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1980Best.-Nr. 168011Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1980. Vintage reference photograph from a 1980 re-release of the 1969 film. Based on the 1965 novel by James Leo Herlihy about the unlikely friendship between a would-be gigolo and an ailing con artist. Cornerstone film of the New Hollywood cinema nominated for seven Academy Awards winning Best Screenplay Best Director and Best Picture. Set in New York City shot on location in Miami Manhattan and Big Spring Texas. 10 x 8 inches. About Fine. National Film Registry. United Artists unknown books
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 books
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 re-released in a restoration 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 books
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 books
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 books
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 books
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 books
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 books
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 books
2012Best.-Nr. 152662012. WESTRICH SAL. New Jersey Wine. A Remarkable History. Charleston S.C. 2012. 124 p. Illus. Wrappers. Vineyards and winemaking in New Jersey from the eighteenth century to the present. unknown books
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 books
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 books
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 books
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 books
1973Best.-Nr. 133031Los Angeles: American International Pictures AIP 1973. Two vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1973 US film. De Palma does "Rear Window" sort of in the breakthrough film that would signal his move toward both Hollywood and the psycho-sexual thrillers that would come to be his signature as much as his virtuosic visual style. Set and shot on location in New York City. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine with some light toning. Arrow 919. Criterion Collection 89. Grant US. Spicer US. American International Pictures [AIP] unknown books
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 books
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 books
1822Best.-Nr. 323375London: William Miller 1822. First edition later issue. Hand-colored aquatint dedication/title and 24 hand colored aquatint plates by D. Havell J. Hill and J. Bluck supervised by Robert Havell after Henry Salt on thick Whatman paper watermarked 1822. Interleaved throughout with blanks. Without the separately-issued octavo text as usual. Elephant folio. Contemporary half calf and marbled paper boards large morocco label on the upper cover spine gilt. Foxing to a few plates. First edition later issue. Hand-colored aquatint dedication/title and 24 hand colored aquatint plates by D. Havell J. Hill and J. Bluck supervised by Robert Havell after Henry Salt on thick Whatman paper watermarked 1822. Interleaved throughout with blanks. Without the separately-issued octavo text as usual. Elephant folio. A very fine set of views after drawings by Henry Salt. Salt left London in 1802 for an eastern tour with Lord Valentia visiting Indian and Ceylon and taking part in the first British mission to Abyssinia. At Calcutta they were entertained by the Governor-General Marquis Wellesley the dedicatee and travelled to Benares Lucknow Ceylon and Madras. From Mangalore Salt explored the Red Sea. After returning to Bombay and Poona he travelled again to the Red Sea and made an extensive journey inland to the Abyssinian Highlands. Salt's original drawings remained in Valentia's possession and after Salt's death the plates too became his property. Like Fraser's Himala Salt's Twenty-Four Views was published in the same size and style as Daniell's Oriental Scenery and is seen very much as a continuation of that great work. The plates include fine views of Chowringhee; the fort of Jaunpur; 2 aquatints of Lucknow including the mosque in the Great Imambara; the great Temple at Tanjore; Poona; the Chaitya Cave; 2 aquatints of Cairo; Cape Town etc. The present example is the reissue by Thomas M'Lean printed on Whatman paper watermarked 1822 but otherwise printed from the same plates as the 1809 edition. Abbey Travel 515; Tooley 440; Prideaux Aquatint Engraving pp.234-237 William Miller unknown books
1891Best.-Nr. 322358London: Sampson Low Marston and Co 1891. First edition no. 7 of 50 copies on Large Paper. xliv 64pp. 1 vols. 4to. Quarter publisher's green morocco and boards. With the bookplate of Leon Gruel famous French binder and Randeria bookplate. Light traces of rubbing. Very good plus. First edition no. 7 of 50 copies on Large Paper. xliv 64pp. 1 vols. 4to. S-K 1103; Mejer 1205 Sampson Low, Marston and Co unknown books
1814Best.-Nr. 314823London: F.C. and J. Rivington 1814. First edition. With 28 engraved plates on 27 leaves 7 engraved maps and charts on 6 sheets including 4 folding and 1 hand-colored and 2 vignettes. xi 5 506 lxxv pp. 4to. Contemporary brown russia neatly rebacked. Fine copy. First edition. With 28 engraved plates on 27 leaves 7 engraved maps and charts on 6 sheets including 4 folding and 1 hand-colored and 2 vignettes. xi 5 506 lxxv pp. 4to. A fine copy of this important work by Salt on his two years journey to Abyssinia. "On 2 March 1809 Salt sailed on a mission from the British government to Abyssinia to carry presents to the king and report on the state of the country. Owing to factious unrest he was prevented from going to the king at Gondar and was obliged to deliver the presents instead to the ras of Tigré. While in Abyssinia he made many observations on the geography the customs of the people and the flora and fauna. He brought back many specimens including a previously unknown dik-dik . In 1812 he was elected one of the very few honorary members of the African Association in acknowledgement of information he had procured in its interest. In 1814 he published A Voyage to Abyssinia which was received with some acclaim" ODNB. Salt was subsequently appointed consul-general in Egypt and played an important role in fostering Egyptology financing the excavations of Belzonia Caviglia and d'Athanasi. Blackmer 1479; Czech African p. 141; Fumagalli 139; Gay 2683 F.C. and J. Rivington unknown books
1730Best.-Nr. 25667London: Printed by the Assigni of His Majesty's Printer and of Henry Hills deceas'd 1730. ii 435-454 pp. Folio. Removed. Some reinforcement along spine light browning and soiling else a very good copy. ii 435-454 pp. Folio. An Act for taking off certain Duties on Salt . for charging the reduced Annunity payable to the East India Company on the Aggregate Fund. Printed by the Assigni of His Majesty's Printer and of Henry Hills deceas'd unknown books
1814Best.-Nr. 885241814. First Edition. EAST AFRICA SALT Henry. A Voyage to Abyssinia and Travels into the Interior of that Country ExecutedÉ in the Years 1809 and 1810. London: F.C. and J. Rivington 1814. Large quarto contemporary full diced brown calf rebacked black morocco spine label raised bands original marbled endpapers and edges. $4800.First edition of this fascinating travel narrative chronicling SaltÕs expeditions across Egypt and Ethiopia illustrated with two vignettes and 34 splendid copper-engraved plates and maps four folding one hand-colored in contemporary calf boards.The renowned English diplomat archaeologist Henry Salt initially studied as a painter and it was his artistic talents that Òrecommended him to the collector George Annesley Viscount of Valentia who took him on a tour of the East in 1802-06 during which he visited Egypt Ethiopia and India. In 1809-10 Salt returned to Ethiopia as a quasi-official envoy under CanningÕs sponsorship marching from the Red Sea coast with an escort of 160 bearers to explore trade and diplomatic links with the Ethiopian emperor Wolde Selassie. Britain fearing a French alliance with Egypt wished to secure a port on the Red Sea. Salt carried out a little archaeology discovering at Aksum three large Ethiopian inscriptionsÓ and documenting his work in this impressive volume Howgego II:S6. SaltÕs role in three key excavations Belzoni Caviglia and dÕAthanasi yielded splendid collections of Egyptian antiquities many of which are now in the British Museum Clayton 44. In 1815 Salt was appointed Consul-General in Egypt and a year later together with John Burckhardt employed Giovanni Baptista Belzoni to remove the colossal bust of Rameses II from Thebes now also in the British Museum. For this Salt was hailed as Òthe second Lord Elgin.Ó Voyage to Abyssinia includes Òparticulars respecting the aboriginal African tribes extending from Mosambique to the borders of EgyptÓ and a lengthy glossary of local languages. The numerous full-page illustrations are made by Charles Heath from original sketches by Salt and include Òperhaps the earliest printed illustration of hippo shootingÓ Czech which took place on the River Tacazzi. Blackmer 1479. Gay 184. Czech African Big Game Hunting 141. Old bookbinder ticket to front pastedown.Large folding hand-colored map reinforced along fold on verso infrequent spotting to text. A very good copy in an attractive binding. hardcover books
1972Best.-Nr. 6776Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press 1972. 1st. Cloth. Collectible; Very Good/Fine. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR IN YEAR-OF-PUBLICATION TO MAXWELL GEISMAR pre-eminent mid 20th century literary critic and biographer. A sharp copy to boot of the 1972 1st edition. Tight and VG in a bright Nearine dustjacket. Octavo 160 pgs. Signed by Author. Johns Hopkins University Press unknown books
1894Best.-Nr. 21611London: Elliot Stock 1894. Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine. Folio. xvi 2771pp. followed by 2pp publisher's catalogue. Illustrated. Green cloth blocked in gilt on the spine and upper board and in blind on the lower board. Top edge gilt. Patterned end papers. One of fifty numbered large paper copies of which this is No. 3 Light rubbing to the boards wear to the edges and hinges else a very good copy. With the inscription: Compliments of E. C. Hill Dec 25 1900. . Elliot Stock hardcover books
1894Best.-Nr. 20183London: Elliot Stock 1894. Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine. Folio. xvi 2771pp. followed by 2pp publisher's catalogue. Illustrated. Blue cloth blocked in gilt on the spine and upper board and in blind on the lower board. Top edge gilt. Patterned end papers. One of fifty numbered copies of which this is No. 6. A few spots of very light foxing light wear to the edges and hinges else a very good copy. . Elliot Stock hardcover books
