New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1956. First Edition. Collects eight of the playwright and screenwriter's memorable plays, including "The Trip to Bountiful," basis for the 1985 film directed by Peter Masterson and starring Geraldine Page. Five of these plays appeared on "The Philco-Goodyear Television Playhouse," a television series that played host to a plethora of notable writers, including Paddy Chayefksy and...
Austin, TX: University of Texas, 1987. First Edition. Laid in is a type letter signed by the quarterly's senior editor, Dave Oliphant, on stationery from the university, addressed to Ruth Ford. Oliphant responds to Ford's approval of a recent article he wrote on the archive of actor Zachary Scott, Ford's first husband. Oliphant has also included a Xerox copy of...
Los Angeles: Cannon Films, Inc., 1986. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the 1986 film. Featured are Dennis Hopper, Caroline Williams, and Tobe Hooper on the set. Nearly a decade after the first installment (now a slasher classic), Tobe Hooper revisits his chainsaw-toting prodigy, "Leatherface," but to the dismay of most critics. This feature, with the great Dennis Hopper as a....
New York: Ballantine Books No. 385-K, 1960. First Edition, a paperback original. Set in Texas in 1861, putting frontier Texans against Comanche warriors. Subscriber's card laid in. A scare title from one of the era's greatest writers of the genre. Light toning to the spine, else about Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1966. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the US release of the 1966 film. An underrated, key film for director Penn, something of an intellectual thriller, made between two better known films, "Mickey One" (1965) and "Bonnie and Clyde" (1967). Also, very much an acting tour de force, with early performances by Robert Duvall, Jane Fonda...
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers / Seven Arts, 1967. Vintage oversize, double weight, borderless photograph from the set of the 1967 film, showing actor Faye Dunaway brandishing a pistol while director Arthur Penn describes the scene and co-star Warren Beatty looks on. With the stamp of photographer Lee Johnson on the verso. The beginning of the New Hollywood Cinema. Screenwriters Robert Benton...
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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...
Los Angeles: Republic Pictures, 1945. First Draft script for the 1946 film, "Rainbow Over Texas." Roy Rogers agrees to be a part of a recreation of the Pony Express race, but they must thwart ne'er-do-well's who plot to keep Roy from winning. Released the same year as Rogers' wife Arlene's death during childbirth. Set in Roy Rogers' fictional home town...
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1929. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper: "Inscribed for Mrs. White / by / Dorothy Scarborough / May 1930." Very Good in a Very Good plus, price-clipped example of the rare dust jacket. Jacket is lightly toned at the spine, with some light chipping along the top edge, no titling affected...
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Burbank, CA: National Broadcasting Company [NBC], 1987. Final Revised Draft script for the 1987 television film. Here under the working title, "LBJ." The years 1934 through 1963 of future president Lyndon Baines Johnson's tumultuous career are chronicled, following his political beginnings, style, and progression to presidency following the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Set in Washington and Texas. Tan titled...