Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1948. Post-Production Superimposed Spotted List and Combined Dialogue script for the 1948 film. Single holograph notation in pen to the front wrapper. Based on the 1947 novel. In 1890s London, the widow of a missionary falls for an amoral grifter who lodges at her boarding house. He soon drags her into his nefarious schemes, eventually manipulating her into.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1958-1960. Archive of scripts and revision pages for 56 episodes of the hip private-eye detective television series "Peter Gunn." Copies belonging to screenwriter Lewis Reed, with his holograph name to the front wrapper of each episode. Included are screenplays for nearly half of the 114-episode run of the noir influenced television series starring the sophisticated, sharp-dressed.....
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).....
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1937. Vintage reference photograph of actors Ralph Forbes, William Powell, Joan Crawford, Aileen Pringle, and Frank Morgan on the set of the 1937 film. With a mimeo snipe on the verso, along with the stamp of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Based on the 1925 play. A beautiful American grifter and jewel thief posing as a wealthy widow seduces her.....
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Rome: Union Photos, 1959. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1959 Italian film, showing actress Elsa Martinelli. With the stamps of Union Photos and Atlantic Press on the verso. Loosely based on Pier Paolo Pasolini's 1955 novel "Ragazzi di vita," following three amoral young men as they make their way through Rome's seedy criminal underworld. The third collaboration between director Mauro.....
N.p. Agence D E B, 1959. Two vintage French borderless studio still photographs from the 1959 film, one of Martin LaSalle and one of Jean Pelegri. Mimeo snipe on verso, one with annotations on verso. Bresson's first wholly original screenplay, as opposed to one adapted from existing material, perhaps the finest of his many films, and according to one of.....
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1925. First Draft script for the 1925 film. A roguish Eastern European woman is hired to help con a young heiress out of her wealth by holding fake seances with the heiress' long-dead father. Director Tod Browning was best known for his controversial masterpiece "Freaks" (1932), a quintessential film from both the perspective of horror.....
San Francisco: Zoetrope Studios, 1983. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1983 film. Francis Ford Coppola's passion project, and an earnest look at the complex relationship between brothers. With a style reminiscent of German Expressionism, French New Wave, and Film Noir, Coppola weaves a tightly packed plot with an experimental music score. Shot on location in Oklahoma. 8 x 10.....
Hollywood: Turman-Foster, 1975. First Draft script for an unproduced film. Based on noted African American writer and academic Cecil Brown's 1969 debut novel. An cynical, silver-tongued black man from the rural south makes a living through scamming and stealing, which he considers informal reparation for the injustices he has faced. Fed up with the quality of life in the US.....
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1962. Collection of four vintage contact sheets for the 1962 film, featuring 64 images of actor Jane Fonda and 9 images of actor Capucine. With holograph ink and red pencil annotations to the rectos. Based on the 1956 novel by Nelson Algren, about the women in an upscale New Orleans brothel, whose lives are thrown.....
![Il bidone [The Drum] (Collection of four original photographs from the 1955 Italian film)....](/pictures/thumb/151466-1.jpg?v=1610079382)
N.p. N.p., Circa 1955. Collection of four vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1955 Italian film. With the stamp of still photographer G.B. Poletto on the verso, and one with a printed mimeo snipe specific to the film's French release affixed to the verso. A trio of small-time, ruthless con artists undergo crises of conscience after facing the condemnation of their.....
Tokyo: Toei, Circa 1974. Draft script for the 1974 Japanese film. Text and titles in Japanese. Based on a series of magazine articles written by journalist Koichi Iiboshi, which were in turn based on memoirs written by yakuza crime boss Kozo Mino. The fifth, and final, film in director Kinji Fukasaku's yakuza pentalogy, following feuding gangs in post-war Hiroshima. Set.....
N.p. Primex Films, 1964. Vintage borderless photograph of Jean-Luc Godard in Morocco from the 1964 film. French mimeo snipe on the verso. An anthology film featuring five stories about swindlers around the world. Godard's segment stars Jean Seberg as a journalist accused of passing fake currency, who then tracks down and interviews the counterfeiter, in the segment "Le Grand escroc".....
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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 annotations on the verso. An anthology film featuring five stories about swindlers around the world, with Seberg appearing as a journalist accused.....
New York: Rinehart, 1946. First Edition. Publisher's colophon on the copyright page as called for. Gresham's first book, a dispassionate descent into the world of the carnival sideshows, based largely on the author's own experiences and investigations. Basis for the notable 1947 film noir, directed by Edmund Goulding and starring Tyrone Power, Coleen Gray, and Joan Blondell. Jacket design by.....
N.p. N.p., 1932. Two vintage reference photographs from the 1932 film, showing actors Paul Muni, George Raft, Karen Morley, Purnell Pratt, and others. Based on the 1930 book by Armitage Trail, which was in turn based on the true exploits of notorious Prohibition-era mob boss and bootlegger Al Capone. Along with "Public Enemy" (released only a few months prior), generally considered.....
![Silk Hat Kid [The Lord's Referee] (Original screenplay for the 1935 film, director H. Bruce...](/pictures/thumb/149236.jpg?v=1596250704)
Hollywood: Fox Film, 1935. First Draft script for the 1935 film, here under the working title "The Lord's Refugee." Copy belonging to director H. Bruce Humberstone, with his name in holograph pencil to the front wrapper, and single holograph annotation in pencil to page 74. In an attempt to go straight, a former bodyguard with a violent past shacks up in.....
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.....
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1938. Vintage black-and-white studio still photograph from the set of the 1938 film noir antecedent. Shown are director Fritz Lang and George Raft on the set. Stamps on the verso crediting photographer C. Kenneth Lobben, Paramount, and an exclusivity notice. 8 x 10 inches with wide margins. Near Fine. Complete collation details available on request. Spicer, p......
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.....
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1964. Collection of 11 color negatives for film still photographs from the 1964 film. Four of the negatives have mimeo snipes associated with them. Marlon Brando stars as a love-them-and-leave-them womanizer who meets a man equal in skill for deceiving women, but with an added knack for conning them out of money at the same.....
Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1964. Vintage photograph of director Ralph Levy and actors David Niven, Shirley Jones, and Marlon Brando on the set of the 1964 film. Mimeo snipe on the verso. Marlon Brando stars as a love-them-and-leave-them womanizer who meets a man equal in skill for deceiving women, but with an added knack for conning them out of money.....
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Paris: Nouvelles editions de films, 1967. Two vintage borderless double weight photographs from the set of the 1967 film. The first photograph shows Louis Malle and Jean-Paul Belmondo (who is in costume) conferring on the set. With the stamp of photographer Vincent Rossel and the name of the film, as well as holograph annotations regarding layout, on the verso. The.....
N.p. N.p., 1996. Master Revised Script for the 1997 film. "#128" in holograph ink on top right of front wrapper. The art of the con propels a few of screenwriter and director David Mamet's classic neo-noir films, notably "House of Games" (1987), "The Spanish Prisoner" (1997), and "Heist" (2001). "The Spanish Prisoner " is Mamet's most labyrinthine confidence game of corporate.....
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1955. Five vintage candid reference photographs from the 1955 film, showing variously, actors Marlon Brando, Frank Sinatra, composer Frank Loesser, and director Joseph L. Mankiewicz on the set. The first photo, double weight, shows Marlon Brando, as Skye Masterson, surreally socking one of his gangster companions in the nose. The second photo shows Brando rehearsing.....
Los Angeles: American International Pictures [AIP], 1973. Vintage reference photograph from the 1973 film, showing a side-by-side comparison of John Dillinger and actor Warren Oates in costume as Dillinger. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. A dramatization of the crimes of folk hero, midwestern bank robber, and notorious mobster John Dillinger, best known for killing five FBI.....
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......
New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1926. First Photoplay Edition, originally published by George H. Doran the same year. Photo-illustrated with film stills throughout. Basis for the 1926 film directed by Frank O'Connor and starring Marian Nixon and Pat O'Malley. Drawn from the author's own experiences as a circus performer, about a bareback rider and her romance with a grifter who.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1960s. Draft script for an unproduced play by noted playwright Howard Richardson. Notated as copy No. 15 and with the name of Seymour Kravitz, both in holograph ink on the title page. Seymour "Sy" Kravitz worked in theatre briefly in New York during the 1960s before becoming a producer and assignment editor at NBC. A fast-paced mystery involving two.....
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1967. Vintage studio still photograph of director Stuart Rosenberg and actor Paul Newman on the set of the 1967 film. With holograph ink annotations on the verso. Based on the 1965 novel by Donn Pearce, who co-wrote the screenplay, about a convict who wins a bet to eat 50 hard-boiled eggs in an hour, and later.....
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N.p. N.p., Circa 1959. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Roberto Rossellini and Vittorio De Sica on the set of the 1959 film. Italian "Tele Foto" stamp on verso. Based on the semi-autobiographical 1950 Italian novel "Il generale Della Rovere" by Indro Montanelli. Petty con man Victorio Bardone (De Sica) is arrested by the Gestapo and coerced into impersonating a dead Resistance.....
![Street Smart [Streets of New York] (Original screenplay for the 1987 film). Jerry Schatzberg,...](/pictures/thumb/148556.jpg?v=1592872093)
N.p. International Creative Management [ICM], 1980. Early Revised Draft script for the 1987 film, here under the working title "Streets of New York." Magazine reporter Jonathan Fisher (Christopher Reeve) fabricates a story about a New York pimp after he is unsuccessful getting information on the streets. But the police, the district attorney, and a real pimp and police suspect, Fast.....
![Mug Town [Skidrow] (Original screenplay for the 1942 film). Ray Taylor, Lewis Amster Brenda...](/pictures/thumb/130910.jpg?v=1497985647)
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.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1922. Vintage reference photograph of Erich von Stroheim from the set of the 1922 film. The legendary von Stroheim's third film as a director, at time the most expensive film ever made, and the first to cost over one million dollars, although the original budget was $250,000. The overruns led to the first of many clashes between.....
London: Arthur Baker Limited, 1937. First UK Edition, preceding all others. Basis for the 1956 British film noir "Soho Incident" (released as "Spin a Dark Web" in the US), directed by Vernon Sewell and starring Faith Domergue and Lee Patterson. Very Good in a Very Good price-clipped dust jacket. Moderate offsetting to the endpapers, with a lightly faded spine. Jacket.....
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1966. Collection of five vintage borderless black-and-white studio still photographs from the set of the 1966 film. All photographs show Billy Wilder giving direction, including scenes in a bedroom, on a football field, in a cemetery, and more. Walter Matthau won an Academy Award for his role in the film. 8 x 10 inches. Near.....
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1934. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1934 pre-Code film, showing actresses Toby Wing and Verna Hillie. With a mimeo snipe on the verso, along with a dealer label. Two lovers and Olympic athletes fall prey to con artists who want to use their images and good reputations to sell adult magazines. 7.5 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine.....