N.p. N.p., 1934. Vintage oversize, double weight photograph of Josephine Baker in character as Dora from the 1934 revival of Jacques Offenbach's 1875 operetta "La creole". With a holograph pencil annotation to the verso identifying the production. The operatic debut of the longtime comedienne, actor, and dancer. The production, which was staged at the Theatre Marigny in Paris, was the.....

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, 1971. First Edition, with the pictorial marijuana leaf design box top (replaced later with a white 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.....

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of Geoffrey Homes’ early draft, based on Homes’ 1946 novel, "Build My Gallows High," which was at that time still unpublished.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.....

Studio City, CA: World Amusement Company, 1979. Revised Draft script for the 1980 film, here under the working title "Alien Warning". Actor Martin Landau's copy, with his holograph ink and pencil annotations throughout. Laid in with the script are a 22 page typed shooting schedule and three copied handwritten call sheets for the eighth, ninth, and eleventh days of shooting.A......

N.p. N.p., 1934. Vintage double weight, borderless photograph of actor Richard B. Harrison used to promote the touring production of the 1930 Pulitzer Prize winning play. With the stamp of photographer Alfredo Valente on the verso, and a mimeo snipe noting that the upcoming performance at Ohio University will be the 1460th since it debuted on Broadway four years earlier.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1941. Two vintage oversize, borderless, double weight photographs from the 1941 musical. Signed, struck, and mounted by MGM photographer Bert Lynch.Loosely based on Ferenc Molnar’s 1924 play Testor, which had previously been adapted to film in 1931 as The Guardsman, about husband who tests his wife's fidelity by disguising himself as another man, which she.....

Hollywood: Fox Film Corporation, 1932. Final Shooting script for the 1932 film, here under the working title "Six Hours to Live". With holograph pencil annotations to the front wrapper. By way of a scientific experiment, a murder victim is revived from death, but has only six hours to find his killer. An early directorial effort by the great William Dieterle.....

(Los Angeles): N.p., 1981. First draft manuscript for the 1984 novel, dated 1981, and here under the working title "L.A. Death Trip." INSCRIBED by Ellroy on one of two title pages (with another unused title, "Because the Night," crossed out), in which the author identifies this typed manuscript as a "precursor" draft to "Blood on the Moon" and specifies the.....

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.....

N.p. Avon Productions, 1959. Draft script for the 1959 film. Copy belonging to actor Martin Landau, with his name and character's name to the front wrapper in holograph pencil. Included with the script are two film programs and a set of laid-in revision pages.A black comedy based on the 1958 play by Alec Coppel, about a television writer who shoots.....

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1935. First Edition. INSCRIBED in the year of publication by the author to legendary film director Tod Browning: "To Tod Browning / with admiration / Horace McCoy / Hollywood, August, 1935." A wonderful association. Horace McCoy was a Hollywood screenwriter in 1935, and at the same time Tod Browning was making one of his last.....

N.p. N.p., 1918. Post-production script for the lost 1918 film. Black and red ribbon carbon typescript on onionskin, including eight pages of intertitles before the script. First page of script includes the name, in cursive, of “Miss Rossen” in holograph pencil on upper right (possibly a secretary in the stenographic department.)Based on Gilbert Parker’s 1919 novel, about a young woman.....

N.p. N.p., 1956. Vintage photograph from a rehearsal for the 1956 London premiere with playwright Arthur Miller, theater director Peter Brook, and actors Anthony Quayle and Mary Ure. Snipe and "Sunday Telegraph," "The Daily Telegraph" and "Keystone Press Agency Ltd" stamps on the verso."A View from the Bridge" debuted as a one-act play on Broadway on September 9, 1955 at.....

N.p. N.p., 1956. Vintage photograph of Marilyn Monroe and then-husband Arthur Miller in the back seat of a car arriving at London Airport in 1956. With a mimeo snipe dated 27-8-56 and several Keystone G.m.b.H agency stickers and rubber stamps to the verso. Miller was in England for rehearsals for the West End production of his 1956 play "A View.....

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".....

Culver City, CA: RKO Radio Pictures, 1937. Treatment script for the 1939 musical, here under the working title "Castles in the Air".Based on real-life ballroom dancers Irene and Vernon Castle, who rekindled an interest in Western ballroom dancing in the early 20th century. Irene Castle served on the film's production team and was purportedly quite difficult to please, criticizing actor.....

Hollywood: Samuel Goldwyn Productions, 1949. Rainbow revision, Final draft script for the 1950 film noir. Copy belonging to actor Adele Jergens, who played Irene in the film, with her name in holograph pencil on the front wrapper, title page, and laid in memo, holograph pencil annotations, circling her character and striking a few lines. Included is a memo, dated January.....

Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1930. Second Draft script for the 1930 pre-Code film. Cast list with holograph ink and pencil annotations tipped in, and distribution receipt signed by composer and lyricist George Marion Jr. laid in.A young man is set to inherit a large sum from his uncle on the caveat that he learn the ways of the world beforehand.....

Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1955. Revised Final Draft script for the 1956 film. Copy belonging to the script supervisor, Adele Cannon, profusely annotated throughout in holograph ink and pencil. Included is a studio still photograph from the film, featuring the Creature and people in peril. Third installment in the "Gill-man" series, after "Creature from the Black Lagoon" (1954) and.....

New York: Oscard Associates, circa 1986. Draft script for the 1988 film, two copied annotations of a circled "3" and "4" on one page.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).Singer/songwriter Harry Nilsson teamed up with Terry Southern.....

Burbank, CA: Walt Disney Productions, 1973. Production bible and Revised Final script for the 1974 film belonging to an unknown crew member, with script dated March 2, 1973. Heavily annotated throughout in holograph pencil and ink, primarily dialogue changes, adjustments, and strikes, and occasionally timing notes. Included are Shooting Call sheets, Staff and Crew Sheets, Day out of Days sheets.....

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.....

Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1942. Draft script for the 1942 film. Copy belonging to studio secretary Marion Pecht, with her annotations in holograph pencil throughout, noting revisions to dialogue and direction, and her name on several pages. Based on Rex Beach’s 1906 novel, about two prospectors fighting to save their claim from a corrupt commissioner with the help of.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1969. Draft script for the 1972 film. Included is a separately bound 18 page summary and presentation of the film, including a brief biography of screenwriter Lewis John Carlino and a description of the film's prospective appeal to audiences.An aging assassin trains a young man who wants to be a professional killer. The second of six films.....