New York: Independent-International Pictures, 1974. Original Pressbook for the 1974 Blaxploitation film "Mean Mother." Notable as a slightly atypical Blaxploitation film hailing from Italy, "Mean Mother" tells the story of two Vietnam War deserters who flee to Spain and Italy and get involved in the European crime world. Shot partly on location in Italy. Largely low-budget and geared towards a......
Garden City: Doubleday, 1987. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Author's acclaimed first book, a novel about Vietnam. From the collection of Chris Offut. 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” magazine. He has.....
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1973. Vintage black and white reference photograph from the 1973 film. With a studio snipe and rubber stamp from Columbia-Warner Distributors in London on the verso. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.
N.p. Jerome Hellman Productions, 1978. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1978 film. Snipe affixed to the verso and folded around the still. Won three Academy Awards, including Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Screenplay. Jane Fonda conceived of this Vietnam War era drama in which a military wife falls for a paraplegic veteran, while her own husband is off.....
Santa Monica, CA: Playboy Productions, 1977. Final Draft script for the 1978 film. Based on Theroux's 1973 novel. Jack (Gazzara) is an entrepreneurial pimp in Singapore who dreams of operating his own brothel. Set against the backdrop of a waning Vietnam War, with the CIA offering Jack the opportunity to be the go-to man for US soldiers in need of.....
Santa Monica, CA: Playboy Productions, 1977. First Draft script for the 1979 film. Based on Theroux's 1973 novel. Jack (Gazzara) is an entrepreneurial pimp in Singapore who dreams of operating his own brothel. Set against the backdrop of a waning Vietnam War, with the CIA offering Jack the opportunity to be the go-to man for US soldiers in need of.....
N.p. N.p. Treatment script for an unproduced television series. Beans is the chauffeur secret agent Jedediah Norris, a beautiful young woman who is in graduate school and adopted from Vietnam during the war by her father, a black man named Tom Callahan. She is also a gourmet chef and is in desperate love with her boss, but he only seems.....
St. Albans: Tillman Trevone Productions Ltd., 1974. Final draft script for an unproduced film. From the estate of film producer Elliott Kastner, whose best known credits include "The Long Goodbye” (Robert Altman, 1973), "The Missouri Breaks" (Arthur Penn, 1976), and “Heat” (Michael Mann, 1996). John Briley, Academy Award winning screenwriter for Richard Attenborough's 1982 epic "Gandhi," adapts his 1968 Vietnam War.....
New York: Random House, 1969. First Edition. INSCRIBED by James Crumley on the title page to fellow author Chris Offutt: "Offutt = Here we are in Missoula when our name [sic] have just been in the New Yorker / James Crumley / 9/9/97." The author's first book, a story of the US Army in peacetime during 1962, set on a base.....
Universal City, CA: Becerkamn Productions / Universal, Circa 1970s. First Draft script for an unproduced film called "One to Count Cadence," written by Lorenzo Semple, Jr., based on James Crumley's 1969 first novel, a violent Vietnam War tale of friendship and survival. Agency copy, with an address label from the Paul Kohner agency in Hollywood on the front wrapper. Blue.....
Beverly Hills, CA: American Broadcasting Company [ABC], 1968. First Draft script for the 1971 television movie, "The Reluctant Heroes," here under the working title, "The Egghead on Hill 56." This script is set during the Vietnam War, with scenes set in South Vietnam and characters speaking in Vietnamese, and it is presumed the setting was changed when screenwriter Ernie Frankel.....
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Los Angeles: Edgar J. Scherick Associates, 1987. Final Draft script for the 1988 television film, here under the working title "Eminent Domain," originally aired on ABC on January 17, 1988. With the name and phone number of casting agent Pam Dixon in holograph ink to the title page, and holograph annotations throughout noting lines for the character Tiger, whose name.....
Los Angeles: American International Pictures [AIP], 1976. Draft script for the 1977 film. One of the best unheralded revenge thrillers of the 1970s, with William Devane taking an unusual turn as a sympathetic character, though forced to be quite cold-blooded. Playing a Vietnam veteran with absolutely nothing left to lose, Devane beats a warpath from Texas to Mexico in pursuit.....
Paris: Concordia Compagnia Cinematografica, 1967. Four vintage borderless reference photographs from the set of the 1967 film. Studio rubber stamp on the verso. One of the photos features Marina Vlady sharing a cigarette with Roger Montsoret. Based on a 1966 article on casual prostitution in France by Catherine Viminet. One of three feature films Godard released in 1967, and like.....
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Burbank, CA: American Broadcasting Company [ABC], 1975. Second Revised Draft script for the 1976 film "The Desperate Miles," seen here under the title "No Help Required." A disabled Vietnam war veteran takes a road trip from LA to San Diego in his wheelchair to prove himself. Green titled wrappers, noted as 2nd Rev. on the front wrapper, production No. 42128, dated.....
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N.p. N.p., 1966. Heavily corrected original typescript for a story by Dieter Dengler and ghost-writer Trevor Armbrister, "Dengler" (here with the hand-corrected title, "Vietnam Exclusive: I Escaped from a Red Prison"). The story first appeared in the December 3, 1966 issue of the "Saturday Evening Post," and was adapted many years later by noted German director Werner Herzog for his.....
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1988. Lined revised final draft script for the 1989 film in leather presentation binding belonging to editor Louis Lombardo, with name in gilt on front board, title in gilt on front board and spine. Signed on upper right of wrapper by editor Tony Gibbs in holograph red ink. Copious holograph annotations on nearly every page regarding.....
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1986. Draft script for the 1989 film. Based on the 1985 novel by Bobbi Ann Mason. A subdued study on the effects of the Vietnam War on a small Kentucky town. The film centers around a 19 year old girl whose father was killed in the war, and who seeks to find out more about his.....
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1968. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page. The author's experiences reporting for the "Washington Post," covering the war and the politics of the country. Very Good plus in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Light foxing to the top page edges, owner inscription on the half-title page. Jacket spine moderately sunned, faint ring.....
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover and wrappered edition. Hardcover edition INSCRIBED by the author to director Tony Bill on the page opposite the half-title page: "Tony / With love and respect to a truly wonderful man! / Always / Ron Kovic." Wrappered edition INSCRIBED on the inside front wrapper verso: "Tony / Thank you for everything.....
N.p. N.p., 1976. Draft script for an unproduced film. A man shot down during the Vietnam War is held in a POW camp and tortured by a Frenchman who he hopes to hunt down after his release. He survives his ordeal and through some powerful Washington contacts is granted the name of his captor and heads to Paris to kill.....
N.p. Various, Circa 1966-1996. Archive of material from the estate of Michael Dreyfuss, violinist for progressive folk-rock band McKendree Spring, including material spanning over four decades, with the majority of the material dating from the band's heyday in the 1970s. This listing includes 15 posters, 817 pages of material from the creation of at least five McKendree Spring albums, 158.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1970s. Vintage poster blank (or proof) for a performance by progressive folk-rock band McKendree Spring, with date, time, location, and ticket information intentionally left blank, likely dating from the 1970s. From the estate of McKendree Spring violinist Michael Dreyfuss. Dreyfuss pioneered the use of violins distorted by electronic and analog synthesizers, counting synthesizer inventor Robert Moog amongst.....
New York: N.p., circa 1970s. Collection of six vintage promotional photographs of progressive folk-rock group McKendree Spring from the estate of violinist Michael Dreyfuss, likely dating from the 1970s. Dreyfuss pioneered the use of violins distorted by electronic and analog synthesizers, counting synthesizer inventor Robert Moog amongst his close friends, and McKendree Spring largely became known for the experimental sound.....
![When You Comin [Comin'] Back, Red Ryder? (Original script for the 1973 play). Mark Medoff,...](/pictures/thumb/147495.jpg?v=1588403893)
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.....
California: Eve Productions, 1965. Vintage black-and-white film still photograph from the 1965 film. French writer Stephan Bourgoin's rubber stamp on the verso. Seen in the still is Haji, as a voluptuous Cajun woman named Ruby, and Alex Rocco, as a veterinarian named Cory whose wife was raped by a sex-hungry motorcycle gang, the same Vietnam Vet-led gang that killed Ruby's.....
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Romania: Eve Productions, Circa 1970s. Two vintage oversize borderless black-and-white lobby cards from a 1970s Romanian release of the 1965 US film. Rubber-stamped on the versos MOTQRPSICHO [sic] FAVORIT, indicative of the Cinema Favorit in Romania, once the largest and most popular cinema in the country, and one that operated even under the then-Communist regime. One lobby card also bears.....
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1971. Vintage Australian insert poster for the 1971 US film. Printed by Robert Burton Pty., in Sydney. Based on screenwriter Larner's 1964 novel. Nominated for the Palme d'Or, and a key film in the BBS Productions cycle of the early 1970s, as well as a New Hollywood film, albeit lesser-known. Hector (Tepper) plays college basketball.....
San Francisco: Lucasfilm, 1979. Vintage black-and-white studio still photograph from the American release of the 1979 film. Sequel to George Lucas' film "American Graffiti," set in the midst of the Vietnam War. The characters are now in the full swing of 1960s America. Set in California, shot on location in various locations around California. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine.....
Culver City, CA: TriStar Pictures, 1988. Draft script for the 1988 film. A bloody Rutger Hauer vengeance vehicle, with Hauer here portraying a blind Vietnam vet, trained as a swordfighter, who comes to America to rescue the son of a fellow soldier. Untitled blue-gray wrappers. Title page present, dated February 26, 1988, with credits for screenwriter Carner, director Noyce. 107.....
New York: Doubleday, 1996. First Edition. Association copy, warmly INSCRIBED by O'Nan to fellow author Chris Offutt on the title page. From the collection of Chris Offutt. 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” magazine. He has.....
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, Circa 1982. First Draft script for the 1982 film, written for the screen by James Kirkwood, based on his 1975 novel. Credited solely to Kirkwood, and with a paper spine label indicating the script dates to December 1976, over five years prior to the film's production. With brief but substantive corrections in holograph pencil on four pages.....
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1981. Draft script for the 1982 film, written for the screen by James Kirkwood and Robert Boris. Based on the 1975 novel by Kirkwood. A key Vietnam film and an underrated performance by Richard Pryor serving in both dramatic and comedic capacities. A Vietnam vet returns home from a prisoner of war camp and is greeted as.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the half-title page. Basis for the 1983 Robert Altman film starring Matthew Modine, Michael Wright, Mitchell Lichtenstein, and David Alan Grier. Rabe won the New York Drama Critics Award for this, the final installment of the his Vietnam War trilogy. Light foxing to the page and board.....
Beverly Hills, CA: The Where's Poppa Company, 1969. First Revised Draft script for the 1970 film. Based on the 1970 novel. A stark black comedy in which Gordon, stuck caring for his senile mother, becomes increasingly frustrated with his inability to have a love life due to her interference. The first of Carl Reiner's early directorial efforts intended to push the.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1982. Draft script for the 1982 "American Playhouse" television episode, which aired on April 6 on PBS. With a single holograph annotation to the title page. A decorated black Vietnam veteran with PTSD finds it difficult to readjust to civilian life, and seeks unconventional psychiatric treatment at the Valley Forge Army Hospital. Set in Valley Forge, PA. Black titled Studio.....
Boston: Little, Brown / Atlantic Monthly Press, 1973. First Edition. Novelization of the author's experience as a Marine during the Vietnam War. Foxing to the top edges, with toning and a few tiny tears to the jacket, else Near Fine and unread in a Near Fine, price-clipped dust jacket.
Atlanta: All Girls Productions, 1990. Revised Draft script for the 1991 film. With the help of the singer and dancer Dixie Leonhard US-Entertainer Eddie Sparks wants to bring some fun to the soldiers during World War II. Becoming a perfect team they tour from North Africa to the Pacific to act for "the boys." Later they continue their work but.....
Culver City, CA: Mitchell J. Hamilburg Agency / Columbia Pictures, 1976. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1976 film. A film that would prove to be the turning point in the careers of director Martin Scorsese, screenwriter Paul Schrader, and actors Robert DeNiro and Jodie Foster, and one that has only gained significance with the passage of time. Exhibiting elements.....
New York: Self published, 1968. Vintage double sided flyer promoting one of the best-known direct actions of the Dadaist anarchist protest group Up Against the Wall Motherfucker, a.k.a. The Motherfuckers. The flyer shows an image of a conductor in front of an open casket, surrounded by an orchestra interspersed with garbage. The verso implores the public to bring garbage to.....
Washington D.C. Peace Papers, Circa 1960s. Vintage two-color antiwar poster likely dating from the late 1960s, featuring a repeated image of a green sweater covered in pins that tout anti-nuclear proliferation and antiwar slogans. From the estate of McKendree Spring violinist Michael Dreyfuss. As a child Dreyfuss fled the Nazis in 1936, likely accounting for this later antiwar sentiment. Dreyfuss.....
Los Angeles: Apocalypse Corporation, 1966. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper: 'TO BROTHER JOHN / William Wilson." Jacket art by Terry Gates, illustrating one way enemies were castrated and decapitated, their mouths sewn shut, and their heads stuck on a post outside camp. The Korean Marine Corps was notorious for this practice. Setting the stage for.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1980s. Draft script for an unproduced film A drama written in the wake of the Vietnam War. White untitled wrappers. Title page present, with credits for screenwriter Shimon Wincelberg. 154 leaves, with last page of text numbered 150. Xerographically reproduced. Pages Fine, wrapper Near Fine, bound internally with three gold brads.
N.p. N.p., 1985. Draft script for an unproduced film. A depiction of the struggles of two US soldiers after returning home from the Vietnam War. Copper untitled wrappers. Title page present, dated 1985, with credits for screenwriter Jesse Wolf. 128 leaves, with last page of text numbered 127. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good plus, bound with three.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1983. First Edition. Author's first novel, about the Vietnam War and its aftermath. Jacket design by Paul Bacon. Light foxing to the top page edges, else Near Fine and unread in an about Fine dust jacket.