Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1960. Final Shooting script for the 1960 film. Loosely based on the 1912 novel by Arthur Conan Doyle, a team of scientists, led by Professor Challenger (Claude Rains), launch an expedition into a remote plateau in the Amazonian jungle in search of dinosaurs. Initially intended by director Irwin Allen to be a star studded blockbuster in...

Norfolk, VA: Donning, 1986-1987. Archive of five issues of the graphic novel series, "Thieves' World," adapted by Robert Aspirin and Lynn Abbey, with artwork by Tim Sale, from original stories by Poul Anderson, Robin Bailey, John Brunner, C.J. Cherryh, Diane Duane, Philip Jose Farmer, Joe Haldeman, Vonda McIntyre, Andrew J. Offutt, and more. From the estate of Andrew J. Offutt.....

Culver City, CA: Associated Producers Inc., 1959. Draft script for the 1959 film. Sequel to Kurt Neumann's "The Fly," and taking place one year after the conclusion of that film. Phillipe Delambre (Brett Halsey) takes up his father's work of matter transmission, and with his uncle Francois (Vincent Price) they accidentally produce a monstrous creature, a man with the head...

N.p. John Boorman Productions, 1974. Vintage borderless double weight photograph from the 1974 film. Rubber stamp crediting Michel Ciment on the verso. After the critical and commercial success of 1972's "Deliverance," director John Boorman was given almost total creative freedom for his next film. He responded by costuming Sean Connery (in only his second post-Bond film) in red briefs and...

London: British Lion Films, 1956. Collection of 8 vintage full-color still photographs from the 1956 UK release of the 1954 French-Italian film. An Italian Peplum (sword-and-sandal) film, set in 600 BC, about a rebellion against a king, a plot on his life, and the beautiful queen caught in the middle of it all. 8 x 10 inches (20 x 25...

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers Television, 1998. Draft script for Season one, episode 11 of the 1998-1999 television series, which originally aired January 29, 1999 on FOX. Copy belonging to actor Brian O'Sullivan who played Brian Reed in the episode, with his name and character on a label tipped onto the front wrapper. A deceased cop is sent back to earth...

London: Morningside Worldwide Pictures, Circa 1975. Early Revised Draft script for the 1963 British-American film, dated two years prior to its release. First generation reproduction, likely made for educational purposes circa early-mid 1970s, evidenced by the use of a photocopy process (not employed in the UK until the early 1970s). The script's vintage is also evidenced by the postal code...

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1984. Revised Draft script for the 1986 film. During an earthquake, a Cro-Magnon girl (Hannah) is separated from her family and subsequently orphaned. A family of Neanderthals find her and raise her as their own. The film is primarily told through sign language. Nominated for an Academy Award. Filmed on location in British Columbia, Canada. Royal...

Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1935. Vintage photograph of director Rene Clair on the set of the 1935 film. With the stamp of Pathe-RKO on the verso. Based on the 1935 short story "Sir Tristram Goes West" by Eric Keown, first published in "Punch" magazine, about an American who buys a Scottish castle and has it moved to Florida, unaware...

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1974. Draft script for the 1979 film. Based on the 1966 novel "Path to Savagery" by Robert Edmond Alter. Copy belonging to uncredited crew member Walter Mirisch, with his name in blue holograph ink on the title page, and with a holograph note in the same blue ink paper-clipped to the front wrapper. A grim...

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers / Seven Arts, 1968. Three vintage borderless studio still photographs from the set of the 1968 film. Warner Brothers optioned the musical shortly after its premiere in 1947, but Harburg and Saidy were unwilling to tone down the racial satire to fit studio demands, holding out until the option was about to expire and Warner agreed...

Ottawa, Canada: Crawley Films Limited, 1963-1966. Archive of press material and photographs for the 1963 Canadian film, and for the twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of the production company, Crawley Films. F.R. "Budge" Crawley was Canada's answer to Hollywood's Sam Goldwyn, and he produced hundreds of films during his 40-year career, including the Academy Award-winning 1975 documentary, "The Man Who...

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] / Charles H. Schneer Productions / Peerford, 1981. Final Revised Draft script for the 1981 film. British script for the US-UK co-production, with the address of UK production company Peerford on the title page. The final film to feature creature design and visual effects by pioneering stop motion animator Ray Harryhausen, a fitting send off...

Rome: Cineriz, 1962. Original program for the Italian-French film, undated but issued upon the 1962 premiere. Unfolds to three panels of film synopsis and credits, and full-color film stills of Loren, Ekberg, Schneider and others. A four episode anthology exploring morality and love. Working-class lovers, Renzo and Luciana in a secret marriage (Solinas, Gilioli), a billboard of a blonde woman...

Paris: France Cinema, 1961. Collection of 9 vintage borderless black-and-white still photographs from the 1961 Italian-French film, here under the original French title, "Les Mongols." Rubber-stamps on the versos, crediting photographer Dorka and street address. Palance and Ekberg are present in a few photos, including two candid images of Ekberg. Housed in brown envelope and fold, both with French film...

Burbank, CA: Walt Disney Productions, 1938. Vintage studio press photograph of an animator painting a transparency of the character of Snow White from the 1937 film. Mimeo snipe on the verso. Disney’s first full length animated feature, and one of the first animated feature films period, Snow White cost over $1.5 million, a huge sum at the time, and took...

Paris: Filmsonor, 1955. Collection of 17 original single weight still photographs from the 1955 French-West German film. Starring actress Hold is seen in heated embrace and anxiously gazing off-camera, with portraits of Isabelle Pia and Hold, and images of Vidal and Vaneck together. Mimeo snipe on the verso of a small Hold portrait, and on the verso of eight are...

London: Grand National Pictures, 1961. Vintage full-color still photograph from the 1961 UK release of the 1961 Italian-French film. Steve Reeves stars, several years after his Mr. Universe triumph, in what is commonly perceived as one of the better films to take on the Trojan War. A handsome Peplum (sword-and-sandal) installment, and one carrying a surprisingly high budget. 8 x....

Burbank, CA: Walt Disney Productions, 1954. Final Shooting Script for the 1954 film, with blue, yellow, and green revisions throughout. Based on the 1870 novel "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" by Jules Verne. Walt Disney's "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" was one of the most expensive and ambitious productions of its time. A 200 foot submarine, a 225 pound...

Beverly Hills, CA: Orion, 1989. Revised Draft script for the 1991 film. Copy belonging to Brad Ricker, an unknown crew member, with his name on the front wrapper in holograph ink. EVE VIII is a military cyborg, designed to look like her creator. When it is damaged during a bank robbery, it begins accessing dark and tragic personal memories of...

Paris: Gaumont, 1987. Vintage oversize borderless photograph of Jean-Luc Godard from the 1987 film. With holograph annotations on the verso. An experimental film that irreverently mixes genres, twisting together a broad range of references to literature, film comedy, and the history of cinema. Starring Godard himself as a filmmaker, thus blurring the fictional category from the outset. Made the same...

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1947. Vintage photograph from the set of the 1947 film. With a mimeo snipe and stamp crediting photographer Irving Lippman. Victoria Stafford, (Ginger Rogers) has left three men at the alter, but after meeting the man of her dreams, a firefighter named Johnny Blaine (Cornel Wilde), she says "yes". 10 x 8 inches (25.5 x 20.5 cm). Near Fine.

Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1968. Vintage borderless full-color double weight photograph from the US release of the 1968 UK film. Pictured are Dick Van Dyke and Sally Ann Howes in a heated embrace. Based on the 1964 three-part novel by James Bond creator, Ian Fleming (and produced by Albert. R. Broccoli, who produced nearly all of the "Bond" films)...

Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1968. Vintage borderless photograph from the 1968 film. Based on the 1964 novel by Ian Fleming, about a down-on-his-luck inventor who transforms an old race car into a magical machine and sets off with his children on an adventure. 10 x 8 (25 x 20 cm). Near Fine.

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1956. Vintage still photograph of Gene Kelly from the 1956 film. With holograph annotations on the verso. Comprised of three separate stories told only through dance and mime. Each featuring Gene Kelly in the lead role, first as Kelly the clown in "Circus", a Marine in "Ring Around The Rosy" and as Sinbad in "Sinbad...

Germany: Decla-Bioscop / UFA, 1924. Original program for the German premiere of the films "Die Nibelungen: Sigfried" and "Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge" on February 14, 1924, based on the thirteenth century epic poem "Nibelungenlied." Also included is a supplemental program for UFA theatres, featuring another brief essay on the film, information on the theatres, and advertisements. Text of both in...

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures / Hammer Films, 1961. Deluxe publicity manual for the 1962 film. Based on H.L. Lawrenece's 1960 novel "The Children of Light." An extensive publication, containing cast and crew lists and biographies, a synopsis of the film, stories from the film's production, and captions for still photographs (though the stills are not included with the manual)...

New York: Ballantine / Del Rey, 1979. First Edition in hardcover. Preceded by a paperback original, also published by Ballantine Books in 1971. The second installment in Anne McCaffrey's prolific and celebrated "The Dragon Riders of Pern" series. Notable for its shift towards a feminine perspective in science fiction, basically unheard of prior to McCaffrey's influence. "Dragonflight," the first novel...

Burbank, CA: Warner Home Video / Cannon Group, 1994. Draft script for the 1994 film. Here under the working title, "Voices." Chuck Norris does his vigilante thing as no one else can in the this Cannon quickie, but with a horror twist. Two Chicago police officers are investigating the murder of a local Rabbi when their search leads them to...

New York: Ace Books, 1981. No. 79138-7. Vintage paperback. First printing of this edition. Based on Robert E. Howard's "Conan" stories, "Cormac mac Art" is a king by birth, a "freebooter" by choice, and a man destined for greatness. Written by Andrew J. Offutt (a few co-authored by Keith Taylor), who wrote sleaze paperbacks as John Cleve, Turk Winter, and...

New York: Ace Books, 1980. No. 44469-5. First Edition, a paperback original. INSCRIBED by the author on the first page to his son, noted writer Chris Offutt: "For Chris / my son / Andrew J. Offutt." From the author's estate. Cover art by Rowena. An illustrated paperback, with fifty illustrations by Esteban Maroto. Very Good in illustrated wrappers. Moderate rubbing...

New York: Ace Books, 1987. Book Club Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the front free endpaper to his son, noted writer Chris Offutt: "For Chris Offutt / from the other writer in the family / Love, Dad aka Andrew J. Offutt / 5-89." From the author's estate. Near Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Jacket edges lightly rubbed, faint toning.

New York: Zebra Books / Kensington, 1977-1979. First Edition, first printing, all paperback originals. Each volume INSCRIBED by the editor, Andrew J. Offutt on the first page to his son, noted writer Chris Offutt. From the author's estate. Anthology series of knights, rogues, vampires, and wizards, with stories by Ramsey Campbell, Richard L. Tierney, Wayne Hooks, David C. Smith, Tanith...

New York: Grove Press / Black Cat Books B-440, B-441, 1980-1981. First Edition, first printings. Lusty saga of fiery passion in a turbulent era! From the author's estate. Collects four previously published books in two volumes: "The Accursed Tower" (Book I), "The Passionate Princess" (Book II), "Julanar the Lioness" (Book III), and "My Lady Queen" (Book IV). The fifth and...

New York: Grove Press / Black Cat Books B-441, 1981. First Edition, first printing. Lusty saga of fiery passion in a turbulent era! From the author's estate. Collects two previously published books in one volumes: "The Accursed Tower" (Book I), "The Passionate Princess" (Book II), "Julanar the Lioness" (Book III), and "My Lady Queen" (Book IV). The fifth and final...

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1976. Final Draft script for the 1977 film. Laid in are three blue revision pages. God (Burns) appears to an unassuming supermarket manager (Denver) in the form of an old man, bidding him to spread his word and save the world. Facing a range of skeptics including religious theologians, legal authorities and his own wife, Jerry...

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1983. Final Draft Shooting script for the 1984 film. Alex Gardner (Quaid) is a psychic who uses his telepathic abilities for personal gain, namely gambling and womanizing, until he is approached by a government agency developing a technique to link the mind of a psychic to someone deep in REM sleep. While the technique is said...

Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1977. Revised Draft script for the 1978 film. The Beatles' legendary 1967 masterwork is turned into a 1970s film musical, represented by a star-studded ensemble, with appearances by Donald Pleasence, George Burns (the only actor with speaking lines not accompanied by song), Steve Martin, Alice Cooper, Jack Bruce, Keith Carradine, Carol Channing, Donovan, Leif Garrett...

Universal City, CA: Unviersal International Pictures, 1953. Revised Final script for the 1954 film. A few typeovers throughout, indicating starring actors and actress at their inclusion. Similar to the Italian Peplum (sword-and-sandal) epics, this film centers a Roman centurion's (Jeff Chandler) attempts to prevent Attila the Hun (Jack Palance) from conquering Rome. Also features Rita Gam and a bit part...

Burbank, CA: Walt Disney Productions, 1975. Draft script for the 1976 film "The Shaggy D.A.," seen here under the working title "Double Trouble." Copy belonging to actor Hank Jones, who played the role of Policeman #2, with his name to the front wrapper in black ink. The sequel to the 1959 film "The Shaggy Dog," based on the 1923 Felix...

Munich: Dreilander Verlag, 1919-1920. Collection of 38 issues of the landmark Weimar-era periodical highlighting fantasy, horror, and early science fiction stories. Text in German. One of the world's first fantasy periodicals, (alongside the Swedish "Hugin") "Der Orchideengarten" featured a mix of new German stories alongside translations of foreign literature (largely French), including works by Victor Hugo, Guy de Maupassant, Voltaire...

Paris and Rome: Les films Ariane and Filmsonor, 1961. Original French production script and press material for the 1962 film, here under the original French title, "Les Titans." The film was distributed by Cinedis, and this script was likely used by Cinedis during production, with press materials printed on the company's stationery. Housed in manilla folder, noted as "LES TITANS"...

Burbank, CA: National Broadcasting Company [NBC], 1992. First Draft script for the 1993 television mini-series. Based on the novel by Jules Verne, this film is a science fiction fascination of the exploration of the center of the Earth. One of many adaptations of the story for visual consumption, the plot features a crew which navigates a vessel through an active...

Los Angeles: Embassy Pictures, 1964. Vintage one sheet poster for the 1964 film, a variant we have never before encountered.Considered one of the worst films of all time, as well as a legitimate so-bad-it's-good cult classic, which gained renewed notoriety after being shown in Season 3, Episode 21 of "Mystery Science Theater 3000," a unimpeachable highlight of that show's original...