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.....
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.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1966. Vintage reference photograph from the 1966 Russian film, showing actress Irma Raush. Director Andrei Tarkovsky's sprawling 15th-century drama, capturing seven episodes in the life of revered Russian iconographer Andrei Rublev, from his humble origins as a traveling monk to his later years returning to painting after a long and meditative sabbatical. Set in medieval Russia, shot on.....
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1939. Draft script for the 1939 film. A musical drama that follows the romantic and professional arc of two performers. Louise Hall abandons her humble beginnings to become a singer in New York City, where she meets and falls in love with John Ramsey, the star of Victor Herbert's operas. Ramsey takes her under his wing, introducing.....
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1972. Vintage one sheet poster for the 1972 film, featuring vignette artwork by the renowned Bob Peak. Based on the life of composer Johann Strauss and his family, and a remake of Julien Duvivier's 1938 musical. 27 x 41 inches, folded. Very Good plus, with a few tiny tears, and rubber stamps and annotations on.....
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1969. Draft script for the 1970 film. An older rancher is threatened by bandits stealing his cattle. Together with Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, he participates in the Lincoln County War, a war against a dry goods monopoly that attempted to control cattle and water supplies as well, which had sprung up in the New.....
Paris: Gaumont, 1983. Two vintage borderless photographs of director Andrzej Wajda on the set of the 1983 Polish-French film. With holograph annotations on the verso. Based on the 1929 play "The Danton Case" by Polish writer Stanislawa Przybyszewska. Set in 1793, Georges Danton has returned to Paris from his solitary residence in the countryside just as the Committee for Public.....
New York: Other Scenes, 1971. Softcover. First Edition. Very Good Plus in wrappers, lightly rubbed, with a diagonal crease to the top left corner of the rear wrapper.
Glendale, CA: Allied Artists, 1961. Vintage press photograph from the set of the 1961 film. Shown on the left of the photograph in sunglasses is producer Samuel Bronston. An epic historical drama chronicling the life of the 11th century Christian Castilian knight, Don Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, or "El Cid." Nominate for three Academy Awards. Shot on location in Spain and Italy.....
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.....
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1967. Vintage oversize borderless double weight reference photograph of Faye Dunaway, Warren Beatty, and Michael J. Pollard from the 1967 film. With a German address stamp to the verso. Perhaps the most significant film for the New Hollywood generation, with its mix of graphic violence, sex, and humor, and a glamourous take on disaffected youth. Its.....
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1967. Vintage studio still photograph of director Arthur Penn and actors Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty resting between takes while filming on location for the 1967 film, with cinematographer Burnett Guffey looking on to the right. With holograph pencil and ink annotations regarding cropping on the verso, along with a provenance stamp. From the archive of.....
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.....
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: Ballantine Books, 1959. First printing of this edition. Originally published by J. P. Lippincott in 1948. MacDonald tells her tale of government-induced tuberculosis, her sanitarium stay, and her triumph over it all, told in "racy, flippant, irreverent" language. Author of "The Egg and I." A hint of rubbing to the crown, else about Fine in illustrated wrappers. Scarce.
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.....
N.p. N.p., 1970. Second Draft script for the 1974 film. In 1969, Julian Barry was hired by Columbia Pictures to write the screenplay for a dramatic biographical account of comedian Lenny Bruce's life. Shortly thereafter the project was delayed, reportedly due to studios' demand for romances as a result of Arthur Hiller's successful 1970 romantic drama "Love Story," leading Barry to.....
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.....
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1990. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the title page: "For — / With deep gratitude and affection / Lazar." Fine in an about Near Fine dust jacket. Jacket has light toning at the spine panel, a tiny closed tear at the heel, a hint of shallow creasing at the extremities, and mild toning. An.....
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.....
New York: HarperCollins [Harper Collins], 1991. First Edition. SIGNED by Brian Wilson on the front endpaper: "To Jimmy / Brian Wilson." Wilson's autobiography, written near the beginning of his comeback, before the legendary recording of his masterpiece, "Smile," was completed and performed the world over. An honest, heartbreaking memoir from one of the world's finest songwriters, and someone who has been.....
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1955. First Edition, two volumes bound in red cloth housed in a black cloth covered slipcase. Issued for Carl Van Vechten's 75th birthday. Warmly INSCRIBED by Van Vechten on the front endpaper of the first volume to noted screenwriter Anita Loos: "For Anita with admiration and love from Carl / Christmas, 1955 / New York.".....
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Rome: de Laurentiis International Manufacturing Company, 1973. First Draft script for the 1974 Italian rime film "Crazy Joe," here under the working title, "Crazy Joey." Rubber-stamped Feb. 14, 1973, on the first page. A remarkable transplant of American New Hollywood stalwarts (and some of their elders) to the poliziotteschi genre. Peter Boyle plays a member of the Colombo crime family.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1965. Five vintage color studio still photographs from the 1965 film. The film follows the quarrels between Michelangelo and Pope Julius II over the painting of the Sistine Chapel. It was nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Cinematography and Best Art Direction. Shot on location in Italy. 8 x 10 inches. Fine...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1965. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1965 film. The film follows the quarrels between Michelangelo and Pope Julius II over the painting of the Sistine Chapel. It was nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Cinematography and Best Art Direction. Shot on location in Italy. 8 x 10 inches. Fine.
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Sao Paulo: Companhia Editora Nacional, 1935. First Portuguese photoplay edition of the 1929 E. Barrington book "The Laughing Queen: A Romance of Cleopatra," translated by Monteiro Lobato, for the Brazilian release of the 1934 US film. INSCRIBED "To Mr. Cecil B DeMille / With kindest regards" from the head of Paramount's South American headquarters, with a blind stamp from Cecil.....
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.....
Garden City: Doubleday, 1976. First Edition. Near Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket.
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1952. Vintage 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. Vintage 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.....
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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.....
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.....
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".....
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1957. Vintage borderless photograph of David Lean on the set of the 1957 film. Based on Pierre Boulle's 1952 novel "Le Pont de la riviere Kwai," about Allied POWs forced to build a railway over a bridge during WWII. Under the leadership of Colonel Nicholson (Guinness), they are persuaded that the bridge should be constructed.....
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1962. Vintage keybook reference photograph of Alec Guinness, Sam Spiegel, Jack Hawkins, and David Lean on the set of the 1962 film. Based on the 1926 autobiography "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" by T.E. Lawrence. An incomparable film. Opening in 1935 with the death of Lawrence (Peter O'Toole) in a motorcycle accident at the age of 46.....
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1962. Vintage oversize borderless double weight photograph from the 1962 film, shot on location in the Moroccan desert. Mimeo snipe on the verso. Based on the 1926 autobiography "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" by T.E. Lawrence. An incomparable film. Opening in 1935 with the death of Lawrence (Peter O'Toole) in a motorcycle accident at the age of.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1962. Vintage reference photograph of Peter O'Toole, Gamil Ratib, and David Lean on the set of the 1962 film. Based on the 1926 autobiography "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" by T.E. Lawrence. 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.....
Los Angeles: Asymmetrical Productions, 1999. Collection of four vintage black-and-white studio still photographs from the 1999 film. Featuring multiple images of Richard Farnsworth, and Sissy Spacek, as well as a photo of David Lynch on the set. Based on true events, about Alvin Straight (Richard Farnsworth), an old man in poor health, living on social security benefits, and taking care.....
Los Angeles: David O. Selznick, circa 1940. Report and Story Synopsis script for an unproduced film. Red titled wrappers, noted as Report and Synopsis on the front wrapper, with credit for screenwriter Weiss. 17 leaves, mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine, bound with two gold brads.
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.
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.
N.p. N.p., 1978. Archive of three typescript drafts relating to author Don O'Melveny's novel, "No City for Dreaming: A Memoir on the Murder of Marilyn Monroe." Each draft is accompanied by an autograph letter signed explaining the premise of its manuscript. Though the drafts date between 1978-1979, the novel was not published until 2002. From the archive of publishing agent.....
Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1956. Second Revised Final Draft script for the 1957 film. Presentation copy belonging to producer, Ross Hunter, bound in navy full calf with gilt titles on cover and spine, with Hunter's name on the front board. Based on the 1956 autobiography of the same name by Colonel Dean E. Hess, a real-life United States Air Force.....
Universal City, CA: Unviersal International Pictures, 1954. Vintage linen backed keybook photograph of director Douglas Sirk and actor Jeff Chandler on the set of the 1954 film. Mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. Similar to the Italian Peplum (sword-and-sandal) epics, this film centers a Roman centurion's (Jeff Chandler) attempts to prevent Attila the Hun (Jack Palance) from conquering Rome. Also.....
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.....
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.....
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."
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1978. First American edition, and first edition in hardcover. INSCRIBED by Truffaut on the half-title page in the year of publication: “To Laurie / Sincerely yours / Francois / 78 August 3.” Truffaut's third and final book, an absolute must for any film lover, comprised of many essays detailing his feelings on a wide variety.....
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1946. Vintage black-and-white reference photograph of actress Myrna Loy from the set of the 1946 film. Based on the 1936 memoir of Hiram Percy Maxim, "A Genius in the Family." Loy is shown here in period dress in the doorway of her personal trailer. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.
London: Allied Artists, 1973. Original British full-color program for the 1973 French-American film. Based on Henri Charriere's 1969 book. Papillon (McQueen) is sentenced to life in prison in French Guyana. On the ship, he meets Louis (Hoffman), a forger, and they become friends, together attempting the ultimate escape. Nominated for an Academy Award. Shot on location in Venezuela, Spain, Jamaica.....
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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., Circa 1950s. Synopsis script for an unproduced film. Ribbon copy typescript. The supposed memoir of a showgirl, who begins who career simply as a beautiful woman who think she is untalented in all other areas, and ends up embarrassing herself rather often at the start of her career. She eventually develops a camaraderie with her fellow performers 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.
Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1990. First Edition. Crown lightly bumped, affecting both book and jacket, with a crease on the front flap, else Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket. A lovely copy.
Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1969. Two vintage borderless photographs of Genevieve Bujold from the 1969 film, one on the set and one promotional portrait of her as Anne Boelyn. Mimeo snipes printed on the verso of each. Based on the 1948 play by Maxwell Anderson. Bujold in her first English language film as the young and beautiful Ann Boleyn, who captures the.....
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N.p. N.p., Circa 1943. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Georg Wilhelm [G.W.] Pabst on the set of the 1943 German film. Production stamps on verso. Made to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the death of Paracelsus. Story of the 16th century Swiss physician/alchemist/astrologer Paracelsus (Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim), played by Werner Krauss. Made under the auspices of the Third Reich.....
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.....
Culver City, CA: Frankovich Productions / Columbia Pictures, 1968. First Estimating script for the 1971 film. Based on the 1967 novel "Doctors' Wives" by Frank G. Slaughter, a real life physician who attended Johns Hopkins medical school. One of the few feature films directed by George Schaefer, known mostly for his work directing plays and musicals for television, garnering seven.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1959. Original US insert poster for the 1959 film, directed by George Stevens and the definitive adaptation of the seminal memoir of a Jewish family's experience during the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam. Winner of 3 Academy Awards (including Best Cinematography) and nominated for 5 others (including Best Picture and Best Director). 14 x 36 inches. Very.....
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Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1937. Vintage reference photograph from the set of the 1937 film, showing a camera crew filming a ballroom scene with actors Greta Garbo and Charles Boyer. With a mimeo snipe on the verso noting the film's working title, "Madame Walewska." Based on Waclaw Gasiorowski's 1933 novel "Pani Walewska," which was in turn based on the.....
N.p. N.p., 2008. Rainbow Revision Production Draft script for the 2008 film, copy belonging to Director of Photography Harris Savides, his name on labels on the top right of goldenrod revision title page and blue revision title page. The much acclaimed and widely loved biopic of gay rights activist, and first openly gay politician in California, Harvey Milk, portrayed by Sean.....
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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.....
Boston: Beacon Books, 1997. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Hannah Nyala on the verso of the half title page to fellow author Chris Offutt: "For Chris— With great admiration and best wishes that your road ahead is always marked by the best qualities of the human spirit—lots of joy, hope, and healing. Warm regards, Hannah June 1997." A memoir of the author's.....
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.
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.....
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1974. Draft script for the 1975 film. Bound presentation script belonging to producer Howard Pine with his named embossed on the front board. With annotations in holograph pencil and ink throughout. A sequel to the 1968 film "Funny Girl," this is a fictionalized account of singer Fanny Brice and her marriage to impresario Billy Rose.....
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.
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.....
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.....
London: Faber and Faber, 1960. First UK Edition. INSCRIBED by Stravinsky in the year of publication on the title page: "To Ralph and Mirandi / With love / I. Stravinsky / [illegible] Nov-60." Also inscribed by Craft on the title page: "Love / Miranda and Ralph / Paris / Nov. 26-60." A companion volume to "Conversations with Igor Stravinsky," published.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1946. Draft script for the 1946 Broadway musical, which premiered at the Imperial Theatre on May 16, 1946 and ran for 1,147 performances through February 12, 1949. An unusual script in terms of size, style, and purpose, made custom for the character of Tommy Keeler, with the character name on the front wrapper, and containing only the.....
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.
Cedar Rapids, IA: Torch Press, 1932. First Edition. Octavo. Half-bound in publisher's light blue cloth, white vellum spine and corners, gilt spine titles and top page edges, and deckle edges. Housed in a matching blue cloth slipcase. Twenty-three black-and-white plates, plus frontispiece, all present. One of fifty unnumbered copies, privately printed. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper: "Mr.....
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.
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.....
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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N.p. AMLF, Circa 1988. Vintage reference photograph of Jacques Demy and Yves Montand on the set of the 1988 film. Demy's fanciful portrait of the life of singer and actor Yves Montand (playing himself), who returns to Marseille, the city of his childhood, to rehearse a stage musical based on his life, and falls in love the female lead, Marian.....
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N.p. AMLF, Circa 1988. Two vintage reference photographs of Jacques Demy on the set of the 1988 film. Demy's fanciful portrait of the life of singer and actor Yves Montand (playing himself), who returns to Marseille, the city of his childhood, to rehearse a stage musical based on his life, and falls in love the female lead, Marian (only to.....
New York: Coward McCann, 1931. First Edition. The author's fifth book. Jacket illustration by Glenn Cravath. Very Good plus in a bright, Very Good plus example of the scarce dust jacket. Some fading to the book's quarter binding, and jacket has a tiny, nearly undetectible hole at the center of the spine panel. A bright, attractive copy overall.
New York: Coward McCann, 1931. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the First Edition. The author's fifth book. Very Good in printed wrappers. Spine faded, light dampstain to the lower front wrapper, separation on the front hinge.
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Los Angeles: Dick Clark Productions, 1979. Final Shooting script for the 1978 television film, which aired on ABC on February 11, 1979. Annotation of copy number "147" in holograph marker on top right of title page. One of three television films made by noted film director John Carpenter. Carpenter began working on "Elvis" after wrapping up his 1978 quintessential horror slasher.....
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.
London: Romulus, 1952. Two vintage borderless reference photographs fromt he set of the 1952 film. The first shows director John Huston and actors Colette Marchand and Jose Ferrer, with the stamp of photographer Serge Lido on the verso. The second shows Huston and actors Zsa Zsa Gabor and Suzanne Flon, all sitting in a horse-drawn carriage. Based on Pierre La Mure's.....
Los Angeles: American International Pictures [AIP], 1973. Vintage reference photograph from the 1973 film, showing a side-by-side comparison of John Dillinger and actor Warren Oates in costume as Dillinger. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. A dramatization of the crimes of folk hero, midwestern bank robber, and notorious mobster John Dillinger, best known for killing five FBI.....
N.p. N.p., circa 1974. Draft script for an unproduced film. With a typed letter to Ms. Lahn from screenwriter John Rose laid-in. A biopic on the French sculptor Auguste Rodin and his turbulent relationships with everyone around him including his mistress and, in the last year of both their lives, his eventual wife, Rose, as well as a host of.....
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......
N.p. N.p., 1978. Revised First Draft script for an unproduced film. Based on screenwriter Josef Shaftel's experiences working as a newspaper correspondent in 1948 in the Middle East during the Arab-Israeli conflict, during which time he falls in love with a Jewish refugee and gradually becomes sympathetic to the Zionist cause. Shaftel's story was also the basis for a 1962.....
Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, Circa 1934. Vintage borderless reference photographs of Josef von Sternberg on the set of the 1934 film. Mimeo snipe printed in English and Spanish on verso. Loosely based on the diary of Catherine the Great as edited by Manuel Komroff, following her from childhood through her rise to Empress. Sternberg's sixth and penultimate film starring Marlene.....
N.p. N.p., 1975. Draft script for an unproduced film, based on the life of Malcolm X. With copied annotations throughout, mostly corrections to the text. Joseph A. Walker is best known as the writer of the 1972 play "The River Niger." The original Off-Broadway run received an Obie Award for Best Play, and Walker became the first African American writer.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1963. Collection of two vintage oversize borderless black and white set design reference photographs and one original charcoal pencil storyboard from the 1963 film. Photographs and illustration mounted on heavyweight cardboard, with holograph pencil annotations on the verso. Based on Carlo Maria Franzero's 1957 book "The Life and Times of Cleopatra." Twentieth Century-Fox's ambitious, bank-breaking venture, the most.....
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.....
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1959. Carbon Draft script for the 1961 film. Housed in a custom cloth clamshell box. From the Richard Manney collection of film noir. Gangster biography with noir elements, based on Harry Grey's 1958 novel, a paperback original. Dutch Schultz (Morrow) is a mobster at the top of his game in the 1920s. He kills a man.....
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1956. Revised Final Screenplay for the 1957 film. Included is a folded invitational program, and a promotional still of child actor Rickie Sorensen, who played Creighton Chaney (age 8) in the film. Copy belonging (presumed) to Rickie Sorensen, with his name in holograph pencil on a revised page. A loose biography of actor Lon Chaney.....