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1976148808N.p.: N.p. 1976. Revised Draft script for the 1977 film here with the slightly different working title "Empire of Ants." Loosely based on the 1905 short story by H.G. Wells. <br/><br/>American International Pictures AIP third and final film in their H.G. Wells trilogy beginning with "The Food of the Gods" 1976 directed and written by Bert I. Gordon and starring Marjoe Gortner and Pamela Franklin and followed by "The Island of Dr. Moreau" 1977 directed by Don Taylor and starring Burt Lancaster and Michael York.<br/><br/>Another classic "giant" movie from Bert I. Gordon following "King Dinosaur" 1955 "The Amazing Colossal Man" 1957 "Earth vs. the Spider" 1958 "Village of the Giants" 1956 and "Food of the Gods" 1976 this time featuring giant ants mutated by radioactive waste which attack a shady land developer and her prospective clients and threaten to take over a whole island town.<br/><br/>Set in the Florida everglades and shot on location in Fort Pierce Belle Glade and Jensen Beach Florida. <br/><br/>Brown titled wrappers. Title page present dated October 8 1976 noted as REVISED DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Jack Turley and story by Bert I. Gordon. 105 leaves with last page of text numbered 104. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
193318555Mount Vernon: Old Colony Press 1933. First Limited Edition. One of 100 numbered copies signed by Caldwell and illustrator Alfred Morang. Slim octavo 17cm; light brown stapled wrappers with titles printed in black on front cover; 4 11 1pp; illus. A few faint stress creases else a Fine copy of this scarce and fragile chapbook. A single story written as an elegy to a man's lost lover. Old Colony Press unknown books
1929170990Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1929. Vintage oversize borderless double weight portrait photograph of actor Daniel L. Haynes from the 1929 film. With the ink stamp and blind stamp of photographer Ruth Harriet Louise a mimeo snipe and a publication stamp on the verso. Rare or possibly unique. <br /> <br /> Director King Vidor's first talkie and the first Black musical as well as the second all-Black film by a major Hollywood studio with arguably more depth than its predecessor Paul Sloane's "Hearts in Dixie" released earlier the same year.<br /> <br /> Although Vidor had expressed his intent of an honest depiction of rural southern African-American life the film still clearly advanced racial stereotypes of the era. "Hallelujah" had however authentically represented African-American spiritual music from the period which no other film at that point had achieved. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in Memphis Tennessee and Arkansas. <br /> <br /> 9.25 x 12.25 inches trimmed unevenly. Very Good plus with a small chip to the bottom right corner and print preparation touch ups and cropping annotations on the recto.<br /> <br /> National Film Registry. Rosenbaum 1000. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
192632693New York: Street & Smith Corporation 1926. Mild tanning to text paper inked name to contents page and inked note at head of first story yapp edges trimmed small chip to lower right cover small separation to upper spine edge small paper loss at lower spine several small closed tears a very good copy. 32693. Octavo single issue cover by John A. Coughlin pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by Johnston McCulley The Crimson Clown Charles Dutton Austin J. Small Oscar Schisgall and others. Reference: Cook Mystery Detective and Espionage Magazine pp. 148-151. Street & Smith Corporation unknown
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 /> Rosenbaum 1000. Columbia Pictures unknown
1958148889N.p.: N.p. 1958. Three vintage contact sheets from the 1958 film each containing twelve images. Two contact sheets with layout annotations in blue manuscript 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
1939148444Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1939. Vintage double weight photograph of James Stewart and Jean Arthur from the 1939 film. Mimeo snipe stamp crediting photographer Al Schafer and very faint "Approved" stamp on the verso. <br/><br/>Controversial among the political American establishment at the time for its accurate then and now depiction of the Senate as a group of dysfunctional shallow egotists the film was also banned in fascist countries Germany Italy Spain and the USSR and later Nazi occupied France. <br/><br/>Set in and shot on location in Washington DC. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine with faint diagonal crease to lower right. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1960142951New York: Music Theatre Inc 1960. Draft script for the 1965 play. Revival run at New York City Center April 28 to May 9 1965 for a total of 15 performances. Props and costume plot bound in. <br/><br/>Based on "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" and "Blood Pressure" two short stories by Damon Runyon. The musical has had several Broadway and London revivals as well as a 1955 film adaptation starring Marlon Brando Jean Simmons Frank Sinatra and Vivian Blaine. Won five Tony Awards in 1951 including Best Musical. 1965 production starred Alan King as Nathan Detroit Sheila MacRae as Adelaide Jerry Orbach as Sky and Anita Gillette as Sarah. <br/><br/>Set in Broadway Save-a-Soul Mission Havana Cuba and The Hot Box Club. <br/><br/>Black titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for story writer Damon Runyon music and lyricist Frank Loesser book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows. 141 leaves with last page of text numbered 2-7-50. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Music Theatre, Inc unknown books
1942148848Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1942. Seven vintage keybook photographs from the 1942 film. Mimeo snipe and "Approved Advertising Advisory Council Apr 21 1942 Hollywood" stamp on verso of each. <br /> <br /> Political activist Leopold Dilg Cary Grant is framed when a lumber mill burns down and a man is killed. Escaping prison he hides out in former schoolmate and sweetheart Nora Shelley's Jean Arthur house currently being rented to the newly arrived law professor Michael Lightcap Ronald Coleman. <br /> <br /> Nominated for seven Academy Awards including Best Picture Best Screenplay and Best Cinematography.<br /> <br /> Set in fictional Lochester New England. <br /> <br /> 8 x 11 inches images 4.5 x 3.5 inches. Near Fine. <br /> <br /> Byrge & Miller The Screwball Comedy Films: A History and Filmography 1934-1942. Columbia Pictures unknown
19883113765Los Angeles: Vestron Pictures. Fine with no dust jacket. 1988. Script/with photos. Production SCRIPT. Fine in white bradbound studio card covers. White pink and blue 'first' generation sheets. 96pp. Script formerly belonged to Robert Dean assistant to director Dennis Hopper. Includes 2 original on-set color polaroids taken by Dean. 3 31/2" X 4 1/2" One of actors Fred Ward and Keith Allison of Paul Revere and the Raiders fame and the other with Dennis Hopper and Vincent Price. Film was directed by Dennis Hopper under the pseudonym Alan Smithee. Script dated 1988 with the film released in 1990. Little seen suspense thriller directed and starring Hopper with actress Jodie Foster Fred Ward & Vincent Price. ; 9" X 11 1/2"; 96 pages . Vestron Pictures unknown
1956146325Hollywood: Allied Artists Productions 1956. Draft script for the 1957 film noir here under the working title "Night Target." A strike through the printed title and "Footsteps in the Night" and "1956" written in holograph ink on the wrapper with the name of an uncredited crew member written in holograph pencil on upper right of wrapper.<br/><br/>The final of five Los Angeles-set police thrillers starring Bill Elliott as a L.A.sheriff's department detective following "Dial Red O" 1955 "Sudden Danger" 1955 "Calling Homicide" 1956 and "Chain of Evidence" 1957. <br/><br/>Two detectives investigate the strangulation death of well-liked card player. A gambling addicted neighbor is suspected but something doesn't quite add up. "Wild" Bill Elliott's final film retiring from acting in 1957.<br/><br/>Green titled wrappers. Distribution page present with receipt removed. Title page integral to the distribution page present with receipt removed dated March 14 1956 with credits for screenwriter Albert Band. 95 leaves with last page of text numbered 94. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with three gold brads.<br/><br/>Spicer US. Lyons p. 91. Grant US. Selby US. Allied Artists Productions unknown books
1978144673N.p.: Recorded Picture Company 1978. Revised Draft British script for the 1978 film. <br/><br/>Winner of the Prix de Jury at Cannes and nominated for the Palme d'Or. Based on the short story by Robert Graves. Soundtrack by Michael Rutherford and Tony Banks of the progressive rock band Genesis.<br/><br/>A quiet chilling horror film with experimental leanings. Shot on location along the North Devon coastline specifically Saunton Sands and Braunton Burrows. Producer Jeremy Thomas later noted: "Because I had a great director and a quality piece of literature I managed to get a wonderful cast such as John Hurt and Alan Bates. Skolimowski had a sense of shooting style then this was the second director who I had worked closely with and it was fascinating watching him work. He came from a Polish tradition the Wajda Film School he had a different background to other directors I had been working with in the cutting rooms or elsewhere. And it made the film much more creative to me. I saw it more as an artistic endeavour by him."<br/><br/>Beige titled die-cut wrappers in the British style. Title page present dated June 15 1977 noted as Revised with credits for screenwriter Michael Austin story writer novelist Robert Graves and RECORDED PICTURE COMPANY LTD along with their address in London. Copy No. 54 annotated in blue ink at the bottom right corner. 94 leaves with last page of text numbered 92. Mechanical duplication rectos only. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two silver flat brads. Recorded Picture Company unknown books
1845law2<p>Eleven Chapters on apromissory Notes and related subjects with many pages of cited cases. Front Board is detached. Binding holding and is rear hinge. No foxing. No internal markings. NOT EX-LIB. A very good copy ready for a bookbinders touoch on the reattachment of the front board.</p> Charles C. Little & James Brown hardcover
201516948JLos Angeles 2015. This very striking photograph was one of a small number Lady Gaga had made and handsigned in silver ink then had framed which she gave individually to the members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for Golden Globes Awards consideration. There were only about 90 members of the association. Eventually Lady Gaga won a Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actress in a Limited Series for her chilling portrayal of a vampire known as The Countess. The photograph is 8 by 10 inches framed to 12 by 14 inches overall in an atmospheric silver and black frame. Fine condition. unknown
1978145671Los Angeles: George Barris - Irwin Schaeffer Production 1978. Revised Draft script for the 1978 film. Copy belonging to writer George Barris with his name in manuscript ink on the title page manuscript annotations and paper clip page markers throughout. With a cast that includes Fabian Barris and Casey Kasem.<br /> <br /> A sleazy nightclub owner tries to help the comeback of a young disco star.<br /> <br /> Shot on location in Los Angeles. <br /> <br /> Gold titled wrappers. Title page present dated 6/4/78 with credits for writer George Barris and screenwriter John Arnoldy. 89 leaves with last page of text numbered 87. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine clip binding. George Barris - Irwin Schaeffer Production unknown
1943147112Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1943. Second Revised Final draft script for the 1944 film. A few annotations of names or checks in holograph pencil on the top outer corner of verso. <br/><br/>A dramatization of the trials that took place in Japan during World War II eight American aircrew members are taken prisoner by the Japanese Army. They are forced to endure systematic torture and abuse and finally accused convicted and executed as war criminals. This film brought opposition from the Department of Defense fearing strong reactions from the Japanese. <br/><br/>Set in Japan shot on location in Washington DC. <br/><br/>Beige titled wrappers noted as SECOND REVISED FINAL on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 229 and production No. 936 dated OCT. 14 1943. Distribution page present with receipt intact. Title page present dated October 14 1943 noted as 2nd Revised Final. 136 leaves with last page of text numbered 131. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 10/20/43 and 12/6/43. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1960143202Tokyo: Toho Company 1960. Draft script for the 1960 Japanese film. Manuscript ink and stamp on the outer page edges. Production designer's script with manuscript underlining on numerous pages regarding objects needed for a given scene swimsuits sun cream summer kimonos Persian cat etc. Other annotations in the same hand fill in the names of actors who have been chosen to play the parts of various characters whose names are printed. <br /> <br /> The double directed feature intentionally creates a juxtaposition between each director's lens and the credits give no indication of how the two collaborated also intentional. According to Audie Bock author of "Japanese Film Directors" Naruse filmed all of the older generation scenes and the Japanese restaurant scenes while Kawashima did the younger generation and the geisha house scenes comparatively the 'comic relief'. <br /> <br /> A family love triangle sees a mother and daughter in competition and parallels the conflicting nature of new and older generations in modern society. <br /> <br /> Set in Japan. <br /> <br /> White titled wrappers noted as 1 on the front wrapper dated 1960. Title page present. 88 leaves with last page of text numbered g-25. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two staples wrapped in paper on spine. Toho Company unknown
1943148845Universal City: Universal Pictures 1943. Vintage publicity photograph of Lon Chaney Jr. and Louise Allbritton from the 1943 film. Mimeo snipe and "Photofest" label obscuring a "Carlos Clarens Collection" stamp on the verso. <br/><br/>The third Dracula film from the Universal Classic Monster series preceded by "Dracula" 1931 directed by Tod Browning starring Bela Lugosi and "Dracula's Daughter" 1936 directed by Lambert Hillyer starring Otto Kruger and Gloria Holden. <br/><br/>Count Dracula's son Count Alucard is invited to the Louisiana swamps by the young heiress where they secretly marry much to the dismay of her long time lover. Lon Chaney Jr.'s first and only time portraying a vampire.<br/><br/>Set in the swamps of Louisiana. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with closed tear on bottom repaired with paper tape on verso slightly wavy. <br/><br/>Weaver and Brunas Universal Horrors. Universal Pictures unknown books
1935WRCLIT50762Vienna Palma de Majorca & New York 1935. Whole numbers 5 9 12-14 16-23 25 27-29 31 32 36 and 37. Twenty-one issues. Small quarto. Printed wrappers. Lower wrapper and crown of spine of #5 chipped some sunning and occasional light soiling a few spines have nicks but generally very good. Edited by Martha Foley and Whit Burnett. Published initially bimonthly then monthly then bimonthly again as one of the most popular venues for new as well as established writers of short fiction. The early expatriate issues are uncommon. "When STORY celebrated its tenth anniversary in 1941 it had published over a thousand stories about 90 per cent of which were considered distinctive by short story anthologist O'Brien." - Hoffman et al. Contributors to these issues include Caldwell B.C. Brown Zugsmith Faulkner Saroyan the first appearance of "The Daring Young Man." Fante Boyle Aiken Bates Hurston Coppard Algren Bessie Stein Anderson Vorse March Jolas Bunin R. Fisher Creekmore Appel Lanham Callaghan Laughlin De Vries Levin Wilhelm et al. HOFFMAN et al pp.160-1 and 303. unknown books
1747794741747. STORY Thomas. A Journal of the Life of Thomas Story: Containing an Account of His Remarkable Convincement of and Embracing the Principles of Truth as Held by the People Called Quakers; and also of His Travels and Labours in the Service of the Gospel: with Many other Occurrences and Observations. Newcastle upon Tyne: Printed by Isaac Thompson and Company 1747. Folio. iviv7688 index pp. Contemporary paneled calf decorated in blind period-style spine gilt-ruled raised spine bands black morocco spine label. Wear o head of spine foot of front outer hinge starting some wear to foredge of front board internally very clean else very good. HOWES S-1048. Sabin 92324. Clark I:156. Larned 882. Second issue printed at the publisher's "own Expence and Risque" according to the second preliminary leaf. "Story was a friend of William Penn who visited America and partly at his request prolonged his stay for 16 years. He was a member of the Council of Pennsylvania and held other offices including that of recorder in the city of Philadelphia. He also visited the Friends in other parts of the country. The American part of the narrative which includes visits to the West Indies forms pp. 147-463"-Sabin. Bookplate and signature of James Corder of Coggeshall on front pastedown. unknown
1747744301747. STORY Thomas. A Journal of the Life of Thomas Story: Containing an Account of His Remarkable Convincement of and Embracing the Principles of Truth as Held by the People Called Quakers; and also of His Travels and Labours in the service of the Gospel: with Many other Occurrences and Observations. Newcastle upon Tyne: Printed by Isaac Thompson 1747. Folio. iviv7688 index pp. Contemporary paneled calf decorated in blind period-style spine gilt-ruled raised spine bands red morocco spine label. Inner hinges professionally reinforced early ownership signatures on title page light scattered foxing and toning else very good or better. HOWES S-1048. Sabin 92324. Clark I:156. Larned 882. Second issue printed at the publisher's "own Expence and Risque" according to the second preliminary leaf. "Story was a friend of William Penn who visited America and partly at his request prolonged his stay for 16 years. He was a member of the Council of Pennsylvania and held other offices including that of recorder in the city of Philadelphia. He also visited the Friends in other parts of the country. The American part of the narrative which includes visits to the West Indies forms pp. 147-463"-Sabin. unknown
1947125339Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1947. Original Pressbook for the 1947 film noir. <br/><br/>A little-seen noir with an interesting history. Based on the 1940 film "The Letter" which is in turn an adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's 1926 short story of the same title first collected in "The Casuarina Tree". Written for the screen by David Goodis and James Gunn. The film infamously failed to give credit to Maugham's story though the fact that it was so studiously reworked probably has much to do with the author's lack of interest in making a legal matter of it. <br/><br/>Ann Sheridan plays a woman in distress accused of lying about her connection with a murdered man is eventually acquitted in court. Her character presents a unique picture of the noir female being neither afraid for her sanity or her life and yet a victim of postwar instability and infidelity in the context of being a military wife Silver et al. <br/><br/>16 pages saddle stapled folded once 11 x 17 inches. Very Good plus with slight separation at the spine a few tiny closed tears and light stressing to the fold. <br/><br/>Selby US. Silver Classic Noir. Spicer US. Warner Brothers unknown books
1973149309Neuilly-sur-Seine: Argos Films 1973. Vintage grande French poster from the 1973 erotic film. <br/><br/>Borowczyk's fourth feature length film an anthology film of four erotic tales set in different historical eras. Incest bloodlust masturbation and loss of virginity are among the film's themes featuring characters ranging from a nineteenth-century country girl fantasizing about Jesus to the bloodthirsty exploits of sixteenth-century Hungarian noblewoman and purported serial killer Elizabeth Bathory.<br/><br/>47 x 63 inches. Linen backed and rolled. Near Fine. Argos Films unknown books
19972081502111900793Three Gorges of China 1997. Soft Cover. Fine. Size: B5 hardcover book Three Gorges of China paperback
19072111902160201148Bunbudo Hakubunkan Tokyodo 1907. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Bunbudo Hakubunkan Tokyodo paperback