Santa Monica, CA: Miramax, 1996. Vintage borderless black-and-white contact sheet from the 1996 film, containing over 25 likely never-before-seen images. Included are photos of Jeffrey Wright as Basquiat, David Bowie as Warhol, Dennis Hopper as Bruno, Jennifer Miro, artist and Basquiat collaborator Ouattara Watts, actress Olatz Lopez Garmendia (Schnabel's ex-wife), and a few others of the cast and crew. One...
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...
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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...
Los Angeles: George Barris - Irwin Schaeffer Production, 1978. Revised Draft script for the 1978 film. Copy belonging to writer George Barris, with his name in holograph ink on the title page, holograph notations and paper clip page markers throughout. A sleazy nightclub owner tries to help the comeback of a young disco star. Shot on location in Los Angeles, California...
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1983. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the 1983 US film. Mimeograph snipe detached from verso (previously affixed), but present. The two burn-outs host a dope-a-thon to raise funds for a bankrupt film festival in Amstderam. 8 x 9.75 inches. Near Fine. Complete collation details available on request.
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...
Los Angeles: American International Pictures [AIP], 1967. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the 1967 exploitation film White margin, with a single credit and copyright date for American International Pictures at the bottom margin. In the photograph, Peter Fonda and Salli Sachse exchange admiring glances during a rare scene where people aren't tripping. One of the iconoclastic Corman's most idiosyncratic directorial...
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 notations 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...
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1962. Vintage photograph of Jack Lemmon and Lee Remick on the set of the 1962 film. With holograph notations regarding layout and typed credits on the verso. Jack Lemmon plays an alcoholic who falls in love with an innocent young women, whom he convinces to start drinking, leading them both lose themselves in the downward spiral...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1932. Vintage reference photograph from the set of the 1932 film, with a printed snipe on the verso. Based on the novel by Upton Sinclair. Victor Fleming directs Dorothy Jordan and Lewis Stone in an early scene from his pre-Code epic about Prohibition. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus.
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1978. Vintage US one sheet poster for the 1978 US film. Winner of four Academy Awards. Often compared to Fellini's cinematic masterpiece "8 1/2," "All That Jazz" provides a comprehensive look into the tortured personal life of a highly successful entertainer. Forced to contend with his nearing mortality and confined to a hospital bed following...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1979. Collection of 8 vintage full color lobby cards from the 1979 film. Often compared to Fellini's cinematic masterpiece "8 1/2," "All That Jazz" provides a comprehensive look into the tortured personal life of a highly successful entertainer. Forced to contend with his nearing mortality and confined to a hospital bed following a heart attack, director...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1959. Vintage US one-sheet poster for the 1959 film. "Quebec Bureau de censure du cinema" rubber stamp. Notation in holograph pencil on the verso. Logan (Brodie) is an alcoholic Korean War veteran who experiences an emotional breakdown after a flight simulation. He overcomes his setbacks and becomes instrumental in the launch of a new fighter jet...
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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 fantastic 1971 film, "The French Connection." This time, Hackman and Rey both reprising their roles, the action goes down in Marseilles. More drugs, more shootouts, and Doyle's forced heroin addiction. 29.75 x....
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1970. Draft British script for the 1971 UK film. Working copy belonging to actress Billie Whitelaw, SIGNED by Whitelaw on the front wrapper, with her holograph notations throughout in pencil and red and blue ink. Included are four vintage black-and-white still photographs from the film. Director Stephen Frear's debut feature film, and the first film...
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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...
Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1998. Collection of three vintage photographs from the set of the 1998 film. Based on the 1971 novel by Hunter S. Thompson. The eccentric journalist Raoul Duke (Johnny Depp) and his crazed lawyer Dr. Gonzo (Benicio del Toro) set out to cover a motorcycle race and quickly fall into a drug fueled series of psychedelic antics...
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1997. Master Draft script for the 2000 film, preceding the film's release by three years. Notations on the front wrapper in holograph pencil. Based on Chabon's 1995 novel. Professor Grady Tripp (Douglas) teaches creative writing in Pittsburgh, struggles writing his second novel, and smokes marijuana in his free time. His wife has left him, and he is...
New York: Scribner, 1996. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Hell on the title page to fellow author Chris Offutt: "For Chris from his homeboy Richard 2/3/00." The author's first book. Offutt is the author of “Kentucky Straight” and other short story collections, novels, nonfiction, and memoirs, and, in 1996, was named one of the twenty Best Young American Novelists by “Granta”.....
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...
London: The Readers Library, 1928. First UK Edition. Photo-illustrated with stills from the film. Based on the 1928 silent film of the same name, director by Ludwig Berger and starring Emil Jannings, Jean Arthur, and Ruth Chatterton in her film debut, about a married restaurant owner who is convinced to become a bootlegger by a young woman, who runs off...
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1972. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1972 film. Based on Leonard Gardner's 1969 novel of the same name. Susan Tyrrell was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. In Huston's 1972 neo-noir, a boxer past his prime encourages a young protege. The two men live harsh, disillusioned lives in...
London: The Ladd Company, 1981. Original British quad poster for the 1981 film. Printed in England by Lonsdale & Bartholomew, art by DFS. Marshall William (Connery) is sent to one of Jupiter's moons to uncover a slave-labor, drug-smuggling operation, but the locals are apprehensive. Nominated for an Academy Award and a Hugo Award, winner of a Saturn Award. 26.25 x....
Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1989. First Edition. SIGNED and dated in the year of publication by the author on the half-title page. Author's eighth novel, about drug trafficking in a Southern town. Light foxing to the top page edges, else Fine and unread in an about Fine dust jacket.
Beverly Hills, CA: Orion Pictures, 1980. Collection of five lobby cards for the 1980 film. 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 earliest feature films about central Beat figures. Shot on location in San Francisco.
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...
Los Angeles: Sonny Amusement Enterprises, Inc. / S. A. C. L., 1950. Collection of 15 vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1950 Spanish-Argentine film. The financial success of the 1949 exploitation film "She Shoulda Said No," a morality tale involving the use of marijuana, prompted distributors to import this film from Argentina for distribution in the US. It was a....
Burbank, CA: American Broadcasting Company [ABC], 1972. Final Draft script for the 1972 television movie. Copy belonging to prop assistant Paul Marco, with his name in holograph ink on the front wrapper and title page, with other production ephemera laid in. Based on the infamous 1971 novel by Beatrice Sparks. A mostly tasteful, surprisingly non-exploitative look at 1970s teenage drug...
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1971. Vintage one-sheet poster, variant A, for the 1971 film. Based on Burgess' 1962 novel. A futuristic, voyeuristic catapult into the world of delinquent Alex (McDowell), who undergoes experimental treatment developed by the government to cure him of his affinity for violence. Set in London and surrounding environs, shot on location in London (Chelsea, Thamesmead South...
N.p. New World Pictures, 1987. Vintage black-and-white studio still photograph from the US release of the 1987 film. A young woman is forced to attend finishing school in the Mediterranean, where she and the other girls are subject to the inappropriate interest of the school headmaster. Set in the Mediterranean, shot on location in Greece. 10 x 8 inches (25.5...
Beverly Hills, CA: Lorimar Productions / AVCO Embassy Pictures, 1969. Revised Final Draft script for the 1971 film. Copy belonging to Phil Abramson, set director for the film, with his name in holograph ink on a couple of pages, and holograph notations throughout. Laid in is a folded photocopied shooting schedule sheet with photocopied notations, and "Phil 140" in holograph...
California: Eve Productions / Panamint Films, 1969. Collection of 9 vintage black-and-white studio press still photographs from the 1970 film. Included is a manila envelope with the film title in holograph ink on the front, from the Pussycat Theatres in Hollywood, a chain of theaters that operated throughout California from the 1960s to the 1980s, specializing in pornographic and sexploitation...
France: Eve Productions, 1989. Original French grande poster for the 1989 release of the 1970 US film. Features buxom Uschi Digard in profile. Harry (Napier) is a small-town border sheriff and marijuana smuggler who lives iwth his girlfriend Cherry (Ashton), a nurse. Raquel (Ely) is a writer and sex fiend with eyes for Cherry, but Harry feels the idea of...
Las Vegas: New Frontier Hotel, Circa 1950s. Original menu from the Venus Room in the New Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada, circa the mid-1950s. Designed by Saul Bass, with his name to the front panel. Likely an early Bass design, bearing striking resemblance to his billboard designs for the 1956 film "On the Threshold of Space." Originally built with...
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...
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N.p. Entertainment Artists Inc., 1983. Draft script for the 1983 film "The Vals," here under the WGA registered title, "Valley Girls." Sam, Trish, Beth, and Annie are Valley Girls bored with their daily routine, so they befriend some boys at a local orphanage run by Mr. Stanton (John Carradine). Annie (Calabrese) is a snow-loving sexpot, whose father (Connors) loves snow...
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1986. Original US one sheet poster for the 1986 film. A semi-autobiographical account of Pryor's life in which, after attempting suicide by setting himself on fire, a popular standup comedian falls into a coma and must reexamine his difficult past. The impetus for this self reflection closely resembles an event in Pryor's own past in...
Rome: Rafran Cinematografico, 1970. Original treatment script for an unproduced film. Screenwriter Questi's other notable screenplay credits include "The Possessed" (1965), "Django Kill... If You Live, Shoot!" (1967), "Death Laid an Egg" (1968), and "Arcana" (1972). Laid in is a typed letter from Irene, a Paul Kohner agency representative, dated June 16, 1970, addressed to actor Charles Bronson, suggesting he...
San Francisco: RKO, Circa 1939. Original menu from the "Famous RKO Grill" in San Francisco, California, circa 1939. The massive and varied menu includes food for all three meals of the day, including Italian dishes, Mexican dishes, and Kosher sandwiches and boasts "we never close," in what is clearly a precursor to the anything-you-could want all-night diner. The menu likely...
Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1966. Vintage photograph from the 1966 film. With holograph notations 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...
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 notations on the verso. An important film of the New Hollywood movement, and one of the best and least moralistic ones made on the subject...
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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...
Hollywood: Warner Brothers, Circa 1940s. Original menu from the Sunset Bowling Center in Hollywood, California, circa 1940s. Built in 1919 to house the executive offices and principal studios for Warner Brothers, filming was moved to Burbank beginning in 1930, and by 1938 the property was converted to a massive 52-lane bowling alley, the Sunset Bowling Center. The bowling alley was...
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...
Santa Monica: Miramax, 1993. Last Draft script for the 1994 film. Likely belonging to a crew member, with pink, blue, and green revision pages, and occasional holograph notations in black ink throughout. Arguably Tarantino's masterpiece, a noirish series of three stories told together in cutup style, not unlike the novels of William S. Burroughs, each with one violent narrative folding...
N.p. N.p., 1971. Vintage hand painted metal sign advertising Itala Pilsen beer, which hung prominently in the Sicilian cafe frequented by Michael Corleone in "The Godfather." From the collection of Sam Verts, who worked as the Assistant Art Director on the film, with full provenance. 19.75 x 13 inches (50 x 33 cm). Very Good plus, with expected wear at...
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers / Seven Arts, 1967. Vintage borderless, double weight, oversize press photograph of writer Alice B. Toklas used to promote the 1968 film starring Peter Sellers. With credit stamps for Warner Brothers, as well as Pictorial Press and Gamma press agencies on the verso. Sellers plays a thirtysomething attorney who, dissatisfied with his life and impending marriage...
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...
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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...