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1963144429Universal City: Universal Pictures 1963. Vintage photograph of Alfred Hitchcock Tippi Hedren and members of the crew releasing a large number of birds from a cage on the set of the classic 1963 film. With holograph annotations and a photo agency stamp on the verso. <br/><br/>Shot in various locations throughout California including Bodega Bay Bloomfield Valley Ford the Venice Canals and Union Square in San Francisco. <br/><br/>5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>National Film Registry. Godard Histoires du cinema. Universal Pictures unknown books
1934135018Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1934. Vintage oversize borderless double weight black and white photograph from the set of the 1934 film. Snipe in manual type on the verso mentioning Karloff in "his latest picture for Universal The Black Cat" and rubber stamps crediting photographer Roman Freulich noting that the struck print is for an archive and that the photo is to be an exclusive. A stunning image of Karloff in full high priest regalia. <br/><br/>One of several great films by director Ulmer and along with "Detour" probably his finest achievement an efficient tale in which a young couple with a broken down automobile land not in a decidedly art deco haunted house where Karloff resides and Lugosi along with the couple is visiting. Michael Weaver notes: "Boldly thumbing its nose at convention the film is a veritable catalog of human corruption. Sadism shades of incest revenge murder torture voyeurism Satan worship ailurophobia necrophilia rape and insanity are weaved into the nearly plotless story with remarkable precision."<br/><br/>8.5 x 11.75 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Weaver p. 87-95. Warner Brothers unknown books
1941126195Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1941. Draft script for the 1941 film. <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 noted as FILE COPY on the front wrapper rubber-stamped production No. 6856 dated January 29 1941. 91 leaves mimeograph duplication dated variously between 5/23/40 and 6/1/40. <br/><br/>Pages Near Fine. Wrappers Very Good plus or better with slight toning and a few short creases and tears at the extremities a small faint stain on the front wrapper and a professionally repaired vertical tear at the rear wrapper bound with three gold brads. <br/><br/>Weaver Universal Horrors. Universal Pictures unknown 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
198919595New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1989. First American Edition. First Printing. Quarto; illustrated boards; dustjacket; 37pp; illus. Remainder mark to lower edge of text else Fine in a Fine unclipped dustjacket. A children's book one of several collaborations between Eco and reknown illustrator Eugenio Carmi. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich unknown books
1949137966Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1949. Vintage photograph showing an illustrated advertisement for the 1949 film noir based on the short story of the same name by Frederick Nebel. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus. <br/><br/>Grant US. Selby Canon US. Silver Classic Noir. Spicer US. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1952133067Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1952. Original Pressbook for the 1952 film released on a double-bill with "The Secret Sharer" and collectively given a new title "Face to Face." This pressbook was produced prior to release and only advertises for 1 film. <br/><br/>Based on the story of the same name Stephen Crane and written for the screen by James Agee. A two-part film released as "Face to Face" in 1952 with the second half of the film based on Crane's story "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky" and the first half based on a Joseph Conrad story "The Secret Sharer" starring James Mason and Gene Lockhart. Equal parts nautical drama and hilarious western unique during its time with no apparent connection between the two segments. <br/><br/>4 pages folded 11 x 17 inches. Very Good plus with a horizontal fold at the middle a corner crease and light soil. RKO Radio Pictures unknown books
197152079Barre Massachusetts: Barre Publishers 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Introduction by Philip C.F. Smith. Illustrated with photographs by John M. Clayton. Review copy with the publisher's slip and press release laid in. A unique and definitive record of the craft of wooden shipbuilding from the clear white pine model of the envisioned ship to the crack of the champagne bottle against the prow. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. <br/><br/> Barre Publishers hardcover books
189861972New York and London: G. P. Putnams Sons. Very Good. 1898. Hardcover. Complete in two volumes ex-library copies good for reading or reference. . G. P. Putnams Sons hardcover books
1979132042London: Cinema International 1979. Two vintage black-and-white still photographs from the British release of the 1979 US film. Rubber-stamped on the versos from the UK distributing company Cinema International Corporation. <br/><br/>An ex-boxing champ makes his way back into the ring to provide for his young son. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches with no borders as issued. About Near Fine. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Cinema International unknown books
1971132245Germany: P. R. Wilk Ffm 1971. Original German A1 re-release poster circa 1971 for the 1938 Russian film. Artwork by Lenicka. <br/><br/>From the collection of noted film historian Amos Vogel. Full provenance available. <br/><br/>23.25 x 33 inches rolled. Near Fine. P. R. Wilk, Ffm unknown books
1984147764Beverly Hills CA: Orion Pictures Corporation 1984. Three vintage studio still photographs from the 1984 film. <br/><br/>Inspired by James Haskins' 1977 photo history book about the famed Harlem club. An extravagant production with a star-studded cast the film follows the lives of musicians in the famed Jazz Age in Harlem who become embroiled with various local mobsters. Nominated for two Academy Awards. <br/><br/>Set in and shot on location in New York City. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Orion Pictures Corporation unknown books
1990150407Universal City: Universal Studios 1990. Early First Draft script for the 2008 film dated 1990 from screenwriter Robin Swicord. Swicord who received a joint Story credit with screenwriter Eric Roth in the film's final release was first hired by Columbia Pictures to adapt Fitzgerald's short story as early as 1985 by 1989 the project moved to Universal Studios with producer Ray Stark holding the rights who is credited on this draft. It wasn't until 2003 that credited screenwriter Eric Roth would be brought on to adapt Swicord's screenplay with Gary Ross reported to direct . Paramount who developed a joint co-production with Universal for the project in 1999 announced David Fincher as director in 2005. Between 1990 and 2003 various directors screenwriters and actors were reported attached to the project including Frank Oz Martin Short Agnieszka Holland Daniel Day-Lewis Phil Alden Robinson Steven Spielberg Tom Cruise Spike Jonze Charlie Kaufman and Ron Howard.<br/><br/>Based on the 1922 short story by F. Scott Fizgerald.<br/><br/>David Fincher's melancholic and surprisingly heart-warming saga of the life of a man Brad Pitt who is born old and ages in reverse and the woman who he was always destined to love Daisy Cate Blanchett. Featuring remarkable visual effects deftly executed by Fincher.<br/><br/>Winner of three Academy Awards nominated for ten others including Best Picture Best Director Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress.<br/><br/>Red untitled wrappers. Title page present dated January 1990 noted as First Draft with credits for screenwriter Robin Swicord and author F. Scott Fitzgerald. 140 leaves with last page of text numbered 135. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads.<br/><br/>Criterion Collection 476. Universal Studios unknown books
1945151322Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1945. Shooting Final Draft script for the 1946 film containing an earlier alternate ending and a revised "New Ending" bound in following the primary narrative. The additional material consists of a pink "New Ending" announcement page dated February 12 1946 ten blue revision pages that include one carbon typescript page on onionskin stock. Notations in holograph pencil throughout the set of revision pages.<br/><br/>Based on the 1945 story serialized in "Good Housekeeping" magazine by Leo Rosten and written by screenwriter Jay Dratler. Private investigator Bradford Galt Mark Stevens is being followed by a man in a white suit who when confronted tells Brad that he was hired by his old business partner from San Francisco who now works for wealthy art aficionado Hardy Cathcart Clifton Webb in New York. Believing he is targeted for murder he avoids being killed but becomes implicated in an actual murder. Through it all his plucky and attractive secretary Kathleen Stewart Lucille Ball stays steadfastly by his side. <br/><br/>Set in and shot on location in New York City. <br/><br/>Beige titled wrappers noted as SHOOTING FINAL on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 72 dated Oct. 31 1945. Distribution page present with receipt removed. Title page present dated October 31 1945 noted as Shooting Final with credits for screenwriter Jay Dratler. 151 leaves with last page of text numbered 10. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue and pink revision pages throughout dated variously between 11/29/45 and February 12 1946. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with some edgewear and small closed tears bound internally with two gold brads.<br/><br/>Grant US. Selby Canon US. Selby Masterworks US. Silver and Ward US. Spicer US. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1930151357Los Angeles: First National Pictures 1930. Archive of 68 vernacular photographs housed in a contemporary photo album each photo with descriptions in silver holograph ink just below it and distributed in three sections as follows: 1 34 photos taken on the set of "The Dawn Patrol" Howard Hawks 1930 an aviation drama set during World War I. Included are shots of planes in flight and several others of star Douglas Fairbanks Jr. With holograph annotations to the album pages identifying most of the photographs; 2 16 vernacular photographs taken on the set of the pre-Code film "The Life of the Party" Roy Del Ruth 1930 and 18 vernacular photographs of the sinking of the RMS Tahiti off cost of Rarotonga in the Cook Islands on August 16-17 1930 taken from the nearby SS Ventura.<br/><br/>The front cover of the photo album identifies the photographer as J.N. Boucher and he appears four times in the album twice dressed as a pilot in "The Dawn Patrol" section and twice in "The Life of the Party" section in one standing in front of a Vitaphone truck along with a man identified as Dolph Thomas who worked as an uncredited sound engineer on the film.<br/><br/>Photographs variously sized generally between 3.5 x 2.5 and 5.25 x 3.25 inches Very Good plus. Photo album Good only with several pages detached a few loose photographs. First National Pictures unknown books
1951145718Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1951. Vintage studio still photograph for the classic 1951 science fiction film. Shown are the film's leads Patricia Neal and Michael Rennie in a portrait shot.<br/><br/>Widely considered one of the best and most intelligent science fiction films ever made beautifully balancing elements of suspense and dramatic depth. Science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke ranks it seventh in his list of the best science fiction films of all time just above "2001: A Space Odyssey."<br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.<br/><br/>Lentz p. 1007. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1987138463New York: Vestron Pictures 1987. Original program printed in the US for the 1987 British-American-Irish film. These programs saw popularity beginning in the 1960s and continued to be produced until the 1980s and the ever-growing VHS market with a particularly high distribution in Asian countries. This example features several full-color pages on-the-set images and biographies of the cast and crew as well as a large image and brief biography of James Joyce. <br/><br/>Based on Joyce's 1914 short-story collection "Dubliners" with "The Dead" being the final story of the collection. Gabriel Conroy McCann a university professor arrives late to a party with his wife Gretta Anjelica Huston. Throughout the evening Gabriel is confronted by not only the party's guests but his own epiphanies concerning his own status his wife's past and the lives of dead relatives. <br/><br/>Director Huston's final film. His son Tony the film's screenwriter was nominated for an Academy Award as was the costume designer Dorothy Jeakins. <br/><br/>9 x 12 inches saddle-stapled 14 leaves color illustrated wrappers. Light bump to one corner else Near Fine. Vestron Pictures unknown books
1931298652Canada: Thomas Nelson 1931. hardcover. very good. 180 pages. Thin 8vo blue cloth a bit worn at head. Canada: Thomas Nelson 1931. A very good copy<br/><br/> Thomas Nelson unknown books
1996Embry 155388Denver Art Museum 1996. First edition first printing. Fine in fine dust jacket in mylar cover. Full page color reproductions. Denver Art Museum, 1996. First edition, first printing. unknown books
1928151246N.p.: N.p. 1928. Vintage reference photograph from the 1928 film showing actors George Bancroft and Betty Compson. With holograph ink and pencil annotations on the verso. <br/><br/>From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler.<br/><br/>Based on John Monk Saunders' 1928 story "The Dock Walloper." A roughneck sailor on shore leave saves a working girl from suicide by drowning and the two begin a passionate relationship. Widely considered one of director Josef von Sternberg's finest films heightened by the work of cinematographer Harold Rosson and set designer Hans Dreier released at the very end of the silent era.<br/><br/>Set in New York. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus.<br/><br/>National Film Registry. Criterion Collection 531. Rosenbaum 1000. Spicer US Antecedent. N.p. unknown books
195318827London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd 1953. First UK Edition. First Impression. Octavo; red cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 138pp. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket price-clipped with a touch of light edgewear and rubbing. A story written in the form of a film scenario - the dramatic tale of the murderers Burke and Hare which came to trial in Edinburgh in the mid-1800's. J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd unknown books
1925138534Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1925. Vintage black-and-white studio still photograph of Rudolph Valentino from the 1925 film. Typed mimeo snipe on the verso. <br/><br/>Based on Pushkin's 1841 novel "Dubrovsky." Dubrovsky Valentino is a Cossack in the Russian army who becomes a masked vigilante and attempts to save his family from an evil carpetbagger. Unfortunately he falls in love with the carpetbagger's daughter. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with a small cello-tape repair a tiny tear and a tiny chip. United Artists unknown books
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
1931012089NY: The Century Co 1931. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Uncommon title by Edith Ballinger Price 1897 - 1997 American writer and illustrator of eighteen children's books who studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and later at the New York Art Students League and the National Academy of Design. A sea-going juvenile. Book apparently unread - blue linen stamped in gilt prictorial endpapers. Striking dustjacket pictorial in orange blue and white. Dustjacket is dustily soiled more so at spine and chipped at corners and head of spine. Still presentable overall. JUVENILE. The Century Co hardcover books
1960132603Burbank CA: Waterlow and Sons / Warner Brothers 1960. Two vintage full-colopr still photographs from the 1960 UK release of the 1959 US film. <br/><br/>Based on Pulitzer Prize-winning author Don Whitehead's 1956 book "The FBI Story: A Report to the People" about one man's experience as an FBI agent including encounters with gangsters con artists the KKK and members of the Nazi party. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Waterlow and Sons / Warner Brothers unknown books
