Recipients of the Distinguished Conduct Medal: 1855-1909 (First Edition)
London: J.B. Hayward and Son, 1975. First Edition. Very Good. No dust jacket as issued. Light foxing to front and rear boards, light dampstaining to the first few leaves.
London: J.B. Hayward and Son, 1975. First Edition. Very Good. No dust jacket as issued. Light foxing to front and rear boards, light dampstaining to the first few leaves.
Tokyo: Chuo Koronsha, 1965. First Japanese Edition, preceding all others. Text in Japanese.Very Good plus in a Very Good plus illustrated cloth slipcase. Vintage bookstore label to the rear pastedown, with lightly soiled boards. Slipcase lightly soiled, with faint toning to the spine and light wear to the tips.
New York: Delia Productions, circa 1960-1970. Mimeograph play reproduction of William Alfred's 1954 play "Agamemnon" for an unproduced film based on the play. A verse play retelling of the Greek myth, in which King Agamemnon is murdered by his wife upon his return to Mycenae after the Trojan War. Navy wrappers with a die-cut title window. Title page present, with.....
Los Angeles: Heath Productions / Universal, 1961. Vintage double weight still photograph from the UK release of the 1961 US film. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with some rubbing present.
North Hollywood: Republic Pictures, 1936. Vintage photograph of director Lew Ayres and crew members on the set of the 1936 film. Mimeo snipe, holograph annotations and rubber studio stamp on the verso. Based on events of the American Civil War, focusing on the friendship between Kenneth Reynolds (James Dunn) and Raymond Jordan (David Manners), divided by the war and now.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1931. Later printing. Jacket front panel and copyright page both state "15th Printing." SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper. Winner of the 1931 Pulitzer Prize for Literature. Barnes also wrote "Dishonored Lady," a play twice adapted to film. Beginning in the 1890s, the story follows an upper-middle class girl from youth to adulthood, struggling within.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1931. Later printing. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper: "For Virginia Allan / from Margaret Ayer Barnes." Winner of the 1931 Pulitzer Prize for Literature. Barnes also wrote "Dishonored Lady," a play twice adapted to film. Beginning in the 1890s, the story follows an upper-middle class girl from youth to adulthood, struggling within a changing.....
Elgin, Illinois: David C. Cook Publishing Co., 1912. First Edition. Near Fine lacking dust jacket. Bruising to the rear board and bumping to the crown.
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1924. First Edition. Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. Light offset to the front and rear endpapers. Jacket heavily toned to the spine, professional repair to separation of the front flap, cello tape reinforcements to the crown and rear panel.
Towson, MD: The Collectors' Press, 1957-1958. Complete run of 8 issues of the short-lived firearms enthusiast magazine, published in Maryland. Volume 1 Number 1 SIGNED on the Contents page by editors Benet and Codd in 1991. The magazine saw little light, had limited distribution, and only ran for a year and a half, but its content was amongst the most.....
Paris: Plon, 1965. First Edition. Text in French. All volumes about Fine in Very Good to Fine transparent dust jackets. Volume II has a slightly cocked spine, else volume is Fine in a Fine jacket. Jackets of Volumes I and III have splitting and a few closed tears at the joints and flap folds. An attractive set, profusely illustrated, with.....
Paris: Libra Films, 1969. Vintage Moyenne (medium) poster for the 1969 French-German-Italian film. Based on Juliette Benzoni's 1963 novel, "Il suffit d'un amour," the first of her "Catherine" series. Set in the Middle Ages, Catherine (Georges-Picot) is a Joan of Arc-style heroine. Director Borderie wanted the "Catherine" film to mark a new series of historic heroine films, like his previous.....
Paris: Socieete Francaise D'Éditions C'Art, N.p. First Edition. Very Good plus with no dust jacket as issued. Light foxing to the front board, toning to the spine, and previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedown.
N.p. Agnes Delahaie Productions, Circa 1962. Vintage borderless photograph of Florence Delay (as Joan, being led to trial), from the set of the 1962 film. Seen is the back of Robert Bresson's head, wearing his signature straw hat behind the camera. French studio stamp reading, "Le Proces de Jeanne d'Arc" on the verso.Linda Rasmussen at AllMovie notes: "Characteristically breaking with.....
London: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1981. Original British "bus stop" poster for the 1981 US film. Printed in England by Lonsdale & Bartholomew. An ambitious, sprawling historical farce made by Mel Brooks in the heat of his success as a film director. Brooks plays Moses, Tomas de Torquemada, King Louis XVI, and Jacques "Jacques, le garcon de pisse." Part I begins, of.....
Rome: Vides Cinematografica, 1980. Set of 10 master typescripts for the ambitious 1982 television mini-series, all dated June 1980, used as a master for printing the final scripts. Anthony Burgess was one of the series writers (credited on the title page of each segment), and Ennio Morricone composed the original score. Present are scripts for all 8 segments of the.....
London: Adam and Charles Black, 1909. First Edition. Very Good in a Good example of the scarce dust jacket. Light foxing to the leaves and fore-edge and slight spine lean. Jacket toned and soiled overall, frayed overall, with a large tear to the spine panel.
London: Sampson Low, Marston and Searle, 1875. First Edition. Bruising and fading to front and rear boards, bumped corners, and chipped spine crown, owner's annotations on half title and tile page, else Fair.
N.p. N.p., Circa 1940s. Draft English language script of Camus' 1944 play. Ribbon copy typescript on onionskin, circa 1940s, largely faithful to the 1947 Stuart Gilbert English translation, "Caligula and Cross Purpose," but with modifications made apparently for a smaller production. The adaptation includes the removal of incidental characters (patricians, knights, poets, guards, and servants), with their dialogue frequently merged.....
New York: Grossman Publisher, 1966. First Edition. The story of Adlai Stevenson's career told through photographs, including texts from his essays and speeches. Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. Some light rubbing to the board edges. Jacket has moderate edgewear and rubbing overall.
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1965. Vintage studio still photograph 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.
New York: NBC Television Network, 1960. Collection of four vintage photographs from NBC News of the 1960 Democratic National Convention. "NBC photo by Frank Carroll" stamp on the verso of each. Laid in is an NBC News mimeo snipe. One photograph is of the floor of the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena, largely empty, prior to the beginning of the.....
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.
London: Morningside Worldwide Pictures, Circa 1975. Early Revised Draft script for the 1963 British-American film, dated two years prior to its release. First generation reproduction, likely made for educational purposes circa early-mid 1970s, evidenced by the use of a photocopy process (not employed in the UK until the early 1970s). The script's vintage is also evidenced by the postal code.....
Russia: Raduga, 1982. First Edition. Fine in a Very Good plus pictorial slipcase, without dust jacket. Slipcase is rubbed at the extremities, with bumping at the corners. Illustrated throughout with color photographs of the palace's collection. Text is largely in Russian, with one essay in English.
Novato, CA: Presidio Press, 1999. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper: "For that great marine of two wars - my very fine friend who got saddled with two copies of this magnificent addition to the literature of the great war / Llewellyn W. Lord of Baltimore from / George B. Clark / Semper Fidelis / Marine."Fine.....
Troy, MI: Anchor Bay Entertainment, 1971. Collection of six vintage film still photographs from the 1971 film. Paper snipe affixed to the verso of three images. During the Thirty Years' War in Germany, Vogel, (Sharif) a teacher, is being pursued by a band of mercenaries fighting for the highest bidder, regardless of religious affiliation, lead by "The Captain" (Caine). Vogel.....
Troy, MI: Anchor Bay Entertainment, 1969. First Draft script for the 1971 film. With several annotations in holograph pencil and ink throughout. Here under the working title "Somewhere in the Mountains There is a Last Valley." Based on the 1959 novel by J.B. Pick. During the Thirty Years' War in Germany, Vogel, (Sharif) a teacher, is being pursued by a......
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1966. Vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1966 US release of the 1966 French film. The French resistance factions attempt to regain control of Paris near the end of WWII. A Nazi general in charge of Paris has orders from Hitler himself to burn the city if he cannot maintain control. What the film lacked in cohesive.....
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1998. First Edition. One bump to the bottom edge, affecting both book and jacket, else Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket. A lovely copy, largely comprised of full-page photographs of designs, architectural drawings, fabric swatches, and other decorative patterns from throughout history.
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.....
New York: Janus Films, 1974. Draft script for the 1974 British film.A young man who has had a premonition of his death is called up to train and fight with the British forces during World War II, ultimately ending in his actual death in battle on D-Day. Shot in black and white on vintage Kodak film stock, with about half.....
Mexico: Siglo veintiuno editores, 1967. First Mexican Edition, preceding all others. Oblong octavo, softcover with stiff wrappers and patterned endpapers. One of 6000 numbered copies (this being No. 3367). Another 6000 copies were printed for distribution in Argentina. One of two almanac-style books produced by Cortazar, the other being "Último Round" (1969). Very Good plus, with faint foxing, a few.....
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.
London: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1954. Vintage full-color still photograph from the 1954 UK release of the 1954 US film. Based on Mika Waltari's 1949 novel, about a poor orphan who becomes a brilliant physician is appointed to the service of the new Pharaoh. Nominated for an Academy Award (1955, Best Cinematography). A story set in Egypt, shot on location in Death.....
Paris: Cinedis, 1961. Three original color transparencies from the 1961 film. Starring actors, including Marais and Vlady, are seen in lavish period costumes designed for the film by Marie-Claude Fouquet and Jacqueline Guyot. Housed in a light blue mailing envelope, with annotations on the recto in holograph ink, noting contact information for Fouquet and Guyot. Based de La Fayette's 1678.....
Paris: Cinedis, 1961. Archive of 14 original single weight black-and-white photographs, and various ephemera, from the 1961 film, here under the original French title. The photographs, numbered on the versos in holograph pencil, detail costumes for starring actors Marina Vlady and Jean Marais, an exhibit of film stills and costume designs at a bookshop called "Lavocat," costumes displayed at tge.....
N.p. N.p., circa early 1950s. Two vintage black and white photographs advertising the legendary Ohrbach's department store in the Wilshire Prudential Insurance Company building (today home of the Screen Actors Guild). An strong example the apex of its mid-century design in Los Angeles. Stamped on the verso by Woro Studio, the agency who shot and struck the photographs for the.....
N.p. N.p., 1916. Vintage Swiss one sheet lithograph poster, made to promote the 1916 opening of Speck's Orient-Cinema in Zurich, during the heart of the silent film era. Designed and illustrated by costume and commercial designer Ernst Deutsch-Dryden. The poster's illustration portrays well-dressed clientele watching a Western movie, likely meant to represent a US import. During this period there was.....
N.p. N.p., 1968. Draft script for the 1971 production at the Theatre by the Sea in Wakefield, Rhode Island, as stated in the copied annotations on title page and verified by the University of Rhode Island Library Special Collections and Archives. Copied annotations regarding staging directions on nearly every page. Laid in is a memo on "Black Girl" letterhead with.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1939. Vintage reference photograph showing Claude Rains, Gale Sondergaard, Montagu Love, and director William Dieterle on the set of the 1939 film. Mimeo snipe on verso. Based upon the 1939 biography of Emperor Maximilan of Mexico and his wife Charlotte, "Phantom Crown" by Bertita Loenarz and the 1925 play "Juarez and Maximilian" by Franz Werfel.Democratic-leaning Mexico President.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1953. Vintage reference photograph of Rita Hayworth and Stewart Granger, with director William Dieterle and crew, from the set of the 1953 film. Mimeo snipe on verso. Columbia Pictures highly fictionalized and flamboyant Technicolor Biblical epic, now considered a camp classic, wherein Princess Salome (Hayworth), daughter of King Herod (a deliciously lecherous Charles Laughton), returns home from.....
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.....
Australia: Embassy Pictures, 1964. Collection of 8 vintage color studio still photographs from the 1964 film. The film follows a wealthy tycoon with a disagreeable temperament set to the backdrop of 1930's Hollywood. Shot on location in California. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.
New York: E .P. Dutton, 1972. First Edition. Humorously INSCRIBED by avant garde composer and former Black Mountain faculty member John Cage on the front flyleaf: "This is a book I haven't read. / John Cage." A history of Black Mountain College, the experimental college located in North Carolina that, although only in existence 24 years, had a profound and.....
Burbank, CA: American Broadcasting Company [ABC], 1979. Shooting Draft script for the season one, episode one of the 1979 television mini-series, originally broadcast on February 18, 1979 on ABC. Twelve years after arriving in Henning, Tennessee, "Chicken" George Moore, former cockfighting champion, is getting old and soon moves in with his son Tom, who has a family of his own.....
Burbank, CA: American Broadcasting Company [ABC], 1978. Shooting Draft script for the season one, episode four of the 1979 television mini-series, originally broadcast on February 21, 1979 on ABC. Eight soldiers are hanged for staging a mutiny and one of Simon's fellow black soliders is beaten nearly to death by a state trooper. Soon, the whole platoon is sent overseas.....
London: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1975. Original British quad poster for the 1974 Spanish-Panamanian-English-British film. Printed in England by W.E. Berry. Based on Dumas' serialized 1844 novel, "The Three Musketeers." What's better than The Three Musketeers? Four! This time the gang must defend Queen Anne (Geraldine Chaplin) and her seamstress (Welch) from the wily Cardinal Richelieu (Charlton Heston) and Milady (Dunaway). Nominated.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1938. Final Script for the 1938 film. Loosely based on the events surrounding the construction of the Suez Canal, the film stirred controversy upon its release when the descendants of main characters Matthieu and Ferdinand de Lesseps unsuccessfully sued the studio for libel. With all the elaborate costuming, special effects, and production costs typical of a......
New York: Basic Books / Perseus Books Group, 2006. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the title page: "To Vic / Who has been in the fight longer than I / Thomas B. Edsall."Fresh insights and rock-solid reporting, Edsall reshapes our understanding of modern politics. A stray ink mark on the front endpaper (likely from the time of inscription).....
Baton Rogue: Louisiana State University Press, 1998. First Edition. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket.
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.....
N.p. N.p., Unknown. Draft script for an unproduced film.Members of the French Foreign Legion experience their own conflicts of romance and resentment in the final weeks before they leave Algiers. Prolific screenwriter Ken Englund was known for "No, No, Nannette" (1940), "Sweet Rosie O'Grady" (1943), and "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" (1947), among others.Set in Algiers and France. Yellow.....
Burbank, CA: American Broadcasting Company [ABC], 1978. Final Draft script for the season one, episode seven of the 1979 television mini-series, originally broadcast on February 24, 1979 on ABC. Ribbon copy Master typescript, from which all other copies of this draft were made. In the final installment of this epic tale, Alex, along with his family gather in Henning, Tennessee.....
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.....
N.p. Produzione Europee Associate (PEA), Circa 1969. Vintage borderless double weight reference photograph, with left margin, of Federico Fellini on the set of the 1969 film. Three "Christophe L." provenance stamps on verso. Loosely based on the late first century satire by Gaius Petronius. Fellini's dream-like depiction of first century imperial Rome, in a series of gloriously decadent, extravagant, and.....
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.....
Los Angeles: Orion Pictures, 1984. Vintage French moyenne poster for the 1984 US film. Winner of eight Academy awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, and both Best Supporting Actor and Best Actor. Adapted from Peter Shaffer's 1979 play of the same name, the film presents a fictionalized account of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's life, as well as that.....
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.....
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.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1975. Collection of 7 lobby cards for the 1975 historical adventure/comedy film, based on the novel by George McDonald Fraser. Lacking card #1. In the story, von Bismarck talks Flashman into impersonating a prince, with screwy results. An international co-production between the US and the UK, this the only feature film ever made based on Fraser's.....
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'.....
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1919. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper. Photo-illustrated throughout. Written by a lieutenant in the British Navy, an official firsthand account of the Allied naval expedition to northern Germany immediately following the end of WWI to report on the condition of the German people and infrastructure. Near Fine in a Very Good.....
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: Lewis Colby, 1845. First Edition. Compilation of a series of letters debating the institution of slavery between two Baptist preachers. Richard Fuller was one of the founders of the Southern Baptist Convention, which had split from the main Baptist church the previous year over the issue of slavery. Francis Wayland, then president of Brown University, was pastor of.....
France: Illria Film, circa 1956. Draft script for the 1956 film. Based on the 1876 oft-produced novel by Jules Verne of the same title. Michael Strogoff is the courier of the Tsar, tasked to deliver a very important message to the Tsar's brother who is in Siberia, cut off from the main army due to the Tatar Army during the.....
Rome, Italy: Produzione Gallone / Filmsonor, 1951. Original souvenir program, printed in Italy, for the 1951 Italian-French-Spanish film. With several full-color illustrations of Roman warriors and women, and black-and-white films stills and on-the-set images. Based on the powerful and influential wife of the Roman Emperor Claudius, who conspired to kill him and was executed as a result. The classic adulterous.....
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.....
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1974. Revised Final Draft script for the 1975 film. Based on Alan Burgess' 1960 novel "Seven Men at Daybreak," which was in turn loosely based on the true story of "Operation Anthropoid," the assassination of a top general in the Nazi RSHA by two Czech spies.Set in Germany and shot on location in Prague.Green titled wrappers.....
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1964. Original Pressbook for the 1964 film. Unique for a pressbook, with a folding front page and a coloring contest (to have been used as a herald by distributors). Based on Jean Anouilh’s 1959 play. Winner of an Academy Award for Best Screenplay, and nominated for 11 more, including Best Picture, Best Director, and twice for Best.....
Paris: Ludovic Baschet, 1878. First Edition. Half bound in maroon leather with gilt lettering. Very Good plus. Rubbing and soiling overall, with moderate bruising to the edges of the front and rear boards. Chipped to the heel.
Santa Monica: Home Box Office [HBO], 1986. Vintage studio still photograph from the US release of the 1986 television movie. This television movie follows the infamous newsman Edward R. Murrow, whose frank condemnation of McCarthy helped put an end to the senator's "witch-hunts." Shot on location in New York and London. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus, with a......
Paris: Dargaud Films, Circa 1976. Draft script for the 1976 French-British film. Based on the "Asterix" comic book series by writer Goscinny and illustrator Uderzo, a series that began in 1959, serialized in Pilote magazine, and ran until Goscinny's death in 1977, afterwards written by Uderzo until 2009. The series has spawned thirteen films, four of them live-action, games, and.....
Hollywood: Firewater Productions, Unknown. Draft script for an unproduced film. With a number of small holograph ink annotations throughout, mostly noting grammatical revisions and diacritical marks.In the final days of World War II, Allied forces race to take down Hitler and the Nazi elite, while German and Italian prisoners of war plot to escape from an American camp in Texas.Set.....
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961. First Edition. A photographic look at the early days of John F. Kennedy's presidency, including documents, cabinet members, the "First Family," and the American public. Very Good plus in a Very Good dust jacket. Owner stamp on the front pastedown. Board edges lightly faded, with a half inch bruise on the front board. Jacket.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1955. Two vintage reference photographs of director Sacha Guitry on the set of the 1955 film, taken by photographer Edward Quinn. "Ed. Quinn" stamps on verso of both, one with additional "Cinema Napoleon" stamp.Guitry's historical epic depicting the life of Napoleon from his early life in Corsica to his death at Saint Helena, with Napoleon depicted by.....
Vercelli, Italy: White Star Publications, 1999. Folio. First Edition. Light rubbing, toning, and smudging overall, else Near Fine and unread lacking the dust jacket. Color and black-and-white photographs throughout, this volume illustrates most Grand Prix races worldwide, past winners, and a bibliography and index.
London: Harvill, 1947. First Edition. About Near Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket and yellow belly band. Spine slightly cocked, with light offsetting to the endpapers. Jacket has a half inch chip to the top of the spine, with light rubbing at the spine ends and corners, and a half inch closed tear at the top of the.....
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1967. Original British quad poster for the 1967 British film. Based on Hardy's 1874 novel. Bathsheba (Christie) is a young heiress who is relentlessly pursued by Sergeant Troy (Stamp), William (finch) and Gabriel (Bates). Nominated for an Academy Award. 30 x 40 inches, folded as issued. Very Good, with cello tape to one edge, stress.....
London: Oxford University Press, 1959. First Edition. Near Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Light tonight to page edges; jacket has a short closed tear at the bottom of the front panel, mild soil, and a hint of rubbing at the spine ends and corners.
N.p. Vanguard Films, 1944. Original story script for an unproduced film, Bret Hart's unedited 1869 short story, here reproduced by Vanguard Films, dated August 9, 1944.Harte's short story was originally published in the January 1869 edition of Overland Monthly magazine. There have been several film and television adaptations made of the popular story, the earliest being John Ford's 1919 silent.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1941. Revised Shooting Final Draft script for the 1942 film. Production No. 574 and copy No. 7, studio "Received" (dated Dec 9, 1941), and "Permanent Legal Records" all rubber stamped on the front wrapper, with FINAL printed at the top right corner of same. One annotation in holograph pencil of three names on the verso of.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1955. Draft script for the 1955 film, seen here under the working title "Sir Walter Raleigh." Academy Award nominated historical drama centered around the pseudo-romantic and somewhat volatile relationship between Queen Elizabeth I and Sir Walter Raleigh, played by Bette Davis and Richard Todd respectively. "The Virgin Queen" marks Bette Davis' second appearance as Elizabeth I......
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.....
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1967. First Edition. Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Jacket is rubbed along the hinge folds and a lightly frayed at the crown. An attractive copy.
Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1952. Final White script for the 1953 film. A loose adaptation of the popular 1925 silent film directed by James Cruze, retelling a largely fictionalized account of the formation of the US mail system. Charlton Heston plays a gritty Buffalo Bill Cody and Forrest Tucker plays Wild Bill Hickock. In reality, however, Wild Bill Hickock never.....
Hollywood: Westgate, 1987. Draft script for the 1987 television film. Copy belonging to host and narrator Telly Savalas, with his autograph on the title page, and his annotations throughout in holograph ink and pencil. A live television event broadcast in 1987, featuring the latest footage of the sunken vessel, shot via a French submarine expedition. The event was highly publicized.....
New York: Hotel Astor, 1936. Original lunch menu from the Times Square Hotel Astor in New York City, dated Wednesday October 7, 1936.The successor to the Astor family's Waldorf-Astoria hotel, an essential element of Times Square's growth into an entertainment location, and a widely-known bar for pickups, the Hotel Astor notably encouraged gay men to frequent the bar for pickups.....
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.....
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.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1951. Revised Final Shooting script for the 1952 film. Studio File Copy, rubber-stamped on the front wrapper. Notable adaptation of Hugo's 1862 novel, with Michael Rennie as Jean Valjean and Debra Paget as Cosette. Debra Paget and Robert Newton would reprise their roles for the Lux Radio Theatre hour-long adaptation in December of the same year.....
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.....
London: Anglo-EMI, 1972. Original British quad poster for the 1972 UK film. Printed in England by Lonsdale & Bartholomew. Film adaptation of the 1970 six-part television miniseries, "The Six Wives of Henry VIII." King Henry VIII (Mitchell) reminisces about his past marriages and their demise. Henry's wives were Catherine Parr (Barbara Leigh-Hunt), Catherine Howard (Lynne Frederick), Anne of Cleves (Jenny.....
Kent, UK: Harry Margary, 1981. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Slightly cocked; jacket has light toning to the spine and extremities, with light rubbing and a few tiny closed tears to the spine ends and corners, else Fine. A reproduction of John Rocque's map, originally published in 1747, including an extensive index.
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.....
N.p. Mafilm, 1977. Dialogue script for the 1979 Hungarian film "Allegro Barbaro." The second of Jancso's two-part dramatized history of Hungary, from the turn of the century to World War II, as told by the conflicted son of a wealthy landowner. Shot on location in Hungary. Gray titled wrappers, dated 1977. Title page not present, presumably as issued. 122 leaves.....
N.p. Objektiv Film, 1977. Studio Dialogue script for the 1979 Hungarian film, seen here under the Hungarian title "Magyar rapszodia." Text in Hungarian. The first of Jancso's two-part dramatized history of Hungary, from the turn of the century to World War II, as told by the conflicted son of a wealthy landowner. Nominated for the 1979 Palme d'Or at Cannes.....
N.p. Filmes Cinematografica, 1976. Collection of 3 vintage borderless photographs from the 1976 film. Grazia Neri stamps on the verso. Jancso's "Private Vices, Public Pleasures" is loosely based on the death of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, believed having killed himself after shooting his lover in a suicide pact in 1882. Jancso's film presents Rudolf (Lajos Balazsovits) as a pan-sexual.....