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 a studio insignia for Murray Corman photography studio in New York in white at the bottom right corner.Ziegfeld.....

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.....

Los Angeles: Essex Productions, 1979. Final Draft script for the 1984 horror film. Copy belonging to makeup artist John Carl Buechler, with his name in holograph ink on the title page and two Polaroid photographs laid in. Six friends are stalked and murdered while on a camping trip. Shot on location in Idyllwild, California. Green titled wrappers. Title page present.....

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1949. First Edition. Likely unique copy from the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] library, with the following identification markers on the front endpaper (1) a standard 1950s-era MGM receipt label affixed to the center of the page, (2) three rubber stamps running down the center that read "VAULT COPY," (3) three rubber stamps (each marked through) also running.....

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1953. First Edition. Association copy, INSCRIBED by Roy Chanslor to film director Nicholas Ray on the front endpaper: "To Nick Ray / For a very happy and fruitful association! / Roy." The inscription refers to Ray's film version of Chanslor's book, one of the strangest and most important Westerns ever committed to celluloid, and a......

N.p. N.p., circa 1982. Original Treatment script for an unproduced film. With 17 pages of information about Polish screenwriter Witold Orzechowski laid in, including a background on his film career on the other side of the Iron Curtain and about his affiliation with the Solidarity political party. Orzechowski directed the first Eastern European cinematic adaptation of Joseph Conrad with the.....

Montreal: Canadian Film Development Corporation [CFDC], 1975. Collection of three vintage borderless photographs from the 1975 film. With holograph annotations on the versos. A high-rise apartment building is infected by a parasite that turns its victims into sex-crazed maniacs that can infect with the slightest touch.Shot on location in Montreal, Canada. 7 x 5 inches. Near Fine. Arrow 1497. Canuxploitation.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1938. Vintage Style D US one sheet poster for the 1938 US film. Based on the 1936 novel by Erich Maria Remarque, and to our knowledge, F. Scott Fitzgerald's only credited adaptation of a literary work by another author. Three young German soldiers vie for the love of a dying woman in the years following.....

Venice, CA: Blum Group, 1977. Third Draft script for the 1978 film. A Hollywood agent has racked up huge gambling debt and needs to quickly pay back the bookie. He organizes a group of talented skateboarders and enters them into a major competition with a $20,000 prize. Shot on location in California. Lime green titled wrappers. Title page present, dated.....

New York: Cannon Films, 1972. Draft script for the 1972 film, here under the working title "Zora". Something of an arthouse predecessor to what became a cavalcade of holiday slasher and horror films. The film's cult status was helped by featuring Warhol superstars Mary Woronov, Candy Darling, and Ondine, experimental film icon Jack Smith, and artist Susan Rothenberg, as well.....

France: JLG Films, 1985. Vintage borderless photograph of director Jean-Luc Godard on the set of the 1985 film. With an agency stamp, typed description and holograph annotations on the verso. Released the same year as Godard's highly (and pointlessly) controversial picture, "Je Vous Salue, Marie" ("Hail Mary"). Set in a hotel in Paris, the plot follows a trio's attempt to.....

Vienna: N.p., Circa 1970s. Treatment script for an unproduced film. Text in German. Based on Herman Hesse's last full-length novel "Das Glasperienspiel" or "The Glass Bead Game", published in 1943. Years into the future, a class of intellectuals is concerned only with running boys' boarding schools and playing the Glass Bead Game, which involves a sophisticated synthesis of arts, science.....

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1972. First Edition. Association copy, inscribed by Houseman to legendary screenwriter Anita Loos: "For Anita Loos, who set me right about certain facts / Gratefully / John Houseman." Loos' tiny red ownership stamp also appears at the bottom of the second blank. The first volume of the legendary producer-actor Houseman's memoirs, covering the years 1902-1942.....

London: Warwick Film Productions, 1960. First Draft script for the 1960 UK film. File copy belonging to the film's director Ken Hughes, with a typescript note tipped on to the title page requesting its return to the director and noting it is the only script in existence for the film. Peter Finch delivers a strong performance as the inimitable author.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] / Seven Arts, 1964. Collection of 13 studio photographs from the 1964 film. The third of three feature films adapted from W. Somerset Maugham's classic 1915 novel, starring Kim Novak and Laurence Harvey, following the 1934 film starring Leslie Howard and Bette Davis, and the 1946 film starring Paul Henreid and Eleanor Parker. Set in.....

Los Angeles: American Film Institute [AFI], 1977. Collection of six vintage oversize borderless double weight photographs from the 1977 film. With agency stamps on the verso of five of the photographs and a label with the film's title in French and English affixed to the recto of four photographs at the lower left corner.David Lynch's first feature film. The AFI.....

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.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1926. Draft script for the 1927 Silent film. Based on the 1913 yellow peril play by Henry Maurice Vernon and Harold Owen, and previously adapted for the screen in 1919, directed by Maurice Elvey, and starring Matheson Lang. Lon Chaney, in full yellowface, murders his daughter after discovering she loves the son of a British.....

New York: Covici-Friede, 1935. First edition, second issue of Odet’s first book, containing his first three plays, “Awake and Sing!,” “Waiting for Lefty,” and “Till the Day I Die,” all of which were written for and premiered by the Group Theatre in the first half of 1935. Copy belonging to Emanuel "Manny" Fried, an understudy to Group Theatre co-founder Harold.....

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1955. Revised Final Draft script for the 1956 film, with rainbow revisions. Released just two years after "On the Waterfront" (1954), the multi-award-winning collaboration between Elia Kazan and Budd Schulberg, and based on Budd Schulberg's 1947 novel about a once respected sportswriter now forced to work for a crooked promoter who is taking advantage of.....

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.....

New York: N.p., Circa 1979. Archive including a Draft script for an unproduced film, and several associated typed letters signed relating to the possible casting of Liv Ullmann and Carol Kane. Based on the 1972 novel by Jerome Weidman. Laid in to the script are a three page handwritten letter on Film Friends letterhead from Marilyn Feinstein to Paul Kohner.....