Rome: Film Duemila, 1964. Vintage oversize photograph of Monica Vitti on the set of the 1964 film. Agency stamps and holograph annotations on the verso, and press demarcation tape and holograph annotations (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.....

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.....

Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1969. Collection of six vintage oversize borderless photographs from the 1969 British film. With holograph annotations 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: 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.....

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.....

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.....

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 annotations 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.....

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.....

Culver City, CA: 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.....

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.....

Paris: Gaumont, 1987. Vintage oversize borderless photograph of Jean-Luc Godard from the 1987 film. With holograph annotations 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: Crown Publishers, 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).

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.....

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 annotations regarding layout and the French title. Based on the 1956 play "Forever Alive" by Viktor Rozov, who also wrote the screenplay.....

New York: Children's Songs, 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 also.....

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.....

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1959. Vintage photograph of Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift on the set of the 1959 film. With holograph annotations 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 (Katharine Hepburn).....

Culver City, CA: 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 annotations at the inclusion of his dialogue and.....

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.....

Germany: Nero-Film AG, 1932. Vintage double weight press photograph of Brigitte Helm for the 1932 film. With holograph annotations 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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

Rome: Titanus, 1960. Two vintage borderless double weight photographs from the 1960 film. With holograph annotations 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.....

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.....