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1930152279N.p.: Caddo Company 1930. Vintage program for the premiere of the 1930 Pre-Code film which was famously held as a gala event at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.<br/><br/>Howard Hughes' most expensive and ambitious production a story about World War I combat pilots today still a dazzling work of blockbuster action and actual aerial biplane footage. Originally conceived as a silent film and then retooled as a talkie in the wake of "The Jazz Singer" 1927. Most of the film is shot in black and white but one sequence is in color-the only color footage ever released of actress Jean Harlow before her untimely death. <br/><br/>8.75 x 11.75 inches bifold. Very Good with a few light dampstains to the front wrapper and a short closed tear to the bottom fold. Caddo Company unknown books
1929419731929. Album a commercial aligator leatherette style. Album's leather spine perished with covers detached. Poor binding. Text & ephemera - Very Good. "Albertic" stationery - signs of use. Holes from prior attachment. Overall Very Good. Album: 6"x 7-3/4" <br/><br/>This lot includes two diaries or journals that were kept during a "Grand Tour" trip to Europe from Canada aboard the R.M.S. "Doric" and the S.S. "Albertic". The journals were written by Miss Anita Cronk from Chicago. The first journal begun July 12th 1929 was kept in a leather "Album" containing ~ 140 pages of mss entries. Interspersed among each days entries are photographs postcards telegrams tickets maps menus programs & other interesting ephemeral items that document the trip. At the rear are collected autographs & inscriptions from fellow passengers as well as a list of hotels frequented during the trip. The second 'journal' of 40 pages written on loose S.S. "Albertic" stationery documents the trip back home again with associated ephemera from the trip again such as programs telegrams tickets photographs & menus. The first journal starts on July 12th 1929 when Miss Cronk and her friends arrive in Montreal. The ship sailed on 7 a.m. on July 13th and the next 20 pages of the journal document the eight day trip to Ireland. On Monday July 22nd the ship docked in Galway Ireland. After spending four days in Ireland the ship left for Liverpool England. After almost seven days in England the ship sails for Brussels. After spending a few days in France Miss Cronk and her friends take a train to Germany were they spend several days and then on to Austria Italy and back to France. In this interesting journal Anita Cronk records the modes of travel the hotels the restaurants the scenery and the people that she meets and also documents the travels with photographs and postcards and other numerous types of ephemera that are pasted into the album. The second journal starts on August 19th 1929 is written on White Star Line S.S. "Albertic" stationary and documents the trip home. Interspersed among the pages are several "programs" documenting the activities aboard the ship. There are also some photographs tickets and menus. Also included with the two journals is the R.M.S. "Doric" passenger list that also includes a map of the journey. An interesting accounting from this young lady's shipboard activities & continental travel just before the advent of the crippling 1929 Depression which would severely curtail the number of such journeys. hardcover books
1955152321Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1955. Vintage reference photograph of actors James Dean and Julie Harris examining a small scale model of a farm on the set of the 1955 film. With holograph ink and pencil annotations identifying Harris and Dean to the verso. <br/><br/>Based on the 1952 novel by John Steinbeck about two brothers who struggle for the attentions and favor of their deeply religious emotionally troubled father. <br/><br/>Winner of Best Dramatic Film at Cannes and nominated for the Palme d'Or. Actress Jo Van Fleet would go on to win a Best Supporting Actress Oscar and the film was nominated for three more Academy Awards including Best Director Best Screenplay and the first ever posthumous acting nomination in Academy history for Dean's lead performance. <br/><br/>Set and shot on location in Monterey and Salinas California. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>National Film Registry. Rosenbaum 1000. Scorsese A Personal Journey Through American Movies. Warner Brothers unknown books
1976146120Los Angeles: American International Pictures AIP 1976. Draft script for the 1977 film. One of the best unheralded revenge thrillers of the 1970s with William Devane taking an unusual turn as a sympathetic character though forced to be quite cold-blooded. <br/><br/>Playing a Vietnam veteran with absolutely nothing left to lose Devane beats a warpath from Texas to Mexico in pursuit of a gang of murderous thugs who killed his family in order to steal a box of silver coins. Paul Schrader's fourth produced screenplay but written several years before the film's release around the same time he penned "Taxi Driver." <br/><br/>Blue titled wrappers with the film title in gilt. Title page present dated June 14 1976 with credit for screenwriter Schrader. 106 leaves mimeograph on blue stock. Pages Fine wrapper Near Finebound with two gold brads.<br/><br/>Grant US. Spicer US. American International Pictures [AIP] unknown books
1976129783Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1976. Draft script for the 1977 film. Presumed estimating script with "Budgeting" in holograph ink on the front wrapper. Notations in holograph blue and black ink throughout. <br/><br/>A film made at what was arguably the maturation point for the Women's Liberation movement that began in the mid-late 1960s in which MacLaine and Bancroft portray former dance colleagues whose lives have gone separate ways one becomes a professional dancer the other a settled domestic woman and whose unexpected reunion yields dramatic consequences. Nominated for 11 Academy Awards including Best Picture Best Director and Best Screenplay. <br/><br/>Mustard titled wrappers noted as "Budgeting" on the front wrapper. Title page present dated 3/2/76 with a credit for screenwriter Laurents. 116 leaves mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. <br/><br/>Grant US. Hardy The BFI Companion to Crime. Selby US. Silver Classic Noir. Spicer US. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1969151548N.p.: San Marco 1969. Two vintage borderless reference photographs of Pier Paolo Pasolini and Maria Callas on the set of the 1969 film. Photographer "Mario Tursi" stamps on versos. <br/><br/>Based on the ancient Greek myth and loosely on the 431 BC play by Euripides wherein the titular character famously kills her sons as revenge against an unfaithful husband. The sole feature film appearance of noted opera legend Maria Callas one in which she curiously does not sing. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Turkey Italy and Syria. <br/><br/>9.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>BFI 1088. San Marco unknown books
1976149427Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1976. Final Shooting script for the 1977 film. With 33 revision pages bound in at the rear. Copy belonging to uncredited cast or crew member Robert Harrison with his name in holograph pencil at the top right corner of the front wrapper and his name in holograph pencil or ink at the top right corner of several leaves. Several of the aforementioned revision pages rubber stamped "RECEIVED / DATE / ROBERT HARRISON."<br/><br/>Based on the 1973 novel. The story of a woman held captive and forcibly impregnated by a rogue supercomputer that has attained artificial intelligence.<br/><br/>Goldenrod titled wrappers noted as FINAL SHOOTING SCRIPT on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 101 dated May 17 1976 with credits for novelist Dean Koontz and screenwriters Robert J. Jaffe and Roger O. Hirson. Title page integral to the first page of text. 129 leaves on white stock with last page of principal text numbered 96. 33 blue and gray revision pages bound in at the rear all intended as replacements for pages in the principal text but have been added rather than substituted. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1954146173Burbank CA: Walt Disney Productions 1954. Final Shooting Script for the 1954 film with blue yellow and green revisions throughout. <br/><br/>Based on the 1870 novel "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" by Jules Verne. Walt Disney's "20000 Leagues Under the Sea" was one of the most expensive and ambitious productions of its time. A 200 foot submarine a 225 pound diving suit a specially built soundstage with a 90 x 165 foot tank and a giant squid which weighed two tons and required a crew of 28 to operate were just some of the monumental challenges of the production. Disney's first CinemaScope motion picture "20000 Leagues Under the Sea" was a resounding success and went on to be considered one of greatest live-action adventure movies ever made.<br/><br/>In 1868 off the coast of San Francisco Professor Aronnax Paul Lukas his assistant Conseil Peter Lorre and master harpooner Ned Land Kirk Douglas set sail upon a armed frigate to investigate a spate of sinkings rumored to be caused by a sea monster. After months of searching the "monster" is spotted sinking a merchant vessel and the frigate attacks only to be sunk themselves. Adrift in the ocean the three come upon a strange metal vessel and realize the "monster" is a "submerging boat." The trio are captured by Captain Nemo James Mason and taken aboard the submarine the Nautilus and journey on a voyage of adventure and discovery under the sea.<br/><br/>Nominated for three Academy Awards winning two for Art Direction and Special Effects.<br/><br/>Shot on location in California Jamaica and the Bahamas. <br/><br/>Blue titled wrappers with affixed Walt Disney Productions label as called for with Disney scripts from this era noted as FINAL SHOOTING SCRIPT on the front wrapper with credits for screenwriter Earl Felton. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Earl Felton. 146 leaves with last page of text numbered 141. Mimeographed rectos only with blue yellow and green revision pages throughout dated variously between 1/30/54 and 3/1/54. Pages Near Fine plus wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. Walt Disney Productions unknown books
1983791983. Very good. Ps. Sensational original presentation color photograph 16" X 20" of Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia in her slave costume. Boldly inscribed by Fisher in black ink to her psychiatrist Dr. Arnold Klein "For my own crazy. Who loves you darling Guess again. Princess Leia. Opiates for sure." With the original hologram sticker "Officially Licensed Star Wars Photograph" in the lower left corner. 2 dozen surface scratches else very good. Framed. If you like this sort of thing this is the sort of thing you'll like. My take Carrie's Leia is one of the 2 late 1970s world-wide magnetic babe fantasies see page 19 in this catalog for the other but needless to say we don't number our pages. And speaking of babes when we do employment interviews at Biblioctopus we give the women a bite-sized Snickers. If they take the wrapper off before eating it we make them catalogers. If they eat it with the wrapper still on they get hired for Security. unknown books
