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197220743New York: The Viking Press. Fine in Near Fine dj. 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. 0670258873 . no discernible wear to book; jacket shows only light surface- and edge-wear. The MGM Library of Film Scripts Series B&W photographs In their second M-G-M outing Groucho Harpo and Chico now permanently Zeppo-less take on the medical profession with Groucho as Dr. Hugo Z. Hackenbush a horse doctor posing as the medical director of a sanitarium. Both the original script and the dialogue and action from the film as released are presented it sez here "because the final film differs so much from the script." As with all the books in this series the hardcover printings are much less common than the simultaneously-issued trade paperbacks. . The Viking Press hardcover books
19861325693Singapore: Harriet Ziefert Inc 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Long Thin Octavo; unpaginated; VG-; white spine with black text; no jacket; cloth shows very mild wear to exterior; strong boards; text block has light wear toward edges; interior clean; pictorial endpapers; profusely illustrated;. 1325693. FP New Rockville Stock. Harriet Ziefert, Inc hardcover books
19581320108Garden City NY: Doubleday & Company Inc 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Thin Quarto; unpaginated; G-/Fair; blue/white checkered spine with black text; dust jacket has noticeable chips to edges; slight soiling to exterior; slightly sunned exterior; price clipped flap; mylar wraps; cloth shows rubbed edges; lightly sunned exterior; sturdy boards; text block has mild tone to exterior edges; pictorial endpapers; interior clean; profusely illustrated; intact binding;. 1320108. FP New Rockville Stock. Doubleday & Company, Inc hardcover books
19571320109Garden City NY: Doubleday & Company Inc 1957. Hardcover. Thin Quarto; unpaginated; G/Fair; red/white checkered spine with black text; dust jacket has noticeable chips to edges; slight soiling to exterior; slightly sunned exterior; price clipped flap; mylar wraps; cloth shows modest wear to edges; sturdy boards; text block has mild tone to exterior edges; pictorial endpapers; interior clean; profusely illustrated; previous owner's name to ffep; frontispiece;. 1320109. FP New Rockville Stock. Doubleday & Company, Inc hardcover books
1943135060Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1943. Two vintage still photographs from the 1943 US film. One still is a black-and-white reference still and the other is a full-color studio still. <br/><br/>Based on a story by W.R. Burnett. Lieutenant Ward Stewart Power is made executive officer of the submarine USS Corsair. Before sailing he meets schoolteacher Jean Hewlett Baxter and seduces her unaware that she's the sweetheart of Lieutenant Dewey Connors Andrews his newly appointed commander. At sea the men bond unaware of their shared love interest. <br/><br/>Winner of an Academy Award for Best Effects. <br/><br/>Both stills 8 x 10 inches. Slight light edge creases. Very Good plus overall. <br/><br/><br/>Davenport p. 81. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1954134915New Orleans LA: Howco Productions 1954. Vintage black and white studio photograph from the 1954 film. With distributor's red warehouse stamp on the verso. <br/><br/>Cult director Ed Wood Jr.'s attempt at serious film noir with the director's usual flare for bad music acting sets dialogue etc. resulted in a film that is in both the B-noir pantheon and the realm of the Psychotronic. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Archival repair to a long closed tear at the verso some faint creasing but no loss or staining. Good to Very Good overall. <br/><br/>Lyons p. 108-109. Spicer p. 412. Howco Productions unknown books
5236WILLIAM WETMORE STORY 1819-1895. Story was an American sculptor poet and critic. AQS. 1pg. December 1889. An autograph quote signed “W. W. Storyâ€. Story wrote out the last verse of his poem “Io Victisâ€. “Speak History! Who are Life’s Victors Unroll thy long annals and say are thy those whom the world calls the Victors Who won the success of a day The martyrs or Nero The Spartans Who fell at Thermopylae’s tryst or the Persians and Xerxes His judges or Socrates Pilate or Christ W.W. Storyâ€. It is in fine condition and the quote is attached to another sheet. unknown books
148040Vintage studio still photograph from the 1944 film. <br/><br/>Naive small-town girl Millie Baxter Kim Hunter travels to New York City to meet her newlywedded husband Paul Dean Jagger only to discover that he may be a murderer. <br/><br/>Set in New York City. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with crease to left corner and small crease to top center. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request.<br/><br/>Selby US. Spicer US. Silver and Ward US. Grant US. Rosenbaum "1000 Essential Films. 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
1897705881897. Wheeler Alexander Strong 1820-1907. Reminiscences of an Old Lawyer: An Address by Our Fellow-Member Mr. A.S. Wheeler Delivered Before the Commercial Club of Boston December 18 1897. Printed by Request of the Club. Boston: Rockwell and Churchill Press 1898. 20 pp. Octavo 9-1/4" x 6". Sewn pamphlet in stiff wrappers printed title label to front cover. Light shelfwear light toning to text. $50. Wheeler a Boston lawyer was a graduate of Dartmouth and Harvard Law School. unknown books
1947144819Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1947. Vintage photograph of director Charles Vidor and stars Rosalind Russell and Melvyn Douglas speaking to Orson Welles on the set of the 1947 film. Welles was directing the classic Columbia Pictures film "The Lady from Shanghai" at the same time. Mimeo snipe and agency stamps on the verso.<br/><br/>Janet Ames Rosalind Russell seeks out five soldiers who her husband sacrificed his life for during World War II. After suffering a serious injury she meets Smithfield "Smitty" Cobb Melvyn Douglas who helps her find the men her husband saved though he does not tell her he is one of them. He tries to help her reconcile her pain and guilt while he treats his own pain from the war with heavy drinking. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1942148689Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1942. Final Draft script for the 1942 film here under the working title "The Magnificent Jerk." Production No. 647 and copy No.1 stamped on the front wrapper with FINAL printedd at the top right corner of same. Single annotation on title page amending title with "Dope" in holograph pencil. Laid in is a credit sequence page with credits divided horizontally from letters "a" to "h."<br/><br/>Don Ameche runs a Dale Carnegie-esque "success school" that isn't terribly successful and at the suggestion of his secretary decides to pursue a promotion where the company makes a success out of the "laziest man in America" who turns out to be Henry Fonda. <br/><br/>Set in New York City. <br/><br/>Blue titled wrappers noted as FINAL on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 1 and production No. 647 dated FEB. 14 1942. Distribution page present with receipt removed. Title page present dated February 14 1942 noted as Final Script with credits for screenwriter George Seaton. 136 leaves with last page of text numbered 131. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 2/18/42 and 3/30/42. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with one two and a half inch closed tear on front wrapper and several small closed tears bound internally with two gold brads.<br/><br/>Credit Sequence 8.5 x 11 inches. Very Good plus with center crease open tears at top and bottom hole punch and very small chip on top right. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1944128914Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1944. Draft script for the 1945 film. Copy belonging to studio secretary Marion Pecht with her name in holograph pencil at the top right corner of the front wrapper. <br/><br/>The sixth and final Inner Sanctum installment featuring spiritualists a haunted house and a murder by suffocation in what was seemingly a last gasp from the studio's film series. Sadly the film's failure superseded its potential even with all the right elements of a chilling melodrama. <br/><br/>ChaneyJr. plays attorney Wayne Fletcher who is engaged in an affair with his secretary Donna Joyce who is tied to a rich family. He arrives home after a late night at the office to discover his wife has been murdered a death by asphyxiation with Wayne as the suspect. With the help psychic Julian Julian Bromberg the police investigate the murder. The psychic's motives are questionable but he says he can contact Wayne's dead wife. At a seance to reach Vivian's spirit the reluctant Wayne hears what he thinks is her voice but discovers Julian Julian in the shadows and accuses him of conspiracy. After several sleepless nights haunted by the voice of his lost wife Wayne finally "gives in" to her spirit and attempts to kill Donna with a pillow but is overpowered by police and leaps from a window to his death per his wife's instructions. <br/><br/>Gray card titled wrappers lacking rear wrapper rubber-stamped production No. 7285 dated February 19 1945 with credits for screenwriter Bricker and story writer Babcock. 106 leaves mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Good lacking rear wrapper bound with two gold brads. <br/><br/>Weaver Universal Horrors. Universal Pictures 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
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
1950125431Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1950. Original pressbook for the 1950 film noir. Based on a story by Virginia Kellogg published in "Colliers" on June 3 1950 written for the screen by Kellogg and Bernard C. Schoenfeld. <br/><br/>The gradual transformation of one woman at first innocent and shy into a hardened and knowing criminal. Eleanor Parker gives the best performance of her career and Hope Emerson as always makes for an intimidating and villainous female. An unusually realistic representation of prison life. <br/><br/>16 pages 11 x 17 inches saddle stapled. Very Good plus with a faint horizontal fold crease at the center of the wrapper and pages a few short closed tears at the stitching light soil and a small chip at one corner. <br/><br/>Lyons US. Selby US. Silver Classic Noir. Spicer US. Warner Brothers 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
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
1994131335Santa Monica CA: Home Box Office HBO 1994. 1st Draft script with blue and pink revisions for the 1995 film. Copy belonging to actress Lilyan Chauvin INSCRIBED to her by actors Holt McCallany Michael Jai White George C. Scott George Murdock James Sikking Tony Lo Bianco screenwriter Robert P. Johnson director Uli Edel and producer David Blocker. <br/><br/>Based on Jose Torres' book "Fire and Fear" and aired as a television movie on HBO "Tyson" highlights the early days of "Heavyweight Champion of the World" Mike Tyson from his childhood to professional boxing and even his lesser career happenings to date. Two years after the film's airing Tyson fought Evander Holyfield and was disqualified for biting Holyfield's ears-both ears twice. <br/><br/>Self wrappers. Title page present dated 8/1/94 noted as Pink Pages with credits for screenwriter Johnson. 135 leaves mechanical duplication with pink and blue revision pages throughout dated either 7/22/94 or 8/1/94. Pages about Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Home Box Office [HBO] unknown books
199319598New York: Orchard Books 1993. First Edition. First Printing. Small quarto; tan paper-covered boards with titles stamped in red foil on spine; dustjacket; 29pp; illus. Bookplate signed by Tyler loosely laid in. Fine in a Fine unclipped dustjacket. Lovely copy of Tyler's first children's book. Orchard Books unknown books
201022429ELos Angeles: Disney / Pixar 2010. First Edition. Small format paperbound 5 1/4†x 8 1/4†130 pages. This is first appearance in book form of this screenplay specially printed for distribution to members of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences in consideration for nomination of the Best Adapted Screenplay for the animated film Toy Story 3 screenplay by Michael Arndt story by John Lasseter Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich featuring the voices of Tom Hanks Tim Allen Joan Cusack Ned Beatty Don Rickles Wallace Shawn John Ratzenberger and Estelle Harris. A perfectbound book looking like a trade paperback. Hint of handling else a fine copy in printed wrappers. The film won 2 Oscars; Best Animated Feature Film and Best Original Song and was nominated for 3 more; Best Picture Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Sound Editing. Disney / Pixar paperback books
1973143674Tokyo: Toho Company / 1973. Draft script for the 1973 Japanese film. Based on the 1972-1973 manga written by Kazuo Koike and Kazuo Kamimura. <br/><br/>The story of a woman with a sword in the end of her umbrella who seeks vengeance against the men who murdered her father and raped her mother leaving a trail of blood in her wake. A gorgeously shot cult classic and one of the best films of early 1970s samurai cinema. One of Quentin Tarantino's greatest influences for his "Kill Bill" duology borrowing plot and thematic elements character and set design and even re-creating specific shots. <br/><br/>Off white wrappers perfect bound with red and blue titles dated 1973.9.20. 83 leaves with last page of text numbered "e-28." Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper a moderately foxed Very Good plus. <br/><br/>Arrow 662. Criterion Collection 790. Toho Company / unknown books
19861293186New York: North-South Books 1986. First English Language Edition. Hardcover. 4to. picture book unpaginated VG/VG; DJ white spine small black lettering: very mild wear to DJ front flap price clipped; gloss paper boards white spine small black lettering: very mild wear to boards mostly bumping to head and tail; interior pristine fully illustrated by Watts; orig. pub. in Switzerland under the title "SCHUSTER MARTIN"; shelved Case 14. 1293186. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. North-South Books hardcover books
1925140430Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1925. Draft script for the 1926 silent film "The Blackbird" seen here under the working title "The Mocking Bird." <br/><br/>Lon Chaney again serves as a versatile "man of a thousand faces" here playing the role of high-profile thief The Blackbird who lives a double-life as a beloved local bishop. He falls in love with a vaudeville starlet who's already being courted by another wealthy thief. The Blackbird attempts to use his Bishop persona to break up the pair and fails becoming crippled and nearly being caught by the police in the process. <br/><br/>Set in the Limehouse district in London. <br/><br/>Tan titled wrappers rubber-stamped copy No. 2 and production No. 1537 dated October 10 1925 with credits for screenwriter Waldemar Young. Title page integral with the first page of the text with credits for screenwriters Tod Browning and Waldemar Young. 120 leaves with last page of text numbered 119. Ditto style mimeograph duplication. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Good bound with two gold brads. <br/><br/>Spicer US Neo-Noir. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1928140436Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1928. Draft script for the 1929 silent film. <br/><br/>Lon Chaney plays a heavily-scarred wild animal trapper whose daughter's upcoming marriage is threatened by the return of her femme fatale mother. The mother harbors bitterness to Chaney and seeks revenge on him by attempting to woo her daughter's fiance thwarted by a gorilla Chaney releases from a cage that gruesomely attacks her. Lon Chaney's penultimate silent film and the last of his collaborations with director Tod Browning. The film was released with a Movietone music and effects soundtrack that could be played alongside the film. <br/><br/>Tan titled wrappers rubber-stamped copy No. 10751 and production No. 415 dated Dec. 31 1928 with credits for producer Irving Thalberg. Title page integral with the first page of the text with credits for story writers Tod Browning and Harry Sinclair Drago and screenwriter Waldemar Young. 75 leaves with last page of text numbered 75. Mimeograph duplication. Pages about Fine wrapper Good plus bound with two gold brads. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
