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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
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
1944133742N.p.: N.p. 1944. Treatment script and copy of the original story for an unproduced film "The Murder on Jefferson Street" based on the 1944 short story by Dorothy Canfield. Copy belonging to screenwriter Frank Partos with his name in holograph pencil. Also included with the script are contracts from Dorothy Canfield Story Magazine and Harcourt Brace and Company signing over the story's film and television rights to Partos. <br/><br/>A psychological thriller set in a Middle Western town called Huntsville the story follows the career paths of two men who work in the same office as one attempts to psychologically damage the other in order to take his better position. <br/> <br/>Housed in a blank black spring binder. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Partos and story writer Canfield. 128 leaves carbon typescript. Pages Near Fine spring binder Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1942130516Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1942. First Draft Continuity for the 1942 film. This is a pre-production continuity not to be confused with a post-production continuity. <br/><br/>The "other woman" in this early 1940s Twentieth Century-Fox programmer turns out to be Emily Virginia Gilmore faithful secretary to master architect Henry Summers James Ellison. Hoping to trap her boss into marriage Emily begins sending "mash notes" to Henry purportedly from a mysterious female admirer. She then coerces her old pal Ralph Dan Duryea to pose as her jealous Southern-fried boy friend of the nonexistent letter-writer. Poor Henry convinced that Ralph is the gangster who's been threatening him with bodily harm takes off for parts unknown. Our heroine spends the rest of the picture chasing Henry until he finally catches her Hal Erickson Rovi. <br/><br/>From the AFI Catalog: "The working title of this film was 'Leap Year' also the title of Lamar Trotti's original story. According to a September 4 1941 memo in the Twentieth Century-Fox Records of the Legal Department located at the UCLA Arts Special Collections Library Trotti wrote the story "sometime ago" and sold it to the studio for one dollar when producer Walter Morosco decided to make it as a "low budget picture." Although the legal records indicate that Jerry Sackheim worked on a screenplay for the picture the extent of his contribution to the completed film has not been determined. <br/><br/>Orange titled wrappers noted as FIRST DRAFT CONTINUITY on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 185 and production No. 730 dated June 6 1942. Distribution page present with receipt intact. Title page present dated June 6 1942 noted as 1st Draft Continuity with a sole credit for screenwriter Jungmeyer. 135 leaves mimeograph duplication with revision pages on blue stock dated variously between 6/10/42 and 6/20/42. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with two gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
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
1963144429Universal City: Universal Pictures 1963. Vintage photograph of Alfred Hitchcock Tippi Hedren and members of the crew releasing a large number of birds from a cage on the set of the classic 1963 film. With holograph annotations and a photo agency stamp on the verso. <br/><br/>Shot in various locations throughout California including Bodega Bay Bloomfield Valley Ford the Venice Canals and Union Square in San Francisco. <br/><br/>5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>National Film Registry. Godard Histoires du cinema. Universal Pictures unknown books
1929011943Joliet: P F Volland 1929. 1st Edition. Hardcover. As New. Unusually well-preserved copy in broken pictorial box top and bottom intact sides unattached or missing. Covers fine. Internals as new really. No names inscriptions or bookplates. P F Volland hardcover books
1951140476Rome 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. <br/><br/>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 figure has been portrayed in film since the Silent era and actress Felix a prolific and popular Mexican celebrity marked the third appearance of Messalina on screen. A healthy credit for director Carmine whose 100-plus films leave a considerable impression in early Italian cinema. <br/><br/>9.25 x 12 inches saddle-stapled color illustrated wrappers 12 leaves. Very Good plus with foxing and light curling. Produzione Gallone / Filmsonor 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
1816705981816. Story Eulogizes An Exemplary Lawyer-Statesman Story Joseph 1779-1845. Sketch of the Life of Samuel Dexter LL.D. By the Hon. Joseph Story LL.D. Judge of the Supreme Court of the United States And Presiding Judge of the Circ. Court of the U.S. for the First Circuit As Delivered to the Grand Jurors of the District of Massachusetts And to the Members of the Suffolk Bar at the Opening of the Court in Boston May 15 1816. Published at Their Joint Request. Boston: Printed by John Eliot 1816. 20 pp. Octavo 8-1/4" x 5". Disbound stab-stitched pamphlet. Light rubbing to extremities light browning and foxing small chip to head of title page clean tears and faint dampstains to final two leaves which are partially detached but secure. A scarce title. $250. Only edition one of 2 issues both in 1816. Considered a model lawyer-statesman by Story Dexter 1761-1816 served in the Massachusetts legislature and both house of the U.S. Congress. He also served briefly as secretary of war and secretary of the treasury under John Adams. OCLC locates 11 copies 4 in law libraries Harvard University of Michigan University of Pennsylvania Yale. Cohen Bibliography of Early American Law 1975. unknown books
2006425272006. ISBN-13: 9781584776185; ISBN-10: 1584776188. Story William Wetmore. A Treatise on the Law of Contracts. Revised and Greatly Enlarged. Boston: Little Brown and Company 1856. Two volumes. cxi 782; viii 820 pp. Reprinted 2006 by The Lawbook Exchange Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584776185. ISBN-10: 1584776188. Hardcover. New. $250. Reprint of the fourth edition the final edition edited by the author. The son of Joseph Story William Wetmore Story 1819-1895 wrote two textbooks that were standard works during the nineteenth century. This was one of them. First published in 1844 it went through five editions the final appearing in 1874. "This work bears internal evidence of a careful and thorough examination of the cases and the principles to be deduced from them are stated with precision and in a concise and vigorous style.": Marvin Legal Bibliography 1847 674 review of the first edition. unknown books
189449261New York: Frank Tousey Nos. 34 & 36 North Moore St 1894. 1st Printing. Printed paper newspaper format. Folded now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Age toning & browning to paper which is becoming brittle. Some edge chipping noticably at the end of the fold. Penciled pos to top margin of first page. A Good copy of this exceedingly uncommon survivor. 16 pp. Text quadruple column. Adverts. Large wood engraved image to front wrapper. Internal wood engravings. 13-1/4" x 11-1/2" <br/><br/>The rare second installment from Tousey's celebrated story paper which would remain in print through 1924. Frank Tousey, Nos. 34 & 36 North Moore St 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
1957143707Hollywood: ZIV Television Programs 1957. Draft script for the May 11 1958 episode of the television series "Harbormaster" 1957-1958. Faint annotations on the front wrapper in holograph pencil "Captain Hates the Sea" "Leon Benson" and an illegible name. Copy presumably belonging to Benson. <br/><br/>A television series about crime-fighting sailboat captain Scott Sullivan on the shores of New England. In this episode Captain Owens Tweddle is willing to commit murder to oppose his daughter's Bain marriage to a lobster fisherman Hagman. Steve Fisher went uncredited upon the episode's release and his credits for other series the same year include "Wire Service" "The George Sanders Mystery Theater" "tombstone Territory" and Jane Wyman Presents the Fireside Theatre." <br/><br/>Leon Benson's credits include "West Point" 1956-1957 "Sea Hunt" 1958-1961 "Ripcord" 1961-1963 and "Bonanaza" 1967-1970 as well as another ZIV production "Harbor Command" 1957-1958 directing three episodes in 1957. <br/><br/>Set and shot on location in Rockport Massachusetts. <br/><br/>Orange titled wrappers noted as "Harbourmaster / 23-B" on the front wrapper dated 1957 with credits for Fisher and Drake. Title page present noted as HARBOURMASTER PROD. #23-B. 37 leaves with last page of text numbered 38. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. ZIV Television Programs unknown books
1982129045Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1982. Early Draft script for the 1995 film "Screamers" seen here under its working title "Dragon's Teeth." The script itself is dated 1982 over ten years between script writing and the film's release. Bound at the rear are appendices and a colored map of Soviet and United Nations territories during World War III. Shot on location in Canada. <br/><br/>Based on the 1953 short story "Second Variety" by Philip K. Dick the story takes place in the year 2078 on a distant mining planet ravaged by a decade of war WWIII where scientists have created the perfect weapon: a self-replicating army of killing machines called "Screamers." They have continued to evolve without any human guidance and eventually seek to destroy all of life. Joe Hendricksson Weller leads a group of soldiers still alive on the mining planet Sirius 6B and decides he must negotiate a peace treaty with enemy forces. To do so he will have to cross a wasteland full of Screamers. <br/><br/>Pale gray titled wrappers dated October 29 1982 with credits for screenwriter O'Bannon and for writer Dick. Title page present dated October 29 1982 with credits for screenwriter O'Bannon and for writer Dick. 126 leaves mimeograph duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Fine bound with three gold brads. <br/><br/>Lentz p. 1494. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1931012089NY: The Century Co 1931. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Uncommon title by Edith Ballinger Price 1897 - 1997 American writer and illustrator of eighteen children's books who studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and later at the New York Art Students League and the National Academy of Design. A sea-going juvenile. Book apparently unread - blue linen stamped in gilt prictorial endpapers. Striking dustjacket pictorial in orange blue and white. Dustjacket is dustily soiled more so at spine and chipped at corners and head of spine. Still presentable overall. JUVENILE. The Century Co hardcover books
1952147403Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1952. Mini-poster for a circa 1952 re-release of the 1949 film.<br/><br/>One of the great gangster films based on an original screen story by screenwriter Virginia Kellogg who was nominated for an Academy Award for her work. <br/><br/>8.25 x 13.25 inches. Very Good. Light toned with tape residue to the top and bottom edges a couple of small splash stains and light creasing. <br/><br/>National Film Registry. Godard Histoires du cinema. Grant US. Lee The Heist Film. Penzler 101. Selby Masterwork. Silver and Ward Classic Noir. Spicer US. Warner Brothers unknown books
1966146731N.p.: A.C. Lyles Productions 1966. Collection of 21 vintage studio still photographs from the 1966 film in their original brown paper sleeve stamped "'RED TOMAHAWK' 66/365 A17." <br/><br/>Army captain Tom York Howard Keel arrives at the town of Deadwood after discovering the massacred 7th Cavalry and General Custer at Little Big Horn warning of an impeding Sioux attack. In desperate need of weapons he knows 2 Gatling guns are somewhere hidden in town but only Dakota Lil Joan Caulfield knows where and she refuses to disclose their whereabouts having had enough tragedy with the deaths of her husband and little boy. York persuades her to tell but before they can be assembled the guns are stolen by Sy Elkins Wendell Corey a degenerate gambler who intends on selling them to the Sioux.<br/><br/>Set in Deadwood South Dakota shot on location in California. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine some with light uniform fading. Paper sleeve Near Fine with annotations of actors names in holograph ink.<br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request.<br/><br/>Pitts 3338. A.C. Lyles Productions unknown books
