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1924137520Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1924. Continuity Draft script for the 1925 film. Studio File Copy rubber-stamped on the front wrapper. Brief notation on one page in holograph pencil. <br/><br/>Based on Tod Robbins' 1917 novel a classic of horror fiction about a trio of circus freaks who escape captivity in the circus open a curiosity shop and use it as a base from which to launch a devastating crime wave. Robbins would see another of his short stories "Spurs" adapted by Browning as the classic 1932 film "Freaks."<br/><br/>This is the first of two adaptations being a silent starring Lon Chaney as Professor Echo the ventriloquist Victor McLaglen as Hercules the strongman and Harry Earles as Tweedledee the dwarf. The second version was directed by Jack Conway in 1930 as a talkie with Chaney and Earles reprising their roles and Ivan Linow as Hercules. <br/><br/>Set in New York. <br/><br/>Goldenrod titled wrappers noted as copy No. 2 in holograph ink and production No. 1505 dated 12/20/24 with credits for screenwriter Young. Title page present undated with credits for writer Robbins and screenwriter Young. 113 leaves with last page of text numbered 111. Multilith reproduction. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. <br/><br/>Lentz US. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1968147232Paris: Les Films Marceau 1968. Three Draft scripts for the 1969 film by three different screenwriters. <br/><br/>From the estate of film producer Elliott Kastner whose best known credits include "The Long Goodbye" Robert Altman 1973 "The Missouri Breaks" Arthur Penn 1976 and "Heat" Michael Mann 1996.<br/><br/>The first script is an undated draft script by screenwriter George Bluestone who previously adapted Winston Graham's 1967 novel "The Walking Stick" for the 1968 Eric Till film with copied annotations throughout striking adding and adjusting dialogue.<br/><br/>The second is a Second draft script dated 1st April 1968 by novelist playwright and screenwriter Derek Marlow with copied annotations striking scenes or pages on nearly every page. Marlow said in an interview that he was asked by director Tony Richardson which book he'd like to adapt for a screenplay and Marlow suggested Nabakov's "Laughter in the Dark." Two or three months afterward Marlow received a call from Richardson asking him to write the adaptation. <br/><br/>At the time Richard Burton was to star alongside Marianne Faithfull. Marlow then went to the U.S. to promote his 1968 novel "Memoirs of a Venus Lackey" and upon his return to the UK found out a new screenplay by Edward Bond had been written and Burton and Faithfull had been replaced.<br/><br/>The third is a draft script dated 24th June 1968 by Edward Bond. IMDB shows the filming date as starting June 1968 thus likely a draft used early in the production. The first half of the script to page 66 is on pink paper with the remainder on green paper with no revision date change.<br/><br/>Based on the 1932 novel by Vladimir Nabokov updating the original 1930s Berlin setting to 1960s swinging London about a wealthy art dealer who is seduced and swindled out of his fortune by a young woman and her lover.<br/><br/>Set in London and the Riviera shot on location in Spain France and the United Kingdom. <br/><br/>George Bluestone script:<br/><br/>Wrapper integral with title page with credits for screenwriter George Bluestone and author Vladimir Nabokov. 114 leaves with last page of text numbered 109. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads.<br/><br/>Derek Marlowe script:<br/><br/>Black wrappers with die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present dated 1st April 1968 obscured but visible through Winkast sticker noted as Second Draft with credits for screenwriter Derek Marlowe and author Vladimir Nabokov. 137 leaves with last page of text numbered 136. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two flat metal brads<br/><br/>Edward Bond script:<br/><br/>Black wrappers with die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present dated 24th June 1968 with credits for screenwriter Edward Bond and author Vladimir Nabokov. 110 leaves with last page of text numbered 108. Mimeographed rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two flat metal brads. Les Films Marceau unknown books
1966135616Paris: Club des Producteteurs 1966. Eight vintage oversize press photographs from the set of the 1965 film shot for the French magazine Cinema 66 and with their stamp and stamped reference number on the verso of each. All the shots are striking and quite candid several showing director William Klein working with actors Dorothy MacGowan and Sami Frey or setting up shots and others capturing the delirious and beautiful Ms. McGowan. <br/><br/>"After nearly a decade as American Vogue's most subversive fashion photographer William Klein made this wild pseudoverite incursion into the world of Parisian haute couture. Elegant scathing humor ties together the various strands of this alternately glamorous and grotesque portrait of American in Paris Polly Maggoo Dorothy MacGowan an Alice in Wonderland supermodel who becomes the pinup plaything of media hounds and the fragmented fantasy of haunted Prince Igor Sami Frey. Klein's first fiction film is a daring deflation of cultural pretensions and institutions dressed up in brilliant black and white." The Criterion Collection<br/><br/>All photos 15.75 x 10.75 inches. Fine. <br/><br/>Criterion Eclipse 9. Club des Producteteurs unknown books
19892110502151001607Yumanishobo 1989. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 21 Yumanishobo paperback
1958160926Tokyo: Toho Company 1958. Draft script for the seminal 1958 film. Text and titles in Japanese.<br /> <br /> Director Akira Kurosawa's first widescreen feature hugely successful and named by film critic David Ehrenstein as "one of the greatest action-adventure films ever made." George Lucas has long since acknowledged "The Hidden Fortress" as a major influence on "Star Wars" and indeed the plot is essentially the same. <br /> <br /> White titled perfect-bound wrappers. Approximately 77 leaves with last page of text numbered e-24. Mimeograph duplication printed on recto and verso. Light tide mark on top page and wrapper edges else about Near Fine in Near Fine wrappers.<br /> <br /> BFI 867. Criterion Collection 116. Toho Company unknown
1985149056New York: Greenwich Film Productions 1985. Draft script for the 1985 film. With holograph pencil annotations throughout. Text titles and annotations in Japanese.<br/><br/>Based on Shakespeare's play "King Lear." An elderly warlord in medieval Japan divides his vast empire among his three sons. The power corrupts them and turns them on each other as well as their father. Nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Director for Kurosawa winning one. <br/><br/>Set in medieval Japan shot on location in Kumamoto Shizuoka Himeji Oita Aichi Yamagata and Tokyo Japan. <br/><br/>Bright blue titled wrappers. Title page present. 96 leaves with last page of text numbered 176. Xerographic duplication printed on rectos and versos. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus with a lightly faded spine perfectly bound. Greenwich Film Productions unknown books
1966140604Los Angeles: Expanding Cinema 1966. Shooting final for the 1966 film. Copy belonging to actor Peter Haskell with his manuscript annotations throughout and his shooting schedule laid in. <br /> <br /> Mary Ellen Bute's final film and the first cinematic adaptation of James Joyce's masterfully complex work of fiction. Shot over a two year period Bute was tasked with transforming Joyce's impenetrable prose without losing any of the work's surreal lyrical essence. The subsequent film maintains the original novel's oneiric style. Bute and her husband Ted Nemeth were longtime collaborators and Nemeth worked as both cinematographer and producer of the film. In 1965 it was honored at the Cannes Film Festival as Best Debut and remains Bute's sole feature length film. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in New York City and Dublin. <br /> <br /> Brown untitled wrappers. Title page present dated March 4 1963 and December 3 1962 noted as Shooting Final with credits for screenwriters Mary Ellen Bute Romana Javitz and T. J. Nemeth Jr and editor A.I.M.S. Street. 148 leaves with last page of text numbered 139. Mimeograph duplication with onionskin revision pages throughout. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus. Some pages detaching and wrapper slightly cracked. Bound internally with prong binding. Expanding Cinema unknown
1967158730Shepperton: Titan International Productions 1967. Draft script for the classic 1968 British horror film. Single annotation in manuscript ink on the title page noting copy No. 28. <br /> <br /> A mad doctor murders women and extracts fluid from their pituitary glands in the hopes of restoring his disfigured fiancée's beauty. <br /> <br /> OCLC locates no holdings. AMPAS shows no holdings. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in London and East Sussex.<br /> <br /> Tall blue untitled wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present dated MAY 1967. 76 leaves with last page of text numbered 74. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages about Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. Titan International Productions unknown
1968137925Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1968. Archive including 20 vintage linen-backed production photographs a trade advertisement a film program and a souvenir booklet from the 1968 film "2001: A Space Odyssey." From the collection of NASA scientific consultant Frederick I. Ordway III with images prominently featuring Ordway production designer Harry Lange Arthur C. Clarke Stanley Kubrick and others. One photograph has Ordway's name written on the recto in silver marker. All photographs mounted on matte board as issued. <br/><br/>Ordway and Clarke began working together on matters of science fact in 1951 and Clarke personally invited him to be the factual advisor on the film. <br/><br/>Kubrick's sprawling science fiction epic traces the evolution of human intelligence under the influence of an unspecified alien force. Along with "Blade Runner" Kubrick's masterpiece forever altered the standard for visual and conceptual sophistication in science fiction and genre films. The pre-production for the film set standards as well as Kubrick hired one of the greatest science fiction authors of the 1960s Arthur C. Clarke to be his screenwriter and hired over 20 scientists like Ordway to consult on every detail of the film. The film's high degree of scientific accuracy coupled with bleeding-edge special effects and minimal use of dialogue make "2001" universally recognized as one of the most influential films ever made. The development of the film was kept strictly under wraps and behind-the-scenes material of any kind is rare. <br/><br/>Winner of an Academy Award for Best Special Effects and nominated for three others including Best Director. Set in space shot on location in Scotland England Arizona and Utah. <br/><br/>Photographs 8 x 10 inches mounted on 11 x 14 inch matte board. Trade advertisement 9 x 12 inches full color creased. Souvenir booklet 7.25 x 16 inches full color 12 leaves saddle stapled folded. Program 5.5 x 8.5 inches black and white saddle stapled single leaf. Very Good to Near Fine. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1928151356Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1928. Archive of 94 vintage double weight photographs from the 1928 film. <br /> <br /> Inspired by the 1919 nonfiction travel book by Frederick O'Brien and retaining much of that work's anti-imperialist themes about an alcoholic doctor who is set adrift by white traders after objecting to their treatment of the Polynesian workers only to wash ashore on an island where the natives have never seen a white man. <br /> <br /> MGM's first film with a fully prerecorded soundtrack comprised of music and sound effects including most notably the first time the company's mascot Leo the Lion roared at the film's start although the film doesn't quite classify as a talkie as only the single whispered word "hello" appears in the soundtrack. Winner of an Academy Award for Best Cinematography. <br /> <br /> Set on a Polynesian Island shot on location in Tahiti at the time an ambitious endeavor to shoot a Hollywood film on location among native islanders using many of them as extras in the film. <br /> <br /> 10 x 8 inches. Generally Very Good with expected light curling and fading with occasional light creasing or bruising to the photographs. In a custom cloth clamshell box. <br /> <br /> For buyers with a serious potential interest in purchase a link to a complete set of watermarked images is available on request.<br /> <br /> Godard Histoires du cinema. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1928151356Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1928. Archive of 94 vintage double weight photographs from the 1928 film. <br/><br/>Inspired by the 1919 nonfiction travel book by Frederick O'Brien and retaining much of that work's anti-imperialist themes about an alcoholic doctor who is set adrift by white traders after objecting to their treatment of the Polynesian workers only to wash ashore on an island where the natives have never seen a white man. <br/><br/>MGM's first film with a fully prerecorded soundtrack comprised of music and sound effects including most notably the first time the company's mascot Leo the Lion roared at the film's start although the film doesn't quite classify as a talkie as only the single whispered word "hello" appears in the soundtrack. Winner of an Academy Award for Best Cinematography. <br/><br/>Set on a Polynesian Island shot on location in Tahiti at the time an ambitious endeavor to shoot a Hollywood film on location among native islanders using many of them as extras in the film. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Generally Very Good with expected light curling and fading with occasional light creasing or bruising to the photographs. In a custom cloth clamshell box. <br/><br/>For buyers with a serious potential interest in purchase a link to a complete set of watermarked images is available on request.<br/><br/>Godard Histoires du cinema. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
302681New York: Films Around the World 1979. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Near fine. A collaboration between two masters of the horror genre Stephen King the writer and George Romero the filmmaker. The film is a five-story anthology inspired by the B-movies and the EC comics of the 1950s.<br /> <br /> While this is an original King work it isn't listed in Beahm's Stephen King Collectibles or in TheDarkTower bibliography. <br /> <br /> There are two issues or perhaps editions of this script. The first this one has Films Around the World credited on the title page. According to the film script experts Royal Books the producers on the title page changed to the Laurel Group when Films Around the World sold the film rights and Romero was hired to direct the film. <br /> <br /> 1 142 leaves. First edition first issue with "Films Around the World" credited on the title page. Near fine. Black vinyl wrappers with the title stamped in gilt with Studio Duplicating Service identified as printer in the lower left corner. Bound with two brass screw brads. <br /> <br /> Provenance: James Strand; stolen in 2023; recovered by the FBI from a storage unit in Oregon City. With the original evidence tag laid in and the small Strand estate bookplate on the inside front cover. Films Around the World paperback
104835Mexico 1926-28. 4° je 42 S. zahlr. Abb. Brauner privater Ldr.-Bd. etwas knapp beschnitten Etwas berieben min. fingerfleckig. 1. Heft zweifach gestempelt; 5. Heft mit hinterlegtem Einirss im Inseratenteil; 7 Heft eine Abb mit Rotstift durchgestriechen u. m Notiz versehen; insgesamt sehr gutes Exemplar. Text: span.Vollständiger Satz der von dem Maler Fernandez Ledesma konzipierten monatlichen Publikation die der mexikanischen bildenden Kunst gewidmet ist und an der sich namhafte Künstler Architekten Kunstkritiker und Intellektuelle beteiligen. Inhalt: Nr. 1. Oktober 1926: Agustin Lazo; Los daguerreotypes/ kommentiert von Weston -- Las escuelas al aire libre/ von S. Salvador Novo -- La Caricatura/ von S. Ramos - Illustrationen von Covarrubias - Pinturas murales mexicanas/ J.Charlot - Móvil/ G. Fernández Ledesma - El sentimiento estético de los juguetes mexicanos -- Proyecto de Diego Rivera para un teatro en un puerto del Golfo de México/ technische Mitarbeit von don Benito García Benítez -- Photographien von Agustin Jiménez;I Nr. 2 November 1926: Maximo Pacheco La fotografía de la Villa de Guadalupe - Holzschnitzerei/ Lázaro López - Las capitulares de los libros de coro/ von Valerio Prieto - Manuel Manilla: Mexikanischer Graveur - David Alfaro Siqueiros: ein wahrer Rebell in der Kunst von Anita Brenner -Arquitectura: estudio sobre Teposcolula/ von Manuel ToussaintNr. 3 1927: Bildhauerei direkte Schnitzerei/ Diego Rivera - Carlos Orozco als Porträtist/ Ana Brenner - Aufsatz über den Tanz Samuel Ramos - Tiere in indigenen Webereien und Stickereien/ Miguel O. de Mendizábal - Fotografien vom Sport/ G. Fernández Ledesma - Arte para los obreros/ Renato Molina Enríquez - Los retablos del Señor del Hospital/ Dr. Atl - La pintura mural de Fermín Revueltas/ R.M.E. - Consideraciones sobre arquitectura moderna/ von Carlos Obregón Santacilia Nr. 4 1927: Der Maler Rodriguez Lozano - Die mexikanische künstlerische Revolution: Eine Lektion/ von Maroto - Mexikanische Mosaike/ von Ramón Mena - Fotografie: Das Werk von Tina Modotti/ von R.M.E. Nr. 4 enthält ein Protestflugblatt gegen die Inhaftierung mehrerer kubanischer Intellektueller durch die kubanische RegierungNr. 5 1927: Der Maler Rufino Tamayo/ von G. Fernández Ledesma - El Calabazo de Ayacucho/ von Rafael Heliodoro Valle - Azulejos y paneles policromos de la época de la colonia/ von Luis G. Serrano - Hermandad o Cofradía de Loceros; von Enrique A. Cervantes - El jarro maya pintado/ von Dr. Silvanos G. Morley - Historia de Diego Rivera/ von Xavier VillaurrutiaNr. 6 1928: Künstler und Kunsthandwerker/ von Dr. Pedro de Alba - Die Jungfrau Natur ist das Kind; von Guillermo Castillo - Zacatekische Silhouetten/ von G. Fernández Ledesma - Mexikanische Lacke: Die Stämme von Olinalá/ von Renato Molina Enríquez - Eisenarbeiten/ von M. Romero de Terreros - Die Freskenrenaissance in Mexiko: José Clemente Orozco: Sein Monumentalwerk/ von J. CharlotNr. 7 1928: Ein japanischer Maler in Mexiko/ von F. Diaz de León - Das Zentrum für Volksmalerei von San Pablo/ von J. Martin Ramírez - Norah Borges/ von Magda Portul - Fotografien von Weston; von F. Monterde García Icazbalceta - Kunst in Mexiko; von Walter Pach - Mexikanische Kunst in der Kolonie; von A. Carrillo Gariel - Der Maler Roberto Montenegro/ von F. Abreu Gómez.- Fernández Ledesma 1900–1983 begann seine künstlerische Ausbildung an der Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes in Mexiko-Stadt. Er war zusammen mit Roberto Montenegro beauftragt mit der Gestaltung des mexikanischen Pavillons für die Weltausstellung 1922 in Rio de Janeiro. Ab 1925 lehrte er an der Escuela Central de Artes Plásticas Zentrale Schule für Bildende Künste gründete eine freie Bildhauerschule und 1926 das öffentliche Kunstzentrum Centro Popular de Arte in San Pablo. Fernández Ledesma war beteiligt an der Exposición Ibero-Americana in Sevilla im Rahmen der Weltausstellung 1929. In seiner Arbeit für das Secretaría de Educación Pública leitete er unter anderem im Auftrag 1938 in Paris die Ausstellung zum Thema „Die Kunst im politischen Leben Mexikos“. 1944 erhielt er ein Guggenheim-Stipendium.Er veröffentlichte mehrere Bücher und war Gründungsmitglied der Gruppe revolutionärer Maler „30-30“ sowie der Liga de Escritores y Artistas Revolucionarios. 010 Mexico, 1926-28 unknown
1960161256N.p.: N.p. 1960. Second Revised Shooting Final script for the 1960 film musical. Specially bound copy belonging to producer Jerry Wald with his name in gilt on the spine. 26 reference photographs bound in variously among the script pages. <br /> <br /> Jerry Wald is best remembered for his long and successful association with Warner Brothers as both a screenwriter and producer of a number of notable films including "Mildred Pierce" 1945 "Humoresque" 1946 "Key Largo" 1948 and "Flamingo Road" 1949. In the 1950s he moved to Twentieth Century-Fox and was the producer there for "An Affair to Remember" 1957 "Peyton Place" 1957 and "Sons and Lovers" 1960.<br /> <br /> A billionaire poses as an actor in order to gain a part in an off-Broadway musical revue hoping to romance the show's beautiful leading lady. In an attempt to impress her the billionaire hires Milton Berle Gene Kelly and Bing Crosby playing themselves to teach him how to deliver jokes dance and sing respectively. <br /> <br /> Bound in blue cloth with navy quarter leather binding with five raised bands and gilt titles on the spine.Title page present dated January 15 1960 noted as Second Revised Shooting Final with credits for screenwriter Norman Krasna and director George Cukor. 187 leaves with last page of text numbered 139. Mimeograph duplication on eye-rest green stock rectos only with blue and pink revision pages throughout dated variously between 1/19/60 and 6/13/60. Pages Near Fine binding Very Good plus with boards slightly warped.<br /> <br /> Rosenbaum 1000. N.p. unknown
1979141452Tokyo: Imamura Productions 1979. Draft script for the 1979 film. Text in Japanese. With a single notation in holograph ink. <br/><br/>Based on Ryuzo Saki's novel about real life con man thief and multiple murderer Akira Nishiguchi changed to Iwao Enokizu in the film told in multiple flashbacks as he awaits execution for his crimes. <br/><br/>Black titled perfect bound wrappers. Title page present. 169 leaves with last page of text numbered 154. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 384. Ebert III. Grant Japan. Imamura Productions unknown books
1966141453Tokyo: Toho Company 1966. Draft script for the 1966 film. Text in Japanese. <br/><br/>A pornographer is keeping a low profile to keep out of the way of the mob while also is trying to keep the various people in his life happy including his stepdaughter stepson mistress and wife who believes her first husband was reincarnated as a carp. <br/><br/>White titled perfect bound wrappers. Title page present. 178 leaves with last page of text numbered 27. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 207. Toho Company unknown books
1959148724Tokyo: Shochiku 1959. Draft script for the 1959 Japanese film. Text and titles in Japanese. With holograph pencil annotations throughout ostensibly noting the placement of a certain character's lines.<br/><br/>Angered by their parents' refusal to buy them a television set two young brothers decide to go on a silence strike against all adults leading to a number of comic misunderstandings in their tight-knit community. <br/><br/>Set in a suburb of Tokyo.<br/><br/>White titled wrappers. 16 leaves with last page of text numbered 31. Mimeograph duplication printed on rectos and versos. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good lightly foxed with some wear to the binding with perfect binding.<br/><br/>Rosenbaum 1000. Criterion Collection 84. Vogel Film as a Subversive Art. Shochiku unknown books
1934198273Paris: Editions Cahiers d'Art 1934. Paperback. Good- Wraps are moderately edgeworn/chipped/toned/scuffed/smudged; spine strip has small chips at the bottom and top; the cover and spine strip has "Miro" written on them; wraps are detached from the textblock; textblock edges are toned/scuffed/foxed/smudged; textblock and wraps have a significant bump at the bottom right; textblock is cracked; interior is lightly toned around the edges with occasional foxing/smudging; prints are also bumped. White wraps with black lettering and red design; 123 pp.; richly illustrated. Text in French. First edition of this important issue devoted in part to the work of Joan Miro. With two original pochoirs by Miro in colors depicting two surrealist compositions one in red black and white and one in blue black and white. Cahiers d'Art directed by Christian Zervos focused on painting sculpture architecture ancient art ethnography and cinema. This issue with contributions by Christian Zervos Maurice Raynal Robert Desnos Ernest Hemingway Rene Gaffe Georges Hugnet and many orthers. Black & white illustrations and reproductions of photographs Miro Brancusi Ponts de Maillart Walter Peterhans Dada. In particular illustrated with reproductions of 8 etchings by Marc Chagall for The Bible and 8 reproductions of work by Fernand Leger. -- description. Editions Cahiers d'Art paperback
1968137465Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1968. An extraordinary collection of ephemera from the 1968 film the centerpiece of which is a large piece of original artwork by production designer Alexander Trauner. Also included are a US one sheet poster US half sheet poster US insert poster US pressbook Australian daybill poster with the alternate title "Up Tight" and a German A1 poster with the alternate title "Black Power". <br/><br/>An overlooked and exceedingly important African-American film the first film to deal with contemporary black revolutionaries who rose in the wake of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Today the film is considered a work that seeded the explosion of blaxploitation films in the late 1960s and into the 1970s. The story's events surround the death of Martin Luther King framed as a remake of "The Informer" John Ford in turn based on the 1925 proletarian novel by Liam O'Flaherty. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Cleveland the first US film for noted director Dassin who had left the US at the height of the McCarthy hearings in nearly two decades. <br/><br/>The scenario drawing depicts a meeting of black revolutionaries at their headquarters in an abandoned Cleveland bowling alley after the death of Martin Luther King and following a gun heist and murder. Signed in the lower right corner with the designer's Hungarian birth surname "Trau." Executed in gouache ink watercolor pen and pencil. <br/><br/>Seen by very few upon its release UPTIGHT was restored and released on blu-ray in 2014 by the curated label Olive Films. A copy of the disc is included with the piece. <br/><br/>All pieces about Near Fine or better with the artwork showing a small watercolor tide mark at one corner. <br/><br/>Artwork 17 x 24 inches. <br/>US one sheet 27 x 41 inches. <br/>US half sheet 22 x 28 inches. <br/>US insert poster 14 x 36 inches. <br/>US pressbook 15 x 12 inches. <br/>Australian daybill 13 x 30 inches folded as issued. <br/>German A1 poster 23 x 33 inches folded as issued. <br/><br/>Letter with full provenance regarding the Trauner artwork is included. Paramount Pictures unknown books
188343189Boston MA: Cupples Upham & Co. 1883. Hardcover. Very good/No jacket issued. Boston MA: Cupples Upham & Co. 1883. Illustrated with 17 original etchings by Charles Volkmer Thomas Moran Henry C. Ford James Craig Nicoll William M. Hart Charles Platt et al. Unpaginated. Hardcover. Large 4to 12 inches x 9.25 inches . Brown 1/2 leather over marbled boards. Top edge gilt. Covers quite worn; former art club library label to front pastedown. Internally clean and tight. A rare collection of original American art. Very good/No jacket issued. Insurance required to ship this item. Cupples, Upham & Co. 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
1958141439Tokyo: Nikkatsu 1958. Draft script for the 1958 film. Text in Japanese. <br/><br/>The first film to be credited to Suzuki by his assumed name a man released from prison needs money and goes to retrieve diamonds sought after by fellow yakuza members. <br/><br/>White titled perfect bound wrappers. Title page present. 107 leaves with last page of text numbered 12. Mechanical duplication. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus. Nikkatsu unknown books
1958141432Tokyo: Nikkatsu 1958. Draft script for the 1958 film. Text in Japanese. <br/><br/>Title based on a song popularized by the leading actor Frank Nagai. A comedy featuring a drugstore owner who begins an extramarital affair when his wife and child go on vacation. <br/><br/>White illustrated titled perfect bound wrappers. Title page present. 95 leaves with last page of text numbered 18. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine. Nikkatsu unknown books
150822Culver City CA: Culver City Studios 1973. Third Revision Draft script for the 1973 film with the name "Jim Woods" in manuscript ink on top right of front wrapper and page two of screenplay likely uncredited Set Painter James T. Woods with copy numbers "76" on top left of front wrapper and "13" on top right of title page in manuscript marker and on back wrapper are numeric entries in manuscript ink. Following script is a one page "APPENDIX A -- TV PLATE -- LUNA'S PARTY" featuring dialogue between a mother and child regarding a holiday party.<br /> <br /> Woody Allen is a health food store owner who is cryogenically frozen in 1973 only to be revived 200 years later to help lead a rebellion against an inept totalitarian government. Winner of a Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in Colorado and California. <br /> <br /> Beige titled wrappers. Title page present dated March 1 1973 noted as REVISION #3 with credits for screenwriters Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman. 131 leaves with last page of text numbered 129. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with yellow and blue revision pages throughout. Pages Very Good plus with silverfish damage to outer edge of last 15 pages wrapper Very Good plus with silverfish damage to outer edge of back wrapper bound with two gold brads. Culver City Studios unknown
1973150822Culver City CA: Culver City Studios 1973. Third Revision Draft script for the 1973 film with the name "Jim Woods" in holograph ink on top right of front wrapper and page two of screenplay likely uncredited Set Painter James T. Woods with copy numbers "76" on top left of front wrapper and "13" on top right of title page in holograph marker and on back wrapper are numeric entries in holograph ink. Following script is a one page "APPENDIX A -- TV PLATE -- LUNA'S PARTY" featuring dialogue between a mother and child regarding a holiday party.<br/><br/>Woody Allen is a health food store owner who is cryogenically frozen in 1973 only to be revived 200 years later to help lead a rebellion against an inept totalitarian government. Winner of a Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Colorado and California. <br/><br/>Beige titled wrappers. Title page present dated March 1 1973 noted as REVISION #3 with credits for screenwriters Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman. 131 leaves with last page of text numbered 129. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with yellow and blue revision pages throughout. Pages Very Good plus with silverfish damage to outer edge of last 15 pages wrapper Very Good plus with silverfish damage to outer edge of back wrapper bound with two gold brads. Culver City Studios unknown books
