New York: Gnome Press, 1950. First Edition. Presumed "Armed Forces" edition, or the publisher's short-lived attempt to produce paperbacks, bound in wrappers identical to the jacket art of the hardcover edition. More scarce than the hardcover, a stopper for Asimov collectors. Asimov's classic work, a collection of short stories that had immediate and lasting impact on both science fiction and.....

N.p. N.p., 1929. Vintage borderless press photograph of actors Tallulah Bankhead, Bernard Nedell, and Ernest Jay rehearsing a one-act vaudeville sketch titled "The Snob" for a variety show taking place at the Palladium in London on December 2, 1929. With the stamp of Graphic Photo Union press agency and mimeo snipe on the verso.Bankhead's vaudeville stage debut, written by screenwriter.....

Phoenix, AZ: Border House, 1972. Second Edition, with the pictorial marijuana leaf design box top. Complete, with playing pieces, fake money, cards, and scoring pad in the original, unopened plastic bag. Rare, with no copies in OCLC. A Monopoly-esque game where players compete to smuggle kilos of marijuana across the Mexican border to sell in American cities like New York.....

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers / Seven Arts, 1969. Six vintage temporary tattoos issued as a promotional item for the 1969 film. With the both the original envelope housing the tattoos, and a Warner Brothers mailing envelope addressed to film critic, photographer, and poet Michael S. Dworkin. The decals are inspired by the designs for the tattoo makeup worn up Rod.....

Culver City, CA: RKO Radio Pictures, 1946. Estimating script for the 1947 film, dated April 3, 1946. James M. Cain’s ultimately uncredited rewrite of Geoffrey Homes’ early draft, based on Homes’ 1946 novel, "Build My Gallows High," which was at that time still unpublished. A rare script, which confirms a claim still listed as unsubstantiated by the AFI Catalog, which.....

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1943. First Edition. INSCRIBED to Frank Partos on the half title page: "For Frank Partos / with love / Raymond Chandler."Partos and Chandler co-wrote the screenplay for "And Now Tomorrow" (1944), one of Chandler's few screenwriting efforts. As a screenwriter, Partos was responsible for some of the best genre films of the 1940s. His work.....

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1936. Collection of nine vintage oversize photographs from the 1936 film. Each with a mimeo snipe on the verso. Based on the 1930 Pulitzer Prize winning play by Marc Connelly, itself based on "Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun," a 1928 collection of pseudo African American folk tales by Roark Bradford. One of only a handful.....

N.p. N.p., circa 1956. Draft script for the 1956 Broadway musical, which opened at the Broadway Theatre on March 22, 1956, and ran for 383 performances before closing on February 23, 1957. With a three page “prop inventory” bound in at the rear. Based on a story by Will Glickman and Joseph Stein about an entertainer, and his struggles in.....

N.p. N.p., 1939. Draft script for the 1939 play. Carbon typescript on onionskin. With the name of actress May Hallatt in holograph ink on front wrapper, and holograph annotations in pencil throughout. We could not verify her involvement in the 1939 production, although it seems reasonable to infer from this script that the prolific stage and screen actress indeed had.....

Culver City, CA: RKO Radio Pictures, 1944. Draft script for the 1944 film noir, here under the working title "Farewell, My Lovely." Based on Raymond Chandler's influential 1940 novel "Farewell, My Lovely," wherein hard-boiled detective Phillip Marlowe is hired by a violent ex-con to locate an old girlfriend, a search which leads Marlowe deeper into a complex web of deceit.....

Various cities: Various, Circa 1950s. Collection of 140 vintage photographs of department store window displays, 9 of which are double weight. Eight photographs dated 1948, four dated 1949, with the rest being circa 1950s. Nearly two thirds with stamps on the verso or other identifying information for the photographers or photography studios. Roughly half of the photographs feature window displays.....

New York: Random House, 1948. First Edition. REVIEW COPY, with a publisher's review slip in red type, specific to this title, laid in. With a typed note signed from Ben Washer of Paramount Studios to actress Mary Nash, on Paramount stationery, affixed to the front pastedown. The note describes how the new film adaptation is reflected in this first hardcover.....

Burbank, CA: Walt Disney Productions, 1958. Final Shooting script for the first half of the 1958 film, thus incomplete as issued, dated April 9, 1958. With lead actor Sal Mineo’s name in holograph ink on two revision leaves, and his character’s name in pencil on the front wrapper. Laid in is a small leaf with holograph ink notations including the.....

New York City: Raindance, 1970. The first two issues of "Radical Software" magazine. Second printing of Issue One, with the issue number on the front wrapper and a history of the printings on the rear. Issue Two is a first printing, with a separate questionnaire soliciting feedback from the reader laid in. Early and influential journal from the very beginnings.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1989. Draft script for the 1989 film, here under its working title "Vac-U-Sapien." With extensive holograph pencil and ink annotations on virtually every page. Bound in after the script are two handwritten pages of notes and four typed pages of effects and sets for the film.Michael Paul Girard's first directorial effort, wherein aliens return to Earth for.....

Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1934. Draft script for the 1934 film, here under the working title "Honor Bright." In an attempt to go straight, a con man and his girlfriend take in his young daughter, who has been living with his deceased wife's wealthy family. One of Shirley Temple's earliest starring roles, and her first and only on-screen appearance with.....

London: Macmillan, 1941. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the First UK Edition. Basis for the classic 1942 film starring Ronald Colman and Greer Garson, one of the dreamiest, most surreal romances ever to be committed to celluloid. The first proof copy we have ever encountered, and we imagine most likely the last.Brown paper wrappers with publisher's label. About Very Good, with spine.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1958. Draft script for the 1959 film, belonging to actor Martin Landau with his signature in holograph pencil on top of first page, and annotations in holograph ink and pencil throughout, primarily making note of action and dialogue for Landau’s character Leonard. Martin Landau’s second film role, and a memorable early one, as James Mason's.....

N.p. N.p., 1974. Draft script for an unproduced play. Noted in the script as being based on an unpublished novel, likely an expansion of Sylvester Leaks' short story "Trouble, Blues, and Trouble," which was included in Langston Hughes' landmark 1967 anthology "The Best Short Stories by Negro Writers." Leaks was a writer, theatre producer, and community activist, who served as.....

New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1940. First Edition. Boldly SIGNED by the author on the front flyleaf. Copy belonging to Tony Bill, producer of the 1973 film The Sting, with letter of provenance included. Bill won the Oscar for Best Picture for the film, which also won Best Director, Best Screenplay, and four others, and was nominated for three more, including Best.....

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1961. First Edition. The author's first book. Basis for the classic 1963 film, "Hud," directed by Martin Ritt, and starring Paul Newman, Patricia Neal, and Melvyn Douglas, the latter two in Oscar-winning performances. Easily Near Fine in a Near Fine, price-clipped dust jacket. A strip of offsetting to the front endpaper, and just a touch.....

N.p. N.p., 1928-1932. An archive of 6 extraordinary autograph letters signed, 5 in French and 1 in English, by the pioneering film director Georges Melies, generally considered to be one of the inventors of narrative cinema, revealing a great deal about his little-discussed but profoundly important origins in the Robert-Houdin Theatre in Paris, as well as his work as a......

Philadelphia: Charles V. Milward, 1911. First Edition. Rare, with OCLC listing no institutional holdings. A manual from the earliest days of the automobile, featuring sections on operating, maintaining, and servicing cars, with over 40 illustrations and technical diagrams. Very Good, staple bound in illustrated wrappers. Wrapper soiled, with creasing to the rear.

Paris: Les Films Marceau, circa 1968. Three Draft scripts for the 1969 film by three different screenwriters. From the estate of film producer Elliott Kastner, whose best known credits include "The Long Goodbye” (Robert Altman, 1973), "The Missouri Breaks" (Arthur Penn, 1976), and “Heat” (Michael Mann, 1996).The first script is an undated draft script by screenwriter George Bluestone, who previously.....

London: Benmar Productions, Circa 1971. Revised Draft script for the 1971 Spanish/UK Western, here under the original release title "A Town Called Bastard." Copy belonging to actor Martin Landau, with his holograph ink annotations on the title page. Laid in with the script are a number of production documents, including a set of approximately 50 revision pages with annotations by.....

Springfield, MA: Willey, 1891. First Edition. A history of African-American newspapers beginning in 1827 and continuing through to the book’s publication, with over 70 biographical sketches of editors and journalists, including a separate chapter dedicated to female African American journalists, and essays on the state of the Black press and its relationship to “Anglo-Saxon” newspapers. Rare.About Very Good in maroon.....

Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1974. Second Revised Final Screenplay for the 1975 film "Rooster Cogburn," seen here with a working subtitle, "A Man of True Grit." Copy belonging to uncredited producer's assistant Monique James, with her name in holograph ink (obscured) on the front wrapper. Based on the manly central character from Charles Portis' classic 1968 novel, "True Grit.".....

Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1965. Vintage borderless photograph from the set of the 1965 film. With holograph annotations, mimeo snipe and agency stamps on the verso. The Beatles second film, a wild musical-comedy following the band on adventures around the globe as Ringo is pursued by a cult out to take him as a sacrifice. Here the boys are.....

West Hollywood: The Ladd Company, 1982. Vintage borderless photograph from the 1982 film. French "Still Photo" label on verso.Based on the 1968 novel, "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick. Like Stanley Kubrick's "2001" in 1968, and building on the claustrophobic, dystopian vision director Ridley Scott had already developed in "Alien" (1979), "Blade Runner" set a standard.....

Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1944. Vintage studio still photograph from the set of the 1944 film of a pensive Charles Laughton and Ella Raines with director Robert Siodmak. Mimeo snipe on the verso. One of the great noirs of the early 1940s, a high point for Laughton and the third of a trilogy of masterpieces by Siodmak (beginning with "Phantom.....

Los Angeles: Villa di Stefano Productions, 1964. First Draft script for the 1964 television film, which originally aired on CBS. With actor Martin Landau's copied annotations throughout. Included are a set of synopses for proposed episodes, a shooting schedule, a distributor's announcement booklet, and various other documents related to production. Also included is an original celluloid print of the film.....

N.p. N.p., 1968. Collection of three single weight and one double weight vintage photographs and an original program from the 1968 premiere of The Living Theatre's experimental theatre piece "Paradise Now," performed on July 24 at a Carmelite cloister as part of the 22nd Avignon Festival in Avignon, France. Three of the photographs with stamps of the Gamma photo agency.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1948. Vintage promotional photograph from the 1948 film musical. With a mimeo snipe on the verso. A young girl stows away on a cruise full of musical stars after her father, who happens to be the captain, refuses to take her along. Featuring opera singers Lauritz Melchior and Marina Koshetz, and band leader Xavier Cugat.....