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1953110846Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1953. Original pressbook for the 1953 film noir. <br/><br/>A former professional fighter John Payne is framed for the murder of his unfaithful wife Peggie Castle by her lover Brad Dexter. With the help of an aspiring actress Evelyn Keyes he must clear his name before the killer flees the country. <br/><br/>11 pages saddle stapled 11 x 17 inches. Faint horizontal fold crease at the center of the wrapper and pages. Near Fine condition starting only slight at the hinge fold. Laid in is four-page supplement on newsprint in Fine condition. A compelling and unusual film that has been rediscovered as one the late classics of the noir cycle. <br/><br/>Grant US. Lyons US. Silver Classic Noir. Selby Canon US. United Artists unknown books
1955128858Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1955. Early Draft script for the 1957 film a remake of an earlier Universal Pictures release "Singapore" 1947. This draft dated September 1955.<br/><br/>Light blue titled wrappers dated September 21 1955. Title page present with credits for story writer Miller. 121 leaves mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. Universal Pictures unknown books
1964137342Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1964. Original pressbook for the 1964 film the second time Hemingway's short story was adapted for the screen following the classic 1946 version starring Burt Lancaster and Ava Gardner. <br/><br/>Notable as Ronald Reagan's last film role and perhaps in preparation for his move into politics the first time he played a villain. <br/><br/>12 x 18 inchescm. 12 pages saddle stapled. Light foxing overall else Near Fine. Universal Pictures unknown books
1958150614N.p.: N.p. 1958. Shooting Final Draft script for the Season 1 Episode 30 "Perry Mason" episode "The Case of the Screaming Woman" which first aired on CBS on April 26 1958. Copy number "56" stamp on front wrapper.<br/><br/>Nurse Leona Walsh asks Perry Mason for advice when an influential columnist steals the adoption records of the Doctor she works for hoping to blackmail them into providing her a baby having already told her husband she is expecting in an attempt to keep him from leaving her for another woman.<br/><br/>Blue titled wrappers noted as SHOOTING FINAL on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 96 dated FEBRUARY 17 1958 with credits for Author Erle Stanley Gardner. Title page present dated February 17 1958 noted as SHOOTING FINAL with credits for screenwriter Dick Stenger. 78 leaves with last page of text numbered 75. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1944145835Universal City: Universal Pictures 1944. Vintage photograph from the 1944 film.<br/><br/>Universal Pictures' follow up to "Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man" ups the ante on its predecessor with the addition of Dracula John Carradine a mad scientist Boris Karloff and a hunchback J. Carroll Naish. Glenn Strange takes up the role of the creature the fourth actor to play the part with Lon Chaney Jr. reprising his role as the Wolf Man making it the first multi-monster movie from Universal.<br/><br/>Set in Switzerland. <br/><br/>7.75 x 10 inches. Very Good Plus with a slight crease on bottom right and some light creasing throughout. <br/><br/>Weaver and Brunas Universal Horrors. Universal Pictures unknown books
1965148894N.p.: N.p. 1965. Four vintage borderless photographs from the 1965 film. Two studio still photographs of Ursula Andress on production designer Piero Poletto's striking minimalist set and two compilation fashion photographs of Andress in costume bookending Costume Designer Giulio Coltellacci's concept drawings. Two photographs with "La Decima Victima" stamp on verso.<br/><br/>An international cult classic based on the 1953 short story "Seventh Victim" by Robert Sheckley. Sheckley wrote the novelization of the film in 1956 and two sequels "Victim Prime" and "Victim" in 1987 and 1988 respectively.<br/><br/>The worldwide officially sanctioned "Big Hunt" is the world's most popular television show giving those inclined to violence and those in search of celebrity a chance to act as "hunter" and "victim." The games top two assassins Caroline Meredith Andress and Macello Poletti Marcello Mastrianni who may be in love are pitted against each another.<br/><br/>A descendant of Richard Connell's "The Most Dangerous Game" 1924 and the first of the televised death game films such as "The Gladiators" 1969 "Death Race 2000" 1975 "The Running Man" 1987 and "The Hunger Games" 2012.<br/><br/>Shot on location in New York Rome Geneva and Vatican City. <br/><br/>2 - 9.5 x 7.25 inches 2- 8 x 10 inches. Light edgewear else Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1954150531Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1954. Vintage reference photograph of Marlon Brando and Elia Kazan on the set of the 1954 film. <br/><br/>Budd Schulberg based his 1955 novel "Waterfront" on the screenplay. <br/><br/>Terry Malloy Brando who dreams of being a prize fighter while tending his pigeons and running errands for the corrupt boss of the local union Johnny Lee J. Cobb witnesses a murder at the hands of Johnny's men. When he meets the victim's sister Edie Eva Marie Saint he confesses he feels culpable for the murder and Edie introduces him to Father Barry Karl Malden who tries to persuade him to implicate the dock racketeers.<br/><br/>Winner of eight Academy Awards including Best Picture Best Director Best Screenplay Best Cinematography Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress nominated for another four. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Hoboken New Jersey and New York City.<br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with light edgewear and three very small closed tears in margins repaired by two small pieces of cello tape.<br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request.<br/><br/>National Film Registry. Criterion Collection 647. Ebert I. Grant US. Scorsese A Personal Journey through American Movies. Selby US. Spicer US. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1976144164Tel Aviv: DAFNA International Films 1976. Treatment script for an unproduced film. <br/><br/>On her drive to work Edna is rear ended by Dave an American musicologist. Dave promises to pay for the damage and uses this commitment as an excuse to get close to and seduce Edna who is raising her young son on her own. <br/><br/>Set in Tel Aviv.<br/><br/>Light blue untitled wrappers. Title page present dated 1976 with credits for screenwriter Eli Tabor novelist Ram Oren and producer Shimon Arama. 47 leaves with last page of text numbered 46. Offset printing. Pages Fine wrapper Fine bound with two staples. DAFNA International Films unknown books
1963148136N.p.: N.p. 1963. Twenty-page Shooting schedule for the 1963 film dated February 12 1963 with strikes through in holograph pencil on all but two pages and several annotations in holograph ink regarding locations and shots.<br/><br/>Aging gunman Rory Calhoun attempts to keep his control over a small town populated by outlaws. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Bronson Canyon Los Angeles California. <br/><br/>8.5 x 11 inches Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1940148052Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1940. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1940 film each with "Theatre Advertising Co." and "Silver Screen Archives" stamps on the verso. <br/><br/>Based on W.C. Tuttle's 1923 short story "Sir Piegan Passes" which had been adapted to the screen twice before in Wallace Fox's "Man in the Rough" 1928 starring Bob Steele and Marjorie King and in Robert F. Hill's "The Cheyenne Kid" 1935 starring Tom Keene and Mary Mason.<br/><br/>The Fargo Kid Tim Holt is mistaken for a notorious outlaw and hired as a killer.<br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with some creasing and pinholes one with a closed tear on right side and small chip in bottom left margin. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. RKO Radio Pictures unknown books
1944151748Los Angeles: Vanguard Films 1944. Original story script for an unproduced film Edward Everett Hale's unedited 1863 short story "The Man Without a Country" here reproduced by Vanguard Films dated August 7 1944.<br/><br/>Hale's short story was first published in the December 1863 issue of The Atlantic. The story has been adapted four times for film. First in 1917 directed by Ernest C. Warde and starring Florence La Badie and Holmes Herbert again in 1918 under the title "My Own United States" directed by John W. Noble and starring Arnold Daly in 1937 directed by Crane Wilbur and starring John Litel and Gloria Holden and most recently in the 1973 television film directed by Delbert Mann and starring Cliff Robertson and Beau Bridges.<br/><br/>Blue titled wrappers dated August 7 1944 with credits for author Edward Everett Hale. Title page integral with first page with credits for author Edward Everett Hale. 28 leaves with last page of text numbered 28. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three small metal brads. Vanguard Films unknown books
1939147885Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1939. Vintage studio still photographs from the 1939 film here under the working title "The World on Parade." "Silver Screen Archives" stamp on the verso. <br/><br/>Scientist Douglas Cameron William Henry invents the "Iconoscope" a television device that can broadcast across the country and finds himself pursued by international spies.<br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine light creasing at corners. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1958148889N.p.: N.p. 1958. Three vintage contact sheets from the 1958 film each containing twelve images. Two contact sheets with cropping annotations in blue holograph wax pencil to five images.<br/><br/>Based on the unpublished story "Queen of the Universe" by Ben Hecht. Sci-fi comedy portraying an epic battle of the sexes. Talleah Zsa Zsa Gabor is from the planet Venus assigned to destroy four Earth men at the behest of her queen Yilana Laurie Mitchell who secretly yearns for interstellar peace. Sets costumes and special effects borrowed from "Forbidden Planet" 1956 "Flight to Mars" 1951 and "World Without End" 1956. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Light edgewear else Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1959145643Culver City CA: Associated Producers Inc 1959. Draft script for the 1959 film. <br/><br/>Sequel to Kurt Neumann's "The Fly" and taking place one year after the conclusion of that film. Phillipe Delambre Brett Halsey takes up his father's work of matter transmission and with his uncle Francois Vincent Price they accidentally produce a monstrous creature a man with the head of a fly. <br/><br/>Title page integral to front wrapper with credits for screenwriter and director Edward Bernds. 102 leaves with last page of text numbered 93. Mechanical duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between February 24 1959 and February 25 1959. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Associated Producers Inc unknown books
1934135018Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1934. Vintage oversize borderless double weight black and white photograph from the set of the 1934 film. Snipe in manual type on the verso mentioning Karloff in "his latest picture for Universal The Black Cat" and rubber stamps crediting photographer Roman Freulich noting that the struck print is for an archive and that the photo is to be an exclusive. A stunning image of Karloff in full high priest regalia. <br/><br/>One of several great films by director Ulmer and along with "Detour" probably his finest achievement an efficient tale in which a young couple with a broken down automobile land not in a decidedly art deco haunted house where Karloff resides and Lugosi along with the couple is visiting. Michael Weaver notes: "Boldly thumbing its nose at convention the film is a veritable catalog of human corruption. Sadism shades of incest revenge murder torture voyeurism Satan worship ailurophobia necrophilia rape and insanity are weaved into the nearly plotless story with remarkable precision."<br/><br/>8.5 x 11.75 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Weaver p. 87-95. Warner Brothers unknown books
1941126195Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1941. Draft script for the 1941 film. <br/><br/>The 1941 version of "The Black Cat" is neither a remake of Edgar G. Ulmer's 1934 Karloff-Lugosi film of the same name nor does it bear much relation to the Edgar Allan Poe story though in fairness neither did the 1934 version. It is more of a horror-comedy affair than its predecessor with Broderick Crawford and Hugh Herbert in the lead Bela Lugosi reappearing now in the more minor role of "Eduardo" and Basil Rathbone ably handling the part of the shady Mr. Hartley. Shot by the legendary Stanley Cortez of "Magnificent Ambersons" fame. Hal Erickson Rovi<br/><br/>Gray titled wrappers noted as FILE COPY on the front wrapper rubber-stamped production No. 6856 dated January 29 1941. 91 leaves mimeograph duplication dated variously between 5/23/40 and 6/1/40. <br/><br/>Pages Near Fine. Wrappers Very Good plus or better with slight toning and a few short creases and tears at the extremities a small faint stain on the front wrapper and a professionally repaired vertical tear at the rear wrapper bound with three gold brads. <br/><br/>Weaver Universal Horrors. Universal Pictures unknown books
198919595New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1989. First American Edition. First Printing. Quarto; illustrated boards; dustjacket; 37pp; illus. Remainder mark to lower edge of text else Fine in a Fine unclipped dustjacket. A children's book one of several collaborations between Eco and reknown illustrator Eugenio Carmi. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich unknown books
199219596Milano: Bompiani/Stefanel 1992. First English Language Edition. Quarto; powder gray cloth with titles stamped in crimson on spine; dustjacket; 36pp; illus. Fine in a Fine dustjacket. A children's book one of several collaborations between Eco and reknown illustrator Eugenio Carmi. This is the uncommon edition published in Italy preceding all subsequent English language editions. Bompiani/Stefanel unknown books
1946126189Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1946. Post-production Continuity and dialogue script for the 1946 film. <br/><br/>Phyllis Allenby Lockhart has an ancient curse on her family cast by a pack of wolves. After a series of local murders she is convinced she and her werewolf curse are to blame for she finds her belongings muddied torn and streaked with blood almost every morning. A greedy aunt eventually confesses to framing Phyllis in attempt to retain the Allenby's family fortune and suddenly dies by falling down a flight of stairs and onto a knife. With all the right elements of atmosphere eerie stringed instrumentation as the score and impeccable effects the film was not well received. Stands unique in the werewolf pantheon with a woman as the accursed and no werewolf actually seen. <br/><br/>White titled wrappers dated MARCH 25 1946 production No. 1484 with credits for director Yarbrough actors Don Porter and Lloyd Corrigan and actresses June Lockhart Sara Haden and Jan Wiley. 83 leaves mimeograph duplication. <br/><br/>Pages Very Good plus or better with a few tiny chips short creases and small closed tears at the extremities and some offsetting to the wrappers bound with two gold brads. Wrappers now encapsulated in mylar. <br/><br/>Weaver Universal Horrors. Universal Pictures unknown books
1952148479Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1952. Vintage publicity photograph of Dr. Seuss Theodor Seuss Geisel and young actor Tommy Rettig from the 1953 film.<br/><br/>The only feature film written by Geisel Dr. Seuss who wrote the story co-wrote the screenplay and the lyrics to songs. <br/><br/>A Technicolor musical fantasy about a boy Rettig who dreams he is a world ruled by a diabolical piano teacher Dr. Terwilliker Hans Conried forever enslaving children and forcing them to play a piano so immense it takes 500 children to play it.<br/><br/>Nominated for one Academy Award.<br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.<br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request.<br/><br/>Rosenbaum 1000. Columbia Pictures unknown books
33503Binghamton NY: MRTS 1993. Hardcover. 9.25" x 6.25". Ownership signature to ffep else Near fine in publisher's green cloth with gilt titles. ISBN 0866981187 . VeryGood. Hardcover . MRTS 1993 hardcover books
30696Other: Other. Very Good. Hardcover. The Diary of Richard Madox Fellow of All Souls. Hakluyt Society London 1976. 365 pages clothbound no jacket very good condition. . Other hardcover books
1980132610Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1980. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the 1980 film. <br/><br/>A modern aircraft carrier is sent back in time to Hawaii 1941 just hours before the attack on Pearl Harbor. One of the most inventive science fiction films of the 1980s today a minor classic in the Psychotronic world. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. About Near Fine. United Artists unknown books
1977147768Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1977. Collection of six vintage studio still photographs from the 1977 film. <br/><br/>Major Foster Gene Hackman a war-weary alcoholic haunted by memories from WWI is commander of a detachment of the French Foreign Legion assigned to protect a team of archeologists at a dig site in Morocco from revolutionaries led by El-Krim Ian Holm. <br/><br/>Set in Morocco and shot on location in Morocco Andalucia Madrid Arizona and California. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1972137869N.p.: Self published 1972. First Draft script for an unproduced film called "Get the Police" written by David Scott Milton based on a story by Dick Richards who was set to direct the film. Brief annotations in holograph ink on the title page noting Chartoff-Winkler the production company set to produce the film. <br/><br/>A story about two professional football players who are threatened by a crime syndicate. <br/><br/>Blue titled wrappers. Title page present dated 5/72 noted as First Draft with credits for story writer Richards and screenwriter Milton. Last leaf of text numbered 132. Xerographic duplication with photocopied punch holes. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Self published unknown books
