Los Angeles: The Producers Entertainment Group, 1997. Draft script for the 1998 television film, which originally aired August 30, 1998 on Showtime.Based on the novel "Sorrow Floats," the second book in Tim Sandlin's GroVont series. A suicidal, alcoholic woman decides to leave her small Wyoming hometown to help two bumbling men move a trailer full of illegal beer across the.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1978. Collection of three vintage reference photographs from the 1978 Jamaican film. One with holograph ink annotations regarding cropping on the border. Young drummer Horsemouth (played by reggae musician Leroy "Horsemouth" Wallace) wants to start a record business, but finds his plans waylaid by local gangsters who steal his motorcycle and terrorize the island inhabitants. An exploration.....

Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1981. Final draft script for the 1982 film, with annotations in holograph ink striking dialogue on three pages.A cocaine fueled spoof of Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 novella, "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde," that could have only been made in the early 1980's. With tag lines like, "They told Dr. Jekyll to take his.....

Italy / US: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1979. Vintage borderless photograph showing actor Jill Clayburgh and director Bernardo Bertolucci in a pensive moment during on outdoor shoot from the set of the 1979 film. With the stamp of US co-producer Twentieth Century-Fox and identifying holograph notation on the verso. The son of a famous opera singer falls into heroin addiction, and his.....

London: British Broadcasting Corporation [BBC], 1967. Final Draft script for the 1967 BBC television special "Chicago in the Roaring Twenties," seen here under the working title "The Bootleggers." Based on British broadcaster and naturalist Kenneth Allsop's 1961 book "The Bootleggers." A BBC special in which the infamous gangster Al Capone's Chicago mafia reign is illustrated in song and dance, directed.....

New York: Ace Books, 1953. No. D-15. First Edition, a paperback original. INSCRIBED by Burroughs, once on the title page of "Junkie": "For Allen De Loach / With friendship and all best wishes / William Lee Burroughs / April 27, 1974"; and once on the title page of Maurice Helbrant's "Narcotic Agent," printed dos-a-dos with "Junkie": "For Allen De Loach.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1970. Draft script for an unproduced play. With a single holograph ink annotation to the title page.A rock musical comedy about a young dislikable man's move to New York City, where he manages to lose 48 jobs and 26 roommates—until he meets the groovy urbanite Elvira.Set in New York.Green titled Studio Duplicating Service wrappers. Title page present.....

Los Altos, CA: Trimark Pictures, 1998. Vintage photograph from the 1998 film, showing James Wood and Larry Clark on the set. Based on the 1997 novel by Eddie Little. A greatly underrated and blunt thriller, building on Larry Clark's earlier work but adopting the crime genre for a landscape. A teen runaway falls in with a pair of drug addicted.....

London: Golan-Globus, 1982. Original British quad poster for the 1982 US film. Printed in England by Broomhead, featuring artwork far more risque than its US variant. Remaking his own film, "Lemon Popsicle" (1978), director Davidson brings his Israeli tale to the streets of Los Angeles. Gary (Monoson) and his friends (Antin, Rubbo) are high school students who stumble through life.....

Glendale, CA: Allied Artists, 1962. Vintage borderless photograph from the 1962 film. With holograph annotations and a sticker noting the photograph is from the collection of film historian, collector, and founder of the Tele Cine Documentation (TCD) cinema photo library Daniel Bouteiller on the verso. Loosely based on the 1822 novel by Thomas De Quincey, the film transposes the setting.....

N.p. N.p., 1966. Notebook belonging to an unknown pharmacist detailing the pharmacy's on hand stock of amphetamines, barbiturates, tranquilizers, and other drugs which contained one or more of those in combination, and noted "effective Feb. 1 - 1966." Also noted is that the inventory was compiled in accordance with recently passed Drug Abuse Control Amendment Act of 1965, which, in.....

Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1974. Vintage reference photograph from the 1974 film, showing actress Valerie Perrine in costume, or arguably lack thereof, as Lenny Bruce's wife, stripper Honey Bruce. With holograph annotations in ink and pencil on the verso regarding layout.Based on Julian Barry's 1971 play, which followed the career, decline, and death by morphine overdose of controversial comedian.....

London: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1975. Original British quad poster for the 1975 US film. Printed in England by Lonsdale & Bartholomew, featuring cool high-contrast design. Sequel to William Friedkin's 1971 classic, "The French Connection." This time, Hackman and Rey both reprising their roles, the action goes down in Marseilles. More drugs, more shootouts, and Doyle is forced into heroin addiction. 30.....

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1972. Draft script for the 1973 film. Nick (Williams) is a federal agent tracking down a heroin ring, with the help of a few recruits he's trained, and seeking revenge for his deceased daughter. Prostitution, Vietnam War vets, and a Jewish ex-con make the nearly three-hour hit an explosive dose of action. Set in France, shot on.....

London: Eon Productions, 1972. Shooting script for the 1973 film. With a holograph ink annotation on the title page, noting copy No. 56. Roger Moore's first turn as 007, and the eighth film in the franchise overall. Based on the 1954 novel by Ian Fleming, which sees Bond go up against a Caribbean dictator moonlighting as a Harlem drug lord.....

New York: Hotel Astor, 1936. Original lunch menu from the Times Square Hotel Astor in New York City, dated Wednesday October 7, 1936.The successor to the Astor family's Waldorf-Astoria hotel, an essential element of Times Square's growth into an entertainment location, and a widely-known bar for pickups, the Hotel Astor notably encouraged gay men to frequent the bar for pickups.....

Burbank, CA: American Broadcasting Company [ABC], 1969. First Draft script for the 1974 television movie. The wife of a bootlegger in the backwoods dies while giving birth to her seventh child and her husband falls off the roof in a drunken stupor, thus leaving the seven children orphaned. Following the guidance of the oldest sibling, children seek replacement parents by.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Orion Pictures, 1980. Original film press kit for the 1980 film. Included in the press kit are nine film still photographs and six cast biographies. Based Carolyn Cassady's 1976 book, about the lives of and relationships between Neal Cassady, Carolyn, and Jack Kerouac, with some focus on Kerouac's writing his novel "On the Road." One of the.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1970s. Draft script for the 1975 play, which premiered on April 7 at the John Golden Theatre in New York. Laid in with the script are several handwritten pages regarding promotional materials for the play. Also became the basis for the 2002 film directed by and starring Steve Guttenberg.After coming home to find a muscular Italian burglar.....

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1976. Final Shooting script for the 1977 film. Uncredited makeup artist Rick Schwartz's copy, with his ownership name on the title page in holograph link, and with penciled check marks throughout relating to close-ups in the film. Secretarial notation of supervising producer Irwin Allen's name on the title page.A stunt-heavy 1970s powerhouse, designed to capitalize on.....

Los Angeles: Cinema Shares International, 1978. Vintage borderless matte reference photograph from the 1977 film. With a printed mimeo snipe on the verso, along with a provenance stamp.An exploitative horror film, late on the coattails of cautionary drug movies of the 1960s, about a string of violent murders in Los Angeles linked to a dangerous LSD strain called "Blue Sunshine."Set.....

Los Angeles: DDF Films, 1993. Revised Draft script for the 1993 television series, which debuted in the UK on Channel 4 in 1993, and in the US on PBS in January, 1994. Copy belonging to costume designer Molly Maginnis, with her holograph ink and pencil annotations to several pages. From the collection of costume designer Molly Maginnis.Based on Armistead Maupin's.....

N.p. N.p., 1973. Draft script for the 1973 play, which debuted at the Circle Repertory Company in New York on November 4. Basis for the 1979 film directed by Milton Katselas. A small town's slow way of life is disrupted by the arrival of a unstable, drug-trafficking Vietnam veteran whose car has broken down en route to Mexico. Set in.....

France: Eve Productions, 1989. Original French grande poster for the 1989 release of the 1970 US film. Scarce. A small-town border sheriff and marijuana smuggler sets out to kill a rival drug dealer, while his girlfriend has a dalliance with another woman. The first Meyer film to feature full frontal male nudity, a rarity even in sexploitation films at the.....

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1989. Draft script for the 1990 film based on Carrie Fisher's semi-autobiographical novel of the same title that she has here adapted for the screen. A comedic account on the pressures of Hollywood, in which an actress daughter returns to her actress mother's home while recovering from a drug overdose. Upon its release, the film.....

Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1968. Vintage borderless reference photograph of director Otto Preminger and actors Carol Channing, Jackie Gleason, Donyale Luna, Alexandra Hay, Frank Gorshin, Peter Lawford, Burgess Meredith, and Austin Pendleton posing on the set of the 1968 film. With the stamp of Paramount Pictures on the verso, along with holograph ink and pencil annotations regarding layout.A notoriously bizarre.....

Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1966. Vintage photograph from the 1966 film. With holograph annotations on the verso. Rooks' first film, a semi-autobiographical account of a man who travels to France to undergo a drug-withdrawal cure. With cameos by a virtual who's-who of counterculture figures of the time, including Allen Ginsberg (as "Messiah"), William S. Burroughs (as "Opium Jones"), Ravi Shankar.....

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1980. Collection of ten vintage black and white borderless studio still photographs from the 1980 film. Based on screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky's 1978 novel. Director Ken Russell's first American film, itself an "altered state" during production. Russell was constantly inebriated on the set, and had the actors mumble their lines in protest against Chayefsky's script. Chayefsky was.....

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century Library, 1971. Vintage photograph of director Jerry Schatzberg and cinematographer Adam Holender on the set of the 1971 film. A note affixed on the top edge with scotch tape with holograph annotations on the verso. An important film of the New Hollywood movement, and one of the best and least moralistic ones made on the subject.....

London: Commies From Mars / Initial Pictures, 1985. Third Draft script for the 1986 film, "Sid and Nancy," here under the working title, "Love Kills." INSCRIBED by Kate Simon in holograph ink on the verso of the last page of text. Simon was "a friend of Alex Cox's and [she] helped him vis a vis the fine details of the.....

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1967. Collection of five vintage reference photographs, all quite striking, of Patty Duke in various states of celebrity, intoxication, or depravity in the 1967 film. Based on Jacqueline Susann's 1966 best selling novel. Shown in one of the photographs is author Susann, who appears in a cameo as a reporter who interviews Duke. A big budget.....

Saint Ouen: PPCM Photo Press Agency, Circa 1998. Photograph of Hunter S. Thompson and shotgun, outside his Woody Creek, Aspen, Colorado home, 1990, by photographer Paul Harris, struck by PPCM Photo Press Agency, circa 1998. Issued to promote the Terry Gilliam's 1998 film adaptation of Thompson's 1971 novel "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"PPCM incorrectly dates the image as being.....

N.p. Premiere Releasing, 1975. Collection of six vintage studio issued still photographs from the 1975 film. A cop pursues a serial killer responsible for a string of murders of cocktail waitresses at a popular club. Set and shot on location in Los Angeles. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine.

Binghamton, NY: N.p., 1956. Personal diary of Federal Treasury Department enforcement agent Kenneth T. Brown, Jr., dating from 1956. Holograph manuscript in blue and black felt ink, blue ink, and pencil in a black leather-bound 1956 Business Year Book with gilt titles. The diary largely contains entries regarding on Brown's day-to-day professional life as a rookie Alcohol and Tobacco Tax.....

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers / American Broadcasting Company [ABC], 1989. First Draft script for the season one, episode eight of the 1989 television show, originally broadcast March 25, 1989 on ABC, here under the working title "White Poison." Virgil Vogel credited here as Director, but Harry Falk would receive final credit as Director of the episode. "Hawk" was based on.....

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1972. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1972 film. Based on the 1971 novel by Michael Crichton and his brother Douglas (under the pseudonym "Michael Douglas"), about a Harvard law student (Lyons) who is sent from Boston to San Francisco to smuggle a shipment of marijuana. He convinces the drug dealer (Lithgow) to have a......