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2021Best.-Nr. __1913414698Luminate 2021. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 332 pages. 9.25x7.25x0.75 inches. Luminate paperback
1962Best.-Nr. 165839London: Twentieth Century-Fox 1962. Set of 28 vintage snapshot-size photographs from the 1962 film with one being a keybook photo with two hole punches at the margin. Photos are a mix of candid shots test shots and on the set shots. To our knowledge snapshot-size reference photographs were utilized only by Twentieth Century-Fox during a period roughly between 1940-1965 and are very scarce. Set in Egypt shot on location in Death Valley and Red Rock Canyon in California. 5 x 4 inches. All photos Near Fine or better. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1974Best.-Nr. 164097N.p.: Stage Struck Productions / Entertainment Pyramid 1974. Vintage one sheet poster for the 1974 Blaxploitation film. A former Green Beret turned detective and nightclub owner seeks revenge on the men responsible for his girlfriend's death. Written produced and directed by Oakland Channel 20 television talk show host Sal Watts the film was for years considered lost until 2022 when it was restored and re-released by Deaf Crocodile Films. Set in California and the Middle East shot on location in Oakland. 27 x 41 inches folded as issued. Very Good plus lightly worn at the creases with a couple small chips at the left and right edges. Howard Blaxploitation Cinema p. 195. Stage Struck Productions / Entertainment Pyramid unknown
1958Best.-Nr. 162944New York: Pictorial Parade 1958. Vintage oversize satin finish photograph from the set of the 1959 film showing actor Sal Mineo in costume as Gene Krupa. Stamps of photographer Jack Albin and "Pictorial Parade" on the verso. A dramatization of the life of legendary jazz drummer and bandleader Gene Krupa whose ostentatious lifestyle and drug and alcohol addictions nearly wrecked his career. From the archive of the PIX Agency an American photo house that acted as an intermediary between emigre photographers as well as those still living in Europe and the American magazine and newspaper market between 1935-1969. 10.25 x 13.5 inches archivally matted in a 20 x 16 inch 8-ply white mat. Very Good plus. Pictorial Parade unknown
Best.-Nr. 160754N.p.: N.p. 1973. Draft script for the 1973 film. Copy belonging to uncredited apprentice editor Harvey Rosenstock with his name in manuscript ink on the verso of the front wrapper and the top of the first page. With a memo on "Serpico" letterhead noting script adjustments laid in. Based on Peter Maas' 1973 biography "Serpico: The Cop Who Defied the System" about the titular plainclothes officer who exposes corruption in the New York City Police Department only to face harassment and threats from his fellow officers. Nominated for two Academy Awards. Set and shot on location in New York. Black titled Studio Duplicating Service wrappers. 130 pink revision leaves dated 6/18/73 with last page of text numbered 129. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold screw brads. Eureka MOC 79. Spicer US Neo-Noir. N.p. unknown
1971Best.-Nr. 152553Los Angeles: Mondo Films 1971. Draft script for the 1971 film here under the working title "Kicks." Copy belonging to an unknown cast member with two manuscript ink annotations to pages 48 and 49. Two cruel biker thugs arrive at a large mansion where they proceed to attack the two women living there steal and sell the house's valuables and murder a concerned neighbor. Red titled wrappers. Title page present undated with credits for director-screenwriter Richard Kanter and screenwriters Ted Paramore and Sal Comstock. 111 leaves with last page of text numbered 110. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. Mondo Films unknown
Best.-Nr. 160111N.p.: N.p. 1977. Draft script for the 1978 film. Copy belonging to Lucile Jones credited in the film as a "friend who did everything" with her first name in manuscript ink on the title page. Laid in with the screenplay are three photographs from the set of the film: one black-and-white studio still photograph showing actors Bruce Dern and Jane Fonda and two borderless color reference photographs of director Hal Ashby with an unknown woman possibly Jones on the set. A key Vietnam-era film and one of noted director Hal Ashby's finest efforts. Ostensibly a war film "Coming Home" is really more about the lives of the women left behind during the war tracking the progress of a housewife who finds herself unexpectedly liberated in her husband's absence falling into an affair with a wounded veteran. Winner of three Academy Awards including Best Screenplay and nominated for five others including Best Picture and Best Director. Nominated for the Palme d'Or. Screenplay: Red titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriters Waldo Salt and Bob Jones and director Hal Ashby. 134 leaves with last page of text numbered 132. Xerographic duplication rectos only with four blue revision pages dated 1/3/77. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold screw brads. Photographs: Two 7 x 5 inches one 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1959Best.-Nr. 137073Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1959. First Draft script for the 1959 film "A Private's Affair" here under the working title "The Love Maniac." One of the last films of film noir great director Raoul Walsh. Based on a story by Ray Livingston Murphy. Luigi a young Sal Mineo Jerry Coe and Mike Gary Crosby are in boot camp when they are presented with a chance to represent their Army unit on national television. The three meet the opportunity where they sing and dance in a competition and meet three alluring young women Barbara Eden Terry Moore and Christine Carere. Set in Long Island. Blue titled wrappers noted as FIRST DRAFT SCREENPLAY on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 50 dated January 21 1959. Distribution page present with receipt intact. Title page present dated January 21 1959 noted as First Draft Screenplay with a credit for screenwriter Miller. 123 leaves with last page of text numbered 121. Multilith duplication with blue revision pages throughout dated 1/21/59. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1969Best.-Nr. 155789Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1969. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1969 film showing actors Jon Voight Paul Rossilli Viva and Dustin Hoffman. French distributor stamp on the verso. Based on the 1965 novel by James Leo Herlihy. One of the earliest films to receive an X rating and the only X-rated release to ever win an Academy Award for Best Picture also winning for Best Director and Best Screenplay. Nominated for four other Academy Awards including Best Actor for both Hoffman and Voight and Best Supporting Actress for Sylvia Miles. Set and shot on location in Big Spring Texas New York City and Miami Florida. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with pinholes at the corners. National Film Registry. United Artists unknown
1970Best.-Nr. 153175Italy / Spain: Cinesecolo / Pan Latina Films 1970. Three vintage oversize borderless studio still photographs from the Spanish release of the 1970 Italian / Spanish co-production. The third among dozens of entries in the Italian "3 Supermen" series of comedy adventure films although directors starring actors and even the names of the main characters would change throughout. Here the supermen must secure a newly discovered uranium deposit in Africa while dealing with Russian spies and Amazon women. 15.75 x 12 inches. Very Good plus with light curling and edgewear. Cinesecolo / Pan Latina Films unknown
Best.-Nr. 146780N.p.: Paramount Pictures 1973. Vintage US silkscreen banner poster for the 1973 film. Based on Peter Maas' 1973 biography "Serpico: The Cop Who Defied the System" about a plainclothes police officer who exposes corruption in the New York City Police Department only to face harassment and threats from his fellow officers. Nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Actor and Best Screenplay. Set in and shot on location in New York. 82 x 24 inches. Rolled. Very Good plus overall with no restoration. Lightly soiled with a few pin holes in upper right of image two holes about 1/8" one small closed tear in bottom margin and 1 chip in the upper right margin bright and unfaded. Eureka! #79. Spicer US Neo-Noir. Paramount Pictures unknown
1958Best.-Nr. 146435Burbank CA: Walt Disney Productions 1958. Final Shooting script for the first half of the 1958 film thus incomplete as issued dated April 9 1958. With lead actor Sal Mineo's name in manuscript ink on two revision leaves and his character's name in pencil on the front wrapper. Laid in is a small leaf with manuscript ink notations including the name of director Lou Foster actors Fess Parker and Jerome Courtland and characters White Bull and Captain Keogh. Parker was originally hired for the role of Keogh but refused second billing and was replaced by Philip Carey. Jerome Courtland played the role of Lieutenant Henry Nowlan in the film. Based on David Appel's 1951 novel "Comanche: Story of America's Most Heroic Horse" about the bond between a young Sioux boy and the titular horse who end up on opposite sides of the Battle of Little Big Horn. Set in Montana Territory and shot on location in Oregon. Tan titled wrappers noted as FINAL SHOOTING SCRIPT on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 112 and production No. 5812 dated APRIL 9 1958 with credits for director and screenwriter LEWIS FOSTER. Title page present dated April 9 1958 noted as FINAL SHOOTING SCRIPT with credits for director and screenwriter LEWIS FOSTER. 70 leaves with last page of text numbered 69. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 4/10/58 and 5/15/58. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. Walt Disney Productions unknown
Best.-Nr. 144811Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1973. Draft script for the 1975 film. Based on the 1939 novel by Nathanael West and equal to it as a dark funny and ultimately devastating commentary on the Hollywood system and its effect on the lives and dreams of those caught up in it. Nominated for two Academy Awards considered by many to be Donald Sutherland's finest performance and one of the most underrated films of the 1970s. Teal studio wrappers with a die cut title window in the British style. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Waldo Salt novelist Nathanael West producer Jerome Hellman and director John Schlesinger. 122 leaves with last page of text numbered 118. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with white revision pages throughout dated variously between 7/31/73 and 10/12/73. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. Paramount Pictures unknown
1938Best.-Nr. 140293Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1938. Draft script for the 1938 film. Based on the short story "Private Pettigrew's Girl" by Dana Burnet and published in "The Saturday Evening Post" on September 14 1918. Copy belonging to an unknown crew member with manuscript pencil annotations throughout. Jimmy Stewart plays an idealistic soldier who convinces a Broadway star Margaret Sullavan to pretend they're dating in order to impress his other soldier friends. Meanwhile Sullivan's manager Walter Pidgeon has always been in love with her and objects to the pair's closeness even as they decide to get married before Stewart is shipped out to France. Stewart and Sullivan pull off surprisingly believable roles for a plot of such sickly sweetness in this their second on-screen pairing. The third film based on Burnet's "Saturday Evening Post" story the first two being the 1919 George Melford silent film "Pettigrew's Girl" and Richard Wallace's part-talkie "The Shopworn Angel" 1928 starring Gary Cooper. Set in New York. Goldenrod titled wrappers rubber-stamped copy No. 2268 and production No. 25077 dated 3/16/38 with credits for producer Joseph L. Mankiewicz and screenwriter Waldo Salt. Distribution receipt laid into the script. Title page integral with the first page of the text as issued. 108 leaves with last page of text numbered 108. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good bound with two gold brads. Warner Archive. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1975Best.-Nr. 139041Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1975. Original British quad poster for the 1975 US film. Printed in England by Leonard Ripley. One of the most haunting and truly underrated films of the 1970s Schlesinger's "The Day of the Locust" translates Nathanael West's masterpiece into a dark funny and ultimately devastating commentary on the Hollywood system and its effect on the lives and dreams of an array of characters lost in it. Since its release the film has come to be considered by many Donald Sutherland's finest performance as well as a grand achievement in terms of script cinematography acting and design. Nominated for two Academy Awards. 30 x 40 inches folded as issued. Very Good plus with staple holes to the top edge and a notation in manuscript ink on the verso. Paramount Pictures unknown
1961Best.-Nr. 134942Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1961. Final White script for the 1962 film "Escape from Zahrain" here under the film's working title "Zahrain" with ESCAPE FROM in manuscript ink just above it. Notations in manuscript ink and pencil on the front wrapper recto and verso though the associations are unknown. Based on Michael Barrett's 1960 novel "Appointment in Zahrain." A wanted revolutionary Brynner and his gang including a protege played by Sal Mineo travel through the desert in an attempt to elude the Arab security forces. A story set in the Middle East shot on location in the Mojave Desert in California. Self wrappers noted as FINAL WHITE SCRIPT on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 122 and production No. 11541 dated June 6 1961 with credits for producer-director Neame and screenwriter Estridge. Title page integral with front wrapper. 111 leaves with last page of text numbered 111. Mimeograph duplication dated variously 6/5/61 and 6/6/61. Near Fine overall bound with two silver brads. Paramount Pictures unknown
1969Best.-Nr. 133623Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1969. Vintage black-and-white borderless reference photograph from the US release of the 1969 film. Jon Voight plays a naive Texan who moves to New York to hustle his body and finds himself in an unlikely friendship with an ailing con artist played by Dustin Hoffman. Winner of three Academy Awards including Best Picture and nominated for four others. Set in New York and Texas shot on location in New York Texas Florida and New Jersey. 8 x 10 inches. Fine. In a custom museum-quality frame archivally mounted with UV glass. National Film Registry. United Artists unknown
1943Best.-Nr. 010071Air Age New York ©1943 c1959 1943. Soft cover. Fine. 144 pages 27 cm OCLC 1090892 ; LCCN 44004124 LC TL770 .A38 color art deco design on stiff paper wrappers ; "The present day emphasis on old timers has progressed to the point where it has become necessary to reprint this very popular book of the forties. It was reprinted three times and then with the movement to glow engines anre more sophisticated model aircraft it was allowed to go into limbo. Now with the growth of S.A.M. Society of Antique Modelers and the trend to nostalgia and the good old days suddenly Air Age's Gas Models is a thing of the present. Just how timely is unbelievable until one reads the note on page 6 describing the shortage of balsa. Today's shortage of the same product has forced model kit manufacturers to all sorts of extremes to continue manufacturing the products which we cannot do without. In modeling timeliness is not only today but also the yesterdays and the tomorrows for which we should be very thankful." ; Contents: The K.G. lives again : how you can build a modern streamline version of the old record-breaking K.G. in which are combined super soaring qualities and a skyrocket climb -- Fokker D-8 contest scale : A realistic gas model of a famous World War fighter that performs like a contest plane -- Army Grasshopper : A flying model Taylorcraft O-57 that provides thrills of a full scale plane --- The answer fro gas fans :build this dual purpose national record holder it can be flownin either Class A or B contests -- The winged Yankee : A high performance Class A gas model that is wasy to build and operate -- The G.E. Cabinette takes wing -- Controlled Lightning Control line -- Gas model Army Scout : a scale model of the Curtiss O-52 observation plane that is easy to build and a most consistent flier -- A record breaking gas model -- How to build a universal one-wheeler -- How to build a three-foot gas model -- Meteor on wings -- The gas Champ -- A four-foot Westerner -- Building the power-house -- An Ercoupe from Lilliput -- Timer's nightmare -- Building the Hornet -- Bird Wing gas model -- The Nationals winning Pacer -- Victory Tailless -- Ways and means of gas model success : Suggestions from an expert that will help to eliminate your crack-ups and increase flight duration -- Model airplane engine directory -- Ellipse area chart -- Wiring system diagram -- Have you discovered crinoline -- Single-blade free-wheeling prop -- Tricky props for flighty ships -- Does aspect ration increase duration -- Gas model wing loadings chart -- Stepping up your power -- Taming balky motors -- N.A.C.A. airfoil sections -- Gas model performance chart -- A true pitch gas prop -- Plotting sections the easy way -- Design for performance : a simple method of calculating performance of model planes by a combination of theory and experiment -- Grant airfoil sections -- How to put revs into your gas motor -- A gas model Range Finder -- Bring them down safely! : practical developments of dethermalizing models so they do not fly out of sight ; Copy of Lt. Col. Charles Oliver Fikes 1935-2020 who served in the U.S. Air Force for 22 years at first as an aviation cadet in B-47s at Chennault AFB in 1955 and later as a B-52 pilot. He retired as a Lt. Colonel and began a career with Eastern Airlines. He retired from Eastern in 1985. Air Age, New York, [©1943] c1959? paperback
2017Best.-Nr. 90905Marvel Publishing 2017. Marvel Masterworks. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Small quarto 26 cm x 18.5 cm 325 pp. This copy is part of the Marvel Masterworks and is for the Avengers. This edition contains numbers 164-177 Annual number 7 and Marvel Two-In-One number 2. This edition is a limited printing run of 789 copies. Marvel Publishing hardcover
2016Best.-Nr. 90908Marvel Comics 2016. Marvel Masterworks. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Small quarto 26 cm x 18.5 cm 307 pp. This work is part of the Marvel Masterworks and is the Avengers. This is a collection of issues 150-163 Annual Number 6 and Super-Villian Team-Up number 9. There is a small bump on the bottom of bottom of the book. This is a limited printing of 850 copies. Marvel Comics hardcover
2019Best.-Nr. 90910Marvel Publishing 2019. Marvel Masterworks. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Small quarto 26 cm x 18.5 cm 272 pp. This work is part of the Marvel Masterworks and is for the Incredible Hulk. This collects issues 210-222 and Annual Number 6 and is part of a limited publication run of 659 pages. Marvel Publishing hardcover
Best.-Nr. 0656016965.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
Best.-Nr. 065613089X.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1980Best.-Nr. 58416S. Q. Production. 1980. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. Softcover first edition has toning along edges. Some marks. Wear to points.; Volume 1; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 64 pages . S. Q. Production paperback
Best.-Nr. 026794389X.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover