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1930ref. 36669Circa 1930. 1930. Very good. - A sheet of cream colored note paper 8-3/8 inches high by 5-1/8 inches wide is signed near the top edge "Frederic Arnold Kummer". The bottom edge of the paper is darkened with slight darkening to the other edges and the bottom right corner is lightly creased. There is a very light vertical crease to the left side. Very good. Author playwright and screenwriter Frederic Arnold Kummer 1873-1943 began his career as a civil engineer before turning to writing full-time in 1907. For much of his writing life he devoted himself to detective fiction beginning with "The Green God" in 1911. He also wrote fantasies including "The Second Coming: A Vision" with Henry P. James 1916 a World War I fantasy in which Christ appeals for peace to the Kaiser and -- probably his most popular work-- an afterlife fantasy "Ladies in Hades: A story of Hell's Smart Set" 1928. Circa [1930]. unknown
1999ref. 139964Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1999. Vintage press kit for the 1999 film. Includes six page pamphlet on the cast filmmakers synopsis and film production. Also includes a black and white film still photograph. Housed in a photo illustrated folder. Director Malcom D. Lee's directorial debut in part financed by his cousin Spike Lee. The first major lead role for Taye Diggs who plays an author whose upcoming autobiographical novel will spill the beans on all the dirt between his friends set to release with unfortunate timing just around a wedding at which he will see many of them. "The Best Man" proved the mainstream commercial viability of African American romantic comedies. Folder Very Good plus with light rubbing and creasing. Contents about Fine. Universal Pictures unknown
1999ref. 139964Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1999. Vintage press kit for the 1999 film. Includes six page pamphlet on the cast filmmakers synopsis and film production. Also includes a black and white film still photograph. Housed in a photo illustrated folder. Director Malcom D. Lee's directorial debut in part financed by his cousin Spike Lee. The first major lead role for Taye Diggs who plays an author whose upcoming autobiographical novel will spill the beans on all the dirt between his friends set to release with unfortunate timing just around a wedding at which he will see many of them. "The Best Man" proved the mainstream commercial viability of African American romantic comedies. Folder Very Good plus with light rubbing and creasing. Contents about Fine. Universal Pictures unknown books
2012ref. 3902L'Association, 2012. In-8 broché sous pochette illustrée comportant le DVD du beau film de Francis Vadillo sur Mattt Konture. Menus défauts à la pochette, trois fois rien, livre à l'état de neuf.
1975ref. 159736Burbank CA: National Broadcasting Company NBC 1975. Vintage reference photograph from "The Adventure of Veronica's Veils" season 1 episode 9 of the 1975-1976 television series. With detached mimeo snipe. Loosely based on the 1929 novel "The Roman Hat Mystery" by Frederic Dannay and Manfred Bennington Lee under their joint pseudonym Ellery Queen. The series follows a detective solving various absurd crimes. In this episode a producer who works a t burlesque club has a heart attack and dies. He left a tape before he died asking someone to find his murderer. Set in New York City. 7 x 9 inches. About Fine. National Broadcasting Company [NBC] unknown books
1962ref. 161520N.p.: Aurora Productions 1962. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1962 film with a provenance stamp on the verso. Three young women are stranded on the roadside in the woods and encounter plenty of mischief before ending up at a nudist camp. Lost for 40 years before being rediscovered and restored by Independent International Films. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good with some light splashing faint creasing and several pinholes. Aurora Productions unknown books
1950ref. 146994N.p.: N.p. 1950. Draft script for an episode of an unproduced television series. With a few annotations in manuscript pencil on the front wrapper. An early script for an episode of an unproduced series intended to focus on the lives and love affairs of great women from history. The content would later be reused for the 1954 Italian anthology film "Loves of Three Queens" directed by Marc Allegret and Edgar G. Ulmer and starring Hedy Lamarr. Set in ancient Greece. Yellow generic agency card wrappers. Title page present with credit for screenwriter Aeneas MACKENZIE. 28 leaves with last page of text numbered 24. Carbon typescript on onionskin stock rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1979ref. 168017Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1979. Vintage printed caricature for the 1979 film showing Lee Marvin Linda Evans and Robert Shaw drawn by noted caricaturist Al Hirschfeld and issued by Twentieth Century-Fox to publicize the film. A defecting Russian general collaborates with an American secret agent to expose KGB spies throughout Europe by luring them onto a train headed west. Director Mark Robson and actor Robert Shaw died of unrelated heart attacks within months of the film's release making the film a final effort for both. Set and shot on location in Germany England Ireland Italy and the US. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1985ref. 168286Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1985. Seven vintage studio still photographs from the 1985 film including four compilation photographs. Based on the 1977 book "Calling Dr. Horowitz" about an aspiring doctor who decides to study medicine abroad in a small program in Latin America after being rejected from American medical schools. Shot on location in Madrid Mercia and Lorca Spain. 10 x 8 inches. Generally Near Fine to Fine two with pieces of paper tape affixed to the right portion of the recto. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1981ref. 127385Beverly Hills CA: MGM / United Artists 1981. Vintage one sheet poster for the 1982 film. George Albert Finney is caught in an affair by his wife Faith Diane Keaton destroying their already fragile marriage and devastating their four children. Nominated for the Palme d'Or. Set in Marin County California shot on location in California. 27 x 41 inches. Folded as issued. Near Fine. MGM / United Artists unknown books
1938ref. 139377Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1938. Two vintage black-and-white keybook photographs from the 1938. Mimeo snipes affixed to the versos. Based on Latimer's Bill Crane and Doc Williams characters from his books "Headed for a Hearse" "The Lady in the Morgue" "Murder in the Madhouse" "The Dead Don't Care" and "Red Gardenias." The last of three Bill Crane films the first two being "The Westland Case" 1937 and "The Lady in the Morgue" 1938. Here Bill Crane Foster visits a country estate where the occupants have been receiving threatening letters from someone called "The Eye." 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus waviness and faint tape residue on the rectos. Universal Pictures unknown books
1973ref. 161579N.p.: Times Films 1973. Vintage studio still photograph from the US release of the 1969 Italian-German giallo film. Photograph with two provenance stamps on the verso. Paolo an Italian journalist newly arrived in Los Angeles is attacked by two thugs looking for his childhood friend Giulio who dies in a mysterious car accident the following day. Set in and shot on location in Los Angeles. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus. Times Films unknown books
1972ref. 148290Universal City: Universal Pictures 1972. Vintage borderless studio still photograph from the 1972 film with provenance stamp of film historian "Maurice Bessy" on verso. Based on the 1966 novel "Goodbye Piccadilly Farewell Leicester Square" by Arthur La Bern. London is terrorized by a serial rapist who then strangles his victims with a necktie. Police suspect Richard Blaney Jon Finch whose wife was brutally killed. Alfred Hitchcock's penultimate film. Set in and shot on location in London. 9.5 x 7.25 inches. Near Fine. Vogel Film as a Subversive Art. Clover Men Women and Chainsaws. Grant US. Universal Pictures unknown books
1972ref. 155216N.p.: N.p. 1972. Vintage photograph of the illustration of five stewardesses for the 1972 3-D sexploitation film which was used in the film's marketing campaign. Sequel to the 1969 hit 3-D softcore comedy "The Stewardesses "the most profitable 3-D film ever released written and directed by Allan Silliphant credited as Alf Sillman Jr. Hoping to follow on the success of its predecessor this sequel has now been largely forgotten largely because of cost-cutting measures of distributor company Sherpix in post-production according to producer and 3-D pioneer Chris Condon. Twelve beautiful stewardesses are chosen for a three week trip around the world aboard Global Airlines Condor SST supersonic airplane. Set in and shot on location in Hong Kong Lisbon Athens and Rome. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Nilsen Warped and Faded. N.p. unknown books
1970ref. 139424Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1970. Original one sheet US poster for the 1970 X-rated film. Distributor rubber stamp on the verso. Director Funt notable for his "Candid" series of adult films explores further the human psyche when confronted with nudity in unusual candid situations. Richard "Shaft" Roundtree plays one-half of an interracial couple in his film debut. 27 x 41 inches folded as issued. Very Good plus fold stress small central chips and a few short tears. United Artists unknown books
1963ref. 161833N.p.: United Producers 1963. Vintage studio still photograph from the US release of the 1959 British/German film. Also known by the alternative titles "The Treasure of San Teresa" "Long Distance" and "Rhapsody in Blue." An former US spy returns to Europe after World War II in search of a cache of jewels hidden in Czechoslovakian convent. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with a chip in the margin at the bottom left corner. United Producers unknown books
1953ref. 148245Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1953. Vintage studio still photograph of Vincent Price from the 1953 film. Two "Reporters Associes" stamps on the verso. Based on the 1932 short story "The Wax Works" by Charles S. Belden. Previously filmed in 1933 as "Mystery of the Wax Museum" directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Lionel Atwill and Fay Wray. The first color 3-D feature film from a major American studio which premiered two days after Columbia Pictures "Man in the Dark" the first major black and white 3-D feature. Also the first 3-D movie with stereophonic sound to be presented in a theater. Professor Henry Jarrod Price sculptor of wax figures miraculously manages to survive a fire set by his business partner Matthey Roy Roberts and re-emerges years later opening a new wax museum while corpses mysteriously begin vanishing from the city morgue. Selected for the National Film Registry in 2014. 8 x 10 inches. Light creasing at top else Near Fine. Warner Brothers unknown books
1954ref. 147591Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1954. Six vintage studio still color photographs from the 1954 film. With a stamp reading "Bought in Phila. / FEB 9 1954" to the verso. A farm family facing poverty is forced to sell daughter Donna's pet horse the eponymous Gypsy Colt unaware that the horse itself is prepared to resist the new sale crossing deserts and mountains in order to return to Donna. Loosely based on Eric Knight's 1940 novel "Lassie Comes Home." Set in the American West and shot in Colorado and California. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine with small strips of adhesive to the top center edge. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1979ref. 147811Los Angeles: CBS Television Network 1979. Vintage reference photograph from the 1979 television film originally aired on July 11 1979 on CBS showing actor Anne Schedeen consulting a clipboard. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso and a manuscript ink annotation regarding layout. A peaceful May-December couple finds their values become an issue when the question of marriage is raised. 7 x 9 inches. Very Good plus with light dampstaining to the verso of the left edge. CBS Television Network unknown books
1955ref. 135492Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1955. Vintage reference photograph from the seminal 1955 Western. 8 x 10 inches. Fine. Pitts 2525. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1954ref. 147777Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1954. Seven vintage studio still photographs from the 1953 film. Teenager Barbara Vinings Glynis Johns is in love with her Latin language teacher Stephen Barlow Leo Genn when Barlow's wife Gene Tierney finds out she confronts Barbara who runs off and disappears for three days during which time speculation and innuendo pervade the village. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Grant UK. Spicer UK. United Artists unknown books
1963ref. 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
1953ref. 156114N.p.: N.p. 1953. Vintage program for the 1953 German film seen here under two titles "Dark Clouds over Dachstein" and "The Mistress of the Salzerhof". Titles and text in German. Based on the 1952 play by Elmira Koref about a widowed woman fighting the German government for control of the salt mines at the base of the mountain where she lives. 7.25 x 10.5 inches. Bi-fold. Very Good plus bright and complete. N.p. unknown books
1957ref. 161509N.p.: Gaston Hakim Productions 1957. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1957 Swedish sexploitation film with a provenance stamp on the verso Lars Ekborg and Sven Eric Gamble are bumbling criminals involved in a safe-cracking heist. Shot on location in Stockholm Sweden. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with faint creasing. Gaston Hakim Productions unknown books
1976ref. 133392Los Angeles: American International Pictures AIP 1976. Original one sheet poster for the 1976 Blaxploitation film "The Monkey Hustle." A classic entry in the action comedy subset of Blaxploitation films in which a neighborhood must band together in order to prevent the city from demolishing their homes to build a highway. Set in Chicago and shot there on location. Largely low-budget and geared towards a young urban audience Blaxploitation films often depicted African Americans overcoming hostile authorities through cunning and violence as well as conflicts internal to the culture. Though some of the first mainstream films to feature predominantly black casts and introduce previously non-represented elements of black culture including the notable use of funk and soul music in soundtracks they were also panned for furthering stereotypes about black people. Despite the controversy that the genre instilled its motifs remain culturally relevant to this day often parodied acknowledged and imitated in modern films and music. 27 x 41 inches folded. Near Fine. Parish and Hill 149. Howard Blaxploitation Cinema p. 43-44 174-175. American International Pictures [AIP] unknown books
