London: George Allen and Unwin, 1952. First UK Edition, preceding all others. Tremendous association copy, INSCRIBED by author and director Lindsay Anderson to noted Czech-British filmmaker Karel Reisz, with a quote from the film: "Karel and Julia / from Lindsay / Woman: as a warning / Louis: as a lesson / Secret People E. 13". A remarkable and extremely detailed.....
N.p. The Corman Company, Circa 1976. Draft script for the 1976 film. A Vietnam vet is hired to deal with a group of rowdy oil workers causing trouble in a small town, and decides to occupy the town with his mercenary buddies in order to provide a solution. A low budget action film, shot in just 30 days, after producer.....
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1957. Collection of four striking vintage photographs from the 1957 US film. The stills demonstrate the practical effects and extraordinary sets constructed in order to make the picture—at a time when the special effects needed to visualize the world of a man reduced to being only a few inches were essentially nonexistent. A landmark science.....
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1981. Draft script for the 1981 film. Script belonging to sound mixer Les Lazarowitz, with his name in holograph ink on the title page, and three pages of annotations in holograph marker and ink with reference to sound work laid in. Also laid in is a separate Sound EFX Breakdown with sections underlined in holograph.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1946. Final script for the 1946 film. Based on the 1944 comedic mystery novel by Craig Rice, about the children of a widowed mystery novelist attempting to solve a murder in their neighborhood with the help of a handsome police lieutenant. Blue titled wrappers, noted as FINAL, rubber-stamped copy No. 66 and production No. 100, dated MARCH 2.....
Paris: Gaumont, 1947. Vintage photograph of director Jacques Becker and actor Claire Maffei on the set of the 1947 film. With holograph annotations and a rubber stamp on the verso. A working class couple in Paris find their dreams of a life free of financial hardship about to come true when they win the lottery, only to have the dream.....
London: Warden Productions, 1972. Draft script for the 1973 British film, with notation of underlined "A-9" in holograph ink on top right of title page. Young couple Robert (David Hemmings) and Claire (Gayle Hunnicutt) tragically lose their 6-year old son David (Adam Bridge) in an accidental drowning. Claire, traumatized, breaks down, and after multiple suicide attempts is committed to a......
N.p. N.p., circa 1970s. Vintage borderless photograph of Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg, circa 1970s. With photographer Robert Donat's rubber stamp on the verso. The famous couple first met on the set of "Slogan" in 1968. The following year they released the popular and controversial duet "Je t'aime... moi non plus". They were together for 13 years and had a child.....
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1972. Three striking vintage photographs from the 1972 film, picturing variously director John Boorman, cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond, Jon Voight, and others working on location along the Cahulawassee River in Georgia, the setting for most of the film. A seminal entry in the early days of the New Hollywood cinema movement. As with "Point Blank" in 1967.....
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N.p. Constantin-Film, 1976. Vintage French-Canadian poster for the 1974 German film, "Magdalena, vom Teufel besessen," released in the US as "Beyond the Darkness," "Magdalena, Possessed by the Devil," and "The Devil’s Female". With the latter title tipped on to the poster, demonstrating the ad hoc distribution process for grindhouse and exploitation films, which often saw titles change at a moment’s.....
![Gloria [One Summer Night] (Original screenplay for the 1980 film). John Cassavetes, Julie Carmen...](/pictures/thumb/146228.jpg?v=1579905734)
Hollywood: Faces, 1979. Fifth Draft script for the 1980 film, here under the working title "One Summer Night". Name of uncredited editor Jack McSweeney and "#36" in holograph ink on top right of title page. After her neighbors are killed in a mob hit, a woman goes on the run with their young son, who is in possession of a......
![Les noces rouges [Wedding in Blood] (Original screenplay for the 1973 film). Claude Chabrol,...](/pictures/thumb/146375.jpg?v=1571357497)
Paris: Les Films la Boetie, Circa 1973. Draft script for the 1973 film noir. SIGNED by director Claude Chabrol on the title page. Text in French. A torrid, bourgeois crime drama set in a small French village, where desire and death convene as tension escalates behind closed doors. When the town's boorish Gaullist mayor discovers his wife and his deputy.....
N.p. N.p., 1959. Vintage photograph of Bob Newhart and Nat 'King' Cole on stage at the 1959 Grammy awards. The Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Song was awarded to Nat 'King' Cole for his song "Midnight Flyer". 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.
N.p. N.p., 1980. First Draft script for the 1983 film. Accompanied by a twenty-page German language program and single-page English promotional synopsis for the film. An early draft, written by screenwriter Jeffrey Boam a year after the novel's release at the request of Lorimar Film Entertainment, before they shuttered their film division and the rights went to Dino De Laurentiis.....
United Kingdom: Pinewood Studios / American International Pictures [AIP], 1962. Shooting script for the 1963 film. Copy from the StudioCanal archives, with a letter of provenance laid in. Based on the simultaneously-published novel "The Mindbenders" by screenwriter James Kennaway about a professor brainwashes himself to stop loving his wife in an attempt to clear the name of a colleague, suspected.....
N.p. N.p., 1949. Vintage photograph of Marlene Dietrich in Paris, shot in 1931 for the premiere of "Morocco," struck in 1949. With an agency stamp, archival tape and remnants from a previously adhered paper backing on the verso. Marlene Dietrich was awarded the Legion d'honneur by the French government for her work performing, and raising money for the Allied troops and.....
New York: Random House, 1952. First Edition. The author's eighth novel, basis for the classic 1952 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Cary Grant and Grace Kelly. Near Fine, in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Jacket has a light dampstain to the rear flap fold, affecting the fore edge of the rear panel, with faint fading to the.....
Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1966. Vintage US silkscreen banner poster for the 1966 film. Based on the 1961 novel "The Cypher" by Alex Gordon, about a professor of ancient languages who becomes involved in international intrigue involving a beautiful spy, an oil magnate, and a secret message coded in hieroglyphics. Set in and shot on location in England and Wales. 82 x......
Burbank, CA: Otto Preminger Films, 1959. Vintage photograph of Otto Preminger, Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn on the set of the 1959 film. Preminger's "Anatomy of a Murder" was the first major Hollywood film to feature a score by an African-American composer. The jazz score, composed by Ellington and Strayhorn (uncredited), and performed by Ellington's Orchestra, won three Grammy Awards.....
Hollywood: Republic Productions, 1944. Shooting script for the 1944 film. Single holograph pencil notation to the front wrapper. A physician researching life-after-death is possessed by the spirit of an executed murderer, who uses the doctor's body to exact vengeance on those involved in his death. A Jekyll-and-Hyde-style supernatural horror B-movie, unusual for Republic Productions, who were better known for their Western.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1923. First Edition. Copy belonging to Academy Award-winning director William Wellman, with his signature to the front endpaper. Very Good plus overall, lacking the dust jacket. Vintage bookstore label to the rear pastedown. A few small tears to the edges of the advert pages at the rear, else a very presentable copy. Bruccoli A10.1.a.
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Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists / Caralan Productions, 1961. Draft script for the 1961 British horror film, here under the working title "The Lady is a Snake," with the release title in holograph pencil on the front wrapper. Though made in the UK, the film was a US co-production, and this is a US draft of the script, noting the.....
New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux [FSG], 1969. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the First Edition, in the publishers white comb binding and printed light blue wrappers. The author's first novel, basis for director John Huston's critically acclaimed 1972 film starring Stacy Keach, Jeff Bridges, Susan Tyrell and Candy Clark. Publisher's notation to the front wrapper, with shadows present where labels where.....
![Beautiful People [The Catcher in the Raw] (Original screenplay for the 1971 film). Louis...](/pictures/thumb/146891.jpg?v=1576794617)
Unknown: I.P.C. Pictures, 1969. Draft script for the 1971 film, here under the working title "The Catcher in the Raw". At a California hot springs resort, a shady therapist helps eight carefully selected applicants find themselves and "experience their bodies," a process which mostly involves consuming large amounts of LSD, meditative screaming, and slow-motion basketball games. Louis Garfinkle's sole directorial.....
![Earth vs. the Spider [The Spider] (Original screenplay for the 1958 film). Bert I. Gordon, George...](/pictures/thumb/145977.jpg?v=1579905733)
Los Angeles: American-International Pictures, 1958. Draft script for the 1958 film, here under the working title "The Spider." SIGNED by director Bert I. Gordon. With holograph pencil annotations throughout. Fodder for for an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 (Season 4, Episode 13, Sept 14, 1991), where Gordon was resurrected as a master of bad taste. Small-town teenagers and their high.....
London: J.M. Dent and Sons, 1928. First Edition. Publisher's file copy, with a label marking it as such tipped-in to the front pastedown, and blindstamped "FILE COPY" on the front flyleaf. Basis for the 1946 film noir directed by Robert Florey and starring Peter Lorre, Victor Francen, Andrea King, and Robert Alda. Near Fine, lacking the scarce dust jacket. Spine faintly faded.....
N.p. N.p., 1957. Oversize double weight photograph of screenwriter Ben Hecht standing with his boss, producer and mogul extraordinaire David O. Selznick, on a snow covered set in the Italian Alps during the 1957 filming of Selznick's "A Farewell to Arms". Based on the 1929 novel by Ernest Hemingway, directed by Charles Vidor, and starring Rock Hudson and Jennifer Jones.....
Los Angeles: Vanguard Films, 1945. Vintage photograph of Gregory Peck and Ingrid Bergman on the set of the 1945 film. Mimeo snipe on the verso. Based on the 1927 novel "The House of Dr. Edwardes" by Hilary Saint George Saunders and John Palmer. Nominated for six Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Supporting Actor for Michael Chekhov.....
Los Angeles: Photoplayer's Club of Los Angeles, 1915. Vintage souvenir program for the Third Annual Photoplayer's Club of Los Angeles Ball, held February 13, 1915. Photo-illustrated throughout with portraits of silent film actors, directors, producers, and others, and containing numerous advertisements for Los Angeles businesses and services, most with some connection to the film industry. Scarce, with only two copies.....
N.p. Superfilm, 1979. Vintage borderless photograph from the 1979 adult film. Mimeo snipe, annotations in holograph pencil and Tony Crawley stamp on the verso. Vehicle for adult film star John Holmes starring Nancy Suiter, seen here. Nancy Suiter was a quickly rising star in the adult film industry who suddenly and mysteriously disappeared. Set in and shot on location in Los.....
Los Angeles: New World Pictures, 1977. Draft script for the 1977 film. Photocopied and cobbled together during production for used by actress Elizabeth Rogers, who played Priscilla in the film, with her name in holograph ink on the title page and holograph annotations in ink and pencil throughout. Ron Howard's directorial debut, made during his brief tutelage under Roger Corman. A......
N.p. N.p., 1973. Vintage photograph of Mick Jagger performing with The Rolling Stones in Brussels at the Forest National Arena on October 17th, 1973. With a mimeo description, rubber agency stamps, and holograph annotations on the verso. The Rolling Stones released "Brussels Affair (Live 1973)" in 2011, a compilation of the two back-to-back shows they played at the Forest National Arena.....
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1988. Lined revised final draft script for the 1989 film in leather presentation binding belonging to editor Louis Lombardo, with name in gilt on front board, title in gilt on front board and spine. Signed on upper right of wrapper by editor Tony Gibbs in holograph red ink. Copious holograph annotations on nearly every page regarding.....
Culver City, CA: Yorktown Productions, 1990. Second draft script for the 1991 film in red leather presentation binding belonging to editor Lou Lombardo with his name in gilt on front board, title in gilt on front board and spine. With 26 8" x 10" film still and on the set photographs affixed to leaves throughout. 18 page Cast List and.....
Hollywood: Apatow Productions, 2007. Producer's archive for the 2007 comedy, including extensive production schedules, props lists, and set and wardrobe files. Also included is a final cast, crew, and contacts list, dated May 18, 2007, bound separately with black coil binding. A childhood tragedy leads musician Dewey Cox up the ladder to stardom, cycling through nearly every musical genre imaginable on.....
N.p. N.p., 1961. Vintage photograph of singer, activist, actress and writer Eartha Kitt on British television, 1961. With a mimeo snipe, agency stamps and holograph annotations on the verso. Kitt was pregnant during this performance, stirring controversy amongst her audience. As well as being a prolific and multi talented performer and writer, Eartha Kitt was a civil rights activist and.....
New York: Doubleday, 1957. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author Ernie Kovacs to versatile concert pianist and actor Oscar Levant on the front endpaper: "To Oscar / What a shit I am to be so late in getting there — But — I have been writing and taping shows — and will be done about mid next week. Am not.....
New York: Filmmakers Newsletter / Filmmakers' Cinematheque, 1967-1971. Archive of 41 issues of "Filmmakers Newsletter," dating from the first four years of the magazine, including Vol. I, issue 1. Early issues of the magazine are scarce, and putting together a collection of this size piecemeal would be prohibitively difficult. Founded in 1967 by experimental filmmaker Carl Linder as "New York.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1947. First Draft Continuity script (pre-production) for the 1948 film. Copy belonging to art director Joseph C. Wright, with his name in holograph ink to the front wrapper. Based on the 1946 semi-autobiographical novel of the same name by Mary Jane Ward about a woman who suffers a psychological breakdown, and her long recovery at a......
Paris: Transcontinental Film Productions, 1961. Vintage borderless photograph of director Sidney Lumet, playwright Arthur Miller, and actors Ralf Vallone and Raymond Pellegrin on the set of the 1962 film. With the stamp of photographer Jacques Moreau, a mimeo snipe, and holograph annotations on the verso. Based on the 1955 play by Arthur Miller, about an unhappily married man whose obsession.....
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1971. Vintage US silkscreen banner poster for the 1971 film. Based on Frank Pierson's 1970 novel, about an ex-con who initiates a cascade of chaos when he decides to rob his upscale apartment building. Actor Christopher Walken's feature film debut, as well as a breakthrough role for Sean Connery, who was previously stuck being typecast.....
N.p. Paramount Pictures, 1973. Vintage US silkscreen banner poster for the 1973 film. Based on Peter Maas' 1973 biography "Serpico: The Cop Who Defied the System," about a plainclothes police officer who exposes corruption in the New York City Police Department, only to face harassment and threats from his fellow officers. Nominated for two Academy Awards, for Best Actor and Best Screenplay. Set.....
N.p. N.p., 1897. Vintage borderless photograph from the 1897 short film, with the number 542 in holograph pencil on the verso, with a still image from the film corresponding to that number on the website Catalogue Lumiere showing a similar scene. While the importance of the Lumiere Brothers to the invention and popularity of the moving image is well known.....
N.p. N.p., 1996. Master Revised Script for the 1997 film. "#128" in holograph ink on top right of front wrapper. The art of the con propels a few of screenwriter and director David Mamet's classic neo-noir films, notably "House of Games" (1987), "The Spanish Prisoner" (1997), and "Heist" (2001). "The Spanish Prisoner " is Mamet's most labyrinthine confidence game of corporate.....
New York: Delacorte Press, 1973. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the First Edition. Hayden Griffin's agency label affixed to the front endpaper, and a "Crane Duplicating Service" rubber-stamp on the rear wrapper recto. Basis for the 1976 supernatural horror film directed by Dan Curtis, and starring Karen Black, Oliver Reed, Burgess Meredith, and Betty Davis. The book was reprinted three times, one.....
US: Lone Star Yellow Rose, 1976. Draft script for the 1977 film. Copy belonging to producer Cassius Weathersby, with holograph annotations on nearly every page. Also included are contractual agreements and releases for Weathersby, call sheets, budgets and other financial information, and a press release containing a synopsis of the film. The owner of a popular club and record label.....
Chicago: Motion Picture Exhibitors League of America, 1912. Vintage program for the Second National Convention of the Motion Pictures Exhibitors League of America, held in Chicago from August 13-17, 1912. Photo-illustrated throughout with portraits of members, as well as numerous period advertisements, including ones for films, projectors, and other material for movie theatres. Rare, with no copies in OCLC. 9 x......
N.p. N.p., circa 1974. Two vintage borderless photographs of model and actress Caroline Munro, circa 1974. A successful career as a major model and cover girl quickly led Munro to small film roles in the late 1960's, such as "Casino Royale" and "Where's Jack?". By the early 1970's Munro was on contract to Hammer Films and became a full time actress.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1959. Vintage screenplay for the 1959 film. Text in Japanese. A remake of the 1934 silent film "A Story of Floating Weeds", also directed by Yasujiro Ozu. The leader of a traveling theatre troupe goes to visit his former mistress and their son, who is unaware that the man is his father. Meanwhile, the man's current lover, jealous.....
Beverly Hills, CA: Elkins Entertainment, 1969. Vintage borderless photograph of director Arthur Penn, producer Hillard Elkins and another crew member of the 1969 film. With holograph annotations on the verso. A New Hollywood semi-underground classic, adapted from Arlo Guthrie's famous song of the same name. A trip to the garbage dump after Thanksgiving dinner gives way to a police investigation.....
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[unknown]: Brut Productions, 1975. Revised Draft script for the 1975 television film, here under the working title "Welcome to Xanadu," which originally aired on ABC on October 10, 1975. Copy belonging to an unknown crew member, with holograph ink annotations to the front wrapper and title page. Based on the 1968 novel "Welcome to Xanadu" by Nathaniel Benchley. A fugitive mental.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1973. Draft script for the 1973 film. With holograph ink and pencil annotations throughout, noting props and a few line revisions. A young social worker attempts to help a 21 year-old mentally disabled man named "Baby"—unaware that Baby's eccentric family holds a dark, violent secret. A campy but genuinely disturbing, low-budget horror classic. Pink titled partial wrapper, with credits.....
N.p. Continental, 1968. Collection of eight vintage studio still photographs from the 1968 film. One of the earliest, scariest, and most influential zombie films, shot in black-and-white, featuring an African-American lead actor, and shot on location throughout Pennsylvania (including the basement of the Latent Image company in Pittsburgh). 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Complete collation details available on request. Lentz.....
Culver City, CA: RKO Radio Pictures, 1950. Vintage photograph of actors Ingrid Bergman, Gian Paolo Callegari, and director Roberto Rosselini on the set of the 1950 Italian-American film. With a typed description and holograph annotations on the verso. Photographs from the set of this film, shot on the islands of Stromboli and Farfa in Italy, are rare. After World War II.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1939. Draft script for an unproduced film by Rafael Sabatini. A fine leatherbound copy with gilt lettering and decorated endpapers. One of prolific screenwriter Rafael Sabatini's final projects. A romanticized, swashbuckling account of the adventures and loves of Italian explorer Christopher Columbus, here re-imagined as the Spanish "Cristobal Colon" from Castile. Delays in the production of the film.....
![The Big City [Mahanagar] (Original photograph from the set of the 1963 film). Satyajit Ray,...](/pictures/thumb/145694.jpg?v=1579905731)
N.p. N.p., 1963. Vintage photograph from the set of the 1963 film, showing actors Madhabi Mukherjee and Anil Chatterje, along with crew members, including director Satyajit Ray behind the camera. Based on the short story “Abataranika” by Narendranath Mitra, about a homemaker who takes a job as a saleswoman to the disapproval of her traditional, conservative family. Considered one of.....
Los Angeles: Triune Films, 1980. First Draft script for the 1980 horror film. Accompanying the script is a bi-fold two-color card program issued to the press upon the film's release. One of the strangest American horror films of 1980, largely unseen until a pair of restorations brought it back to light in the late 2010s. Featuring actress Barbara Bach during.....
N.p. Leland Hayward Productions, 1957. Revised Continuity script (pre-production) for the 1958 film. Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Ernest Hemingway, published in 1952. Winner of an Academy Award, and nominated for two more, including Best Actor for Spencer Tracy, one of nine nominations he would receive during his career. Tan titled wrappers, noted as REVISED CONTINUITY on the.....
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1972. Revised Draft script for the 1973 film. A musical based on Mark Twain's classic coming-of-age adventure novel, that introduced an entirely new generation to Twain's story, with a very hip cast from today's perspective, including Warren Oats, a young Jodie Foster, and the great Dub Taylor. Nominated for three Academy Awards. Set and shot on.....
Portland, OR: N.p., 1978. Collection of 63 vernacular color photographs of the scene of the crash of commercial United Airlines Flight 173 that occurred on December 28, 1978 in suburban Portland, Oregon. Likely shot by an investigator or airline employee, the photographs in this archive depict a comprehensive survey of the scene of the crash, including images of the plane's.....
Santa Monica: Avenue Pictures, 1989. Vintage studio still photograph of director Gus Van Sant and actor Matt Dillon on the set of the 1989 film. Noted director Gus Van Sant's first feature film, and a breakthrough film for actors Matt Dillon and Kelly Lynch. A nihilistic answer to the onslaught of coming-of-age movies in the 1980s, appropriately released at the.....
Spain: Various, 1961-1976. Collection of 30 vintage posters for Spanish or Spanish co-productions released between 1961-1976. The posters predominantly feature full color illustrations but also include photo-illustrations and other techniques, showcasing the variety of graphic design techniques which evolved over the decade-plus covered by the collection. Even among the illustrated posters, a variety of styles can be found, as the.....
Paris: Fox Europa, 1969. Vintage borderless photograph of Jean Gabin and Alain Delon from the 1969 neo-noir film. With holograph annotations and agency stamps on the verso. Based on the 1967 novel by Auguste Le Breton, about a small Mafia family planning to steal a collection of diamonds while being pursued by a police commission. With a film score by.....
Burbank, CA: NBC Television Network, 1951-1959. Collection of 35 vintage contact sheets from the 1951 to 1959 NBC television series. Stills as well as on the set shots of Jack Webb and Ben Alexander as well as a host of supporting actors. The well loved early police drama created by and starring Jack Webb as Sgt. Joe Friday. Origin for the.....
N.p. Road Movies Filmproduktion, 1984. Two vintage borderless photographs on the set of the 1984 film. One candid shot of director Wim Wenders laughing with actors Aurore Clement and Harry Dean Stanton, and one of actors Nastassja Kinski and Hunter Carson. Even more than "Wings of Desire," "Paris, Texas" stands as Wim Wenders' definitive work, and Sam Shepard's original screenplay.....
London: Secker and Warburg, 1969. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the First Edition. Basis for Sam Peckinpah's violent 1971 film classic, Straw Dogs, starring Dustin Hoffman, Susan George, and a bunch of kill-crazy Devon townies, considered by many to be his finest directorial effort in a career that included many important films. Very Good in orange printed wrappers. Address label to the.....
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Hollywood: Allied Artists Productions, 1956. Draft script for the 1957 film noir, here under the working title "Night Target". A strike through the printed title and "Footsteps in the Night" and "1956" written in holograph ink on the wrapper with the name of an uncredited crew member written in holograph pencil on upper right of wrapper. The final of five Los.....
Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1973. Vintage US silkscreen banner poster for the 1973 film. Based on Frederick Forsyth's 1971 novel about the titular professional assassin hired by a militant French underground organization to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle. Set in and shot on location in Paris, Versailles and Hautes-Alpes. 82 x 24 inches. Rolled. Very Good with no restoration.....