 1926, 1927, 1928. Original French pressbooks for three early silent comedies starring W.C. Fields, two of which ("Running Wild" and "Fools for Luck") are today lost, and one ("It's an Old Army Game") starring a young and vibrant Louise Brooks. Each printed in single-color wrappers, but with creative use of alternate-colored stock and/or... (read more)

N.p. N.p., 1915-1917. Collection of three vintage borderless photographs of actress Pauline Frederick from three of her earliest starring roles, "Bella Donna" (1915), "The Spider" (1916), and "Sapho" (1917). All three films are now considered lost. Already an established star of the stage, Frederick was in her thirties when she made her film debut, and her commanding presence and dramatic... (read more)

France: Cine France, 1927. Original French program for the 1927 film, with a flyer for the world premiere at the Palais Garnier in Paris laid in. One of the late masterpieces of the silent era, following Napoleon’s early life through his appointment as Commander in Chief of the Army and invasion of Italy, one of six films director Abel Gance... (read more)

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1925. Vintage reference photograph from the set of the 1925 film, with a mimeo snipe on the verso, showing a film crew at work constructing a derailed train inside a studio. Adapted for the screen by Rupert Hughes, based on his 1911 stage play, previously filmed in 1915 in a version that is now lost... (read more)

Los Angeles: David W. Griffith, 1918. Vintage herald for a revival showing of the landmark 1915 film at the Opera House in Suffern, NY on May 15 and 16, 1918. 16.5 x 5.5 inches (42 x 14 cm), accordion folded to 4.25 x 5.5 inches (11 x 14 cm), with four panels on each side. Near Fine, with a small separation to one of the folds and some light edgewear. National Film Registry. (read more)

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1928. Original oversize tabloid style pressbook for the 1928 silent film. With many images of the iconic Louise Brooks, both illustrated and photographed, and replete with many essays on the making of the film. Included as well is an illustrated section showing some of the various available poster styles and other advertising accessories. A key film for... (read more)

Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1919. Vintage color glass slide advertisement for the 1919 film, the first film released by the newly minted United Artists, co-founded by star Fairbanks with Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, and D.W. Griffith. A wealthy American gets embroiled in the politic turmoil of a fictional European monarchy, only to find he is secretly the heir to... (read more)

US: Metro Pictures Corporation, 1921. Vintage photograph from the 1921 film. With a mimeo snipe on the verso. Based on the 1916 anti-war novel by Vincent Basco Ibanez, about a French and German family on both sides of World War I. Along with "The Sheik" later the same year, the film the catapulted Rudolph Valentino to stardom and helped create... (read more)

London: Wardour Films / Universum Film [UFA], 1927. Original program for the London premiere of the film on March 21st, 1927 at the Marble Arch Pavilion, preceded in English by the US release earlier that month but with different title cards. Director Lang's expressionist masterpiece, based on the novel and written for the screen by then-wife von Harbou, one of... (read more)

Hollywood: Universum Film [UFA] / Paramount Pictures, 1927. Original advertising herald for the US release of the 1927 film, a shortened 115 minute version re-cut by American playwright Channing Pollock, who is credited on the herald. Interestingly, the herald credits the film as joint production of Paramount and UFA, apparently just prior to the formation of the larger umbrella production... (read more)

Berlin: Film-Kurier, 1924. Original German programs for duology "Die Nibelungen," one each for "Die Nibelungen: Siegfried" and "Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge." Based on the thirteenth century epic poem "Nibelungenlied." Text in German. Film-Kurier was the first German film journal, published daily beginning in 1919. Film-Kurier's classic era lasted until 1933, when its publisher, Alfred Weiner, had to flee Germany because... (read more)

London: Fritz Lang Film / UFA / W and F, 1928. Original UK program for the 1928 German film, released in the UK as "The Spy." Lang's followup to "Metropolis," and penultimate silent film, an underrated spy versus spy thriller containing some of the most virtuosic set pieces of the director's career, including a spectacular train crash at the film's... (read more)

Berlin: Druck Gebr. Wolffsohn, 1927. Original pamphlet on early Hollywood cinema, written for German audiences by German film pioneers Ernst Lubitsch and E.A. DuPont. Seemingly an extended primer on early American films and filmmaking, with details on Hollywood's organized production methods, budgets, editing procedures, and actors, including Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Clara Bow, Gloria Swanson, Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Buster... (read more)

Munich: Universum Film [UFA], 1926. Vintage photograph from the 1926 silent film. With the UFA logo at the bottom left corner of the recto, and a few holograph notations on the verso. Murnau’s final German film before emigrating to America, where he would make four more films before his untimely death, including the late silent masterpiece Sunrise. 7.5 x 10.5... (read more)

Beverly Hills, CA: UFA / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1926. Vintage US reference photograph for the 1926 German film. With a printed snipe on the verso noting both UFA and MGM. Murnau’s final German film before emigrating to America, where he would make four more films before his untimely death, including the late silent masterpiece "Sunrise."10 x 8 (25 x 20 cm) inches. Very Good plus. (read more)

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1926. Draft script for the 1926 film. Based on the 1914 play by Henry Maurice Vernon and Harold Owen. One of the silent era's greatest realizations of the then-wildly-popular "yellow peril" craze in pulp literature and cinema.Lon Chaney plays two roles: the grandfather of a powerful Chinese aristocrat Mr. Wu, and Mr. Wu himself, who... (read more)

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures / Famous Lasky Corporation, 1928. Final Draft script for the 1928 film, here under the working title "Quick Lunch." Included is a separately bound, 8-page sequence synopsis for the film. W.C. Fields' last silent film, but only the beginning of his fame. Wealthy Sam Hunter (Chester Conklin) is approached by scheming Richard Whitehead (Fields) about investing in... (read more)

Culver City, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1925. Draft script for the 1926 film. Based on the 1924 novel "Escape" by Alden Brooks. File copy rubber stamp to the front wrapper.Conrad Nagel and Renée Adoree star in this Silent film, today lost, originally directed by Josef von Sternberg. Midway into shooting Von Sternberg was fired by MGM and replaced by Phil Rosen... (read more)

New York: Horace Liveright, 1930. First American Edition, and first edition in English. Originally published in Germany in 1917 as "Litauische Geschichten." Only a handful of English translations of the author's books appeared during his lifetime, and all are exceedingly scarce. Four stories about Lithuanian peasants, among whom the author lived, and whom he observed and studied with minute care... (read more)

US: Artcraft Pictures / Mary Pickford Company, 1918. Vintage borderless photograph from the 1918 film. With an identifying holograph notation on the verso. Based on the 1917 novel by Eleanor Hoyt Brainerd, about a young socialite and a millionaire, who meet and fall in love while pretending to be a cook and a hired hand, respectively. No known prints of... (read more)

Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1925. Vintage reference photograph from the set of the 1925 film, with a mimeo snipe and photographer's stamp on the verso. Based on the unfinished 1832 novel "Dubrovsky" by Alexander Pushkin. A posed shot showing director Brown and stars Valentino and Banky with painter Federico Beltran Masses, a well known figure in Hollywood because of... (read more)

Various cities: Various Film Studios, 1918-1961. A collection of 153 black and white photographs from 88 films featuring images of women being bound or restrained, dating from 1918 to 1961. An impressive set of mild bondage and domination film stills, amassed by a Southern Californian amateur collector, all featuring images of women (plus the occasional man) who are bound, gagged... (read more)

Paris: Franfilmdis / Argui-Film, 1933. Collection of four vintage oversize double weight studio still photographs for the landmark 1933 silent film by Jean Vigo. Each with the stamp of French weekly "Tele Magazine" on verso, two with holograph notations regarding layout. Although he only made four films before his death from tuberculosis at the age 29, Jean Vigo would come... (read more)

Weimer: Verlag der Hofbuchhandlung Alexander Buschke Nachf, 1908. First Edition. A very early work by writer, actress and film maker Thea von Harbou, best known for writing and co-directing "Metropolis" (1927) in collaboration with her then-husband Fritz Lang. The only recorded presentation copy, INSCRIBED by both Thea and her brother Horst (who would go on to be the still photographer... (read more)

Berlin: Decla-Bioscop AG, 1921 [1920]. Vintage double weight matte finish reference photograph from the seminal 1920 silent film. Samuel Goldwyn discovered "Caligari" on a trip abroad, and released this film in the US in 1921, at which time 11 x 14 inch photos such as this one were printed on matte paper. Reference number "4" noted in holograph pencil at... (read more)