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.... read more about Mean Mother (Original Film Pressbook)
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..... read more about Sympathy for the Devil (Signed First Edition)
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 (20 x 25 cm). Near Fine. read more about The Last Detail (Original photograph from the 1973 film)
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... read more about Coming Home (Original photograph from the 1978 film)
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..... read more about Beans (Original teleplay script for an unproduced television series)
Los Angeles: Cannon Film Distributors, 1985. Revised script for the 1987 film. Set in the Hoa Lo P.O.W. prison in Hanoi, Vietnam and told through the perspective of the American prisoners there. Shot on location in London. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present, dated August 12, 1985, with a credit for screenwriter Chetwynd. 116 leaves, mimegraph. Pages Near Fine, wrapper... read more about The Hanoi Hilton (Original screenplay for the 1987 film)
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... read more about One to Count Cadence (First Edition, inscribed to author Chris Offutt)
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... read more about One to Count Cadence (Original screenplay for an unproduced film)
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... read more about The Reluctant Heroes [The Egghead on Hill 56] (Original screenplay for the 1971 film)
Los Angeles: Carolco Pictures Inc., 1991. Two Draft scripts for the 1992 film. The first draft (dated 1/11/91) gives credits for the film's original screenwriters, Philippe Browning and Andrew Davis. Two months later, as seen in the second draft (dated 3/30/91), the script was rewritten by Dean Devlin ("Independence Day," 1996, and "Godzilla," 1998), and he would be given sole... read more about Universal Soldier (Two draft scripts for the 1992 film)
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 no less cold-blooded. Playing a Viet Nam veteran with absolutely nothing left to lose, Devane beats a warpath from Texas to Mexico in pursuit of a.... read more about Rolling Thunder (Original screenplay for the 1977 film)
New York: HBO Pictures, 1998. Original Press Kit for the 1998 television film. Based on Neil Sheehan's 1988 Pulitzer Prize-winning book, abut a retired Army Lieutenant John Paul Vann and his involvement in the Vietnam War. Eric Bogosian, Bill Whelan, and Vivian Wu also starred in the film, which was nominated for a Primetime Emmy. A realistic portrayal of what... read more about A Bright Shining Lie (Original Film Press Kit)
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... read more about Two or Three Things I Know About Her... (Four original photographs from the set of the 1967 film)
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... read more about The Desperate Miles [No Help Required] (Original screenplay for the 1975 television movie)
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... read more about Dengler [Vietnam Exclusive: I Escaped from a Red Prison] (Original corrected manuscript)
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1987. First Draft script for the pilot espisode of the 1988 television series. Set in Vietnam. White titled wrappers. Title page present, dated September 3, 1987, noted as First Draft, with credits for screenwriter Young and creators Young and Broyles, Jr. 113 leaves, mechanically reproduced, with blue revision pages throughout, dated November 14, 1987. Pages Fine, wrapper Fine, bound with two gold brads. read more about China Beach (Original teleplay script for the 1988 television series)
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... read more about In Country (Original screenplay for the 1989 film)
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... read more about To What End: Report from Vietnam (Signed First Edition)
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... read more about Around the World in Eight Days (Signed First Edition, hardcover and wrappered editions)
New York: Award House / Crown, 1966. First Edition. Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. Jacket is rubbed and nick along the top and bottom edge, with a couple of closed tears. A very presentable copy. read more about Dateline: Vietnam (First Edition)
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..... read more about Revenge (Original screenplay for an unproduced film)
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... read more about Archive of McKendree Spring material from the estate of violinist Michael Dreyfuss
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..... read more about McKendree Spring music tour poster blank (Original poster for an undated tour appearance)
Williamsburg, VA: William and Mary University, 1972. Vintage poster for the 1972 Virginia Music Festival, held at William and Mary University in Williamsburg, Virginia on April 7 and 8. This poster originates from the estate of progressive folk-rock group McKendree Spring violinist Michael Dreyfuss, who played in the festival. An attractive poster featuring troubadours being towed by a camel under... read more about Virginia Music Festival Poster, circa 1973 (Original poster for the Virginia Music Festival)
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..... read more about Six photographs of Folk Rock band McKendree Spring (Six original photographs from the archive of...
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... read more about Motorpsycho (Original photograph from the 1965 film)
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... read more about Motorpsycho [Motorpsicho] (Two original lobby cards from the 1965 film)
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... read more about Drive, He Said (Original Australian poster for the 1971 film)
New York: Cannon Group, 1986. Revised First Draft script for the 1988 film. Seen here under the film's working title, "Missing in Action III," on the title page. Brief notations throughout in holograph ink, noting changes to dialogue. Colonel James Braddock (Norris) is told that his wife and son are still alive in Communist Vietnam, so he mounts a one-man... read more about Braddock: Missing in Action III [Missing in Action III] (Original screenplay for the 1988 film)
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 (25.5 x.... read more about More American Graffiti (Original photograph from the 1979 film)
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... read more about Blind Fury (Original screenplay for the 1989 film)
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..... read more about The Names of the Dead (First Edition, inscribed to fellow author Chris Offutt)
New York: Doubleday, 1996. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the title page: "For Tony Bill / This cold, rainy march of a novel / Stewart O'Nan." From the collection of Oscar-winning director-producer Tony Bill, whose credits include "The Sting" (1973, producer), "Soldier in the Rain" (1963, actor), "Shampoo" (1975, actor), and "Five Corners" (1987, director-producer). Foxing to the... read more about The Names of the Dead (First Edition, inscribed to film director and producer Tony Bill)
New York: Henry Holt, 1999. First Edition. Association copy, warmly INSCRIBED by O'Nan to fellow author Chris Offutt on the title page in the year of publication: "For Chris / This psycho-tronic trip into fake history / With much love and luck / Stewart O'Nan / Iowa City / 23 April 99." Notably, the inscription was made in Iowa City... read more about A Prayer for the Dying (First Edition, inscribed to fellow author Chris Offutt)
New York: Doubleday, 1994. First Edition. Association copy, warmly INSCRIBED by O'Nan to fellow author Chris Offutt on the title page, and making mention of an antecedent they share: "For Chris Offutt / Fellow Robert Stone disciple." From the collection of Chris Offutt. Offutt is the author of “Kentucky Straight” and other short story collections, novels, nonfiction, and memoirs, and, in..... read more about Snow Angels (First Edition, inscribed to fellow author Chris Offutt)
New York: The Dial Press, 1970. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the First Edition. Basis for the 1973 film directed by Hal Ashby, and starring Jack Nicholson and a young Randy Quaid. Near Fine in printed tall blue perfect bound wrappers. read more about The Last Detail (Uncorrected Proof)
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... read more about Some Kind of Hero (Original screenplay for the 1982 film)
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... read more about Some Kind of Hero (Original screenplay for the 1982 film)
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... read more about Streamers (Signed First Edition)
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. read more about Sand in the Wind (First Edition)
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... read more about For the Boys (Original screenplay for the 1991 film)
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1975. Collection of 8 vintage full color lobby cards from the 1976 film. This set dated 1975, one year before the film's official release, produced for press advertisement. A film that would prove to be the turning point in the careers of director Martin Scorsese, screenwriter Paul Schrader, and actors Robert De Niro and Jodie... read more about Taxi Driver (Collection of 8 original lobby cards from the 1976 film)
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1975. Collection of 8 vintage full color lobby cards from the 1976 film. This set dated 1975, one year before the film's official release, produced for press advertisement. A film that would prove to be the turning point in the careers of director Martin Scorsese, screenwriter Paul Schrader, and actors Robert De Niro and Jodie... read more about Taxi Driver (Collection of 8 original US lobby cards for the 1976 film)
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... read more about Taxi Driver (Original photograph from the 1976 film)
Los Angeles: Paul Kohner-Michael Levy Agency, Circa 1970s. Draft script for an unproduced film called "David," written by Cecile Tang and Dean Barrett, based on an original story by Tang. Agency copy, with the address label present from the Paul Kohner, Inc. agency. Copy belonging to agency representative Ilse Lahn, with her name in holograph ink on the address label... read more about David (Original screenplay for an unproduced film)
New York: Self published, 1968. First Edition. Double sided flyer for 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..... read more about WE PROPOSE A CULTURE EXCHANGE: (garbage for garbage) (Original 1968 flyer)
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... read more about Original antiwar poster from an unknown artist
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... read more about The LBJ Brigade (Signed First Edition)
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. Photographically reproduced. Pages Fine, wrapper Near Fine, bound internally with three gold brads. read more about Hard News (Original screenplay for an unproduced film)
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. Mechanically reproduced. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good plus, bound with three gold brads. read more about Restless Minds (Original screenplay for an unproduced film)
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. read more about Meditations in Green (First Edition)
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