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.....
![Tiger, Tiger [The Stars My Destination] (First UK Edition). Alfred Bester](/pictures/thumb/101463.jpg?v=1588817825)
London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1956. First UK Edition, preceding all others. Published in the US as "The Stars My Destination." A high spot of science fiction literature, hugely influential on the later genre of cyberpunk, and a favorite of many authors, including William Gibson, Michael Moorcock, and Neil Gaiman. Near Fine in a bright, Near Fine dust jacket. Just a......
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.....
![The Last Word [The Number] (Original screenplay for the 1979 film, copy belonging to actor Martin...](/pictures/thumb/147155.jpg?v=1580942467)
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.....
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.....
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.....
![Out of the Past [Build My Gallows High] (Original screenplay for the 1947 film, James M. Cain...](/pictures/thumb/147477.jpg?v=1590642368)
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.....
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.....
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., 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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
![6 Hours to Live [Six Hours to Live] (Original screenplay for the 1932 film). William Dieterle,...](/pictures/thumb/146023.jpg?v=1588817833)
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.....
![Murder, My Sweet [Farewell, My Lovely] Original screenplay for the 1944 film). Edward Dmytryk,...](/pictures/thumb/147476.jpg?v=1590642366)
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.....
![Blood on the Moon [L.A. Death Trip] (Original typescript for the 1981 novel, with autograph...](/pictures/thumb/147295.jpg?v=1582244110)
(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.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1958. Final script for the 1959 Western film, dated May 22, 1958. Signed by lead actor Don Murray on the title page. Based on the 1956 novel by Pulitzer Prize winning author A.B. Guthrie, Jr., the third installment in his sextet about the Old West. An unusual Western, with touches of the darkness characteristic of film.....
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.....
London: Michael Joseph, 1938. First UK Edition, and the correct first of "Flying Colors," preceding the single volume publication. SIGNED by the author on a special Book Society bookplate designed by Rex Whistler. The third Hornblower novel published, and the eighth in series chronology, published together with the second. Along with "The Happy Return," the three form the basis for.....
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.....
![Flowers of Perversion: The Delirious Cinema of Jesus [Jess] Franco, Volume 2 (Limited Edition,...](/pictures/thumb/147251.jpg?v=1581659713)
London: Strange Attractor Press, 2018. First Limited Edition, one of 500 non-numbered copies, as issued. With a sealed white card envelope containing a set of full-color postcards and an illustrated bookplate signed by author Stephen Thrower, with the currently unknown limitation number stamped in red at the bottom of the plate. Included with the limited edition, as called for, is.....
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. [G.P. Putnam's Sons / Viking Press], 2007. Archive containing the author's original corrected printed typescript and corrected galleys for the 2007 novel, both dated February 2006. Annotations in both documents by author William Gibson and a proofreader in various colors of holograph ink (typically Gibson’s are in red and proofreaders’ are in green). The second novel in the loose.....
![Oversexed Rugsuckers from Mars [Vac-U-Sapien] (Original screenplay for the 1989 film). Michael...](/pictures/thumb/147144.jpg?v=1579905740)
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.....
Buckinghamshire: Bulldog Productions, 1977. Two draft scripts for the 1978 film. 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). First script dated April 1977. With brief annotations on one page. Laid in is a typed page of what appears.....
![Now and Forever [Honor Bright] (Original screenplay for the 1934 film). Henry Hathaway, Sylvia...](/pictures/thumb/145941.jpg?v=1588817833)
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. First UK Edition, preceding all others. Basis for the classic 1942 film directed by Mervyn Leroy, and starring Ronald Colman and Greer Garson, one of the most dreamy, delirious romances ever to be committed to celluloid. Very Good plus in a Very Good dust jacket. Binding very slightly cocked, else book is clean and bright. Jacket is lightly.....
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.....
![Spellbound [The House of Dr. Edwards] (Original screenplay for the 1945 film). Alfred Hitchcock,...](/pictures/thumb/147297.jpg?v=1582238479)
Los Angeles: Vanguard Films, 1944. Temporary Shooting script for the 1945 film, here under the working title, "The House of Dr. Edwards." Based on the 1927 novel, "The House of Dr. Edwardes" by Hilary Saint George Saunders and John Palmer. Producer David O. Selznick wanted to make a "psychiatric" story for the screen and Alfred Hitchcock persuaded Selznick to buy.....
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.....
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: 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: 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.....
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......
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.....
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.
London: Studio Vista, 1971. First UK Edition, preceding all others. Published in hardcover and softcover, this being the rare jacketed hardcover edition. The first comprehensive, critical history of Motown Records. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. An exceptional copy.
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.....
N.p. N.p., 1977. Draft script for the 1977 film. Copy belonging to actor Martin Landau, with his signature on the title page, and holograph ink and pencil annotations throughout. Included is an 18-page revised shooting schedule signed by Landau, and additional material related to production. The USSR and NASA must join forces and double their nuclear firepower to destroy a massive.....
![A Town Called Hell [A Town Called Bastard] (Original screenplay for the 1971 film, with an...](/pictures/thumb/147165.jpg?v=1582584678)
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.....
London: Studio Vista, 1970. First Edition. The scarce hardcover edition (also published in a slightly more common softcover variant). Photo illustrated throughout. Folklorist and noted musician John Fahey's brilliant, loving analysis of his hero Charley Patton's catalogue. One of the most important books on American blues published in the twentieth century. Part of the series of books on the blues.....
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.....
New York: F.P. Films, Circa 1975. Revised Draft script for the 1975 Western film. One of only two original screenplays written solely by noted author Thomas McGuane, preceding "The Missouri Breaks" in 1976. A cult favorite, and one of a string of wonderful films with literary origins to be directed by Frank Perry between 1968 and 1987, a satire of modern-day.....
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.".....
![The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle [Castles in the Air] (Original treatment script for the 1939...](/pictures/thumb/147234.jpg?v=1588818125)
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.....
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.....
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.....
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, 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.....
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.....
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.....
![The Ghost of Sierra de Cobre [The Haunted] (Archive of material relating to the 1964 television...](/pictures/thumb/147167.jpg?v=1582756343)
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....