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1972ref. 170451Los Angeles: First Artists / National General Pictures 1972. Vintage reference photograph from the 1972 film showing director Sam Peckinpah behind the camera. Mimeo snipe on the verso. A ballet of violence and to date easily the finest adaptation of a Jim Thompson novel ever produced. Other grand alliances made this one of the great crime films of the New American Cinema including a supremely confident Steve McQueen as an antihero and a young Walter Hill-who first encountered McQueen on the set of "Bullitt" four years prior-handling the screenplay. 8 x 10 inches. Light toning to margins else Near Fine. Grant US. Silver Classic Noir. Spicer US. First Artists / National General Pictures unknown
1972ref. 158714New York: National General Pictures 1972. Vintage double weight matte-finish reference photograph from the set of the 1972 film showing director Sam Peckinpah at work on location. Peckinpah at the peak of his powers a ballet of violence and to date easily the finest adaptation of a Jim Thompson novel ever produced. Other grand alliances made this one of the great crime films of New Hollywood Cinema including a supremely confident Steve McQueen as an anti-hero and a young Walter Hill-who first encountered McQueen on the set of "Bullitt" 4 years prior-handling the screenplay. Approximately 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Lee The Heist Film. Spicer Neo-Noir US. Silver and Ward Neo-Noir US. Grant US. National General Pictures unknown
1972ref. 150387New York: National General Pictures 1972. Vintage reference photograph from the set of the 1972 film showing director Sam Peckinpah with actors Steve McQueen and Ali McGraw. With a mimeo snipe on the verso. Peckinpah at the peak of his powers a ballet of violence and to date easily the finest adaptation of a Jim Thompson novel ever produced. Other grand alliances made this one of the great crime films of New Hollywood Cinema including a supremely confident Steve McQueen as an anti-hero and a young Walter Hill-who first encountered McQueen on the set of "Bullitt" 4 years prior-handling the screenplay. Approximately 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Lee The Heist Film. Spicer Neo-Noir US. Silver and Ward Neo-Noir US. Grant US. National General Pictures unknown
1956ref. 148955Beverly Hills CA: Associated Film Releasing 1956. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1956 film showing actresses Coleen Gray and Veda Ann Borg. A US marshal investigates the mysterious death of a woman owner of a gambling house. Set in the American West. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Associated Film Releasing unknown books
1951ref. 146057Hollywood: Tom Productions 1951. Draft script for the 1951 film here under the working title "Off We Go!" With manuscript pencil annotations throughout. Desperate to leave his lowly post as a tailgunner an unskilled G.I. asks his girlfriend who owns a cafe on the air base to flirt with his commanding officer in order to get him a promotion. Instead of the better position he desires however the officer finds himself roped by the base special intelligence officer into impersonating the head saboteur of a spy ring. Gray titled wrappers rubber-stamped copy No. 10 and noted as production No. 1067 dated May 5 1951. Title page present dated May 5 1951 with credits for screenwriter Orville H. Hampton. 114 leaves with last page of text numbered 110. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus with tide marks to the lower edge bound with three gold brads. Tom Productions unknown books
1951ref. 146057Hollywood: Tom Productions 1951. Draft script for the 1951 film here under the working title "Off We Go!" With manuscript pencil annotations throughout. Desperate to leave his lowly post as a tailgunner an unskilled G.I. asks his girlfriend who owns a cafe on the air base to flirt with his commanding officer in order to get him a promotion. Instead of the better position he desires however the officer finds himself roped by the base special intelligence officer into impersonating the head saboteur of a spy ring. Gray titled wrappers rubber-stamped copy No. 10 and noted as production No. 1067 dated May 5 1951. Title page present dated May 5 1951 with credits for screenwriter Orville H. Hampton. 114 leaves with last page of text numbered 110. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus with tide marks to the lower edge bound with three gold brads. Tom Productions unknown
1975ref. 167900Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1975. Vintage borderless studio still photograph from the 1976 film. A beach lifeguard is forced to confront his priorities and consider changing professions when he rekindles a flame with his old high school girlfriend who is now divorced with a five-year-old son. Shot on Torrance Beach California. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1952ref. 135865Los Angeles: Lippert Pictures 1952. Draft script for the 1952 film. Copy belonging to an uncredited crew member with brief annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso of the last page of text and on a few pages. An unusual story for a low-budget Western: a tough woman gambler named Iron Mae McLeod Windsor runs a town where law states that men are illegal. The tough McLeod is soon caught in the lusty lasso of Woody Callaway Rober a handsome and persistent cowboy. The Poverty Row studio Lippert Pictures lasted nearly two decades 1948-1969 and would resurface as the production company for "Don't Do It" 1994. Notable films produced or distributed by Lippert include "Jungle Goddess" 1948 "I Shot Jesse James" 1949 forgotten films noir like "Radar Secret Service" and "Motor Patrol" both 1950 Samuel Fuller's "The Steel Helmet" 1951 Sam Newfield's "Lost Continent" 1951 and Terence Fisher's classic Hammer noir "Man Bait" 1952. Blue untitled wrappers. Title page integral with first page of text undated with a credit for screenwriter Hampton. 115 leaves with last page of text numbered 115. Mimeograph duplication. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. Hardy The Western p. 218. Okuda 486. Lippert Pictures unknown books
1952ref. 135865Los Angeles: Lippert Pictures 1952. Draft script for the 1952 film. Copy belonging to an uncredited crew member with brief annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso of the last page of text and on a few pages. An unusual story for a low-budget Western: a tough woman gambler named Iron Mae McLeod Windsor runs a town where law states that men are illegal. The tough McLeod is soon caught in the lusty lasso of Woody Callaway Rober a handsome and persistent cowboy. The Poverty Row studio Lippert Pictures lasted nearly two decades 1948-1969 and would resurface as the production company for "Don't Do It" 1994. Notable films produced or distributed by Lippert include "Jungle Goddess" 1948 "I Shot Jesse James" 1949 forgotten films noir like "Radar Secret Service" and "Motor Patrol" both 1950 Samuel Fuller's "The Steel Helmet" 1951 Sam Newfield's "Lost Continent" 1951 and Terence Fisher's classic Hammer noir "Man Bait" 1952. Blue untitled wrappers. Title page integral with first page of text undated with a credit for screenwriter Hampton. 115 leaves with last page of text numbered 115. Mimeograph duplication. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. Hardy The Western p. 218. Okuda 486. Lippert Pictures unknown
1975ref. 141752Rome: Ciesi 1975. First Draft script for the 1976 Italian film here under the working title "Scandal." Text in English. From the archive of longtime producer-agent Paul Kohner. In wartime France a married pharmacist begins a passionate affair with her assistant. Their relationship sours however as he begins to demand more and more from her-including access to her daughter. Shot on location in Italy. Title page present dated 1975 noted as First Draft with credits for screenwriters Ottavio Jemma and Salvatore Samperi. 324 leaves with last page of text numbered 322. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine lacking wrapper unbound. Housed in a typewriter box. Ciesi unknown books
1975ref. 141891Rome: Ciesi 1975. First Draft script for the 1976 film. Here under the working title "Scandal." Eliane is a pharmicist with a dull husband and teenage daughter. A fellow pharmacy clerk makes a pass at her one night after mistaking her for someone else and she allows it to happen ultimately becoming his complete sex slave. Set in France shot on location in Italy. Tan untitled wrappers. Title page present dated 1975 noted as First draft with credits for screenwriters Ottavio Jemma and Salvatore Samperi. 324 leaves with last page of text numbered 322. Xerographic duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with gold brads. Ciesi unknown books
1975ref. 141752Rome: Ciesi 1975. First Draft script for the 1976 Italian film here under the working title "Scandal." Text in English. From the archive of longtime producer-agent Paul Kohner. In wartime France a married pharmacist begins a passionate affair with her assistant. Their relationship sours however as he begins to demand more and more from her-including access to her daughter. Shot on location in Italy. Title page present dated 1975 noted as First Draft with credits for screenwriters Ottavio Jemma and Salvatore Samperi. 324 leaves with last page of text numbered 322. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine lacking wrapper unbound. Housed in a typewriter box. Ciesi unknown
1975ref. 141891Rome: Ciesi 1975. First Draft script for the 1976 film. Here under the working title "Scandal." Eliane is a pharmicist with a dull husband and teenage daughter. A fellow pharmacy clerk makes a pass at her one night after mistaking her for someone else and she allows it to happen ultimately becoming his complete sex slave. Set in France shot on location in Italy. Tan untitled wrappers. Title page present dated 1975 noted as First draft with credits for screenwriters Ottavio Jemma and Salvatore Samperi. 324 leaves with last page of text numbered 322. Xerographic duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with gold brads. Ciesi unknown
1945ref. 29200HBDJ 1945 1st Edition THUS IN POOR TATTERED WORN DUSTJACKET With BACK & Spine DJ MISSING MOVIE EDITION FEATURING JUDY GARLAND & MARGARET O'BRIEN on DJ Front NO INTERIOR Illustrations SCUFF & RUB BOOK COVER GOOD CONDITION WITH SOME WATER DAMAGE TO EDGES CVR DJ IS POOR Condition Only DJ Front is There The Back Flap with Rub & Wear the Rest of DJ NOT PRESENT 6" X 8 1/2" HC DJ front cover torn and frayed - repaired spine and back section missing - as is the front flap autograph note by it's author Sally Benson also included is a tiny letter invitation to a tea party found within the book. Interior is clean clear and together making it an solid 'readers copy' WORLD PUBLISHING FORUM BOOKS hardcover
1974ref. 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
1974ref. 155950N.p.: N.p. 1974. Vintage two-color one sheet poster for the 1974 film here under its original release title "Black Agent Lucky King." Former Oakland Channel 20 television talk show host Sal Watts in response to complaints from his audience about current black action films was determined to make a quality motion picture for African American audiences. The result was "Solomon King" which Watts produced wrote co-directed and starred a first for an independent black producer. Believed lost this obscure Blaxploitation classic is scheduled for restoration and re-release from Deaf Crocodile Films in 2022. Ex-Green Beret Solomon King Watts vows vengeance when his former lover Princess Oneeba is murdered by Arab agents from the country she once escaped. With the aid of several fellow Vietnam veterans brother Maney King and CIA agent O'Malley King plans a commando raid into the Arab country to kill the hit man. Featuring a cameo from Watt's friend baseball player Tito Fuentes. Set in Oakland California and an undisclosed Arab nation shot on location in Oakland California. 27 x 41 inches folded as issued. Very Good with pinholes some creasing and soiling two modest closed tears three small chips and an annotation in manuscript ink on the outer middle right margin. Howard Blaxploitation Cinema p. 195. N.p. unknown books
1974ref. 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
1974ref. 155950N.p.: N.p. 1974. Vintage two-color one sheet poster for the 1974 film here under its original release title "Black Agent Lucky King." Former Oakland Channel 20 television talk show host Sal Watts in response to complaints from his audience about current black action films was determined to make a quality motion picture for African American audiences. The result was "Solomon King" which Watts produced wrote co-directed and starred a first for an independent black producer. Believed lost this obscure Blaxploitation classic is scheduled for restoration and re-release from Deaf Crocodile Films in 2022. Ex-Green Beret Solomon King Watts vows vengeance when his former lover Princess Oneeba is murdered by Arab agents from the country she once escaped. With the aid of several fellow Vietnam veterans brother Maney King and CIA agent O'Malley King plans a commando raid into the Arab country to kill the hit man. Featuring a cameo from Watt's friend baseball player Tito Fuentes. Set in Oakland California and an undisclosed Arab nation shot on location in Oakland California. 27 x 41 inches folded as issued. Very Good with pinholes some creasing and soiling two modest closed tears three small chips and an annotation in manuscript ink on the outer middle right margin. Howard Blaxploitation Cinema p. 195. N.p. unknown
1958ref. 173029Burbank CA: Walt Disney Productions 1958. Eight vintage hand-tinted British front-of-house cards from the 1958 Disney Western 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. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus. Walt Disney Productions unknown books
1958ref. 173029Burbank CA: Walt Disney Productions 1958. Eight vintage hand-tinted British front-of-house cards from the 1958 Disney Western 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. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus. Walt Disney Productions unknown
1958ref. 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
1958ref. 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
1982ref. 146404N.p.: N.p. 1982. Draft script for an unproduced play. Included with the script are two typed pages proposing the play be made into the pilot for a longer-running television series detailing possible titles show format and episode synopses. The melodramatic trials and tribulations of a community theater troupe addressing problems such as one actor's alcoholism and another actor's dissolving marriage. Set in a suburb of New York. Black titled faux leather wrappers. Title page present dated 1982 with credits for screenwriters Sal Catania and Elfin Snyder. 116 leaves with last page of text numbered 3-36. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Good wrapper Very Good with dampstaining and light soil to both bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1982ref. 146404N.p.: N.p. 1982. Draft script for an unproduced play. Included with the script are two typed pages proposing the play be made into the pilot for a longer-running television series detailing possible titles show format and episode synopses. The melodramatic trials and tribulations of a community theater troupe addressing problems such as one actor's alcoholism and another actor's dissolving marriage. Set in a suburb of New York. Black titled faux leather wrappers. Title page present dated 1982 with credits for screenwriters Sal Catania and Elfin Snyder. 116 leaves with last page of text numbered 3-36. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Good wrapper Very Good with dampstaining and light soil to both bound with two gold brads. N.p. 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
