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1972ref. 154016N.p.: N.p. 1972. Collection of 32 vintage keybook snapshot photographs from the 1972 film. Possibly unique. A lesser known film in director Roman Polanski's oeuvre a comedic and highly sexualized homage to Alice in Wonderland starring Sydne Rome as an American hitchhiker who stumbles upon an increasingly bizarre and decadent party at an Italian villa. Filmed on location in Italy as "Che" the film also saw later release in the US as "Diary of Forbidden Dreams." 5 x 3.5 inches. Near Fine to Very Good plus. N.p. unknown books
1942ref. 159797Los Angeles: Walt Disney Productions 1942. Three vintage oversize borderless double weight reference photographs from the 1942 film. Printed mimeo snipes and photographer stamps on the versos. Based on the 1894 collection of stories by Rudyard Kipling. A Technicolor live-action version of the classic Kipling stories made by the Hungarian-born filmmaking team of director Zoltan Korda producer Alexander Korda and art director Vincent Korda. The production brilliantly utilized live exotic animals and featured Indian actor Sabu as Mowgli the boy raised by wolves who can communicate with the animals of the jungle. Nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Cinematography. Shot on location in Sherwood Forest California. 9 x 12 inches. Fine. Criterion Collection Eclipse Series 30. Walt Disney Productions unknown books
1950ref. 135620Paris: B.M.P. Films 1950. Draft script for the 1950 French film "The Treasure of Cantenac" here under its title of origin "Le Tresor de Cantenac" on the title page with the film's working title "Un miracle" also on the title page. French copy company rubber stamp and faint pencil annotations on the front wrapper. Pre-New Wave items are scarce this being a completely original example with text in French throughout. Set in a rundown French village the film is a series of vignettes illustrating the human condition. The Baron de Cantenac on the verge of suicide after losing his fortune goes on one last walk through his dying town. On the way he meets the town's oldest citizen who reveals a royal treasure that he has been jealously guarding for years. Director-screenwriter-actor Guitry was a prominent French filmmaker during the post-WWI years of French cinema following in the footsteps of his father silent film actor Lucien Guitry. His notable film credits include English titles "The Lover of Camille" 1924 "The Story of a Cheat" 1936 "Nine Bachelors" 1939 "Royal Affairs in Versailles" 1954 a film notable for its appearance of a young Brigitte Bardot and "Napoleon" 1955. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present undated with a credit for Guitry and B.M.P. Films in Paris the US branch is in California. 102 leaves with last page of text numbered 100. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good perfect-bound and side-stiched. B.M.P. Films unknown
1950ref. 135620Paris: B.M.P. Films 1950. Draft script for the 1950 French film "The Treasure of Cantenac" here under its title of origin "Le Tresor de Cantenac" on the title page with the film's working title "Un miracle" also on the title page. French copy company rubber stamp and faint pencil annotations on the front wrapper. Pre-New Wave items are scarce this being a completely original example with text in French throughout. Set in a rundown French village the film is a series of vignettes illustrating the human condition. The Baron de Cantenac on the verge of suicide after losing his fortune goes on one last walk through his dying town. On the way he meets the town's oldest citizen who reveals a royal treasure that he has been jealously guarding for years. Director-screenwriter-actor Guitry was a prominent French filmmaker during the post-WWI years of French cinema following in the footsteps of his father silent film actor Lucien Guitry. His notable film credits include English titles "The Lover of Camille" 1924 "The Story of a Cheat" 1936 "Nine Bachelors" 1939 "Royal Affairs in Versailles" 1954 a film notable for its appearance of a young Brigitte Bardot and "Napoleon" 1955. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present undated with a credit for Guitry and B.M.P. Films in Paris the US branch is in California. 102 leaves with last page of text numbered 100. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good perfect-bound and side-stiched. B.M.P. Films unknown books
1964ref. 170562N.p.: N.p. 1964. Collection of 23 vintage reference photographs from the 1964 film. All but one with mimeo snipes affixed to the verso. Director Samuel Fuller's bizarre outrageous and perverse pulp masterwork. A former call girl tries to make good in a new town nursing handicapped children only to fall in love with a seemingly saintly businessman who has a dark secret of his own. Set in the fictional town of Grantville USA. 10 x 8 inches. Generally Near Fine to Fine one Very Good plus with a light crease and short closed tear. Criterion Collection 18. Scorsese A Personal Journey Through American Movies. Spicer US. Silver and Ward US. Grant US. N.p. unknown
1964ref. 170562N.p.: N.p. 1964. Collection of 23 vintage reference photographs from the 1964 film. All but one with mimeo snipes affixed to the verso. Director Samuel Fuller's bizarre outrageous and perverse pulp masterwork. A former call girl tries to make good in a new town nursing handicapped children only to fall in love with a seemingly saintly businessman who has a dark secret of his own. Set in the fictional town of Grantville USA. 10 x 8 inches. Generally Near Fine to Fine one Very Good plus with a light crease and short closed tear. Criterion Collection 18. Scorsese A Personal Journey Through American Movies. Spicer US. Silver and Ward US. Grant US. N.p. unknown books
1991ref. 141425N.p.: Genjiro Amato 1991. Draft script for the 1991 film. Text in Japanese. A semi-fictional account of Japanese artists Yumeji Takehisa who falls in love with a widow and then becomes a rival with the ghost of her dead husband and her husband's murderer. Purple titled perfect-bound wrappers. Title page present. 116 leaves with last page of text numbered 101. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine. Genjiro Amato unknown
1991ref. 141425N.p.: Genjiro Amato 1991. Draft script for the 1991 film. Text in Japanese. A semi-fictional account of Japanese artists Yumeji Takehisa who falls in love with a widow and then becomes a rival with the ghost of her dead husband and her husband's murderer. Purple titled perfect-bound wrappers. Title page present. 116 leaves with last page of text numbered 101. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine. Genjiro Amato unknown books
1971ref. 146784Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1971. Vintage US silkscreen banner poster for the 1971 film. Based on Frank Pierson's 1970 novel about an ex-con who initiates a cascade of chaos when he decides to rob his upscale apartment building. Actor Christopher Walken's feature film debut as well as a breakthrough role for Sean Connery who was previously stuck being typecast as James Bond. Shot on location in New York. 82 x 24 inches. Rolled. About Near Fine with no restoration a few old splashes near the edges some rubbing and scratches three small closed tears in margins and light creases otherwise quite bright and unfaded. Lee The Heist Film. Spicer US Neo-Noir. Columbia Pictures unknown
1971ref. 146784Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1971. Vintage US silkscreen banner poster for the 1971 film. Based on Frank Pierson's 1970 novel about an ex-con who initiates a cascade of chaos when he decides to rob his upscale apartment building. Actor Christopher Walken's feature film debut as well as a breakthrough role for Sean Connery who was previously stuck being typecast as James Bond. Shot on location in New York. 82 x 24 inches. Rolled. About Near Fine with no restoration a few old splashes near the edges some rubbing and scratches three small closed tears in margins and light creases otherwise quite bright and unfaded. Lee The Heist Film. Spicer US Neo-Noir. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1970ref. 152555Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1970. Draft script for the 1971 film here under the working title "Kane." Copy belonging to actor Bradford Dillman with his stamp to the title page and his manuscript ink annotations throughout. Laid in with the script are two manuscript pages with Dillman's notes on blocking for various scenes and two gatherings of cast and crew contact information. A mysterious African American man returns to his hometown for a funeral and is suspected by the police and district attorney of being a union organizer. His aging family doctor however knows the man holds a larger more meaningful purpose in the world. Set in Alabama shot on location in Marysville California. Blue titled wrappers dated January 30 1970 noted as production No. 8981. Title page present dated January 30 1970 with credits for director James Goldstone and screenwriter Ernest Kinoy. 141 leaves with last page of text numbered 140. Mimeograph duplication on eye-rest green stock rectos only with rainbow revision pages throughout dated variously between February 11 1970 and March 4 1970. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Columbia Pictures unknown
1970ref. 152555Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1970. Draft script for the 1971 film here under the working title "Kane." Copy belonging to actor Bradford Dillman with his stamp to the title page and his manuscript ink annotations throughout. Laid in with the script are two manuscript pages with Dillman's notes on blocking for various scenes and two gatherings of cast and crew contact information. A mysterious African American man returns to his hometown for a funeral and is suspected by the police and district attorney of being a union organizer. His aging family doctor however knows the man holds a larger more meaningful purpose in the world. Set in Alabama shot on location in Marysville California. Blue titled wrappers dated January 30 1970 noted as production No. 8981. Title page present dated January 30 1970 with credits for director James Goldstone and screenwriter Ernest Kinoy. 141 leaves with last page of text numbered 140. Mimeograph duplication on eye-rest green stock rectos only with rainbow revision pages throughout dated variously between February 11 1970 and March 4 1970. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1987ref. 161007New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1987. First Edition. First Edition. INSCRIBED on the half-title page by screenwriter Michael Herr to noted bookseller Ken Hubner: "18 February / For Ken Hubner / Best / Michael Herr." A hint of toning overall else about Fine in illustrated wrappers. Alfred A. Knopf unknown
1987ref. 161007New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1987. First Edition. First Edition. INSCRIBED on the half-title page by screenwriter Michael Herr to noted bookseller Ken Hubner: "18 February / For Ken Hubner / Best / Michael Herr." A hint of toning overall else about Fine in illustrated wrappers. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
1998ref. 161311N.p.: N.p. 1998. Rainbow Revision Draft script for the 1999 film here under the working title "Carrie II" copy belonging to an unknown crew or cast member with six small post-it tabs affixed to the top of six pages in which characters are killed or injured annotated with brief descriptions e.g. "Lisa / Windshield" "Chuck Berry Boy" and "Jesse / Snake" and manuscript ink and marker annotations on four pages. Salmon revision pages dated 06/14/98 bound in following the script. Based on the characters from Stephen King's 1974 novel "Carrie" and sequel to the 1976 film directed by Brian De Palma and starring Sissy Spacek. Carrie White's long-lost half-sister Rachel Lang an outcast high school student who also has telekinetic powers is troubled following the suicide of her best friend and is befriended by Jesse Ryan a popular football player who with his friends is planning on humiliating Rachel at the biggest party of the year. Shot on location in North and South Carolina. Untitled yellow wrappers. Title page present with last revision pages dated 5/21/98 with credits for screenwriter Rafael Moreu. 153 leaves with last page of text numbered 114A. Xerographic duplication rectos only with white blue pink yellow green goldenrod and salmon revision pages throughout dated variously between 4/25/98 and 06/14/98. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two silver brads. Vinegar Syndrome 505. N.p. unknown
1998ref. 161311N.p.: N.p. 1998. Rainbow Revision Draft script for the 1999 film here under the working title "Carrie II" copy belonging to an unknown crew or cast member with six small post-it tabs affixed to the top of six pages in which characters are killed or injured annotated with brief descriptions e.g. "Lisa / Windshield" "Chuck Berry Boy" and "Jesse / Snake" and manuscript ink and marker annotations on four pages. Salmon revision pages dated 06/14/98 bound in following the script. Based on the characters from Stephen King's 1974 novel "Carrie" and sequel to the 1976 film directed by Brian De Palma and starring Sissy Spacek. Carrie White's long-lost half-sister Rachel Lang an outcast high school student who also has telekinetic powers is troubled following the suicide of her best friend and is befriended by Jesse Ryan a popular football player who with his friends is planning on humiliating Rachel at the biggest party of the year. Shot on location in North and South Carolina. Untitled yellow wrappers. Title page present with last revision pages dated 5/21/98 with credits for screenwriter Rafael Moreu. 153 leaves with last page of text numbered 114A. Xerographic duplication rectos only with white blue pink yellow green goldenrod and salmon revision pages throughout dated variously between 4/25/98 and 06/14/98. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two silver brads. Vinegar Syndrome 505. N.p. unknown books
1943ref. 166020Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1943. Vintage keybook set design photograph from the 1943 film showing the exterior of a nightclub advertising a one-night-only performance by Duke Ellington and his band. Property Department stamp and annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. Based on the 1940 Broadway musical. A compulsive gambler killed in a nightclub shooting is visited by God and the Devil who agree to give him six months to atone for his earthly misdeeds and decide the fate of his eternal soul. A star-studded affair featuring jazz great Louis Armstrong as one of Satan's minions and a showcase musical number by Ellington and his orchestra. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1943ref. 166020Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1943. Vintage keybook set design photograph from the 1943 film showing the exterior of a nightclub advertising a one-night-only performance by Duke Ellington and his band. Property Department stamp and annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. Based on the 1940 Broadway musical. A compulsive gambler killed in a nightclub shooting is visited by God and the Devil who agree to give him six months to atone for his earthly misdeeds and decide the fate of his eternal soul. A star-studded affair featuring jazz great Louis Armstrong as one of Satan's minions and a showcase musical number by Ellington and his orchestra. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1996ref. 172069Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1996. 18 vintage color slides from the 1996 film. A disparate group of survivors congregate in the Nevada desert after a large-scale attack by aliens deciding to plan a counterattack in New York City on behalf of the human race. Screenwriters Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich previously worked together on the 1994 film "Stargate" with much of the plot of "Independence Day" conceived by the pair during promotional tours for that movie. Nominated for two Academy Awards and followed by a 2016 sequel "Independence Day: Resurgence." Shot on location in New York City in Flagstaff Arizona on the Plains of San Agustin New Mexico in Los Angeles and Fontana California in Wendover and the Bonneville Salt Flats Utah and in Cliffside Park New Jersey. Slides 1.5 x 1 inches in cardboard sleeves measuring 2 x 2 inches. Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1996ref. 172069Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1996. 18 vintage color slides from the 1996 film. A disparate group of survivors congregate in the Nevada desert after a large-scale attack by aliens deciding to plan a counterattack in New York City on behalf of the human race. Screenwriters Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich previously worked together on the 1994 film "Stargate" with much of the plot of "Independence Day" conceived by the pair during promotional tours for that movie. Nominated for two Academy Awards and followed by a 2016 sequel "Independence Day: Resurgence." Shot on location in New York City in Flagstaff Arizona on the Plains of San Agustin New Mexico in Los Angeles and Fontana California in Wendover and the Bonneville Salt Flats Utah and in Cliffside Park New Jersey. Slides 1.5 x 1 inches in cardboard sleeves measuring 2 x 2 inches. Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1919ref. 152865N.p.: N.p. 1919. Vintage album housing 49 vintage reference photographs from the 1919 silent film most showing noted early film star William Farnum. Of particular note in the album is a photograph of Farnum on the set with actors Lamar Johnstone and Charles Clary holding bouquets of flowers ostensibly at the end of the shoot. Laid in with the album is a small newspaper clipping from the Los Angeles Evening Herald showing a photograph of Farnum with his wife and stepson and noting Farnum's adoption of his stepson with a small manuscript ink annotation presumably made by Farnum at the top of the clipping: "It was raining I wore all my old duds-darn it I wasn't ready." A wealthy married mining engineer suffers amnesia after being injured in a mining explosion planned by his business rivals and is forced to seek shelter with a Chilean shepherd and the shepherd's daughter with whom he falls in love. Now considered a lost film. At the peak of his success Farnum was one of the highest-paid actors of the silent film age but was forced into an early semi-retirement after being injured on the set of the 1924 film "The Man Who Fights Alone." He appeared sporadically in character roles throughout the late 1920s 1930s and 1940s and enjoyed a successful career on Broadway. Photographs generally 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Album 12 x 8.25 inches. Very Good plus lightly soiled and creased. N.p. unknown
1919ref. 152865N.p.: N.p. 1919. Vintage album housing 49 vintage reference photographs from the 1919 silent film most showing noted early film star William Farnum. Of particular note in the album is a photograph of Farnum on the set with actors Lamar Johnstone and Charles Clary holding bouquets of flowers ostensibly at the end of the shoot. Laid in with the album is a small newspaper clipping from the Los Angeles Evening Herald showing a photograph of Farnum with his wife and stepson and noting Farnum's adoption of his stepson with a small manuscript ink annotation presumably made by Farnum at the top of the clipping: "It was raining I wore all my old duds-darn it I wasn't ready." A wealthy married mining engineer suffers amnesia after being injured in a mining explosion planned by his business rivals and is forced to seek shelter with a Chilean shepherd and the shepherd's daughter with whom he falls in love. Now considered a lost film. At the peak of his success Farnum was one of the highest-paid actors of the silent film age but was forced into an early semi-retirement after being injured on the set of the 1924 film "The Man Who Fights Alone." He appeared sporadically in character roles throughout the late 1920s 1930s and 1940s and enjoyed a successful career on Broadway. Photographs generally 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Album 12 x 8.25 inches. Very Good plus lightly soiled and creased. N.p. unknown books
1972ref. 135017Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1972. Vintage oversize borderless double weight black and white photograph from the 1972 film. An amazing image showing Max von Sydow looming above-and seemingly beyond-a very possessed young Linda Blair. One of the great genre films of the 1970s that accomplished the uncommon feat of being an over-the-top sensation upon its release and gaining subsequent status as a classic with a strangeness and depth supplied by Burstyn and Sydow that only increases with repeated viewings. Another distinction of "The Exorcist" was that it walked away with 2 Oscars including Best Screenplay for Blatty along with 8 nominations including Best Picture a feat nearly unheard for a horror film. 11 x 14 inches. Near Fine. Warner Brothers unknown
1972ref. 135017Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1972. Vintage oversize borderless double weight black and white photograph from the 1972 film. An amazing image showing Max von Sydow looming above-and seemingly beyond-a very possessed young Linda Blair. One of the great genre films of the 1970s that accomplished the uncommon feat of being an over-the-top sensation upon its release and gaining subsequent status as a classic with a strangeness and depth supplied by Burstyn and Sydow that only increases with repeated viewings. Another distinction of "The Exorcist" was that it walked away with 2 Oscars including Best Screenplay for Blatty along with 8 nominations including Best Picture a feat nearly unheard for a horror film. 11 x 14 inches. Near Fine. Warner Brothers unknown books
1970ref. 161458New York: Spangler Pictures 1970. Draft script for the 1972 film seen here under the working title "The Legend of Charley." An enslaved Black man is freed by his plantation's dying owner and resolves to free the other slaves at the plantation before they are sold to pay the owner's debts. Followed by two sequels "The Soul of Nigger Charley" 1973 and "Boss Nigger" 1975. Black titled wrappers. Title page present undated. 125 leaves with last page of text numbered 123. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus chipped at the fore-edges bound with two gold screw brads. Spangler Pictures unknown
