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1981rif. 149805N.p.: N.p. 1981. Draft script for an unproduced film. Based on the 1939 play by William Joyce Cowen and Leonore Coffee which debuted at the Morosco Theatre directed by Margaret Webster and starring Judith Anderson. The plot follows the story of Jesus' crucifixion as told through the eyes of his family. Set in Jerusalem. White untitled wrappers. Title page present dated August 17 1981 with credits for screenwriter John Gay and playwrights Leonore Coffee and William Joyce Cowen. 106 leaves with last page of text numbered 104. Xerographic duplication rectos only with white revision pages throughout dated 9/9. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus lightly soiled overall bound internally with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1992rif. 161314N.p.: N.p. 1992. Vintage oversize portrait photograph of author Joyce Carol Oates. Dated October 24 1992 in manuscript ink on the bottom margin of the recto with Oates' name and a credit for photographer Geraint Lewis. Layout annotations in manuscript ink on the verso. In 1992 Lewis released her novella "Black Water" based on the real-life 1969 Chappaquiddick incident involving US senator Ted Kennedy. 11.75 x 8.25 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1975rif. 159968N.p.: Public Broadcasting Service PBS 1975. Vintage studio still photograph of actors Joyce Ebert Joseph Maher and Geraldine Fitzgerald from the 1975 broadcast of the 1971 stage play. With mimeo snipe on the recto identifying Long Wharf Theatre of New Haven as the theatre company the names of the actors and promoting the play's broadcast on March 26 1975 on Channel 24. Also with provenance stamp on the verso. A forty-something-year-old man looks back on his childhood in England during World War II often literally walking as a grown man next to his younger self his parents and his wife when they first met. Set in England. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Public Broadcasting Service [PBS] unknown books
1952rif. 160124London: Ealing Studios / Lippert Pictures 1952. Vintage reference photograph from the 1952 film noir. A woman and her younger sister flee London after their father is murdered by a dictator. When she returns seven years later she comes across her old lover who is planning to kill that same dictator. Audrey Hepburn's first significant role. Set in London. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with some wear to the finish and some minor creasing along the edges. Grant UK. Selby UK. Selby US. Spicer UK. Ealing Studios / Lippert Pictures unknown books
1972rif. 152995Hollywood: Marimark 1972. Revised Final Shooting Draft script for the 1973 film here under the working title "Supergirl." Copy belonging to story writer John Burrows with his name in manuscript ink annotation on the front wrapper and his annotations throughout. An attractive free-spirited flight attendant with boyfriends in New York Miami and Los Angeles unwittingly becomes involved in an in-flight robbery. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present dated 10/5/72 noted as Revised Final Shooting Draft with credits for screenwriter Gary Crutcher. 117 leaves with last page of text numbered 103. Xerographic duplication rectos only with pink revision pages throughout dated 10/20/72. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. Marimark unknown books
1958rif. 150887N.p.: N.p. 1958. Vintage reference photograph of Alec Guiness and producer John Bryan on the set of the 1958 film. Based on the 1944 novel by Joyce Cary. Alec Guiness who also wrote the screenplay stars as the cantankerous and ill-mannered aging artist Gulley Jimson. Determined to not let anything come between himself and his artistic vision he proceeds to paint a mural in the home of the millionaires Sir William and Lady Beeder away for a six week holiday. Set in London. 10 x 7.75 inches. Faded evenly else Near Fine. Criterion Collection 154. N.p. unknown books
1953rif. 154829Universal City: Universal Pictures 1953. Three vintage studio still photographs from the 1953 film two showing scenes from a beauty pageant and one showing actress Joyce Holden performing a burlesque show for her sorority sisters. Two with a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. A pair of siblings from a slum neighborhood in New York dream of escaping to a better life but become involved in criminal activities out of desperation and poverty. Set in New York. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Grant US. Universal Pictures unknown books
1967rif. 151301Los Angeles: Continental Distributing 1967. Six vintage reference photographs from the 1967 film. With printed mimeo snipes affixed to the verso. The first film adaptation of James Joyce's influential modernist novel and one of the only adaptations to take its dialogue directly from the book. The film came under heavy threat of censorship due to profane for the time language and was given an X rating in the UK after director Joseph Strick refused to edit out any of the "offending" passages. Set in Dublin and shot there on location. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus several lightly toned. Continental Distributing unknown books
1971rif. 152448N.p.: N.p. 1971. Shooting Draft script for the 1971 film here under the working title "Sunshine Ladies." The second film in producer Roger Corman's "nurse quartet" preceded by "Student Nurses" 1970 and followed by "Night Call Nurses" 1972 and "Candy Stripe Nurses" 1974. George Armitage's directorial debut and the second film released by Corman's New World Pictures. Set and shot on location in Manhattan Beach and South Bay Los Angeles. Green titled wrappers. Title page present dated February 2 1971 noted as SHOOTING SCRIPT with credits for screenwriter George Armitage. 97 leaves with last page of text numbered 84. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1969rif. 148004New York: NR Productions 1969. Draft script for the 1972 play which opened on March 26 1972 at the Martinique Theater. Not listed in the Internet Broadway Database. Parishioners at St. Thomas' on-the-Green Episcopal Church in the cozy Connecticut town of Westwood suddenly erupt in a rash of glossolalia - speaking in tongues. Set in Westwood Connecticut. Orange Studio Duplicating Service titled wrappers with credits for playwright Tom LaBar. Title page present dated 1969 with credits for playwright Tom LaBar. 87 leaves with last page of text numbered 3-4-17. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold screw brads. NR Productions unknown books
1976rif. 147965New York: Frissell and Macdonald Productions 1976. Draft script for the 1976 play which premiered on May 18 1976 at the Little Theatre for a run of 396 performances closing on October 30 1978 copy number "#13" written in manuscript marker on top right of title page. Inspired by the August 1907 murder of Sr. Mary Janina Mezek. Named best Broadway Play of 1976 in the annual Best Plays book. Set in 1911 in Michigan a Roman Catholic priest on trial for a nun's murder. Milan Sitt wrote the screenplay for the 1979 film adaptation directed by Stanley Kramer his final film and starring Dick Van Dyke Kathleen Quinlan and Maureen Stapleton. Green Studio Duplicating Service titled wrappers with credits for playwright Milan Stitt. Title page present with credits for playwright Milan Stitt. 102 leaves with last page of text numbered 2-43. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold screw brads. Frissell and Macdonald Productions unknown books
1941rif. 148690Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1941. Final Draft script for the 1942 film. Production No. 690 and copy No. 140 both rubber stamped on the front wrapper with FINAL printed at the top right corner of same. John T. Bromley Joseph Allen a young man from high society is physically humiliated by a prizefighter William Haade before his socialite sweetheart Jenny Killian Brenda Joyce. He goes to a training camp to redeem his self-respect and ensure his success in a rematch. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Cinematography. Shot on location in Sherwood Forest California. Blue titled wrappers noted as FINAL on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 140 and production No. 690 dated OCT. 23 1941. Distribution page present with receipt intact. Title page present dated October 23 1941 noted as Final Script with credits for screenwriter Walter Bullock. 130 leaves with last page of text numbered 125. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 10/27/41 and 11/11/41. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with a few small closed tears bound internally with two gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1955rif. 147888N.p.: Visual Drama 1955. Vintage studio still photograph of Joyce Jameson and Myron Healey from the 1955 film here under the alternative title Gangbusters. NBC aired the True Crime television series Gang Busters from March 20 1952 to October 23 1952 and reedited the three episode storyline The Pinson Gang into the 1955 feature film Gang Busters. Lifelong criminal Pinson Healy keeps escaping from prison. Loosely based on Omar August Pinson American robber and murderer. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with faint creasing to corners some edgewear and two small closed tears in left margin. Selby US. Spicer US. Lyons US. Visual Drama unknown books
1981rif. 140505N.p.: Joseph E. Levine Productions 1981. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1981 film. Bruce Dern plays a psychologically unstable tattoo artist who becomes obsessed with a model. After kidnapping her he uses her body as a canvas for "his masterpiece." Shot on location in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Joseph E. Levine Productions unknown books
1975rif. 1403Berkeley: Univ. of California Press 1975. cloth dust jacket. small 4to. cloth dust jacket. 163 page. First U.S. edition. Fine in fine jacket. Beautifully illustrated with some plates in color. Contains a bibliography and a list of collections of Children's books. Univ. of California Press unknown books
1966rif. 140604Los Angeles: Expanding Cinema 1966. Shooting final for the 1966 film. Copy belonging to actor Peter Haskell with his manuscript annotations throughout and his shooting schedule laid in. Mary Ellen Bute's final film and the first cinematic adaptation of James Joyce's masterfully complex work of fiction. Shot over a two year period Bute was tasked with transforming Joyce's impenetrable prose without losing any of the work's surreal lyrical essence. The subsequent film maintains the original novel's oneiric style. Bute and her husband Ted Nemeth were longtime collaborators and Nemeth worked as both cinematographer and producer of the film. In 1965 it was honored at the Cannes Film Festival as Best Debut and remains Bute's sole feature length film. Shot on location in New York City and Dublin. Brown untitled wrappers. Title page present dated March 4 1963 and December 3 1962 noted as Shooting Final with credits for screenwriters Mary Ellen Bute Romana Javitz and T. J. Nemeth Jr and editor A.I.M.S. Street. 148 leaves with last page of text numbered 139. Mimeograph duplication with onionskin revision pages throughout. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus. Some pages detaching and wrapper slightly cracked. Bound internally with prong binding. Expanding Cinema unknown books
1971rif. 141803Los Angeles: New World Pictures 1971. Vintage one sheet poster for the 1971 film. The second film in producer Roger Corman's "nurse quartet" preceded by "Student Nurses" 1970 and followed by"Night Call Nurses" 1972 and "Candy Stripe Nurses" 1974. Also the second film released by Corman's New World Picutres. Set and shot on location in Manhattan Beach and South Bay Los Angeles. 27 x 41 inches. Folded. Very Good plus with minor starting the intersections of the folds and light soil. New World Pictures unknown books
1945rif. 141104Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1945. Vintage US half sheet poster for the 1945 film. Remake of the 1934 Universal film "Advice to the Lovelorn" that also starred Lee Tracy. Both films were based on West's novel "Miss Lonelyhearts." Lee Tracy plays a radio announcer born with the inability to shut up both a blessing in terms of finding fame in the radio business and a curse in terms of constantly talking over his singer girlfriend while she is performing. He is eventually demoted to the position of writing a newspaper column for the lovelorn. 22 x 28 inches folded. Very Good plus. Universal Pictures unknown books
1938rif. 139377Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1938. Two vintage black-and-white keybook photographs from the 1938. Mimeo snipes affixed to the versos. Based on Latimer's Bill Crane and Doc Williams characters from his books "Headed for a Hearse" "The Lady in the Morgue" "Murder in the Madhouse" "The Dead Don't Care" and "Red Gardenias." The last of three Bill Crane films the first two being "The Westland Case" 1937 and "The Lady in the Morgue" 1938. Here Bill Crane Foster visits a country estate where the occupants have been receiving threatening letters from someone called "The Eye." 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus waviness and faint tape residue on the rectos. Universal Pictures unknown books
1948rif. 134388Los Angeles: Monogram Pictures 1948. Original Pressbook for the 1948 film. Based on an original story by Harry Lewis about an innocent man Douglas who gets attacked in the street mistaken for a gangster so he conducts his own investigation. 8 pages saddle stapled 12 x 18 inches. Staples rusty a few faint creases and slight curling else Near Fine. Grant US. Okuda 583. Selby US. Spicer p .412. Monogram Pictures unknown books
1930rif. 66327Paris: Henry Babou and Jack Kahane 1930. First edition one of 500 copies on handmade Vidalon Royal paper of which this is number 218. Small folio 11 1/8 x 7 1/2 inches; 282 x 190 mm. Original wrappers printed in black and green glassine and publisher's green and gold slipcase. Pages unopened. Tiny chip to bottom of spine some wear and splitting to slipcase edges. Otherwise fine. Slocum and Cahoon A41. HBS 66327. $1000. Henry Babou and Jack Kahane unknown books
1981rif. 132540Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1981. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the 1981 US film. A troubled tattoo artist Dern becomes obsessed with a model Adams he meets when he's hired to paint temporary tattoos on a group of women for a photo shoot. His obsession grows increasingly dangerous and he is determined to leave his mark on the model forever. 8 x 10 inches. Brief ink notation on the verso else Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1942rif. 130419Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1942. Final script for the 1942 film. A lighthearted drama centering on a female stamp collector obsessed with a government mail sack of undelivered letters that has turned up after missing for 50 years. The AFI Catalog notes that all the title cards for the film's opening credits are handwritten on envelopes postmarked 1889. A studio press release asserted that producer Ralph Dietrich got the idea for the film from a newspaper story concerning "the discovery in Philadelphia some months ago of a mail bag apparently the loot of a robbery some seventy-five years before." The story reported that the mail would be delivered by the post office to the addressees or their heirs. Blue titled wrappers noted as FINAL on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 70 and production No. 768 dated April 1 1942. Distribution page present with receipt intact. Title page present dated April 1 1942 noted as Final Script with credits for screenwriter Braus. 122 leaves mimeograph duplication with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 4/1/42 and 5/1/42. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1936rif. 376900London: John Lane The Bodley Head 1936. First English edition one of 1000 number 410 of 900 on Japon Vellum paper. xvi 766 pp. 4to. Publisher's green linen buckram gilt stamped on front cover and spine; slightest rubbing to corners; spine and top of margins of covers sunned; t.e.g.; light tanning to fore edges and front endpapers; gift inscription in ink on first blank. First English edition one of 1000 number 410 of 900 on Japon Vellum paper. xvi 766 pp. 4to. Slocum and Cahoon 23 John Lane The Bodley Head unknown books
1936rif. 311572New York: The Black Sun Press 1936. First Edition LIMITED ISSUE number 450 of 800 numbered copies from an edition of 850 fifty copies were printed on Japan Vellum and signed. Frontispiece portrait after a crayon drawing by Augustus John original tissue guard preserved. 66 pp. 1 vols. Small 8vo. Original publisher's white boards decorated in blue blue silk page marker. Stain to top and bottom of spine. John Augustus. First Edition LIMITED ISSUE number 450 of 800 numbered copies from an edition of 850 fifty copies were printed on Japan Vellum and signed. Frontispiece portrait after a crayon drawing by Augustus John original tissue guard preserved. 66 pp. 1 vols. Small 8vo. This collects 'Chamber Music' 'Pomes Penyeach' and 'Ecce Puer' the last of which is published for the first time. Slocum & Cahoon A44 The Black Sun Press unknown books
