Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1980. Vintage photograph of Levon Helm, who played Loretta Lynn's father, coal miner Ted Webb, from the 1980 film. Based on Loretta Lynn's autobiography Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter, co-written by George Vecsey. Biography of Loretta Lynn from her poverty-striken upbringing in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky to a Country Music superstar. Nominated for one Academy Award. Shot on location.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1953. Vintage studio still photograph of George Jessel in front of a photograph of performer Eva Tanguay, from the opening sequence of the 1953 film. Producer Jessel, playing himself, holds a story writing conference where debates surrounding the life of vaudeville star Eva Tanguay (Mitzi Gaynor), the subject of the upcoming film, give way to conflicting.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1951. Revised Final Draft for the 1953 film musical. Producer George Jessel, playing himself, holds a story writing conference where debates surrounding the life of vaudeville star Eva Tanguay (Mitzi Gaynor), the subject of the upcoming film, give way to conflicting stories told by her former partner Eddie McCoy (David Wayne) and piano player Charles Bennett.....
New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1968. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper to noted critic and reviewer, Mel Gussow: " To Mel / All my love and respect / God keep you / Pearl / 8/16/68." Gussow was a theatre critic and cultural writer for The New York Times from 1969 until his death in 2005. He.....
Osceola, WI: Motorbooks, 1993. First Edition. Slight lean, else Near Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Jacket lightly rubbed and soiled, with a two tiny tears to the upper rear flap fold.
Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1990. First Edition. Crown lightly bumped, affecting both book and jacket, with a crease to the front flap, else Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket. A lovely copy.
New York: Doubleday, 1970. First Edition. Near Fine in a Near Fine, lightly spine-toned dust jacket. An attractive copy.
N.p. N.p., Circa 1946. Draft script for the 1946 musical, for the character of Tommy, with the character name on lower right and "5." on upper right, presumably Tommy being the fifth character in the play. A very unusual script in terms of size, style, and purpose, made custom for the part and the lines of a single character, and.....
New York: Chelsea-Candide Company, 1974. Draft script for the 1974 production of the play, noted on the title page as the "Playing Version."). "Candide" premiered at the Broadway Theatre on March 10, 1974, playing for 740 performances, closing on January 4, 1976. Annotation in holograph marker of copy number "#13" on title page and several annotations in holograph pencil throughout.....
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1930. First Edition. Born in England, David Betts drifted around the American West before coming to New York and finding work driving cabs. He was dubbed "The Taxi Philosopher" after publishing several letters featuring his views on life and in the "New York Evening Post" during the 1920s. Proletarian through and through, "I'm Lucky At That".....
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1915. Octavo. First American Edition. Publisher's tan cloth, spine title and rule gilt, top page edges gilt. Very Good plus condition, lacking the dust jacket. Slight spine lean and toning, light rubbing at the extremities, rear pastedown and title page hinges professionaly repaired, and a couple of tiny chips to a few leaves. A dense exploration.....
Northville, MI: Sun Dog Press, 2001. First Edition. Bone's autobiographical account of his experience in the circus and in carnivals. A must for the sideshow diehard. Spine text slightly faded, else Fine and unread in printed wrappers.
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1965. Vintage photograph from the set of the 1965 film. Mimeo snipe and Tony Crawley stamp on verso. A young Julie Christie sunning herself on the set of "Young Cassidy." Biographical drama based upon the life of playwright Sean O'Casey, John Cassidy (Taylor) in the film. Following the 1911 protest against British rule in Ireland, a......
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1965. Collection of three vintage color studio still photographs from the 1965 film. The film follows the 1911 protest against British rule in Ireland. A young laborer-turned-playwrite combats the regime with his artistic practice. Shot on location in Ireland and England. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Complete collation details available on request...
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1978. First American Edition. Paperclip impression at the top of the front endpaper, else Fine in a Fine dust jacket. A lovely copy.
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New South Wales: Embassy Pictures, 1963. Collection of 16 vintage studio still photographs from the 1963 film. Based on French serial killer Henri Desire Landru. During World War I, Henri Landru (Charles Denner) supplements his income by luring middle-class women through newspaper ads, to a villa outside Paris where he seduces and kills them, burns their bodies, then helps himself to their.....
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1952. Original US program for the 1952 film. Autobiographically reflective of Chaplin's fears of being left behind in the fading vaudeville and silent film era, "Limelight" depicts the final years of a washed up stage clown who briefly maintains an impossible relationship with a young dancer, representative of a new generation of performers. The first.....
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1952. Original US pressbook for the 1952 film. Autobiographically reflective of Chaplin's fears of being left behind in the fading vaudeville and silent film era, "Limelight" depicts the final years of a washed up stage clown who briefly maintains an impossible relationship with a young dancer, representative of a new generation of performers. The first.....
London: Bloomsbury Book Shop, 1978. First Edition. 68 pages. Very Good plus in saddle-stapled printed white wrappers. Light toning at the extremities, a few preliminary leaves and the front wrapper with tiny corner creases, and a faint corner crease to the rear wrapper. Chilton presents the great black band of the 1920s, with several black-and-white photographs, a personnel index, notes.....
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986. First Edition thus, first printing. Near Fine and unread. First Christie biography, with several black-and-white photographs.
London: Macmillan Press, 1986. First Edition. Extremities of both book and jacket a touch bumped, else Fine and unread in a Near Fine dust jacket. An autobiographical sketch of the jazz bandleader, with black-and-white photographs throughout.
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N.p. N.p., Circa 1977. Draft script for the 1977 film, here under its working title "The Secret Files of J. Edgar Hoover." With two holograph pencil and ink annotations to the title page. An biopic dramatizing the rise to power of J. Edgar Hoover, the long-standing director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The film courted controversy at the time.....
Los Angeles: Films Inc., 1975. Vintage US one sheet poster for the 1976 autobiographical docudrama. Director Martha Coolidge's debut feature film, after having worked as a documentary filmmaker since the early 1970s. The film follows Coolidge's retelling of the aftermath following her high school date rape, and analyzes the motives and ramifications of the action. An unusual film for its.....
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1983. First US Edition, preceded by the UK edition published the same year by Omnibus Press. Heavily photo-illustrated throughout, in both black and white and color. Scarce. Comprehensive biographical dictionary of late seventies and early eighties rock, punk, punk-post, and new waves acts. Written by two Australian music journalists, centered primarily on the UK scene.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1940. Vintage photograph of director Irving Cummings, cinematographer Leon Shamroy, and actresses Alice Faye and Helen Westley on the set of the 1940 film. Mimeo snipe on the verso. The life story of the 19th century American musical star. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine.
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1957. Second Revised Final script for the 1957 film. Director Michael Curtiz's presentation copy, in tan leather with gilt titles and Curtiz's name at the bottom right corner of the front board. A highly fictionalized portrayal of the life and career of Prohibition era torch singer/actress Helen Morgan. This film marked Curtiz's return to Warner Bros.....
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1946. Vintage photograph from the 1946 film, showing director Michael Curtiz, and stars Cary Grant, Monty Woolley, and Donald Woods conferring on the set. With the stamp of photographer Pat Clark and a mimeo snipe on the verso. A fictionalized biography of composer Cole Porter. Grant's first color film. Nominated of an Academy Award. 10 x......
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1988. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author to New York theater set designer Susan Barras on the title page: "Susan Barras. / May God's blessing be with you always. / In all sincerity / Peter Cushing '92." An uncommon signature from the meticulous actor whose name is synonymous with the great Hammer films of the 1950s.....
Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1923. Vintage photograph of Cecil B. Demille, Jeanie Macpherson and Jack Holt on the set of the 1923 film. With holograph annotations and rubber stamp of noted collector Gene Ringgold on the verso. Filmed in two parts, first is the story of Moses leading the Jews out of Egypt to the Promised Land, receiving the tablets and.....
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1960. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Dempsey in the year of publication on the half-title page: "To Miss Cordella / Thank you, [and] lots of luck / Jack Dempsey / 5/20/60." Features eight pages of black-and-white photographs. An as-told-to autobiography of the former heavyweight champion, with many accounts of his various fights, including title matches. Near Fine.....
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Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1935. Revised Draft script for the 1936 film, "The Story of Louis Pasteur," here under it's working title, "Enemy of Man." Copy belonging to actor Raymond Brown, who played Dr. Radisse in the film, with his name in holograph crayon on the front wrapper, and check marks next to his inclusions, as well as annotations to.....
New York: William Morrow, 1990. First Edition. Lengthily INSCRIBED by Donofrio on the half title page to fellow author Chris Offutt: "For Chris, A writer with guts + poetry, muscle + eloquence, who I had the amazing good fortune to go to writing camp with one summer. What a treat to find someone else who got in thru the back.....
Hanover, NH: Steerforth Press, 2008. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Also included is a typed letter signed on letterhead from the author to an unknown woman suggesting they collaborate on a speaking event regarding Wendell Scott. Biography of Scott, the first African American driver to compete in NASCAR, and the first to win a race.....
Hollywood: Goldfarb-Lewis Agency, circa 1970's. Original Treatment script for an unproduced film. Based on Guy Endore's novel of the same name about the life of Alexandre Dumas. Brown untitled wrappers. Title page present, with credits for screenwriter Dale Wasserman and novelist Guy Endore. 39 leaves, with last page of text numbered 36. Xerographically reproduced. Pages Fine, wrapper Fine, bound internally.....
Calgary, AB: Transcontinental, 1969. Post-production Combined Continuity script for the 1969 film. A biography of Marquis De Sade, the famous author of "120 Days of Sodom" and great lover of women. In this film, he is in his old age, hiding in his family's castle and avoiding the police. The story of his life is told through flashbacks, dreams, and.....
Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 1998. First Edition. A biography of Vincent Van Gogh, focusing on his religious upbringing and spiritual life, and how this informed his work. Corners and top edge with minor bumps, else Near Fine in a strong Very Good plus jacket. Jacket lightly rubbed, with a shallow horizontal crease to the top front panel, and.....
N.p. Creation Books, 2011. First Edition. Trade softcover (no hardcover equivalent). Uniquely INSCRIBED by the author on his custom bookplate on the first leaf (the half title page). The first in a two-part series chronicling the underground cultural history of Memphis, Tennessee, from the Civil War through the twentieth century. Tav Falco, member of the rock and roll band Panther.....
New York: The Ring Publishing Co, 1929. First Edition. SIGNED by Jack Dempsey on the front endpaper. Not to be confused with the much more common Author's Autograph Edition. Very Good lacking dust jacket. Light rubbing to spine ends, joints, and corners,with a tiny bit of loss at the upper front joint, a bumped bottom front corner, and mild soil.....
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Culver City, CA: Sierra Pictures / RKO Radio Pictures, Circa 1948. Draft script for the 1948 film, "Joan of Arc," here under its working title, "Joan of Lorraine." Original scripts from Fleming's films are rarely seen on the market. Based on Maxwell Anderson's play, "Joan of Lorraine." Anderson's play debuted on Broadway in 1946, ran for 199 performances at the.....
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1968. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on a laid-in slip: "For Sister / Happy Easter! / B." The inscription is written on stationery, presumably the authors: "From the desk of / OPERATION MINOTAUR." Ford has annotated a few of the rear leaves in holograph pencil, and paper-clipped two leaves where her name is.....
Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1943. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Trilling on the front endpaper in the year of publication: "To Raymond / In affection and admiration / Lionel / 7-19-43." Trilling's in-depth study of Forster, the third volume in New Directions' "Makers of Modern Literature" series. Very Good plus in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Light fraying at the extremities.....
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1974. Vintage reference photograph from the 1974 film, showing actress Valerie Perrine in costume, or arguably lack thereof, as Lenny Bruce's wife, stripper Honey Bruce. With holograph annotations in ink and pencil on the verso regarding layout. Based on Julian Barry's 1971 play, which followed the career, decline, and death by morphine overdose of controversial comedian.....
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1984. Vintage borderless black-and-white reference photograph of director Bob Fosse on the set of the 1983 film. With a mimeo snipe on the verso dated 20/1/84, along with the stamp of Universal Pictorial Press. Based on Teresa Carpenter's Pulitzer Prize-winning Village Voice article "Death of a Playmate," which traced the unusual circumstances of Playboy model Dorothy Stratten's.....
New York: Lansbury-Duncan Productions, 1971. Draft script for 1972 play which premiered on April 5, 1972 at the Lyceum Theatre, for a short run of five performances, closing on April 8, 1972. Copy No. "22" noted in holograph marker on title page. Set in the late Sixteenth century, a touring company of Elizabethan players perform a bawdy, burlesque version of "Elizabeth.....
London: Michael Joseph, 1957. UNCORRECTED PROOF for the First UK Edition, preceding all other editions. Rare. Very Good plus in publisher's card wrappers, with light soil to the wrappers and moderately foxed page edges.
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1968. Collection of nine vintage studio still photographs from the 1968 film. Snipe printed to the verso. A semi-biographical film, based on Bernard Malamud's novel of the same name. The story of a Russian-Jew unjustly prisoned on accusations of blood libel. Set in Russia, shot on location in Hungary. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.....
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1962. Original US half-sheet poster for the 1962 film. Based on the 1955 novel by Thomas E. Gaddis, and a breakthrough role for Burt Lancaster. A very uncommon poster size for this film. 22 x 28 inches. Near Fine with very shallow, faint creasing along the top edge.
N.p. N.p., 1986. Treatment script for an unproduced film. The true story of Benjamin Franklin traveling to France after the American Revolution, where he acts as a diplomat from the newly-established United States of America and he makes sure to throw around the new weight of this budding country. Set in Paris. Clear untitled wrappers. Title page present, dated 1986.....
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Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1930. First Temporary Draft script for the 1930 film "A Lady's Morals," seen here under the title "Jenny Lind." Copy belonging to musical director Arthur Freed, with his holograph pencil name to the front wrapper and his annotations throughout. Metropolitan Opera diva Grace Moore stars as Jenny Lind, the 1850's Swedish opera sensation whose exceptional.....
Los Angeles: Samuel Goldwyn Company, 1987. Collection of three vintage black-and-white studio still photographs from the 1987 film. Based on John Lahr's 1978 biography of playwright Joe Orton. Featuring images of a young Gary Oldman, Vanessa Redgrave, and director Stephen Frears. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine condition. Olive Films 1098.
N.p. N.p., Circa 2005. Draft script for the 2006 film. An intimate look at the British Royal family from May to September of 1997, following the death of Princess Diana on August 31, 1977, and the struggle between Queen Elizabeth's (Helen Mirren) desire to treat it as a private affair, and Prime Minister Tony Blair (Michael Sheen) and Prince Charles'.....
Burbank, CA: Walt Disney Productions, 1956. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1956 television movie. Disney re-edited the 1954 film Rob Roy, the Highland Rogue into a two part movie for The Magical World of Disney, which aired on ABC on October 3 and 10, 1956. Wartime adventures of Scottish highland leader Rob Roy MacGregor (Richard Todd), outlawed and hunted by.....
Culver City, CA: RKO Radio Pictures, 1954. Three vintage studio still photographs from the 1954 film. Wartime adventures of Scottish highland leader Rob Roy MacGregor (Richard Todd), outlawed and hunted by the forces of King George I (Eric Pohlmann). Set in and shot on location in Scotland. 8 x 10 inches. CONDITION. Complete collation details available on request...
New York: HarperCollins [Harper Collins], 2013. First Edition. Memoir by the acclaimed Oscar-winning director of "The Exorcist" (1973) and "The French Connection" (1971). Near Fine and unread in a Near Fine dust jacket.
New York: Henry Holt, 1929. First Edition. One of 1000 copies (this being No. 818) SIGNED by the author Sidney Cox. About Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Light offsetting to the title page from the frontispiece, lacking the tissue guard. Mild toning to the pages and spine panel. Jacket has toning and a small splash to the.....
New York: Random House, 2001. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author to Mel Gussow on the half-title page: "To Mel / Thank you / Dorothy Gallagher." Gussow was a theatre critic and cultural writer for The New York Times from 1969 until his death in 2005. He authored 8 books, served as editor for many others, and his reviews and.....
New York: Frederick Ungar, 1977. First Edition. Fine and unread in a just about Fine, price clipped dust jacket. A bright, lovely copy of this critical introduction to the work of Garcia Marquez.
Hollywood: Icon Entertainment, 1994. Draft script for the 1995 film. An early draft, produced prior to the film having an association with Mel Gibson's production company, Icon Entertainment International. Winner of five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, and nominated for another five, including Best Original Screenplay. Orange titled wrappers, production No. 53, dated March 24, 1994, with.....
Garden City: Doubleday, 1979. First Edition. The great trumpeter and composer's autobiography. Photo-illustrated throughout. Near Fine in a strong Very Good plus dust jacket. Jacket has a couple of short closed tears and some light chipping, otherwise bright and unfaded.
New York: Crown Publishers, 1980. First US Edition, preceded by the French edition published in 1977 by Paris Stock. INSCRIBED by the author on the verso of the front endpaper: "Hah Victor what a start! / This autopornography just for you / Maurice / Nueva York / Jan 1 1980," with an an additional inscription (the one Girodias is referencing).....
London: Pan Books, 1999. First Edition. Light bump to the crown with accompanying closed tear on the spine, else Near Fine and unread.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1966. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Martha Graham to the late, legendary film director Sidney Lumet at the half-title page: "For Sidney Lumet / Martha Graham." Sidney Lumet's astounding catalog of films slightly predicted (and later joined) the work of the great filmmakers of the 1970s, with a laundry list of five-star achievements that includes "Dog.....
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Studio City, CA: EMI Television Programs, 1976. Two Revised draft scripts, Part I and Part II, comprising the complete script, for the 1977 television film, which was broadcast in two parts on CBS on April 13 and 14, 1977. First script, titled "Howard: The Amazing Mr. Hughes" on front wrapper, and titled "'Howard The Amazing Mr. Hughes' Part I" on first.....
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists / The Bound for Glory Company, 1975. Revised script for the 1976 film, "Bound for Glory," directed by Hal Ashby, based on the autobiography of Woody Guthrie, written for the screen by Robert Getchell, and starring Robert Getchell (screenwriter); David Carradine, Ronny Cox, Melinda Dillon, and Randy Quaid. SIGNED by David Carradine on the title.....
New York: 4th [Fourth] Estate, 2003. First Edition. INSCRIBED and dated by the author to Mel Gussow on the title page: "For Mel / With very best wishes in New York / Hugo Hamilton / June 2003." Gussow was a theatre critic and cultural writer for The New York Times from 1969 until his death in 2005. He authored 8.....
London: Chatto and Windus, 1968. First Edition, in four volumes. Housed in the publisher's slipcase. Text in English. The memoirs of noted Russian writer Alexander Herzen, known as the father of Russian socialism. Lightly toned spines, else Near Fine in Near Fine dust jackets, in a Very Good publisher's slipcase with splitting to one bottom edge.
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1968. Final script for the 1969 film. A landmark of New Hollywood cinema, and arguably the high spot (as well as the beginning) of an incredible streak of inventive cinematic achievements directed by George Roy Hill in the 1960s and 1970s that included "Slaughterhouse-Five" (1972), "The Sting" (1973), and "Slap Shot" (1977). Loosely based on fact.....
Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1976. Vintage photograph of director Arthur Hiller and actor Rod Steiger on the set of the 1976 film. Mimeo snipe on the verso. A dramatization of the latter part of the famous showman's life. Based on a memoir by Carlotta Monti, Fields' partner during the last fourteen years of his life. Shot on location in California.....
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1990. Revised script for the 1992 film. A biography of famed baseball legend Babe Ruth, who was born in Baltimore and given to an orphanage there by his father. He soon demonstrates his amazing hitting ability and adopted by a scout who has him play for the Orioles until he is sold to the Red.....
Tunbridge Wells: Spellmount, 1987. First Edition. Published simultaneously in the United States. Illustrated in black-and-white throughout; Holiday is well represented. Part of the "Jazz Life and Times" series. Near Fine and unread in a Near Fine dust jacket. Spine ends lightly bumped. Jacket extremities lightly toned, with light wrinkles at the spine ends, and a few tiny dings to the.....
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1972. First Edition. Association copy, inscribed by Houseman to legendary screenwriter Anita Loos: "For Anita Loos, who set me right about certain facts / Gratefully / John Houseman." Loos' tiny red ownership stamp also appears at the bottom of the second blank. The first volume of the legendary producer-actor Houseman's memoirs, covering the years 1902-1942.....
London: Warwick Film Productions, 1960. First Draft script for the 1960 UK film. File copy belonging to the film's director Ken Hughes, with a typescript note tipped on to the title page requesting its return to the director and noting it is the only script in existence for the film. Peter Finch delivers a strong performance as the inimitable author.....
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Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1961. Early Draft script for the 1970 film "Cromwell," seen here under the title "Oliver Cromwell." Copy belonging to director/screenwriter Ken Hughes, with his annotations throughout. With 11 pages of reproductions from "The Commonweal" newspaper from August and September 1885 laid into the front of the script, along with a drawing of how to add.....
New York: New Yorker Films, 1968. Collection of seven vintage studio still photographs, four borderless, from the 1968 film. Presented in a brown paper envelope with title annotated in holograph pencil. The first feature film from the husband-and-wife team of Jean-Marie Straub and Daniele Huillet. An austere portrayal of the life and times of Johann Sebastian Bach, depicted by renowned harpsichordist.....
n.p. N.p., Circa 1982. Two draft scripts for an unproduced film. Both have a flyer for the film laid-in, and are heavily notated with holograph ink and pencil. Based on the 1968 novel "Legion of Outcasts" by Hurk Davis, the autobiography of Peter Reeves as told to Mr. Davis, who was a Dutchman living comfortably until he ran out of.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980. First Edition. REVIEW COPY with slip laid in, SIGNED by the author on the half-title page. The autobiography of one of the leading American directors of film noir, his credits including "The Maltese Falcon" (1941), "The African Queen" (1951), "The Misfits" (1961), "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" (1948), "The Unforgiven" (1960), and "The.....
London: Romulus, 1952. Vintage borderless reference photograph of director John Huston and actors Colette Marchand and Jose Ferrer on the set of the 1952 film. With the stamp of still photographer Serge Lido on the verso. Based on Pierre La Mure's 1950 novel. A dramatization of the life of Parisian bohemian and post-Impressionist painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, with a focus.....
Tokyo: Imamura Productions, 1987. Draft script for the 1987 film. Text in Japanese. The greatest pimp in all of Japanese history, Iheji Muraoka, also known as Zegen or the "Boss of the South Seas" grew in power as Japan grew. Not only were his achievements contributing to his mantle of success, but he believed they advanced the global ambitions of.....
Hatboro, PA: Folklore Associates, 1964. First printing of this facsimile edition. Reprinted from the original 1933 edition, an immediate success for Jackson upon publication. The "fasola folk" are musical fundamentalists, and the author traces their roots and the origins of American religious popular and folk music. Very Good plus in a Very Good plus or better dust jacket. Light rubbing.....
Santa Barbara: Neville Books, 1995. Limited Edition. An unnumbered copy in navy cloth covered boards. SIGNED on the limitation page by the author, and additionally INSCRIBED on the title page to fellow author Chris Offutt: "For Chris & Rita / Another slim book of reminiscence. Huh! / Oh well / Jon." Jackson's memoir of his friend Raymond Carver, and a......
![Boswell's Life of Dr. Johnson, and Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides [The Life of Samuel Johnson]...](/pictures/thumb/127486.jpg?v=1568843460)
Garden City: Gabriel Wells / Doubleday, Page, 1922. First printing of this edition. Octavo, ten volumes. One of 785 numbered copies (this being No. 122). Publisher's quarter cream vellum, brown paper boards, paper spine labels, brown paper dust jackets with paper spine labels, gilt top page edges, page fore-edges and bottom page edges deckle. Lacking extra spine labels (commonly laid.....
Dallas, TX: Southern Methodist University Press, 1989. First Edition. INSCRIBED and dated by the author to Mel Gussow on the title page upon Gussow's acceptance of the Margo Jones Medal in 2001 at Ohio State University: "For Mel Gussow / With congratulations and warm admiration / Helen Sheehy / Margo Jones Medal Presentation / 13 July 2002." Laid in is.....
New York: HarperCollins [Harper Collins], 1994. First Edition. SIGNED and dated by the author on the title page. Spine ends lightly bumped, else Fine and unread in a Near Fine dust jacket. Author of "Fear of Flying."
Los Angeles: Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS], 1987. First Draft script for the 1987 television movie. Based on the true crime story from the 1970's, and adapted from the novel of the same name by Joseph Wambaugh. Susan Reinert is a schoolteacher in Upper Merion Township, Pennsylvania who goes missing and is found murdered with her two children. Nominated for two.....
Los Angeles: Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS], 1987. First Draft script for the 1987 television movie. Based on the true crime story from the 1970's, and adapted from the novel of the same name by Joseph Wambaugh. Susan Reinert is a schoolteacher in Upper Merion Township, Pennsylvania who goes missing and is found murdered with her two children. Nominated for two.....
London: Cinevision Films, 1972. Collection of 6 vintage full color lobby cards from the 1972 British-French film. Each card with film credit square, lacking the actual printed credits. A biopic of famed Russian dancer, Rudolf Nureyev, effectively the first to document his life and works from four different ballet styles. The first sequence is from "La Sylphide," next is a......
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1951. Final script for the 1952 film. Based on the life of Mexican revolutionary leader Emiliano Zapata. Xerographically reproduced Fox file copy, likely produced by the studio for its files in the late 1960s or a bit later. Kazan's romanticized, semi-fictional account of Zapata in his prime, this sweeping early Brando film glorifies the revolutionary's noble.....
Beverly Hills, CA: Orion Pictures, 1980. Collection of five lobby cards for the 1980 film. Based Carolyn Cassady's 1976 book, about the lives of and relationships between Neal Cassady, Carolyn, and Jack Kerouac, with some focus on Kerouac's writing his novel "On the Road." One of the earliest feature films about central Beat figures. Shot on location in San Francisco.....
Beverly Hills, CA: Orion Pictures, 1980. Original film press kit for the 1980 film. Included in the press kit are nine film still photographs and six cast biographies. Based Carolyn Cassady's 1976 book, about the lives of and relationships between Neal Cassady, Carolyn, and Jack Kerouac, with some focus on Kerouac's writing his novel "On the Road." One of the.....
![Kean: A Play for Life [Kean: A Film Biography] (Two original screenplays for an unproduced film)....](/pictures/thumb/147444.jpg?v=1590295343)
New York: N.p., 1983, 1990. Two scripts for an unproduced film, a 1983 First Draft script and a 1990 Draft script. The First Draft script, titled "Kean: A Film Biography," contains a few annotations in holograph marker of text and dialogue corrections. The 1990 Draft script is entitled "Kean: A Play for Life." Accompanying the First Draft script is a......
N.p. N.p. Master copy for the 1977 novel. The story of Paul Kohner, famed agent and producer of mostly foreign films for Universal Pictures, due to his ability to speak a few European languages. This novel was written by someone who knows him very well, his own brother. Set in Hollywood. Brown titled card wrappers, noted as MASTER COPY on.....
N.p. N.p. Treatment script for an unproduced film. With a resume laid in for actor Sharon Hawn, including holograph ink notation correcting her phone number, possibly due to her being considered for a role in this unproduced feature. Based on the autobiography "With Two Wheels and a Camera" by still photographer Bert Kopperl, who was a war correspondent and photographer.....
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the front flyleaf: "For Tony Bill / Enjoy your ass off... / Paul Krassner." Laid in is a typed letter signed by Krassner, on "The Realist" stationery, suggesting that Bill "might want to consider optioning the film rights to my book." From the collection of Oscar-winning director-producer Tony.....
London: Horizon, 1962. Vintage borderless photograph of David Lean on the set of the 1962 film. An incomparable film. Opening in 1935 with the death of Lawrence (Peter O'Toole) in a motorcycle accident at the age of 46, we then follow, in flashback, Lawrence as a young intelligence officer in 1916 Cairo, assigned to investigate the progress of the Arab.....
US: Le-Sac Productions, 1960. Collection of 20 vintage studio still photographs from the 1960 film. One still with numerical annotations in holograph pencil on the verso. Starring actor Ericson is prominently featured in the collection, engaged in action, romance, and brandishing a Tommy gun. One photo from the set shown. Please inquire to see others. Based on real-life bank-robber Floyd (1904-1934), and.....
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1978. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper (first name only) and INSCRIBED with the same pen on the title page: "To Roger Thornton / Thank heaven for little girls / Alan Lerner." A memoir by lyricist and librettist Lerner, who in collaboration with his writing partner Frederick Loewe created some of the.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1956. Final draft script for the 1956 film. Wrappers trimmed to conform to text block, separating spine from wrapper abd cropping copy number stamp "650" and re-written in holograph ink. Production number adjusted in holograph pencil with ."5." "#3" in holograph in on edge of spine. Based on Marcelle Maurette's 1952 stage play, about a scheme to.....
![Crazy Joe [Crazy Joey] (Original screenplay for the 1974 film). Carlo Lizzani, Dino Maiuri...](/pictures/thumb/137841.jpg?v=1492979779)
Rome: de Laurentiis International Manufacturing Company, 1973. First Draft script for the 1974 Italian poliziotteschi film "Crazy Joe," here under the working title, "Crazy Joey." Lewis John Carlino would receive final credit, although not credited here, as screenwriter. Rubber-stamped Feb. 14, 1973, on the first page. A remarkable transplant of American New Hollywood stalwarts (and some of their elders) to.....
London: Bloomsbury, 2004. First Edition. SIGNED by filmmaker Ken Loach on the title page. British director Loach first came to public acclaim in 1969 with the now-classic "Kes," and has continued to make superb and often controversial films, the most recent of which is the acclaimed "The Wind that Shakes the Barley" (2006). Fine and unread in a Fine dust.....
N.p. Dino De Laurentiis Cinematografica, 1972. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1972 film. Directed by Joseph Losey, the historical biopic focuses on the final chapter in Trotsky's life, when he was living in exile in Mexico City. Stalin sends quiet, meek assassin, Frank Jacson, to do away with the political dissident. Set in Mexico, shot on location in Italy.....