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1968135478Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1968. Collection of one color and two black and white vintage double weight studio still photographs from 1968 film. Featuring Mia Farrow and Elizabeth Taylor. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. About Fine condition. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Universal Pictures unknown books
1945121814Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1945. Original treatment titled "Characters and Premise" and complete set of continuities for the 1945 13-episode film serial including a continuity for the trailer constituting a virtually complete record. Hammett debuted his Nazi-fighting agent in 1934 in comic book form with artwork by the legendary Alex Raymond. A film adaptation was made by Universal in 1937 and this serial starring Lloyd Bridges was produced in 1945. Neither the film or serial version are noted in the film appendix of Layman's Hammett bibliography. Any original paper relating to serials is extremely uncommon; a complete set such as this rare. Each document in white studio self-wrappers with the treatement side-stapled and dated January 4 1945 the trailer and episode continuities top-stapled and dated between June 6 1945 and August 16 1945. <br/><br/>Treatment is 16 pages each of the fourteen continuities represent two reels each and run 16-18 pages each and the trailer continuity is 5 pages. All mimeograph duplication Very Good plus condition each with two blank leaves at the rear a few terminal blanks loose from staples a couple of short edge tears all leaves supple and clean. In a custom clamshell box. Universal Pictures unknown books
1982129045Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1982. Early Draft script for the 1995 film "Screamers" seen here under its working title "Dragon's Teeth." The script itself is dated 1982 over ten years between script writing and the film's release. Bound at the rear are appendices and a colored map of Soviet and United Nations territories during World War III. Shot on location in Canada. <br/><br/>Based on the 1953 short story "Second Variety" by Philip K. Dick the story takes place in the year 2078 on a distant mining planet ravaged by a decade of war WWIII where scientists have created the perfect weapon: a self-replicating army of killing machines called "Screamers." They have continued to evolve without any human guidance and eventually seek to destroy all of life. Joe Hendricksson Weller leads a group of soldiers still alive on the mining planet Sirius 6B and decides he must negotiate a peace treaty with enemy forces. To do so he will have to cross a wasteland full of Screamers. <br/><br/>Pale gray titled wrappers dated October 29 1982 with credits for screenwriter O'Bannon and for writer Dick. Title page present dated October 29 1982 with credits for screenwriter O'Bannon and for writer Dick. 126 leaves mimeograph duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Fine bound with three gold brads. <br/><br/>Lentz p. 1494. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1955132291Germany: Atlas Films 1955. Original German A1 poster for the 1955 Italian film featuring an illustration of Sophia Loren the film credits in hourglass shape to mimic her figure. <br/><br/>From the collection of noted film historian Amos Vogel. Full provenance available. <br/><br/>Paolo Marcello Mastroianni is a Roman cab driver who gives Lina Sophia Loren a lift but she tries to steal his car. Paolo informs Lina's father Vottorio De Sica but the complaint goes unheard as he is the leader of an entire family of thieves. After Paolo's failed attempts to involve the authorities he decides that the best thing to do is fall in love with Lina. If you can't beat 'em join 'em. <br/><br/>Shipping billed at cost. Item can only be shipped within the US. <br/><br/>23 x 33 inches non-archivally mounted on board and framed. Very Good. Atlas Films unknown books
1962139686Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1962. Vintage oversize double weight borderless photograph from the set of the 1962 film showing Leo McCarey directing William Holden from behind the camera with legendary script supervisor Connie Willis to his right while actor France Nuyen waits just offstage. With a mimeo snipe tipped on the verso crediting photographer Lawrence Schiller and stamps of the Holmes-Lebel and Camera Press agencies on the verso. <br/><br/>Based on an originally work "The China Story" by Pearl S. Buck which was subsequently developed into the 1962 novel titled "Satan Never Sleeps" published concurrently with the film. <br/><br/>8.25 x 11.75 inches. Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1964139221California: Art Theatre Guild / Eve Productions 1964. Original black-and-white program for the 1964 film printed for the Art Theatre Guild. The Art Theatre Guild ATG began in 1961 as an independent agency distributing films mostly Japanese rejected by major studios. The company operated until the 1980s with theaters in Arizona California Colorado Illinois Kentucky Massachusetts Missouri New Mexico Ohio and Tennessee. <br/><br/>The first of Meyer's "noir" cycle 1964-1965 or "Gothic" period as Meyer puts it a series of sexploitation films shot in black-and-white powerful psycho-sexual female characters male impotence and a serious dramatic plot involving less of the "nudie" filmmaking style so prominent in the director's early films. Other films in his "Gothic" period include "Mudhoney" 1965 "Motorpsycho!" 1965 and the epic and legendary "Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! " 1965. "Fanny Hill" 1964 snuck in right after "Lorna" although that film is generally left out of the "Gothic" period. <br/><br/>"Lorna" was written by James Griffith who stars as the Preacher narrator of the film and stars Lorna Maitland as a voluptuous sexually unfulfilled newlywed. Her husband Jim Rucker works in a salt mine all day and studies all night giving Lorna too much time to herself. One day while Lorna skinny-dips in a nearby river an escaped convict Bradley rapes her in the reeds. The vile act could otherwise have been exploited perhaps comically by Meyer but here the scene acts as a catalyst for one repressed woman's sexual awakening. Lorna invites the convict into her home while her husband is gone prompting Jim's coworkers among them the underrated Hal Hopper to tease him about Lorna's infidelity. Things take a bitter fatal turn when Jim returns home to discover Lorna and her object of desire. <br/><br/>5.5 x 8.5 inches folded once as issued. Two horizontal creases and faint foxing else Near Fine. Art Theatre Guild / Eve Productions unknown books
1956132360Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1956. Vintage full-color still photograph from the UK release circa 1956 of the 1956 US film. <br/><br/>Loosely based on Richard Connell's story "The Most Dangerous Game" about a novelist spending his days in a self-imposed exile in Central America. A reporter tracks him down in the hope of a good story and the novelist falls in love with her. The two take a trip to Mexico City and their plane crashes near a remote hideaway of Nazi war criminals who won't let their new guests escape alive. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Pinholes at the corners else Near Fine. United Artists unknown books
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
1940148708Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1940. Final Draft script for the 1941 film here under the working title "Corncob Kelly's Benefit." Production No. 301 and copy No. 105 rubber stamped on front wrapper with FINAL printed at the top right corner of same. Single annotation in holograph pencil of two names on verso of page 119. Eight blue revision pages follow final page of script.<br/><br/>Young "Corn Cob" Kelly Marvin Stephens a natural with horses is taught to be a jockey by trainer Duke Martin Eugene Pallette but runs into trouble when he gets word racehorse owner Dan Thomas Richard Lane is conspiring with gangsters to fix the race.<br/><br/>Set in Thousand Oaks California. <br/><br/>Blue titled wrappers noted as FINAL on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 105 and production No. 301 dated SEPT. 6 1940. Distribution page present with receipt intact. Title page present dated September 6 1940 noted as Final Script with credits for screenwriters William Conselman Jr and Irving Cummings Jr. 129 leaves with last page of text numbered 95. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue revision pages following last page dated 10/17/40. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1957146680N.p.: Regal Films 1957. Collection of 11 vintage studio still photographs from the 1957 film. <br/><br/>Cowhand Jeff Donner John Agar is accused of murder and helped to escape by dancehall girl Susan Crowley Penny Edwards only to discover she's actually a Union Army spy working on foiling a Confederate plot. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Kanab Utah. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus some with creasing 2 with closed tears on bottom. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request.<br/><br/>Pitts 3417. Regal Films unknown books
1964146737N.p.: Ivan Tors Films 1964. Collection of 30 vintage studio still photographs from the 1964 film. <br/><br/>Zoologist Dr. Jim Hanlon Robert Culp unknowingly hires poacher Alec Burnett Harry Guardino as a guide in an attempt to capture two white rhinos. Burnett intending on selling the rhinos on the black market steals Hanlon's car and equipment. Burnett's girlfriend nurse Edith Arleigh Shirley Eaton is intent on making him see the error of his ways and reveals his location to Hanlon. When Hanlon saves Burnett's life after a cobra bite the two unite and capture the rhinos and join forces in animal research.<br/><br/>Set in Africa shot on location in KwaZulu-Natal South Africa. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Ivan Tors Films unknown books
1884026007Washington DC: G.P.O. 1884. First Edition. Quarto. 8 vii-xxxii 473 pages 85 plates 7 double 5 folded illustrations some in color maps. The largest part is devoted to Hawaiian volcanoes on pages 80-219. Besides maps of all the major islands it deals with the major eruptions and its effect on the population. There is also a report on the mining geology of the Eureka District of Nevada; A large section on fossils of oysters and the life-history of the oyster finally there is geological reconnance in southern Oregon. Bound in maroon cloth centrally stamped in a pictorial gilt spine lettering gilt a damp stain to lower front corner new endpapers damp staining to lower corners of leaves. G.P.O. unknown books
1997406660Toronto: The Champlain Society 1997. A fine copy. 8vo. Plates and maps. Original red cloth gilt-lettered on spine top edges gilt others untrimmed. One of 925 copies of volume LX of the Publications of The Champlain Society. <br/><br/> The Champlain Society hardcover 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
189849345New York: Frank Tousey 29 West 26th Street 1898. 1st Printing. Printed paper newspaper format. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Age toning & browning to paper which is becoming brittle. Possibly removed from a bound volume stab holes along spine. An About Very Good copy. 16 pp. Text quadruple column. Adverts. Large wood engraved image to front wrapper. Internal wood engravings. 14-1/8" x 10-5/8" <br/><br/>"USS Maine was a United States Navy ship that sank in Havana Harbor in February 1898 contributing to the outbreak of the Spanish–American War in April. American newspapers engaging in yellow journalism to boost circulation claimed that the Spanish were responsible for the ship's destruction. The phrase 'Remember the Maine! To hell with Spain!' became a rallying cry for action. Although the Maine explosion was not a direct cause it served as a catalyst that accelerated the events leading up to the war." Wiki <br /> <br />Happy Days jumped on this bandwagon as demonstrated by this issue. and like most publishers wishing to hook their readership many stories of the stories herein are published in installments requiring the buyer to purchase a number of issues in order to read the entire tale. Frank Tousey, 29 West 26th Street unknown books
200153132Mission Viejo: ASAP 2001. First Limited Edition. One of 40 copies specially bound and signed by all contributors this being copy no.6. Octavo 23.5cm.; mauve colored pictorial boards stamped in white on cover and spine; publisher's matching pictorial clamshell case with a photo of a medicine bottle mounted inside the front cover; illustrated with 3 additional tipped in photos; 45pp. Fine in a very Near Fine case with a few tiny bumps and scuffs along lower edges. A horror tale short story that depicts the formation of a virus / disease that is a biological warfare weapon. ASAP unknown books
1966146731N.p.: A.C. Lyles Productions 1966. Collection of 21 vintage studio still photographs from the 1966 film in their original brown paper sleeve stamped "'RED TOMAHAWK' 66/365 A17." <br/><br/>Army captain Tom York Howard Keel arrives at the town of Deadwood after discovering the massacred 7th Cavalry and General Custer at Little Big Horn warning of an impeding Sioux attack. In desperate need of weapons he knows 2 Gatling guns are somewhere hidden in town but only Dakota Lil Joan Caulfield knows where and she refuses to disclose their whereabouts having had enough tragedy with the deaths of her husband and little boy. York persuades her to tell but before they can be assembled the guns are stolen by Sy Elkins Wendell Corey a degenerate gambler who intends on selling them to the Sioux.<br/><br/>Set in Deadwood South Dakota shot on location in California. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine some with light uniform fading. Paper sleeve Near Fine with annotations of actors names in holograph ink.<br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request.<br/><br/>Pitts 3338. A.C. Lyles Productions unknown books
1973138032New York: Self published 1973. Draft script for an unproduced film called "Ray's Wife" written by Leon Prochnik who edited the cult 1959 short film "Pull My Daisy" a film narrated by Jack Kerouac and starring a plethora of literary icons like Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso. Prochnik based this screenplay on a story by director-cinematographer Christian Blackwood whose film credits include "Jim Dine: London" 1970 "David Hockney's Diaries" 1970 "Roger Corman: Hollywood's Wild Angel" 1978 and "Thelonious Monk: Straight No Chaser" 1988. <br/><br/>Set in Las Vegas where a married man name Ray gallivants around town with hot young ladies. Ray's wife is a strong-willed woman who gets pregnant and takes control of her future long after Ray dies. <br/><br/>Orange Studio Duplicating wrappers. Title page present dated 1973 with credits for screenwriter Prochnik and story writer Blackwood. 105 leaves with last page of text numbered 104. Mechanical duplication. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Self published unknown books
1944151740Los Angeles: Vanguard Films 1944. Original story script for an unproduced film Nathaniel Hawthorne's unedited 1844 short story here reproduced by Vanguard Films dated August 8 1944.<br/><br/>Hawthorne's short story was first published in the December 1844 issue of The United States Magazine and Democratic Review. It has been adapted into two plays and several operas as well as a section of the 1963 horror anthology film "Twice-Told Tales" directed by Sidney Salkow and starring Vincent Price and Sebastian Cabot.<br/><br/>A researcher's daughter having been raised to tend to his garden of poisonous plants becomes resistant to the poisons but becomes poisonous herself to others including a young suitor.<br/><br/>Set in Padua Italy.<br/><br/>Blue titled wrappers dated August 8 1944 with credits for author Nathaniel Hawthorne. Title page integral with first page with credits for author Nathaniel Hawthorne. 39 leaves with last page of text numbered 39. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three small metal brads. Vanguard Films unknown books
1981135344Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1981. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the 1981 film. <br/><br/>An homage to the serialized Saturday matinee films of the 1930s and 40s "Raiders" is the first in the well-loved Spielberg/Lucas high-adventure trilogy starring Harrison Ford as roguish archaeology professor Indiana Jones. Still one of the highest grossing films of all time winner of five Academy Awards and nominated for four others including Best Picture. <br/><br/>Set in Peru Egypt Nepal and Washington DC shot on location in England France Tunisia California and Hawaii. <br/><br/>National Film Registry. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1932128886Los Angeles: Fox Film Corporation 1932. Post-production Continuity script for the 1932 pre-Code film. <br/><br/>A comedy with angles on sports gangsters and higher education that demonstrates the timelessness of the interdependence of college football and the continued ability for a university to exist. <br/><br/>Victor McLaglen plays hulking gangster Knucks McGloin who founds a school called Canarsie College. Canarsie being a real neighborhood in New York City that produced more than its share of gangsters. Knucks doesn't really care about higher education: Canarsie College was created only so that Knucks would be able to control a collegiate football team which in turn would be a vehicle for his gambling activities. By organizing the bookie action on Canarsie's football matches Knucks makes enough money to offset the expense of the college. <br/><br/>Light blue titled wrappers dated November 7 1932 noting footage of 5800 feet. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine in a Very Good plus wrapper. Fox Film Corporation unknown books
1958148889N.p.: N.p. 1958. Three vintage contact sheets from the 1958 film each containing twelve images. Two contact sheets with cropping annotations in blue holograph wax pencil to five images.<br/><br/>Based on the unpublished story "Queen of the Universe" by Ben Hecht. Sci-fi comedy portraying an epic battle of the sexes. Talleah Zsa Zsa Gabor is from the planet Venus assigned to destroy four Earth men at the behest of her queen Yilana Laurie Mitchell who secretly yearns for interstellar peace. Sets costumes and special effects borrowed from "Forbidden Planet" 1956 "Flight to Mars" 1951 and "World Without End" 1956. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Light edgewear else Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1971126562Paris: Albina Productions 1971. Original French theatrical release poster for the first of three films made by Robert Bresson in the 1970s. "Quatre nuits d'un reveur" is based on a short story by Dostoevsky titled "White Nights" originally published in the magazine "Annals of the Fatherland" in 1846. <br/><br/>A typically precise stylized and carefully choreographed outing by Bresson rarely screened. The story concerns a four-day or four-evening relationship between a young artist and a young woman one that begins with the man saving the woman as she contemplates jumping from a bridge. <br/><br/>24 x 32 inches. Rolled on archival linen. Fine. Albina Productions unknown books
1998162871Santa Fe: Twin Palms 1998. Hardcover. 108p 10.25x8.25 inches landscape layout monograph of explicit b&w homoerotic photos accompanied by Homes' story "Ballad for the Beautiful Boy or Why I Like Photography" very good first edition of 4000 copies in glossy red boards and unclipped black dj. A favorite of this bibliographer on page 81 titled "Johnny Rey Waits for Wood" with a bored Johnny bent over a bench waiting for his partner to rise to the occasion surrounded by crew. Twin Palms hardcover books
1955019901New York NY: Book-Records. Good. 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Songbook. Colorfully illustrated boards are in good condition. Outer front board hinge is cracked. Siginificant bumps and wear to spine edges and corners of board. Wire spiral binding is tight and interior of book is in very good condition. Contains story telling and singing by Swift Eagle on a record. "This the fourth in a series of Soundbooks is again an effore to integrate the several dimensions of an important subject. It is an attempt through word color and sound to create for us a sense of presence in the world of the Pueblo indian. It brings together three unusual talents in the field of Indian art history and lore." ; Color Illustrations; Square Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; Unpaginated pp . Book-Records hardcover books
