Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1968. First Edition. Copy belonging to director Joseph Losey, with his name and home address written in holograph ink on the first leaf: "Joseph Losey / Hanover, NH / '70." Additional underlining and bracketing throughout, in the same fountain pen ink as the inscription, mostly to the opening chapters of the text. The McCarthy / HUAC...
N.p. N.p., Circa 1990s. Vintage photograph of Muhammad Ali with documentary filmmaker and producer Lindsey Clennell, circa early 1990s. With a holograph notation on the verso identifying the subjects. In articles about Ali from 1988 and 1989, both the "New York Times" and "Washington Post" quote Clennell, and the "Times" mentions his traveling with Ali on a world tour. Clennell's...
Rome: Cineriz, 1962. Vintage borderless photograph of Monica Vitti and Alain Delon on the set of the 1962 film. With holograph notations in blue ink and pencil on the verso. Vittoria (Monica Vitti) leaves her fiance (Francisco Rabal) and enters a new relationship with Piero, a young stock broker (Alain Delon) who is obsessed with material posessions and wealth, his...
Los Angeles: RKO Radio Pictures, 1936. Treatment script for the 1937 film. Almost certainly the earliest draft associated with the film, a typescript prose synopsis. A ballet star (Astaire) start falls in love with a young tap dancer (Rogers) on a trans-Atlantic voyage, but rumors of their relationship precede them to their destination. The seventh of ten films Fred Astaire...
Beverly Hills, CA: EK Corp. / United Artists, Circa 1974. Early Draft British script for the 1974 British heist film. Based on Gerald Browne's 1972 novel, adapted by Charles Grodin. Howard Chesser (Grodin) is a diamond merchant supervising the cutting of a large and rare diamond. When the diamond is stolen, he is blackmailed and pulled into a jewel heist...
Los Angeles: Trimark Pictures, 1994. Draft script for the 1995 film. The directorial debut of Noah Baumbach. After college graduation, Grover's girlfriend Jane decides to move to Prague to write. When he declines to join her, Grover instead moves in with some college friends and sets about separating himself from the idea of being a professional student. Shot on location...
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Neuilly-sur-Seine, France: Gaumont, 1956. Vintage borderless photograph from the set of the 1956 film, showing director Robert Bresson demonstrating a small action to the film's lead actor Francois Leterrier. With holograph notations on the verso. Based on the 1956 memoir "A Man Condemned to Death has Escaped" by Andre Devigny, about a French Resistance member's escape from the Nazi controlled...
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Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1925. Draft script for the 1926 silent film "The Blackbird," seen here under the working title "The Mocking Bird." Lon Chaney again serves as a versatile "man of a thousand faces," here playing the role of high-profile thief The Blackbird who lives a double-life as a beloved local bishop. He falls in love with a....
Los Angeles: Clover Productions, 1954. Final Draft script for the 1955 film. Copy belonging to S. John Launer who played Capt. Dave Harris, holographic ink and pencil notations on his scenes throughout An ex-Nazi mad scientist uses radio-controlled atomic-powered zombies in his quest to help an exiled American gangster return to power. Penned by legendary German American science fiction and...
New York: Viking Press, 1974. First Edition. Lengthily INSCRIBED by the author on the half-title page: "June 1st, 1975 / M'Lady Roberta Felsen: Now the reason why I used the sub-title of "M'Lady" - is because you have got to be a Queen...because your husband, Milt, is definitely a King! And on this - the Queen's once-a-year birthday - the...
N.p. Lion International, 1959. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1959 film. The first film by Cassavetes, for which he raised the entirety of the production budget himself, the story of three African American siblings in Harlem, two of whom often pass for white. Begun as an acting exercise in a workshop Cassavetes was conducting with Burt Lane, the story...
N.p. N.p., 1934. Vintage photograph of writer, director, and artist Jean Cocteau by Boris Lipnitzki, taken on the set of his 1934 play, "La machine infernal." With the stamp of photo agency Rogers-Viollet crediting Lipnitzki on the verso. The play, based on the Greek myth of Oedipus, premiered on April 10, 1934 at the Theatre Louis Jouvet in Paris, under the...
London: Hammer Films, 1971. Draft script for the 1972 British horror film. A brooding, dissonant film entry in the great Hammer canon of the 1970s, about a naive young woman who travels from Liverpool to London thinking she is going to meet the man of her dreams, only to wind up with a psychotic killer. Green wrappers, with a die-cut...
New York: Paramount Pictures, 1971. Second Draft script for the 1972 film. Laid in are a staff and crew list, and a photocopied six page inter-office memo on Paramount letterhead regarding contract terms for Marlon Brando, dated February 9, 1971, with occasional copied handwritten notations. Based on the 1969 novel by Mario Puzo, who co-wrote the screenplay with director Francis...
Tokyo: Toho Company /, 1973. Draft script for the 1973 Japanese film. Based on the 1972-1973 manga written by Kazuo Koike and Kazuo Kamimura. The story of a woman with a sword in the end of her umbrella who seeks vengeance against the men who murdered her father and raped her mother, leaving a trail of blood in her wake...
Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1985. Vintage borderless photograph of director Terry Gilliam on the set of the 1985 film. With holograph notations regarding layout on the verso. Gilliam's masterpiece, about a man trying to escape a bureaucratic, authoritarian government in a dystopian future. Nominated for two Academy Awards, including Best Screenplay. 10 x 8 inches (25.5 x 20.5 cm). Near Fine. Criterion Collection 51. Weldon 1996.
Culver City, CA: Champion Production Company / Columbia, circa 1970. Vintage double weight photograph of famed Blaxploitation actor Jim Brown and noted British director Robert Hartford-Davis conferring on the set of the 1972 film. With a bold production company stamp on the verso, crediting Brown, Hartford-Davis, and producers John Heyman and Norman Priggen. British director Robert Hartford-Davis originally conceived of...
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Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1935. Treatment script for the 1936 film. Seen under the early working title "The Shining Spectre." Boris Karloff plays scientist Janos Rukh, who discovers a radioactive meteor in Africa that in turn causes him to become radioactive as well. His colleague Dr. Felix Benet (Bela Lugosi) develops a serum that holds the toxin at bay...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1983. Revised First Draft script for the 1985 film. A group of senior citizens become rejuvenated after swimming in a neighborhood pool that has been infused with energy by visiting aliens. A pre-"Back to the Future" Roger Zemeckis was originally slated to direct, but, ironically, the studio thought he wasn’t a sure enough commercial bet, and replaced.....
N.p. Mafilm, 1977. Dialogue script for the 1979 Hungarian film "Allegro Barbaro." The second of Jancso's two-part dramatized history of Hungary, from the turn of the century to World War II, as told by the conflicted son of a wealthy landowner. Shot on location in Hungary. Gray titled wrappers, dated 1977. Title page not present, presumably as issued. 122 leaves...
N.p. Objektiv Film, 1977. Studio Dialogue script for the 1979 Hungarian film, seen here under the Hungarian title "Magyar rapszodia." Text in Hungarian. The first of Jancso's two-part dramatized history of Hungary, from the turn of the century to World War II, as told by the conflicted son of a wealthy landowner. Nominated for the 1979 Palme d'Or at Cannes...
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Budapest: Mafilm, 1967. Vintage Hungarian program for the 1967 film. Photo-illustrated with scenes from the film, including one large image on the entirety of the verso. Text in Hungarian. One of the masterpieces of Hungarian cinema. A Russian-Hungarian co-production, "The Red and the White" was originally commissioned to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the October Revolution in Russia in which...
Los Altos, CA: National General Pictures, 1973. Vintage US one sheet poster for the 1973 film. Rare. Obscure documentary about the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, exploring the possibility of a second gunman having been involved. Folded as issued. Near Fine.
Burbank, CA: American Broadcasting Company [ABC], 1972. Final Draft script for the 1972 television movie. Copy belonging to prop assistant Paul Marco, with his name in holograph ink on the front wrapper and title page, with other production ephemera laid in. Based on the infamous 1971 novel by Beatrice Sparks. A mostly tasteful, surprisingly non-exploitative look at 1970s teenage drug...
Tokyo: Shochiku Films Ltd., 1990. Draft script for the 1991 film, dated May 28, 1990, about a year before its release. A tale of three generations in a postwar Japanese family and their responses to the atomic bombing of Japan. When the film played at the Tokyo Film Festival, critics of Japanese militarism said Kurosawa had ignored the historical facts...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1942. Archive of 70 vintage keybook set design photographs from the 1942 film. With original manila fronting card, with the following in manual type on the recto: "SET STILLS / BLUE, WHITE AND PERFECT / (KEY SET)." The fourth Michael Shayne film in Twentieth Century-Fox's long running series, this one starring Lloyd Nolan as detective Shayne, and...
N.p. N.p., Circa 1960s. Vintage borderless press photograph of composer Michel Legrand, circa early 1960s. The photograph, which shows Legrand exiting a gate with a suitcase in hand, is somewhat prescient, as the first half of the 1960s would see him leap to international renown, both as a popular musician and a composer of the film scores for such French.....
New York: Hudson Hills, 1994. First Edition. Featuring full color reproductions of prints by Lichtenstein, issued in association with the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. Included is a full color, illustrated two pocket folder from the National Gallery exhibition, which ran from October 30, 1994 to January 8, 1995, featuring a press release, check list, and schedule of...
Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1968. Vintage borderless photograph of director Joseph Losey on the set of the 1968 film. With holograph notations on the verso. Adapted for the screen by Tennessee Williams, based of his 1963 stage play "The Milk Train Don't Stop Here Anymore." Taylor (in a part written for a much older woman) plays a terminally ill woman...
New York: Reynal and Hitchcock, 1947. First American Edition in the true first issue jacket. Precedes the UK edition. Lowry's masterwork, an expressionistic novel of the final, desperate day of a former British consul drinking himself to death in Mexico. Basis for the John Huston film featuring Albert Finney (who was nominated for an Oscar) and Jacqueline Bisset. Near Fine...
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...
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1965. Vintage photograph of star Natalie Wood in bed and surrounded by members of the crew on the set of the 1965 film. A superb example of what lies beyond the fourth wall, mixing the intimate with the technical. Mimeo snipe and holograph notations regarding layout on the verso. Based on a 1963 novel of the...
Manchester: Factory Records, No. FAC235, 1988. First Edition. Issued privately by The Hacienda club in Manchester to friends of the establishment, a flip-book (or "manual video") illustrated by avant-garde filmmaker and conceptualist Robert Breer and photographer Wiliam Wegman, bound such that the book slants to the left to enable easy flipping. On the front wrapper, in brightly colored titles, are...
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1965. Vintage press photograph on the set of the 1966 film, giving a boom mic's view of a camera crew and director Mike Nichols filming a scene with stars Richard Burton and Sandy Dennis. Directorial debut of Mike Nichols, and winner of five Academy Awards, including Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress, and nominated for eight...
N.p. N.p., 1967. Archive of four double weight, color vernacular photographs taken at the Illumineer Lounge, an African American club or bar in Chicago, 1967. Each photograph with holograph notations on the verso identifying the location, date ("17 September 1967"), and occasion ("Leslie D. Kinnison Birthday Celebration"), along with the stamp of Blue Bird, Inc, a jukebox rental company. Also...
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1970. Vintage photograph from the 1970 film, showing actors Stella Stevens and Jason Robards taking direction from Sam Peckinpah on the set. With holograph notations regarding layout on the verso. A charming, surreal revisionist Western comedy, an unusual move for Peckinpah, as it was released on the heels of "The Wild Bunch" (1969), and just prior...
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Talent Associates Ltd./N.S.I. / ABC Pictures, 1970. Final Draft script for the 1971 film, here under the working title, and title of the source material, "The Siege of Trencher’s Farm." Based on Gordon M. Williams’s 1969 novel. Director Sam Peckinpah and screenwriter David Z. Goodman kept only the central concept of the siege itself, but completely altered the circumstances around.....
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers / Seven Arts, 1967. Vintage oversize, double weight, borderless photograph from the set of the 1967 film, showing actor Faye Dunaway brandishing a pistol while director Arthur Penn describes the scene and co-star Warren Beatty looks on. With the stamp of photographer Lee Johnson on the verso. The beginning of the New Hollywood Cinema. Screenwriters Robert Benton...
Paris: Jean-Louis Seigner, 2001. Vintage oversize photograph of Roman Polanski on location in Warsaw in 2001 during the production of his 2002 film. Based on the 1946 memoir by Wladslaw Szpilman, about his survival in the Nazi-occupied Warsaw Ghetto during World War II. Winner of the Palme d’Or at Cannes and three Academy Awards, including Best Director and Best Screenplay...
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Paris: Films Polski, 1962. Collection of eight vintage French photographs from the 1962 Polish film. Starring actors and images of the sailboat are seen, including a few candid moments, and a full-length portrait of actor Anna Ciepielewska. Nearly all with numerical notations in holograph pencil on the versos. Also included is an original French language press packet for the film...
London: Michael Powell (Theatre), circa 1960. Vintage borderless photograph from the set of the 1960 film, showing actor Carl Boehm taking in a scene being shot out of frame, with the prop film camera his character is hopelessly devoted to in front of him, and a real film camera just behind him in the foreground. With copyright stamp of international...
Paris: Les Films du Losange, 1967. Vintage oversize double weight photograph from the 1967 film. A striking image, showing actor Haydee Politoff getting ready for a day at the beach with the assistance of fellow-actor Patrick Bauchau. The third film in Eric Rohmer's "Six Moral Tales" series, made quickly and with very little budget due to delays in starting filming...
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1964. Vintage photograph of actors Peter Fonda, Jean Seberg and Warren Beatty from the 1964 film. With holograph notations in pencil on the verso. Based on J. R. Salamanca's 1961 novel of the same name. Vincent (Warren Beatty) a recent Korean War veteran is in training at a mental institution as an occupational therapist where...
N.p. N.p., 1982. Draft script for an unproduced play. A play about an author attempting to write a story starring Jack the Ripper. Curt Siodmak is best known for writing the "The Wolf Man" (1941), "I Walked with a Zombie" (1943), "Donovan's Brain" (1953), and many other science fiction and horror classics. His work consistently revealed an imagination that combined...
N.p. N.p., 1986. Draft script for an unproduced film. Based on the 1964 novel by Curt Siodmak, with a typed letter SIGNED by Siodmak written to "Sid," discussing the possibility of joint European and American backing for the film. Curt Siodmak is best known for writing the "The Wolf Man" (1941), "I Walked with a Zombie" (1943), and "Donovan's Brain"...
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1946. Vintage photograph showing director Robert Siodmak meeting star Ava Gardner and her then-husband, band leader Artie Shaw, on the set of the 1946 film. With a fold-over mimeo snipe on the verso. A breakthrough role for Gardner, as well as the screen debut of Burt Lancaster, the film follows Hemingway's story closely for the...
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1945. Vintage photograph on the set of the 1944 film noir, showing director Robert Siodmak conferring with star Stanley Ridges while some extras relax behind them. With a mimeo snipe and date stamp of "12 Apr 1945" on the verso. Based on the 1939 novel "This Way Out" by James Ronald, about an unhappily married...
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1946. Vintage photograph of star George Sanders demonstrating the use of a telescope to costar Ella Raines and director Robert Siodmak during a break from filming on the set of the 1946 film. With a mimeo snipe on the verso. Based on the 1942 Broadway play "Uncle Harry" by Thomas Job, about a middle aged...
Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1956. Second Revised Final Draft script for the 1957 film. Presentation copy belonging to producer, Ross Hunter, bound in navy full calf with gilt titles on cover and spine, with Hunter's name on the front board. Based on the 1956 autobiography of the same name by Colonel Dean E. Hess, a real-life United States Air Force...
Beverly Hills, CA: Walter Shenson Films / Subafilms / United Artists, 1965. Vintage photograph from the 1965 film "Help!", showing The Beatles in a candid moment between takes, surrounded by members of the British Army while shooting an outdoor performance scene on Salisbury Plain. With the stamp of photographer Robert Cohen and holograph notations on the verso. 7.25 x 5...
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Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1937. Draft script for the 1938 film. Here under the working title, "Blonde Poison." The fourth of nine films in the very popular B-movie series featuring tenacious female journalist Torchy Blane, which ran from 1937 to 1939. In this installment, Torchy is engaged to be married to a police officer who is suspected of leaking police...
Paris: Les Films du Carrosse, 1962. Vintage borderless photograph from the 1962 film, showing the film's principal characters Catherine, Jim, and Jules playing dominoes around a table, as seen through the window of their cottage. Based on Henri-Pierre Roche's 1953 novel of the same name, a story of a love triangle set in France throughout the First World War. Shot on...
N.p. UFA, 1941. First Edition. Hungarian film annual for German films released between 1939 and 1941, containing full page advertisements for 31 films, several with stunning illustrated transparency overlays. Bound in printed wooden boards, as issued. The majority of the films were released by UFA, although Terra-Filmkunst and Wien Film are also represented among the smaller studios, reflecting the increasing...
Burbank, CA: New Line Cinema, 1988. Vintage press kit for the 1988 film, containing 23 color and 3 black and white photographs, a two-sided flyer with the poster design on one side and a synopsis on the back, and a 31 pages of information about the film, including a full cast list, detailed synopsis, and biographical information on director John...
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1947. Archive of seven vintage single and double weight fashion publicity photographs from the 1947 film. Mimeograph snipe on the verso of a few photos notes the Jean Louis clothing designs for the film. Photographers’ rubber stamp also to the versos. Based on the 1938 novel "If I Die Before I Wake" by Sherwood King...
Beverly Hills, CA: Selznick International / United Artists, 1937. Vintage oversize, borderless, double weight photograph from the set of 1937 screwball comedy, showing a fainting Carole Lombard being carried out of a night club by Frederic March and Walter Connolly, while director William Wellman and a large crew look on. Based on the 1937 short story "Letter to the Editor"...
N.p. N.p., 1966. Draft script for an unproduced film. Copy belonging to crew member James H. Ware. Ware was a major presence in British and American cinema, best known for his work on "Beat the Devil" (1953), "Room at the Top" (1959), "Our Man in Havana" (1959), "Charade" (1963), and "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold" (1965). Based...
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists / Mirisch Corporation, 1961. Vintage photograph from the set of the 1961 film, showing director Robert Wise looking through a viewfinder while his co-director Jermone Robbins looks through a pair of sunglasses. Based on the 1957 Broadway musical with book by Arthur Laurents, music by Leonard Bernstein, and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Robbins, who would...