Alfred Hitchcock; Tippi Hedren (subjects); Daphne du Maurier (story); Luc Fournol (photographer)Biblio.com
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1963147455N.p.: N.p. 1963. Vintage borderless press photograph of director Alfred Hitchcock and actor Tippi Hedren attending Cannes in 1963 with Hitchcock making a bird gesture. With a stamp for photographer Luc Fournol on the verso noting the date 14 Mai 1963.<br /> <br /> Loosely based on a 1952 short story by Daphne du Maurier. Often regarded as Hitchcock's last great film made all the more terrifying by the lack of motivation or explanation given to the violence. The first film screened at a prestigious invitational showing at Cannes in 1963 attended by both Hitchcock and Hedren.<br /> <br /> 11 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with light curling and a diagonal crease to the lower left corner. N.p. unknown
1957141710N.p.: N.p. 1957. Draft script for an unproduced film. Copy belonging to Ben Colman after previously being owned by screenwriter Maxwell Shane with both of their names and addresses on the first page. <br /> <br /> Based in part on an adventure story by Daniel Defoe. The film opens with a man trying to drown himself in the ocean as he reflects on his journey to this point of his life. Maxwell Shane began as a screenwriter and found his greatest recognition as a director of five key films noir in the 1940s and 1950s including "Fear in the Night" and "City Across the River."<br /> <br /> Blue titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Maxwell Shane and author Daniel Defoe. 145 leaves with last page of text numbered 142. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. N.p. unknown
1959130326Los Angeles: Luna Productions 1959. Shooting Final script for the 1960 film. <br/><br/>An expertly shot low-budget space exploration film about a cozy spaceship carrying scientists engineers and researchers from all over the world with the moon as their destination. Captain John Anderson Clark juggles a crew with a variety of nationalities dealing in particular with conflicts between the German and Israeli crew members over Holocaust issues. Once on the moon the crew discovers an entire civilization of peace-loving extraterrestrials. <br/><br/>Though working with a pitiable budget the producers at Luna Productions managed to hire noted cameraman John Alton then nearing the end of his career. Alton worked on every manner of film but is best remembered for his work in film noir salient examples being "Hollow Triumph" 1948 "The Amazing Mr. X" 1948 "The Big Combo" 1955 and a number of important noir entries by director Anthony Mann. <br/><br/>Red titled wrappers noted as SHOOTING FINAL on the front wrapper dated March 31 1959. Title page present dated March 31 1959 with credits for screenwriter Bodeen story writer/producer F. O. Gebhardt director Bradley and associate producer Fox. 104 leaves mimeograph duplication. Pages about Fine wrapper about Fine bound internally with three gold brads. <br/><br/>Lentz US. Mystery Science Theater 524. Luna Productions unknown books
1924312270NY: MOVIE WEEKLY PUBLISHING CORP. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1924. First Edition; First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Near fine in sepia toned stapled wrappers. 12 1/2" X 9 1/4" 32pp. Split at base of spine leaving the rear cover neatly detached. Features a continuation of actress Marion Davies story "The true story of my life." A cut autograph of Marion Davies laid-in loosely. Also Ramon Navarro. Photo of Kenneth Harlan and Marie Prevost on cover. BC; 9 1/2" X 12 1/2" . MOVIE WEEKLY PUBLISHING CORP. unknown
1941137043Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1941. Draft script for the 1941 film. Copy belonging to studio secretary Marion Pecht with her name in manuscript pencil at the top right corner of the front wrapper. File copy rubber-stamped on the front wrapper. Housed in a custom black cloth clamshell box. From the Richard Manney collection of horror film scripts. <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 rubber-stamped copy No. 6856 dated February 15 1941. 117 leaves with last page of text numbered 117. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. <br /> <br /> Weaver Universal Horrors. Universal Pictures unknown
1985166915N.p.: N.p. 1985. Final Draft script for the 1986 film.<br /> <br /> Fred Williamson directs and stars as a cigar-smoking swaggering private investigator hired by a millionaire to find his missing niece in Europe.<br /> <br /> Set and shot on location in Cannes Los Angeles Rome and Venice. <br /> <br /> Front wrapper integral with title page dated June 3 1985 noted as FINAL DRAFT. 81 leaves with last page of text numbered 79. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus with light soiling to the title page side-stapled.<br /> <br /> Moore The Good the Tough and the Deadly: Action Movies and Stars 1960s-2015. N.p. unknown
1951162338N.p.: N.p. 1951. Four vintage reference photographs from the 1951 film including three showing Gene Kelly dancing with Leslie Caron and one showing a dejected Kelly with four military officers. <br /> <br /> Inspired by George Gershwin's 1928 jazz-influenced orchestral composition and featuring a show-stopping 17-minute ballet choreographed to the piece as well as a number of other Gershwin tunes including the classics "Embraceable You" "Nice Work if You Can Get It" and "I Got Rhythm."<br /> <br /> Winner of six Academy Awards including Best Screenplay and Best Picture and nominated for two others including Best Director. Also nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 1952.<br /> <br /> 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine with light age toning on a few margins. <br /> <br /> National Film Registry. Godard Histoires du cinema. Schrader 34. N.p. unknown
1947156254Los Angeles: Monogram Pictures 1947. Collection of eleven vintage studio still photographs from the 1947 film noir. <br /> <br /> Based on the 1941 short story "He Looked Like Murder" by Cornell Woolrich about a manhunt for the murderer of a woman with a twin told through a series of flashbacks and plot twists.<br /> <br /> Set in New York City. <br /> <br /> 10 x 8 inches. Very Good with moderate edgewear and age toning.<br /> <br /> Grant US. Selby US Masterwork. Silver and Ward Classic Noir. Spicer US. Monogram Pictures unknown
1972309357NY: VIKING. Fine. 1972. First Edition. 0670511293 . SIGNED by Kitty Carlisle Sig Ruman Allan Jones Walter Woolf King & Jonathan Hale on tipped-in plates on front inside cover & endpaper. About fine in a near fine dj. A few short edge tears in dj. B . VIKING. unknown
1965148379Hollywood: Berkshire Productions 1965. Draft script for the 1968 film with titled written on front wrapper very boldly in manuscript marker script containing a few copied annotations striking dialogue and altering actions. <br /> <br /> From an original story from producer and director Josef Shaftel.<br /> <br /> When no one will pay the ransom for the return of retired Mob Boss Cesare Celli Vittorio De Sica he sides with his kidnappers Robert Wagner Raquel Welch and offers to help them pull off a huge heist even bringing in criminal mastermind Professor Samuels Edward G. Robinson to help run the operation.<br /> <br /> Set in and shot on location in France and Italy. <br /> <br /> Green hand titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Sy Salkowitz and author Josef Shaftel. 151 leaves with last page of text numbered 150. Spirit duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine with fading at edges wrapper Very Good plus with creasing and light foxing on lower outer edge bound with prong binding. Berkshire Productions unknown
1967131318Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1967. Draft script for the 1968 film. <br/><br/>Private detective John Rogue Smith is willing to do anything to help his finances. A psychiatrist Morgan hires him to follow a wealthy woman Baldwin on the verge of suicide. A mystery in the vein of Philip Marlowe stories. With late performances by Jackie Coogan and Brian Donlevy. <br/><br/>Green titled wrappers with a die-cut title window. Title page present rubber-stamped copy No. 5 dated May 29 1967 with credits for screenwriter Fisher and story writer Lyles. 127 leaves mechanical duplication with pink and blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 8-22-67 and 9-1-67. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two gold brads. Paramount Pictures unknown books
19933116937New York: Nantier - Beall - Minoustchine. Fine with no dust jacket. 1993. First Edition; First Printing. Limited edition. 156163090X . Limited edition. Number 187 of 500 SIGNED by Milo Manara on colophon. Fine in brown faux boards with illustrated plate a-fixed to front cover. Un-paginated 9" X 11 1/4" Uncommon in the limited signed issue. ; 9" X 11 1/4" . Nantier - Beall - Minoustchine. unknown
1948160687London: The Rank Organization 1948. Five vintage reference photographs from the 1948 British film showing the film's famous and impressionistic "ballet sequence." Three with printed mimeo snipes affixed to the versos and all five with stamps of The Rank Organisation on the versos. <br /> <br /> Loosely based on the 1845 fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen following an up-and-coming prima ballerina whose personal life is strained by her ballet master's obsessive demand that she devote herself entirely to her career. Michael Powell's tenth collaboration with his longtime partner Emeric Pressburger a critical success and worthy successor to their 1947 Technicolor classic "Black Narcissus."<br /> <br /> Nominated for five Academy Awards winning two. <br /> <br /> 9.5 x 8 inches. Near Fine to Very Good plus some with light toning. <br /> <br /> Criterion Collection 44. Ebert III. Rosenbaum 1000. Schrader 41. The Rank Organization unknown
1966150834N.p.: N.p. 1966. Vintage borderless double weight photograph of Michelangelo Antonioni on the set of the 1966 film with provenance stamp of film scholar and author "J. P. Berthome" on verso.<br /> <br /> Inspired by the 1959 short story "Las Babas del Diablo" by Julio Cortazar.<br /> <br /> Michelangelo Antonioni's first English-language film marking the beginning of the final phase of his work co-produced by companies in Italy the United States and the United Kingdom and featuring an international cast. The director's brash use of color set design non-standard editing techniques and typical emphasis of atmosphere over plot would carry over into the two major films that followed "Zabriskie Point" 1970 and "The Passenger" 1975. <br /> <br /> In his 2009 essay on the film Danny Lyon notes "It is apt that through his established style Antonioni made a movie that is perhaps closest to communicating the myth of the swinging Sixties scene but also the confusion of the time. . Britain's new and very chaotic cultural revolution was perhaps most effectively captured by an Italian."<br /> <br /> Winner of the Palme d'Or. Nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Screenplay.<br /> <br /> 10 x 8 inches. Light edgewear and creasing in far corners else Near Fine. <br /> <br /> Criterion Collection 865. Ebert I. Grant UK/Italy. N.p. unknown
1937150759N.p.: N.p. 1937. Vintage double weight reference photograph of director Mitchell Leisen demonstrating how to kiss Jean Arthur while Ray Milland looks on from the 1937 film. <br /> <br /> Based on the 1937 short story by Vera Caspary.<br /> <br /> During the Great Depression obscenely wealthy baker J.B. Ball Edward Arnold angered at his wife's Mary Nash spending throws her very expensive sable coat off the roof where it lands on the head of stenographer Mary Smith Arthur leading to a life-altering chain of events.<br /> <br /> Set in New York City. <br /> <br /> 10 x 8 inches. Some edgewear else Near Fine. <br /> <br /> Byrge and Miller The Screwball Comedy Films A History and Filmography: 1934-1942. N.p. unknown
1937150759N.p.: N.p. 1937. Vintage double weight reference photograph of director Mitchell Leisen demonstrating how to kiss Jean Arthur while Ray Milland looks on from the 1937 film. <br/><br/>Based on the 1937 short story by Vera Caspary.<br/><br/>During the Great Depression obscenely wealthy baker J.B. Ball Edward Arnold angered at his wife's Mary Nash spending throws her very expensive sable coat off the roof where it lands on the head of stenographer Mary Smith Arthur leading to a life-altering chain of events.<br/><br/>Set in New York City. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Some edgewear else Near Fine. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request.<br/><br/>Byrge and Miller The Screwball Comedy Films A History and Filmography: 1934-1942. N.p. unknown books
18955527New York: The Cassell Publishing Co. 1895. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. A Very Good or better copy -- a little fading to the spine and some loss at the top of the cloth spine where it yaps folds over the textblock no bumps. Pencil period gift inscription contents otherwise clean. A nice solid copy. Red cloth with white contrasts. Over 50 very striking full-page illustrations. OCLC 16349500. Rare -- only one copy in Worldcat. <br/><br/> The Cassell Publishing Co. hardcover
1946143449Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1946. Vintage photograph showing director Robert Siodmak meeting star Ava Gardner and her then-husband band leader Artie Shaw on the set of the 1946 film. With a fold-over mimeo snipe on the verso. <br/><br/>A breakthrough role for Gardner as well as the screen debut of Burt Lancaster the film follows Hemingway's story closely for the first 20 minutes then explores both what led to the killing and its aftermath. Nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Director and Best Screenplay. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with some light soil and shallow diagonal creasing to the corners. <br/><br/>National Film Registry. Arrow Academy 1024. Criterion Collection 176. Grant US. Lee The Heist Film. Penzler 101. Selby Masterwork. Silver and Ward Classic Noir. Spicer US. Universal Pictures unknown books
1961158005N.p.: N.p. 1961. Vintage reference photograph of director Roger Corman and cinematographer Floyd Crosby capturing a scene with Vincent Price on the set of the 1961 film. <br /> <br /> From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler.<br /> <br /> Based on Edgar Allan Poe's 1842 short story about a young Englishman who travels to Spain to investigate his sister's death. The second Poe adaptation released by American International Pictures following Corman's "The House of Usher" in 1960. <br /> <br /> 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with light toning and wear on the corners. N.p. unknown
1925137138Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1925. Vintage reference photograph from the set of the 1925 film with a mimeo snipe and photographer's stamp on the verso. Based on the unfinished 1832 novel "Dubrovsky" by Alexander Pushkin. <br/><br/>A posed shot showing director Brown and stars Valentino and Banky with painter Federico Beltran Masses a well known figure in Hollywood because of his friendship with William Randolph Hearst. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Very Good with diagonal chips missing from two corners but the image largely unaffected. United Artists unknown books
1974155950N.p.: N.p. 1974. Vintage two-color one sheet poster for the 1974 film here under its original release title "Black Agent Lucky King."<br /> <br /> Former Oakland Channel 20 television talk show host Sal Watts in response to complaints from his audience about current black action films was determined to make a quality motion picture for African American audiences. The result was "Solomon King" which Watts produced wrote co-directed and starred a first for an independent black producer. Believed lost this obscure Blaxploitation classic is scheduled for restoration and re-release from Deaf Crocodile Films in 2022.<br /> <br /> Ex-Green Beret Solomon King Watts vows vengeance when his former lover Princess Oneeba is murdered by Arab agents from the country she once escaped. With the aid of several fellow Vietnam veterans brother Maney King and CIA agent O'Malley King plans a commando raid into the Arab country to kill the hit man. Featuring a cameo from Watt's friend baseball player Tito Fuentes.<br /> <br /> Set in Oakland California and an undisclosed Arab nation shot on location in Oakland California.<br /> <br /> 27 x 41 inches folded as issued. Very Good with pinholes some creasing and soiling two modest closed tears three small chips and an annotation in manuscript ink on the outer middle right margin.<br /> <br /> Howard Blaxploitation Cinema p. 195. N.p. unknown
19309229London: Longmont Green and Co 1930. First Edition. Full leather. Very good . 8vo. 278 pp. full leather with gilt dentelle inside border marbled endpapers frontispiece 2 illustrations map bibliographical notes. -- Authors personal copy with her booklplates. Probably a presentation copy from the publisher. -- A small amount of rubbing to the top and bottom shoulder joints of the binding and to the heel of the spine. "Sir William Johnson 1st Baronet c.1715-11 July 1774 was an Irish official of the British Empire. As a young man Johnson moved to the Province of New York to manage an estate purchased by his uncle Admiral Peter Warren which was located amidst the Mohawk one of the Six Nations of the Iroquois League. Johnson learned the Mohawk language and Iroquois customs and was appointed the British agent to the Iroquois. Because of his success he was appointed in 1756 as British Superintendent of Indian Affairs for the northern colonies. Throughout his career as a British official among the Iroquois Johnson combined personal business with official diplomacy acquiring tens of thousands of acres of Native land and becoming very wealthy."-wiki. Longmont, Green and Co hardcover
1892719011892. Story on Equity Pleadings Story Joseph 1779-1845. Gould John M. 1848-1909 Editor. Commentaries on Equity Pleadings And the Incidents Thereof According to the Practice of the Courts of Equity of England and America. Revised Corrected and Enlarged. Boston: Little Brown and Company 1892. xlviii 823 pp. Octavo 6" x 9". Contemporary law calf blind rules to boards raised bands and red and black lettering pieces to spine blind tooling to board edges. A few minor stains light rubbing to extremities hinges cracked light toning to text. A notably well-preserved copy. $450. Ninth edition. This distinguished treatise was first published in 1836. According to Simon Greenleaf "there are no works in our language in which the true doctrines and practice of the Law of Equity.are so convincingly taught; and probably no one of his works has been received by the profession with greater thankfulness or is more frequently consulted than this work" cited in Marvin. It remained a standard work for many years; its final edition the thirteenth was issued in 1886. Marvin Legal Bibliography 672. Catalogue of the Library of the Harvard Law School 1909 II:670. unknown books
1829707451829. Boston: Published by Carter and Hendee 1829. Boston: Published by Carter and Hendee 1829. The First Legal Work Bearing Story's Name Story Joseph 1779-1845. Oliver Benjamin L. 1788-1843 Editor. A Selection of Pleadings in Civil Actions With Occasional Annotations on the Law of Pleading. With Additions by Benjamin L. Oliver. Boston: Published by Carter and Hendee 1829. xv 709 pp. Octavo 9-1/2" x 6-1/4". Contemporary sheep blind fillets to boards blind fillets and red and black lettering pieces to spine. Light rubbing and some shallow scuffing to boards somewhat heavier rubbing to extremities some chipping to head of spine early owner signature of Edwin Conant to front free endpaper below small struck-through signature. Moderate toning to text somewhat heavier in places occasional light foxing light soiling to a few leaves. $450. Second edition. This is both the first legal work bearing Story's name and the first American book of entries of precedents. According to Marvin the work's "notes and references show that the author had made no ordinary attainments in the science of special pleading." Story was Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court a professor at Harvard Law School and the most respected and prolific legal writer of his time. Edwin Conant 1810-1891 was a prominent Worcester Massachusetts lawyer businessman and philanthropist. Marvin Legal Bibliography 668. Cohen Bibliography of Early American Law 9275. unknown books
1894218641894. Slavery & Abolition Literature Anonymous. The Story of a Slave: Slavery's Social Evil. Published by the trade. 1894. Original black and white illustrated wrappers. 8vo. 192 pages. This is a rare account of slavery by an anonymous author that romanticizes the Old South and plantation life of the slave Paul who is seduced by the white mistress Virginia. Paul Hamilton Hayes' name appears in the contents page though an author is not attributed. The title page states "A realistic revelation of a social relation of slave times hitherto unwritten--from the one who has felt both the slash and the caress from their mistress." The Story of a Slave is presented as the autobiography of a slave named Paul but is believed to be a fictional account. The work was published anonymously and no author has since been identified. In this account Paul was born in Alabama and learned to read and write as a child. When he was eighteen he began to work as a field hand on a Choteaux family plantation. He later moved to another of his master's plantations to work as a house-boy. Here he met and fell in love with his master's daughter Virginia Choteaux. Soon Virginia discovers she is pregnant but before the lovers can arrange an escape Virginia's unsuspecting parents arrange for her marriage to a young white man. The memoir concludes with news of Paul's former mistress's death some years after the Civil War." This summary was written perhaps about an earlier publication of this book around 1894 published by Wesley Elmore & Benson and this copy may be a later publication in paperback for the trade but is a rare pulp copy. Title page has a 1" chip in the center of some text. The contents page is detached from binding. Edges of front and back covers have chips and tears. Overall condition is clean with no writing underlining or highlighting. unknown
