New York: E.P. Dutton, 1950. First Edition. Late novel by the West Virginia mystery author featuring Kentucky sheriff Jess Roden, who goes undercover to search for a moonshiner who killed a U.S. Deputy Marshal. Teal cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and Dutton logo embossed on front cover; dustjacket; 223, [1]pp. Mild wear to base of spine, with... (read more) about The Hunter is the Hunted (First Edition)

N.p. N.p., N.p. Draft script for an unproduced film. An old, blind beggar ends up charged with taking care of a young girl whom he calls his niece because she is deaf and dumb, and he believes he can make money by having people pity her and giving her money. He is urged by a local clergyman to bring the..... (read more) about Charity (Original screenplay for an unproduced film)

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1932. Vintage reference photograph, with snipe printed on the verso identifying director Harry Beaumont on the set with actresses Anita Page and Joan Marsh in the 1932 film, based on the 1932 J.P. McEvoy novel of the same name. With an additional stamp on the verso reading "Country of origin USA." Left jobless and about... (read more) about Are You Listening (Original photograph from the set of the 1932 pre-Code film)

London: Jack Parsons, 1953. Draft script for the 1962 film. With a few notations in holograph pencil. A manager at a razor factory grows a beard after developing a rash due to shaving. His superiors are displeased. The manager then decides to organize a strike in order to get his point across. Green titled wrappers, dated May 1953, with credits... (read more) about Hair of the Dog (Original screenplay for the 1962 film)

London: Granada Television, 1980. Two borderless photographs from the 1981 film. One photo with a snipe attached to the verso. Directed by Bob Rafelson, and based on the 1939 novel by James M. Cain, "Postman" was one of the gems of late 1970s cinema (along with "The Verdict"), and brought David Mamet to the attention of the filmmaking world, leading... (read more) about The Postman Always Rings Twice (Two photographs from the 1981 film)

New York: Double Helix Films, circa 1987. Draft script for an unproduced film. Copy belonging to Kimberly Ryan, with her name and phone number on the title page in holograph pencil and ink. With a few notations in holograph pencil. An unproduced film adaptation of Joseph Conrad's 1911 novel "Under Western Eyes," which many consider to be Conrad's response to... (read more) about The Conspirators (Original screenplay for an unproduced film)

N.p. N.p., 1952. Vintage oversize double weight matte finish photograph from the set of the 1952 film. A sobering and striking image of the film's destitute loner and his dog Flike, standing in the streets of Rome late in the evening. Shot by the film's still photographer Angelo Pennoni, using a striking example of designer Virgilio Marchi's meticulously designed and... (read more) about Umberto D. (Original oversize photograph from the 1952 film)

Pasadena, CA: Night Train Films, circa 1990s. Draft script for an unproduced film. Set in the 1930's United States. Jack faces the hardships of unemployment, jail, and a future without promise. He is driven mad, ultimately torching the last of what he has in a frenzy. Black untitled wrappers. Title page present, with credits for screenwriter James Elliot. 131 leaves... (read more) about Blues Train (Original screenplay for an unproduced film)

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1941. Original one sheet poster for the 1941 film. Frank Morgan received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the film. The fourth Steinbeck script to be adapted in as many years. Not as well known today as "The Grapes of Wrath" or "Of Mice and Men," but still a.... (read more) about Tortilla Flat (Original poster for the 1942 film)

N.p. N.p., 1986. Treatment script for an unproduced film. The true story of Benjamin Franklin traveling to France after the American Revolution, where he acts as a diplomat from the newly-established United States of America and he makes sure to throw around the new weight of this budding country. Set in Paris. Clear untitled wrappers. Title page present, dated 1986... (read more) about Franklin in France (Original treatment script for an unproduced film)

Glendale, CA: Noah Films / Allied Artists, 1970. Draft script for the 1970 film. Later generation photocopy, not vintage, for reading or research purposes only. Originally under the Hebrew title "Ha-Pritza Hagdola" and occasionally translated as "Eagles Attack At Dawn." A group of Israeli POW make a successful, daring escape from a notorious Syrian prison, and soon they return to... (read more) about Attack at Dawn (Screenplay for the 1970 film)

Paris: Intermondia Films / Pretoria / Cinedis, 1959. Collection of 134 original black-and-white single weight still photographs from the 1959 French-Italian film. Featuring Jean Gabin dancing gaily in pub with costar Doll, two photos of Gabin kicking a ball and in a manilla envelope addressed to "M. de La Maziere, and images of costar Cowl smoking a cigarette. Several photos... (read more) about The Magnificent Tramp [Archimede, le clochard] (Collection of 134 original photographs from the...

Paris: Intermondia Films, 1959. Archive of 69 vintage borderless single weight keybook contact sheets, amounting to nearly 800 numbered images, for the 1959 French-Italian film, here under a working title, "Le clochard." Much of the film is represented in minute detail, along with test shots, set design shots, and many candid off-camera shots from the set. Housed in an orange... (read more) about The Magnificent Tramp [Archimede, le clochard] (Original master set of keybook photos for the...

New York: William Sloane Associates, 1960. Second printing. INSCRIBED by the author to Robert Kennedy and his wife: "To Ethel and Bob Kennedy / With fond memories of the cold of Wisconsin and the rains of West Virginia. / Teddy / Theodore H. White."A wonderful association. White spent a great deal of 1959 and 1960 in the company of Robert... (read more) about The View from the Fortieth Floor (Inscribed to Robert and Ethel Kennedy)

Hollywood: RKO Radio Pictures, 1952. Collection of 3 vintage borderless black-and-white still photographs from the 1952 film noir. One of the photos is a candid shot of a young Marilyn Monroe, leaning against a camera track and talking to her male counterpart lead, Keith Andes. The candid photo has a mimeo snipe describing the shot, indicating clearly that Ms. Monroe... (read more) about Clash by Night (Collection of 3 photographs from the 1952 film, including a candid shot of...

Los Angeles: Walter Wanger Productions, 1937. Original deluxe illustrated pressbook and matching deluxe advertising supplement (with a single ad mat laid in), both unfolded, for the 1937 film. A beautifully illustrated pressbook and truly comprehensive advertising manual for one of Fritz Lang's greatest American films, and an important film noir antecedent, very much predicting the "crime spree" films that would... (read more) about You Only Live Once (Original Film Pressbook for the 1937 film)

Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, circa 1979. First Draft script for the 1979 film, SIGNED by the director Richard Lester. With three pages of synopsis laid in. A former British major lands in Cuba to train the Cuban army to resist Castro, where he encounters an old flame who is recently brushed off by her husband. Finally a strike and... (read more) about Cuba (Original screenplay for the 1979 film)

Toronto: Telepix Canada Corp. 1985. Final Draft for the 1986 television film. Based on the book of the same name recounting the corruption of the 1969 United Mine Workers' presidential election, and the murder of Joseph "Jock" Yablonski that followed. Set in Pittsburgh, PA and environs, shot on location in Pitsburgh and Nemacolin, Pennsylvania and Ontario, Canada. Self-wrappers, with title... (read more) about Act of Vengeance (Original screenplay for the 1986 television film)

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1935. First Edition. Author's first book, a hard-boiled Depression-era classic, basis for the 1969 film directed by Sydney Pollack and starring Jane Fonda, Michael Sarrazin, Susannah York and Gig Young (who won an Oscar for his role as the dance marathon promoter). Near Fine in a bright, Near Fine dust jacket, with publisher's price of $2.00... (read more) about They Shoot Horses, Don't They (First Edition)

N.p. N.p. Draft script for an unproduced play. No relation to the Ben Bova science fiction novel of the same name. A tragedy that takes place in a dump, where the residents are workers, digging up turn-of-the-century artifacts housed in now-buried ships on a landfill belonging to a foul, conniving woman. A fugitive murderer is discovered on their property and..... (read more) about As on a Darkling Plain (Original screenplay for an unproduced play)

Culver City, CA: Columbia, 1974. Vintage flyer for the 1974 film, likely for a specific theatre, as it advertises "Starts May 1," about three weeks after the film's initial release on April 10. A blaxploitation Western take on Bonnie and Clyde, about two Robin Hood-esque bank robbers in the American Southwest who long for a quiet life. Shot on location... (read more) about Thomasine and Bushrod (Original flyer for the 1974 film)

Cambridge, MA: MIT [Massachusetts Institute of Technology] Press, 1973. First Edition. Richards' first book, a monograph that consists of photographs taken in West Memphis, Arkansas, during his 1968 tenure with VISTA. An examination into the lives of African-American workers living far below the poverty line. One of the most important twentieth century photo books on American culture outside the mainstream... (read more) about Few Comforts or Surprises: The Arkansas Delta (First Edition)

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1929. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper: "Inscribed for Mrs. White / by / Dorothy Scarborough / May 1930." Very Good in a Very Good plus, price-clipped example of the rare dust jacket. Jacket is lightly toned at the spine, with some light chipping along the top edge, no titling affected... (read more) about Can't Get a Red Bird (First Edition)

New York: Robert A. Ballou, 1933. First Edition. One of 598 copies printed. Near Fine and unread in a dust jacket that is Fine but for some light chipping at the crown (titling not affected). A minute bit of toning at the top of the backstrip, in the same spot. An exceptionally bright, fresh example. In a custom quarter-leather clamshell... (read more) about To a God Unknown (First Edition)

Hollywood: Andrews-Vagemann Productions, circa 1960s. Two treatment scripts for an unproduced television series "The Brutes." Written by Jerome B. Thomas, occasional writer for shows like "The Outer Limits" and the 1965 "Branded." This listing contains two scripts, "HERE COME THE BRUTES" and "THE BRUTES: THE IDOLS I HAVE LOVED SO LONG." "HERE COME THE BRUTES" introduces the principle characters, two... (read more) about The Brutes: The Idols I Have Loved So Long (Original treatment script for an unproduced...

New York: Coward-McCann, 1931. First Edition. The author's fifth book. Jacket illustration by Glenn Cravath. Very Good plus in a bright, Very Good plus example of the scarce dust jacket. Some fading to the book's quarter binding, and jacket has a tiny, nearly undetectible hole at the center of the spine panel. A bright, attractive copy overall. (read more) about Blood on the Moon (First Edition)

New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1922. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper: "To B.T. Harts / with best wishes of the author / Jim Tully." With Tully's homemade "address label" on the front pastedown, with Tully's name and address in holograph black ink, in his hand. The author's first book, an autobiographical novel of the road. Bump... (read more) about Emmett Lawler (Signed First Edition)

N.p. N.p., 1975. Draft script for an unproduced film, based on the life of Malcolm X. With copied notations throughout, mostly corrections to the text. Joseph A. Walker is best known as the writer of the 1972 play "The River Niger." The original Off-Broadway run received an Obie Award for Best Play, and Walker became the first African American writer... (read more) about To Turn a Corner (Original screenplay for an unproduced film)

Los Angeles: First National Pictures, 1933. Vintage reference photograph from the 1933 pre-Code film. Shown is Ann Hovey as she is attacked after stowing away on a train by Ward Bond, playing against type as a villainous railroad worker. The rape is not only attempted but takes place, a radical element even in a pre-Code film. A film that has... (read more) about Wild Boys of the Road (Original photograph from 1933 film)

Hollywood: RKO Radio Pictures, 1940. Final script for the 1941 screwball comedy film. A key film in the American screwball comedy cycle, with proletarian elements deftly woven into a hilarious, smart, and blizzard-paced story. Nominated for two Academy Awards, including Best Screenplay. Cantankerous tycoon John P. Merrick (Charles Coburn) goes undercover as a shoe clerk at his own New York... (read more) about The Devil and Miss Jones (Original screenplay for the 1941 film)