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.

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. 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.....

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: 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.

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: 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.

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.....

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......

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.....

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.

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.....

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., 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.....

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.....

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......

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.....

US: Publishers Union of America, 1904. First Edition. Photo-illustrated throughout. A contemporary account, including eyewitness testimony, of the Iroquois Theatre fire on December 30, 1903, which left 603 people dead, making it the deadliest single building fire in United States history. Very Good lacking the dust jacket. Separate to the hinges, with light rubbing and staining to the boards.

Hollywood: 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 Alvin Theatre.....

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.....

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.....

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1952. First Edition. REVIEW COPY with laid-in postcard and a slip noting publication date: "Mar. 13, 1952." The Canadian economist and former "Fortune" editor's second work, a concise work on the applications of price controls, beginning with those utilized during World War II, and continuing to date to determine efficient methods of using economic resources.....

Rome, Italy: Produzione Gallone / Filmsonor, 1951. Original souvenir program, printed in Italy, for the 1951 Italian-French-Spanish film. These programs saw popularity beginning in the 1960s and continued to be produced until the early 1980s and the ever-growing VHS market, with a particularly high distribution in Asian countries. This example features several full-color illustrations of Roman warriors and women, and.....

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.....

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.

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.....

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.....

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.

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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. 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.....

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.....

Minneapolis, MN: Dillon Press, 1969. First Edition. Softcover quarto, blue printed wrappers. Robert Kilbride (1924-1998) was an artist who attended the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere in Paris in 1949. Following his studies in Europe, he taught art in and around the Minneapolis area, including the Minneapolis School of Art and the Walker Art School. While teaching, he was partner.....