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1965137571Bulgaria: Boyana Films 1965. Vintage reference photograph of actor Guy Madison from the 1965 Bulgarian film with dialogue in German based on the 1892 story by Karl May "Das Vermachtnis des Inka" originally published in the German magazine "Der Gute Kamerad."<br/><br/>Following the cancellation of "The Adventures of Wild Bill Hitchcock" in 1957 Guy Madison moved to Europe where he found a second career in Euro Westerns and sword and sandal pictures. <br/><br/>Set in Peru and shot on location there as well as Spain and Bulgaria. <br/><br/>9.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. Boyana Films unknown books
1965137570Bulgaria: Boyana Films 1965. Three vintage reference photographs of actor Guy Madison from the 1965 Bulgarian film with dialogue in German based on the 1892 story by Karl May "Das Vermachtnis des Inka" originally published in the German magazine "Der Gute Kamerad."<br/><br/>Following the cancellation of "The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok" in 1957 Guy Madison moved to Europe where he found a second career in Italian Euro Westerns and sword and sandal pictures. <br/><br/>Set in Peru and shot on location there as well as Spain and Bulgaria. <br/><br/>9.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. Boyana Films 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
185162801Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown 1851. First edition. 2 vols. 8vo. xii 574pp.; viii 676pp. Original brown cloth spine ends worn with chipping to ends. Vol. 1 has a small piece that has been glued back on the top of spine. Scattered foxing throughout. <br/><br/> Charles C. Little and James Brown hardcover books
2001284942001. 2 Vols ISBN-13: 9781584770718; ISBN-10: 1584770716. Story Joseph. Story William Wetmore Editor. Life and Letters of Joseph Story Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States and Dane Professor of Law at Harvard University Edited by his Son William W. Story. Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown 1851. 2 volumes. xii 574; viii 676 pp. Frontispiece. Reprinted 2001 2018 by The Lawbook Exchange Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584770718; ISBN-10: 1584770716. Hardcover. New. $95. From Story's vast correspondence his son William has selected those letters that describe his childhood and youth education life at the bar and judicial and professorial life. Taken along with his various published treatises and his monumental work on the Constitution Commentaries on the Constitution 1833 this assemblage illuminates the fine mind that was Story's. Story 1779-1845 was appointed the youngest Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States in 1811 and in 1829 became the first Dane professor of law at Harvard. unknown books
189288902 vols. London: Richard Bentley & Son 1892. 2 vols. 8vo Vol. I: xxi 308pp; Vol. II: 284pp. 2 frontispieces with tissue guards and 21 illustrations. Original blue cloth with gilt edges and lettering to spine. Moderate foxing to title pages and throughout. Pages untrimmed. Very good. § First edition. John Linnell was an English Romantic painter 1792-1882. Linnell was one of the best friends and patrons of William Blake. Bentley Blake Books 2769. Richard Bentley & Son hardcover books
1980147435N.p.: Taliafilm II 1980. Draft script for the 1987 film. An early draft written solely by the creator of the story Menno Meyjes.<br/><br/>Loosely based on the 13th Century Children's Crusade we follow the knight Robert Nerra Eric Stoltz as he joins up with King Richard the Lionheart Neil Dickson to protect orphan children from the Black Prince Gabriel Byrne a child slave trader.<br/><br/>Shot on location in Hungary and Portugal. <br/><br/>The penultimate film from Franklin J. Schaffner and his final film working with composer Jerry Goldsmith. They had previously worked together on "Planet of the Apes" 1968 "Patton" 1970 "Papillon" 1973 and "The Boys from Brazil" 1978.<br/><br/>Wrapper integral with title page with credits for screenwriter Menno Meyjes. 129 leaves with last page of text numbered 128. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound with two flat metal brads. Taliafilm II unknown books
1972164517London: Sphere Books Limited 1972. Small octavo pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Test-tube bred bureaucrats run the country with high efficiency." - Gerber Utopian Fantasy 1973 p. 162. "Art Henry was quite inconsiderate: he should never have survived his heart attack according to the tidy computations of his Orwellian society. And to walk the streets playing his trombone as he searched for his lost poodle simply didn't fit the orthodoxy of an England dosed dazed and dumbfounded by a welfare state the sprayed its proles like crops and bred its executives in test-tubes." - publisher's blurb. "Rabelaisian good humour" - Oxford Mail. Sargent British and American Utopian Literature 1516-1985 p. 336. A fine copy. #164517 Sphere Books Limited unknown books
1962132627London: Regal Films National 1962. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the 1962 UK film. Mimeograph snipe affixed to the verso. <br/><br/>Before Michael Caine as "Alfie" 1966 there was Ian Hendry as the cheeky womanizer named Albert whose ex-lover June Ritchie comes to visit with their out-of-wedlock child. For a brief period the two reunite and Albert puts a halt to his philandering ways until they fall out once more. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with pinholes and creases at the extremities. Regal Films National unknown books
2005019139rosNew York: Crossroads Films. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Grey dust jacket with b&w photo on front cover; black cloth boards with blind embossed title on spine; housed in black cloth slipcase. Unpaginated. Boards have light wear to head and foot of spine; text block clean; dust jacket has light rubbing to all corners and spine; slipcase has light wear and soiling. B&W photos of centenarians and supercentenarians and includes brief write-ups about each person. ; B & W Photographs; 4to 11" - 13" tall . Crossroads Films hardcover books
1977135322Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1977. Final Draft script for the November 7 1977 television episode "The Crypt" season 1 episode 7 of the science fiction series "Logan's Run." This episode is based on an original story by Harlan Ellison. Copy belonging to an uncredited crew member named Chuck Sereci with his name in holograph pencil on the front wrapper. <br/><br/>Logan Harrison and his partner Jessica Menzies-Urich discover an underground room a crypt with six cryogenically frozen survivors of the nuclear holocaust. Logan and Jessican attempt to rescue them in the midst of a series of earthquakes. <br/><br/>"Logan's Run" 1977-1978 was a short-lived but notable sci-fi television series based on the 1967 novel by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson. Logan a rebellious law enforcement agent and his partner Jessica the series main characters are nearing the age of 30. In their futuristic society the age of 30 is considered one's deathbed so the two go on the run to find sanctuary and freedom from the dystopian society. <br/> <br/>Harlan Ellison had been writing for television since 1963 "Ripcord" and wrote for several notable series including "The Outer Limits" "The Alfred Hitchcock Hour" "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." "Star Trek" "The Twilight Zone" and "Babylon 5" and its many spin-offs. The story "The Crypt" was finally published in the 2013 collection "Brain Movies: The Original Teleplays of Harlan Ellison Volume 5."<br/><br/>Yellow titled wrappers noted as FINAL DRAFT on the front wrapper production No. 3304 dated September 2 1977 with credits for story writer Ellison and screenwriter Hayes. Title page integral with front wrapper. 55 leaves with last page of text numbered 53. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1932145965Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1932. Draft script for an unproduced film. With holograph pencil annotations to the front wrapper. <br/><br/>An early screenplay by American playwright Zoe Akins who won a Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1935 for her adaptation of Edith Wharton's "The Old Maid." <br/><br/>Based on the 1898 story by John Luther Long. An American naval officer purchases marries and abandons a Japanese geisha named Butterfly leaving her penniless pregnant and increasingly despairing of his return. <br/><br/>Madame Butterfly has been adapted numerous times for opera stage and film although many of these productions have faced increased scrutiny in recent years for their stereotypical portrayals of Japanese people white actors in "yellowface" and inaccurate descriptions of Japanese customs and culture.<br/><br/>Tall white titled self wrappers noted as MASTER FILE on the front wrapper rubber-stamped production No. 1083 with credits for screenwriter Zoe Akins. 100 leaves with last page of text numbered G-25. Carbon typescript on onionskin stock rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus side stapled. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1971148532London: ITC 1971. First Draft script for the 1972 British television film which aired on ABC on January 15 1972 and was theatrically released in Europe. Copy number "29" in holograph marker on title page.<br/><br/>This early First Draft was written by screenwriter Philip Levene best known for his screenwriting and consultant work on the television series "The Avengers" from 1965 to 1968. Levene did not receive screen credit on the 1972 release. <br/><br/>Bette Davis is Madame Sin a sinister villain hiding in a Scottish castle intent on world domination who kidnaps ex-CIA agent Anthony Lawrence played by Robert Wagner forcing him to help her hijack a Polaris submarine to attain a secret nuclear weapon. One of many films cashing on the popularity of the then-new James Bond films originally intended as a television pilot but released as a feature film.<br/><br/>Shot on location in Berkshire and Piccadilly in London and Argyll and Bute in Scotland.<br/><br/>Red untitled wrappers with die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present noted as FIRST DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Philip Levene and creator Lou Morheim. 136 leaves with last page of text numbered 135. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two flat metal brads. ITC unknown books
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 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
1963151796Universal City: Universal Pictures 1963. Vintage reference photograph of Paula Prentiss Howard Hawks and Maria Perschy on the set of the 1964 film. Mimeo snipe on verso.<br/><br/>Based on the short story "The Girl Who Almost Got Away" by Pat Frank published in the July 1950 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine. Roger Willoughby Rock Hudson esteemed author and expert on fishing has never fished and when outspoken and unshakable PR agent Abigail Page Prentiss enters him into a fishing tournament mayhem and possibly romance ensues. <br/><br/>Howard Hawks' homage to the screwball comedies of the 1930s and 40s particularly his' own 1938 classic "Bringing Up Baby" starring Katherine Hepburn and Cary Grant who he tried unsuccessfully to get to reprise their roles.<br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Godard Histoires du Cinema. Universal Pictures unknown books
1977147768Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1977. Collection of six vintage studio still photographs from the 1977 film. <br/><br/>Major Foster Gene Hackman a war-weary alcoholic haunted by memories from WWI is commander of a detachment of the French Foreign Legion assigned to protect a team of archeologists at a dig site in Morocco from revolutionaries led by El-Krim Ian Holm. <br/><br/>Set in Morocco and shot on location in Morocco Andalucia Madrid Arizona and California. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Columbia Pictures unknown books
201922894ELos Angeles: Netflix n.d. 2019. First Edition. Small format paperbound 5 1/4†x 8 1/4†152 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 Original Screenplay. Shooting script for the film Marriage Story written by Noah Baumbach. A perfectbound book looking like a trade paperback. Hint of handling else fine in printed wrappers. The film was directed by Noah Baumbach and stars Adam Driver Scarlett Johansson Laura Dern Julia Greer and Wallace Shawn. It won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress Dern and was nominated for 5 more; Best Picture Best Actress Johansson Best Actor Driver Best Original Screenplay and Best Original Score. Laura Dern also won a Golden Globe for Supporting Actress and the film received 5 nominations. Netflix paperback books
1973139120London: Walt Disney Pictures 1973. Original British full-color program for the 1973 release of the 1964 US film. Printed by Sackville Smeets Limited. <br/><br/>Based on Travers' 1934 novel and subsequent books. Julie Andrews is a magical nanny briefly employed by a dysfunctional Edwardian London family in this classic Disney feature that combines both live action and animated sequences. The film won five Academy Awards and was nominated for another seven including Best Picture making "Mary Poppins" the highest-awarded Walt Disney feature ever. Novelist Travers famously voiced her objections to the Disney adaptation of her character particularly the animated scenes and musical numbers for which the film later gained so much acclaim. <br/><br/>8.5 x 11 inches 8 leaves with color wrappers saddle-stapled. Very Good plus with light rubbing and creasing and faint foxing. Scarce. Walt Disney Pictures unknown books
1965147917Burbank CA: Walt Disney Productions 1965. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1965 film of Glynis Johns and David Tomlinson with Karen Dotice and Matthew Garber. <br/><br/>Based on Travers' 1934 novel and subsequent books. <br/><br/>Julie Andrews is a magical nanny briefly employed by a dysfunctional Edwardian London family in this classic Disney feature that combines both live action and animated sequences.<br/><br/>The film won five Academy Awards and was nominated for another seven including Best Picture making "Mary Poppins" the highest-awarded Walt Disney feature ever.<br/><br/>Novelist Travers famously voiced her objections to the Disney adaptation of her character particularly the animated scenes and musical numbers for which the film later gained so much acclaim. <br/><br/>Set in London. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Walt Disney Productions unknown books
197844811Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press 1978. First Trade Edition. Octavo; off-white cloth with titles stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; 873pp; illus. Hint of foxing to upper board edges else Fine in a Fine dustjacket. "In preparing this fable for a woman who had refused to marry him Faulkner selected a title which gave a sorrowful twist to the Mississippi tradition that one who looks into a stream on May Day will see there the face of the one he or she will marry" from front flap. With a lengthy introduction by Carvel Collins. University of Notre Dame Press unknown books
1969147779N.p.: Cinema Center Films 1969. Two vintage studio still photographs one borderless from the 1979 film. One of Salome Jens and one of Jens and Nancy Marchand.<br/><br/>Natalie Miller Patty Duke is an insecure girl living in Greenwich Village apartment and falls in love with David Harris James Farentino an architect who wants to become a painter and has an affair later discovering he is married with a family. Al Pacino's film debut in a brief screen appearance.<br/><br/>Set in and shot on location in New York City. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine with some light edgewear. Cinema Center Films unknown books
2000143225Beverly Hills CA: Newmarket 2000. Collection of five vintage studio still photographs for the Canadian release of the 2000 US film. <br/><br/>The film the introduced Christopher Nolan to the world. Nominated for two Academy Awards including Best Screenplay. Based on a short story "Momento Mori" by Jonathan Nolan who would not only continue to collaborate with his brother but also go on to success as a creator of television. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Fine. <br/><br/>National Film Registry. Grant US. Silver and Ward Neo-Noir. Spicer US Neo-Noir. Newmarket unknown books
1958132799London: National Screen Service / MGM 1958. Collection of 5 vintage full-color still photographs from the 1958 UK release of the 1958 US film. <br/><br/>Based on a story by Paul Galico about an English school teacher Danny Kaye on archeological trip who falls in love with a circus acrobat Pier Angeli. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with light creasing overall. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. National Screen Service / MGM unknown books
1989137550Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1989. Final Draft script for 1989 science fiction film adapted by John Varley from his 1977 short story "Air Raid" which he then expanded into the 1983 novel "Millennium." In a custom wrapper with a two-color logo for the film's initial production company prior to being picked up by Twentieth Century-Fox First Millennium Partnership. <br/><br/>A soldier from the future Ladd is sent back in time to prevent a present day NTSB investigator Kristofferson from uncovering a conspiracy where people about to die in air crashes are sent forward in time to repopulate Earth after pollution has made everyone in the future sterile. <br/><br/>White titled wrappers with First Millennium Partnership logo on the front wrapper. Title page present noted as Final Draft with credits for Varley. 118 leaves with last page of text numbered 117. Photocopied. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with light soil bound internally with two gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
