Various cities: Various Publishers, 1933-1934. Archive of 89 photographs belonging to actress Julie Bishop, featuring film still and publicity photographs from five pre-Code films made in 1933 and 1934 while she was still being credited under her birth name, Jacqueline Wells. The photographs have been tipped into a contemporary photo album, with the exception of three photographs, which are laid...

Los Angeles: Joseph M. Schenck Productions / Associated First National Pictures, 1924. Original program for the 1924 silent film, customized for the film's premiere at the Astor Theatre, a long-standing showplace that was converted the same year from a playhouse to a cinema. A partially lost silent film, with only two-thirds of the footage surviving today. Based on the play...

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1930. Collection of six vintage photographs from the 1930 film. All but one with a mimeo snipe on the verso. Based on the 1913 play by Edward Sheldon, about an aristocratic young man who falls in love with an opera star. Nominated for Best Director for Clarence Brown and Best Actress for Greta Garbo, who...

N.p. N.p., Circa 1933. Original dialogue notes for the 1933 Tod Browning film, "Fast Workers." Handwritten notes on two pages of legal-size notebook paper in holograph pencil, presumed to belong to one of the screenwriters for the film. The notes are as follows, with several lines marked through in various places:[First page]Spike: What'd you do to her, when you found.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1927. Draft script for the 1927 silent film "Mockery," seen here under two early draft titles "Terror" and "The Harelip." Lon Chaney is a half-witted Russian peasant who is promised food and a place to live if he escorts a Countess (Bedford) safely home. He does so, despite becoming caught up in the Bolshevik revolution...

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1928. Draft script for the 1928 silent film. Lon Chaney is an undercover police detective who attempts to catch a thief notorious for slipping out of criminal charges by killing any witnesses set to testify against him, though Chaney can't help but simultaneously get wrapped up with an attractive flapper along the way. Chaney hand-picked...

New York: Putnam, 1925. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author: "To: Sidney Williams - who ushered 'Grass' into Philadelphia / and made it grow / and to whom the author of this book owes a very real debt of gratitude / Merian C. Cooper." Based on the silent documentary film, released the same year. Scarce to find in jacket or...

Hollywood: RKO Radio Pictures, 1932. Vintage double weight reference photograph from the 1932 film. A rare glimpse behind the scenes of a film that was a triumph of design, practical effects, and cinematography. Fay Wray, the actors playing the natives of Kong Island, and the crew prepare for one of the film's most memorable scenes: Ann Darrow (Wray) being brought...

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1933. Original American program for the 1933 film, with an original illustration by Hirschfeld and a striking photo of Jean Harlow on the front wrapper. Rarely in the 1930s was such excellent source material successfully combined with such stellar screenwriting, directing, and acting talent. Today the film plays equally well as both comedy and drama...

Various cities: Various. An archive of books and personal material belonging to Arline de Haas, noted author of the photoplay edition for the first talking film, “The Jazz Singer” (1927). Included is her leather-bound presentation copy of her novelization of the film, a work that caused a fundamental and multi-level shift in the world’s conception of cinema and dramatic storytelling.....

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1933. Original film program for the 1933 film. With a striking image of Dietrich on the front wrapper, and much detail throughout regarding the production. Based on the novel by Hermann Suermann and the play by Edward Sheldon, about a country orphan who goes to Berlin to live with her aunt and who becomes the model for...

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1929. Early Treatment script for the 1929 film, the first Sherlock Holmes film to have been produced with sound, and the first to include the Holmes utterance, "Elementary, my dear Watson" (a phrase never used by Doyle), though that statement regrettably does not appear in this draft. The first known treatment was written by Oliver P. Garrett...

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1933. Original lobby card for the 1933 pre-Code film, based on William Faulkner's 1931 novel, "Sanctuary." An interesting image from the film’s final dramatic courtroom scene. The film has a relatively upbeat ending, in which Temple tells the truth and is disgraced. This in marked contrast to the ending of Faulkner’s novel, in which Temple perjures herself.....

Neuilly-sur-Seine, France: Gaumont, 1916. Vintage double weight matte finish still photograph from the legendary 1916 silent film serial. With the Gaumont logo at the lower right corner. The last of Feuillade's three film serial masterpieces, preceded by "Fantomas" (1913) and "Les Vampires" (1915), combining elements of both its predecessors. In Judex (Latin for "judge"), Feuillade furthered his vision of the...

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1932. Vintage reference photograph from the set of the 1932 film, with a printed snipe on the verso. Based on the novel by Upton Sinclair. Victor Fleming directs Dorothy Jordan and Lewis Stone in an early scene from his pre-Code epic about Prohibition. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus.

France: Cine France, 1927. Original French program for the 1927 film, with a flyer for the world premiere at the Palais Garnier in Paris laid in. One of the late masterpieces of the silent era, following Napoleon’s early life through his appointment as Commander in Chief of the Army and invasion of Italy, one of six films director Abel Gance...

Russia: Mezhrabpom-Rus, 1927. Vintage German program for the 1926 Russian silent film. Photo-illustrated throughout. The only cinema paper dating from the decade of release we have encountered for the film. Based on the 1906 novel by Maxim Gorky, about a woman's struggle to free her son from a Czarist prison camp during the Russian Revolution of 1905. The first film...

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1933. Collection of five vintage studio still photographs from the 1933 film. Based on William Faulkner's 1932 short story, "Turnabout."The film follows two officers during World War I who compete for the affections of the lovely Diana Boyce-Smith (Joan Crawford). It stands as the only film costarring Hollywood icons Joan Crawford and Gary Cooper. The...

Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1919. Vintage color glass slide advertisement for the 1919 film, the first film released by the newly minted United Artists, co-founded by star Fairbanks with Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, and D.W. Griffith. A wealthy American gets embroiled in the politic turmoil of a fictional European monarchy, only to find he is secretly the heir to...

US: Metro Pictures Corporation, 1921. Vintage photograph from the 1921 film. With a mimeo snipe on the verso. Based on the 1916 anti-war novel by Vincent Basco Ibanez, about a French and German family on both sides of World War I. Along with "The Sheik" later the same year, the film the catapulted Rudolph Valentino to stardom and helped create...

London: Wardour Films / Universum Film [UFA], 1927. Original program for the London premiere of the film on March 21st, 1927 at the Marble Arch Pavilion, preceded in English by the US release earlier that month but with different title cards. Director Lang's expressionist masterpiece, based on the novel and written for the screen by then-wife von Harbou, one of...

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...

London: Fritz Lang Film / UFA / W and F, 1928. Original UK program for the 1928 German film, released in the UK as "The Spy." Lang's followup to "Metropolis," and penultimate silent film, an underrated spy versus spy thriller containing some of the most virtuosic set pieces of the director's career, including a spectacular train crash at the film's...

Berlin: Nero-Film AG, 1931. Vintage oversize double weight photograph from the 1931 film. Based on the true story of psychopathic serial killer Hans Beckert, nicknamed the "Vampire of Dusseldorf," here played by Peter Lorre. A brilliant image from this crime thriller classic in which the search is on for Lorre. Lang's first sound film, Lorre's breakthrough role, and the film...

London: Jarrolds, Circa 1930s. First UK Edition, and first printing in English. An edition of this title so rare that we had been heretofore unaware of its existence, issued under the publisher's Jay Library series, at a price of 7/6. Basis for the classic 1930 film by Josef von Sternberg, starring Emil Jannings and a very young Marlene Dietrich, filmed...

Munich: Universum Film [UFA], 1926. Vintage photograph from the 1926 silent film. With the UFA logo at the bottom left corner of the recto, and a few holograph notations on the verso. Murnau’s final German film before emigrating to America, where he would make four more films before his untimely death, including the late silent masterpiece Sunrise. 7.5 x 10.5...

Beverly Hills, CA: UFA / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1926. Vintage US reference photograph for the 1926 German film. With a printed snipe on the verso noting both UFA and MGM. Murnau’s final German film before emigrating to America, where he would make four more films before his untimely death, including the late silent masterpiece "Sunrise."10 x 8 (25 x 20 cm) inches. Very Good plus.

Germany: Nero-Film AG, 1932. Collection of 10 vintage photographs from the three 1932 films, showing all three actors portraying the character of St. Avit on the set, interacting with each other and locals in the Sahara Desert setting. With holograph notations on either the recto or verso of some of the photographs. Based on the 1919 novel "L'Atlantide" by Pierre...

N.p. Veriscope, 1897. Two vintage fragments from a 63mm film print of the 1897 boxing match between "Gentleman" Jim Corbett and Bob Fitzsimmons. The first fragment consists of six frames depicting the fighters in a clinch, while the second consists of four frames depicting the fighters in the center of the ring about to trade punches. At over 100 minutes...

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1933. Collection of five vintage photographs from the 1933 film, including three double weight and two single weight photographs. With stamps or holograph notations to most of the photographs. Based on William Faulkner’s 1931 controversial literary potboiler, "Sanctuary." The story concerns a wealthy and neurotic Southern belle who falls in with a violent bootlegger who rapes her...

Los Angeles: Fox Film Corporation, 1931. Final Shooting script for the 1931 film. Holograph notations in colored pencil on the front wrapper. Based on Mildred Gilman's 1931 novel, about Jane Ray (Linda Watkins), a reporter whose great rival is news-hound Garry Webster (James Dunn) who never lets his love for her get in the way of landing a story. Jane...

US: Artcraft Pictures / Mary Pickford Company, 1918. Vintage borderless photograph from the 1918 film. With an identifying holograph notation on the verso. Based on the 1917 novel by Eleanor Hoyt Brainerd, about a young socialite and a millionaire, who meet and fall in love while pretending to be a cook and a hired hand, respectively. No known prints of...

Paris: Franfilmdis / Argui-Film, 1933. Collection of four vintage oversize double weight studio still photographs for the landmark 1933 silent film by Jean Vigo. Each with the stamp of French weekly "Tele Magazine" on verso, two with holograph notations regarding layout. Although he only made four films before his death from tuberculosis at the age 29, Jean Vigo would come...

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...