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1960140402France / Italy: Filmsonor 1960. Collection of 16 vintage borderless single weight still photographs from the 1960 French film noir. A remarkable collection including still photographs from the film candid shots and shots from the set. On-set images include director Jacques Becker with his camera and with the actors actors Marc Michel and Michel Constantin and other members of the cast and crew. Notations in holograph pencil on the versos of nearly the photos.<br/><br/>Based on Jose Giovanni's 1957 first novel "Le Trou" The Break. True story of the 1947 Le Sante Prison break with one of the real escapees Keraudy playing his own character in the film. <br/><br/>Four photos 7 x 9.5 inches twelve photos 5 x 7 inches. Very Good plus to Near Fine. <br/><br/>Buss French Film Noir. Criterion Collection 129. Godard Histoires du Cinema. Grant France. Hayden and Schneider 1001. Selby France. Spicer France. Filmsonor unknown books
1960140390France: Cinedis 1960. Archive of 207 vintage borderless single weight still photographs and contact sheets from the 1960 French film. Numerical annotations on the verso of nearly all photos in holograph pencil several cropped contact sheets mounted on larger sheets. Housed in a vintage French Kodak brand photo paper box with most contact sheets in a two-ring binder similar to keybook photos. Also included is a press folder from the Cinedis agency in Paris with star biographies film credits and scenario on Cinedis parchment. <br/><br/>Seen in the images is starring actor and screenwriter Buissieres including a large portrait actress Carrel several seductive in nature with shots of director Faurez and the film crew in action and images of composer Georges Van Parys and singer Colette Renard famous for her "Irma La Douce" musical roles presumably working on the film soundtrack. Several images in the contact sheets show scenes from the film taking place in an automobile repair shop directed scenes from high on a crane and candid photos of the starring performers. A few of the contact sheets bear credits for the Laboratoire Tele-Photo film title client Cinedis and photographer. ` <br/><br/>Little known gangster drama about a woman and her child caught in the downward spiral of prostitution. <br/><br/>Photos vary in size from 3 x 4.5 inches to 9.25 x 11.75 inches with most being smaller. Very Good plus overall photos with moderate curling and photo box Very Good plus. Cinedis unknown books
1933139665Paris: Franfilmdis / Argui-Film 1933. Vintage double weight borderless reference photograph for the landmark 1933 silent film by Jean Vigo. With the stamp of photographer Mars Marstrich on the verso. <br/><br/>Although he only made four films before his death from tuberculosis at the age 29 Jean Vigo would come to have an outsized influence on cinema particularly the French New Wave with Truffaut in particular paying homage to the anarchic boarding school students in "Zero for Conduct" during the classroom and recess scenes in "The 400 Blows." <br/><br/>8.75 x 6.5 inches. A few tiny pinholes at the right edge else Near Fine. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 578. Godard Histoires du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Franfilmdis / Argui-Film unknown books
1979150583Los Angeles: Dick Clark Productions 1979. Final Shooting script for the 1978 television film which aired on ABC on February 11 1979. Annotation of copy number "147" in holograph marker on top right of title page.<br/><br/>One of three television films made by noted film director John Carpenter. Carpenter began working on "Elvis" after wrapping up his 1978 quintessential horror slasher "Halloween" offering him a chance to try his hand at a dramatic biopic. It was the first time Carpenter had worked with Kurt Russell who would become a frequent collaborator starring in Carpenter's "Escape from New York" 1981 "The Thing" 1982 "Big Trouble in Little China" 1986 and "Escape from L.A." 1996.<br/><br/>The television biopic follows the trajectory of Elvis Presley's career from his impoverished childhood to his sudden and unprecedented rise as a Rock and Roll icon to his years as a Las Vegas sensation. Featuring an outstanding performance by Russell as The King.<br/><br/>Nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Television Motion Picture and nominated for three Emmy Awards including Best Actor in a Miniseries or Movie for Russell.<br/><br/>Dark blue titled wrappers. Title page present dated 10/16/78 noted as FINAL SHOOTING SCRIPT with credits for screenwriter Anthony Lawrence. 146 leaves with last page of text numbered 144. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Dick Clark Productions unknown books
1978147119Burbank CA: Edgar J. Scherick and Associates 1978. Second Draft script for the 1978 television film. One of director John Carpenter's earliest efforts as a screenwriter released the same year as "Halloween" and the television movie "Someone's Watching Me." Originally aired on NBC on September 27 1978. While written as a vehicle for Suzanne Somers some actors that would soon eclipse her can be found in the supporting cast including Timothy Hutton Rosanna Arquette and Michael Biehn. <br/><br/>A glamorous but aging rock star takes a vacation to Zuma Beach where she unwittingly seduces the teenage beachgoers and gradually becomes involved in their lives. <br/><br/>Set and shot on location in California.<br/><br/>Red titled wrappers. Title page present dated May 31 1978 noted as SECOND DRAFT with credits for screenwriter William Schwartz. 116 leaves with last page of text numbered 115. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine lightly soiled on the first leaf wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Edgar J. Scherick and Associates unknown books
1973151351Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1973. Final Draft script for the 1974 film. <br/><br/>A satirical neo-noir following a professional hit man who is contracted by a local mob boss to take out the competition but soon finds himself the target of several personal attacks in retaliation. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Seattle Washington and Silver Springs Florida. <br/><br/>Blue titled wrappers noted as FINAL and copy No. 332 on the front wrapper dated JUNE 8 1973. Title page present dated June 8 1973 noted as FINAL with credits for screenwriter Robert Dillon. 135 leaves with last page of text numbered 129. Mimeograph duplication on eye-rest green stock rectos only with rainbow revision pages throughout dated variously between 8/1/73 and 9/10/73. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads.<br/><br/>Spicer US Neo-Noir. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1981146314Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1981. Draft script for the 1981 film. Script belonging to sound mixer Les Lazarowitz with his name in holograph ink on the title page and three pages of annotations in holograph marker and ink with reference to sound work laid in. Also laid in is a separate Sound EFX Breakdown with sections underlined in holograph marker.<br/><br/>Based on Thomas Berger's 1980 novel John G. Avildsen's pitch-black dark comedy about suburban life starring John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd had a difficult production and a less than ideal reception but as is the often the case the film became a cult favorite. Belushi and Aykroyd play against type Belushi being the ineffectual suburbanite husband and father Earl Keese and Aykroyd the obnoxious menacing Vic Zeck who moves in next door with his femme fatale wife Ramona Cathy Moriarty. Together the new neighbors proceed to wreak havoc on the Keese's lives.<br/><br/>Belushi's last film as he would die from an accidental drug overdose less than three months after the film's release.<br/><br/>Set in and shot on location in Staten Island New York. <br/><br/>Red Studio Duplicating Service inc. vinyl wrapper with title on affixed label. Title page present dated April 9 1981 with credits for director John G. Avildsen. 101 leaves with last page of text numbered 99. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads.<br/><br/>"Sound EFX Breakdown" 8.5 x 14 inches. Near Fine.<br/><br/>Carlson and Connolly Destroy All Movies. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1945146167N.p.: Flag Films 1945. Two vintage oversize double weight studio still photographs from the 1945 French film. Two Cinemagence stamps on verso of each photograph. <br/><br/>Feuding sets of parents seek to thwart their children from marrying by distracting the son with a cabaret performer who has ideas of her own. Shot in 1945 the film did not received an international release until 1952 due to World War II during which time Josephine Baker worked assisting the French Resistance.<br/><br/>Set in and shot on location in Paris. <br/><br/>12 x 9.5 inches. Very Good plus some light creasing and edgewear. Flag Films unknown books
130855Hollywood: Paramount Pictures. Final Draft script for the 1955 film. Actor Van Heflin's copy with his name on the front wrapper and his holograph annotations throughout. Based on the novel "Jovanka e le altre" by Urgo Pirro. <br/><br/>Once branded himself by the House Un-American Activities Committee award-winning director Martin Ritt focuses on the cruel branding of five women in this standard wartime drama. Some of his better-known films The Spy Who Came In from the Cold Norma Rae also deal with the question of social and ethical choices in the face of pressure. In this story the savagery of the Yugoslav partisans as they fight off Nazi occupation forces is also vented on five women accused of Nazi sympathies because of their sexual association with one German officer. The women played by Silvana Mangano Vera Miles Barbara Bel Geddes Jeanne Moreau and Carla Gravina have their heads shaved in order to brand them as traitors. Eleanor Mannikka AllMovie<br/><br/>Filmed on location in Italy and Austria. <br/><br/>Orange untitled wrappers with the Dino De Laurentiis stamp and numerous annotations. Title page present noted as Final Draft with credits for screenwriters Michael and Achilles for screenwriter Pirro and for director Ritt. 153 leaves mimeograph duplication with annotations throughout. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine internally bound with two gold brads. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1978151600Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1978. Revised Final Shooting script for the 1978 film here under the working title "Stingray."<br/><br/>A teenage boy Mark Hamill heads to Las Vegas determined to track down his high school shop class' stolen project car a tricked-out Corvette. <br/><br/>Set and shot on location in southern California and Nevada. <br/><br/>Goldenrod titled wrappers noted as FINAL SHOOTING SCRIPT on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 506 dated March 4 1977 with credits for director Matthew Robbins and screenwriter Hal Barwood. Title page integral with the front wrapper. 129 leaves with last page of text numbered 115. Xerographic duplication rectos only with rainbow revision pages throughout dated variously between 3-14-77 and 9-2-77. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1989147144N.p.: N.p. 1989. Draft script for the 1989 film here under its working title "Vac-U-Sapien." With extensive holograph pencil and ink annotations on virtually every page. Bound in after the script are two handwritten pages of notes and four typed pages of effects and sets for the film.<br/><br/>Michael Paul Girard's first directorial effort wherein aliens return to Earth for the first time in ten million years to see what has become of their "human experiment." After declaring the experiment a failure the aliens decide that due to humans' untidiness crossbreeding vacuum cleaners and humans will produce a better race of beings to inhabit the planet. They subsequently create a sentient vacuum cleaner which is programmed to reproduce with earthlings. A splendid Z-budget effort considered by some to be the worst movie ever made. And yet a script for it exists.<br/><br/>Titled self wrappers with title page integral with the first page of text as issued. 86 leaves with last page of text numbered 82. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1962142876Paris: France Cinema 1962. Archive of 224 vintage borderless single weight keybook contact sheets and film stills amounting to nearly 2000 numbered images for the 1962 French-Italian film here under the original French title. The entire film is represented in minute detail along with test shots set design shots and many candid off-camera shots from the set. Brief cropping and numerical annotations in pencil throughout. Housed in original mailing envelope noting on the front in holograph red ink "Cinedis" and "C.Hesse" the film distributor and still photographer and "A refreuda" in holograph red pencil. <br/><br/>153 photographs are keybook contact sheets nearly all with 12 images per photograph several with 36 each image with a series number and photos crediting at the top the photo laboratory Tele-Photo production studio France Cinema film title and photographer Hesse Beauvarlet. Remaining photographs are borderless film stills. Both photographers are credited on the keybook photos but went uncredited at the film's release. <br/><br/>The archive also extensively features actress Dany Saval in film scenes answering the phone in heated moments with male cast members including some stunningly low-lit images that echo film noir themes showcasing the variety of hair and clothing styles seen on Saval throughout the film. <br/><br/>Based on Annette Wademant's screenplay one of twelve written by Wademant for director Boisrond. Bernard Poiret is a new publisher who falls in love with Sophie Saval but their foolish love nearly destroys them and his job. <br/><br/>Keybook photos range from 8.25 x 10.75 to 9.25 x 11.75 inches three slightly smaller all but ten are 2-hole punched; film stills 7 x 9.25 inches. Very Good overall with moderate curling light edgewear a handful with slight discoloration. France Cinema unknown books
1970149801Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1970. Collection of five vintage oversize double weight photographs from the 1970 film four of which are borderless. One photograph SIGNED and dated 1969 by photographer Alan Pappe on the verso all photographs with his stamp. <br/><br/>All five photographs feature legendary Italian director Federico Fellini in his cameo role as himself with one showing the director on the set with a clapboard and crew members in front of him while a second features a holograph pencil annotation describing Fellini and actor Donald Sutherland discussing a scene with an out-of-frame director Paul Mazursky. <br/><br/>Pappe worked as a film still and press photographer for 30 years covering a who's who of film and music stars including iconic images of Sharon Tate Jimi Hendrix and Liza Minnelli as well as album cover for the "Grease" soundtrack album and the interior images of Jefferson Airplane's "After Bathing at Baxter's." His 1972 "Time" magazine cover photograph of Minnelli in "Cabaret" is part of the permanent collection of the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery. <br/><br/>A young filmmaker struggles to come up with ideas for new film after his previous commercial and critical success while ruminating on this past present and possible futures. <br/><br/>One photograph 11 x 11 inches four photographs roughly 14 x 11 or 11 x 14 inches. Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1947145051Culver City CA: Edward Small Productions 1947. Archive of production material for the 1952 film noir consisting of the following: breakdown set list wardrobe plot shooting schedule and a summary of detail budget. With a type written letter outlining the contents of the archive from producer Edward Small to Dan O'Shea signed by Edward Small in holograph ink and dated October 7 1947. <br/><br/>Based on Samuel Fuller's 1944 novel "The Dark Page." The editor of an exploitative magazine murders his wife then has one of his journalists investigate the matter in order to divert attention from himself. <br/><br/>Breakdown: <br/><br/>Title page present dated September 17 1947. 83 leaves with last page of text numbered 81. Typescript on production form rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound with three gold brads.<br/><br/>Set List:<br/><br/>2 leaves with last page of text numbered 2. Typescript rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound with a single staple in top left corner.<br/><br/>Wardrobe Plot:<br/><br/>Title page present dated September 17 1947. 11 leaves with last page of text numbered 11. Typescript rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound with three gold brads.<br/><br/>Shooting Schedule:<br/><br/>Dated 9/19/47. 6 leaves with last page of text numbered 6. Typescript rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads.<br/><br/>Summary of Detail Budget: <br/><br/>Dated September 29 1947. 34 leaves with last page of text numbered 26. Typescript rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound with two staples in the top left corner.<br/><br/>Grant US. Selby US Canon. Silver and Ward Classic Noir. Spicer US. Edward Small Productions unknown books
1967150244N.p.: N.p. 1967. Collection of five vintage borderless black and white photographs from the set of the 1967 film. With two printed mimeo snipes on the verso along with the stamp of still photographer James Johnson. From the archive of the PIX Agency a photo house that acted as an intermediary between emigre photographers as well as those still living in Europe and the American magazine and newspaper market between 1935-1969.<br/><br/>Brooks' unflinching and unsentimental documentary style made for a visualization that matched the power of Truman Capote's most famous book and remains one of the great meditations on violence in America. Nominated for four Academy Awards.<br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Most Very Good plus with light creasing and edgewear one Very Good with a tear to the top right corner repaired with cello tape on the verso. <br/><br/>National Film Registry. Ebert II. Criterion Collection 781. Penzler 101. Spicer US. N.p. unknown books
1961149449Beverly Hills CA: United Artists / Mirisch Corporation 1961. Vintage oversize borderless black-and-white reference photograph of actors Tony Mordente Harvey Evans Susan Oakes Bert Michaels Tommy Abbott and Tucker Smith standing with director Jerome Robbins on the set of the 1961 film. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso.<br/><br/>Based on the 1957 Broadway musical with book by Arthur Laurents music by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Robbins who would go on to direct the film with Robert Wise served as choreographer and came up with the original concept of a modern musical update of William Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet."<br/><br/>Winner of ten Academy Awards including Best Picture Best Director Best Supporting Actor for George Chakiris and Best Supporting Actress for Rita Moreno.<br/><br/>Set in New York's West Side shot on location in New York and California. <br/><br/>14 x 11 inches. Very Good plus with light wear and creasing to the corners. United Artists / Mirisch Corporation unknown books
1977145347Los Angeles: New World Pictures 1977. Draft script for the 1977 film. Photocopied and cobbled together during production for used by actress Elizabeth Rogers who played Priscilla in the film with her name in holograph ink on the title page and holograph annotations in ink and pencil throughout.<br/><br/>Ron Howard's directorial debut made during his brief tutelage under Roger Corman. A young couple steals a car and elopes to Las Vegas after her wealthy family dissaproves of their relationship pursued by her parents a jealous admirerer and a host of people seeking a reward for their return. <br/><br/>Title page integral to front wrapper dated Feb. 20 1977 with credits for filmmakers Ron and Rance Howard. 111 leaves with last page of text numbered 107. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. New World Pictures unknown books
1971146784Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1971. Vintage US silkscreen banner poster for the 1971 film. <br/><br/>Based on Frank Pierson's 1970 novel about an ex-con who initiates a cascade of chaos when he decides to rob his upscale apartment building. Actor Christopher Walken's feature film debut as well as a breakthrough role for Sean Connery who was previously stuck being typecast as James Bond. <br/><br/>Shot on location in New York. <br/><br/>82 x 24 inches. Rolled. About Near Fine with no restoration a few old splashes near the edges some rubbing and scratches three small closed tears in margins and light creases otherwise quite bright and unfaded.<br/><br/>Lee The Heist Film. Spicer US Neo-Noir. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1970137404N.p.: N.p. 1970. Original typescript screenplay for an unproduced film called "After the Fall" based on Arthur Miller's 1964 play about a Jewish intellectual living in New York. Miller's play opened on Broadway in 1964 at the ANTA Washington Square Theatre ran for 208 performances and closed on May 29 1965. A television movie of the play was released in 1974 but Mann appears to have not been involved in the project. <br/><br/>Abby Mann 1927-2008 wrote screenplays for "Judgment at Nuremberg" 1961 earning him an Academy Award "A Child Is Waiting" 1963 "Ship of Fools" 1965 "The Detective" 1968 "Report to the Commissioner" 1975 and "War and Love 1985. His work also extended into television for series like "Medical Story" 1975-1976 and "Kojak" 1973-1978 a show he helped create and several "Kojak" television movies. <br/><br/>Black wrappers. Title page present undated with credits for playwright Miller and screenwriter Mann. 195 leaves with last page of text numbered 194. Typescript on white stock. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound in a black spring binder. N.p. unknown books
1981149812Budapest: Csoma Bela - MOKEP 1981. Vintage Hungarian A2 poster from the 1981 Hungarian film here under its Hungarian title "Szabadgyalog." <br/><br/>A talented but destructive alcoholic and apathetic violinist Andras Andras Szabo who also composed music for the film destroys his marriage is kicked out of music school and devolves from creating music to becoming a disc jockey in Tarr's metaphoric commentary on Hungarian cinema and politics. Bela Tarr's second feature film following his 1979 debut "Family Nest." <br/><br/>15.25 x 22.25 inches. Folded as issued. Near Fine. Csoma Bela - MOKEP unknown books
1958145977Los Angeles: American-International Pictures 1958. Draft script for the 1958 film here under the working title "The Spider." SIGNED by director Bert I. Gordon. With holograph pencil annotations throughout. Fodder for for an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 Season 4 Episode 13 Sept 14 1991 where Gordon was resurrected as a master of bad taste.<br/><br/>Small-town teenagers and their high school science teacher fight a gigantic mutant spider. The last of the "giant creature" films directed by Gordon from the 1950s. In an attempt to ride on the success of "The Fly" which debuted a few months earlier in 1958 the film's working title "The Spider" replaced "Earth vs. the Spider" on most of its promotional materials. The screen title however was never officially changed.<br/><br/>Yellow titled wrappers rubber-stamped copy No. 48. Title page integral to the distribution page with receipt intact dated April 29 1958 with credits for screenwriters Laszlo Gorog and George Worthing Yates and story credit to Bert I. Gordon. 122 leaves with last page of text numbered 112. Mimeographed rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated 5/9/58. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus with some edgewear and faint tidemarks to the front wrapper bound with two gold brads. American-International Pictures unknown books
1966136089Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1966. Collection of five vintage borderless black-and-white studio still photographs from the set of the 1966 film. All photographs show Billy Wilder giving direction including scenes in a bedroom on a football field in a cemetery and more. <br/><br/>Walter Matthau won an Academy Award for his role in the film. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. United Artists unknown books
1979149493Burbank CA: Cougar Films LTD 1979. Draft script for the 1981 film here under the working title "Butcher Baker Candlestick Maker." Annotations on several pages in holograph marker and pencil on all dialogue and action for the character Ross Walters played by Greg Palmer. Laid in is a Call Sheet dated for "Mon. May 12 80" with annotations in holograph ink and pencil and a copied hand-drawn map for directions to the Paramount Ranch the location of the Western town set.<br/><br/>Not to be confused with the 1996 film directed by Wes Craven and starring David Arquette and Neve Campbell.<br/><br/>Twelve campers on a rafting trip down the Rio Grande decide to set up camp in an old Western ghost town when an unknown killer begins to eliminate them one by one.<br/><br/>Set in the Rio Grande shot on location in Lake Piru and Paramount Ranch California. <br/><br/>Yellow titled wrappers. Title page present dated 1979 with credits for screenwriter Byron Quisenberry. 80 leaves with last page of text numbered 79. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with some creasing and edgewear bound with two gold brads.<br/><br/>Thrower Nightmare USA. Cougar Films, LTD unknown books
1942128826Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1942. Draft script for the 1942 film. Nominated for two Academy Awards. <br/><br/>Third of the seven classic and highly successful "Road" movies Bob Hope made with Bing Crosby. <br/><br/>Yellow titled wrappers dated February 4 1942 with credits for screenwriters. Title page integral with the front wrapper as issued. 130 leaves on yellow stock mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. <br/><br/>Hirschhorn p. 213. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1981142567Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM / Charles H. Schneer Productions / Peerford 1981. Final Revised Draft script for the 1981 film. British script for the US-UK co-production with the address of UK production company Peerford on the title page. <br/><br/>The final film to feature creature design and visual effects by pioneering stop motion animator Ray Harryhausen a fitting send off to both him and the special effects techniques that stretch back through film history to "King Kong" 1933 "The Lost World" 1925 and beyond but had already been eclipsed in the public imagination by the digital effects of "Star Wars" four years earlier. Based loosely on the Greek myth of Perseus and Andromeda. Remade in 2010 without any of the charm of the original. <br/><br/>Set in Ancient Greece shot on location in the UK Spain Italy and Malta. <br/><br/>Blue wrappers with title window die-cut in the British style. Title page present noted as Final Revised Draft with credits for screenwriter Beverly Cross. 133 leaves with last page of text numbered 130. Xerographically reproduced. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two silver brads. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] / Charles H. Schneer Productions / Peerford unknown books
