![The Great Sioux Uprising [Sioux Uprising] (Original screenplay for the 1953 film). Lloyd Bacon,...](/pictures/thumb/137487.jpg?v=1513032805)
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...
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...
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...
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....
Baton Rogue: Louisiana State University Press, 1998. First Edition. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket.
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...
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...
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 dust jacket.
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1997. First Edition. First state binding, with "man-woman" typo on page 25:16. INSCRIBED by Frazier to fellow author Chris Offutt on the title page. Winner of the National Book Award and basis for the 2003 film, directed by Anthony Minghella and starring Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, and Renee Zellweger, who won an Academy award for...
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...
Chicago, IL: 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...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1954. Final Draft script for the 1955 film. INSCRIBED on the title page by actor John Derek to collector Nick Beck: "Nick -- This was a long time ago! John Derek." Based on the 1953 biography, "Prince of Players: Edwin Booth," by Eleanor Ruggles. An account of the early career of the nineteenth century American actor...
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: 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....
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...
Chicago: The Reilly & 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...
New York: HarperCollins [Harper Collins] / William Morrow, 2002. First Edition. Near Fine and in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Book has a bump to the heel and the fore-edge of the rear board, jacket Near Fine but for foxing to the verso.
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...
![Count Three and Pray [The Calico Pony] (Original screenplay for the 1955 film). George Sherman,...](/pictures/thumb/130854.jpg?v=1471469398)
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 notations 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...
![A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die [Best of Enemies] (Original screenplay for the 1972 film)....](/pictures/thumb/138185.jpg?v=1515088095)
Rome: Sancro Film, 1968. Early Draft script for the 1972 Spanish-Italian-French-German film, "A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die," here under the working title, "Best of Enemies." Brief notations throughout in holograph ink. A Union officer surrenders his fort to the Confederates during the Civil War, and attempts to regain his status by helping condemned prisoners on a suicide...
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...