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1951145718Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1951. Vintage studio still photograph for the classic 1951 science fiction film. Shown are the film's leads Patricia Neal and Michael Rennie in a portrait shot.<br/><br/>Widely considered one of the best and most intelligent science fiction films ever made beautifully balancing elements of suspense and dramatic depth. Science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke ranks it seventh in his list of the best science fiction films of all time just above "2001: A Space Odyssey."<br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.<br/><br/>Lentz p. 1007. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1971148028New York: Melanie Herman 1971. Draft script for an unproduced musical comedy based on the 1911 short story by Saki.<br/><br/>Clovis Sangrail upon hearing the complacent middle-aged James Huddle complaining about his routine and resistance to change makes the suggestion that he needs an "unrest cure" involving them in an "invented outrage."<br/><br/>Set in 1904 England. <br/><br/>Yellow Studio Duplicating Service titled wrappers. Title page present dated 1971 with credits for author H. H. Munro Saki music and lyrics Ernest McCarty and book by Marc P. Smith. 112 leaves with last page of text numbered 2-44. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus with dampstain to verso of top corner of wrapper and first four leaves of script bound with two gold screw brads. Melanie Herman unknown books
199820643Concord NH: William B. Ewert Publisher 1998. First Edition. Limited Issue one of 45 copies bound in quarter cloth and signed by Updike and Moser on the colophon. Octavo; 3/4 mauve paper over burgundy cloth with titles stamped in gilt on front cover; 28pp; illustrated with a relief engraving by Barry Moser. A Fine copy. First separate edition of this story which first appeared in the pages of The New Yorker in 1995. William B. Ewert, Publisher unknown books
1971145923Burbank CA: The Malapaso Company 1971. Vintage borderless studio press photograph from the set of the 1971 film. Mimeo snipe on verso. <br/><br/>Clint Eastwood's directorial debut after decades as an actor a second career that would garner him two Best Director Oscars for Unforgiven 1992 and Million Dollar Baby 2004 and two more nominations for Mystic River 2003 and Letters from Iwo Jima 2006. <br/><br/>Set in and shot on location in California. <br/><br/>7.5 x 9.25 inches. Near Fine light score along top edge light edgewear. <br/><br/>Clover "Men Women and Chainsaws." Spicer US Neo-Noir. Silver and Ward Neo-Noir. Grant US. The Malapaso Company unknown books
1928151246N.p.: N.p. 1928. Vintage reference photograph from the 1928 film showing actors George Bancroft and Betty Compson. With holograph ink and pencil annotations on the verso. <br/><br/>From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler.<br/><br/>Based on John Monk Saunders' 1928 story "The Dock Walloper." A roughneck sailor on shore leave saves a working girl from suicide by drowning and the two begin a passionate relationship. Widely considered one of director Josef von Sternberg's finest films heightened by the work of cinematographer Harold Rosson and set designer Hans Dreier released at the very end of the silent era.<br/><br/>Set in New York. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus.<br/><br/>National Film Registry. Criterion Collection 531. Rosenbaum 1000. Spicer US Antecedent. N.p. unknown books
1935147721Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1935. Draft script for the 1935 film. Paramount "File Copy" and "Master File" stamps on front wrapper. Script divided into sequences as was customary for the period.<br/><br/>Based on F. Britten Austin's 1923 short story "The Drum."<br/><br/>During WWI British Officer Michael Andrews Cary Grant is captured and awaiting execution when local Turkish commander helps him escape revealing he is British intelligence officer John Stevenson Claude Rains. Convalescing in Cairo Andrews falls in love with his nurse Rosemary Haydon Gertrude Michael who reveals she's secretly married to a man she'd briefly known a few years before John Stevenson.<br/><br/>Tall white self wrappers in the 1930s Paramount style. Title page dated May 15 1935 rubber-stamped production No. 967. 135 leaves with last page of text numbered C-52. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine saddle-stapled with three staples. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1931140125Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1931. Vintage still photograph from the set of the 1931 film. Featuring Madge Evans and Lew Cody comparing binoculars while a very young and not yet famous Clark Gable smiles over their shoulders. Mimeograph snipe on the verso. Based on the short story "Horse Flesh" by Frederick Hazlitt Brennan published in the "Saturday Evening Post" on September 13 1930. <br/><br/>An orphaned foal's journey through various owners including that of nefarious gambler Ludeking Hallam Cooley before being returned to his loving breeder Jim Ernest Torrence. Clark Gable's first starring role as a card dealer with occasional moral failings whose love story with Ruby Madge Evans makes for an entertaining side plot. <br/><br/>Set in Kentucky shot on location in Lexington Kentucky and California. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Just about Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1934147697N.p.: Paramount Pictures 1934. Final draft script for the 1934 film with two annotations in holograph pencil and Paramount "File Copy" stamp on front wrapper. Laid in are four blue revision pages dated 1-20-34 "Changes in Scene A-28" with Paramount "File Copy" stamp and one annotation in holograph pencil on first page.<br/><br/>US Marine Sergeant "Lucky" Davis Richard Arlen leads his squadron on an expedition through the Philippine jungle against a guerrilla rebellion and are assigned to rescue a group of children cut off from communication. Davis and his squadron are pleasantly surprised to discover the "children" are a group of 18-25 year old girls bathing in a pool awaiting rescue.<br/><br/>Tall self wrappers front wrapper dated January 16 1934 rubber-stamped production No. 310. 127 leaves with last page of text numbered E-2. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with laid in blue revision pages dated 1-20-34. rubber-stamped production No. 310. Pages Near Fine saddle-stapled with three staples.<br/><br/>Laid in Revision Pages 8 x 12.25 inches Near Fine. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1957145964N.p.: Bel-Air Productions 1957. Vintage studio photograph from the 1957 film. Bel-Air Productions stamp on the verso. <br/><br/>Based on the story "Wanton Murder" by Peter Godfrey and shot under the working title "Black Stockings" Howard W. Koch's B movie noir "The Girl in Black Stockings" despite it being a low-budget "second feature" film is surprisingly enjoyable mostly due to its exceptional cast.<br/><br/>LA lawyer David Hewson Lex Barker arrives at a Utah lodge for a peaceful vacation only to find women being mutilated and murdered and everyone is suspect. Featuring a young Anne Bancroft as pretty young Beth Dixon switchboard operator and assistant to the bitter wheelchair-bound lodge owner Edmund Parry Ron Randell. Mamie Van Doren is Harriet Ames the flirtatious bombshell of course and "the Queen of the B's" the fabulous Marie Windsor is Julia Parry Edmund's dutiful companion and sister.<br/><br/>Filmed in and around the Parry Lodge in Kanab Utah. The Parry lodge opened in the early 1930s by the Parry brothers was built to lodge Hollywood film crews filming early Westerns in the area and was popular among movie stars of Hollywood's golden age.<br/><br/>Set in Kanab Utah shot on location in Kanab Utah and Fredonia Arizona. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus light creasing and edgewear. <br/><br/> Spicer US. Grant US. Selby US. Bel-Air Productions unknown books
1974131516New York: Chelsea Theater Center 1974. Original script for the 1974 play. Based on the 1962 short story by Isaac Bashevis Singer and adapted by him and playwright Leah Napolin for the stage the play premiered October 25 1975 at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre and ran for a total of 223 performances. Tovah Feldshuh was nominated for a Tony for her portrayal of the title role. <br/><br/>Faithful to the original story the play follows a young woman who begins living as a man named Anshel after her father dies in order to continue studying the Torah in defiance of Jewish tradition. An early exploration of transgender identity as Anshel describes himself as "neither one sex nor the other" and having "the soul of a man in the body of a woman." Yentl's choice to live as Anshel even after being discovered strongly contrasts with the text of the better known Barbra Streisand musical film purportedly despised by Singer where the transgender aspect of the narrative is replaced by a more heteronormative romance.<br/><br/>Blue studio wrappers. Title page present dated 1974 with credits for novelist Singer and playwright Napolin. 155 leaves mimeograph duplication. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good bound with two gold brads. Chelsea Theater Center unknown books
1958144208Tokyo: Toho Company 1958. Vintage photograph from the 1958 Japanese film. Holograph annotations in pencil and black ink on the verso. <br/><br/>A drug smuggler's death stumps the police until they are convinced by a young scientist of the presence of "H-Men" slimy radioactive creatures who dissolve anything they come into contact with. The scientist refers to a ghost ship that washed up in the harbor as evidence of the H-bomb tests role in creating these monsters. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Tokyo Japan. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Toho Company unknown books
1967152327Universal City: Universal Pictures 1967. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1967 British film showing actors Jean Shrimpton and Paul Jones dancing. Mimeo snipe to the verso along with the stamp of the Israel Film Archive. <br/><br/>An outrageous paranoiac satire following a beloved pop star named Steven Shorter whose actions beliefs and performances are controlled by a totalitarian British government.<br/><br/>Set in a near-future England shot on location in London and Birmingham.<br/><br/>8 x 9.5 inches. Very Good plus with pinholes and light creases to the corners. <br/><br/>BFI Flipside 7. Rosenbaum 1000.<br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Universal Pictures unknown books
1956146265Hollywood: William F. Boidy Pictures 1956. Final Draft script for the 1956 film. Laid in are 7 pages of revisions on pink paper from 4/3/56. <br/><br/>Mexican bandit Yacqi Jack J. Carrol Naish teams up with ranch owner Webb Dunham Rod Cameron to oppose the crooked land grabbing saloon keeper Matt Quigg Roy Roberts.<br/><br/>Red titled wrappers rubber-stamped copy No. 49. Title page present noted as Final Draft Screenplay with credits for screenwriter D. D. Beauchamp. 104 leaves with last page of text numbered 95. Mimeographed rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 3/23/56 and 3/26/56 with laid in pink revision pages dated 4/3/56. Pages Near Fine Laid in Pages Very Good with fading and chipping the the outer right edge wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. William F. Boidy Pictures unknown books
1978138793N.p.: Recorded Picture Company 1978. Vintage borderless matte photograph from the set of the 1978 film. Shown are Skolimowski working with his cinematographer Mike Molloy on a shot. With some brief annotations on the verso. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Devon town and beaches in the United Kingdom. <br/><br/>Ignored upon its release but subsequently an iconic art-horror film in which a traveler by the name of Crossley forces himself upon a musician and his wife in a lonely part of Devon and uses the aboriginal magic he has learned to displace his host. <br/><br/>9.5 x 7.5 inches. Recorded Picture Company unknown books
1957149134Universal City: Universal International Pictures 1957. Vintage reference photograph of James Cagney in makeup as Lon Chaney's Quasimodo with Bud Westmore head of Universal-International Make-up Department and his assistant Jack Kevan on the set of the 1957 film. Mimeo snipe affixed to verso and folded over recto. <br/><br/>A loose biography of actor Lon Chaney played by James Cagney portraying his beginnings as a vaudeville clown his struggle with cancer and finally the passing of his makeup kit to his son. Regarded as one of the better Hollywood films about Hollywood and a high point of Cagney's career. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Universal International Pictures unknown books
1948147739Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1948. Final Draft script for the 1948 film. <br/><br/>Based on Raphael Blau's unpublished story. Widow Abby Abbott Loretta Young and her teenage daughter Susan Betty Lynn support themselves on a trust fund started from her late husband. In order to get Susan the needed funds to pay for college tuition Abby must enroll as well to get a needed scholarship and both end up falling for English professor Richard Michaels Van Johnson.<br/><br/>Nominated for an Academy Award.<br/><br/>Shot on location at the University of Nevada-Reno.<br/><br/>Blue titled wrappers noted as FINAL on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 186 and production No. 241 dated July 15 1948. Distribution page present with receipt removed. Title page present dated July 15 1948 noted as Final Script with credits for screenwriters Mary Loos and Richard Sale. 153 leaves with last page of text numbered 151. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with creasing and closed tears at the outer edges bound internally with three gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1942130910Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1942. Draft script for the 1942 film "Mug Town" seen here under the working title "Skidrow." <br/><br/>A crew of teenage tramps finds themselves about to be framed for a freight heist and must clear their names of the charges. Once they are able to do so they enlist in the US Army in order to do their part for the war effort during World War II. <br/><br/>Tan titled wrappers rubber-stamped production No. 7060 dated April 16 1942 with credits for screenwriters Tarshis and Sucher. 146 leaves mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good bound with three gold brads. Universal Pictures unknown books
1935143369Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1935. Vintage photograph of director Rene Clair on the set of the 1935 film. With the stamp of Pathe-RKO on the verso. <br/><br/>Based on the 1935 short story "Sir Tristram Goes West" by Eric Keown first published in "Punch" magazine about an American who buys a Scottish castle and has it moved to Florida unaware that the castle's ghost comes with it. <br/><br/>9.25 x 7 inches. Near Fine. United Artists unknown books
1964139221California: Art Theatre Guild / Eve Productions 1964. Original black-and-white program for the 1964 film printed for the Art Theatre Guild. The Art Theatre Guild ATG began in 1961 as an independent agency distributing films mostly Japanese rejected by major studios. The company operated until the 1980s with theaters in Arizona California Colorado Illinois Kentucky Massachusetts Missouri New Mexico Ohio and Tennessee. <br/><br/>The first of Meyer's "noir" cycle 1964-1965 or "Gothic" period as Meyer puts it a series of sexploitation films shot in black-and-white powerful psycho-sexual female characters male impotence and a serious dramatic plot involving less of the "nudie" filmmaking style so prominent in the director's early films. Other films in his "Gothic" period include "Mudhoney" 1965 "Motorpsycho!" 1965 and the epic and legendary "Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! " 1965. "Fanny Hill" 1964 snuck in right after "Lorna" although that film is generally left out of the "Gothic" period. <br/><br/>"Lorna" was written by James Griffith who stars as the Preacher narrator of the film and stars Lorna Maitland as a voluptuous sexually unfulfilled newlywed. Her husband Jim Rucker works in a salt mine all day and studies all night giving Lorna too much time to herself. One day while Lorna skinny-dips in a nearby river an escaped convict Bradley rapes her in the reeds. The vile act could otherwise have been exploited perhaps comically by Meyer but here the scene acts as a catalyst for one repressed woman's sexual awakening. Lorna invites the convict into her home while her husband is gone prompting Jim's coworkers among them the underrated Hal Hopper to tease him about Lorna's infidelity. Things take a bitter fatal turn when Jim returns home to discover Lorna and her object of desire. <br/><br/>5.5 x 8.5 inches folded once as issued. Two horizontal creases and faint foxing else Near Fine. Art Theatre Guild / Eve Productions unknown books
1957146154N.p.: Sol C. Siegel Productions 1957. Collection of 3 vintage studio still photographs from the 1957 film one featuring Gene Kelly and Mitzi Gaynor during the title track "Les Girls" sequence and two of the trio of Mitzi Gaynor Joy Henderson and Kay Kendall in Jack Cole's brilliantly choreographed "Ladies in Waiting" sequence.<br/><br/>Based on a 1959 story by Vera Caspary. "Les Girls" was the winner of an Academy Award fro Best Costume Design and nominated for two more. The film was also the final film score for Cole Porter and the final musical for Gene Kelly under his contract with MGM ending an era defining association that produced several classic musicals. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Near Fine light creasing. One has 3 pieces of clear tape on margin at top corners and center bottom. Sol C. Siegel Productions unknown books
1933136691Los Angeles: First National Pictures 1933. Vintage reference photograph from the 1933 pre-Code film. <br/><br/>Shown is Ann Hovey as she is attacked after stowing away on a train by Ward Bond playing against type as a villainous railroad worker. The rape is not only attempted but takes place a radical element even in a pre-Code film. <br/><br/>A film that has held up well in that it breaks the stereotype of hobos as nothing more than restless drifters and delves into what fueled the movement during the Great Depression. Many teenagers male and female were forced to leave their homes and ride the rails because their families were unable to provide support. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. About Near Fine with some penciled annotations on the verso regarding another actress in the film Dorothy Coonan who would go on to marry the film's director William A. Wellman. <br/><br/>National Film Registry. First National Pictures unknown books
192917091106London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited 1929. Hardcover. Near fine/very good . Rackham Arthur. Octavo size 123 pp. With Ex-Libris of J.M. Barrie which apparently is not unique there being one other copy online as of this writing with the same plate. The ink looks genuine but the signatures are the same; interestingly the library bookplates are tipped onto different pages. We can come up with several scenarios for the existence of these bookplates but since the bibliographies are silent on it we cannot state anything with certitude. Mary Clarissa "May" Byron 1861-1936 was an author in her own right but was best known for her abridgements of J.M. Barrie's works for children. This work with six full-colour plates and fifteen black and white illustrations all by Arthur Rackham was an excellent gift for young readers. <br/><br/>Arthur Rackham 1867-1939 born into a "typical middle-class Victorian family" showed an aptitude for drawing from an early age especially with "fantastic" subjects. In the autumn of 1884 he enrolled in the Lambeth School for Art; upon graduation he began working on his illustrations part-time submitting them to various periodicals and publishers while working as a clerk. Success found him in 1905 with the publication of his "Rip Van Winkle" which "decisively established Rackham as the leading decorative illustrator of the Edwardian period". His work remained popular and highly sought for decades through his final illustrated book "The Wind in the Willows" completed just a year before his death in 1939. N.B. above quotes from Derek Hudson "Arthur Rackham His Life and Work". However important Rip Van Winkle and The Wind in the Willows are it is perhaps for his depictions of Peter Pan that Rackham remains most remembered and this book geared towards children is a delight and a joy.<br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Bound in green cloth with dark green lettering on the front and spine dark green vignette of Peter Pan after the illustration on the dust jacket front endpapers only have half-page map in black and white of "Peter Pan's Map of Kensington Gardens" the verso of the front free endpaper has the bookplate of J. M. Barrie as referred to above likely not his original hand frontispiece is a coloured illustration by Rackham of "Peter Pan is the Fairies' Orchestra" plate not included in the book title page vignette of Peter Pan the same image as on the front board volume not dated printed in 1929 per the bibliographies; six illustrations in colour fifteen other illustrations in black-and-white all by Rackham octavo size 8" by 5.75" pagination: i-iv v- viii 9-123. Lovely pictorial dust jacket with the full colour illustration of Peter Pan referred to above lettering in red and green on the front panel and black on the spine black and white illustrated rear panel listing the three May Byron re-tellings of Peter Pan this title being the last listed; price of 2/6 on the spine.<br/><br/>___CONDITION: Volume near fine the binding clean and the green lettering deep the corners straight and unrubbed a strong square text block with solid hinges clean pages the "Barrie" bookplate is in fine condition and the volume is entirely free of prior owner markings; some foxing to the top edge of the text block and a couple of light marks to the bottom edge some mild offsetting to the endpapers else fine. The unclipped dust jacket is very good plus with some mild edgewear most noticeably to the head of the spine no loss to text and some light dustiness.<br/><br/>___CITATION: Latimore & Haskell pp. 65-66; Riall p. 168.<br/><br/>___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details.<br/><br/>___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. Hodder and Stoughton Limited hardcover books
1944148705Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1944. Shooting Final Draft script for the 1945 film here under the working title "Two-Faced Quilligan." Production No. 911 and copy No. 6 rubber stamped on the front wrapper with SHOOTING FINAL printed at the top right corner of same. Single annotation in the script in holograph pencil noting three names on the verso of last leaf.<br/><br/>Patrick Michael Quilligan William Bendix captain of a barge named Mary named after his mother meets and falls for two women Joan Blondell and Mary Treen who remind him of his beloved deceased mother inadvertently marrying both.<br/><br/>Set in Brooklyn and Utica New York. <br/><br/>Brown titled wrappers noted as SHOOTING FINAL on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 6 and production No. 911 dated DECEMBER 21 1944. Distribution page present with receipt intact. Title page present dated December 21 1944 noted as Shooting Final with credits for screenwriter Arthur Kober. 127 leaves with last page of text numbered 125. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 1/2/45 and 2/28/45. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with large chip on right edge of front wrapper bound internally with two gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1938144158Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1938. Set of three vintage black-and-white studio still photographs from the set of the 1938 film noir antecedent. Shown respectively are Lang conferring with Silvia Sidney Lang on the floor setting up an unusual camera angle and Lang playing a clarinet for baby actor Donald Dodd's who played Silvia Sidney's infant son in the film. <br/><br/>Each photo with a printed snipe on the verso a number annotated and circled in blue pencil 1 2 3 respectively and a stamp crediting Paramount Studios photographer Malcolm Bulloch. <br/><br/>5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. One photo with a faint vertical crease. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. <br/><br/>Spicer p. 403. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1953134790Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1953. Set of 4 original lobby cards for the 1953 film "Bright Road" based on the Christopher Award winning story "See How They Run" written by Mary Elizabeth Vroman and first published in 1951 in the Ladies' Home Journal. <br/><br/>Notable for its nearly all-black cast "Bright Road" stars Dorothy Dandridge as an Alabama schoolteacher intent on motivating one of her more lackluster students. Dandridge is said to have accepted the role because of the film's lack of racial tension as a central theme. As a result she hoped that young women of all colors could identify with her character. Harry Belafonte's debut feature film. <br/><br/>14 x 11 inches. Both lobby cards quite clean with no pinholes about Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
