London: Sphere Books Limited, 1964. First UK paperback edition of "The Woman in the Dunes," after the American translation by E. Dale Saunders. Basis for the classic 1965 film "Woman in the Dunes," directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara. The film won the Special Jury Prize at the 1965 Cannes festival, and was nominated for two Academy Awards, for Best Director and... (read more)
Burbank, CA: Walt Disney Productions, 1954. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1954 film. Paper snipe taped to the verso. Won an Academy Award for Best Documentary. A documentary about the pristine American Prairie. 8 x 10 inches (20.5 x 25.5 cm). Very Good plus with a holograph notation, toned tape, and a stamp to the verso. Complete collation details available on request. (read more)
Beverly Hills: Orion Pictures, 1985. Vintage French mini poster for the 1985 US film. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Writing. A delightfully crafted depression-era fantasy in which an unhappy wife indulges her knack for escapism through persistently visiting the cinema. Eventually, a handsome character in one of the films she frequents breaks the fourth wall, and what ensues... (read more)
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1970. Collection of five vintage, borderless, oversize photographs from the 1970 film. With a small French distribution label from Twentieth Century-Fox on the recto of each photograph. Based on the 1968 novel by Richard Hooker, and, in turn, the basis of acclaimed television show which ran for 11 seasons on CBS. Winner of the Palme d'Or... (read more)
N.p. Jerome Hellman Productions, 1978. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1978 film. Snipe affixed to the verso and folded around the still. Won three Academy Awards, including Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Screenplay. Jane Fonda conceived of this Vietnam War era drama in which a military wife falls for a paraplegic veteran, while her own husband is off... (read more)
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1979. Final Draft script for the 1980 film. Based on screenwriter Shagan's 1979 novel. Barney Caine (Scott) of the LAPD uncovers a formula for synthetic gasoline devised by the Nazis in WWII. A greedy and ruthless oil magnate, Adam Steiffel (Brando) and his company hear of the formula, and stop at nothing to destroy it... (read more)
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1948. Final script for the 1948 film. This copy belonging to Robert Arthur, who played Beaumont Jackson, with his name on the front wrapper in holograph pencil, and holograph pencil and ink notations, additions, and changes to his scenes throughout. Laid in is one page related to Mary O'Hara's "Green Grass of Wyoming." A widow hopes... (read more)
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1981. Final Draft Script for the 1982 film. Benjy Stone (Linn-Baker) is a writer for a top-rated variety show early in the 1950s. As a new form of entertainment, rules and standards have yet to be fully established. Enter Alan Swann (O'Toole), an actor with a drinking problem, who is to be the show's guest... (read more)
![The Virgin Spring [Jungfrukallan] (Original poster for the 1960 film). Ingmar Bergman, Ulla Isaksson, Allan Edwall Max von Sydow, director, screenwriter, starring.](/pictures/thumb/130114.jpg?v=1434404443)
Stockholm: Svensk Filmindustri, 1960. Original Swedish poster for the 1960 film. A landmark twentieth century film whose irregular but inspired dramatic structure and juxtaposition of beauty and savagery has inspired many other great films, from "The Last House on the Left" (1972) to "Irreversible" (2002). The first of two Bergman efforts to win the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film... (read more)
Stockholm: Svensk Filmindustri, 1960. Original international program for the English language release of the 1960 Swedish film by Ingmar Bergman, printed by Svensk Filmindustri in Sweden. Adapted from the thirteenth century Swedish ballad, "Tores dottrar i Wange." Photo illustrated throughout. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and nominated for the Palme d'Or, with director Bergman receiving... (read more)
France: Various Publishers, 1956. Collection of 45 vintage black-and-white candid photographs of Swedish film star Ingrid Bergman at a gala in France. Three of the photos are rubber-stamped on the verso with a date of October 9, 1956, and take place presumably at a premier of Bergman's then-recent film, "Elena and Her Men," released in France in September 1956. Bergman's... (read more)
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1939. Vintage photograph from the 1939 musical, based on the 1937 Rogers and Hart Broadway musical of the same name. With a printed snipe on the verso, along with the stamp of Culver Pictures photo bureau, a date stamp of "Dec 1939," and holograph notations regarding layout. Rooney and Garland sing "God's Country" from the... (read more)
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, circa 1970. US one sheet poster for the 1970s re-release of 1943 film. Nominated for an Academy Award. Considered by many to be Busby Berkeley's masterpiece (though there are several high spots to choose from), "The Gang's All Here" is indisputably the master film choreographer's wildest and most ambitious effort, with staging and camerawork that are... (read more)
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1947. Two vintage photographs from the 1947 film noir. Each with the stamps of photographers Eugene Robert Richee or Frank Bjerring, and a mimeo snipe on the verso. From the estate of actor Van Heflin. A woman suffers a psychotic break and is found wandering the streets after murdering the man she had become obsessed with... (read more)
Rome: Mars Film, 1970. Vintage French mini poster for the 1970 Italian film. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Writing. Based on the 1951 novel by Alberto Moravia. Bernardo Bertolucci weaves an intricate and incisive picture examining the psychological tribulations of a man who will do anything to be "normal," despite the enormous personal cost. Marcello Clerici (Jean-Louis Trintignant)... (read more)
New York: Workman Publishing, 2008. UNCORRECTED PROOF preceding the First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Oblong, plastic spiral bound in clear Mylar wrappers as issued. A comprehensive and irreverent dicitionary of terms used on film sets, whimsically illustrated throughout by Katie Maratta, and containing several essays on about the craft of filmmaking by the author. Tony... (read more)
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1973. Post-production Release Dialogue script for the 1973 film. Based on Joe David Brown's 1971 novel, "Addie Pray." Real-life father-daughter Ryan and Tatum O'Neal play a con man and the girl who may or may not be his daughter. Shot on location in Nebraska, Kansas, Florida, Missouri, and California. Winner of an Academy Award, nominated for three... (read more)
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1974. Vintage press kit for the 1974 film. Included are sets of sheets detailing production information, an opening day announcement, interviews with director Bogdanovich and actress Cybill Shepherd, biographies of actors Barry Brown, James McMurtry, Eileen Brennan, Cloris Leachman, Cybill Shepherd, and director Bogdanovich, press column items, and insight into shooting on location. Based on the 1878... (read more)
New York: ANTA Playhouse, 1961. Draft script for the 1961 Broadway play, "A Man for All Seasons." William Redfield's copy, though not noted as such on the script. The play premiered at the Globe Theatre in London in 1960, then made its Broadway debut at the ANTA Playhouse on Nov 22, 1961, running for a total of 637 performances. The... (read more)
Moscow: Mosfilm, 1966. Collection of three vintage borderless black-and-white reference photographs from the French release of the 1966 film. With the archival stamp of the noted cinema historian Maurice Bessy on the verso of each photo. A stunning set of battle scene photos, including one three-part panoramic shot, demonstrating the massive scale of the film, shot on location in Dorogobuzh... (read more)
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1940. Draft script for the 1940 film. Nominated for an Academy Award. A young hotshot pilot joins an elite flying squadron and has to prove himself to his commanding officer and fellow pilots by taking on a dangerous mission. Made with the cooperation of the US Navy, who lent a real life squadron to the... (read more)
Burbank, CA: Centurion / Buena Vista, 1959. Pre-Production script (so noted on the front wrapper) for the 1959 film. Holograph pencil notation for uncredited Art Director Walter Simonds. Based on the 1948 biblical novel of the same name by Lloyd C. Douglas, sequel to "The Robe." First picture to be filmed using Panavision 70mm, allowing for superior depth of focus... (read more)
![Tonight We Raid Calais [Project 47] (Original screenplay for the 1943 film). John Brahm, Waldo Salt, John Sutton Lee J. Cobb, Howard Da Silva, Beulah Bondi, director, screenwriter, starring.](/pictures/thumb/117138.jpg?v=1434404384)
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1942. Final Script for the 1943 film, "Tonight We Raid Calais" [here titled simply "Project 47"], directed by John Brahm, written for the screen by Waldo Salt, and starring Lee J. Cobb, John Sutton, Beulah Bondi, and Howard Da Silva. John Sutton plays a British intelligence officer, sent into occupied France with a small unit to... (read more)
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures / Pennebaker Productions, 1961. Collection of four vintage oversize double weight matte finish photographs from the 1961 film. Based on the 1956 novel "The Authentic Death of Hendry Jones" by Charles Neider. Marlon Brando's only directorial effort, after his production company fired original screenwriter Sam Peckinpah and director Stanley Kubrick, and he rewrote the script, first with... (read more)
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1979. Collection of 10 vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1979 film. Nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Screenplay, Best Actor, and Best Actress. While doing a series of reports on alternative energy sources, an opportunistic reporter Kimberly Wells witnesses an accident at a nuclear power plant. Wells is determined to publicise the incident... (read more)