London: AVCO Embassy Pictures, 1973. Draft script for the 1974 film. From the collection of still photographer Bob Willoughby. Rainbow copy with blue, pink, and white leaves. Included are six vintage black-and-white reference still photographs from the film. Bob Willoughby (1927-2009) studied with Saul Bass at the Kann Institute of Art in Los Angeles, worked as a photographer for magazines.....
![Burn [Quemada] (Photograph archive containing original negatives, contact sheets, and color...](/pictures/thumb/137566.jpg?v=1492979679)
Beverly Hills, CA: Emidela / United Artists, 1969. Collection of vintage black-and-white negatives, contact sheets, and mounted slides and transparencies from the 1969 Italian-French film, "Burn!," here under the original Spanish title "Quemada." From the collection of Sam Gilman, with his name on several of the film processing envelopes in holograph ink. Gilman did not work in this film, but.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1976. Two vintage double weight satin-finish reference photographs taken during filming on location for the 1976 British film, showing actors Oscar James and Sheila Scott-Wilkinson between takes. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. A second-generation Black British teenager struggles to find his place in the world, facing estrangement from both his family, who were.....
![Dangerous Paradise [Victory] (Original screenplay for the 1930 film). Joseph Conrad, William A....](/pictures/thumb/131052.jpg?v=1451421592)
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1929. Final White Draft script for the 1930 film. Studio file copy, rubber-stamped on the front wrapper. Based on Joseph Conrad's 1915 novel, "Victory," the second of ten feature adaptations, preceded by Maurice Tourneur's 1919 film. Heyst (Arlen) is a hermit on an island who offers shelter to a redhead named Alma (Carroll), and the two live.....
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1967. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1967 film. Snipe printed in blue ink on the verso. The film follows a sardonic hotel owner who witnesses the chaos in Haiti under the Papa Doc Duvalier regime. Starring Elizabeth Taylor in a role originally meant for Sophia Loren. Shot on location in Benin and France. 8.....
![The Great McGinty [Down Went McGinty] (Original screenplay for the 1940 film). Preston Sturges,...](/pictures/thumb/151485.jpg?v=1638078174)
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1939. Master File script for the 1940 film "The Great McGinty," seen here under the working title, "Down Went McGinty," corrected in red pencil to "The Great McGinty." This revision contains an appropriately unusual and rather whimsical foreword by Sturges, with two earlier titles, "Biography of a Bum" and "The Vagrant," cited on the second and fourth.....
New York: Vanguard, 1959. First American Edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page. The Nobel prize winning author's first book, and basis for the 2001 film directed by Ismail Merchant. Near Fine in a strong Very Good plus dust jacket. Faint splash to the top page edge. Jacket has a sticker shadow on the front panel, with light.....
![Island Women [Calypso Island] (Original screenplay for the 1958 film, Marie Windsor's copy)....](/pictures/thumb/137620.jpg?v=1492979723)
Hollywood: Security Pictures, 1957. Revised Draft script for the 1958 film, "Island Women," here under the working title, "Calypso Island." Copy belonging to actress Marie Windsor, with her name in holograph ink on the first page of text, annotations in holograph pencil and ink throughout, one page noting scene wardrobe changes, and custom place markers at the fore-edges noting scene.....
London: Faber and Faber, 1968. First Edition. REVIEW COPY, with slip laid in, INSCRIBED by Harris to Jamaican novelist, Andrew Salkey, on the front endpaper: "Andrew Salkey / Very best wishes, admiration and respect / Wilson Harris." A tremendous association between two important Caribbean writers who were also both highly respected intellectuals. Harris was born in Guyana, and began as.....