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1965ref. 146897N.p.: N.p. 1965. Final Draft script for the 1965 film. With a "With Compliments" card from Seven Arts Productions laid in with the script along with a set of three stapled revision pages on pink stock. In order to provide a father figure for her infant son a recently widowed woman attempts to choose between two marital prospects-the grumpy child psychologist for whom she works or her hippie next-door neighbor. Set in Greenwich Village NY. Blue untitled wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present noted as Final Draft with credits for screenwriter William Peter Blatty. 124 leaves with last page of text numbered 122. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with pink revision pages laid in dated 21.1.65. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1979ref. 151088Beverly Hills CA: Orion 1979. Vintage press kit for the 1979 film. Full-color illustrated pocketed folder containing two black-and-white photographs and two gatherings of promotional reading material. A young emotionally isolated doctor finds friendship and solace in her newest patient a 17-year-old girl dying of cancer. Set and shot on location in Hartford Connecticut. Folder photographs and promotional material Near Fine. Orion unknown books
1979ref. 139445Beverly Hills CA: Orion Pictures 1979. Two vintage black-and-white studio still photographs from the 1979 film. Jerome Hellman's directorial debut. A heart-wrenching drama the follows the steady deterioration of a young cancer patient. Actress Susan Clark pictured in the photos plays the ailing patient's mother. Shot on location in Connecticut. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Orion Pictures unknown books
1976ref. 158745Tokyo: Haruki Kadokawa Films Inc 1976. Second Draft script for the 1977 film. A young African American is killed upon his arrival in Tokyo. The Japanese detective in charge of his case teams up with a New York City detective to try to solve the murder. Set and shot on location in New York City and Tokyo. Red untitled wrappers. Title page present. Noted as Draft #2 on the first page of text. 101 leaves with last page of text numbered 100. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine with a silver clasp binding. Haruki Kadokawa Films Inc unknown
1976ref. 158745Tokyo: Haruki Kadokawa Films Inc 1976. Second Draft script for the 1977 film. A young African American is killed upon his arrival in Tokyo. The Japanese detective in charge of his case teams up with a New York City detective to try to solve the murder. Set and shot on location in New York City and Tokyo. Red untitled wrappers. Title page present. Noted as Draft #2 on the first page of text. 101 leaves with last page of text numbered 100. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine with a silver clasp binding. Haruki Kadokawa Films Inc unknown books
1950ref. 142292n.p.: N.p. 1950. First Draft script for an unproduced film. Copy belonging to Ben Colman credited for adding additional dialogue manuscript pencil signature on front wrapper. Manuscript ink and pencil annotations throughout. Based on the true story of John Wesley Powell's dangerous inaugural navigation of the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. Creator of the Cosmos Club second director of the US Geological Survey and proponent of land preservation he was championed as an explorer and a great man notwithstanding his belief that the Native Americans were primitives with no civilized societal structure of course. Written by "Lone Ranger" screenwriter Herb Meadow. Set in Arizona. Yellow titled wrappers rubber-stamped copy No. 3 dated December 29 1949. Distribution page present with receipt intact. Title page present noted as FIRST DRAFT CONTINUITY with credits for screenwriters Meadow and Colman and author John Wesley Powell. 157 leaves with last page of text numbered 146. Mimeograph duplication with revision pages throughout dated variously between November 23 1949 and January 4 1950. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1950ref. 142292n.p.: N.p. 1950. First Draft script for an unproduced film. Copy belonging to Ben Colman credited for adding additional dialogue manuscript pencil signature on front wrapper. Manuscript ink and pencil annotations throughout. Based on the true story of John Wesley Powell's dangerous inaugural navigation of the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. Creator of the Cosmos Club second director of the US Geological Survey and proponent of land preservation he was championed as an explorer and a great man notwithstanding his belief that the Native Americans were primitives with no civilized societal structure of course. Written by "Lone Ranger" screenwriter Herb Meadow. Set in Arizona. Yellow titled wrappers rubber-stamped copy No. 3 dated December 29 1949. Distribution page present with receipt intact. Title page present noted as FIRST DRAFT CONTINUITY with credits for screenwriters Meadow and Colman and author John Wesley Powell. 157 leaves with last page of text numbered 146. Mimeograph duplication with revision pages throughout dated variously between November 23 1949 and January 4 1950. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1968ref. 162293Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1968. Vintage borderless color studio still photograph from the 1968 film showing actress Judy Geeson. From the collection of artist and author Duncan Hannah. Duncan Hannah was a key figure in the burgeoning New York underground arts scene befriending Andy Warhol and his superstars Lou Reed Allen Ginsberg Patti Smith Salvador Dali and many others. A graduate of the Parsons School of Design his paintings were exhibited in the influential 1980 Times Square Show alongside work by Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat and several of his paintings are held in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. A wealthy London banker his wife his mistress and his extended family and servants enjoy a series of comic misunderstandings when they swap birth control medications. 8 x 10 inches. Slightly rubbed else about Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1982ref. 166414Los Angeles: Avon Productions 1982. Draft script for the 1982 pornographic film. Three violent escaped convicts on the run from the law break into a house where a young girl is being given a wedding shower and they proceed on a rampage of violence rape and sexual assaults. IMDB. Title page integral with the first page of narrative text. No wrapper as issued undated. 18 leaves with last page of text numbered 18. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine staple bound at the top left corner. Avon Productions unknown
1982ref. 166414Los Angeles: Avon Productions 1982. Draft script for the 1982 pornographic film. Three violent escaped convicts on the run from the law break into a house where a young girl is being given a wedding shower and they proceed on a rampage of violence rape and sexual assaults. IMDB. Title page integral with the first page of narrative text. No wrapper as issued undated. 18 leaves with last page of text numbered 18. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine staple bound at the top left corner. Avon Productions unknown books
1994ref. 168325N.p.: N.p. 1994. Draft script for the 1994 film here called a "Schedule Draft". Annotations in manuscript ink on the title page noting copy No. 33 and the name of supervising accountant Danielle Sotet. Robert Altman's sardonic take on Paris Fashion Week featuring an enormous star-studded ensemble cast of international actors models and designers. Set and shot on location in Paris France. Mylar front wrapper white card rear wrapper. Title page present dated January 14 1994 noted as Schedule Draft with credit for Altman and screenwriter Barbara Shulgasser. 82 leaves with last page of text numbered 81. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good moderately soiled bound with two silver clasps. N.p. unknown books
1994ref. 168325N.p.: N.p. 1994. Draft script for the 1994 film here called a "Schedule Draft". Annotations in manuscript ink on the title page noting copy No. 33 and the name of supervising accountant Danielle Sotet. Robert Altman's sardonic take on Paris Fashion Week featuring an enormous star-studded ensemble cast of international actors models and designers. Set and shot on location in Paris France. Mylar front wrapper white card rear wrapper. Title page present dated January 14 1994 noted as Schedule Draft with credit for Altman and screenwriter Barbara Shulgasser. 82 leaves with last page of text numbered 81. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good moderately soiled bound with two silver clasps. N.p. unknown
1968ref. 140427Santa Monica: Dick Clark Productions 1968. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1968 film. A deaf runaway hides out with a gang of hippies as she searches for her long-lost brother is 1960s San Francisco. With a relatively early appearance from Jack Nicholson who plays the aptly named hippie "Stoney." Shot on location in California. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine with a sticker to the verso indicating the previous owner's number and address. An early role for Jack Nicholson. Dick Clark Productions unknown books
1960ref. 135571Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1960. Vintage black and white photograph of Anthony Perkins on the set of the 1960 film silhouetted against the Bates Motel. The most sought after image from the known stills produced. Far and away the highest grossing film of Hitchcock's career nominated for 4 Academy awards including Hitichcock's fifth and final Best Director nomination and a key film in expanding allowable depictions of both violence and sexuality under the eroding Production Code. Selected by the National Film Registry in 1992. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with a few pinholes at the corners. National Film Registry. Spicer US. Paramount Pictures unknown
1960ref. 135571Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1960. Vintage black and white photograph of Anthony Perkins on the set of the 1960 film silhouetted against the Bates Motel. The most sought after image from the known stills produced. Far and away the highest grossing film of Hitchcock's career nominated for 4 Academy awards including Hitichcock's fifth and final Best Director nomination and a key film in expanding allowable depictions of both violence and sexuality under the eroding Production Code. Selected by the National Film Registry in 1992. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with a few pinholes at the corners. National Film Registry. Spicer US. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1959ref. 160564N.p.: N.p. 1959. Four vintage reference photographs by John Cohen from the 1959 short film. Three with the title in manuscript ink on the bottom margin of the recto and one with a provenance label on the verso. Based on a purportedly true incident in the life of Beat icons Neal and Carolyn Cassady wherein a couple's dinner party for a visiting bishop is crashed by their zany bohemian friends. Adapted by Jack Kerouac from the third act of his play "Beat Generation" with voiceover narration by Kerouac and a title taken from the poem of the same name co-written by Kerouac Cassady and Allen Ginsberg. For years the film was rumored to have been entirely unscripted capturing a real event at co-director Alfred Leslie's loft in the Bowery until Leslie revealed in a 1968 interview that the film had in fact been scripted heavily rehearsed and shot in a photography studio. 10 x 8 inches. Small chips at the top edges else about Near Fine. National Film Registry. N.p. unknown
1959ref. 160564N.p.: N.p. 1959. Four vintage reference photographs by John Cohen from the 1959 short film. Three with the title in manuscript ink on the bottom margin of the recto and one with a provenance label on the verso. Based on a purportedly true incident in the life of Beat icons Neal and Carolyn Cassady wherein a couple's dinner party for a visiting bishop is crashed by their zany bohemian friends. Adapted by Jack Kerouac from the third act of his play "Beat Generation" with voiceover narration by Kerouac and a title taken from the poem of the same name co-written by Kerouac Cassady and Allen Ginsberg. For years the film was rumored to have been entirely unscripted capturing a real event at co-director Alfred Leslie's loft in the Bowery until Leslie revealed in a 1968 interview that the film had in fact been scripted heavily rehearsed and shot in a photography studio. 10 x 8 inches. Small chips at the top edges else about Near Fine. National Film Registry. N.p. unknown books
1994ref. 167456Los Angeles: Miramax 1994. Vintage press kit for the 1994 film including 13 black-and-white studio still photographs and a 21-page gathering of promotional material issued by Miramax in conjunction with the film's release. Tarantino's masterful second film a noir-infused grouping of three stories told together in cutup style each with one violent narrative folding in on the next. Controversial winner of the Palme d'Or and winner of a Best Original Screenplay Oscar. Nominated for six more Academy Awards including Best Picture Best Director Best Supporting Actress for Uma Thurman Best Supporting Actor for Samuel L. Jackson and Best Actor for John Travolta. Set in Los Angeles shot on location throughout California. Photographs: 10 x 8 inches. Fine. Promotional gathering: 21 leaves unnumbered. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Near Fine partially bound with a single staple at the top left corner. National Film Registry. Ebert I. Grant US. Spicer US Neo-Noir. Miramax unknown
1994ref. 167456Los Angeles: Miramax 1994. Vintage press kit for the 1994 film including 13 black-and-white studio still photographs and a 21-page gathering of promotional material issued by Miramax in conjunction with the film's release. Tarantino's masterful second film a noir-infused grouping of three stories told together in cutup style each with one violent narrative folding in on the next. Controversial winner of the Palme d'Or and winner of a Best Original Screenplay Oscar. Nominated for six more Academy Awards including Best Picture Best Director Best Supporting Actress for Uma Thurman Best Supporting Actor for Samuel L. Jackson and Best Actor for John Travolta. Set in Los Angeles shot on location throughout California. Photographs: 10 x 8 inches. Fine. Promotional gathering: 21 leaves unnumbered. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Near Fine partially bound with a single staple at the top left corner. National Film Registry. Ebert I. Grant US. Spicer US Neo-Noir. Miramax unknown books
1988ref. 167879Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1988. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1988 film. A medical student who moonlights as a comedian helps teach a housewife the art of standup. 8 x 10 inches. Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1960ref. 128242France / Italy: Robert and Raymond Hakim 1960. Five vintage still black-and-white photographs from the 1960 film all produced for the US/UK release by Times Film. One of greatest of the French noirs in which René Clément wisely opted for the use of color over the general French practice of black-and-white. Also easily one of the finest adaptations of Patricia Highsmith's work told in a very visual style with a dearth of dialogue. All photos are 8 x 10 inches and all Near Fine to Fine. Criterion Collection 637. Grant US. Rosenbaum 1000. Spicer US. Robert and Raymond Hakim unknown books
1947ref. 172361N.p.: N.p. 1947. Vintage reference photographs from the 1947 film noir. The sole survivor of his family's massacre a man is taken in by an older woman whose family wants to kill him. Set in and shot on location in New Mexico. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Grant US. Olive Films 44. Selby US. Silver and Ward Classic. Spicer US. N.p. unknown
1947ref. 172361N.p.: N.p. 1947. Vintage reference photographs from the 1947 film noir. The sole survivor of his family's massacre a man is taken in by an older woman whose family wants to kill him. Set in and shot on location in New Mexico. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Grant US. Olive Films 44. Selby US. Silver and Ward Classic. Spicer US. N.p. unknown books
1945ref. 146433N.p.: N.p. 1945. Revised Draft script for the 1945 film here under the working title "The Fugitive." With a single manuscript ink annotation on the front wrapper reading "92." All leaves watermarked CONTRACT FILE COPY. NOTE: script is incomplete as issued with text ending on page 92. The twelfth entry in the fourteen film Sherlock Holmes series featuring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce loosely based on Arthur Conan Doyle's 1911 short story "The Adventure of the Red Circle." The prime minister of the fictitious eastern European country Rovinia begs Holmes and Watson to escort Prince Nikolas back home as the king has been assassinated and the prince must ascend to the throne. The transatlantic voyage proves to be a dangerous journey and every passenger becomes a suspect though Holmes carries more than a few tricks and surprises up his cape. Set in Algiers. Tan titled wrappers rubber-stamped production No. 7309 dated May 20 1945. 93 leaves with last page of text numbered 92. Carbon typescript on onionskin stock rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with three closed tears on the front wrapper and light edgewear overall bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown
1945ref. 146433N.p.: N.p. 1945. Revised Draft script for the 1945 film here under the working title "The Fugitive." With a single manuscript ink annotation on the front wrapper reading "92." All leaves watermarked CONTRACT FILE COPY. NOTE: script is incomplete as issued with text ending on page 92. The twelfth entry in the fourteen film Sherlock Holmes series featuring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce loosely based on Arthur Conan Doyle's 1911 short story "The Adventure of the Red Circle." The prime minister of the fictitious eastern European country Rovinia begs Holmes and Watson to escort Prince Nikolas back home as the king has been assassinated and the prince must ascend to the throne. The transatlantic voyage proves to be a dangerous journey and every passenger becomes a suspect though Holmes carries more than a few tricks and surprises up his cape. Set in Algiers. Tan titled wrappers rubber-stamped production No. 7309 dated May 20 1945. 93 leaves with last page of text numbered 92. Carbon typescript on onionskin stock rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with three closed tears on the front wrapper and light edgewear overall bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
