New York: Random House, 1939. First Edition. Wonderfully INSCRIBED by the author to actor Paul Muni's wife: "For Bella Muni / Dear Bella / Early in our acquaintance, I reckoned my obligation to you in the terms of light-years / But lately I've lost count and given up. / Sincerely / Max." From the collection of Otto Penzler. After debuting at...
Burbank, CA: New Line Cinema, 1997. Collection of five vintage borderless photographs from the 1997 film. Director Paul Thomas Anderson's second film, bringing him to widespread acclaim, about a young man's career in the porn industry during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Nominated for three Academy Awards, including Best Original Screenplay for Anderson, Best Supporting Actress for Julianne Moore...
![Identification Of A Woman [Identificazione Di Una Donna] (Original screenplay for the 1982 film)....](/pictures/thumb/144397.jpg?v=1559338803)
Rome: Iterfilm, 1982. Agency draft script in English for the 1982 Italian film. Antonioni's rarely discussed final feature, and one of his greatest achievements. Niccolo (Tomas Milian), a recently divorced movie director pursues a new relationship with a younger woman, Mavi (Daniela Silverio), who he imagines could play the leading role in his next film. She quickly vanishes and he...
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: Viking Press, 1994. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the First Edition. Includes a 40-page segment excised from the published book. Not to be confused with the more common advance reader's edition, which has a pictorial wrapper and does not include the excised text. Spine panel lightly faded, else Fine in pictorial wrappers.
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...
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1976. Draft script for the 1977 film. Regan MacNeil (Linda Blair) is tormented with nightmares four years after her exorcism. The demon still hides within her, and Vatican priest Father Philip Lamont (Richard Burton) is assigned to investigate the death of her exorcist to learn more about the demon. Shot on location in Arizona, New York...
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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...
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 notations in the same hand to the verso of the last page...
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: 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, 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....
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...
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...
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 notations 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...
Montreal: Canadian Film Development Corporation [CFDC], 1975. Collection of three vintage borderless photographs from the 1975 film. With holograph notations 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 (18 x 13 cm). Near Fine. Arrow 1497. Canuxploitation Complete. Weldon 1983.
New York: Edward J. Clode, 1927. First Edition. In the first state dust jacket, priced $2.00 and with a blurb for this title on the front flap and an advertisement for Richard H. Watkin's "Half a Clue" on the rear flap. From the collection of Otto Penzler. In the early days of the seminal pulp magazine"Black Mask," writer Carroll John Daly was.....
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Los Angeles: CBS, 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 notations on every page and 94 Polaroid photographs tipped onto pages throughout. A cult classic. Charles "Bubba" Ritter (Larry Drake) is wrongfully accused...
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...
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...
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...
![Mind Ripper [Wes Craven Presents: The Outpost] (Original screenplay for the 1995 film, round...](/pictures/thumb/143834.jpg?v=1529008216)
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...
![Silent Night, Bloody Night [Zora] (Original screenplay for the 1972 film). Theodore Gershuny, Ira...](/pictures/thumb/143600.jpg?v=1541362765)
New York: Cannon, 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 as...
Los Angeles: Volcanic Eruptions, 1988-1992. Collection of three First Editions of early works by Crispin Glover, “Rat-Catching,” “Oak Mott,” and “Concrete Inspection,” each creatively inscribed by Glover to filmmaker Trent Harris. Each title issued in limitation of 1000, these being numbered -01, 0, and 0, respectively, by Glover. Included is a proof of “Rat-Catching,” also inscribed to Harris, and dated.....
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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 notations and agency stamps on the verso. An outrageous and comical crime film, which Godard himself described as "'Alice in...
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 notations 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...
![Contempt [Le Mepris] (Original double weight photograph from the 1963 film). Jean-Luc Godard,...](/pictures/thumb/144372.jpg?v=1559338997)
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...
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...
Tokyo: Toho Company, Ltd., 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 notations on the verso. The original Godzilla film is one of the first Kaiju films, a Japanese sub-genre of films featuring giant monsters...
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...
N.p. N.p., Circa 1960s-1970s. Draft script for an unproduced film "Twist." Copy belonging to director Ken Hughes, with his notations 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.....
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...
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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...
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...
![Psycho Sisters [So Evil, My Sister] [Sibling] (Original screenplay for the 1974 film). Reginald...](/pictures/thumb/144121.jpg?v=1542386782)
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: 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...
Early Draft script (though noted as a "Final Draft screenplay") for the 1971 film dated two years prior to its release. The number "243" is annotated in faded holograph ink at the top right corner of the title page. An important, slightly experimental X-rated comedy that is ground zero in the history early 1970s sexual climate in America, predicting the more...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1941. Temporary Draft script for the 1941 film. Copy belonging to producer Daryl F. Zanuck, with his bold notations 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], 1952. Collection of 86 vintage photographs from the 1953 film, made specially for director Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Photographs are mounted recto and verso (i.e., 2 per leaf) on heavy stock and housed in a leather bound three ring presentation binder with gilt titles and Mankiewicz's name on the front board. Shot between August and October...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1938. First Edition. The author's third book, a Hollywood novel. From the collection of Otto Penzler. Easily the most difficult McCoy first edition to find in superior condition, as the jacket spine tends to fade almost completely away. This copy Near Fine in every respect, with only slight toning to the jacket spine panel, and 1-inch...
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1978. First Edition. Dedication copy, INSCRIBED by McMurtry to one of the book's three dedicatees, Peter Bogdanovich on the dedication page: "[Peter's name circled] / Your contribution to this hetic effort was immense / But fortunately so ineffable that for once you probably won't be blamed / Love / Larry." McMurtry refers here to 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: 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 and uniformly rubbed.
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.....
New York: Centaur Enterprises, Inc., 1963. Final Draft script for the 1964 film, an early draft produced over a year before the film's release. A few leaves with notations 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...
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...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1975. Vintage photograph of Tim Curry as Dr. Frank N. Furter in the classic 1975 film. With holograph notations on the verso. 10 x 8 inches (25 x 20 cm). Near Fine. National Film Registry. Weldon 1983.
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...
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London: Hammer Films, 1971. Revised Draft script for the 1972 British horror film, here under the working title "Blood Will Have Blood." With holograph notations throughout that include additions to description and changes in dialogue. A classic from the Hammer canon, and the last film Hammer made in conjunction with Anglo-EMI, about a widowed aristocrat who keeps his two teenage...
Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1930. Vintage photograph from the set of the 1930 film. With holograph notations and a typed description on the verso. A pre-Code musical comedy regarded as a masterpiece of the emerging musical genre and remembered primarily for the song "Beyond the Blue Horizon." Based on the 1900 novel, "Monsieur Beaucaire" by Booth Tarkington, later adapted as...
![Family Nest [Csaladi Tuzfeszek] (Original promotional script for the 1977 film). Bela Tarr,...](/pictures/thumb/145506.jpg?v=1560892755)
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...
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1968. Draft script for the 1969 film. Copy belonging to producer James H. Ware with his name and notations, in holograph ink and pencil throughout. 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)...
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: R. Bruce Moody, 1974. Draft script for an unproduced film. A film written for Marlon Brando, based on a story by Leo Tolstoy. The story of a great native chieftain, whose family has been taken hostage by an enemy tribe, forcing him into an alliance with the United States, an entity which turns out to only be using...
![War and Peace [Voyna i mir] (Two original photographs from the set of the 1966-1967 film series)....](/pictures/thumb/143046.jpg?v=1559338801)
Moscow: Mosfilm, 1964. Two vintage photographs from the four-film series, released between 1966 and 1967, showing director Bondarchuk on a large outdoor battle set. With Italian mimeo snipes, and stamps of a magazine archive dated August 19, 1964 on the verso. An epic production, based on the 1869 novel by Tolstoy, at the time the most expensive film ever made...
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...
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1926. First Edition. The author's first book, with art deco jacket design by Bobritsky, priced $2.00. From the collection of Otto Penzler. Woolrich's first novel, one of six novels written in the style of F. Scott Fitzgerald and other Jazz Age writers, before his permanent turn to crime fiction. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket...
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1942. First Edition. Haycraft Queen Cornerstone. A Woolrich high spot, basis for the 1944 film directed by Robert Siodmak and starring Ella Raines and Franchot Tone. From the collection of Otto Penzler. About Fine in a Near Fine, price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket is exceptional for this title, with a touch of wear at the spine ends and a....
New York City: Plymouth Theatre, 1954. Draft script for the 1954 play. With holograph notations throughout. The two-act play first opened on Broadway at the Plymouth Theatre on January 20, 1954 and ran for a total of 415 performances, closing January 22, 1955. Based on Wouk's 1951 Pulitzer Prize winning novel "The Caine Mutiny". A courtroom drama recounting second-in-command Steve Maryk's...
New York: Limelight Editions, 1992. First Edition. Copy belonging to "Playboy" magazine founder Hugh Hefner, with his holograph underling, notations, and paper clip page markers throughout, primarily to sections regarding Playmate Dorothy Stratten, Playboy, or himself. Together with Hefner's copy of the First Edition of Peter Bogdanovich's "The Killing of the Unicorn: Dorothy Stratten 1960-1980." From the estate of Hugh...
![The Unholy Rollers [The Leader Of The Pack] (Original screenplay for the 1972 film). Vernon...](/pictures/thumb/144513.jpg?v=1539623135)
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...