Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1970. Vintage double weight photograph of director Michelangelo Antonioni and members of the cast and crew on location in the Mojave Desert shooting the 1970 film. Shot by noted photographer Bruce Davidson. With holograph annotations in pencil and blue pen on the verso. Antonioni’s great American experiment, and the only film the director ever made in.....
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1970. Near Fine. Godard, Histoires du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000.
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Los Angeles: RKO Radio Pictures, 1936. Estimating script for the 1937 film, here under the working title "Stepping Toes." A ballet star (Astaire) start falls in love with a young tap dancer (Rogers) on a trans-Atlantic voyage, but rumors of their relationship precede them to their destination. The seventh of ten films Fred Astaire and Ginger Rodgers would make together, and.....
New York: Music Vanguard, 1935. Complete two issue run of "Music Vanguard" magazine, listed as Vol. 1, issue 1 March-April 1935 and Vol. 1, issue 2 Summer 1935. Rare. "Music Vanguard" focused on the relationship between music and social justice, with a particular focus American socialist thought, noting in the introduction to the first issue the "wish to interrelate diverse elements.....
Culver City, CA: Associated Producers Inc., 1959. Draft script for the 1959 film. Sequel to Kurt Neumann's "The Fly," and taking place one year after the conclusion of that film. Phillipe Delambre (Brett Halsey) takes up his father's work of matter transmission, and with his uncle Francois (Vincent Price) they accidentally produce a monstrous creature, a man with the head.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1973. Draft script of playwright Christopher Bond’s 1973 take on the Victorian tale of Sweeney Todd. Steven Sondheim saw the performance at the Theatre Royal Stratford East in London the same year, and wrote his own musical stage version, a wildly successful hit that came 5 years later. Bond was the first to give Sweeney Todd.....
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1947. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Bradbury on the front endpaper in 1948 to film director Preston Sturges: "For Preston Sturges / With my best wishes—and with my thanks for the good entertainment you have provided me with over the years / from / Ray Bradbury / May 5, 1948." A stellar association copy of Bradbury's.....
![Jukebox [Jet Set Disco] (Original screenplay for the 1978 film). Lamar Card, John Arnoldy, George...](/pictures/thumb/145671.jpg?v=1565816262)
Los Angeles: George Barris - Irwin Schaeffer Production, 1978. Revised Draft script for the 1978 film. Copy belonging to writer George Barris, with his name in holograph ink on the title page, holograph annotations and paper clip page markers throughout. With a cast that includes Fabian, Barris, and Casey Kasem. A sleazy nightclub owner tries to help the comeback of a......
Paris: Cinedis, 1961. Archive of 749 vintage keybook photographs from the 1961 French-Italian film. Over 200 are loose, the remainder being affixed with cello tape on thick stock in two folio sized spiral bound notebooks with one title label present. Each photograph is numbered in holograph pencil on the versos, 13 photographs credit photographer Water Limot, 18 with his name.....
N.p. Amicus Productions, 1969. Revised Draft script for the 1970 film. Based on the 1961 novel by Charles Eric Maine, and one of the classics from Amicus Productions in the 1960s. A man has been in a coma since birth, and awakens for the first time at the age of 30 with the mind of an infant. Set in London.....
Los Angeles: Embassy Pictures, 1981. Vintage photograph showing director David Cronenberg and crew shooting a scene from actress Jennifer O'Neil's point-of-view on the set of the 1981 film. With a mimeo snipe on the verso. A shadowy security company seeks to use "scanners," people with various psychic abilities, as weapons, but are opposed by an underground movement vying for world.....
Beverly Hills, CA: Brandywine Productions, 1969. Vintage borderless photograph of Glenda Jackson, Vladek Sheybel and Oliver Reed from the 1969 film. With a typed description on the verso. Based on D.H. Lawrence’s 1920 novel about two sisters who begin relationships with a pair of friends, bringing conflict between the two pairs as their relationships head in different directions. An examination.....
Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1985. Archive of script material for the 1987 film, including: Revised draft script for the 1987 film. Copy belonging to producer Robert Weiss, With holograph annotations throughout. Additional production material including handwritten and typed notes with pages of ideas proposed and dismissed during development. A set of 18 color 4 x 6 inch vintage vernacular photographs from the.....
New York: The Living Theatre, 1961. Original flyer for an exhibition of six films by Maya Deren held on February 20 and 27, 1961 at the Bleecker Street Cinema, and March 6 and 13, 1961 at The Living Theater. The flyer notes that music for two of the films, "Meshes in the Afternoon" and "The Very Eye of the Night".....
Burbank, CA: Centurion / Buena Vista, 1959. Pre-Production script for the 1959 film, dated August 7, 1958. Copy beloning to art director Walter M. Simonds, who would go uncredited on the final film, with his name in holograph pencil on the front wrapper and a single holograph notation inside. Based on the 1948 biblical novel of the same name by.....
N.p. N.p., 1966. Notebook belonging to an unknown pharmacist detailing the pharmacy's on hand stock of amphetamines, barbiturates, tranquilizers, and other drugs which contained one or more of those in combination, and noted "effective Feb. 1 - 1966." Also noted is that the inventory was compiled in accordance with recently passed Drug Abuse Control Amendment Act of 1965, which, in.....
Burbank, CA: The Malapaso Company, 1971. Vintage borderless studio press photograph from the set of the 1971 film. Mimeo snipe on verso. Clint Eastwood’s directorial debut, after decades as an actor, a second career that would garner him two Best Director Oscars, for Unforgiven (1992) and Million Dollar Baby (2004), and two more nominations, for Mystic River (2003) and Letters.....
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Glendale, CA: Allied Artists, 1954. Shooting script for the 1955 film noir, here under the working title "Code 3," with the working title crossed through on the front wrapper and "Dial Red O" written above it twice, once in holograph pencil and once in holograph ink. Copy belonging to an uncredited crew member, with annotations throughout in red pencil, primarily.....
Los Angeles: American International Pictures [AIP], 1976. Draft script for the 1977 film. One of the best unheralded revenge thrillers of the 1970s, with William Devane taking an unusual turn as a sympathetic character, though forced to be quite cold-blooded. Playing a Vietnam veteran with absolutely nothing left to lose, Devane beats a warpath from Texas to Mexico in pursuit.....
US: Gulfmine Ltd, 1986. Sixth Draft script for the 1987 film. SIGNED by screenwriter and source novel author Frederick Forsyth on the title page, with an additional typed note signed referencing the script from Forsyth on his letterhead included. With both holograph and copied annotations by him on every page, with most of the holograph annotations being changes to dialogue. Adapted.....
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Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1977. First Draft script for the 1979 film, here under the working title "The Windsor Project." Toxic environmental waste creates a mutant bear that terrorizes the Maine countryside. Set in Maine, shot on location in Crofton, British Columbia. Black titled wrappers. Title page present, dated 12/25/77, noted as First Draft, with credits for screenwriter David Seltzer.....
Moore Park, Australia: Embassy Pictures, 1965. Final Draft script for the 1965 film. Copy belonging to actor Hank Jones, who played the role of Chuck, with his name to the front wrapper in black ink. With 19 pages of deleted scenes laid in. Loosely based on the 1904 H.G. Wells novel "The Food of the Gods and How It Came.....
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1971. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Harrison to fellow author Chris Offutt on the title page: "Chris / To a fine writer! / Jim Harrison / [cartoon face drawing]." A tremendous association between two generations of the most important chroniclers of the American South and Midwest. From the collection of Chris Offutt. Offutt is the author of.....
New York: Delacorte, 1979. First printing of this edition. Three volumes. Publisher's beige buckram, gilt spine titles, housed in a matching slipcase. One of 250 copies (this being No. 105) SIGNED by the author on the first leaf of "Legends of the Fall." The other two volumes are INSCRIBED by Harrison to fellow author Chris Offutt: "To Chris / Jim.....
New York``: Simon and Schuster, 1971. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Harrison to fellow author Chris Offutt on the title page: "To Chris / Jim Harrison." Additionally SIGNED by Harrison (in the same pen) on the second blank: "Jim Harrison / 4/88." A tremendous association between two generations of the most important chroniclers of the American South and Midwest. A tremendous association.....
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New York: Magic Lantern Inc, 1971. Draft script for the 1974 film. Based on the 1927 novel by Hermann Hesse. A depressed half-man half-animal (played by Max von Sydow) is introduced to the hallucinogenic world of the "Magic Theater," where he seeks redemption via a metaphysical transcendence. The film took seven years of complicated pre-production to create, including building a......
Los Angeles: New World Pictures, Circa 1985. Collection of 22 vintage still photographs from the 1985 film. An early mockumentary, following a documentary filmmaker's attempt to find out identity of a mysterious masked wrestler. A cult classic of the wrestling film genre, starring many stars of the wrestling world from its time, including Magic Schwarz, Stephen Cepello, Dick Murdoch, Wally.....
Hollywood: Fox Film Corporation, 1931. Final Shooting script for the 1932 film. Based on the 1915 novel by Zane Grey. Sequel to the 1931 film "Riders of the Purple Sage," and bringing back star George O'Brien, this time as the nephew of the character he played in the previous film, seeking his missing uncle. Starring Cecilia Parker as O'Brien's love.....
New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1939. First Edition. Copy belonging to director Jacques Tourneur, with his name in holograph red pencil on the front endpaper. Published the same year as Tourneur's directorial debut, "They All Come Out." Tourneur would go on to direct 70 films over a 40 year career, including the first three horror films for legendary producer Val Lewton, "Cat.....
![Scandal Sheet [Dark Page] (Archive of production material for the 1952 film). Phil Karlson,...](/pictures/thumb/145051.jpg?v=1560892691)
Culver City, CA: Edward Small Productions, 1947. Archive of production material for the 1952 film noir consisting of the following: breakdown, set list, wardrobe plot, shooting schedule, and a summary of detail budget. With a type written letter outlining the contents of the archive from producer Edward Small to Dan O'Shea, signed by Edward Small in holograph ink and dated.....
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Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1972. Revised script for the 1972 film under the working title "Wet Stuff". A spy spoof film featuring Elliot Gould and Donald Sutherland as CIA agents on the run from the CIA, the KGB, Chinese Communists and an anarchist group after botching a Russian ballerina's defection. Shot on location in London and Paris. Blue titled wrappers.....
N.p. N.p., 1977. Draft script for an unproduced film. With 19 pages of budget estimates laid in. A man returns to his small southern home town and finds that he is the heir to a Voodoo artifact, and the ancient spirit that possesses it. Had the script been picked up by a studio it would have been J.S. Cardone's first.....
Hollywood: The Selznick Company, 1959. Leatherbound presentation copy of Second Draft script for the 1962 film. Presented to studio executive David O. Selznick, with his initials in gilt on front board. Henry King's adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic final novel, and his final film as well. King was a prolific director and one of the most commercially successful.....
Hollywood: Fox Film Corporation, 1932. Final Shooting script for the 1932 film. Based on the 1932 novel by Zane Grey. George O'Brien plays an itinerant cowboy named Jim Wall who agrees to take part in a cattle rustling scheme but backs out after developing feelings for the rancher's sister. Set in Arizona and shot there on location. Green titled wrappers.....
Beverly Hills, CA: Petersham Pictures / United Artists, 1966. Draft British script for the 1967 film. Based on the 1963 novel by Patrick Ryan. Copy likely belonging to John Lennon, with lines for his character Gripweed circled or stricken exclusively in holograph ink throughout. Also included is a separate call sheet for Monday, October 24, 1966, mentioning Lennon and his.....
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists / Chrislaw Productions, 1970. Vintage borderless double weight photograph of actor Sammy Davis Jr. and director Jerry Lewis on the set of the 1970 film. Mimeo snipe on the verso. Chris Pepper (Peter Lawford) and Charlie Salt (Sammy Davis Jr.) are about to lose their London nightclub. In desperation they turn to Pepper's aristocrat twin.....
Hollywood: Jerry Lewis Productions, 1960. Vintage photograph of Jerry Lewis and jazz impresario Count Basie on the set of the 1960 film, in which Basie stars as himself. With holograph annotations in pencil on the verso. Jerry Lewis' answer to the classic Cinderella story. When his father dies, poor Fella is left at the mercy of his snobbish stepmother and.....
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London: N.p., Circa 1969. Draft script for the 1969 film. An early version of the screenplay with the provisional title "A Kestrel for a Knave". "6x" in black holograph marker on top right of title page. The second film (and breakthrough) by esteemed British social realist filmmaker Ken Loach. Based upon the 1968 novel by Barry Hines "A Kestrel for a......
Berkeley: Saul Zaentz, 1990. Third Draft script for the 1991 film. Based on the 1965 novel by Peter Matthiessen, about the conflicts and relationships between an indigenous Amazon tribe, the missionaries that want to convert them, and the mercenaries hired to move them off their land. Set in Amazon rainforest, shot on location in Brazil and Venezuela. Green titled wrappers.....
N.p. N.p., 1980. First Draft script for an unproduced television film. Laid in are six pages of letters urging the production of this film. Based on Ed McBain's police procedural novels set in "The 87th Precinct" specifically the 1972 novel "Sadie When She Died," but not to be confused with the 1961-1962 television series also based on this series of.....
France: Euro International Film, 1972. Vintage borderless photograph of Jean-Paul Melville on the set of the 1972 film. A police detective, played by Delon in a switch from his usual criminal roles in Melville's films, is on the trail of a gang of thieves, unaware that they are led by a friend. Melville's final film. Shot on location in Paris.....
France: Eve Productions, 1989. Original French grande poster for the 1989 release of the 1970 US film. Scarce. A small-town border sheriff and marijuana smuggler sets out to kill a rival drug dealer, while his girlfriend has a dalliance with another woman. The first Meyer film to feature full frontal male nudity, a rarity even in sexploitation films at the.....
Hollywood: Jed Buell Productions / Columbia Pictures, Circa 1938. Draft script for the 1938 film. Copy belonging to actor Joseph Herbst, with his last name in holograph pencil to the front wrapper. Herbst played the part of the sheriff in the film, and a year later would also go on to act as a Munchkin villager in The Wizard of.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1960s. Archive of 62 vernacular photographs, likely taken by an American GI stationed on a US base in postwar Germany, with 57 of those photographs depicting a fascination with Volkswagen Type 1 Beetle cars that borders on obsession. At least three different Beetles are depicted in the collection, including a myriad of artfully-shot close-up's of body damage, interiors.....
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1978. Draft script for the 1979 film. Illustrated front wrapper based on Saul Bass' poster design for the film. Copy belonging to uncredited crew member David Hitchcock, with his name in holograph ink on the front wrapper. Holograph annotations throughout primarily indicating deleted scenes. Also included is a carbon typed letter signed by Otto Preminger.....
Hollywood: R and R Productions, Circa 1970s. Draft script for an unproduced film comedy. A young wealthy boy runs away to the Marines and ends up competing on their boxing team. Though he is an unusually talented boxer, his true ambition is to become a musician. Luckily for him the entire boxing team is also musically talented. Blue untitled wrappers. Title.....
N.p. Red Lion, 1968. Presentation script for the 1969 film, copy belonging to producer Harry Mandell, with his name in gilt on the front board. A woman breaks off her engagement with her fiance when he becomes violent after she has an abortion, only to be stalked by him when she later has a child with her new husband. An.....
New York: J.B. Lippincott, 1939. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper: "To George and Sally / Who were so good as the Inspector and Mrs. Simmons when we did the play in Fairfield / June 1942 / James Ronald." An important historical inscription. The book was published in 1939, and was apparently produced as a local play.....
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1977. Revised Draft script for the 1978 film. The Beatles' legendary 1967 masterwork is turned into a 1970s film musical, represented by a star-studded ensemble, with appearances by Donald Pleasence, George Burns (the only actor with speaking lines not accompanied by song), Steve Martin, Alice Cooper, Jack Bruce, Keith Carradine, Carol Channing, Donovan, Leif Garrett.....
San Francisco: Sexual Freedom League, 1965. Original flyer from an early West Coast event by the Sexual Freedom League, taking place on Saturday, October 30, 1965 at Union Square in San Francisco. The Sexual Freedom League was founded in New York in 1963 by Jefferson Poland and Leo Koch, and advocated for sexual activity and sexual political reform, especially the.....
New York: Robert M McBride, 1926. Second printing. INSCRIBED by the author to Roland Young, who played Cosmo Topper in the legendary 1937 screwball comedy (as well as its two sequels): "To Roland Young: The most disarming "gentleman Johnnie" that ever advanced the lines of G.B.S. [George Bernard Shaw]. From Thorne Smith." Roland Young's bookplate is opposite the inscription on.....
Universal City: Dreamworks, 2007. Draft rainbow revision script for the 2008 film. Copy belonging to Second Unit Clearance Coordinator Ashley Kravitz, her name in holograph pencil on an included one line schedule. Included are eight revision pages differing from those in script, two different one line schedules, and other ephemera relating to production. One of the best comedies of the.....
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1967. First Edition. First issue jacket with a price of $5.95 and a Wallace Stegner blurb on the front flap, and a photo of Stone on the rear jacket panel. The author's first book. Warmly INSCRIBED by Stone to fellow author Chris Offutt in the year of publication: "For Chris Offutt / With admiration, esteem, and best wishes.....
N.p. N.p., 1988. First Draft script for an unproduced film. A comedy about the titular fictional music variety show. The cast list notes several heavyweight comedic actors, including Richard Pryor, Lilly Tomlin, Dan Ackroyd, and Eddie Murphy, but it's unclear if they were attached to the project or if it's a wish list, as the script also calls for cameos.....
N.p. N.p., N.d. Typescript draft for an unproduced film. A soldier's father is killed when witnessing a gang hit in Los Angeles and the soldier, on 30 day leave from his tour in Vietnam in order to attend his father's funeral, is out for revenge. A blunt condemnation of violent gangs. Lacking wrappers, as issued. Title page present, with credits for.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1955. Revised Shooting Final Script for the 1956 film. With holograph annotations throughout. Also included is a call sheet and nearly complete scene breakdowns for the film. A dramatic depiction of The United States' early tests and developments of space travel technology, and the experiences of the future astronauts that underwent strenuous and risky trials. A......
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1972. Draft script for the 1973 film. Based on the 1963 Parker novel by Donald E. Westlake (writing as Richard Stark). Copy belonging to uncredited actor Norman Kaplan. One of the great crime films of the early 1970s, today a cult classic, with understated performances from Robert Duvall, Karen Black, and Joe Don Baker, as.....
N.p. N.p., 1980. First Draft script for the 1981 play. A revision and expansion of Williams' unproduced 1941 short play, "The Parade," about a young playwright's unrequited love for another man. The play opened Off-Broadway on August 24, 1981 at the Bouwerie Lane Theatre. Blue titled Studio Duplicating Service wrappers, with credits for playwright Tennessee Williams. Title page present, dated.....
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1972. Fourth Draft script for the 1973 film. Copy belonging to still photographer Ron Munkasci. Burt Lancaster is a retiring CIA agent whose trainee (Alain Delon) is ordered to kill him, due to suspected treason with the Russians. The screenwriting debut of David W. Rintels. Set in Europe and the United States, shot on location.....
New York: Ecco, 1981. First Edition. First issue, with publisher's price of $14.95 present at the top right corner of the front flap. The author's first collection of stories, and his first book published in the US. A lovely copy, and one of only a handful of first issue examples we have encountered. INSCRIBED by Wolff to fellow author Chris.....
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Las Vegas: N.p., Circa 1979. Draft script for the 1979 live Las Vegas revue titled "Wolfman Jack's Disco Party," which took place at the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas, premiering on October 11 and running until the 17th, with two shows a night. Copy belonging to musical director Rick Warren, with his name in red felt ink to the front.....
New York: Farrar and Rinehart, 1945. First Edition. An exceptionally bright copy of a key Woolrich title normally found the worse for wear. Basis for the 1948 film noir written for the screen by Jonathan Latimer and starring Edward G. Robinson. Near Fine in an about Near Fine dust jacket without a trace of the usual fading to the spine.....