N.p. AandM Films, 1971. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1971 film of Leon Russell and film crew outside the Fillmore East. Blind Stamp on recto. "n.v. City Film," two "X" and "No 2171" stamps on verso. Pierre Adidge's documentary captures Joe Cocker and Leon Russell's electrifying concerts at the Fillmore East and Santa Monica Civic Auditorium during Cocker's 1970 U.S......
N.p. N.p., 1963. Vintage borderless press photograph of director Alfred Hitchcock and actor Tippi Hedren attending Cannes in 1963, with Hitchcock making a bird gesture. With a stamp for photographer Luc Fournol on the verso noting the date 14 Mai 1963. Loosely based on a 1952 short story by Daphne du Maurier. Often regarded as Hitchcock's last great film, made all.....
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1977. Shooting Final Draft script for the 1978 film. One of "Master of Disaster" Irwin Allen's last disaster films (his penultimate film as director), following up on his success with "The Poseidon Adventure" (1972), and "The Towering Inferno" (1974), and featuring an enormous star-studded cast, which included seven Academy Award winners (Michael Caine, Olivia de Havilland.....
Hollywood: CBS Radio, 1955. Vintage contact sheet, cut into three strips. A total of twelve images, four of which are duplicated and enlarged on a single print, of Louis Armstrong and Gary Crosby from the September 18, 1955 "Gary Crosby Show" radio show, recorded and photographed on 8/7/55. Mimeo snipe from CBS Radio, partially detached, with remainder on verso of.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1970s. Vintage borderless reference photograph of musician Burt Bacharach playing the piano and singing in a recording studio, circa 1970s. With a Columbia-Warner copyright stamp on the verso. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus, with light wear to the corners.
Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1981. Final draft script for the 1982 film, with annotations in holograph ink striking dialogue on three pages. A cocaine fueled spoof of Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 novella, "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde," that could have only been made in the early 1980s. With tag lines like, "They told Dr. Jekyll to take his.....
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N.p. N.p., 1965. Final Draft script for the legendary 1966 film, under the original Swedish title "Kinematografi." In Swedish. "Persona" was in 2020 called “the greatest film ever made” by filmmaker and essayist Paul Schrader, a distinction he has considered probably as thoroughly as any cinema thinker of his generation. Schrader went on to note the ." . . [the stunning].....
London: Boriswood, 1937. First UK Edition, and first English language edition. Preceded by the French edition published by Pion the previous year. Rare in jacket. Basis for the 1951 French film directed by Robert Bresson. Very Good in an about Very Good dust jacket. Owner signature to the front endpaper, boards lightly foxed slightly bowed, with light foxing to endpapers and.....
N.p. N.p., 1975. Two promotional portrait photographs of David Bowie, likely used as part of a press release announcing Bowie's casting in the 1976 film "The Man Who Fell to Earth." Each with a fold over mimeo snipe from public relations firm Rogers and Cowan dated 5-29-75. One photograph with Bowie's name and RCA Records and Tapes printed in the.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1948. Vintage typescript bibliography of short story publications through the end of 1948, compiled by author Ray Bradbury and including a contemporary holograph note by him, in an early hand, signed on the first leaf: "Mike: Here it is - sorry for the delay - but I had to verify some dates - there are a few.....
Los Angeles: Conquest Productions, 1985. Draft script for the 1987 film, preceding its release by 2 years. Production designer's working copy, with production design material highlighted on nearly every page in yellow (and occasionally underlined in ink). Bound in at the rear are a crew list (humorously titled "Crue List"), two page cast list, a "suppliers" list, a weather information.....
N.p. N.p., 1961. Vintage borderless photograph of Ray Charles at the organ, performing in Paris in October 1961. With the stamps of photographer Jean-Pierre Leloir and Radio-Magazine on the verso, along with holograph pencil annotations regarding layout. 7 x 9.25 inches. Very Good plus.
N.p. N.p., Circa 1940s. Vintage photograph of vaudevillian, voice actor, and cartoonist Pinto Colvig holding a small Goofy statuette, circa 1940s. Colvig was best known as the voice of Disney characters Pluto and Goofy, as well as the originator of the Bozo the Clown character for Capitol Records. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine, with light creasing to the corners.
Paris: Warner-Pathe, 1964. Collection of four vintage reference photographs from the 1964 horror film, three without borders. One with a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. Based on the 1842 short story by Edgar Allan Poe, about a cruel Satanist prince who invites the local nobility to a masked ball at his castle in the midst of a deadly.....
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1945. Vintage reference photograph of director Michael Curtiz wielding a megaphone on location for an suburban exterior shot for the 1945 film. With a printed mimeo snipe on the verso providing detail regarding same. Based on James M. Cain's 1941 novel, which follows a newly divorced woman as she begins a career as a baker to.....
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1984. Vintage borderless reference photograph of producer Steven Spielberg and director Joe Dante on the set of the 1984 film. With a mimeo snipe on the verso. The story of a family besieged by small, troublemaking creatures that wreak havoc on their town over the Christmas holiday. Criticism of the film's blend of horror and comedy caused.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1993. Rainbow Draft script for the 1994 film. One of the best action films of the 1990s, which launched the career of Sandra Bullock, turned Keanu Reeves into a star, and Dennis Hopper into a catchphrase. Director and screenwriter Joss Whedon went uncredited as the film's script doctor, and screenwriter Graham Yost went on to create.....
Los Angeles: Filmways, 1980. Vintage reference photograph from the 1980 film, showing director Brian De Palma and actress Angie Dickinson standing at the base of the stairs of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. A defining De Palma film, suspenseful in the vein of Alfred Hitchcock, and opening with an homage to the famous shower scene in Hitchcock's "Psycho." The sixth of.....
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1931. Vintage photograph of Albert Einstein and his wife Elsa on a Warner Brothers film set, February 3, 1931. In early 1931, Einstein and his wife visited several studios and sets to see European directors at work. Here, Einstein, his wife (sitting at his left) and cinematographer J. Peverell Marley sit in at a screening for the 1931.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1958. Two vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1958 film. One with holograph pencil and ink annotations regarding layout on the verso. Based on Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel. Hammer Films’ first adaptation of the Dracula story, generally thought to be the finest of the studio’s many horror films to feature the Count, and simply one of the finest.....
Hollywood: Technicolor Motion Picture, 1939. Vintage, oversize, double weight publicity photograph of the Joad family from the 1940 film, with the ironic Christmas message etched onto the negative along bottom "The Joad Family wish you a Merry Christmas and hope to see you soon." "Donn G Wescott Technicolor Motion Picture Corp" stamp and "E.S. Blake Dec 15 1939" stamp with.....
N.p. Emilio Lari, 1975. Vintage borderless double weight photograph. With the stamp of photographer Emilio Lari on the verso. Lari began his career as studio still photographer by bluffing his way onto the set of Richard Lester's "A Hard Day's Night" in 1964, and went on to doing studio still photography for the next four decades, working with, among others.....
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N.p. Grafopress-Ciampino, 1975. Vintage Italian Locandina poster for the 1975 film, here under the title "Le Viziose." "Exorcisme" was released under a number of titles, including "Le Viziose," and "Exorcisme et Messes Noires," as well as an X-rated version, "Sexorcismes." Footage from "Exorcisme" was later re-edited in 1979 as "El Sadico de Notre-Dame." Jess Franco directs here under the pseudonym.....
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1973. Vintage publicity photograph of actress Linda Blair in front of the National Theatre in Westwood, California, where crowds have lined up to see "The Exorcist." With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. Based on the 1971 novel by screenwriter William Peter Blatty. The first and finest film in the series, following the demonic possession.....
New York: Godwin, 1936. First Edition. Rare in dust jacket, this being the only copy we have ever handled. The author's second book, a sensational and ultimately somewhat prescient look at artificial insemination and the "ectogenic child." One of three pulp novels Fuller wrote prior to bringing the same sensibilities to his brilliant career as a film director. Very Good plus in.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, Circa 1980. Archive of seven scripts for the 1982 film. Included is a first draft, third draft, and five undated drafts, one of which appears under the working title "Carlotta: A Haunted Lady." Two scripts with holograph annotations present. From the estate of Frank De Felitta. De Felitta was a screenwriter and novelist, best known for.....
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1946. Vintage double weight reference photograph of director Tay Garnett discussing a scene with Lana Turner and an intense John Garfield on the set of the 1946 film. Mimeo snipe on verso. Based on the 1934 novel by James M. Cain. Remade in 1981 in a grim, nihilistic adaptation by David Mamet (his screenwriting debut).....
London: Studio Vista, 1970. First UK Edition, preceding all others. A biography and musical analysis of influential blues musician Peetie Wheatstraw, including interviews with his fellow musicians. About Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Faintly foxed page edges and light offsetting to the front and rear endpapers.
London: Industrial Records, 1978. Vintage flyer advertising the release of the single "United" b/w "Zyklon B Zombie" by Throbbing Gristle. SIGNED and with a small drawing in red ink at the bottom right corner by Genesis P-Orridge as Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, thus likely post-1992. The debut single by the influential, experimental band, released as a 7-inch record in May 1978.....
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N.p. N.p., 1976. Revised Draft script for the 1977 film, here with the slightly different working title "Empire of Ants." Loosely based on the 1905 short story by H.G. Wells. American International Pictures (AIP) third and final film in their H.G. Wells trilogy, beginning with "The Food of the Gods" (1976), directed and written by Bert I. Gordon and starring.....
London: Eon Productions, 1972. Shooting script for the 1973 film. With a holograph ink annotation on the title page, noting copy No. 56. Roger Moore's first turn as 007, and the eighth film in the franchise overall. Based on the 1954 novel by Ian Fleming, which sees Bond go up against a Caribbean dictator moonlighting as a Harlem drug lord.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1934. First Edition, in the green jacket with the “Book of the Month” blurb on the front panel. One of four jacket variants issued, with no established priority. Basis for the 1934 film, and the characters that would populate five delightful sequels between 1939-1947. Near Fine in a brilliant, Near Fine dust jacket. Apart from.....
Culver City, CA: RKO Radio Pictures, 1938. Vintage double weight photograph of Katharine Hepburn, Howard Hawks, and a resting Cary Grant on the set of the 1938 film. One of the foundational entries in the canon of American screwball comedies. Based on the short story by Hagar Wilde which originally appeared in Collier's Weekly magazine on April 10, 1937. Zoologist David.....
N.p. Sundown Productions, Inc., 1988. Rainbow Second Draft script for the 1990 film. In a sleepy town, a colony of vampires live peaceably, with sunscreen and bottled synthetic blood to get by, until their blood making facility breaks down, leading one vampire to stage an uprising to resume feeding on humans. Shot on location in and around Moab, Utah. Blue titled.....
Austin, Texas: Vortex, 1975. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1974 film, showing director Tobe Hooper coaching actress Marilyn Burns in between shots, with cinematographer Daniel Pearl adjusting the camera in the background. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. Loosely based on the crimes of serial murderer and body snatcher Ed Gein. Shot on a shoestring budget.....
N.p. N.p., 1966. Vintage US window card poster for the 1966 play, which debuted at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on October 19 and ran for a brief nine performances before closing on October 26. The poster is slightly modified, with a strip of paper affixed to the recto, shifting the names of lead actors Shirley Knight and Alan Webb closer.....
Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1944. Vintage photograph from the 1944 film. Universal Pictures' follow up to "Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man," ups the ante on its predecessor with the addition of Dracula (John Carradine), a mad scientist (Boris Karloff) and a hunchback (J. Carroll Naish). Glenn Strange takes up the role of the creature (the fourth actor to play the part).....
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1962. Vintage, oversize, borderless reference photograph of director Stanley Kubrick and cinematographer Oswald Morris on the set of the 1962 film. With holograph annotations on the verso regarding layout. A stunning photo of both Kubrick and legendary cinematographer Morris, the latter whose achievements apart from "Lolita" include "Oliver Twist (1948), "Moulin Rouge" (1952), "Moby Dick" (1956).....
N.p. Seven Arts Pictures, 1966. Collection of 14 vintage studio still photographs from the 1966 film in their original brown paper sleeve stamped "RENFRO VALLEY BARN DANCE A SET 14 Stills." The "Renfro Valley Barn Dance" began as a radio show in Cincinnati in 1937, a labor of love by its creator John Lair. Two years later in 1939 the.....
N.p. N.p., 1974. Collection of five vintage reference photographs from the 1974 British film. A young writer accepts a weekend invitation to visit her reclusive friend's country mansion, unaware that her friend and the house itself hold a variety of dark secrets. Set and shot on location in England. 10 x 7.5 inches. Very Good, lightly and evenly toned...
N.p. King Brothers [Bros.] Productions, 1961. Vintage reference photograph from the 1961 US Poverty Row film, an attempt by the notorious King Brothers to capitalize on the fame Toho Studios "Godzilla" films in Japan. With a mimeo snipe on the verso. Sailors on a salvage ship capture a giant lizard and sell it to a London circus, leading the lizard's.....
Nashville: Covington Sales Company, Circa 1960. Vintage promotional Loretta Lynn paddle hand fan with an early WSM photograph of Lynn by Les Leverett (used as one of Lynn's early publicity photographs for Decca Records), the Decca Records arrow logo and "'I'm a Loretta Lynn fan' ..." circa 1960. Lynn debuted on Decca in 1960, the same year the first Loretta.....
N.p. N.p., 1984. Vintage US window card poster for the 1984 Broadway play. The play initially premiered at London's National Theatre in 1983 before moving to the US the following year, making its Broadway debut at the John Golden Theatre, the run advertised here, where it ran for 378 performances. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and nominated for four Tony Awards.....
Santa Monica: Artisan Entertainment, 1998. Draft script for the 1999 film. With a single notation in holograph ink on the front wrapper. Based on the 1958 novel by Richard Matheson. A man is hypnotized by his sister-in-law, leading to haunted visions and the complete breakdown of his family life. Set in Chicago, shot on location there. Yellow titled self wrappers.....
Paris: Ferenczi, 1935. First French Edition, preceding all others. Text in French. According to "Zombies," Julien Betan and Raphael Colon's comprehensive 2009 survey of the sub-genre, Miomandre's novel represents the first modern zombie novel, while 2015's "Z pour Zombies" by Bernard Perron, Antonio Dominguez Leiva, and Samuel Archibald notes "part of the novel takes place in the head of the.....
N.p. N.p., 1964. Collection of five vintage, oversize, borderless photographs and two contact sheets (with 59 images) of the Thelonious Monk Quartet in performance at the La Maison de l’ORTF (Office de Radiodiffusion-Television Francaise) in Paris on February 23, 1964. Photographs with the stamp of photographer Alain Dessalles on the verso. The quartet here includes saxophonist Charlie Rouse, bassist Butch Warren.....
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1930. First Edition. Basis for the 1931 film directed by John M. Stahl. Included with the book is an extraordinary original bi-fold program for the April 17, 1931 Hollywood premiere of Stahl's film at the Carthay Circle Theatre in Los Angeles, printed in black and gold on lavender card stock, styled to emulate the novel's dust.....
Tokyo: Shochiku, Circa 1959. Draft script for the 1959 Japanese film. Text and titles in Japanese. With holograph pencil annotations throughout, ostensibly noting the placement of a certain character's lines. Angered by their parents' refusal to buy them a television set, two young brothers decide to go on a silence strike against all adults, leading to a number of comic misunderstandings.....
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Burbank, CA: Cougar Films, LTD., 1979. Draft script for the 1981 film, here under the working title "Butcher, Baker, Candlestick Maker." Annotations on several pages, in holograph marker and pencil, on all dialogue and action for the character Ross Walters, played by Greg Palmer. Laid in is a Call Sheet, dated for "Mon. May 12, 80," with annotations in holograph.....
N.p. N.p., 1988. Vintage 1988 cardboard standee for holding American Express application forms for college students, featuring Lou Reed. Part of a extended campaign for American Express, beginning in 1985 with ads featuring Reed in his leather jacket proclaiming "How to buy a jacket, and a of a brief phase as a corporate pitchman by the iconoclastic musician, which also.....
London: Studio Vista, 1970. First UK Edition, preceding all others. A historical examination of the interrelationship between white and African American folk music traditions. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Light foxing to the top page edge, with faint offsetting to the front and rear endpapers. Jacket is lightly toned overall, with faint scratches to the front panel.
Los Angeles: Dan Curtis Productions, 1972. Two Revised Draft scripts, "Frankenstein - Part 1" and "Frankenstein - Part 2," for the two part television film "Frankenstein," which aired two, two hour episodes on January 16 and 17, 1973 on ABC's "Wide World of Mystery." Name of uncredited crew member David Dyer and "filming 12-18-72" on top right of each script.....
Universal City: Universal Studios, 1955. First Draft script for the 1956 film. With a few holograph ink annotations throughout, mostly correcting grammatical and spelling errors, and a holograph ink annotation to the front wrapper reading "File Copy." The third and final installment in the Creature from the Black Lagoon series, and longtime Universal Pictures assistant director Arthur Sherwood's directorial debut. Having.....
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Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1972. Draft script for the 1974 film, here seen under the working title "Deadly Honeymoon." A single holograph notation to the first page. Based on the 1967 novel Deadly Honeymoon by Lawrence Block, about a newlywed husband who seeks bloody revenge on a pair of killers after they beat him unconscious and assault his bride.....
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1981. Vintage reference photograph of director Steven Spielberg and producer George Lucas on the set of the 1981 film. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. An homage to the serialized Saturday matinee films of the 1930s and 40s, "Raiders" is the first in the well-loved Spielberg/Lucas high-adventure trilogy starring Harrison Ford as roguish archaeology professor.....
London: Studio Vista, 1970. First UK Edition, preceding all others. A critical discussion of early female blues singers, including Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith. Near Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Faintly foxed to the page edges, with a slight spine lean. Jacket is lightly rubbed, with slight creasing to the top edge of the front panel and a faintly.....
Manchester: Factory Records, 1980. FACT 30. Vintage cassette containing interviews with members of the Sex Pistols, housed in a vinyl pouch. Designed by Peter Saville. Factory Records’ Christmas gift for 1980, despite having never released any music by the band, was a cassette containing a 1977 interview of Sid Vicious and Steve Jones by Judy Vermorei on side A, and an.....
Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1941. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1941 film, showing Lon Chaney Jr. in costume as the eponymous Wolf Man, getting groomed by makeup artist Jack P. Pierce. A man visiting his ancestral home in Wales is bitten by a strange, wolf-like creature, leading to his occasional, moonlit transformation into a bloodthirsty werewolf. Universal Pictures' second.....
New York: Andy Warhol Film, 1965. Vintage mimeograph poster advertising the world premiere of Andy Warhol’s seminal films, "Vinyl" and "Poor Little Rich Girl" on June 19-20, 1965 at the Filmmaker’s Cinematheque in New York. Photo-illustrated with a repeating image of Edie Sedgwick and Gerard Malanga from the film. Technically, this was only the premiere of "Poor Little Rich Girl,".....
New York: Andy Warhol Film, 1968. Vintage poster for the 1967 film. The film originally screened at the Hudson Theater in New York in a 99-minute version. In early 1968, a 110-minute cut played at the Cinematheque 16 in Los Angeles. This poster, which mentions the Los Angeles screenings and contains a blurb from the likely corresponds to the latter.....
New York: Andy Warhol Film, 1967. Vintage poster for the 1967 film. The film originally screened at the Hudson Theater in a 95 minute version, although this cut is considered lost. A 109 minute version would screen in 1968 as the first film shown at the New Andy Warhol Garrick Theater, renamed as such after Warhol recovered from being shot.....
Munich: Constantin-Film, 1969. Collection of four vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1969 German release of the US film. With printed mimeo snipes on the verso. Andy Warhol's final film, an attempt to represent sex between a man and a woman (Warhol superstars Louis Waldon and Viva, respectively) as naturalistically as possible. A groundbreaking, influential production insofar as it was.....
New York: Andy Warhol Film, 1967. Vintage poster for the 1967 film. Two versions of the film were shot - one with an all nude, all male cast that was never released publicly, and one with both male and female actors wearing G-strings, which was originally screened at the Hudson Theater in New York. A stylistic breakthrough, in that the.....
N.p. N.p., 1971. Vintage borderless photograph of Andy Warhol lying amongst his "Cow Wallpaper" (silkscreen on wallpaper, 1971), from his May 1971 retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Photograph by Jack Mitchell. Mimeo snipe on verso. The Whitney Museum of American Art's 1971 Andy Warhol Retrospective was Warhol's first major retrospective, which opened on May 1.....
N.p. N.p., 1971. Vintage borderless photograph of Andy Warhol and the cast of the 1971 play. Holograph ink annotation on the verso crediting photographer Jack Mitchell, identifying the subjects, and giving a date of "5/71." Based on tape-recorded telephone conversations between Andy Warhol and Brigid Berlin about her family’s private life, the play opened at LaMama ETC in New York City.....
N.p. N.p., 1977. Vintage, oversize, borderless, double weight photograph of Pop artist Andy Warhol and Italian director Federico Fellini meeting on the street near the Largo di Santa Susanna in Rome, 1977. With the distinctive stamp of photographer Mimmo Frassineti on the verso. 12 x 9.5 inches. Very Good plus.
Hollywood: Mercury, 1942. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1942 film showing director Orson Welles, cinematographer Stanley Cortez, and members of the cast, including Joseph Cotton, Anges Moorehead, and Anne Baxter, conferring during a lunch break. Mimeo snipe promoting Welles' Mercury Players, and "APR 13 1942" stamp on verso. Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning 1918 novel by Booth Tarkington. Welles'.....
N.p. N.p., circa 1973. Vintage promotional flyer/handbill of Hank Williams, Jr. and The Cheatin' Hearts for Sunn Amplifiers "Amps in Action" advertising campaign. Hank Williams, Jr. and The Cheatin' Hearts teamed up for a 1972-1973 tour and released one album, now out of print, the instrumental "Just Pickin'...No Singin'" in 1973. 11 x 8.5 inches. Near Fine, very faint creasing.
N.p. N.p., Circa 1937. Treatment script (here called a "Suggested Screen Treatment") for the 1939 film by British playwright and screenwriter Mordaunt Shairp. Annotation in holograph pencil on upper left of front wrapper, partially lost because of chipping. Shairp, during his brief three year run as a screenwriter, worked previously with producer Samuel Goldwyn in 1935 on "The Dark Angel,".....