Warner Home Video 2005. DVD. New. 7.5 x 5.5 x 1.25. "3 discs. Excellent condition. Still in shrinkwrap. . ISBN: 012569677050. Catalogs: DVD Video. Warner Home Video unknown
Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1964. Vintage publicity photograph of art director Cecil Beaton on the set of the 1964 film. SIGNED by Beaton in holograph ink to the top left corner of the recto. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. <br/><br/>Based on the 1956 Broadway musical by Lerner and Loewe itself adapted from George Bernard Shaw's 1913 play "Pygmalion." Winner of eight Academy Awards including Best Picture Best Director and Best Actor for Rex Harrison reprising his Broadway and West End role as Henry Higgins. <br/><br/>Noted photographer writer and interior designer Cecil Beaton served as art director for the film and received the Academy Award for Best Production Design for his work alongside Gene Allen and George James Hopkins. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Very Good lightly edgeworn and wavy with faint soil to the corners. <br/><br/>Ebert III. Warner Brothers unknown books
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1962. Vintage photograph of Marilyn Monroe and director George Cukor between takes on the set of the 1962 film. With holograph annotations in ink and holograph annotations regarding layout in pencil white-out and a rubber stamp of actor Joe Van Cottom on the verso. <br/><br/>A remake of the 1940 comedy "My Favorite Wife" starring Irene Dunne and Cary Grant. Monroe struggled with sickness and addiction during the film's production and was asked to leave in June of 1962 just two months before her tragic death. The following year Twentieth-Century Fox produced another remake starring Doris Day. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1940. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1940 film. Starring actress Ruth Hussey is seen in action stealthily snapping photographs. Rubber-stamps on the verso crediting "Silver Screen Archives" and photographer Clarence S. Bull.<br/><br/>Based on Philip Barry's 1939 play. A socialite with plans to marry is interrupted by her ex-husband as well as a tabloid journalist and his partner a female photographer. Winner of two Academy Awards including Best Actor for James Stewart and Best Adapted Screenplay and nominated for four others including Best Picture Best Director Best Actress for Katharine Hepburn and Best Supporting Actress for Hussey. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches double-weight small white border. Short corner creases else Near Fine.<br/><br/>National Film Registry. Byrge and Miller The Screwball Comedies. Criterion Collection 901. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1957. Post-production Combined Continuity script for the 1957 re-release of the 1932 film. Based on the 1921 play by Clemence Dane. <br/><br/>Katharine Hepburn's debut a role in which she plays the daughter of a mentally ill man whose wife has divorced him and now intends to marry someone else. When Hepburn realizes that the psychiatric problems are likely inherited she breaks from her fiance to ensure the genes are not passed to another generation and stays with her father instead. <br/><br/>Tall white titled wrappers dated March 3 1957 noting 4 reels and footage of 6195 feet. Mimeograph duplication. Near Fine. RKO Radio Pictures unknown books
Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1940. Revised Draft script for the 1941 film noir. Studio file copy with rubber-stamps on the front wrapper. Brief annotations in holograph pencil on both sides of the front wrapper. Text ends with scene 392 as called for. <br/><br/>Based on Francis de Croisset's 1932 play "Il Etait Une Fois." Key film noir about a blackmailing female with a disfiguring facial scar who preys on a woman the wife of a cosmetic surgeon. The surgeon offers to help the disfigured woman but her adjustment into a crime-free life is turbulent. A side story involves a partner-in-crime: a man in search of fortune only his four-year-old nephew stands in the way. <br/><br/>Set in Sweden shot on location in Sun Valley Idaho. <br/><br/>Goldenrod titled wrappers noted as FILE COPY on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 157 and production No. 4760 dated 10/11/40 with credits for producer Victor Saville and screenwriter Paul. Title page integral with front wrapper. 125 leaves with last page of text numbered 123. Mimeograph duplication dated variously between 10/10/40 and 10/26/40 many undated pages with revision pages throughout dated variously between 10/14/40 and 10/23/40. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. <br/><br/>Grant US. Selby US. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1972. Vintage color studio still photograph from the 1972 film. <br/><br/>At his mother's funeral Henry Pulling becomes aquatinted with an eccentric elderly aunt and her unusual life. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Spain France England Turkey Morocco Italy and Yugoslavia. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1972. Final Shooting script for the 1972 film. <br/><br/>Based on Graham Green's 1969 novel. One of George Cukor's final films described by Roger Ebert as a "sort of art deco journey across Europe on the Istanbul Express" wherein a bank clerk is summoned by his elderly but still youthful aunt to rescue her lover Mr. Visconti who is being held for ransom in the Turkey. Merging the early 1970s with high British culture the film explores marijuana hippies brothels paramours fancy trains gigolos and a preference for journey over destination. <br/><br/>Goldenrod titled wrappers dated February 25 1972 with credits for screenwriters Wheeler and Allen and for director Cukor. 109 leaves mechanical duplication. Studio information at the top of the front wrapper has been crossed through in black marker. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
N.p.: N.p. 1962. Vintage reference photograph from the 1962 film showing actors Claire Bloom Glynis Johns Shelley Winters and Jane Fonda. <br/><br/>From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler.<br/><br/>Based on the 1960 novel by Irving Wallace in turn loosely based on the Kinsey Reports following four women who agree to participate in an anonymous survey about their sexual behaviors beliefs and interests.<br/><br/>Set and shot on location in Los Angeles.<br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus lightly toned and worn to the corners. N.p. unknown books
Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1962. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1962 film. One of Ty Hardin and Glynis Johns and the other of Claire Bloom.<br/><br/>Based on Irvin Wallace's 1960 novel which was inspired by the 1948 and 1953 studies on human sexual behavior "Kinsey Reports" by Alfred Kinsey Wardell Pomeroy and Clide Martin.<br/><br/>Psychologist Dr. George C. Chapman Andrew Duggan and his assistant Paul Radford Efrem Zimbalist Jr. study four women Bloom Johns Jane Fonda and Shelly Winters and their various sexual hangups.<br/><br/>Shot on location in Los Angeles and Santa Monica California. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Warner Brothers unknown books
N.p.: ABC Circle Films 1974. Draft script for the 1975 television film first aired on ABC on March 6 1975. Prominent underlined "29" in holograph pencil on top right of front wrapper. <br/><br/>Set in late Edwardian London aging actress Jessica Medicott Katharine Hepburn is being sued for breach of promise and hires her old suitor lawyer Sir Arthur Granville-Jones Laurence Olivier to defend her unaware he is still in love with her.<br/><br/>Set in and shot on location in London and Buckinghamsire England. <br/><br/>Lavender titled wrappers. Title page present dated April 29 1974 with credits for screenwriter James Costigan. 122 leaves with last page of text numbered "120-123.". Xerographic duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated 5/2/74. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. ABC Circle Films unknown books
Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1933. Vintage studio still photograph for the classic 1933 film "Little Women." Based on the novel by Louisa May Alcott directed by George Cukor and starring Katharine Hepburn in the role that made her a star. <br/><br/>Shot on location in California. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with a green holograph ink notation to the recto and light toning overall. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. RKO Radio Pictures unknown books
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1976. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1976 film and co-production of the US and the Soviet Union. Based on Maurice Maeterlinck's 1908 play of the same name. <br/><br/>In the vein of "The Wizard of Oz" complete with a personified dog cat and various inanimate objects. Two you peasants venture forth on a quest to find the Blue Bird of Happiness and are aided in their quest by a host of unusual creatures. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Russia. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1960. Vintage black and white publicity photograph from the 1960 film showing actress Marilyn Monroe laughing as Gene Kelly shows Yves Montand a dance move. With a Twentieth Century-Fox stamp on the verso. <br/><br/>A billionaire Montand poses as an actor in order to gain a part in an off-Broadway musical revue hoping to romance the show's beautiful leading lady Monroe. In an attempt to impress her the billionaire hires Milton Berle Gene Kelly and Bing Crosby playing themselves to teach him how to deliver jokes dance and sing respectively. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Rosenbaum 1000. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
N.p.: N.p. 1949. Vintage reference photograph of Will Wright Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy from the 1949 film. "Jacques Moreau" collection stamp and two "Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer France Inc." stamps on verso.<br/><br/>For many this sixth entry in the Hepburn-Tracy canon was the peak for the duo a non-stop brainy battle-of-the-sexes gabfest that epitomized the two at their very best. Written by Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin the same writing team who produced "Pat and Mike" the following year. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Screenplay. <br/><br/>Set in and shot on location in New York City and Newtown Connecticut. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with light creasing to corners.<br/><br/>National Film Registry. Rosenbaum 1000. Byrge & Miller The Screwball Comedy Films: A History and Filmography 1934-1942. N.p. unknown books
Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1941. Vintage reference photograph from the set of the 1941 film showing actor Melvyn Douglas sitting next to director George Cukor who is standing and making a point. With the stamp of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer on the verso along with a holograph pencil annotation noting the date 24-5-42 and a small newspaper clipping in Spanish.<br/><br/>A woman poses as her fictitious twin sister in an attempt to woo her husband and win him back. An early attempt by MGM to recast Garbo as a glamorous modern woman an "Americanization" tactic which the actress regarded as futile and proved ultimately disastrous: the film became a legendary box-office bomb and Garbo received some of the worst reviews of her career. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Very Good with light adhesive verso on the bottom edge and verso. <br/><br/>Byrge and Miller The Screwball Comedy Films. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
Teachers College Columbia University 1926. Soft cover. Very Good. Original 1926 softcover publication in VG-minus condition: unmarked slight to light wear with tiny chips at the spine ends mild age-yellowing. 308 pages including fold-out chart. 1 lb Teachers College, Columbia University paperback
Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1931. Draft script for the 1931 film with annotations in holograph pencil primarily in later half of script largely regarding dialogue but also setting and shots. <br/><br/>A largely fictionalized account of the life of Mata Hari exotic dancer and courtesan who was executed by France for espionage during World War I. A sensation in the US and Europe it was Greta Garbo's most commercially successful film. The pre-Code Hollywood film was censored upon its reissue in 1936 which was the only version believed to exist until 2005 when an uncut French and Dutch subtitled version was screened at the Cinematheque Royale de Belgique in Brussels.<br/><br/>Set in 1917 Paris shot on location in Agoura California. <br/><br/>Tan titled wrappers with credits for screenwriters Benjamin Glazer and Leo Birinski and M-G-M label dated "Copied May 4 1931." Title page present with credits for screenwriters Benjamin Glazer and Leo Birinski. 172 leaves with last page of text numbered 169. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with six white revision pages dated June 5 1931. Pages Very Good plus with foxing and edgewear and stain to upper right of title page Wrapper Very Good with light soiling and chipping and closed tears to extremities and spine and upper right section cut from rear wrapper bound with two gold brads. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
Los Angeles: The Samuel Goldwyn Company 1930. Draft script for the 1931 film here under the working title "Lilli." Copy belonging to uncredited assistant director H. Bruce Humberstone with his holograph pencil annotations throughout. Accompanying the script is a mechanically duplicated folded "Day Out of Days" map with holograph ink annotations correlating actors scenes and days.<br/><br/>A lowly flower girl agrees to impersonate a famed opera diva sentenced by the local police to a six month reprieve in the countryside.<br/><br/>Set in Budapest Hungary.<br/><br/>Brown titled wrappers dated July 25 1930 with credits for screenwriters LOUIS BROMFIELD and SIDNEY HOWARD. Partial title page present with credits for screenwriters LOUIS BROMFIELD and SIDNEY HOWARD. 102 leaves with last page of text numbered 103. Spirit duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads.<br/><br/>"Day Out of Days" map is 32 x 29 inches folded five times as issued. Very Good plus with a few tiny tears to the folds and some pinholes to the corners housed in a tan card folder noted in holograph pencil on the front as "Original breakdowns on 'Lilli' / Geo. Fitzmaurice / Prod #4900 / Sam. Goldwyn Inc. Ltd. The Samuel Goldwyn Company unknown books
New York New York: Playbill 1986. First Edition. Magazine. Near Fine. Octavo 9 " tall 66 pages wire saddle stitch pamphlet style magazine with stiff pictorial wraps. An original theatre program in near fine condition clean with light edge wear. Contains many advertisements for current shows automobiles hotels etc. Playbill unknown
Venice CA: Blum Group 1977. Third Draft script for the 1978 film. <br/><br/>A Hollywood agent has racked up huge gambling debt and needs to quickly pay back the bookie. He organizes a group of talented skateboarders and enters them into a major competition with a $20000 prize. <br/><br/>Shot on location in California. <br/><br/>Lime green titled wrappers. Title page present dated January 10 1977 noted as THIRD DRAFT with credits for screenwriters Richard A. Wolf and George Gage on the title page along with a notation of copy No. 68 in holograph ink. 96 leaves with last page of text numbered 94. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Blum Group unknown books
Burbank CA: American Zoetrope / Warner Brothers 1971. Vintage black-and-white oversize double weight still photograph from the 1971 film. Shown are George Lucas and an assistant setting up a shot of Robert DuVall with Lucas placing calipers on DuVall's head. With the Warner Brothers studio stamp on the verso along with a notation regarding the shot and its reference number. Given everything that would follow "THX-1138" could easily be described as the most successful student film of all time developed by Lucas in 1967 as a short called "Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB" while he was attending the University of Southern California's film school. The feature film version was one of the first efforts produced under the auspices of Lucas' friend Francis Ford Coppola. Written by Lucas and Walter Murch the film set a standard for dystopian stories that would inform dozens of films in its wake. Oddly Lucas did not continue down the pessimistic path choosing instead to engage in the broader appeal of "Star Wars." 14 x 10.25 inches. Near Fine. Complete collation details available on request. American Zoetrope / Warner Brothers unknown
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1977. Vintage studio still photograph from the set of the 1977 film showing director George Lucas sitting with actor Alec Guinness while shooting on location. <br/><br/>A breakaway blockbuster space epic the first entry in what would eventually become an ongoing series of films and an even larger monolithic franchise. Winner of six Academy Awards and nominated for four others including Best Picture and Best Director. <br/><br/>Set a long time ago in a galaxy far far away and shot on location in Mexico Guatemala Tunisia England and California and Arizona in the US. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>National Film Registry. Ebert I. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
Burbank CA: American Zoetrope / Warner Brothers 1971. Vintage black-and-white oversize double weight still photograph from the 1971 film. Shown are George Lucas and an assistant setting up a shot of Robert DuVall with Lucas placing calipers on DuVall's head. With the Warner Brothers studio stamp on the verso along with a notation regarding the shot and its reference number. <br/><br/>Given everything that would follow "THX-1138" could easily be described as the most successful student film of all time developed by Lucas in 1967 as a short called "Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB" while he was attending the University of Southern California's film school. The feature film version was one of the first efforts produced under the auspices of Lucas' friend Francis Ford Coppola. <br/><br/>Written by Lucas and Walter Murch the film set a standard for dystopian stories that would inform dozens of films in its wake. Oddly Lucas did not continue down the pessimistic path choosing instead to engage in the broader appeal of "Star Wars."<br/><br/>14 x 10.25 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. American Zoetrope / Warner Brothers unknown books
MGM Video & DVD 2007. DVD. Very Good. 7.5 x 5.5 x 2. "7 discs. Disc Quality: Excellent. . ISBN: 027616096838. Catalogs: DVD Video. MGM (Video & DVD) unknown
Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1963. Collection of four vintage studio still photographs from the 1963 film. <br/><br/>Based on the 1952 memoir by Corinne Griffin. Jack Griffith Jackie Gleason known to everyone as "Papa" goes a bit too far to impress his daughter Corinne Linda Bruhl after he's had a few drinks.<br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine with light even fading to two. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Paramount Pictures unknown books
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1936. First Draft Continuity pre-production script for the 1937 film "Nancy Steele Is Missing!" seen here under its working title "The Lost Nancy Steele." Producer Darryl F. Zanuck's working copy with his name and extensive annotations in holograph pencil on the title page and rear wrapper recto and brief annotations throughout. Additionally the script also includes fourteen typed pages on onionskin stock headed "NOTES ON 'THE LOST NANCY STEELE'" presumably also written by Zanuck. <br/><br/>On the title page Zanuck reveals his dissatisfaction with Fowler and Long's first draft of the script: "What should have been a powerful box office smash melodrama with a dynamite situation has turned into a dull gloomy uninteresting tragedy that will scare even adults away / the whole flavor has been lost completely / the punch and fire has been cast aside / this is a sure box office flop as well as a very dull sappy picture / the character of Chadwick is OK / but the only bright spot / not only have we killed the flavor and real essence of the story but the story is also lost / the main character is a combination of lunatic - I.W.W. Red - Communist - Radical - Jean Hersholt and the most stupid man I've ever met / he is disgusting and kills the whole idea / the entire idea of regeneration is gone / I do not think we can save one scene or anything but Chadwick / the story was so simple sound and now it is a lot of nothing / we must start over from scratch / why change plot / we had a great idea / wonderful opening and a powerful theme / it could be a combination of G Men and Les Miserables."<br/><br/>Zanuck has added further holograph annotations on the rear wrapper recto: "Horrible disgusting uninteresting character / a Red / must be criminal not lunatic or radical / a shrewd clever criminal with a great plan and only one hole / Chadwick great guy." <br/><br/>Based on a story "Ransom" by Charles Francis Coe the film is a sympathetic portrait of the kidnapper who leaves the baby Nancy Steele with two close friends who raise her. The kidnapper is later arrested and sentenced to two years in prison that become a life sentence after he is framed during a failed escape. He is eventually released and immediately visits the girl whom he regards as his daughter. She thinks he is her father. Together the two go to New York where he gets a job working as a gardener for her actual father. One of his old cellmates seeks to blackmail him for the evidence against him involving the kidnapping and he is forced to make a difficult decision. <br/><br/>Set in New York. <br/><br/>Light blue studio wrappers noted as First Draft Continuity on the front wrapper dated July 24 1936 with credits for screenwriters Fowler and Long. Title page present dated July 24 1936 noted as First Draft Continuity with credits for Fowler and Long. 145 leaves with last page of text numbered 144. Mimeograph duplication. Plus fourteen onionskin pages laid in Very Good plus. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good now encapsulated in mylar bound with three gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
N.p.: Avon Productions 1959. Draft script for the 1959 film. Copy belonging to actor Martin Landau with his name and character's name to the front wrapper in holograph pencil. Included with the script are two film programs and a set of laid-in revision pages.<br/><br/>A black comedy based on the 1958 play by Alec Coppel about a television writer who shoots and kills a would-be blackmailer and buries him under a gazebo in his family's backyard-but soon discovers he has murdered the wrong man. <br/><br/>Goldenrod titled wrappers dated 6-18-59 rubber-stamped copy No. 109 with credits for director George Marshall and screenwriter George Wells. Title page integral with the front wrapper as issued. 132 leaves with last page of text numbered 129. Mimeographed on eye-rest green stock rectos only with blue and gray revision pages throughout dated variously between 7-10-59 and 7-17-59. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus lightly soiled and dampstained to the rear wrapper bound with three gold brads. Avon Productions unknown books
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1935. Vintage photographs of actors Alice Faye Ray Walker and director George Marshall among other members of the cast on the set of the 1935 film. Mimeograph description and holograph annotations on the verso. <br/><br/>Diane De Valle Bebe Daniels an aging theater actress struggles to face her imminent replacement by a young chorus girl Peggy Alive Faye. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1935. Vintage reference photograph from the 1935 film showing actors Cesar Romero and Bruce Cabot. With a mimeo snipe to the verso. <br/><br/>Two men seeking respite from the rain accidentally wander into a kidnapper's hideout. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
Los Angeles: Fox Film Corporation 1934. Vintage photograph of actors Claire Trevor and Roger Imhof from the set of the 1934 film. Mimeo snipe on the verso.<br/><br/>Steve Miller John Boles is in love with nightclub singer Jerry Jordan Claire Trevor. They are stranded together in Nevada gold country after he sabotages their car so that he can spend more time alone with her. They end up staying with an old prospector Roger Imhof and falling into unexpected shenanigans when a nightclub manager and a group of showgirls show up on the scene. <br/><br/>Shot on location in California. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Fox Film Corporation unknown books
Culver City CA: Hemisphere Productions 1956. Vintage reference photograph taken on location during production of the 1956 film showing director George Marshall cinematographer Freddie Young and other crew members. With holograph pencil annotations to the verso. <br/><br/>Seeking an explanation for his brother's disappearance an American travels to Kenya where he learns his brother has been killed by members of the mysterious "Leopard Men" cult.<br/><br/>Set and shot on location in Kenya.<br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus lightly creased to the top right corner. Hemisphere Productions unknown books
London: Bordeaux International Films 1980. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the UK release of the 1980 Canadian film. Mimeograph snipe affixed to the verso. <br/><br/>Based on the novel of the same name by Charles Templeton about two revolutionists who manage to kidnap the president while on a visit to Toronto and somehow keep him locked in a van strapped with explosives for most of the film. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches with no borders as issued. Near Fine. Bordeaux International Films unknown books
Beverly Hills CA: Warner Columbia Film 1979. Vintage press kit for the French release of the 1979 Australian film containing seven black and white photographs a ten-page booklet of promotional reading material and several promotional stickers.<br/><br/>An unhinged policeman seeks revenge for the murder of his wife and son by a violent motorcycle gang. An Australian New Wave classic the first film in the dystopian Mad Max series followed by "Mad Max 2" 1981 "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome" 1985 and "Mad Max: Fury Road" 2015. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Melbourne Australia. <br/><br/>Folder photographs and promotional material Near Fine.<br/><br/>Harris Not Quite Hollywood. Warner Columbia Film unknown books
N.p.: Cambridge Productions 1982. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1982 film. Based on Banjo Patterson's 1890 poem of the same name. <br/><br/>Ostensibly conceived of during a dinner party George Miller's dramatic coming of age film tells the story of a young Australian who upon the death of his father takes a job at a cattle ranch in order to prove himself as a man. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Australia. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine with a small bruise to the verso. Cambridge Productions unknown books
Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1937. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1937 film showing actors Elizabeth Allan and Fay Bainter. <br/><br/>Based on the 1876 novel "Michel Strogoff" following a Russian courier as he travels cross-country to deliver a message to the troops on the Tartar battlefront.<br/><br/>Set in Russia.<br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus. RKO Radio Pictures unknown books
Washington D. C: U. S. Government Printing Office 1915. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good. Single volume. Octavo 9 1/4" tall 142 pages with intertextual illustrations 33 b&w plate pages 19 fold out map pages complete gilt spine titles on maroon cloth. A very good copy overall cloth worn at all extremities with one corner bumped; hinge and binding solid; paper lightly yellowed with some light tomoderate foxing to the fore-edges and endpapers. U. S. Government Printing Office hardcover
Department of the Interior 1934. Map 17" by 20". Quite clean. Paper. Very Good. Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall. Topographic Map. Department of the Interior Paperback
N.p.: ITC Entertainment 1976. Draft script for the 1976 German-Italian-British film. <br/><br/>A train traveling in Europe has been exposed to a deadly disease and the passengers are forbidden to leave the train. Terrorism and disaster follow with a star-studded cast including Richard Harris Martin Sheen and producer Carlo Ponti's wife Sophia Loren. <br/><br/>Green titled wrappers. Title page present dated 1976 with credits for director Cosmatos and screenwriter Mankiewicz. 121 leaves with last page of text numbered 121. Xerographically reproduced. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Near Fine bound with a green Vello binding. ITC Entertainment unknown books
Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1964. Collection of seven vintage studio still photographs and one vintage reference photograph from the 1964 film. <br/><br/>Based on Charles G. Finney's 1935 fantasy novel "The Circus of Dr. Lao." A magical circus arrives in a small western town whose inhabitants see themselves reflected in its assemblage of mystical performers and animals. <br/><br/>Set in the American west. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Six Near Fine two Very Good plus with small nicks and brief accompanying creasing to the edges.<br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request.<br/><br/>Pitts 3783. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
Los Angeles: Pan Arts / American Broadcasting Company ABC 1987. Shooting script for the 1988 film comedy. Director George Roy Hill's working copy with his typically profuse holograph annotations throughout as well as handwritten drafts and drawings for establishing shots scene setups screen credits sequences ideas etc. Also included are 2nd Unit shot lists Montage Arrangements Staff and Crew List a One Line Schedule and internal memorandums including an interesting summary of the cost for rights to various musical properties used in the film. <br/><br/>A well-loved and overlooked comedy in which Chase plays a sportswriter who moves his family to rural Vermont in order to write a novel. The townspeople however turn out to be more than a little eccentric and the relative seclusion sought by the family is interrupted by one disaster after another. <br/><br/>Materials housed in director Hill's black three-ring binder. Various loose materials in the binder pockets. Screenplay: orange titled wrappers; title page present with credits for novelist Cronley and screenwriter Boam and a date of 7/20/87. 131 leaves xerographically duplicated with pink blue green and yellow revision pages throughout dated variously between 8/26/87 and 9/5/87 some undated. Pages wrapper and binder Near Fine; loose inserted leaves Very Good plus to Near Fine. Pan Arts / American Broadcasting Company [ABC] unknown books
Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1981. Final Draft script for the 1982 film. Copy belonging to an unknown crew member with their name in holograph pencil annotation to the front wrapper and a single holograph ink annotation to the title page noting copy No. 201. <br/><br/>Based on the 1978 novel by John Irving. Director George Roy Hill capped an impressive career with this film one of the best literary adaptations of the 1980s a great example of a successful and uncompromised translation of a novel's idiosyncrasies directly to the screen and a triumph of ensemble acting. Nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress for John Lithgow and Glenn Close respectively.<br/><br/>Shot on location in New York and New Jersey. <br/><br/>Blue titled wrappers. Title page present dated January 1981 noted as Final Draft with credits for screenwriter Steve Tesich and novelist John Irving. 170 leaves with last page of text numbered 139. Xerographic duplication rectos only with pink blue and yellow undated revision pages throughout. Pages Very Good plus with light foxing to the first and last leaves wrapper Very Good plus with dampstains and light soil to the binding and rear wrapper bound internally with three gold brads. Warner Brothers unknown books
N.p.: N.p. 1959. Draft script for the 18th episode of season 3 of the 1956-1961 television playhouse series which originally aired on February 5 1959. Copy belonging to director George Roy Hill with a printed label noting his name on the verso of the front wrapper and his holograph ink annotations throughout noting deletions and substantive changes. <br/><br/>A kinescope of the program survived and is available for viewing only at the Paley Center for Media in Los Angeles.<br/><br/>Based on Michel del Castillo's autobiographical 1957 novel "Tanguy." A young Spanish-French refugee is captured by the Nazis and interned in a concentration camp but finds happiness in Spain after the war. An early effort from the great George Roy Hill who was best known in the ensuing years for "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" 1969 and "The Sting" 1973. <br/><br/>Set in France and Germany. <br/><br/>Housed in an untitled black spring binder. Title page present dated 1-19-59 with credits for director George Roy Hill novelist Michel del Castillo and screenwriter Irving Gaynor Neiman. 134 leaves with last page of text numbered 111. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with rainbow revision pages throughout dated variously between 1/23/59 and 2-3-59. Pages Near Fine binder Very Good plus. N.p. unknown books
N.p.: N.p. 1962. Collection of five vintage press photographs of actress Jane Fonda from the 1962 film. <br/><br/>Based on the 1960 play by Tennessee Williams. On their ill-fated honeymoon George and Isabel visit George's war buddy whose wife has just walked out on him. Director George Roy Hill's directorial debut and a breakthrough role for Fonda. <br/><br/>Set in Tennessee. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
New York New York: New York Theatre Program 1928. First Edition. Magazine. Very Good. Originally opened December 28 1927 on Broadway. Octavo 7 2/3" tall 48 pages wire saddle stitch pamphlet style magazine with stiff three color wraps. An original theatre program in very good condition clean with light shelf wear overall but one corner bumped. Contains color Lucky Strike cigarettes Kelly Springfield Tires Djer-Kiss Toiletries and black and white advertisements for current shows shops restaurants hotels etc. New York Theatre Program unknown
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