1990Best.-Nr. 141322Berkeley: Saul Zaentz 1990. Third Draft script for the 1991 film. Based on the 1965 novel by Peter Matthiessen about the conflicts and relationships between an indigenous Amazon tribe the missionaries that want to convert them and the mercenaries hired to move them off their land. Set in Amazon rainforest shot on location in Brazil and Venezuela. Green titled wrappers noted as Third Draft on the front wrapper dated April 23 1990 with credits for screenwriters Jean-Claude Carriere and Hector Babenco and author Peter Matthiessen. Title page present dated April 23 1990 noted as Third Draft with credits for screenwriters Carriere and Babenco and author Matthiessen. 150 leaves with last page of text numbered 149. Xerographic duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three silver brads. Saul Zaentz unknown
1990Best.-Nr. 141322Berkeley: Saul Zaentz 1990. Third Draft script for the 1991 film. Based on the 1965 novel by Peter Matthiessen about the conflicts and relationships between an indigenous Amazon tribe the missionaries that want to convert them and the mercenaries hired to move them off their land. Set in Amazon rainforest shot on location in Brazil and Venezuela. Green titled wrappers noted as Third Draft on the front wrapper dated April 23 1990 with credits for screenwriters Jean-Claude Carriere and Hector Babenco and author Peter Matthiessen. Title page present dated April 23 1990 noted as Third Draft with credits for screenwriters Carriere and Babenco and author Matthiessen. 150 leaves with last page of text numbered 149. Xerographic duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three silver brads. Saul Zaentz unknown books
1939Best.-Nr. 170757N.p.: N.p. 1939. Vintage reference photograph from the 1939 film showing the Marx brothers fending off a gorilla. Provenance stamp and layout annotations on the verso. The brothers unite to help save a circus from bankruptcy. Featuring songs by MGM songwriting team Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg best known their work in "The Wizard of Oz" the same year. 10 x 8 inches. About Fine. N.p. unknown
1939Best.-Nr. 170757N.p.: N.p. 1939. Vintage reference photograph from the 1939 film showing the Marx brothers fending off a gorilla. Provenance stamp and layout annotations on the verso. The brothers unite to help save a circus from bankruptcy. Featuring songs by MGM songwriting team Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg best known their work in "The Wizard of Oz" the same year. 10 x 8 inches. About Fine. N.p. unknown books
1976Best.-Nr. 149310Los Angeles: American International Pictures AIP 1976. Collection of one vintage reference photograph and one contact sheet containing twelve test shots from the 1976 film all images publicity shots of actress Caroline Munro for the film. Based on Edgar Rice Burroughs' 1914 fantasy novel the first in the Pellucidar series about adventures in the hollow earth. A British scientist and American adventurer drill through to a strange land where they lead a rebellion of Stone Age humans against their masters who happen to be intelligent flying reptiles with psychic powers. Set hundreds of miles underneath Wales. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. American International Pictures [AIP] unknown
1976Best.-Nr. 142656Los Angeles: American International Pictures AIP 1976. Vintage borderless photograph from the 1976 film. With a mimeo snipe on the verso. Based on the 1914 novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs the first in the Pellucidar series about adventures in the hollow earth. A British scientist and American adventurer drill through to a strange land where they lead a rebellion of Stone Age humans against their masters who happen to be intelligent flying reptiles with psychic powers. 9.75 x 7.5 inches. Near Fine. American International Pictures [AIP] unknown
1976Best.-Nr. 149310Los Angeles: American International Pictures AIP 1976. Collection of one vintage reference photograph and one contact sheet containing twelve test shots from the 1976 film all images publicity shots of actress Caroline Munro for the film. Based on Edgar Rice Burroughs' 1914 fantasy novel the first in the Pellucidar series about adventures in the hollow earth. A British scientist and American adventurer drill through to a strange land where they lead a rebellion of Stone Age humans against their masters who happen to be intelligent flying reptiles with psychic powers. Set hundreds of miles underneath Wales. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. American International Pictures [AIP] unknown books
1976Best.-Nr. 142656Los Angeles: American International Pictures AIP 1976. Vintage borderless photograph from the 1976 film. With a mimeo snipe on the verso. Based on the 1914 novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs the first in the Pellucidar series about adventures in the hollow earth. A British scientist and American adventurer drill through to a strange land where they lead a rebellion of Stone Age humans against their masters who happen to be intelligent flying reptiles with psychic powers. 9.75 x 7.5 inches. Near Fine. American International Pictures [AIP] unknown books
1981Best.-Nr. 127382Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1981. Vintage one sheet poster for US release of the French-Canadian film. An aging smalltime mobster and his aspiring croupier neighbor become entangled with the big leagues of the mob when the neighbor's estranged husband shows up with a large cache of stolen cocaine. Nominated for five Academy Awards. Set and shot on location in Atlantic City New Jersey. 27 x 41 inches. Very Good plus with light creasing. National Film Registry. Ebert III. Grant US. Rosenbaum 1000. Spicer US. Paramount Pictures unknown
1981Best.-Nr. 127382Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1981. Vintage one sheet poster for US release of the French-Canadian film. An aging smalltime mobster and his aspiring croupier neighbor become entangled with the big leagues of the mob when the neighbor's estranged husband shows up with a large cache of stolen cocaine. Nominated for five Academy Awards. Set and shot on location in Atlantic City New Jersey. 27 x 41 inches. Very Good plus with light creasing. National Film Registry. Ebert III. Grant US. Rosenbaum 1000. Spicer US. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1963Best.-Nr. 167576N.p.: Topaz Film 1963. Vintage studio still photograph from the US release of the 1960 Italian film. A stripper is disfigured in a car accident and becomes obsessed with restoring her beauty. She tracks down a scientist who can provide a cure but the concoction requires the use of glandular fluid removed from adult women causing their deaths. 10 x 7.75 inches trimmed along the top margin. Near Fine. Topaz Film unknown books
1970Best.-Nr. 141267N.p.: Kings Road Productions 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. Based on the 1975 novel by Irving A. Greenfield about early man and his struggles. Named for the one of the many gods worshipped by the people living in the Mesopotamian Valley. Set in the Mesopotamian Valley. Brown untitled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Paul Young and author Irving A. Greenfield. 123 leaves with last page of text numbered 118. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. Kings Road Productions unknown
1970Best.-Nr. 141267N.p.: Kings Road Productions 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. Based on the 1975 novel by Irving A. Greenfield about early man and his struggles. Named for the one of the many gods worshipped by the people living in the Mesopotamian Valley. Set in the Mesopotamian Valley. Brown untitled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Paul Young and author Irving A. Greenfield. 123 leaves with last page of text numbered 118. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. Kings Road Productions unknown books
1966Best.-Nr. 135039Beverly Hills CA: Oakmont Productions / United Artists 1966. Draft script for the UK film. Copy belonging to Lloyd Bridges presumed with his name in manuscript ink on the front wrapper verso. Based on a story by John Champion. Major Wilson Bridges is readying his troops for the journey across the English channel to invade Normandy with memories of disastrous previous missions haunting him. Captain Franklin Keir a British officer opposes the plan and has a personal vendetta against Wilson. The two are brought together when Franklin is slated to command the mine sweepers that transport Wilson's troops. Set in France shot on location in London. Tan titled wrappers rubber-stamped copy No. 3 dated November 29 1966. Title page present dated November 29 1966 with credits for screenwriter Hoffman and story writer Champion. 122 leaves with last page of text numbered 120. Mimeograph duplication. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Davenport p. 17. Oakmont Productions / United Artists unknown
1966Best.-Nr. 135039Beverly Hills CA: Oakmont Productions / United Artists 1966. Draft script for the UK film. Copy belonging to Lloyd Bridges presumed with his name in manuscript ink on the front wrapper verso. Based on a story by John Champion. Major Wilson Bridges is readying his troops for the journey across the English channel to invade Normandy with memories of disastrous previous missions haunting him. Captain Franklin Keir a British officer opposes the plan and has a personal vendetta against Wilson. The two are brought together when Franklin is slated to command the mine sweepers that transport Wilson's troops. Set in France shot on location in London. Tan titled wrappers rubber-stamped copy No. 3 dated November 29 1966. Title page present dated November 29 1966 with credits for screenwriter Hoffman and story writer Champion. 122 leaves with last page of text numbered 120. Mimeograph duplication. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Davenport p. 17. Oakmont Productions / United Artists unknown books
1956Best.-Nr. 161950Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1956. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1956 film. Based on the 1954 play "Fragile Fox" by Norman Brooks. One of Aldrich's finest efforts a noirish take on the evils of war with an interesting focus on nepotism. Unpopular on release due to its grim ending and cynical tone much the opposite of a flag-waving World War II film. Set in Belgium. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with some creasing at the corners. Selby US. United Artists unknown books
1956Best.-Nr. 153068Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1956. Vintage studio still photograph of director Robert Aldrich on the set of the 1956 film one of only a handful of war films made in the noir style during the classic era. One of Aldrich's finest efforts a noirish take on the evils of war with a interesting focus on nepotism. Unpopular on release due to a grim ending and a cynical tone much the opposite of a flag-waving World War II film. Set in Belgium. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Selby US. United Artists unknown
1956Best.-Nr. 153068Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1956. Vintage studio still photograph of director Robert Aldrich on the set of the 1956 film one of only a handful of war films made in the noir style during the classic era. One of Aldrich's finest efforts a noirish take on the evils of war with a interesting focus on nepotism. Unpopular on release due to a grim ending and a cynical tone much the opposite of a flag-waving World War II film. Set in Belgium. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Selby US. United Artists unknown books
1970Best.-Nr. 161504N.p.: Audubon Films 1970. Two vintage studio still photographs from the US release of the 1969 Italian film here under the US release title "The Artful Penetration of Barbara." One photograph with a provenance stamp on the verso. A married British woman explores the English psychedelic youth scene and is attracted to an African American man. Featuring music by Freedom a group formed by Bobby Harrison and Ray Royer formerly of Procol Harum. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with a few faint creases. Audubon Films unknown
1970Best.-Nr. 161504N.p.: Audubon Films 1970. Two vintage studio still photographs from the US release of the 1969 Italian film here under the US release title "The Artful Penetration of Barbara." One photograph with a provenance stamp on the verso. A married British woman explores the English psychedelic youth scene and is attracted to an African American man. Featuring music by Freedom a group formed by Bobby Harrison and Ray Royer formerly of Procol Harum. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with a few faint creases. Audubon Films unknown books
1966Best.-Nr. 148322N.p.: N.p. 1966. Vintage French lobby card from the 1966 film. Revered as one of the masterpieces of cinema Robert Bresson follows a donkey Balthazar through his life as he is passed from owner to owner most treating him cruelly. Set in and shot on location in Yvelines France. 11.75 x 9.25 inches. Very Good plus with pinholes and creasing to corners. Criterion Collection 297. Godard Histoires du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Ebert II. N.p. unknown
1966Best.-Nr. 148322N.p.: N.p. 1966. Vintage French lobby card from the 1966 film. Revered as one of the masterpieces of cinema Robert Bresson follows a donkey Balthazar through his life as he is passed from owner to owner most treating him cruelly. Set in and shot on location in Yvelines France. 11.75 x 9.25 inches. Very Good plus with pinholes and creasing to corners. Criterion Collection 297. Godard Histoires du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Ebert II. N.p. unknown books
1961Best.-Nr. 145916N.p.: Alfa Film 1961. Four vintage borderless photographs from the 1961 film including three photographs showing Louis Armstrong performing and one taken on the set showing Armstrong with a fan. A little-known German comedy featuring Armstrong and His All Stars performing four songs. Set and shot on location in West Germany. Two photographs 6.75 x 5 inches and two photographs 5 x 6.75 inches. Near Fine. Alfa Film unknown
1961Best.-Nr. 145916N.p.: Alfa Film 1961. Four vintage borderless photographs from the 1961 film including three photographs showing Louis Armstrong performing and one taken on the set showing Armstrong with a fan. A little-known German comedy featuring Armstrong and His All Stars performing four songs. Set and shot on location in West Germany. Two photographs 6.75 x 5 inches and two photographs 5 x 6.75 inches. Near Fine. Alfa Film unknown books
1975Best.-Nr. 83473New York: Harper & Row Publishers 1975. First Edition Stated First Printing Stated. Hardcover. Very good/Good. John Swope Photographs Nigel Cooke Photographs. Format is approximately 8.5 inches by 10.5 inches. xi 1 176 2 pages. Illustrations. Signed by Ruth Prawer Jahbvala on the title page. DJ is in a plastic sleeve and has wear tears soiling and chips. Includes Acknowledgments Foreword Glossary and Photo Credits. Chapters cover From Warrior to Sybarite: A Portrait Gallery 1870-1900; Dazzling Rulers and their Dazzled Guests: The 1920' and 1930's; Deposed and Dispossessed; The Land of Death; Palaces as Sets: Alwar and Bikaner; Autobiography of a Princess; and Sets for a film to Come. Also includes Glossary; and Photo Credits. James Francis Ivory born June 7 1928 is an American film director producer and screenwriter. For many years he worked extensively with Indian-born film producer Ismail Merchant his domestic as well as professional partner and with screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. All three were principals in Merchant Ivory Productions whose films have won seven Academy Awards; Ivory himself has been nominated for four Oscars winning one. Ivory's directorial work includes A Room with a View 1985 Maurice 1987 Howards End 1992 and The Remains of the Day 1993. For his work on Call Me by Your Name 2017 which he wrote and produced Ivory won awards for Best Adapted Screenplay from the Academy Awards British Academy of Film and Television Arts Writers Guild of America the Critics' Choice Awards and the Scripter Awards among others. Upon winning the Oscar and BAFTA at the age of 89 Ivory became the oldest-ever winner in any category for both awards. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala CBE 7 May 1927 - 3 April 2013 was a German-born British and American Booker prize-winning novelist short story writer and two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter. She is perhaps best known for her long collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions made up of director James Ivory and producer Ismail Merchant. After meeting Cyrus Jhabvala in England she married him and moved to India in 1951; Jhabvala was an Indian-Parsi architect. The couple lived in New Delhi and had three daughters. Jhabvala began then to elaborate her experiences in India and wrote novels and tales on Indian subjects. She wrote a dozen novels 23 screenplays and eight collections of short stories and was made a CBE in 1998 and granted a joint fellowship by BAFTA in 2002 with Ivory and Merchant. She is the only person to have won both a Booker Prize and an Oscar. John Swope August 23 1908 - May 11 1979 was a photographer for Life and a commercial pilot who trained United States Army Air Force pilots during World War II. His interest in photography began when he brought a camera to a yacht race from Los Angeles to Hawaii in 1936. Together with Leland Hayward and John H. Connelly he co-founded Southwest Airways no connection to the present day Southwest Airlines a company that developed the Thunderbird Fields which trained thousands of military pilots during the Second World War. He was married to actress Dorothy McGuire in 1943 until his death on May 11 1979. This book is a film maker's response in print and not on celluloid to what is called Royal India--land of Maharajas. It contains the overflow from the author's films in which Royal India appears. It is a collection of photographs anecdotes and other items which the author believes are worth saving. When India became independent in 1947 the princeses were guaranteed their titles properties and certain privileges. But more and more their special status came to be seen as an anachronism and it has now been legally abolished. For the princes it was like the French Revolution except that none of them went to the guillotine; they merely became private citizens. Many of these former rulers are still doing very well. Harper & Row, Publishers hardcover
