![Letter to Five Wives [Letter to Three Wives] (First UK Edition). John Klempner](/pictures/thumb/133506.jpg?v=1434404494)
London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, 1946. First UK Edition, preceded by the US edition the same year. An extremely scarce edition of this important title, with striking dust jacket artwork. Basis for the classic 1949 film, "Letter to Three Wives," one of the most sophisticated dramas about women of its day, directed and written for the screen by Joseph...
Hildesheim, Germany: Olms Presse, 1981. First Edition, a trade softcover original. INSCRIBED by Volker Schlondorff on the title page: "Pour Pierre Goulliard / Volker Schlondorff / 1 juillet 83." An all-inclusive study of the director's work, from "Young Torless" (1966) through "The Circle of Deceit" (1988). Along with contemporaries Werner Herzog, Wim Wenders, and Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Schlondorff was one of...
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1958. Two vintage photographs of director Douglas Sirk working on the set of the 1958 World War II film. In one photograph, Sirk works with actress Lilo Pulver (misspelled "Lisa" on the recto) in a camera setup with production assistants present. In the other, Sirk holds a bound script and discusses a scene with Pulver...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1931. Draft script for the 1932 film, based loosely on Edgar Rice Burroughs' novel "Tarzan of the Apes." Two black and white reference photographs for the film also laid in. The first of Weissmuller's twelve Tarzan films, and the first appearance of Cheeta, Tarzan's chimpanzee friend. In this variation of the much-adapted Burroughs tale Tarzan...