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1952133067Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1952. Original Pressbook for the 1952 film released on a double-bill with "The Secret Sharer" and collectively given a new title "Face to Face." This pressbook was produced prior to release and only advertises for 1 film. <br/><br/>Based on the story of the same name Stephen Crane and written for the screen by James Agee. A two-part film released as "Face to Face" in 1952 with the second half of the film based on Crane's story "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky" and the first half based on a Joseph Conrad story "The Secret Sharer" starring James Mason and Gene Lockhart. Equal parts nautical drama and hilarious western unique during its time with no apparent connection between the two segments. <br/><br/>4 pages folded 11 x 17 inches. Very Good plus with a horizontal fold at the middle a corner crease and light soil. RKO Radio Pictures unknown books
1937144987Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1937. Vintage photograph of various members of the cast and crew including script supervisor on the set of the 1937 film. Identifying holograph annotations on the recto helpfully naming each person and holograph annotations and studio stamps on the verso. <br/><br/>Jimmy Hughes Preston Foster a wealthy and eccentric lawyer loses a bet and has to work a day digging a ditch in his suit. While on the job Trudy Olson Joan Fontaine the daughter of the mayor who is up for reelection stops by to campaign. Being the smarmy talker that he is they strike up a conversation. As they fall into disagreement Trudy suggests that Jimmy run himself and in an empty threat he says he will. The newspaper picks up the story and Jimmy is swept up into politics and drawn close to Trudy striking up an unlikely romance. <br/><br/>8 x 9.5 inches. One inch tear in the bottom of the left margin otherwise Near Fine. RKO Radio Pictures unknown books
200553185Clarkston MI & Mission Viejo CA: A.S.A.P. 2005. First Limited Edition. One of 300 numbered copies specially bound and signed by all contributors this being copy no.122. Small quarto 26cm; russet cloth with titles stamped in white on spine and pictorial title label mounted to front cover; publisher's original acetate dustjacket; 191pp; illus with a photographic portrait of the author mounted on verso of half-title page. Fine in a lightly rubbed Near Fine dustjacket. Short story by Coel best-known for her Wind River mystery novels set among the Arapaho natives on Wyoming's Wind River Reservation. A.S.A.P. unknown books
199853179Royal Oak MI & Mission Viejo CA: A.S.A.P. 1998. First Limited Edition. One of 200 numbered copies specially bound and signed by all contributors this being copy no.167. Small quarto 26cm; blue cloth with titles stamped in white on spine and pictorial title label mounted to front cover; publisher's original acetate dustjacket; 151pp; illus with a photographic portrait of the author mounted on verso of half-title page. Fine in a lightly rubbed Near Fine dustjacket. Short story by Coel best-known for her Wind River mystery novels set among the Arapaho natives on Wyoming's Wind River Reservation. A.S.A.P. unknown books
200153180Clarkston MI & Mission Viejo CA: A.S.A.P. 2001. First Limited Edition. One of 300 numbered copies specially bound and signed by all contributors this being copy no.73. Small quarto 26cm; orange cloth with titles stamped in white on spine and pictorial title label mounted to front cover; publisher's original acetate dustjacket; 182pp; illus with a photographic portrait of the author mounted on verso of half-title page. Fine in a lightly rubbed Near Fine dustjacket. Short story by Coel best-known for her Wind River mystery novels set among the Arapaho natives on Wyoming's Wind River Reservation. A.S.A.P. unknown books
200053181Royal Oak MI & Mission Viejo CA: A.S.A.P. 2000. First Limited Edition. One of 250 numbered copies specially bound and signed by all contributors this being copy no.91. Small quarto 26cm; hunter green cloth with titles stamped in white on spine and pictorial title label mounted to front cover; publisher's original acetate dustjacket; 20pp; illus with a photographic portrait of the author mounted on verso of half-title page. Fine in a lightly rubbed Near Fine dustjacket. Short story by Coel best-known for her Wind River mystery novels set among the Arapaho natives on Wyoming's Wind River Reservation. A.S.A.P. 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
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
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
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
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
200153132Mission Viejo: ASAP 2001. First Limited Edition. One of 40 copies specially bound and signed by all contributors this being copy no.6. Octavo 23.5cm.; mauve colored pictorial boards stamped in white on cover and spine; publisher's matching pictorial clamshell case with a photo of a medicine bottle mounted inside the front cover; illustrated with 3 additional tipped in photos; 45pp. Fine in a very Near Fine case with a few tiny bumps and scuffs along lower edges. A horror tale short story that depicts the formation of a virus / disease that is a biological warfare weapon. ASAP unknown books
1970133268Los Angeles: American International Pictures AIP 1970. Collection of 8 vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1970 UK film. <br/><br/>In Elizabethan England a coven of witches is massacred by evil Lord Whitman Price but the coven's leader invokes a magical servant a "banshee" for revenge. A prime vessel for Vincent Price who basically carries the film. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Middlesex England. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Light creases overall else Near Fine. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. American International Pictures [AIP] unknown books
1932128886Los Angeles: Fox Film Corporation 1932. Post-production Continuity script for the 1932 pre-Code film. <br/><br/>A comedy with angles on sports gangsters and higher education that demonstrates the timelessness of the interdependence of college football and the continued ability for a university to exist. <br/><br/>Victor McLaglen plays hulking gangster Knucks McGloin who founds a school called Canarsie College. Canarsie being a real neighborhood in New York City that produced more than its share of gangsters. Knucks doesn't really care about higher education: Canarsie College was created only so that Knucks would be able to control a collegiate football team which in turn would be a vehicle for his gambling activities. By organizing the bookie action on Canarsie's football matches Knucks makes enough money to offset the expense of the college. <br/><br/>Light blue titled wrappers dated November 7 1932 noting footage of 5800 feet. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine in a Very Good plus wrapper. Fox Film Corporation unknown books
1957130948Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1957. Post-production Continuity and Dialogue script for the 1958 film. <br/><br/>White brad-bound titled wrappers dated December 16 1957 noting 11 reels. Mimeograph duplication. Near Fine. Universal Pictures unknown books
19878929Durham NC: Carolina Academic Press 1987. Cloth. Collectible; Fine/Fine. A very sharp copy of this elegant 1987 re-issue. Clean and Fine in a bright Fine dustjacket. Thick octavo 736 pgs. <br/><br/> Carolina Academic Press hardcover books
1975135374Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1975. Collection of 5 vintage black-and-white studio reference photographs from the 1975 film. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1987138463New York: Vestron Pictures 1987. Original program printed in the US for the 1987 British-American-Irish film. These programs saw popularity beginning in the 1960s and continued to be produced until the 1980s and the ever-growing VHS market with a particularly high distribution in Asian countries. This example features several full-color pages on-the-set images and biographies of the cast and crew as well as a large image and brief biography of James Joyce. <br/><br/>Based on Joyce's 1914 short-story collection "Dubliners" with "The Dead" being the final story of the collection. Gabriel Conroy McCann a university professor arrives late to a party with his wife Gretta Anjelica Huston. Throughout the evening Gabriel is confronted by not only the party's guests but his own epiphanies concerning his own status his wife's past and the lives of dead relatives. <br/><br/>Director Huston's final film. His son Tony the film's screenwriter was nominated for an Academy Award as was the costume designer Dorothy Jeakins. <br/><br/>9 x 12 inches saddle-stapled 14 leaves color illustrated wrappers. Light bump to one corner else Near Fine. Vestron Pictures unknown books
1963134888Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1963. Revised Final White script for the 1963 film. Copy belonging to a crew member presumed with annotations in holograph ink and pencil on both sides of the first page. <br/><br/>Based on a screenplay by Jacqueline "Jay" Presson Allen a romantic comedy about unsuccessful writer Bill Austin Johnson who lives in New York with his wife Bertie Leigh. Their lives change dramatically when Bill's first novel becomes a bestseller and he persuades Bertie to quit her job and move to the suburbs. Bill begins working long hours on Broadway adapting his novel for the theater and he spends more and more time with his attractive agent Lucinda Ford Hyer. Bertie is suspicious and begins courting actor Gar Aldrich Jeremy Slate. <br/> <br/>Set in New York shot on location in California. Edith Head was nominated for an Oscar for her costume designs. <br/><br/>Playwright and screenwriter Jay Allen was living in New York when she wrote the screenplay performing on radio and in cabaret both of which she loathed so much that she tried to get fired from nearly every production. After a long period of writer's block she started writing again and sold some of her work to live television programs like "The Philco Television Playhouse." When she married Lewis M. Allen in 1955 they moved to the countryside where Allen had a baby and spent two and a half "absolutely wonderful years in the country."<br/><br/>Eventually the couple came back to the city to work. Allen drew on her married life and wrote "The First Wife" a witty script about a suburban working couple. When Allen read Muriel Spark's "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" she instantly saw the books potential for stage adaptation. After undergoing hypnotherapy to alleviate another bout of writer's block Allen produced a draft of the play in three days. <br/><br/>Allen's notable film credits as screenwriter include "Marnie" 1964 "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" 1969 "Cabaret" 1972 "A Star Is Born" 1976 "Deathtrap" and "The Verdict" both 1982 and "Lord of the Flies" 1990. <br/><br/>Self wrappers noted as REVISED FINAL WHITE SCRIPT on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 107 and production No. 10228 dated February 1 1963 with a credit for screenwriter Anhalt. Title page integral with front wrapper. 160 leaves with last page of text numbered 158. Mimeograph on eye-rest green stock dated 2/1/63 and 2/4/63. Pages Near Fine bound with two silver brads. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1938129617N.p.: N.p. 1938. Treatment Outline script for an unproduced film. Though we have seen further treatment scripts indicating that screenwriter Budd Schulberg at Selznick International studios also tried his hand at this script the film was never made. <br/><br/>The story centers around the lives of several women on the home front during World War I following their lives through to the post-war period and did not see production in this form-though it predicted several similar World War II pictures with the same theme made by Selznick International such as "I'll Be Seeing You" 1944 and "Since You Went Away" 1944. Notable too for having many of the same themes that would influenced Schulberg's first novel "What Makes Sammy Run" in 1941. <br/><br/>Blue wrappers noted as DRAFT on the front wrapper dated February 1 1938 with credits for writer Mary C. McCall Jr. 23 leaves mechanical duplication. Pages about Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1943146447Universal City: Universal Pictures 1943. Post-production script for the 1943 anthology film. With a single holograph pencil annotation to the title page reading UF145. <br/><br/>A three-part anthology film with supernatural stories woven together by a conversation about the occult between two clubmen. The second of the three stories is based on Oscar Wilde's 1891 short story "Lord Arthur Savillle's Crime."<br/><br/>White titled self-wrappers noted as REVISED VERSION on the front wrapper dated AUGUST 28 1943 with credits for director Julien Duvivier and actors Charles Boyer Barbara Stanwyck Robert Benchley and other cast members. Title page integral with the front wrapper as issued. Mimeographed rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound at the top edge with two gold brads. Universal Pictures unknown books
1965138323Prague: Filmove studio Barrandov 1965. Re-release herald for the 1965 Czechoslovakia film "The Shop on Main Street" with four image from the film and text in both Czech and English. <br/><br/>Based on the 1962 short story "The Trap" by screenwriter Ladislav Grosman and one of the comparatively few films from the Czechoslovak New Wave filmed in the Slovak as opposed to the Czech language. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language film with an additional nomination for Ida Kraminska for Best Actress. <br/><br/>A Slovak man is given a sewing notions shop owned by an elderly Jewish woman as part of the government's Aryanization program. He doesn't have the heart to tell her and pretends to be her new employee. The two form a bond which is tested when the authorities begin rounding up the town's Jewish population. <br/><br/>6.5 x 4.5 inches accordion folded opens to 37.5 x 4.5 inches. Fine. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 130. Filmove studio Barrandov unknown books
1934151124Los Angeles: United Artists 1934. Vintage press photograph of the film's premiere at the Chicago World Fair at the "Century of Progress" exhibition on July 30 1934. The premiere was reported as being attended by 15000 people including international celebrities civic and industrial leaders newspapermen and five governors. In early October 1934 the film had a special White House screening attended by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.<br/><br/>In the midst of the Depression a young couple flee the city to a farm where they and others establish a collective. Produced independently by director King Vidor after he failed to secure studio backing and one of the most significant films of the era. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>National Film Registry. Godard Histoires du Cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. United Artists unknown books
1986130697Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1986. Revised First Draft script for an unproduced television episode. <br/><br/>Barish is screenwriter best known for "Desperately Seeking Susan" 1985 and two episodes of "The Hitchhiker" television series 1985-1986. <br/><br/>Gray titled wrappers. Title page present dated November 22 1986 noted as Revised First Draft with credits for writers Barish and Bean. 39 leaves mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Fine bound with two gold brads. Warner Brothers unknown books
1944145409los Altos CA: Twentieth Century-Fox 1944. Three vintage studio still photographs from the 1944 film. Starring actress Baxter is featured in two stills. Two stills with "Silver Screen Archives" New York rubber-stamps on the verso. <br/><br/>One image from the set is shown. Please inquire for others.<br/><br/>Based on a story by Cheavens source author of "Penny Serenade" 1941. Tessa Baxter leads an impoverished family holding a dinner for a soldier returning from war. They don't receive the soldier they expected and the charming stranger Sgt. Eric Hodiak quickly involves himself. The film was reprised for radio by Lux Radio Theatre in 1945 with original starring actors performing.<br/><br/>Shot on location in Florida.<br/><br/>8 x 10 inches one slightly larger two single-weight glossy and one double-weight matte. Very Good plus faint discoloration to the matte still small surface chips and brief creases to the glossy stills. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
