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1953139794N.p.: Robert Cohn Productions 1953. Vintage studio still photograph from the US release of the 1953 film. <br/><br/>B-film about the Korean War starring John Hodiak. Fred F. Sears used a combination of stock footage and live action to form his picture. <br/><br/>Shot on location in South Korea. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Fair with a large crease to the bottom right corner and blue holograph annotations to the verso. Robert Cohn Productions unknown books
1943012521NY: Dodd Mead 1943. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good /Very Good-. A solid first edition copy modestly worn on bottom edge in pictorial unclipped dustjacket matching book covers that is worn around all edges with some shallow edge loss here and there. Clean internals no names inscriptions or bookplates and desirable thus. Dodd, Mead hardcover books
19861291335St. Louis: National Feather Craft Co 1986. First expanded edition volume 1. Softcover. Quarto. VG/no DJ - softcover. covers are mostly clean except with some pen markings at the top lateral edge and has minimal edgewear; ephemera is perfect bound with staples; textblock is clean. Pp. 67. 1291335. Full-priced Rockville. National Feather Craft Co unknown books
19602150799New York: The Macmillan Company 1960. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. First edition. Minor tear to top edge of a couple pages pages lightly toned front jacket flap corners trimmed list price still present two inch tear to jacket front. New York: The Macmillan Company hardcover books
1927140438Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1927. Draft script for the 1927 silent film "Mockery" seen here under two early draft titles "Terror" and "The Harelip." <br/><br/>Lon Chaney is a half-witted Russian peasant who is promised food and a place to live if he escorts a Countess Bedford safely home. He does so despite becoming caught up in the Bolshevik revolution and even moreso in a case of terminally unrequited love for the countess. <br/><br/>Danish director Christensen is best known for his avant garde work and in particular the seminal documentary "Haxan: Witchcraft through the Ages" 1922. Between 1922 and 1929 Christensen made films for MGM and Warner Brothers/First National this being one of his last silent films. Like many of the films from the silent era many unusually bold turns are made with many touches that affirm Christensen's status as an auteur. The film was rediscovered and restored in the 1970s. <br/><br/>Tan titled wrappers rubber-stamped copy No. 0378 and production No. 1608 dated May 18 1927 with credits for screenwriter Bradley King. Title page integral with the first page of the text dated May 17 1927 with credits for screenwriters Bradley King and Benjamin Christensen. 133 leaves with unnumbered leaves. Ditto style mimeograph duplication. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Good bound with two gold brads. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1948147739Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1948. Final Draft script for the 1948 film. <br/><br/>Based on Raphael Blau's unpublished story. Widow Abby Abbott Loretta Young and her teenage daughter Susan Betty Lynn support themselves on a trust fund started from her late husband. In order to get Susan the needed funds to pay for college tuition Abby must enroll as well to get a needed scholarship and both end up falling for English professor Richard Michaels Van Johnson.<br/><br/>Nominated for an Academy Award.<br/><br/>Shot on location at the University of Nevada-Reno.<br/><br/>Blue titled wrappers noted as FINAL on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 186 and production No. 241 dated July 15 1948. Distribution page present with receipt removed. Title page present dated July 15 1948 noted as Final Script with credits for screenwriters Mary Loos and Richard Sale. 153 leaves with last page of text numbered 151. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with creasing and closed tears at the outer edges bound internally with three gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
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
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
1949139871Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1949. Revised Final script for the 1950 film. Bound presentation belonging to producer Sol C. Siegel with his name in gilt on the front board. With 53 studio still photographs tipped in throughout four pages of retakes and added scenes tipped in at the rear as well as a number of holograph annotations primarily denoting the titles of various musical numbers. <br/><br/>Based on the short story "Stork Don't Bring Babies" by S.K. Lauren Grable and Dailey play a showbiz couple who discover in successive order that they cannot have children that they can adopt children and that they aren't really fit to raise children. But things get better with the help of several musical numbers scored by Harold Arlen. <br/><br/>Bound in green faux leather boards with gilt titles and rule and marbled endpapers. Title page present dated Dec. 1 1949 noted as Revised Final with credits for screenwriters Trotti and Binyon. 191 leaves with last page of text numbered 130. Mimeograph duplication with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 12/21/19 and 1/5/50. Pages Very Good plus photographs Near Fine with some bruising or chipping to the verso of the preceding page on either the top or bottom edge. Boards Near Fine with a bump to the upper rear corner. <br/><br/>Hirschhorn The Hollywood Musical. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
200253183Clarkston MI & Mission Viejo CA: A.S.A.P. 2002. First Limited Edition. One of 300 numbered copies specially bound and signed by all contributors this being copy no.132. Small quarto 26cm; brown cloth with titles stamped in white on spine and pictorial title label mounted to front cover; publisher's original acetate dustjacket; 22pp; illus with a photographic portrait of the author mounted on verso of half-title page. Fine in a dustjacket with modest wear. Short story by Coel best-known for her Wind River mystery novels set among the Arapaho natives on Wyoming's Wind River Reservation. A.S.A.P. unknown books
1942145488Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1942. Vintage photograph of cinematographer Joseph Walker director Al Hall and actors Janet Blair and Rosalind Russell on the set of the 1942 film. With a mimeo snipe photographer's rubber stamp and holograph annotations on the verso. <br/><br/>Sisters Ruth Rosalind Russell and Eileen Janet Blair move to New York City from Ohio to pursue writing and acting. They end up living in a basement in Greenwhich Village and encounter a strange cast of characters while they piece together their new lives. Nominated for an Academy Award.<br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Byrge and Miller The Screwball Comedy Films. Columbia Pictures unknown 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
1941137464Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1941. Draft script for the 1941 film here under the working title "The Great Man" with holograph annotations on nearly every page. W.C. Fields' last starring film before his death in 1946. <br/><br/>Told as a "real life" film starring Fields as himself "Never Give a Sucker an Even Break" is an off-beat and slightly bizarre spoof on the Hollywood and filmmaking industry of Fields' time. The film doesn't quite follow a storyline and is instead intentionally riddled with inconsistencies forgotten characters and wacky plot holes. <br/><br/>Light blue titled wrappers. Title page integral with the first page of text with credits for screenwriters John T. Neville Prescott Chaplin and Fred Cribblecobbis W.C. Fields pseudonym. 156 leaves with last page of text numbered 156. Typescript on onionskin stock. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two gold brads. Universal Pictures unknown books
1953WRCLIT70937Paris & New York: Gargoyle Press 1953. Whole numbers 1457810 & 13. Seven issues. Large octavo. Printed wrappers. Usual tanning to text stock of several numbers three numbers have old discolorations on the fore-edges #13 a bit rubbed and nicked; still a good to very good lot. Edited by Jean-Francois Bergery et al. Includes contributions by Ray Bradbury Robert Lax William Goyen Genet in translation by Frechtman et al. Gargoyle Press unknown books
19901325643Toronto: Napoleon Publishing Inc 1990. First Canadian Edition. Hardcover. Oblong Octavo; unpaginated; G/G; dark blue spine with black and red text; dust jacket has moderated wear to exterior; some rubbing wear to edges; small price sticker to rear; cloth has mild wear to edges; strong clean boards; text block has little wear to exterior edges; frontispiece; interior clean; illustrated;. 1325643. FP New Rockville Stock. Napoleon Publishing Inc hardcover books
1964132433London: Warner-Pathe 1964. Collection of 8 vintage full-color front-of-house cards from the 1964 UK film. <br/><br/>Base on a short story by Stanley Ellin about an eager young man with a crush on the boss' daughter who gets involved with a bank heist and a murder. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. A few with faint corner creases else Near Fine. Warner-Pathe unknown books
1964132434London: Warner-Pathe 1964. Vintage full-color British front-of-house card from the 1964 UK film. <br/><br/>Base on a short story by Stanley Ellin about an eager young man with a crush on the boss' daughter who gets involved with a bank heist and a murder. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Warner-Pathe unknown books
16991New York: McLoughlin Bros n. d. Circa 1870 - 1886. Pictorial wrappers sewn. Abt VG wear & soiling to wrappers. Unpaginated though 4 pp of text. Woodcut of 'Mother Bantry' on the front wrapper. Illustrated with 4 full-page color lithographs. 16mo. 4 5/8" x 5 1/2" <br/><br/>Approximate dates based on publisher's address established from Tebbel: Hist. Amererican Book Pub. v. 1 p. 356. Only 3 copies listed on OCLC per a 2/17/02 search. McLoughlin Bros unknown books
20011323344Birmingham AL: Palladium Press 2001. Hardcover. 10mo; VG; dark green spine with gilt text and raised bands to spine; new; no jacket; full leather binding clean; gilt decorations and lettering to front; strong boards; shrink wrapped; text block has all edges gilt; interior clean;. 1323344. FP New Rockville Stock. Palladium Press hardcover books
1954150531Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1954. Vintage reference photograph of Marlon Brando and Elia Kazan on the set of the 1954 film. <br/><br/>Budd Schulberg based his 1955 novel "Waterfront" on the screenplay. <br/><br/>Terry Malloy Brando who dreams of being a prize fighter while tending his pigeons and running errands for the corrupt boss of the local union Johnny Lee J. Cobb witnesses a murder at the hands of Johnny's men. When he meets the victim's sister Edie Eva Marie Saint he confesses he feels culpable for the murder and Edie introduces him to Father Barry Karl Malden who tries to persuade him to implicate the dock racketeers.<br/><br/>Winner of eight Academy Awards including Best Picture Best Director Best Screenplay Best Cinematography Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress nominated for another four. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Hoboken New Jersey and New York City.<br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with light edgewear and three very small closed tears in margins repaired by two small pieces of cello tape.<br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request.<br/><br/>National Film Registry. Criterion Collection 647. Ebert I. Grant US. Scorsese A Personal Journey through American Movies. Selby US. Spicer US. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1977143667N.p.: N.p. 1977. Draft script for an unproduced film. With 19 pages of budget estimates laid in. <br/><br/>A man returns to his small southern home town and finds that he is the heir to a Voodoo artifact and the ancient spirit that possesses it. Had the script been picked up by a studio it would have been J.S. Cardone's first screenwriting credit. <br/><br/>Black titled leatherette wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriters Lincoln Kilpatrick and J.S. Cardone and story writers Lincoln Kilpatrick and Bill Nolan. 150 leaves with last page of text numbered 149. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
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 books
198419222ELos Angeles: Columbia Pictures 1984. First Edition. Single sheet two-sided 8 1/2†x 11â€. A special film program made by the studio for advance screenings of the film ‘A Soldier’s Story’ for reviewers and members of the motion picture industry specifically for Academy Award consideration. The film is based on the play by Charles Fuller who also wrote the screenplay was directed by Norman Jewison and starred Howard Rollins Jr. Adolph Caesar Art Evans Denzel Washington and David Alan Grier. Fine in printed wrappers. The film was nominated for Oscars for Best Picture Best Actor in a Supporting Role Adolph Caesar and Best Writing Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium. Columbia Pictures unknown books
197822134ELos Angeles: Columbia Pictures n.d. 1978. First Edition. Paperbound 8 1/2†x 11†when folded. A special film program made by the studio for advance screenings of the film of the Oscar nominated film The Buddy Holly Story screenplay by Robert Gittler based on the book by John Goldrosen directed by Steve Rash starring Gary Busey in the title role as legendary early rock & roll singer Buddy Holly with Don Stroud and Charles Martin Smith. The film won an Oscar for Best Music - Original Score and Its Adaptation and received two more nominations; Best Actor Busey and Best Sound. It was also nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Actor - Comedy or Musical Busey. Near fine with just a trace of edge wear in printed wrappers. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1934151124Los Angeles: United Artists 1934. Vintage press photograph of the film's premiere at the Chicago World Fair at the "Century of Progress" exhibition on July 30 1934. The premiere was reported as being attended by 15000 people including international celebrities civic and industrial leaders newspapermen and five governors. In early October 1934 the film had a special White House screening attended by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.<br/><br/>In the midst of the Depression a young couple flee the city to a farm where they and others establish a collective. Produced independently by director King Vidor after he failed to secure studio backing and one of the most significant films of the era. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>National Film Registry. Godard Histoires du Cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. United Artists unknown books
