![Rhythm an' Hardtimes [Hard Times] (Signed First Edition). Lillian Allen](/pictures/thumb/145658.jpg?v=1560892786)
Toronto: Domestic Bliss, 1982. First Edition. INSCRIBED and dated in the year of publication by the author on the verso of the front wrapper: "Doug / Poetry make me warm / Makes Wendy think of you / How about you / Love / Lillian Allen / Oct 82." The first book by the Jamaican born Canadian writer, Juno Award winning...
![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, notations in holograph pencil and ink throughout, one page noting scene wardrobe changes, and custom place markers at the fore-edges noting scene...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1974. First Draft script for an unproduced film. With a single notation to the title page in holograph pencil. The Mick is a hardened, Irish cop in Chicago, loved by the people for busting pedophiles and hated by authority when that pedophile turns out to be the Bulgarian ambassador. He is reassigned to a Edgartown located...
![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...
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...
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...
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...
![L'isola degli uomini pesce [Island of the Fishmen, Screamers, Volcano Island] (Original...](/pictures/thumb/138440.jpg?v=1492979971)
Italy: Dania Film, Circa 1978. Draft script for the 1979 Italian film, "L'isola degli uomini pesce" (Island of the Fishmen), here under the working title, "Volcano Island." Rereleased in America in 1980 as "Something Waits in the Dark," and again in 1981 as "Screamers," by Roger Corman's New World Pictures, and in 2009 under its directly translated title "Island of...
Toluca Lake, CA: Talisman Productions, 1983. Revised Draft script for an unproduced film called "The Legend of the Black Madonna," written by Robert W. Morgan, a renowned expert in the field of Bigfoot (Sasquatch). Several leaves of illustrations precede the text of the script, including drawings of the Madonna's chapel and monastery, and Blackbeard's battle flag. Laid in is a....
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...
![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...