N.p. N.p., 1940. Vintage double weight publicity photograph of Josephine Baker for the 1936 Broadway musical, "Ziegfeld Follies." INSCRIBED by Baker in black marker on the recto: "Mademoiselles / Sunny Templeman / With best wishes from / Josephine Baker / 1940." With the studio insignia of photographer Murray Korman in white at the bottom right corner.Ziegfeld Follies was a musical.....

New York: Macmillan, 1926. First Edition. Black was raised in Missouri, was a hobo and a burglar in the late 19th and early twentieth century, outliving the last days of the Wild West. "You Can't Win" is his fictionalized autobiography of those days, emphasizing the futility of criminal endeavors while disparaging the state of prisons and the criminal justice system.....

Mexico: Producciones Barbachano Ponce, 1958. Draft script for the 1959 film. Presentation copy belonging to director Luis Bunuel, and SIGNED by Bunuel on the front wrapper. Also laid in is a program from the film's American premiere on May 18, 1960, also SIGNED by Bunuel. Blue ink holograph annotations in the same hand to the verso of the last page.....

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1937. Publisher's prospectus for the First Edition. A perhaps unique and certainly rare piece advertising the release of Cain's second novel, containing the title-page, first chapter, and a specifications leaf. In a custom clamshell box with dark red cloth, quarter bound in dark red leather, titles in gilt. Box Very Good with some wear along.....

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1955. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper to Delbert Mann: "To Delbert / Who needs no / inscription (p. 259). Thank you very much, Del / Paddy." In a custom clamshell box with red cloth and black calf quarter binding, titles in gilt.Delbert Mann, in addition to his notable work as.....

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1949. Final Draft script for the 1950 film. With a "New York Legal Department" rubber stamp to the front wrapper and extensive holograph pencil annotations throughout, likely by a professional reader, regarding differences between the source novel by Thomas B. Costain and the script. Based on Costain's 1945 novel, and partially conceived as a sequel to.....

Los Angeles: CBS Television Network, 1981. Wardrobe breakdown pages and shooting schedule for the 1981 television film which originally aired on October 24, 1981 on CBS. Archive belonging to an unknown crew member in the wardrobe department with holograph annotations on every page and 94 Polaroid photographs tipped onto pages throughout. A cult classic. Charles "Bubba" Ritter (Larry Drake) is.....

Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, Circa 1976. Early Draft script for the 1977 film. At 200 pages, this draft is 36 pages longer than the longest of the three we have encountered, meaning almost certainly that it is a First Draft or very close.The plot of William Friedkin's suspense thriller originated with the same Georges Arnaud novel that inspired Henri-Georges.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Outpost Productions / Multicom Entertainment, 1994. Revised Shooting script for the 1995 film "Mind Ripper," seen here under the title "Wes Craven Presents: The Outpost." Round robin copy, SIGNED on the front wrapper by director Joe Gayton, producers Jonathan Craven and Peter Shepherd, cast members Lance Henriksen, Adam Solomon, Natasha Gregson Wagner, Giovanni Ribisi, and Dan Blom.....

Paris: Columbia Films / Anouchka Films / Orsay Films, 1964. Vintage borderless photograph of actors Sami Frey, Anna Karina, and Claude Brasseur rehearsing the 1964 film's iconic dance sequence, which they did daily for a month prior to shooting. With holograph annotations and agency stamps on the verso.An outrageous and comical crime film, which Godard himself described as "'Alice in.....

Paris: Les Films Concordia, 1963. Vintage oversize borderless double weight photograph of Brigitte Bardot and Michel Piccoli on the set of the 1963 film. With the stamp of photographer Aldo Durazzi and a press agency stamp on the verso. Godard's lush Technicolor landmark that transformed Brigitte Bardot from a sex symbol into an art object, while simultaneously furthering his own.....

Tokyo: Toho Company, 1954. Vintage double weight photograph from the 1954 film, the first appearance of Godzilla, who would go on to appear in countless other Japanese monster movies, as well as non-Japanese ones. With holograph annotations on the verso. The original Godzilla film is one of the first Kaiju films, a Japanese sub-genre of films featuring giant monsters attacking.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1960s-1970s. Draft script for an unproduced film "Twist." Copy belonging to director Ken Hughes, with his annotations throughout. A police investigator shoots a longtime nemesis while chasing him after a heist, and must cope with the loss of his greatest equal. Set in England. Tall black wrappers, with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title.....

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1961. Early Draft script for the 1970 film "Cromwell," seen here under the title "Oliver Cromwell." Copy belonging to director/screenwriter Ken Hughes, with his annotations throughout. With 11 pages of reproductions from "The Commonweal" newspaper from August and September 1885 laid into the front of the script, along with a drawing of how to add.....

Los Angeles: Zenith Productions, circa 1974. Draft script for the 1974 film "Psycho Sisters," also known by the alternate title "Sibling," seen here under the working title "So Evil, My Sister." A low budget suspense film from "Diary of a Madman" director Reginald LeBorg, in which a recent widow (Susan Strasberg) and her emotionally unstable sister (Faith Domergue) engage in.....

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1941. Temporary Draft script for the 1941 film. Copy belonging to producer Daryl F. Zanuck, with his bold annotations in holograph pencil throughout. Similar to the Italian Peplum (sword-and-sandal) epics, the film follows the rise and fall of an illiterate peasant (played by Tyrone Powell) who becomes a renowned bullfighter, and who manages to catch the.....

New York: Random House, 1940. First Edition. Association copy, INSCRIBED by Odets in the year of publication to his wife, noted actress Luise Rainer: "To Luise / Amiga de mi corazon / Clifford / 4/40."Small splash to bottom page edges, else Near Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket that has no chips or tears but is very lightly.....

New York: Centaur Enterprises, 1963. Final Draft script for the 1964 film, an early draft produced over a year before the film's release. A few leaves with annotations in holograph pencil. Based on J.R. Salamanca's 1961 novel. An ex-soldierwith PTSD is living in a mental institution, where he meets a similarly troubled woman. Set in Rockville, Maryland, shot there on.....

New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux [FSG], 1967. UNCORRECTED PROOF of the author's second novel, preceding the first edition. Copiously annotated, sometimes quite critically, other times effusively, by novelist Frederick Tuten, who reviewed the book. Scarce in an advance issue, with an association. In a custom blue cloth clamshell box with leather spine label and titles in gilt.Pink card wrappers.....

Budapest: Balsz Bela Studio, 1977. Vintage post-production promotional script for the 1977 Hungarian film. Includes a prose narrative describing the film story, reviews, quotes, and critical essays. Text in Hungarian.Easily the most rigidly philosophical promotional script ever issued, with the narrative portion being essentially one long run-on sentence wherein Tarr describes his intentions for his first film. It would be.....

New York: Macmillan, 1970. First Edition. Copy from the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] library, with two of their rubber stamps on the front endpaper at the bottom center, one that reads "FILE COPY," overstamped by another that reads "VAULT COPY," at the top center. Also on the front endpaper is a holograph notation of "#10"at the top right, and a tiny date.....

Los Angeles: American International Pictures [AIP], circa 1972. Draft script for the 1972 film. With actor Betty Anne Rees' first name and phone number in holograph ink on the front wrapper.Karen (Claudia Jennings) quits her job at a cannery and joins a roller derby team. She quickly clashes with Mickey (Betty Anne Rees), the star skater, and stirs jealousy amongst.....