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1968132378New York: Stuart Millar Productions 1968. Draft script for the 1968 film. <br/><br/>Based on George Plimpton's 1966 book. Alan Alda in his first starring role plays Plimpton who has put himself into the sports arena writing about his experiences. He's entered the ring with a professional boxer and pitched in an All-Star game. He decides to try his hand at being the quarterback of a professional football team and he gets his opportunity with the Detroit Lions. While everyone involved agrees to keep his secret feigning time spent as a semi-pro in Canada it soon becomes clear that he is clueless on the field. Eventually he earns his teammates' respect and even gets to play in an exhibition game. <br/><br/>Shot on location in New York Missouri and Florida. <br/><br/>Blue titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for writers Roman and Plimpton. 132 leaves mimeograph duplication with the last leaf of text numbered 131. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Stuart Millar Productions unknown books
1944141117Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1944. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1944 film. Nominated for three Academy Awards. Based on John Steinbeck 1943 novella of the same name. Reference numbers are 619-53 black-and-white stamped on verso as "KEY SET" and 619-70 sepia apparently mounted for internal use. <br/><br/>The film follows a group of survivors stranded on a lifeboat following an attack on their merchant ship. Tensions are high as the group negotiates food rations and tries to plot a course to land or rescue. The film is the first in Hitchcock's "limited-setting" fims followed by "Rope" Dial M for Murder" and "Rear Window." Steinbeck who wrote the novella for the film was aggravated by the changes made to his work specifically to an African American character who he felt had been transformed into a grotesque caricature. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Florida and California. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with toning to one image as well as a holograph graphite notation to the other. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1956132800London: Twentieth Century-Fox 1956. Collection of 8 vintage full-color still photographs from the 1956 UK film. <br/><br/>Based on Moore Raymond's 1945 novel of the same name about a young boy in the Australian bush hailed as the Australian "Huckleberry Finn." <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. A few moderate creases else Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1971151346Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1971. Vintage press kit for the French release of the 1971 documentary film. Full-color illustrated pocketed folder containing five black and white photographs and three pages of promotional reading material.<br/><br/>A documentary following the star-studded 1969 Big Sur Folk Festival which featured Crosby Stills Nash and Young Joan Baez Joni Mitchell and many others. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Big Sur. <br/><br/>Folder photographs and promotional material Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1955147888N.p.: Visual Drama 1955. Vintage studio still photograph of Joyce Jameson and Myron Healey from the 1955 film here under the alternative title Gangbusters. <br/><br/>NBC aired the True Crime television series Gang Busters from March 20 1952 to October 23 1952 and reedited the three episode storyline The Pinson Gang into the 1955 feature film Gang Busters. <br/><br/>Lifelong criminal Pinson Healy keeps escaping from prison. Loosely based on Omar August Pinson American robber and murderer.<br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with faint creasing to corners some edgewear and two small closed tears in left margin. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request.<br/><br/>Selby US. Spicer US. Lyons US. Visual Drama unknown books
1995169802New York: Fly By Night Press 1995. First edition. Softcover. 91 pages. A collection of poems by Star Black. A very near fine copy in wrappers. Includes a laid in handwritten note from Star Black presenting this book to fellow poet Star Black. Note in near fine condition. Fly By Night Press unknown books
1999PW1093Cambridge MA:: MIT Press 1999. 1999. 8vo. xii 377 1 pp. Figs. index. Pictorial wrappers. Very good. ISBN: 0262522950 A major comparative study of systems of large-scale classification. See book review by Stefan Helmreich "Torqing Things Out" Science Technology & Human Values Vol. 28 No. 3 Summer 2003 pp. 435-440. Bowker is a professor of Informatics at UC Irvine. Susan Leigh Star American sociologist UCSD "She specialized in the study of information in modern society; information worlds; information infrastructure; classification and standardization; sociology of science; sociology of work and the history of science medicine technology and communication/information systems." She is called by some "one of the most influential science studies scholars of the last several decades." MIT Press, 1999. unknown books
1978147796Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1978. Collection of 13 vintage black and white reference photographs 6 vintage color studio still photographs 5 vintage studio still photographs 2 vintage black and white borderless reference photographs and 1 color reference photograph from the 1978 film. Several of the photographs are candid shots taken on the set of the film.<br/><br/>The sequel to "National Velvet" 1944 based on the 1935 novel. A former horse riding champion helps her troubled niece achieve Olympic horse riding glory.<br/><br/>Set and shot on location in England.<br/><br/>24 photographs 10 x 8 inches 1 photograph 7.25 x 9.5 inches one photograph 6 x 9.5 inches 1 photograph 7.5 x 5 inches. Near Fine some with faint edgewear. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1956139119Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1956. Original British black-and-white premiere program for the 1956 US film. Printed and distributed to coordinate with a European gala premiere of the film at the Odeon Theatre June 26 1956 as a charity fundraiser to benefit the Actors' Orphanage and the Variety Club Heart Fun for Under-Priveleged Children. <br/><br/>Based on Max Catto's often wrote as Simon Kent 1950 novel "The Killing Frost." Lancaster who was an acrobat in his younger years plays Mike a trapeze artist trying to overcome an injury. Tino Curtis and Lola Lollobrigida pursuade him to pursue his dreams and return to the Big Top. <br/><br/>Shot on location in France. <br/><br/>8.5 x 11 inches 12 leaves with color wrappers saddle-stapled. Very Good plus with rubbing a vertical crease and light spine stress. Scarce. United Artists unknown books
1940WRCLIT82807Beverly Hills: United Artists 1940. 16pp. Quarto. Stiff pictorial self-wrapper. Illustrations including color. Upper wrapper quite tanned and soiled around edges internally very good. An original theatrical souvenir program for the 1940 release of Chaplin's barbed satirical attack on Nazism and Fascism and their respective figureheads. This was both Chaplin's first full sound film and commercially the most successful in its original release. Paulette Goddard and Jack Oakie costarred. United Artists unknown books
19891994China Tiananmen Square New Star Publishers. <b>The Beijing Riot--A Photo Record</b>. Beijing: New Star Publishers 1989. First Edition First Printing. <br /><br />Small Quarto 10 1/8 x 7 1/4 inches; 260 x 185 mm 32 pages in stapled wrappers.<br /><br />Chinese government booklet justifying the bloody crackdown in Tiananmen Square in June 1989. "Beijing experienced a horrifying counter-revolutionary rebellion on June 3 and 4 1989" according to the introduction. "The purpose of the rebellion was to overthrow the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party and subvert the socialist People's Republic of China."<br /><br />Profusely illustrated with gruesome color photos of soldiers allegedly beaten or killed by "ruffians" and "thugs" as well as photos of burned-out vehicles; ordinary people supposedly thanking soldiers for ending the rebellion; scenes from Tiananmen Square and the surrounding streets; government and party leaders; and much more.<br /><br />This booklet is rare. OCLC lists only three institutional holdings: Harvard and Linfield College in the U.S. and the International Institute of Social History in the Netherlands. An oddly fascinating -- if jarring -- attempt by the Chinese government to present its case to a foreign audience. <b>RARE</b>. <br /><br />CONDITION: Light edge wear rubbing to laminated wrappers internally clean bright and unmarked. A Very Good or better copy. New Star Publishers books
1988132528N.p.: Media Home Entertainment 1988. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the 1988 videocassette release of the 1988 US film. <br/><br/>An action-packed thriller about of drug-related murders in Saigon and the ex-Green Beret who must find the culprits. <br/><br/>8 x 9.75 inches. Near Fine. Media Home Entertainment unknown books
193443131Great Britain: Cunard White Star 1934. Oblong 8vo unpaged; chiefly color and black and white illustrations some photographic; decorative borders in yellow and silver; original tan staplebound decorative wrappers stamped in red and gilt; "Ships--Queen Mary" in ink at top of upper cover withdrawn rubberstamp on p. 1; very good. Promotional brochure for the iconic ship which was still in preparation as of its publication: "The rooms will be perfectly satisfying to the most cosmopolitan conceptions of culture and good taste at the same time retaining the atmosphere of restfulness and comfort associated with the most dignified English country homes." <br/><br/> Cunard White Star unknown books
1950327Twelve Menus from R.M.S. "Queen Elizabeth" Cunard White Star Line printed in England September 6-10 1951 for September 6 Luncheon and Dinner September 7 Breakfast Luncheon and Dinner September 8 Luncheon and Dinner September 9 Luncheon and Dinner September 10 Breakfast Luncheon and Farewell Dinner. Luncheon and dinner menus measure 26.5 cm x 21 cm with illustrated front covers by Vernon Ward Arthur Rowlands Cowlam Edgar Woolax C. F. Hopkinson and T. Peddie. Breakfast menus measure 27.5 cm x 17 cm printed on one side only. Condition is fine. <br /> Cunard White Star Line paperback 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
194035014NY: Grosset & Dunlap 1940. Paulo Werneck. 4to. Pages not numbered. First published in Brazil. A picture book with a simple story. Very nice illustrations by Paulo Werneck. Paper over boards cloth spine. Some water stains at bottom of pages cover somewhat worn and soiled. Good only. Grosset & Dunlap unknown books
194075874New York NY.: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers. VG. 1940. Hardcover. This book is hard-bound in white paper covered boards with color printing to the covers with a white cloth spine in a grasscloth slip-case with a printed paper label on the upper cover with some wear and cracking to the edges. The covers show some light soiling and toning. The binding is solid. The contents are bright and clean with color illustrations. . Grosset & Dunlap, Publishers hardcover books
1952151878Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1952. Two vintage reference photographs taken on the set of the 1952 film one showing actors Arthur Franz and Marie Windsor in conversation between takes the other showing Franz and Windsor sitting with director Edward Dmytryk assistant director Billy Reineck dialogue director Lauren Gage and script supervisor Frances McDowell. One with a mimeo snipe affixed to the verso along with a Columbia Pictures stamp the other with a RKO Radio Pictures stamp on the verso. <br/><br/>A severely mentally ill delivery man struggles with his irrational hatred of women and begins venting his rage by killing women from a distance using a M1 carbine. One of the most minimal and exciting noirs of the 1950s and Edward Dmytryk's first return to directing after his long tenure on the Hollywood blacklist. <br/><br/>Shot on location in San Francisco. <br/><br/>One 8 x 10 inches one 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Grant US. Selby US. Selby US Canon. Silver and Ward Classic Noir. Spicer US. Columbia Pictures unknown 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
198698023Bryn Mawr: Dorrance & Company 1986. 120p. signed on the title page by the African American author first printing slightly worn dj. Gater's account of her husband's bad accident and nursing him back to health against the odds. Dorrance & Company unknown books
1970136064New York: National General Pictures 1970. Vintage black-and-white studio still photograph from the set of the 1970 film. Shown are director Gene Kelly with James Stewart and Henry Fonda. <br/><br/>A revisionist Western in which James Stewart an aging cowboy inherits his brother's house of prostitution. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. National General Pictures unknown books
195650217Washington DC: General Grand Chapter 1956. 12mo pp. 166. Yellow cloth. One hinge tender interior somewhat stained and with some markings in text cover little worn at edges o/w VG. The female auxiliary of the Masons. General Grand Chapter unknown books
197869229Montevideo: np 1978. First edition. 73 pp. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Dated 1978 and INSCRIBED by Genta on the front free endpaper. Montevideo: (np) unknown books
1965133257London: Anglo-Amalgamated Film Distributors / Warner-Pathe 1965. Collection of 8 vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1965 UK film. <br/><br/>George the Brain James leads a ragtag band of robbers who steal money and hide it in a tree in a vacant lot but they are caught and sentenced to 15 years hard labor. Once released from prison they seek out the tree only to find it is now on the premises of a police station. Several stars from the "Carry On" film series carryout this classic caper. <br/><br/>Shot on location throughout Buckinghamshire England. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Faint corner creases else Near Fine. Anglo-Amalgamated Film Distributors / Warner-Pathe unknown books
1954008118New York: Tannen Music Inc. 1954. SIGNED by Grandpa Jones in ink on front cover. Born Louis Marshall Jones 1913-1998 in Kentucky Grandpa Jones cut his first country music recording in 1943 with Merle Travis. By 1946 he was appearing on the Grand Ole Opry and later he was a fixture on the TV show "Hee Haw". Near Fine a few small rubs and slight discoloring to covers. A great country music collectible would make an excellent framed piece. . SIGNED. First Edition. Pictorial Stapled Wrappers. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Tannen Music, Inc. Paperback books
