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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
