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., 1978. Revised Draft script for the 1979 film, here under the working title "The Number." Copy belonging to actor Martin Landau, with his extensive holograph pencil and ink annotations throughout.Realizing that his family faces eviction due to a corrupt real estate deal, a desperate inventor takes a police officer hostage in the hopes that news coverage of the.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1962. Draft script for the 1962 film. With director Luis Bunuel's holograph pencil and ink annotations throughout noting changes and additions to dialogue, and the name of Russian-American director Victor Stoloff in holograph ink to the front of the folder housing the script. Stoloff was associated with Bunuel during Bunuel's brief sojourn in America, and is interviewed.....

Manhattan Beach, CA: Lightstorm Entertainment, 1991. Revised Draft script for the 1991 film, dated February 19, 1991. Script pages watermarked “T20029” and bearing the ownership watermarks of director Cameron’s production company, Lightstorm Entertainment, as called for. With an alternate ending to the film, which was shot but ultimately cut before release. Included is a set of pencil sketches featuring concept.....

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.....

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.....

New York: La Mama ETC, 1975-1976. Archive of four posters from productions hosted by La Mama Experimental Theatre Club, including "Fragments of a Trilogy" (Andrei Serban & Elizabeth Swados, 1975), "A Rat's Mass" (Adrienne Kennedy & Cecil Taylor, 1976), "Anais" (Tom O'Horgan, 1976), and "Quarry" (Meredith Monk, 1976). Founded in 1961 by African-American "Off-Off Broadway" pioneer Ellen Stewart, La Mama.....

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., 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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

Unknown: Playboy Productions, 1979. Final Draft script for the television film, originally aired on ABC on October 19, 1979. Actor Martin Landau's copy, with his holograph name on the front wrapper and ink and pencil annotations throughout. Laid in with the script are a set of eleven blue revision pages, as well as ten xerographically duplicated call sheets with copied.....

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.....