7710 resultados
1941ref. 137043Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1941. Draft script for the 1941 film. Copy belonging to studio secretary Marion Pecht with her name in manuscript pencil at the top right corner of the front wrapper. File copy rubber-stamped on the front wrapper. Housed in a custom black cloth clamshell box. From the Richard Manney collection of horror film scripts. The 1941 version of "The Black Cat" is neither a remake of Edgar G. Ulmer's 1934 Karloff-Lugosi film of the same name nor does it bear much relation to the Edgar Allan Poe story though in fairness neither did the 1934 version. It is more of a horror-comedy affair than its predecessor with Broderick Crawford and Hugh Herbert in the lead Bela Lugosi reappearing now in the more minor role of "Eduardo" and Basil Rathbone ably handling the part of the shady Mr. Hartley. Shot by the legendary Stanley Cortez of "Magnificent Ambersons" fame. Hal Erickson Rovi Gray titled wrappers rubber-stamped copy No. 6856 dated February 15 1941. 117 leaves with last page of text numbered 117. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. Weaver Universal Horrors. Universal Pictures unknown
1941ref. 137043Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1941. Draft script for the 1941 film. Copy belonging to studio secretary Marion Pecht with her name in manuscript pencil at the top right corner of the front wrapper. File copy rubber-stamped on the front wrapper. Housed in a custom black cloth clamshell box. From the Richard Manney collection of horror film scripts. The 1941 version of "The Black Cat" is neither a remake of Edgar G. Ulmer's 1934 Karloff-Lugosi film of the same name nor does it bear much relation to the Edgar Allan Poe story though in fairness neither did the 1934 version. It is more of a horror-comedy affair than its predecessor with Broderick Crawford and Hugh Herbert in the lead Bela Lugosi reappearing now in the more minor role of "Eduardo" and Basil Rathbone ably handling the part of the shady Mr. Hartley. Shot by the legendary Stanley Cortez of "Magnificent Ambersons" fame. Hal Erickson Rovi Gray titled wrappers rubber-stamped copy No. 6856 dated February 15 1941. 117 leaves with last page of text numbered 117. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. Weaver Universal Horrors. Universal Pictures unknown books
1985ref. 166915N.p.: N.p. 1985. Final Draft script for the 1986 film. Fred Williamson directs and stars as a cigar-smoking swaggering private investigator hired by a millionaire to find his missing niece in Europe. Set and shot on location in Cannes Los Angeles Rome and Venice. Front wrapper integral with title page dated June 3 1985 noted as FINAL DRAFT. 81 leaves with last page of text numbered 79. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus with light soiling to the title page side-stapled. Moore The Good the Tough and the Deadly: Action Movies and Stars 1960s-2015. N.p. unknown
1985ref. 166915N.p.: N.p. 1985. Final Draft script for the 1986 film. Fred Williamson directs and stars as a cigar-smoking swaggering private investigator hired by a millionaire to find his missing niece in Europe. Set and shot on location in Cannes Los Angeles Rome and Venice. Front wrapper integral with title page dated June 3 1985 noted as FINAL DRAFT. 81 leaves with last page of text numbered 79. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus with light soiling to the title page side-stapled. Moore The Good the Tough and the Deadly: Action Movies and Stars 1960s-2015. N.p. unknown books
1951ref. 162338N.p.: N.p. 1951. Four vintage reference photographs from the 1951 film including three showing Gene Kelly dancing with Leslie Caron and one showing a dejected Kelly with four military officers. Inspired by George Gershwin's 1928 jazz-influenced orchestral composition and featuring a show-stopping 17-minute ballet choreographed to the piece as well as a number of other Gershwin tunes including the classics "Embraceable You" "Nice Work if You Can Get It" and "I Got Rhythm." Winner of six Academy Awards including Best Screenplay and Best Picture and nominated for two others including Best Director. Also nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 1952. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine with light age toning on a few margins. National Film Registry. Godard Histoires du cinema. Schrader 34. N.p. unknown
1951ref. 162338N.p.: N.p. 1951. Four vintage reference photographs from the 1951 film including three showing Gene Kelly dancing with Leslie Caron and one showing a dejected Kelly with four military officers. Inspired by George Gershwin's 1928 jazz-influenced orchestral composition and featuring a show-stopping 17-minute ballet choreographed to the piece as well as a number of other Gershwin tunes including the classics "Embraceable You" "Nice Work if You Can Get It" and "I Got Rhythm." Winner of six Academy Awards including Best Screenplay and Best Picture and nominated for two others including Best Director. Also nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 1952. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine with light age toning on a few margins. National Film Registry. Godard Histoires du cinema. Schrader 34. N.p. unknown books
1947ref. 156254Los Angeles: Monogram Pictures 1947. Collection of eleven vintage studio still photographs from the 1947 film noir. Based on the 1941 short story "He Looked Like Murder" by Cornell Woolrich about a manhunt for the murderer of a woman with a twin told through a series of flashbacks and plot twists. Set in New York City. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good with moderate edgewear and age toning. Grant US. Selby US Masterwork. Silver and Ward Classic Noir. Spicer US. Monogram Pictures unknown
1947ref. 156254Los Angeles: Monogram Pictures 1947. Collection of eleven vintage studio still photographs from the 1947 film noir. Based on the 1941 short story "He Looked Like Murder" by Cornell Woolrich about a manhunt for the murderer of a woman with a twin told through a series of flashbacks and plot twists. Set in New York City. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good with moderate edgewear and age toning. Grant US. Selby US Masterwork. Silver and Ward Classic Noir. Spicer US. Monogram Pictures unknown books
1972ref. 309357NY: VIKING. Fine. 1972. First Edition. 0670511293 . SIGNED by Kitty Carlisle Sig Ruman Allan Jones Walter Woolf King & Jonathan Hale on tipped-in plates on front inside cover & endpaper. About fine in a near fine dj. A few short edge tears in dj. B . VIKING. unknown
1948ref. 160687London: The Rank Organization 1948. Five vintage reference photographs from the 1948 British film showing the film's famous and impressionistic "ballet sequence." Three with printed mimeo snipes affixed to the versos and all five with stamps of The Rank Organisation on the versos. Loosely based on the 1845 fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen following an up-and-coming prima ballerina whose personal life is strained by her ballet master's obsessive demand that she devote herself entirely to her career. Michael Powell's tenth collaboration with his longtime partner Emeric Pressburger a critical success and worthy successor to their 1947 Technicolor classic "Black Narcissus." Nominated for five Academy Awards winning two. 9.5 x 8 inches. Near Fine to Very Good plus some with light toning. Criterion Collection 44. Ebert III. Rosenbaum 1000. Schrader 41. The Rank Organization unknown
1948ref. 160687London: The Rank Organization 1948. Five vintage reference photographs from the 1948 British film showing the film's famous and impressionistic "ballet sequence." Three with printed mimeo snipes affixed to the versos and all five with stamps of The Rank Organisation on the versos. Loosely based on the 1845 fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen following an up-and-coming prima ballerina whose personal life is strained by her ballet master's obsessive demand that she devote herself entirely to her career. Michael Powell's tenth collaboration with his longtime partner Emeric Pressburger a critical success and worthy successor to their 1947 Technicolor classic "Black Narcissus." Nominated for five Academy Awards winning two. 9.5 x 8 inches. Near Fine to Very Good plus some with light toning. Criterion Collection 44. Ebert III. Rosenbaum 1000. Schrader 41. The Rank Organization unknown books
1966ref. 150834N.p.: N.p. 1966. Vintage borderless double weight photograph of Michelangelo Antonioni on the set of the 1966 film with provenance stamp of film scholar and author "J. P. Berthome" on verso. Inspired by the 1959 short story "Las Babas del Diablo" by Julio Cortazar. Michelangelo Antonioni's first English-language film marking the beginning of the final phase of his work co-produced by companies in Italy the United States and the United Kingdom and featuring an international cast. The director's brash use of color set design non-standard editing techniques and typical emphasis of atmosphere over plot would carry over into the two major films that followed "Zabriskie Point" 1970 and "The Passenger" 1975. In his 2009 essay on the film Danny Lyon notes "It is apt that through his established style Antonioni made a movie that is perhaps closest to communicating the myth of the swinging Sixties scene but also the confusion of the time. . Britain's new and very chaotic cultural revolution was perhaps most effectively captured by an Italian." Winner of the Palme d'Or. Nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Screenplay. 10 x 8 inches. Light edgewear and creasing in far corners else Near Fine. Criterion Collection 865. Ebert I. Grant UK/Italy. N.p. unknown
1966ref. 150834N.p.: N.p. 1966. Vintage borderless double weight photograph of Michelangelo Antonioni on the set of the 1966 film with provenance stamp of film scholar and author "J. P. Berthome" on verso. Inspired by the 1959 short story "Las Babas del Diablo" by Julio Cortazar. Michelangelo Antonioni's first English-language film marking the beginning of the final phase of his work co-produced by companies in Italy the United States and the United Kingdom and featuring an international cast. The director's brash use of color set design non-standard editing techniques and typical emphasis of atmosphere over plot would carry over into the two major films that followed "Zabriskie Point" 1970 and "The Passenger" 1975. In his 2009 essay on the film Danny Lyon notes "It is apt that through his established style Antonioni made a movie that is perhaps closest to communicating the myth of the swinging Sixties scene but also the confusion of the time. . Britain's new and very chaotic cultural revolution was perhaps most effectively captured by an Italian." Winner of the Palme d'Or. Nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Screenplay. 10 x 8 inches. Light edgewear and creasing in far corners else Near Fine. Criterion Collection 865. Ebert I. Grant UK/Italy. N.p. unknown books
1937ref. 150759N.p.: N.p. 1937. Vintage double weight reference photograph of director Mitchell Leisen demonstrating how to kiss Jean Arthur while Ray Milland looks on from the 1937 film. Based on the 1937 short story by Vera Caspary. During the Great Depression obscenely wealthy baker J.B. Ball Edward Arnold angered at his wife's Mary Nash spending throws her very expensive sable coat off the roof where it lands on the head of stenographer Mary Smith Arthur leading to a life-altering chain of events. Set in New York City. 10 x 8 inches. Some edgewear else Near Fine. Byrge and Miller The Screwball Comedy Films A History and Filmography: 1934-1942. N.p. unknown
1937ref. 150759N.p.: N.p. 1937. Vintage double weight reference photograph of director Mitchell Leisen demonstrating how to kiss Jean Arthur while Ray Milland looks on from the 1937 film. Based on the 1937 short story by Vera Caspary. During the Great Depression obscenely wealthy baker J.B. Ball Edward Arnold angered at his wife's Mary Nash spending throws her very expensive sable coat off the roof where it lands on the head of stenographer Mary Smith Arthur leading to a life-altering chain of events. Set in New York City. 10 x 8 inches. Some edgewear else Near Fine. Byrge and Miller The Screwball Comedy Films A History and Filmography: 1934-1942. N.p. unknown books
1895ref. 5527New York: The Cassell Publishing Co. 1895. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. A Very Good or better copy -- a little fading to the spine and some loss at the top of the cloth spine where it yaps folds over the textblock no bumps. Pencil period gift inscription contents otherwise clean. A nice solid copy. Red cloth with white contrasts. Over 50 very striking full-page illustrations. OCLC 16349500. Rare -- only one copy in Worldcat. The Cassell Publishing Co. hardcover
1943ref. 148600Culver City CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1943. Draft script for the 1944 film here under the working title "Russia" with annotation in manuscript ink above title of "Song of" amending it to its release title date annotation in manuscript pencil on top right and "Rerun" "Mar 9 1943" stamps to the lower right all on front wrapper. Annotations in manuscript pencil on verso of front wrapper on screenwriter revision check sheet printed on verso of wrapper. Bold annotations in manuscript pencil on recto and verso on ten leaves likely written by a child some responding to the action of script some appearing unrelated. One annotation of page number and one of a name not in the same hand as above both in manuscript pencil and two copied annotations of revision dates in script. Laid in is an additional page 85 dated 3/3/85 and a newspaper clipping circa 1944 of a photo of two Army personnel with mortars. Famed conductor John Meredith Robert Taylor tours Soviet Russia shortly before the 1941 invasion by NAZI Germany falling in love with sweet peasant girl Nadya Susan Peters. A positive portrayal of the Soviet Union during the wartime alliance with the US which after the end of the war would be cited by the House Un-American Activities Committee HUAC as an example of "pro-Soviet propaganda films" made by Hollywood. Cited and derided by Ayn Rand during her 1947 testimony before HUAC. Set in the Soviet Union. Yellow titled wrappers noted as COMPLETE on the front wrapper rubber-stamped production No. 195 dated 1-15-43 with credits for screenwriters Paul Jarrico and Richard Collins. Title page integral with first page dated 3/13/43. 124 leaves with last page of text numbered 107. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with pink and white revision pages throughout dated variously between 1/15/43 and 4/5/43. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with light soiling and cello tape to verso and recto of rear wrapper and closed tear at spine of rear wrapper bound with two gold brads. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1943ref. 148600Culver City CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1943. Draft script for the 1944 film here under the working title "Russia" with annotation in manuscript ink above title of "Song of" amending it to its release title date annotation in manuscript pencil on top right and "Rerun" "Mar 9 1943" stamps to the lower right all on front wrapper. Annotations in manuscript pencil on verso of front wrapper on screenwriter revision check sheet printed on verso of wrapper. Bold annotations in manuscript pencil on recto and verso on ten leaves likely written by a child some responding to the action of script some appearing unrelated. One annotation of page number and one of a name not in the same hand as above both in manuscript pencil and two copied annotations of revision dates in script. Laid in is an additional page 85 dated 3/3/85 and a newspaper clipping circa 1944 of a photo of two Army personnel with mortars. Famed conductor John Meredith Robert Taylor tours Soviet Russia shortly before the 1941 invasion by NAZI Germany falling in love with sweet peasant girl Nadya Susan Peters. A positive portrayal of the Soviet Union during the wartime alliance with the US which after the end of the war would be cited by the House Un-American Activities Committee HUAC as an example of "pro-Soviet propaganda films" made by Hollywood. Cited and derided by Ayn Rand during her 1947 testimony before HUAC. Set in the Soviet Union. Yellow titled wrappers noted as COMPLETE on the front wrapper rubber-stamped production No. 195 dated 1-15-43 with credits for screenwriters Paul Jarrico and Richard Collins. Title page integral with first page dated 3/13/43. 124 leaves with last page of text numbered 107. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with pink and white revision pages throughout dated variously between 1/15/43 and 4/5/43. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with light soiling and cello tape to verso and recto of rear wrapper and closed tear at spine of rear wrapper bound with two gold brads. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1961ref. 158005N.p.: N.p. 1961. Vintage reference photograph of director Roger Corman and cinematographer Floyd Crosby capturing a scene with Vincent Price on the set of the 1961 film. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Based on Edgar Allan Poe's 1842 short story about a young Englishman who travels to Spain to investigate his sister's death. The second Poe adaptation released by American International Pictures following Corman's "The House of Usher" in 1960. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with light toning and wear on the corners. N.p. unknown books
1974ref. 155950N.p.: N.p. 1974. Vintage two-color one sheet poster for the 1974 film here under its original release title "Black Agent Lucky King." Former Oakland Channel 20 television talk show host Sal Watts in response to complaints from his audience about current black action films was determined to make a quality motion picture for African American audiences. The result was "Solomon King" which Watts produced wrote co-directed and starred a first for an independent black producer. Believed lost this obscure Blaxploitation classic is scheduled for restoration and re-release from Deaf Crocodile Films in 2022. Ex-Green Beret Solomon King Watts vows vengeance when his former lover Princess Oneeba is murdered by Arab agents from the country she once escaped. With the aid of several fellow Vietnam veterans brother Maney King and CIA agent O'Malley King plans a commando raid into the Arab country to kill the hit man. Featuring a cameo from Watt's friend baseball player Tito Fuentes. Set in Oakland California and an undisclosed Arab nation shot on location in Oakland California. 27 x 41 inches folded as issued. Very Good with pinholes some creasing and soiling two modest closed tears three small chips and an annotation in manuscript ink on the outer middle right margin. Howard Blaxploitation Cinema p. 195. N.p. unknown
1974ref. 155950N.p.: N.p. 1974. Vintage two-color one sheet poster for the 1974 film here under its original release title "Black Agent Lucky King." Former Oakland Channel 20 television talk show host Sal Watts in response to complaints from his audience about current black action films was determined to make a quality motion picture for African American audiences. The result was "Solomon King" which Watts produced wrote co-directed and starred a first for an independent black producer. Believed lost this obscure Blaxploitation classic is scheduled for restoration and re-release from Deaf Crocodile Films in 2022. Ex-Green Beret Solomon King Watts vows vengeance when his former lover Princess Oneeba is murdered by Arab agents from the country she once escaped. With the aid of several fellow Vietnam veterans brother Maney King and CIA agent O'Malley King plans a commando raid into the Arab country to kill the hit man. Featuring a cameo from Watt's friend baseball player Tito Fuentes. Set in Oakland California and an undisclosed Arab nation shot on location in Oakland California. 27 x 41 inches folded as issued. Very Good with pinholes some creasing and soiling two modest closed tears three small chips and an annotation in manuscript ink on the outer middle right margin. Howard Blaxploitation Cinema p. 195. N.p. unknown books
1856ref. 68086Boston:: Little Brown 1856. Hardcover -. Good condition overall although the original tan leather binding has significant rubbing previous owner's name on front endpaper and discoloration from binder's glue on endpapers this is still a sturdy tight copy. . Fourth Edition. The last of Story's commentaries originally published in 1845; the editor of this fourth edition Edmund Hastings Bennett states that more than 400 cases have been added. Joseph Story who is perhaps best known for his opinion in The Amistad case was not only the youngest person ever appointed to the Supreme Court at age 32 he was also one of the most influential serving on the Court for 34 years first under Marshall and then Tanney until his death in 1845. List of cases cited index. xxxvi 696 pp. Little Brown, hardcover
1829ref. 707451829. Boston: Published by Carter and Hendee 1829. Boston: Published by Carter and Hendee 1829. The First Legal Work Bearing Story's Name Story Joseph 1779-1845. Oliver Benjamin L. 1788-1843 Editor. A Selection of Pleadings in Civil Actions With Occasional Annotations on the Law of Pleading. With Additions by Benjamin L. Oliver. Boston: Published by Carter and Hendee 1829. xv 709 pp. Octavo 9-1/2" x 6-1/4". Contemporary sheep blind fillets to boards blind fillets and red and black lettering pieces to spine. Light rubbing and some shallow scuffing to boards somewhat heavier rubbing to extremities some chipping to head of spine early owner signature of Edwin Conant to front free endpaper below small struck-through signature. Moderate toning to text somewhat heavier in places occasional light foxing light soiling to a few leaves. $450. Second edition. This is both the first legal work bearing Story's name and the first American book of entries of precedents. According to Marvin the work's "notes and references show that the author had made no ordinary attainments in the science of special pleading." Story was Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court a professor at Harvard Law School and the most respected and prolific legal writer of his time. Edwin Conant 1810-1891 was a prominent Worcester Massachusetts lawyer businessman and philanthropist. Marvin Legal Bibliography 668. Cohen Bibliography of Early American Law 9275. unknown
1843ref. 844991843. Boston: 1843. 3rd ed. Revised Corrected & Enlarged. Boston: 1843. 3rd ed. Revised Corrected & Enlarged. The Last Authorial Edition of Story on Bailments Story Joseph 1779-1845. Commentaries on the Law of Bailments: With Illustrations From the Civil and the Foreign Law. Revised Corrected and Enlarged. Boston: Charles C. Little & James Brown/London: A. Maxwell & Son 1843. xliv 636 pp. Octavo 9-1/4" x 5-3/4"; 23.5 x 14.6 cm. Contemporary sheep blind fillets to boards raised bands and lettering piece and fragment of owner label to spine. Light rubbing to boards front board partially detached moderate rubbing to extremities heavier rubbing to spine corners bumped and worn offsetting to margins of endleaves very light toning to interior. A good copy. $450. Third edition the last by Story. Marvin: "Whatever was to be found in the English and American decisions whatever Roman and Continental jurisprudence afforded on illustration of the law of bailments Joseph Story collected and combined with surprising industry and wonderful learning.Story's Bailments affords one of the best examples in modern times of the illustration which our laws are susceptible of by the aid of foreign jurisprudence." Marvin Legal Bibliography 668-669. Cohen Bibliography of Early American Law 2454. unknown
1847ref. 793381847. Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown 1847. Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown 1847. One of the Standard American Texts of the Nineteenth Century Story Joseph 1779-1845. Story William Wetmore 1819-1895 Editor. Commentaries on the Law of Bills of Exchange Foreign and Inland As Administered in England and America; With Occasional Illustrations from the Commercial Law of the Nations of Continental Europe. London: V. and R. Stevens and G.S. Norton; Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown 1847. xxvii 664 pp. Octavo 9-1/2" x 5-3/4". Contemporary sheep blind rules to boards rebacked with raised bands blind fillets and retained lettering piece to spine hinges mended with tissue. Light rubbing some shallow scuffing and a few small stains to boards corners bumped and worn. Moderate toning to interior somewhat lighter or heavier in places occasional light foxing outside corners of a few leaves folded light soiling and small chips to edges of a few leaves faint dampstain to pp. 251-371. Housed in cloth slipcase. $450. Second edition. In The Formative Era of American Law Pound refers to the Commentaries on the Laws of Bills of Exchange as one of the standard texts of the nineteenth century. As Marvin pointed out in 1847 it was certainly the most complete and wide ranging text of its day. In addition to American and English sources Story draws on the work of Heineccius and other civil-law jurists. Apart from James Kent no man has had greater influence on American law than Joseph Story. He was Dane Professor of Law at Harvard and an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. William Wetmore Story was one of his children. A highly regarded lawyer and legal writer he later abandoned the law moved to Italy and became a notable poet and sculptor. Marvin Legal Bibliography 673. Cohen Bibliography of Early American Law 2556. unknown
