Sacha Guitry director screenwriter starring; Lana Marconi Claire Brilletti Pauline Carton starringABAA
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1950135620Paris: B.M.P. Films 1950. Draft script for the 1950 French film "The Treasure of Cantenac" here under its title of origin "Le Tresor de Cantenac" on the title page with the film's working title "Un miracle" also on the title page. French copy company rubber stamp and faint pencil annotations on the front wrapper. Pre-New Wave items are scarce this being a completely original example with text in French throughout. <br/><br/>Set in a rundown French village the film is a series of vignettes illustrating the human condition. The Baron de Cantenac on the verge of suicide after losing his fortune goes on one last walk through his dying town. On the way he meets the town's oldest citizen who reveals a royal treasure that he has been jealously guarding for years. <br/><br/>Director-screenwriter-actor Guitry was a prominent French filmmaker during the post-WWI years of French cinema following in the footsteps of his father silent film actor Lucien Guitry. His notable film credits include English titles "The Lover of Camille" 1924 "The Story of a Cheat" 1936 "Nine Bachelors" 1939 "Royal Affairs in Versailles" 1954 a film notable for its appearance of a young Brigitte Bardot and "Napoleon" 1955. <br/><br/>Blue titled wrappers. Title page present undated with a credit for Guitry and B.M.P. Films in Paris the US branch is in California. 102 leaves with last page of text numbered 100. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good perfect-bound and side-stiched. B.M.P. Films unknown books
1955150449N.p.: N.p. 1955. Two vintage reference photographs of director Sacha Guitry on the set of the 1955 film taken by photographer Edward Quinn. "Ed. Quinn" stamps on verso of both one with additional "Cinema Napoleon" stamp.<br/><br/>Guitry's historical epic depicting the life of Napoleon from his early life in Corsica to his death at Saint Helena with Napoleon depicted by two actors Daniel Gelin as the young and Raymond Pellegrin as the old. Featuring notable cameos by Erich von Stroheim as Ludwig van Beethoven and Orson Welles as Napoleon's British jailor Sir Hudson Lowe.<br/><br/>Shot on location throughout France. <br/><br/>7 x 9.75 inches. Light edgewear and light creasing at extremities else Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1980152436N.p.: N.p. 1980. Draft script for an unproduced film. <br/><br/>Written by noted African-American screenwriter S. Torriano Berry. A rock star dies in a freak accident but is reincarnated to the chagrin of his greedy recording company who have already made plans to replace him in the spotlight. Heavily influenced by earlier films "Heaven Can Wait" Ernst Lubitsch 1943 and "Heaven Can Wait" Warren Beatty and Elaine May 1978<br/><br/>Blue titled front wrapper missing rear wrapper with credits for screenwriter S. Torriano Berry. Missing title page presumably as issued. 75 leaves with last page of text numbered 75. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1970144150Burbank CA: Sequoia Pictures 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. <br/><br/>Thriller set in Spain. American gangsters find themselves in the cross fire between armed revolutionaries and the military. <br/><br/>Light blue titled wrappers with credits for screenwriter S. Lee Pogostin. Title page present with credits for screenwriter S. Lee Pogostin. 117 leaves with last page of text numbered 116. Mechanical duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Sequoia Pictures unknown books
1969150712Burbank CA: Warner Brothers / Seven Arts 1969. Collection of eight vintage studio still photographs from the 1969 film. <br/><br/>Based on Elmore Leonard's 1969 novel. A Vietnam veteran with a shady past falls into a secretary's scheme to steal $50000 from the owner of a California farm.<br/><br/>Set and shot on location in Carmel and Monterey California. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request.<br/><br/>Grant US. Warner Brothers / Seven Arts unknown books
1969150714Burbank CA: Warner Brothers / Seven Arts 1969. Complete set of eight vintage color studio still photographs from the 1969 film. <br/><br/>Based on Elmore Leonard's 1969 novel. A Vietnam veteran turned migrant farm laborer falls into a secretary's scheme to steal $50000 from the owner of a California farm.<br/><br/>Set and shot on location in Carmel and Monterey California. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Seven Near Fine one Very Good plus with a small closed tear with accompanying creasing to the right edge. <br/><br/>Grant US. Warner Brothers / Seven Arts unknown books
1933140054Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1933. Final script for the 1934 film. Copy belonging to a unknown cast member with his signature on front wrapper. With some holograph pencil annotations. <br/><br/>A pre-Code comedy featuring a stranded actress in a small town who becomes a manicurist and inadvertently has a great impact on the lives of the local citizenry. <br/><br/>Red titled wrappers noted as Final Script on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy production No. 722 dated October 14 1933 with credits for screenwriters Richard Schayer and Russell Mack. 135 leaves with last page of text numbered "H:7-8." Mimeograph duplication with revision pages throughout dated variously between October 12 1933 and October 19 1933. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. RKO Radio Pictures unknown books
1989139236France: Eve Productions 1989. Original French grande poster for the 1989 release of the 1970 US film. Scarce. <br/><br/>A small-town border sheriff and marijuana smuggler sets out to kill a rival drug dealer while his girlfriend has a dalliance with another woman. The first Meyer film to feature full frontal male nudity a rarity even in sexploitation films at the time and quite the introduction to soon-to-be Meyer's regular Charles Napier. <br/><br/>Meyer shot several new sequences late in production about a quarter of the film's runtime either to replace footage lost by a photo lab or because an actress left the shoot early the reason is disputed. The new sequences unrelated to the original ones give the film an almost surreal quality leading Roger Ebert to call it "possibly the only narrative film ever made without a narrative."<br/><br/>The film was one of the most successful of Meyer's career leading him to return to and refine this style in subsequent films peaking with Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens in 1979.<br/><br/>47 x 63 inches folded as issued. Near Fine. Eve Productions unknown books
1964139221California: Art Theatre Guild / Eve Productions 1964. Original black-and-white program for the 1964 film printed for the Art Theatre Guild. The Art Theatre Guild ATG began in 1961 as an independent agency distributing films mostly Japanese rejected by major studios. The company operated until the 1980s with theaters in Arizona California Colorado Illinois Kentucky Massachusetts Missouri New Mexico Ohio and Tennessee. <br/><br/>The first of Meyer's "noir" cycle 1964-1965 or "Gothic" period as Meyer puts it a series of sexploitation films shot in black-and-white powerful psycho-sexual female characters male impotence and a serious dramatic plot involving less of the "nudie" filmmaking style so prominent in the director's early films. Other films in his "Gothic" period include "Mudhoney" 1965 "Motorpsycho!" 1965 and the epic and legendary "Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! " 1965. "Fanny Hill" 1964 snuck in right after "Lorna" although that film is generally left out of the "Gothic" period. <br/><br/>"Lorna" was written by James Griffith who stars as the Preacher narrator of the film and stars Lorna Maitland as a voluptuous sexually unfulfilled newlywed. Her husband Jim Rucker works in a salt mine all day and studies all night giving Lorna too much time to herself. One day while Lorna skinny-dips in a nearby river an escaped convict Bradley rapes her in the reeds. The vile act could otherwise have been exploited perhaps comically by Meyer but here the scene acts as a catalyst for one repressed woman's sexual awakening. Lorna invites the convict into her home while her husband is gone prompting Jim's coworkers among them the underrated Hal Hopper to tease him about Lorna's infidelity. Things take a bitter fatal turn when Jim returns home to discover Lorna and her object of desire. <br/><br/>5.5 x 8.5 inches folded once as issued. Two horizontal creases and faint foxing else Near Fine. Art Theatre Guild / Eve Productions unknown books
1963151457N.p.: N.p. 1963. Two vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1963 film. Included is a distributor's pamphlet. <br/><br/>A mondo documentary following the sexual exploits of buxom women across Europe. <br/><br/>Photographs 7 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine. Pamphlet bi-fold 8.5 x 11 inches. Very Good moderately chipped and soiled. N.p. unknown books
1986139240Madrid Spain: RM Films International 1986. Original Spanish one-sheet poster for the 1986 release of the 1975 US film. Features buxom Christy Hartburg who starred as SuperLorna. Hartburg along with Kitten Natividad and Uschi Digard has become one of the more recognizable faces of Russ Meyer filmdom even though this was her only film. <br/><br/>Clint Pitts operates a small-town gas station where he is constantly harassed by his wife SuperAngel Eubank. On one occasion the police are called and Harry Napier arrives and is promptly seduced by SuperAngel however his impotence becomes him. Stricken by SuperAngel's taunts Harry murders her in a rather gruesome bathtub scene and pins the act on Clint. On the lam Clint meets a farmer with a heyper-sexual Austrian mail-order bride named SuperSoul Digard. In keeping with director Meyer's powerful female roles SuperSoul rapes Clint a few times notably in a barn where the farmer discovers his wife's indiscretions. Clint meets up with SuperVixen Eubank an inexplicable reincarnation of SuperAngel and the two fall in love. Harry is however still hot on the trail. <br/><br/>Meyer's successful return to independent filmmaking after the big-budget "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls" 1970 and the unfortunate films "The Seven Minutes" 1971 and "Black Snake" 1973. Arguably the most entertaining Meyer project with all the trademarks present: strong sexual women impotent men and healthy doses of sex violence and nudity with a nod to the desert violence of Italian Euro Westerns of the 1960s. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Arizona California and New Mexico. <br/><br/>27 x 41 inches folded as issued. Near Fine. Scarce. RM Films International unknown books
1975149729N.p.: N.p. 1975. Vintage oversize borderless reference photograph from the set of the 1970 film showing actresses Erica Gavin and Cynthia Myers with cinematographer Fred J. Koenekamp behind the camera at the far left. With the film's French 1975 release title "Orgissimo" at the bottom right.<br/><br/>After nearly a decade as one of America's most successful independent filmmakers sexploitation auteur Russ Meyer first reached out for the brass ring of major studio success with this frantic and most entertaining cult favorite once described by Meyer and screenwriter Roger Ebert as "the first exploitation-horror-camp-musical." The film follows three members of an all-girl rock band called The Kelly Affair who relocate to Hollywood in search of fame and fortune. Their success comes at the price of their friendship and integrity however and the girls eventually succumb to a nonstop train of decadence drugs and betrayal. Featuring one-hit wonders the Strawberry Alarm Clock supporting performances by Meyer regulars Charles Napier and Haji and a bit part from future blaxploitation icon Pam Grier "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls" proved to be Meyer's biggest box-office success.<br/><br/>Set and shot on location in Hollywood.<br/><br/>12 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine with light wear to the corners.<br/><br/>Criterion Collection 836. N.p. unknown books
1959134256Los Angeles: Pad-Ram Enterprises 1959. A collection of 8 vintage still photographs from the 1959 film. Included are 4 stills from the US release and 4 stills from the UK release under the title "Mr. Teas and His Playthings." From a cursory glance one can immediately see the differences with regard to nudity paid by both US and UK publicists the UK stills decidedly more liberal with regard to the "forbidden flesh."<br/><br/>The US stills were taken directly from scenes of the film and the UK stills appear to be from either a deleted scene or a mock setup designed for foreign publicity with Mr. Teas seen in a bathhouse with the "Buxom Bath House Beauties" Baby Dahl Chicky Fricase Frenchie Tost Teri Clawthe that were not seen in the final cut. The UK stills purport "Monstrous Murder!" and "Sizzling Suspense!" taglines however the final cut features neither murder nor suspense. <br/><br/>The story finds the shy Mr. Teas played by William Ellis Teas a door-to-door dental appliance salesman who has a chemical reaction with an anesthetic that allows him to have X-ray vision as in "seeing through women's clothes." He also overcomes all of his inhibitions leading to ribald encounters with his dental nurse his therapist his secretary a girl in a bar etc. <br/><br/>Russ Meyer's first feature produced by Pad-Ram Enterprises a monogram using the initials of director Russell Albion Meyer and producer Peter A. DeCenzie and the film that basically launched the lighthearted "nudie" pictures of the early 1960s. The film was immediately touted as "ribald" and "Frenchy" with regard to the "genuinely sexy sequences with generous expanses of attractive flesh" that used to be seen strictly in foreign films. At a time when Hollywood moguls were losing audiences to the comfort of in-home cinema through television Meyer and DeCenzie who spent years on the burlesque and night club circuits released an independent naturally sexy endeavor in the tradition of the great Chaplin films. The bigger productions companies would never have made a film as far overboard on sex. <br/><br/>For his debut Russ Meyer did even more of the crew work than usual shooting in four days during the spring of 1958 with a budget of $24000 ultimately making over $1.5 million worldwide. The film was marketed as a "nudist" film with a "French" sensibility but exhibited all the distinctive traits for which Meyer would soon become known including large bosoms insane plots a somewhat feminist perspective campy dialogue and guerilla cinematography. <br/><br/>Shot on location in various California destinations including Malibu Lagoon State Beach. Meyer even shot various scenes at his beach-front home in Los Angeles. <br/><br/>All stills 8 x 10 inches some differ slightly in size. Two US stills Very Good plus others Near Fine. UK stills Near Fine. Pad-Ram Enterprises unknown books
1961134255Los Angeles: Pad-Ram Enterprises 1961. Original pressbooks two variants for 1961 re-releases of the 1959 film. Featured are the two most commonly seen layouts used for publicity: the full-color illustrated "hat" variant and the other with Mr. Teas surrounded by a bevy of well-developed women the female leads of the film from left to right: Ann Peters Michele Roberts Dawn Danielle and Marilyn Wesley. <br/><br/>The story finds the shy Mr. Teas played by William Ellis Teas a door-to-door dental appliance salesman who has a chemical reaction with an anesthetic that allows him to have X-ray vision as in "seeing through women's clothes." He also overcomes all of his inhibitions leading to ribald encounters with his dental nurse his therapist his secretary a girl in a bar etc. <br/><br/>Russ Meyer's first feature produced by Pad-Ram Enterprises a monogram using the initials of director Russell Albion Meyer and producer Peter A. DeCenzie and the film that basically launched the lighthearted "nudie" pictures of the early 1960s. The film was immediately touted as "ribald" and "Frenchy" with regard to the "genuinely sexy sequences with generous expanses of attractive flesh" that used to be seen strictly in foreign films. At a time when Hollywood moguls were losing audiences to the comfort of in-home cinema through television Meyer and DeCenzie who spent years on the burlesque and night club circuits released an independent naturally sexy endeavor in the tradition of the great Chaplin films. The bigger productions companies would never have made a film as far overboard on sex. <br/><br/>For his debut Russ Meyer did even more of the crew work than usual shooting in four days during the spring of 1958 with a budget of $24000 ultimately making over $1.5 million worldwide. The film was marketed as a "nudist" film with a "French" sensibility but exhibited all the distinctive traits for which Meyer would soon become known including large bosoms insane plots a somewhat feminist perspective campy dialogue and guerilla cinematography. <br/><br/>Shot on location in various California destinations including Malibu Lagoon State Beach. Meyer even shot various scenes at his beach-front home in Los Angeles. <br/><br/>Both pressbooks 11 x 17 inches folded horizontally. "Hat" variant includes a 9 x 12 ad mat dated "Fri. Aug. 18 1961." Light rubbing overall rubber stamps from "Sack Amusement Enterprises" in Dallas Texas and a few light creases and tiny closed tears else Near Fine. Pad-Ram Enterprises unknown books
1970139232Romania: Eve Productions 1970. Two vintage oversize borderless black-and-white lobby cards from a 1970s Romanian release of the 1965 US film. Rubber-stamped on the versos MOTQRPSICHO sic FAVORIT indicative of the Cinema Favorit in Romania once the largest and most popular cinema in the country and one that operated even under the then-Communist regime. One lobby card also bears the imprint of the cinema on the recto. <br/><br/>Seen in the lobby cards is Haji as a voluptuous Cajun woman named Ruby and Alex Rocco as a veterinarian named Cory whose wife was raped by a sex-hungry motorcycle gang the same Vietnam Vet-led gang that killed Ruby's husband. <br/><br/>The last of Meyer's "noir" cycle 1964-1965 or "Gothic" period as Meyer puts it a series of sexploitation films shot in black-and-white with powerful psycho-sexual female characters male impotence and a serious dramatic plot involving less of the "nudie" filmmaking style so prominent in the director's early films. Other films in his "Gothic" period include "Lorna" 1964 "Mudhoney" 1965 and the epic and legendary "Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! " 1965. "Fanny Hill" 1964 snuck in right after "Lorna" although that film is generally left out of the "Gothic" period. <br/><br/>"Motorpsycho!" was written by James Griffith who starred as the Preacher narrator in "Lorna" and the underrated Hal Hopper another Meyer regular. The film explores not only the ever present "biker" culture and its association with uncontrolled violence but the lasting effects of war or post-traumatic stress disorder particularly the Vietnam War; Meyer's statement on PTSD and Vietnam stands as one of the earliest inferences. <br/><br/>9.25 x 11.5 inches. One card is matte the other glossy. Very Good plus overall both with pinholes at the corners edge creases slight curling. Eve Productions unknown books
1963150643California: Eve Productions 1963. Collection of four vintage studio still photographs from the 1963 film. With stars drawn on the recto and two with stamps on the bottom right corner of the recto noting production No. 72-640. With hand-inked black stars over portions of breasts where one would normally expect to see a nipple or a pasty.<br/><br/>An early Russ Meyer effort a faux documentary following several pin-up girls around and exploring the art of nude glamor photography. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Eve Productions unknown books
1969139328Middlesex England: Eve Productions Cinecenta 1969. Vintage black-and-white double weight British still photograph from the 1968 US film. Rubber stamp on the verso of COLTMAN DISPLAYS LTD a distributor in Middlesex England. <br/><br/>"Vixen!" was one of Meyer's best sleaziest and most commercially successful films made at the peak of his independent productions after "Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!" in 1965 and before "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls" in 1970. What is less well known is that this film by way of Ms. Gavin marked a breakthrough in the onscreen portrayal of women in terms of sexual aggression using the then-new platform of late 1960s American independent cinema and the aftermath of the Summer of Love as a canvas. <br/><br/>Gavin's titular character is a married woman whose sexual boundaries are none but instead of being a typical sex romp the film heads off into areas that can be reasonably described as unexplored by sexploitation films including communism race relations political debate and terrorist activity. But also present in the film are many of the genre's more familiar themes breast size incest nonstop sexual activity and a generous dose of humor. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with edge creasing and a single short tear. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Eve Productions Cinecenta unknown books
1968139327California: Eve Productions 1968. Two vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1968 film. Seen in the stills is Erica Gavin Vixen and Jon Evans Judd and a split image with Erica Gavin and Harrison Page Niles the duo responsible for the film's thick racial tensions. <br/><br/>"Vixen!" was one of Meyer's best sleaziest and most commercially successful films made at the peak of his independent productions after "Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!" in 1965 and before "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls" in 1970. What is less well known is that this film by way of Ms. Gavin marked a breakthrough in the onscreen portrayal of women in terms of sexual aggression using the then-new platform of late 1960s American independent cinema and the aftermath of the Summer of Love as a canvas. <br/><br/>Gavin's titular character is a married woman whose sexual boundaries are none but instead of being a typical sex romp the film heads off into areas that can be reasonably described as unexplored by sexploitation films including communism race relations political debate and terrorist activity. But also present in the film are many of the genre's more familiar themes breast size incest nonstop sexual activity and a generous dose of humor. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. One still with a faint tape ghost and two short tears else Near Fine overall. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Eve Productions unknown books
1990134461Los Angeles: Discovery Productions 1990. Draft script for an unproduced film. Based on the 1949 Jim Thompson novel. <br/><br/>The story of a small town movie theater owner who gets mixed up in a murderous love triangle with his wife and lover. Though a film from this script was never made the original Thompson story adapted by a different writer remains in possible development. <br/><br/>Lacking front wrapper with a red rear wrapper. Title page present dated June 1 1990 with credits for screenwriter Birkin and novelist Thompson. 113 leaves photocopy. Fine condition bound with three gold brads. Discovery Productions unknown books
1979WRCLIT61126Universal City: Universal Studios 1979. 1168 leaves altered by lettered inserts and bridging leaves. Quarto. Mechanically reproduced typescript printed on rectos only of pale green stock. Bradbound in studio wrappers. Title lettered on bottom edge and spine otherwise a very good or better copy. A "Revised Final Draft" of this new film adaptation of Runyon's short story. Bernstein also directed the 21 March 1980 release starring Walter Matthau Julie Andrews Tony Curtis Brian Dennehy Sarah Stimson Lee Grant and Bob Newhart. Runyon's tale of a bookie saddled with a young girl as a marker for a bet saw an earlier adaptation in 1934 starring Shirley Temple based on a script by Walter Lippman. Universal Studios unknown books
1978WRCLIT61124Universal City: Universal Studios 1978. 1124 leaves. Quarto. Mechanically reproduced typescript printed on rectos only of pale green stock. Bradbound in studio wrappers. A very good or better copy. An unidentified but relatively early draft of this new film adaptation of Runyon's short story. Bernstein also directed the 21 March 1980 release starring Walter Matthau Julie Andrews Tony Curtis Brian Dennehy Sarah Stimson Lee Grant and Bob Newhart. Runyon's tale of a bookie saddled with a young girl as a marker for a bet saw an earlier adaptation in 1934 starring Shirley Temple based on a script by Walter Lippman. Universal Studios unknown books
1979WRCLIT61125Universal City: Universal Studios 1979. 1168 leaves. Quarto. Mechanically reproduced typescript printed on rectos only of pale green stock. Bradbound in studio wrappers. Annotations throughout see below. A very good or better copy. A "Revised First Draft" of this new film adaptation of Runyon's short story. Bernstein also directed the 21 March 1980 release starring Walter Matthau Julie Andrews Tony Curtis Brian Dennehy Sarah Stimson Lee Grant and Bob Newhart. Runyon's tale of a bookie saddled with a young girl as a marker for a bet saw an earlier adaptation in 1934 starring Shirley Temple based on a script by Walter Lippman. Neatly annotated throughout with relevant annotations attributed to Philip Lathrop the film's cinematographer. Universal Studios unknown books
1925137138Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1925. Vintage reference photograph from the set of the 1925 film with a mimeo snipe and photographer's stamp on the verso. Based on the unfinished 1832 novel "Dubrovsky" by Alexander Pushkin. <br/><br/>A posed shot showing director Brown and stars Valentino and Banky with painter Federico Beltran Masses a well known figure in Hollywood because of his friendship with William Randolph Hearst. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Very Good with diagonal chips missing from two corners but the image largely unaffected. United Artists unknown books
1956138529Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1956. Vintage US one-sheet poster for the 1956 film. Studio rubber stamp on the verso as well as a rubber stamp for the Capitol Theatre in Kamsack Saskatchewan Canada. <br/><br/>Capt. Colt Saunders Heston returns to Texas from the Civil War to find his land wanted by carpetbaggers and his town controlled by corrupt Yankees. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Arizona. <br/><br/>27 x 41 inches folded. Very Good plus with a few small chips tears and stains. <br/><br/>Pitts 4373. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1961141296London: British Broadcasting Corporation BBC 1961. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1961 television movie adaptation. Snipe stamped to the verso. <br/><br/>Television adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's classic novel detailing the doomed romance between two Russian socialites. This version starring Claire Bloom as Anna Karenina and Sean Connery as Count Alexis Vronsky. <br/><br/>Set in Russia shot on location in London. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with extensive annotations to the verso. British Broadcasting Corporation [BBC] unknown books
