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1986ref. 165725N.p.: N.p. 1986. Draft script for the 1987 neo-noir film. Copy belonging to an unidentified crew member with his name on the title page and his annotations in manuscript ink throughout indicating props. Incomplete script ending on page 122. A police detective is called to protect a socialite when she becomes the key witness in a murder trial. Set and shot on location in New York City. Self wrappers. Title page present dated July 19 1987 noted as "Seltzer draft". 123 leaves with last page of text numbered 122. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1975ref. 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
1964ref. 151000Paris: Parc Film 1964. Five vintage borderless photographs from the 1964 film including three reference photographs showing Jacques Demy on the set and one of Demy and composer Michel Legrand. Three with French release stamps on the verso and one with a provenance stamp on the same. One of Demy's most beloved films about a young woman in Cherbourg who falls in love with a man who is promptly drafted into the Algerian War. A classic of French cinema with every word of dialogue sung in recitative. The first French film musical shot in color and the movie that made Deneuve a star. Winner of the Palme d'Or and two other prizes at the 1964 Cannes Film Festival and nominated for five Academy Awards including Best Screenplay. Set and shot on location in Cherbourg Normandy France. Photographs range in size from 7 x 5 inches to 9.5 x 7.25 inches. Some light edgewear else Near Fine overall. Criterion Collection 716. Godard Histoires du cinema. Parc Film unknown
1964ref. 151000Paris: Parc Film 1964. Five vintage borderless photographs from the 1964 film including three reference photographs showing Jacques Demy on the set and one of Demy and composer Michel Legrand. Three with French release stamps on the verso and one with a provenance stamp on the same. One of Demy's most beloved films about a young woman in Cherbourg who falls in love with a man who is promptly drafted into the Algerian War. A classic of French cinema with every word of dialogue sung in recitative. The first French film musical shot in color and the movie that made Deneuve a star. Winner of the Palme d'Or and two other prizes at the 1964 Cannes Film Festival and nominated for five Academy Awards including Best Screenplay. Set and shot on location in Cherbourg Normandy France. Photographs range in size from 7 x 5 inches to 9.5 x 7.25 inches. Some light edgewear else Near Fine overall. Criterion Collection 716. Godard Histoires du cinema. Parc Film unknown books
1973ref. 162732Los Angeles: Chocolate Chip / Pinto 1973. Final Draft script for the 1974 Blaxploitation film. Single annotation in manuscript pencil on the front wrapper noting copy No. 04. Four estranged cousins three Black one white convene at a mansion called Skull Mountain to attend the reading of their late great-grandmother's will unaware that her voodoo powers from beyond the grave will involve them in a murderous re-birthing ritual. Set and shot on location in Atlanta Georgia. Red pictorial titled wrappers noted as Final Draft on the front wrapper dated 3-28-73 with credits for director Ron Honthaner and screenwriter Mildred Pares. Title page present dated 4-23-73 noted as Final Draft with credit for Pares. 94 leaves with last page of text numbered 93. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Thrower Nightmare USA. Chocolate Chip / Pinto unknown
1973ref. 162732Los Angeles: Chocolate Chip / Pinto 1973. Final Draft script for the 1974 Blaxploitation film. Single annotation in manuscript pencil on the front wrapper noting copy No. 04. Four estranged cousins three Black one white convene at a mansion called Skull Mountain to attend the reading of their late great-grandmother's will unaware that her voodoo powers from beyond the grave will involve them in a murderous re-birthing ritual. Set and shot on location in Atlanta Georgia. Red pictorial titled wrappers noted as Final Draft on the front wrapper dated 3-28-73 with credits for director Ron Honthaner and screenwriter Mildred Pares. Title page present dated 4-23-73 noted as Final Draft with credit for Pares. 94 leaves with last page of text numbered 93. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Thrower Nightmare USA. Chocolate Chip / Pinto unknown books
1964ref. 164248Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1964. Collection of five vintage studio still photographs and six vintage reference photographs taken on the set of the 1964 film. Two with printed mimeo snipes affixed to the versos and all with annotations in manuscript pencil on the same. Based on the 1956 Broadway musical by Lerner and Loewe itself adapted from George Bernard Shaw's 1913 play "Pygmalion." Winner of eight Academy Awards including Best Picture Best Director and Best Actor for Harrison reprising his Broadway and West End role as Henry Higgins. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good to Very Good plus overall. Ebert III. Warner Brothers unknown
1964ref. 164248Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1964. Collection of five vintage studio still photographs and six vintage reference photographs taken on the set of the 1964 film. Two with printed mimeo snipes affixed to the versos and all with annotations in manuscript pencil on the same. Based on the 1956 Broadway musical by Lerner and Loewe itself adapted from George Bernard Shaw's 1913 play "Pygmalion." Winner of eight Academy Awards including Best Picture Best Director and Best Actor for Harrison reprising his Broadway and West End role as Henry Higgins. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good to Very Good plus overall. Ebert III. Warner Brothers unknown books
1958ref. 171031Universal City: Universal Pictures 1958. Vintage press kit for the 1958 film. Includes a full-color pocketed folder with 17 black-and-white photographs from the film a French newspaper clipping about the film and a printed illustration of a soldier returning home. Three photographs with mimeo snipes affixed to the versos. Notable among the photographs are two showing cast and crew members on the set one of John Gavin holding his young children and a portrait of Liselotte Pulver that has been INSCRIBED by Pulver at the bottom left corner: "Cordialement Cordially / Liselotte Pulver." The pocket of the folder notes additional materials provided although these are missing from the kit. Based on Erich Maria Remarque's 1954 novel set during World War II on the Eastern Front. A German soldier returns home to find his family's house bombed and his parents gone. He begins to struggle to keep his sanity and survives with the help of the daughter of a political prisoner. Shot on location in Berlin. Folder Very Good or better with some wear to the folds photographs Very Good to Very Good plus with some wear curling and toning. Rosenbaum 1000. Universal Pictures unknown
1958ref. 171031Universal City: Universal Pictures 1958. Vintage press kit for the 1958 film. Includes a full-color pocketed folder with 17 black-and-white photographs from the film a French newspaper clipping about the film and a printed illustration of a soldier returning home. Three photographs with mimeo snipes affixed to the versos. Notable among the photographs are two showing cast and crew members on the set one of John Gavin holding his young children and a portrait of Liselotte Pulver that has been INSCRIBED by Pulver at the bottom left corner: "Cordialement Cordially / Liselotte Pulver." The pocket of the folder notes additional materials provided although these are missing from the kit. Based on Erich Maria Remarque's 1954 novel set during World War II on the Eastern Front. A German soldier returns home to find his family's house bombed and his parents gone. He begins to struggle to keep his sanity and survives with the help of the daughter of a political prisoner. Shot on location in Berlin. Folder Very Good or better with some wear to the folds photographs Very Good to Very Good plus with some wear curling and toning. Rosenbaum 1000. Universal Pictures unknown books
1983ref. 167723N.p.: N.p. 1983. Nine vintage color transparencies from the 1983 French film. A woman on the verge of divorce takes a trip to the beach with her teenage niece where she rekindles an old flame. The third film in Éric Rohmer's "Comedies and Proverbs" film series following "The Aviator's Wife" 1981 and "Le Beau Mariage" 1981. Winner of the Silver Bear for Best Director. All transparencies 4 x 5 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1983ref. 167723N.p.: N.p. 1983. Nine vintage color transparencies from the 1983 French film. A woman on the verge of divorce takes a trip to the beach with her teenage niece where she rekindles an old flame. The third film in Éric Rohmer's "Comedies and Proverbs" film series following "The Aviator's Wife" 1981 and "Le Beau Mariage" 1981. Winner of the Silver Bear for Best Director. All transparencies 4 x 5 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1969ref. 150498N.p.: N.p. 1969. Vintage borderless double weight reference photograph of director François Truffaut and actors Catherine Deneuve then Truffaut's wife and Jean-Paul Belmondo on location for the 1969 French neo-noir film. With the stamp of Cahiers du Cinema on the verso along with manuscript pencil and ink annotations. Based on Cornell Woolrich's 1947 novel "Waltz into Darkness." A wealthy plantation owner on an island in the Indian Ocean anticipates the arrival of his bride-to-be but is surprised to discover the woman who arrives from France bears no resemblance to the woman in the photograph. Set on Reunion Island and Nice France. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Grant France. N.p. unknown
1969ref. 150498N.p.: N.p. 1969. Vintage borderless double weight reference photograph of director François Truffaut and actors Catherine Deneuve then Truffaut's wife and Jean-Paul Belmondo on location for the 1969 French neo-noir film. With the stamp of Cahiers du Cinema on the verso along with manuscript pencil and ink annotations. Based on Cornell Woolrich's 1947 novel "Waltz into Darkness." A wealthy plantation owner on an island in the Indian Ocean anticipates the arrival of his bride-to-be but is surprised to discover the woman who arrives from France bears no resemblance to the woman in the photograph. Set on Reunion Island and Nice France. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Grant France. N.p. unknown books
1998ref. 166262Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1998. Draft script for the 1999 film. Each page with a numeric watermark 2850. A black comedy about a gold heist executed by four American soldiers stationed in Iraq at the end of the First Gulf War. Director David O. Russell's third feature film. Shot on location in the deserts of Casa Grande Arizona and in California and Mexico. Self wrappers. Title page present dated July 17 1998 with credit for director and screenwriter David O. Russell and story writer John Ridley. 129 leaves with last page of text numbered 128. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages about Near Fine with first page lightly worn and partially detached from the binding bound with three gold brads. Warner Brothers unknown
1998ref. 166262Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1998. Draft script for the 1999 film. Each page with a numeric watermark 2850. A black comedy about a gold heist executed by four American soldiers stationed in Iraq at the end of the First Gulf War. Director David O. Russell's third feature film. Shot on location in the deserts of Casa Grande Arizona and in California and Mexico. Self wrappers. Title page present dated July 17 1998 with credit for director and screenwriter David O. Russell and story writer John Ridley. 129 leaves with last page of text numbered 128. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages about Near Fine with first page lightly worn and partially detached from the binding bound with three gold brads. Warner Brothers unknown books
1962ref. 164225N.p.: Contempora Productions 1962. Vintage banner poster for the 1962 Cold War documentary film. Rare in this format. A feature length anti-Communist documentary comprised of still photographs and newsreel footage tracing the history of Communism from the birth of Karl Marx to the construction of the Berlin wall. The title was taken from the phrase famously used by Nikita Khruschchev while addressing Western ambassadors in 1956.which some modern translators have suggested was misinterpreted. 82 x 24 inches. Very Good with light creasing faint soiling a small chip to the bottom right corner and a seven inch closed tear to the center top repaired with cello-tape on the verso. Contempora Productions unknown
1962ref. 164225N.p.: Contempora Productions 1962. Vintage banner poster for the 1962 Cold War documentary film. Rare in this format. A feature length anti-Communist documentary comprised of still photographs and newsreel footage tracing the history of Communism from the birth of Karl Marx to the construction of the Berlin wall. The title was taken from the phrase famously used by Nikita Khruschchev while addressing Western ambassadors in 1956.which some modern translators have suggested was misinterpreted. 82 x 24 inches. Very Good with light creasing faint soiling a small chip to the bottom right corner and a seven inch closed tear to the center top repaired with cello-tape on the verso. Contempora Productions unknown books
1964ref. 164256N.p.: N.p. 1964. Five vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1964 film including one of director Jean-Luc Godard pushing longtime cinematographer Raoul Cotard seated in a wheelchair on the set. Layout annotations in ink and pencil on the versos and one with a Télérama stamp. Godard used a cameraman seated in a wheelchair instead of a camera dolly in several films including "Breathless" 1959. During a period of romantic tumult a woman discovers she is pregnant with two possible fathers. After premiering at the Venice Film Festival the film was briefly banned in France for its scandalous depiction of infidelity and was only passed by the censors after forcing Godard to make several small changes including changing the film's title from "The Married Woman" to the slightly less inflammatory "A Married Woman." Four photographs 7.25 x 9.5 inches one photograph 5 x 7 inches. Very Good plus to Near Fine. Masters of Cinema 80. N.p. unknown
1964ref. 164256N.p.: N.p. 1964. Five vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1964 film including one of director Jean-Luc Godard pushing longtime cinematographer Raoul Cotard seated in a wheelchair on the set. Layout annotations in ink and pencil on the versos and one with a Télérama stamp. Godard used a cameraman seated in a wheelchair instead of a camera dolly in several films including "Breathless" 1959. During a period of romantic tumult a woman discovers she is pregnant with two possible fathers. After premiering at the Venice Film Festival the film was briefly banned in France for its scandalous depiction of infidelity and was only passed by the censors after forcing Godard to make several small changes including changing the film's title from "The Married Woman" to the slightly less inflammatory "A Married Woman." Four photographs 7.25 x 9.5 inches one photograph 5 x 7 inches. Very Good plus to Near Fine. Masters of Cinema 80. N.p. unknown books
1955ref. 159873Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1955. Two vintage reference photographs taken on the set of the 1955 film one showing director Joseph L. Mankiewicz with actors Jean Simmons and Stubby Kaye and wardrobe designer Irene Sharaff and the other showing Sharaff Mankiewicz and choreographer Michael Kidd. Mimeo snipes on the versos. Based on the 1950 Broadway musical in turn based on Damon Runyon's short stories "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" and "Blood Pressure." A gambler wins a bet that he can get a Christian missionary to travel with him to Havana where the pair begin to fall for each other. Nominated for four Academy Awards. Set in New York and Havana. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine one with three hole punches on the left edge. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1955ref. 159873Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1955. Two vintage reference photographs taken on the set of the 1955 film one showing director Joseph L. Mankiewicz with actors Jean Simmons and Stubby Kaye and wardrobe designer Irene Sharaff and the other showing Sharaff Mankiewicz and choreographer Michael Kidd. Mimeo snipes on the versos. Based on the 1950 Broadway musical in turn based on Damon Runyon's short stories "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" and "Blood Pressure." A gambler wins a bet that he can get a Christian missionary to travel with him to Havana where the pair begin to fall for each other. Nominated for four Academy Awards. Set in New York and Havana. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine one with three hole punches on the left edge. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1974ref. 160669Los Angeles: AVCO Embassy Pictures 1974. Four vintage studio still photographs from the US release of the 1974 Italian film two showing actress Charlotte Rampling and two showing Rampling and Dirk Bogarde. Liliana Cavani's international breakthrough a deeply controversial film about a Holocaust survivor who renews her sadomasochistic sexual relationship with her Nazi captor after a chance encounter which threatens to expose his fellow former SS officers now living in secret in postwar Vienna. Shot on location in Vienna Austria and Rome Italy. 10 x 8 inches. Three Near Fine lightly worn at the corners one Very Good plus with a faint tide mark at the bottom right corner. Criterion Collection 59. Grant Italy. AVCO Embassy Pictures unknown
1974ref. 160669Los Angeles: AVCO Embassy Pictures 1974. Four vintage studio still photographs from the US release of the 1974 Italian film two showing actress Charlotte Rampling and two showing Rampling and Dirk Bogarde. Liliana Cavani's international breakthrough a deeply controversial film about a Holocaust survivor who renews her sadomasochistic sexual relationship with her Nazi captor after a chance encounter which threatens to expose his fellow former SS officers now living in secret in postwar Vienna. Shot on location in Vienna Austria and Rome Italy. 10 x 8 inches. Three Near Fine lightly worn at the corners one Very Good plus with a faint tide mark at the bottom right corner. Criterion Collection 59. Grant Italy. AVCO Embassy Pictures unknown books
1952ref. 154485Culver City CA: Loew's Incorporated 1952. Treatment script for the 1953 film on yellow paper created by screenwriter Louis Morheim who received a story credit in the final film. With a single annotation in manuscript pencil changing the revision date on page five. Robert Aldrich's directorial debut wherein a baseball scout at a New York Giants training camp in Florida evaluates prospective hopefuls for a minor league contract. Starring Edward G. Robinson in his first major role after being threatened with blacklisting by the House Un-American Activities Committee HUAC. Shot on location in Melbourne Florida. Blue titled wrappers rubber-stamped copy No. 2 stamped "Incomplete" dated 6-18-52 with credits for screenwriter Louis Morheim. 42 leaves with last page of text numbered 42. Mimeograph duplication rectos only on yellow pages dated variously between 6-18-52 and 6-20-52. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Loew's Incorporated unknown
