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1934144598Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1934. Draft script for the 1935 film. In a custom quarter leather clamshell box.<br/><br/>The second of two films based on Liam O'Flaherty's 1925 novel the first being Arthur Robison's 1929 British feature about a former Republic Army member during the Irish War of Independence who turns in one of his comrades to the British in order to use the bounty money to book passage to America for himself and his girlfriend who has been forced into prostitution. <br/><br/>Winner of four Academy Awards including Best Adapted Screenplay Best Director and Best Actor for McLaglen nominated for two others including Best Picture. Screenwriter Dudley Nichols became the first person to decline an Academy Award when his refused his Oscar due to an ongoing dispute between the Screen Writers Guild and the Academy though he would eventually claim it three years later. <br/><br/>Detached green wrappers noting the title screenwriter and director on the spine in holograph ink. Title page integral with first page of text with credits for screenwriter Nichols and novelist O'Flaherty. 105 leaves with last page of text numbered 105. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good side-stapled. <br/><br/>National Film Registry. RKO Radio Pictures unknown books
1935146988Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1935. Two vintage oversize double weight photographs from the 1935 film. <br/><br/>The second of two films based on Liam O'Flaherty's 1925 novel the first being Arthur Robison's 1929 British feature about a former Republic Army member during the Irish War of Independence who turns in one of his comrades to the British in order to use the bounty money to book passage to America for himself and his girlfriend who has been forced into prostitution. <br/><br/>Winner of four Academy Awards including Best Adapted Screenplay Best Director and Best Actor for Victor McLaglen nominated for two others including Best Picture. Screenwriter Dudley Nichols became the first person to decline an Academy Award when his refused his Oscar due to an ongoing dispute between the Screen Writers Guild and the Academy though he would eventually claim it three years later. <br/><br/>11 x 14 inches with irregular margins. Near Fine. <br/><br/>National Film Registry. RKO Radio Pictures unknown books
1988152773Los Angeles: Avenue Pictures 1988. Final Shooting script for the 1989 film. <br/><br/>Gus Van Sant's directorial debut and a breakthrough film for actors Matt Dillon and Kelly Lynch. A nihilistic answer to the onslaught of coming-of-age movies in the 1980s appropriately released at the end of that decade following the exploits of a group of young people driven by nothing other than boredom and an obsessive need for more drugs leading inevitably to confusion and rampant lawlessness. <br/><br/>Set in the Pacific Northwest. <br/><br/>White generic Avenue Pictures wrappers. Title page present dated 9/08/88 noted as Final Shooting Script with credits for director Gus Van Sant and screenwriter Dan Yost and story credits James Fogle. 103 leaves with last page of text numbered 97. Xerographic duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated 9-27-88. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two gold brads.<br/><br/>Spicer US. Avenue Pictures unknown books
1942121307Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1942. Revised Final Script for the 1942 horror film based on the 1936 novel by Jessie Douglas Kerruish. <br/><br/>A well-crafted and in some ways superior variation on Universal's "Wolfman" films of the 1930s and 1940s released as a double-feature with the equally intriguing "Dr. Renault's Secret" in 1942 in the heat of the studio's incredible run of horror classics. <br/><br/>Red titled wrappers stamped REVISED FINAL on the front wrapper rubber-stamped project No. 801 and copy No. 139 and dated July 30 1942. Distribution page present with receipt intact. Title page present with credits for screenwriters Hayward and Jacoby. 108 leaves mimeograph duplication with a few blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 8/3/42 and 8/5/42 Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with one fingernail-size bruise on the front panel yapped edges and a couple of short closed tears internally bound with two gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
192654664Paris: René Kieffer 1926. No. 92 of 550 copies. Illustrated with woodcuts after drawings by George Bruyer. 1 vols. 11-1/4 x 8 inches. Bound in full brown pigskin embossed and stamped with an abstract design on both covers spine similarly stamped and lettered in gilt marbled endpapers t.e.g. with the binder's ticket of RENé KIEFFER on verso of flyleaf. Fine copy in beautiful binding. No. 92 of 550 copies. Illustrated with woodcuts after drawings by George Bruyer. 1 vols. 11-1/4 x 8 inches. René Kieffer unknown books
1933140139Los Angeles: Fox Film 1933. Revised Shooting Final script for the 1933 film. <br/><br/>Based on the Broadway play by John L. Balderston an American Howard sails to England to marry his cousin follow the American victory in the war of independence. 149 years later his descendent with the same name also played by Howardinherits his house in England and finds his diary which magically transports him back to his forebear's era where he must adapt to an earlier period with its own customs. This film was believed lost until it was rediscovered in the 1970s. Nominated for one Academy Award for Best Actor. <br/><br/>Set in England. <br/><br/>Green titled wrappers noted as Revised Shooting Final on the front wrapper dated April 11 1933. Title page present noted as Final Revised Shooting Script with credits for playwright John L. Balderston screenwriters Sonya Levien and John L. Balderston chief camerman Ernest Palmer sound engineer Joseph E. Aiken art director William Darling dialogue director George Hadden wardrobe William Lambert film editor Margaret Clancy technical advisor Lance Baxter assistant director William Tummel and director Frank Lloyd. 134 leaves with last page of text numbered 131. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Fox Film unknown books
1977135322Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1977. Final Draft script for the November 7 1977 television episode "The Crypt" season 1 episode 7 of the science fiction series "Logan's Run." This episode is based on an original story by Harlan Ellison. Copy belonging to an uncredited crew member named Chuck Sereci with his name in holograph pencil on the front wrapper. <br/><br/>Logan Harrison and his partner Jessica Menzies-Urich discover an underground room a crypt with six cryogenically frozen survivors of the nuclear holocaust. Logan and Jessican attempt to rescue them in the midst of a series of earthquakes. <br/><br/>"Logan's Run" 1977-1978 was a short-lived but notable sci-fi television series based on the 1967 novel by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson. Logan a rebellious law enforcement agent and his partner Jessica the series main characters are nearing the age of 30. In their futuristic society the age of 30 is considered one's deathbed so the two go on the run to find sanctuary and freedom from the dystopian society. <br/> <br/>Harlan Ellison had been writing for television since 1963 "Ripcord" and wrote for several notable series including "The Outer Limits" "The Alfred Hitchcock Hour" "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." "Star Trek" "The Twilight Zone" and "Babylon 5" and its many spin-offs. The story "The Crypt" was finally published in the 2013 collection "Brain Movies: The Original Teleplays of Harlan Ellison Volume 5."<br/><br/>Yellow titled wrappers noted as FINAL DRAFT on the front wrapper production No. 3304 dated September 2 1977 with credits for story writer Ellison and screenwriter Hayes. Title page integral with front wrapper. 55 leaves with last page of text numbered 53. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
196913695London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd 1969. Cloth. Very Good /Very Good . 1969 1st edition of this charming --and uncommon-- look at the permissive anything-goes youth culture of the London of the late 60s. Tight and VG in a crisp price-intact VG dustjacket with minor streaking to the laminate panels. Tall quarto nicely photographed thruout in crisp black-and-white by Frank Habicht. A wonderful period --and fashion-- piece along the lines of John d Green's 1967 "The Birds of Britain" <br/><br/> George G. Harrap & Co., Ltd hardcover books
1997144948Burbank CA: New Line Cinema 1997. Collection of five vintage borderless photographs from the 1997 film. <br/><br/>Director Paul Thomas Anderson's second film bringing him to widespread acclaim about a young man's career in the porn industry during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Nominated for three Academy Awards including Best Original Screenplay for Anderson Best Supporting Actress for Julianne Moore and Best Supporting Actor for Burt Reynolds reinvigorating his career. <br/><br/>Set and shot on location in Los Angeles. <br/><br/>5 x 7 inches. Fine. New Line Cinema unknown books
1942131997Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1942. Single lobby card for the 1942 film. Based on Raymond Chandler's 1942 novel "The High Window" here re-imagined as the seventh and final entry in Twentieth Century-Fox's series of films featuring detective Michael Shayne created by Brett Halliday. <br/><br/>14 x 11 inches. Very Good plus with two pinholes to the center of the card a tiny closed tear to the top edge and a small chip to the lower left corner. <br/><br/>Grant p. 651. Spicer p 420. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1989145724Santa Monica: Avenue Pictures 1989. Vintage studio still photograph of director Gus Van Sant and actor Matt Dillon on the set of the 1989 film. <br/><br/>Noted director Gus Van Sant's first feature film and a breakthrough film for actors Matt Dillon and Kelly Lynch. A nihilistic answer to the onslaught of coming-of-age movies in the 1980s appropriately released at the end of that decade. The unsentimental exploits of a group of young people driven by nothing other than boredom and an obsessive need for more drugs leading inevitably to confusion and rampant lawlessness. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Spicer US Neo-Noir. Avenue Pictures unknown books
198420869Blackheath London: The Old Stile Press 1984. First edition. Limited to 160 numbered copies printed on Zerkall mould made paper at The Whittington Press Gloucestershire and signed by the Tanners. Very fine copy. 4to illustrated with wood engravings original quarter leather & decorated boards slipcase. Very fine copy. The Old Stile Press unknown books
198811579Oxford England: B.A.R. British Archaeological Research 1988. Original wraps. Very Good . A solid copy of the 1988 1st edition. Tight and VG in its light-blue wrappers with mild glue residue at the hinges. Quarto 357 pgs. BAR British Series 198. <br/><br/> B.A.R. (British Archaeological Research) paperback books
197752351Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1977. First printing. 8vo pp. xi 99. On half-title author's presentation to poet and editor William Claire: " For William Claire - / With pleasure. / Heather / 1-/31/79" Red cloth stamped in silver. A nice copy in little chipped and soiled dj.The author's first book. Houghton Mifflin unknown books
1987WRCLIT72003Dallas: Northouse & Northouse 1987. Folio broadside. Fine. First edition in this format. One of 26 lettered copies from a total edition of 146 copies printed by A. Colish and signed by the author. The lettered copies as well as the 100 numbered copies were issued as elements in the AMERICAN POETRY PORTFOLIO. Northouse & Northouse unknown books
196057392San Francisco: Pan-Graphic Press for Dorian Book Service 1960. Paperback. 95p. illustrated with 8p. photos and drawings very good first edition stiff blank wraps in pictorial dj. Young 1714 An anthology Dorian vignette 1. Pan-Graphic Press for Dorian Book Service paperback books
197992895Wakefield / London:: Wakefield Historical Publications and The Holland Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1979. Hardcover. 0901869066 . Tipped-in color frontispiece duotone illustrations including fold-out map. First edition. Very good in a very good dust jacket. . Wakefield Historical Publications and The Holland Press, hardcover books
19216055111921. "yours truly Alfred Heather" in green fountain pin ink on full length pose of Alfred Heather with an unidentified cast member in costume from the Broadway production "The Beggar's Opera". Photograph is on single weight stock; 8" x 10". Very good. ca. 1921 or 1929. "The Beggar's Opera" first appeared on Broadway in 1921 at the Greenwich Village Theatre opening December 27 1921 for a total of 37 performances. Produced by Arthur Hopkins written by John Gay and Frederick Austin. Starring: Edith Bartlett; William Evill; Alfred Heather as Filch; Percy Heming; C.C. Lewis; Noony Lock; Charles McGrath; Lena Maitland; Sylvia Nelis; Dora Roseli and Arthur Lynn. The next Broadway production was in 1929. Signed by Authors. No Binding. Very Good. unknown books
1978140229Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1978. Collection of 3 vintage full color lobby cards from the 1978 American-Dutch exploitation film. <br/><br/>Corman-produced B movie about a peaceful resort is terrorized by monster piranhas let loose in the local rivers. Clearly a capitalization on the success of an earlier sea monster movie "Jaws" 1975 and inspiration for similar films to follow including "Piranha II: The Spawning" 1981 and even remakes. <br/><br/>11 x 14 inches. Corner bumps else Near Fine. <br/><br/>Piranha 1983 US. United Artists unknown books
199467867Hanover & London: Wesleyan University Press 1994. First edition. xv 219 pp. Fine in full cloth. No dust jacket as issued. INSCRIBED by McHugh “To David - / with a / swollen / head / a grateful /heart - / Heather McHugh / 10/20/98 / DC.†Program for McHugh’s winning of the O.B. Hardison Jr. Poetry Prize laid in. Hanover & London: Wesleyan University Press hardcover books
196826003New York: Harcourt Brace & World Inc. Near Fine in Very Good dj. c.1968. 2nd printing B. Hardcover. minimal shelfwear only to book; jacket mildly edgeworn a bit scuffed on the front and rear panels. An early novel by this North Carolina-born writer set in the early 1800s about a German doctor who settles in the mountains of North Carolina where his life is complicated by three females: his "delicate French wife" the "barefoot wilful river girl" who becomes his lover and the daughter he fathers by the river girl. . Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc. hardcover books
1965150711N.p.: Governor Films 1965. Collection of eight vintage studio still photographs from the US release of the 1964 British film. <br/><br/>A Gothic period drama following a newlywed British aristocrat who returns to his manor with his wife only to encounter a number of strange supernatural rumors which have spread around his estate in his absence. <br/><br/>Set in Devon. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with a few light creases to the edges. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Governor Films unknown books
1960199743San Francisco: Mattachine Society 1960. Magazine. 32p. including covers 5.5x8.25 inches very good digest size magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. "Schoolboy Homosexuality" cover story. The Mattachine Society forerunner of Daughters of Bilitis One Inc. and Homosexual Information Center etc. founded in 1950 in Los Angeles by Harry Hay and Rudy Gernreich.A member of the CPUSA Hay structured the small group like a Communist Party cell. Hay was expelled from the CP at his own insistence as a "security risk" to the party because of his involvement in the Society. The name derives from a French medieval and renaissance masque group. The magazine was founded in 1954 with the first issue appearing in January 1955. Mattachine Society unknown books
200049478Cheltenham:: Edward Elgar. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2000. Hardcover. 1840642491 . First edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Edward Elgar, hardcover books
1995141647Minneapolis MN: Tunheim Santrizos Company 1995. First edition. Hardcover. Copy 479 from an edition of 500 copies produced as a holiday gift for clients of this Twin Cities based advertising/consulting firm and never offered for sale. Includes three wood engravings by Kent Aldrich along with poems by Allen. A fine copy in marbleized paper covered boards with cloth spine. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by Allen on the limitation page. A very attractive production. Tunheim Santrizos Company unknown books
