N.p. N.p., 1956. Draft script for a 1956 student film. Front wrapper title in decorative holograph black ink, presumably by the screenwriter. Based on the 1890 story by Ambrose Bierce. 22 pages of storyboards, corresponding with the script that follows, all bound together. Decorative cast and crew invite to premiere and wrap party laid in. The second filmed version of.....
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1997. First Edition. First state binding, with "man-woman" typo on page 25:16, and first state jacket, with John Berendt stickered quote at the front panel. Basis for the 2003 film, directed by Anthony Minghella and starring Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, and Renee Zellweger, who won an Academy award for her role. Fine in a Fine.....
N.p. Regal Films, 1957. Collection of 11 vintage studio still photographs from the 1957 film. Cowhand Jeff Donner (John Agar) is accused of murder and helped to escape by dancehall girl Susan Crowley (Penny Edwards), only to discover she's actually a Union Army spy working on foiling a Confederate plot. Shot on location in Kanab, Utah. 8 x 10 inches.....
New York: Firth, Pond, 1853. First Edition. Original sheet music for the 1853 song, advertising its performance by Christy's Minstrels. Originally written as an antislavery ballad by Stephen Foster around 1852, the song was sold to American music company Firth, Pond, and Co., who published this edition the following year. Although the intent behind the song's composition was sympathetic to.....
Baton Rogue: Louisiana State University Press, 1998. First Edition. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket.
Chicago: Zev Braun Productions, Circa 1970s. Draft script for an unproduced film called "Carruthers," circa early 1970s. Written by David Zelag Goodman, whose film credits include "Monte Walsh" (1970), "Straw Dogs" (1970), "Farewell, My Lovely" (1975), "Logan's Run" (1976), and "Eyes of Laura Mars " (1978). Based on a story by Benjamin Manaster ("Goldstein," 1964, director), set in Texas just.....
Burbank, CA: The Malpaso Company, 1971. Vintage borderless photograph of Clint Eastwood and Don Siegel on set from the 1971 film. With a rubber stamp crediting photographer Andre Marinie on the verso. Based on Thomas Cullinan's 1966 novel, set during the American Civil War, about an injured Yankee soldier (Eastwood), who is rescued by a teenage girl from a Southern.....
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Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1955. Draft script for the 1955 film, here under the working title "The Calico Pony." Actor Van Heflin's copy, with his holograph annotations throughout. Heflin plays a Civil War soldier returning to his hometown as a minister, but his violent past follows him. The film debut of Joanne Woodward. Red and black titled wrappers. Title.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1953. Revised Shooting Final script for the 1954 film. Actor Van Heflin's copy. Includes a 10-page shooting schedule. Loosely based on the St. Albans Raid, the northernmost land action of the American Civil War. The film took great liberties, changing both the time and motivation for the raid. In the film, a group of Confederate POWs.....
Glendale, CA: Allied Artists, 1955. Revised Shooting script for the 1956 film. Based on the 1945 novel by Jessamyn West, written for the screen by Jessamyn West, Robert Wyler, and Michael Wilson (though only West and Wyler are credited here) and starring Gary Cooper, Dorothy McGuire, and Anthony Perkins. Interestingly, Michael Wilson, who was ultimately granted sole screenwriting credit on.....
Sag Harbor, NY: The Permanent Press, 1998. First Edition. Author's first novel, set in the Civil War. Light foxing to the page edges, else Near Fine and unread in a Near Fine dust jacket.
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1959. Vintage photograph from the 1959 film, showing director John Ford sharing a cigar with in-costume actor Hoot Gibson during a break in shooting an outdoor scene. With the stamp of a private collector on the verso. A Union cavalry brigade's mission behind Confederate lines is complicated when they are forced to take a woman.....
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, Circa 1959. Vintage reference photograph of John Ford and John Wayne on the set of the 1959 film. Loosely based on the 1956 novel by Harold Sinclair, which was based on the 1863 Civil War battle of Newton's Station and Grierson's Raid. A Union cavalry brigade's mission behind Confederate lines is complicated when they are.....
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1951. Vintage studio still photographs from the 1951 film showing director John Huston on location. Based on the classic 1895 novel by Stephen Crane. At the completion of shooting, Huston considered the film one of his best, but MGM cut over an hour from his film before releasing it to a poor reception. 10 x......
N.p. N.p., Circa 1951. Vintage reference photograph from the 1951 film, showing director John Huston in costume for his cameo as a Union veteran. With holograph ink and pencil annotations on the verso regarding layout, along with a collector label. Based on the classic 1895 novel by Stephen Crane, which follows a Union soldier throughout the course of the Civil.....
Hollywood: Prospect Productions, Inc., 1956. Revised Final Shooting draft script for the 1957 film, here under the working title "Fort Laramie." Copy belonging to actress Frances Helm, heavily annotated in holograph ink and pencil throughout, with all dialogue and action of Helm's character Melissa Brader underlined, and frequent annotations regarding action, motivation and dialogue. Annotation on leaf preceding title page.....
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North Hollywood: Republic Pictures, 1936. Vintage photograph of director Lew Ayres and crew members on the set of the 1936 film. Mimeo snipe, holograph annotations and rubber studio stamp on the verso. Based on events of the American Civil War, focusing on the friendship between Kenneth Reynolds (James Dunn) and Raymond Jordan (David Manners), divided by the war and now.....
Universal City: Universal International Pictures, 1947. Revised First Draft script for the 1948 film. With faint holograph pencil annotations, and watermarked CONTRACT FILE COPY throughout. Based on the 1946 Broadway play, and a prequel to the 1941 film "The Little Foxes." In the fictional town of Bowden, Alabama, the wealthy Hubbard family holds onto their old-South prominence and prestige through exploitation.....
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Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1953. Revised final script for the 1953 film "The Great Sioux Uprising," seen here as "Sioux Uprising." Though very loosely based on true events surrounding the two-year Red Cloud's War, during which a Cheyenne Native American chief repeatedly attacked US forces in an effort to stem the flow of White settlers, this film centers around.....
Chicago: The Reilly and Britton Co., 1917. First Edition. Blank book-style yearbook (largely still blank) belonging to Elizabeth Floding with numerous inscriptions and well wishes from various students and faculty, including a four-line Gellett Burgess poem written to Floding by Margaret Mitchell: "I never saw a purple cow, I never hope to see one, I'll tell you one thing anyhow.....
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1946. Third Draft script for the 1949 film. Based on the 1933 film, which in turn was based on the 1868 novel by Louisa May Alcott. An early David O. Selznick production script for the film, which was canceled due to a studio strike, and which would later be purchased by MGM and filmed with.....
Universal City: Universal-International, 1947. Continuity and Dialogue script for the 1948 film, here under the working title "Destiny of a Woman" on the front wrapper. With a few faint holograph pencil annotations. Based on the 1946 Broadway play, and a prequel to the 1941 film "The Little Foxes." In the fictional town of Bowden, Alabama, the wealthy Hubbard family holds onto.....
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1971. Revised Final Draft script for the 1971 film. Brief notation in holograph pencil, noting the role of "Ginger" to be played by Marianna Hill, on the distribution page (the part ultimately went to Susan Clark). Based on a story by Richard Alan Simmons, this unusual Civil War-era film for 1970s Hollywood is perhaps more in.....
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1964. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1964 film. Based on a 1957 teleplay by Larry Klien which aired on CBS' "Playhouse 90" on March 7, 1957. Confederate soldier Matt Weaver (George Segal) returns home after the war to find his home sold by town boss Sam Brewster (Pat Hingle), who hires a gunfighter, Jules.....
Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1956. Vintage reference photograph of Anne Baxter, director Rudolph Mate, and Charlton Heston on the set of the 1956 film. Capt. Colt Saunders (Heston) returns to Texas from the Civil War to find his land wanted by carpetbaggers and his town controlled by corrupt Yankees. Set in Texas, shot on location in Arizona. 8 x 10.....
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1956. Vintage US one-sheet poster for the 1956 film. Studio rubber stamp on the verso, as well as a rubber stamp for the Capitol Theatre in Kamsack, Saskatchewan, Canada. Capt. Colt Saunders (Heston) returns to Texas from the Civil War to find his land wanted by carpetbaggers and his town controlled by corrupt Yankees. Shot on location.....
Culver City, CA: Columbia / Jerry Bresler Productions, 1965. Collection of seven vintage lobby cards for the French release of the 1965 US film. During the Civil War, an obsessed, glory seeking Union cavalry officer leads a disparate crew of soldiers, Confederate POWs, and American Indian scouts into Mexico to attack a group of Apaches that have been raiding towns.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1974. Revised Draft script for the 1974 television film, which originally aired on December 3 on NBC. Not to be confused with the 1951 film directed by John Huston. Based on the classic 1895 novel by Stephen Crane, which follows a Union soldier who dreams of glory throughout the course of the Civil War. No wrappers.....
N.p. Creation Books, 2011. First Edition. Trade softcover (no hardcover equivalent). Uniquely INSCRIBED by the author on his custom bookplate on the first leaf (the half title page). The first in a two-part series chronicling the underground cultural history of Memphis, Tennessee, from the Civil War through the twentieth century. Tav Falco, member of the rock and roll band Panther.....
London: William Heinemann, 1938. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the First UK Edition. Basis for the Academy Award-nominated 1940 film directed by Raoul Walsh starring John Wayne, Roy Rogers, and Claire Trevor; the only film in which Wayne and Rogers appear together, and the second of only two films on which Wayne and Walsh worked together after Walsh discovered Wayne as a......