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1973WALTER-FILM004048Set of thirty 30 vintage original 8 x 10" 20 x 25 cm. black-and-white print still photos USA. James Mason Dyan Cannon Raquel Welch dir: Herbert Ross; Warner Brothers. One with a diagonal crease overall JUST ABOUT FINE.<br /><br />Co-written by Stephen Sondheim and Anthony Perkins and Sondheim's only credit as a screenwriter. A mystery tale about a group on a one-week Mediterranean cruise on a yacht in which the guests play a cruel game which revolves around each one's most embarrassing secrets being revealed. <br /><br />The object of the game is to discover everyone else's secrets while protecting their own. The secrets vary from "YOU ARE A HIT-AND-RUN DRIVER" to "YOU ARE A HOMOSEXUAL" to "YOU ARE AN ALCOHOLIC" and so on.<br /><br />Sondheim was already a very famous author of groundbreaking musicals. Perkins who was a closeted gay man never wrote another script. This was their only collaboration. Warner Brothers books
1932146023Hollywood: Fox Film Corporation 1932. Final Shooting script for the 1932 film here under the working title "Six Hours to Live." With holograph pencil annotations to the front wrapper. <br/><br/>By way of a scientific experiment a murder victim is revived from death but has only six hours to find his killer. An early directorial effort by the great William Dieterle foreshadowing the dark elements that would eventually define his work in film noir. <br/><br/>Green titled wrappers noted as FINAL SHOOTING SCRIPT on the front wrapper rubber-stamped production No. 607 dated 8/5/32 with credits for screenwriters Gordon Morris Morton Barteaux and Bradley King. Title page present with credits for screenwriters Gordon Morris Morton Barteaux and Bradley King director William Dieterle and various crew members. 116 leaves with last page of text numbered 109. Mimeographed rectos only with carbon typescript revision pages on onionskin stock throughout dated variously between 8-8-32 and 8/9/32. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with yapping and edgewear to the front and rear wrappers bound with two gold brads. Fox Film Corporation unknown books
1930220118London: Cresset Press 1930. Limited. hardcover. very good. J.R. Hodgkins. Illustrations in dry point by J.R. Hodgkins. 4to beautiful and unusual full pictorial vellum; somewhat yellowed covers slightly bowed. London: Cresset Press 1930. Limited First Edition. A very good copy.<br/><br/> Number V of only 30 copies signed in full by Warner. With an extra suite of 7 plates each signed by Hodgkins. Previous owner's armorial bookplate on front attached endpaper.<br/><br/> Cresset Press unknown books
1925136632London: John Hamilton 1925. First Edition. First Edition. Rare in or out of jacket. <br/><br/>Pulp thriller in which a journalist and a detective battle the Expropriation Society a criminal organization whose ostensible goal is the establishment of a worldwide communist utopia. The Society's seemingly impossible crimes are the results of an insane doctor's careful use of post-hypnotic suggestions on his unsuspecting patients. Macabre elements include a corrupt industrialist who psychologically tortures his young wife with his collection of snakes and a criminal mastermind who is determined to revenge himself on a romantic rival by injecting the young man with a strain of leprosy. While much of "The Devil That Slumbers" is routine commercial fare the concluding chapter of the novel prefigures the lurid weird menace scenarios of the Shudder Pulps of the 1930s. <br/><br/>Rear board mottled else Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Jacket is chipped with the "T" in "The" on the front panel missing with a few short closed tears light creasing and a dampstain to the verso of the front panel. John Hamilton unknown books
1936149213Los Angeles: Hollywood Studio 1936. Revised Final Shooting script for the 1936 film. Copy belonging to director H. Bruce Humberstone with his holograph pencil annotations to the front wrapper and a typed note addressed to Humberstone from producer J.E. Grainger laid in with the script.<br/><br/>Based on the detective novel series created in 1925 by author Earl Derr Biggers. The twelfth film in the long-running Charlie Chan detective series featuring actor Warner Oland as the eponymous Honolulu detective.<br/><br/>Blue titled wrappers noted as REVISED FINAL SHOOTING SCRIPT on the front wrapper dated May 9 1936 with credits for screenwriters Robert Ellis Helen Logan Edward T. Lowe and John Patrick and novelist credits to Earl Derr Biggers. Title page integral with the first page of text as issued. 125 leaves with last page of text numbered 121. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 5/16/36 and 5/28/36. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus lightly chipped on the binding and edges bound internally with three gold brads. Hollywood Studio unknown books
1936149211Los Angeles: Hollywood Studio 1936. Final Shooting script for the 1936 film here under the working title "Murder in the Opera." Copy belonging to director H. Bruce Humberstone with his name in holograph ink annotation to the front wrapper.<br/><br/>Based on the detective novel series created in 1925 by author Earl Derr Biggers. The 13th film in the long-running Charlie Chan detective series to feature actor Warner Oland as the eponymous Honolulu detective. Widely considered to be the strongest entry in the series due to the casting of Boris Karloff as an amnesiac opera star involuntarily committed to a mental institution.<br/><br/>Blue titled wrappers noted as FINAL SHOOTING SCRIPT on the front wrapper dated August 31 1936 with credits for screenwriters Scott Darling and Chas. S. Belden story credits to Bess Meredyth and novel credits to Earl Derr Biggers. Title page integral with the first page of text as issued. 104 leaves with last page of text numbered 104. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with one blue revision page dated 9/3/36. Pages Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three gold brads. Hollywood Studio unknown books
