Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1966. First Draft script for an unproduced film called "The Operators," written by novelist Norman Bogner, and set in London in the 1960s. A crime-based drama about ex-cons and their cons. Brief notation in holograph ink on two pages. Bogner's other credits include "Privelege" (1967, screenwriter, his only film), "Emerald Soup" (1963 television series, story editor)... (read more) about The Operators (Original screenplay for an unproduced film)

France: Ulysse Productions, 1964. Vintage borderless photograph of a playful Jean Seberg pointing her prop camera back at the real one on the set of the 1964 film. With the stamp of production company Ulysse Productions and holograph notations on the verso. An anthology film featuring five stories about swindlers around the world, with Seberg appearing as a journalist accused... (read more) about The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers [Les plus belles escroqueries de monde] (Original photograph...

New York: Darien House, 1977. First Edition. Author, actor and huckster historian Ricky Jay's first book, a hilarious, photo illustrated treatise on the use of playing cards as weapons, with chapters on technique, practice, stunts and self-defense. The scarce cloth edition (a simultaneous softcover edition was also published). Fine in a Fine dust jacket. Jacket has a tiny nick at... (read more) about Cards as Weapons (First Edition)

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1938. Set of three vintage black-and-white studio still photographs from the set of the 1938 film noir antecedent. Shown respectively are Lang conferring with Silvia Sidney, Lang on the floor setting up an unusual camera angle, and Lang playing a clarinet for baby actor Donald Dodd's (who played Silvia Sidney's infant son in the film). Each photo... (read more) about You and Me (Three original photographs from the set of the 1938 film)

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1939. Final script for the 1940 film. Based on the 1939 French film "J'etais une Adventuriere," written by Jacques Companeez, Herbert Juttke, Hans Jacoby, and Michel Duran. The story of a second-rate ballerina played by real-life ballerina Zorina, who teams up with con men Erich Von Stroheim and Peter Lorre, the three of whom hatch a.... (read more) about I Was an Adventuress (Original screenplay for the 1940 film)

Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1942. Draft script for the 1942 film "Mug Town," seen here under the working title "Skidrow." A crew of teenage tramps finds themselves about to be framed for a freight heist, and must clear their names of the charges. Once they are able to do so, they enlist in the US Army in order to... (read more) about Mug Town [Skidrow] (Original screenplay for the 1942 film)