![Red Desert [Il deserto rosso] (Original photograph of Monica Vitti from the set of the 1964...](/pictures/thumb/144491.jpg?v=1547500031)
Rome: Film Duemila, 1964. Vintage oversize photograph of Monica Vitti on the set of the 1964 film. Agency stamps and holograph notations on the verso, and press demarcation tape and holograph notations (on the tape) on the recto. Antonioni's first color film, and the last in a quartet of films made between 1959 and 1964 about women in modern culture...
N.p. N.p., 1957. Draft script for an unproduced film. Holograph ink on front wrapper, noting title, screenwriter Leonardo Bercovici, and a story based on Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1860 novel. Bercovici's screenwriting credits include; "The Bishop's Wife" in 1947, starring Cary Grant, Loretta Young and David Niven, and "Portrait of Jennie," in 1949, starring Jennifer Jones and Joseph Cotten. His other films...
New York: United Artists, Circa 1980. Story script for an unproduced film based on the novella "Hand-Carved Coffins" by Truman Capote, originally published in his 1980 story collection "Music for Chameleons." An exact match to the published text in the novella, and credited on the title page to United Artists, thus clearly printed for their use and ultimately unproduced. One of...
N.p. Alpha Agency, 1993. Original publicity photograph of a beleagured, baby bottle carrying Kurt Cobain, along with his wife Courtney Love and their daughter Frances Bean Cobain at the MTV Video Music Awards, 1993. 11.5 x 8 inches (29.25 x 20.25 cm) Near Fine.
Paris: DisCina, 1946. Collection of four vintage borderless photographs of Jean Marais on the set of the 1946 film. With mimeo snipe, holograph notations, and agency stamps on the verso of each photograph. A sequence of photographs showing how Marais would transform himself from actor to "animal." A classic 1946 French romantic fantasy film adaptation of the traditional fairy tale written...
Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1969. Collection of six vintage oversize borderless photographs from the 1969 British film. With holograph notations and an agency stamp on the verso of each. One of the best heist films of the twentieth century: funny, complex, and altogether beautiful to watch. Michael Caine and Noel Coward bring the erudite and the cockney together to make...
New York: Janus Films, 1974. Draft script for the 1974 British film. A young man who has had a premonition of his death is called up to train and fight with the British forces during World War II, ultimately ending in his actual death in battle on D-Day. Shot in black and white on vintage Kodak film stock, with about half...
New York: Random House, 1969. First Edition. INSCRIBED by James Crumley on the title page to fellow author Chris Offutt: "Offutt = Here we are in Missoula when our name [sic] have just been in the New Yorker / James Crumley / 9/9/97." The author's first book, a story of the US Army in peacetime during 1962, set on a base...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1972. Final Shooting script for the 1972 film. Based on Graham Green's 1969 novel. One of George Cukor's final films, described by Roger Ebert as a "sort of art deco journey across Europe on the Istanbul Express," wherein a bank clerk is summoned by his elderly but still youthful aunt to rescue her lover Mr...
![Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Hardcover, inscribed by Anita Loos to George Cukor]. George Cukor,...](/pictures/thumb/144856.jpg?v=1560892650)
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1926 [1925]. Hardcover. Thirteenth printing, published in May 1926 (first printing having been published in November 1925). INSCRIBED by Anita Loos to director George Cukor on the front endpaper some years later: "April 7, 1954 / So now after 25 years you want my autograph! / My love you've always had / Anita." With Cukor's...
New York: Tams-Witmark Music Library, 1964. Draft script for the 1964 revival of the 1935 opera, which debuted on May 6th, 1964 at the City Center of Music and Drama in New York City, and ran for a limited engagement of 31 performances. "Porgy and Bess" is based on DuBose Heyward’s 1925 novel "Porgy," and its subsequent 1927 play adaptation...
![The Outside Man [Une homme est mort] (Original screenplay for the 1972 film). Jacques Deray, Ian...](/pictures/thumb/144675.jpg?v=1560895270)
Beverly Hills, CA: Cite Films / Jacques Bar / United Artists, 1972. Draft French script for the 1972 neo-noir film. An international co-production, produced in France but shot entirely in English, directed by the noted French auteur Jacques Deray. Shot on location at many unusual decayed and shabby sites in the Los Angeles area, notably Venice Beach. Jean-Louis Tritignant stars...
New York: Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS], 1948. Treatment script for an unproduced film, as well as a produced radio broadcast script for the May 25th,1948 CBS radio adaptation. Holograph ink on front wrapper, noting title, screenwriter Daniel Tardash, and story based on the 1946 novel by Isak Dinesen (writing under the pseudonym of Pierre Andrezel). Daniel Taradash would go on...
N.p. Gloria Films, 1972. Vintage borderless photograph from the 1972 film, showing Richard Burton and Raquel Welch in an eerie moment before a kiss. With holograph notations in black marker and pencil, and three press agency stamps on the verso. Another addition to the many renditions of the Bluebeard tale in which the wealthy Baron von Sepper (Richard Burton) repeatedly...
N.p., 1959. Draft script for the 1959 play. First presented at the Martinique Theatre, New York City, on October 28, 1959 running for 256 performances. Based on Dos Passos' U.S.A. trilogy of novels written between 1930 and 1937, turned dramatic revue by Paul Shyre and John Dos Passos. Shyre's adaptation consists of three actors and three actresses portraying a total...
New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux [FSG], 1993. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the title page to fellow author Chris Offutt: "To Chris Offutt, with Admiration / JK Eugenides." An early Eugenides signature. Eugenides' first novel, and basis for the debut film by director Sofia Coppola. Offutt is the author of “Kentucky Straight” and other short story collections...
N.p. Darryl F. Zanuck Productions, 1961. Collection of 28 vintage studio still photographs from the 1961 film. Based on William Faulkner's novels, "Sanctuary" and "Requiem for a Nun." A harsh film with frank dialogue and thematic content throughout regarding rape, female sensuality, and sexual brutality. The final version of the film suffered from censorship, as well as an attempt to...
Hollywood: RKO Radio Pictures, Circa 1934. Draft script for the 1935 film. In a custom quarter leather clamshell box. The second of two films based on Liam O’Flaherty’s 1925 novel, the first being Arthur Robison’s 1929 British feature, about a former Republic Army member during the Irish War of Independence, who turns in one of his comrades to the British in.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1937. Collection of 103 vintage keybook set design photographs from the 1937 film. Original brown card wrappers present, with film title printed on the front cover. In British India, a young girl, played by Shirley Temple, is beloved by the soldiers and their leader Sergeant MacDuff (Victor McLaglen). A rebel group kidnaps the girl and the...
![The Strange One [End as a Man] (Original photograph from the 1957 film). Jack Garfein, Calder...](/pictures/thumb/144227.jpg?v=1536590345)
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1957. Vintage photograph of Carroll Baker, Jack Garfein, Paul Richards, and Ben Gazzara on the set of the 1957 film. With mimeo snipe, holograph notations in pencil, and a press agency stamp on the verso. Based on the 1947 novel and stage play by Calder Willingham, "End As a Man," and with much of the...
New York: Chelsea Theater Center, Circa 1971. Draft script for the US premiere of Jean Genet's 1961 play, which opened on November 30, 1971 and ran through December 25, 1971 at the Chelsea Theatre Center in Brooklyn, NY. Genet began writing the play, about life in a poor village in French controlled Algeria, in 1955, and a version was published...
Hollywood: Icon Entertainment, 1994. Draft script for the 1995 film. An early draft, produced prior to the film having an association with Mel Gibson's production company, Icon Entertainment International. Winner of five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, and nominated for another five, including Best Original Screenplay. Orange titled wrappers, production No. 53, dated March 24, 1994, with...
![Keep Your Right Up [Une Place Sur La Terre Comme Au Ciel] (Original photograph from the 1987...](/pictures/thumb/144497.jpg?v=1547500031)
Paris: Gaumont, 1987. Vintage oversize borderless photograph of Jean-Luc Godard from the 1987 film. With holograph notations 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...
New York: Viking Press, 1939. First American Edition. Basis for the 1945 espionage film directed by Herman Shumlin, and starring Charles Boyer, Lauren Bacall and Peter Lorre. Very Good plus in a Very Good dust jacket. Slight lean, with light soiling to the spine, and residue from sticker removal to the front endpapers. Jacket with corresponding residue to the verso...
New York: Crown, 1952. First Edition. Basis for Sergio Leone's 1984 mob epic, "Once Upon a Time in America," starring Robert DeNiro and James Woods. Near Fine in an about Near Fine dust jacket with none of the usual fading to the spine panel, only a tiny hole at mid-spine (see image).
New York: United Press Photo, 1956. Vintage press photograph of writer Ernest Hemingway and actor Gary Cooper in Havana during one of Cooper's visits to the author's home in 1956. Mimeo snipe, press agency stamp, and holograph notations in pencil on the verso. 9 x 7 inches (23 x 18 cm). Near Fine.
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1969. Final Draft script for the 1970 film. After selling his original screenplay, Erich Segal was approached by Paramount to adapt his own work into a novel, to be published ahead of the film to help publicize it. The novel was an instant best seller, and the film became the highest grossing of the year, leading to...
![The Out of Towners [The Out-of-Towners] (Original screenplay for the 1970 film). Arthur Hiller,...](/pictures/thumb/128885.jpg?v=1560892526)
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1969. Final Draft script for the 1970 film. Here under its slightly different, hyphenated working title. A seminal New York comedy and an Arthur Hiller high spot, shot on location in the city in early 1970. A document of the times, it captures the city's lovable insanity in countless ways, from airports to garbage strikes to Central...
Universal City: Universal, 1969. Vintage borderless press photograph of director Alfred Hitchcock and his wife Alma Reville in Paris, scouting locations for his film "Topaz." With a mimeo snipe crediting photographer Daniel Angely and the stamp of the UK press agency Camera Press on the verso. Based on the 1967 novel by Leon Uris, about a French agent who helps...
Burbank, CA: Walt Disney Pictures, 1988. Revised First Draft script for the 1991 film. Based on 1982 graphic novel by Dave Stevens, an early entry into the superhero movie canon, following the success of 1989’s "Batman," and a cult classic in its own right. In 1930s Hollywood, stunt pilot Cliff Secord (Billy Campbell) comes into possession of a jet-pack after...
![The Cranes are Flying [Letyat zhuravli] (Original double weight photograph from the 1957 film)....](/pictures/thumb/142595.jpg?v=1560892554)
Moscow: Mosfilm, 1957. Vintage oversize, double weight photograph from the 1957 film. From the archives of French weekly "Tele Magazine," with two stamps on the verso, one referencing its inclusion in issue 52, page 5, along with holograph notations regarding layout and the French title. Based on the 1956 play "Forever Alive" by Viktor Rozov, who also wrote the screenplay...
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1955. Two vintage keybook photographs from the 1955 film, one showing director Elia Kazan behind the camera, the other showing actors James Dean and Nick Dennis goofing around behind the scenes with dialog director Guy Thomajan. Typed notations identifying the subjects on the versos. Based on the 1952 novel by John Steinbeck. Winner of Best Dramatic...
New York: Children's Songs, Inc., circa 1949. Original manuscript and typescript for "The Howdy Doody Show" theme song "It's a Howdy Doody World," created by and belonging to the song's composer Edward Kean, INSCRIBED by Kean in the margin: "From Edward Kean / to / the very special Scott Petersen man!," and further annotated by Kean in holograph ink. The listing...
New York: The New American Library, 1968. First Edition. The MGM vault copy, kept as reference by the studio subsequent to the film's release. Stamped VAULT COPY on the front jacket panel, the front panel, the front endpaper, and the title page. Also stamped METRO GOLDWYN MAYER / LIBRARY / CULVER CITY on the rectos of the front and rear...
N.p. N.p., 1970. Two vintage borderless photographs from a French screening of "Once Upon a Time in The West". One photograph depicts director and screenwriter Sergio Leone at the box office. 8.5 x 10.5 inches (22 x 27 cm) Near Fine.
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1931. First White script for the 1931 Pre-Code film. An early starring performance for Carole Lombard, made prior to her 1934 star breakthrough in Howard Hawks' "Twentieth Century." Included is a studio still photograph of Lombard and Lilyan Tashman from the film, with the unusual feature of having an associated quote from the scene added to the...
![The Damned [These Are the Damned] (Publicity manual for the 1962 film). Joseph Losey, Evan Jones,...](/pictures/thumb/144548.jpg?v=1557764124)
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)...
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1959. Vintage photograph of Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift on the set of the 1959 film. With holograph notations in black ink and a press agency stamp on the verso. Based on the 1958 play by Tennessee Williams. Catherine Holly (Elizabeth Taylor) is being evaluated and coerced by her wealthy aunt Violet Venable (Katherine Hepburn)...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1955. Vintage photograph of director Joseph L. Mankiewicz and dancer Carey Leverette on the set of the 1955 film. With printed description and holograph notations on the verso. Based on the 1950 Broadway musical, in turn based on the short stories "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" and "Blood Pressure" by Damon Runyon. Nominated for...
Santa Monica: RKO Radio Pictures, 1955. Second Revised Draft script for the 1956 film noir. Loosely based on the death of Russian-born financier Serge Rubinstein. Copy belonging to Guy Prescott, who plays an uncredited role in the film as the assistant to Captain LaFarge (played by Morris Ankrum), with Prescott's holograph notations at the inclusion of his dialogue and appearances. George...
![Ocean's Eleven [Ocean's 11] (Original screenplay for the 1960 film). Lewis Milestone, George...](/pictures/thumb/144540.jpg?v=1542386803)
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1959. Early Draft script, consisting of mixed thermofax printing and ribbon copy typescript, for the 1960 film. One of the most well-loved, classic heist films, "Ocean's Eleven" is the quintessential Rat Pack picture, in which a group of World War II veterans attempts a series of high-profile casino robberies in Las Vegas on New Year's Eve. Steven...
N.p. N.p., 1957. Original slightly oversize borderless photograph of composer Darius Milhaud and actors Gerard Philipe, Francoise Arnoul, and Micheline Presle in San Francisco, 1957. With holograph notations on the verso. 12 x 8.5 inches (30.5 x 22 cm) Near Fine.
Paris: N.p., 1966. Archive of 16 vintage photographs of Henry Moore and his sculptures. With the photographer's stamp on the verso of five photographs, and the photographer's signature in holograph black ink on the verso of four photographs. Henry Moore (1898-1986) was an English sculptor best known for his semi-abstract bronze and marble sculptures. His work ranged from resembling human forms...
New York: Random House, 1995. First Edition. REVIEW COPY, INSCRIBED by the author in the year of publication on the half-title page: "To my pal Bill / With warm gratitude for your friendship / Ever / Willie / 5-19-95." Basis for the 2000 film directed by Jay Russell and starring Frankie Muniz, Diane Lane, and Luke Wilson. A hint of...
Germany: Nero-Film AG, 1932. Vintage double weight press photograph of Brigitte Helm for the 1932 film. With holograph notations on the verso. Based on the 1919 novel "L'Atlantide" by French writer Pierre Benoit, and a remake of the 1921 film of the same name by Jacques Feyder. The film was shot in French, German, and English, each version starring Brigitte Helm...
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1969. Draft script for the 1970 film. Liza Minnelli gives a strong, non-musical performance as a woman who has been disfigured by a vengeful boyfriend, and who finds comfort in a friendship with two other social outcasts. Nominated for the Palme d'Or. Shot on location in Massachusetts and California. Illustrated titled card wrappers, with a credit for...
New York: Random House, 1968. First Edition. Two copies, one each of the two jacket variants issued, one with the author name on the spine in bright pink, the other in orange. Basis for the 1973 heist film, "Charley Varrick," directed by Don Siegel and starring Walter Matthau and Joe Don Baker. Both copies in essentially the same condition: board...
London: Parlon Productions, 1979. Draft British script for the 1981 UK film. Based on the 1969 novel by John Fowles. While shooting a film about tragic lovers, the actors find their relationship begins to parallel that of their characters. Blue untitled wrappers. Title page present, dated November, 3, 1979, with credits for screenwriter Harold Pinter and novelist John Fowles. 167 leaves...
![Experiment in Evil [Le testament de Docteur Cordelier] (Collection of 36 original photographs...](/pictures/thumb/142159.jpg?v=1499440614)
France: Radio-Television Francaise (RTF) / Societe Financiere de Radiodiffusion / Compagnie Jean Renoir, 1959. Archive of 36 press photographs taken on the set of the 1959 film, mounted to four printed card stock proof sheets from "Telerama" magazine, with each sheet containing holograph ink notations with the name of the production, credits for Renoir and photographer R. Saguet, and with...
![Housekeeping [House Keeping] (First Edition, TRIAL DUST JACKET ONLY). Marilynne Robinson](/pictures/thumb/144793.jpg?v=1560892617)
New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux [FSG], 1980. Trial dust jacket for the first edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's critically acclaimed and beloved work. This version differs strikingly from the final jacket in that the lettering for the author and title on the front panel and spine are in a deep orange rather the blue-black color ultimately used. The...
![Exquisite Sinner [The Exquisite Sinner] (Original screenplay for the 1926 film). Phil Rosen,...](/pictures/thumb/143899.jpg?v=1560895251)
Culver City, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1925. Draft script for the 1926 film. Based on the 1924 novel "Escape" by Alden Brooks. File copy rubber stamp to the front wrapper. Conrad Nagel and Renée Adoree star in this Silent film, today lost, originally directed by Josef von Sternberg. Midway into shooting Von Sternberg was fired by MGM and replaced by Phil Rosen...
New York: Random House, 1975. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page. An intimate portrait of a marriage, Salter's well-received fourth novel. From the collection of author Chris Offutt. Offutt is the author of “Kentucky Straight” and other short story collections, novels, nonfiction, and memoirs, and, in 1996, was named one of the twenty Best Young American Novelists.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, circa 1970. Draft script for the 1970 film. Based on the 1968 novel by Gore Vidal. One of the key twentieth century films about Hollywood, and a prescient one in terms of LGBT interests, which at the time received almost no attention from major studios. Myron Breckinridge undergoes a sex change operation and upon completion, promptly...
New York: Random House, 1941. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Schulberg in the year of publication, almost certainly to a fellow Paramount house screenwriter, on the front endpaper: "For Charley / With affectionate regards / From the guy in the adjoining cell. / Budd / March 29, 1941." Regardless of whether the inscribee is Charles Brackett, Charles MacArthur, or some Charley...
N.p. Recorded Picture Company, 1978. Revised Draft British script for the 1978 film. Winner of the Prix de Jury at Cannes, and nominated for the Palme d'Or. Based on the short story by Robert Graves. Soundtrack by Michael Rutherford and Tony Banks of the progressive rock band Genesis. A quiet, chilling horror film with experimental leanings. Shot on location along the...
N.p. N.p., 1984. Draft script for the 1984 stage musical. Copy belonging to an unknown cast member, who played Smollett, with his lines noted in holograph pencil. A musical based on the 1883 adventure novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. One of the most frequently dramatized novels about pirates and piracy, "Treasure Island" gave birth to much of the lore of...
Culver City, CA: Kelso Film Productions / Columbia Pictures, 1976. First Draft script for the 1976 film. Issued a full 18 months prior to shooting. Based on the 1975 novel by Jack Higgins. Colonel Steiner (Michael Caine) is a German soldier sent to England to abduct the British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill. Director John Sturges' final film. Shot on location...
Neuilly-sur-Seine, France: Gaumont, 1958. Three vintage borderless photographs showing director Jacques Tati at work on the set of the 1958 film. With the stamps of the French Film Office's New York address, as well as film information, on the verso. The director's second of four films featuring the inimitable Monsieur Hulot. In this chapter, Hulot strays from his rather ordinary...
New York: LB Fischer, 1942. First Edition. Basis for the 1947 film noir directed by Jean Negulesco, written for the screen by William Faulkner, and starring Ida Lupino and Dane Clark. Spine slightly cocked, else Near Fine in an extremely clean, about Near Fine dust jacket. Jacket is lovely and fresh apart from some toning at the spine panel.
New Haven: Yale Univerity Press, 1955. First Edition, two volumes bound in red cloth housed in a black cloth covered slipcase. Issued for Carl Van Vechten's 75th birthday. Warmly INSCRIBED by Van Vechten on the front endpaper of the first volume to noted screenwriter Anita Loos: "For Anita with admiration and love from Carl / Christmas, 1955 / New York."...
Rome: Titanus, 1960. Two vintage borderless double weight photographs from the 1960 film. With holograph notations and an agency stamp on the verso of each. Rosaria (Katina Paxinou), recently widowed, moves to Milan from the countryside with four of her sons to join her eldest. Each take different paths as they struggle to adjust to life in the city. Shot...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1975. Vintage photograph from the set of the 1975 film, showing Gene Wilder and Leo McKern in a bed together. Boldly and humorously INSCRIBED with a film quote by Wilder to McKern: "You a little tired?? XXX." Small holograph pencil snipe to the verso. Wilder's directorial debut from his own original script, a musical comedy about Sigerson...
N.p. N.p., Circa 1970s. Draft manuscript for an unpublished collection of early work. Most of the pieces, which include plays, short stories, and poems, were written in the 1940s, and have been published in various editions or collections subsequent to this manuscript. Presumably unpublished material includes occasional brief notes or reflections on the pieces by Williams, alternate versions, a short.....
New York: N.p., 1961. Exact Playing Version script for the original run of the 1960 Broadway play, dated January 1961. With a photograph of the cast onstage, inscribed by four members of the cast or crew to an unknown crew member laid in. Premiered November 10, 1960 and closed March 4, 1961, with a total of 132 performances at the...
Rome: Arco Films, circa 1967. Typscript Treatment script for the 1967 film belonging to Anthony Quinn, whose name is in holograph ink on the first page of text. Notation in red ink on the first blank reading "The role is Caterina." Based on the 1923 novel of the same name by Joseph Conrad. Set during the French Revolution, a former pirate...
![The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! [Police Squad] (Original screenplay for the 1988...](/pictures/thumb/144699.jpg?v=1560895272)
Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1987. Revised Draft script for the 1988 film, seen here under the title "Police Squad." Production designer John J. Lloyd's working copy, with his name and numerous notations on the front wrapper, and throughout the script. Based on the television show "Police Squad!" (1982), created by Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and David Zucker. The classic origins...