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 (20 x 25 cm). 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...
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.....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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, 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.....
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...
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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 annotations 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...
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....
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.....
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...
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.....
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...
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: 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...
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...
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. Photographically 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. Mechanically reproduced. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good plus, bound with three gold brads.
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.