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1961ref. 167844Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1961. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1962 film showing actors Anne Helm Gary Lockwood and Merritt Stone. Provenance stamp on the verso. A fantasy film loosely based on the tale of St. George and the Dragon about a young knight raised by an elderly sorceress. Featured on a 1992 episode of "Mystery Science Theater 3000." 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with annotations in manuscript ink on the bottom recto. United Artists unknown books
1988ref. 171904N.p.: N.p. 1988. Revised Draft script for the 1988 television movie aired as part of the revamped 1988-1990 Disney television anthology series. With two annotations in manuscript ink to two pages of the script noting prices. The ghost of a private eye teams up with an out-of-work dancer to find the woman he believes to be responsible for his death. Originally aired on May 15 1988 on ABC. White titled pictorial wrappers. Title page present dated January 14 1988 noted as Revised with credits for screenwriters Blake and Jennifer Edwards. 113 leaves with last page of text numbered 109. Xerographic duplication rectos only with undated blue revision pages throughout. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1988ref. 171904N.p.: N.p. 1988. Revised Draft script for the 1988 television movie aired as part of the revamped 1988-1990 Disney television anthology series. With two annotations in manuscript ink to two pages of the script noting prices. The ghost of a private eye teams up with an out-of-work dancer to find the woman he believes to be responsible for his death. Originally aired on May 15 1988 on ABC. White titled pictorial wrappers. Title page present dated January 14 1988 noted as Revised with credits for screenwriters Blake and Jennifer Edwards. 113 leaves with last page of text numbered 109. Xerographic duplication rectos only with undated blue revision pages throughout. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1956ref. 147925Burbank CA: Walt Disney Productions 1956. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1956 television movie. Disney re-edited the 1954 film Rob Roy the Highland Rogue into a two part movie for The Magical World of Disney which aired on ABC on October 3 and 10 1956. Wartime adventures of Scottish highland leader Rob Roy MacGregor Richard Todd outlawed and hunted by the forces of King George I Eric Pohlmann. Set in and shot on location in Scotland. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine with light creasing in corner margins. Walt Disney Productions unknown books
1979ref. 132786Los Angeles: Golan-Globus Productions 1979. Three original draft title card maquettes hand lettered by Harold Adler for the 1979 film. Based on the 1960 novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer. The three sketches show different approaches to the title all distinct from the final lettering design used. Harold Adler was a calligrapher who created hand lettered titles on over 100 films worked frequently with Alfred Hitchcock and was a favorite of legendary title sequence designers Saul Bass and Pablo Ferro. In addition to "The Magician of Lublin" his credits include "Comanche!" 1956 "The Man with the Golden Arm" 1955 "The Seven Year Itch" 1955 "Carmen Jones" 1954 "Psycho" 1960 "The Birds" 1963 "In the Heat of the Night" 1967 and "Finian's Rainbow" 1969. In 2012 an exhibition of Adler's work was organized by noted typographer and design historian Jill Bell at the American Advertising Federation Kansas City. At the turn of the Twentieth century a Jewish stage magician and con man whose career has been ruined by womanizing gets one more shot at the big time by attempting to pull off a never before seen trick. Two leaves. First leaf: 19 x 18 inches. About Near Fine with creasing to the edges. Two designs executed in black ink on white paper with a manuscript notation to the side in blue pencil. Second leaf: 15.5 x 5.5 inches. Black ink on white paper. Near Fine with manuscript annotations in blue pencil. Golan-Globus Productions unknown
1958ref. 156282Stockholm: Svensk Filmindustri SF 1958. Collection of nine vintage oversize double weight reference photographs from the 1958 Swedish film. Stamps of DLS-Film Holland on the versos and several with layout annotations in manuscript ink and pencil. Embossed censor blindstamp at the upper right corner of each photograph. A traveling magic show led by a depressed fraudulent illusionist faces opposition from a small town's authorities who wish to expose the spectacle as a sham. Shot on location in Stockholm Sweden. 9.25 x 11.75 inches. Generally Very Good with pinholes at the corners and several with small closed tears that have been repaired with archival tape on the versos. Criterion Collection 537. Rosenbaum 1000. Svensk Filmindustri [SF] unknown
1958ref. 151648Stockholm: Svensk Filmindustri SF 1958. Collection of 14 vintage black and white oversize double weight studio still photographs from the 1958 film. A traveling magic show led by a depressed fraudulent illusionist Max von Sydow faces opposition from a small town's authorities who wish to expose the spectacle as a sham. Shot on location in Stockholm Sweden. 12 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 537. Rosenbaum 1000. Svensk Filmindustri [SF] unknown
1958ref. 156282Stockholm: Svensk Filmindustri SF 1958. Collection of nine vintage oversize double weight reference photographs from the 1958 Swedish film. Stamps of DLS-Film Holland on the versos and several with layout annotations in manuscript ink and pencil. Embossed censor blindstamp at the upper right corner of each photograph. A traveling magic show led by a depressed fraudulent illusionist faces opposition from a small town's authorities who wish to expose the spectacle as a sham. Shot on location in Stockholm Sweden. 9.25 x 11.75 inches. Generally Very Good with pinholes at the corners and several with small closed tears that have been repaired with archival tape on the versos. Criterion Collection 537. Rosenbaum 1000. Svensk Filmindustri [SF] unknown books
1958ref. 151648Stockholm: Svensk Filmindustri SF 1958. Collection of 14 vintage black and white oversize double weight studio still photographs from the 1958 film. A traveling magic show led by a depressed fraudulent illusionist Max von Sydow faces opposition from a small town's authorities who wish to expose the spectacle as a sham. Shot on location in Stockholm Sweden. 12 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 537. Rosenbaum 1000. Svensk Filmindustri [SF] unknown books
1979ref. 132786Los Angeles: Golan-Globus Productions 1979. Three original draft title card maquettes hand lettered by Harold Adler for the 1979 film. Based on the 1960 novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer. The three sketches show different approaches to the title all distinct from the final lettering design used. Harold Adler was a calligrapher who created hand lettered titles on over 100 films worked frequently with Alfred Hitchcock and was a favorite of legendary title sequence designers Saul Bass and Pablo Ferro. In addition to "The Magician of Lublin" his credits include "Comanche!" 1956 "The Man with the Golden Arm" 1955 "The Seven Year Itch" 1955 "Carmen Jones" 1954 "Psycho" 1960 "The Birds" 1963 "In the Heat of the Night" 1967 and "Finian's Rainbow" 1969. In 2012 an exhibition of Adler's work was organized by noted typographer and design historian Jill Bell at the American Advertising Federation Kansas City. At the turn of the Twentieth century a Jewish stage magician and con man whose career has been ruined by womanizing gets one more shot at the big time by attempting to pull off a never before seen trick. Two leaves. First leaf: 19 x 18 inches. About Near Fine with creasing to the edges. Two designs executed in black ink on white paper with a manuscript notation to the side in blue pencil. Second leaf: 15.5 x 5.5 inches. Black ink on white paper. Near Fine with manuscript annotations in blue pencil. Golan-Globus Productions unknown books
1950ref. 146343London: Ealing Studios 1950. Draft Shooting script for the 1950 British comedy film. With a few manuscript ink annotations and a single copied manuscript notation to page 81 noting a single line of dialogue in Chinese. A young boy cons a friend out of a toy magnet and consumed by guilt donates the magnet to a man collecting items for a charity auction. The story of the boy's assumed sacrifice drives the bids for the magnet up higher and higher and the lowly magnet begins to take on astronomical significance. Set and shot on location in New Brighton Wirral Cheshire and Liverpool. Tan titled wrappers noted as Draft Shooting Script on the front wrapper dated 13th January 1950. Title page present noted as DRAFT SHOOTING SCRIPT. 100 leaves with last page of text numbered 96. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with undated pink revision pages throughout. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with two silver brads. Ealing Studios unknown
1950ref. 146343London: Ealing Studios 1950. Draft Shooting script for the 1950 British comedy film. With a few manuscript ink annotations and a single copied manuscript notation to page 81 noting a single line of dialogue in Chinese. A young boy cons a friend out of a toy magnet and consumed by guilt donates the magnet to a man collecting items for a charity auction. The story of the boy's assumed sacrifice drives the bids for the magnet up higher and higher and the lowly magnet begins to take on astronomical significance. Set and shot on location in New Brighton Wirral Cheshire and Liverpool. Tan titled wrappers noted as Draft Shooting Script on the front wrapper dated 13th January 1950. Title page present noted as DRAFT SHOOTING SCRIPT. 100 leaves with last page of text numbered 96. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with undated pink revision pages throughout. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with two silver brads. Ealing Studios unknown books
1959ref. 144629Paris: Intermondia Films / Pretoria / Cinedis 1959. Collection of 4 original black-and-white single weight still photographs from the 1959 French-Italian film. Featuring Jean Gabin dancing gaily in a pub with costar Doll all photos with brief numerical annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. Gabin plays a sophisticated tramp who lives during summer in an abandoned construction site. As winter draws near he devises a plan that will surely have him incarcerated and thus in warmer climates. To do so he chooses a bar to demolish but the crime only lands him a week in jail. Freedom proves too chilling and he vows to return. Grangier worked with Gabin on several films notably "The Night Affair" 1958 "The Counterfeiters of Paris" 1961 "Speaking of Murder" 1957 and "Maigret Sees Red" 1963 as did photographer Dole who was consistent if anything a regular fixture in films by Denys de La Patelliere Jean Delannoy. Photos 9.25 x 11.75 inches. Very Good plus overall with light curling discoloration. Intermondia Films / Pretoria / Cinedis unknown
1959ref. 144629Paris: Intermondia Films / Pretoria / Cinedis 1959. Collection of 4 original black-and-white single weight still photographs from the 1959 French-Italian film. Featuring Jean Gabin dancing gaily in a pub with costar Doll all photos with brief numerical annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. Gabin plays a sophisticated tramp who lives during summer in an abandoned construction site. As winter draws near he devises a plan that will surely have him incarcerated and thus in warmer climates. To do so he chooses a bar to demolish but the crime only lands him a week in jail. Freedom proves too chilling and he vows to return. Grangier worked with Gabin on several films notably "The Night Affair" 1958 "The Counterfeiters of Paris" 1961 "Speaking of Murder" 1957 and "Maigret Sees Red" 1963 as did photographer Dole who was consistent if anything a regular fixture in films by Denys de La Patelliere Jean Delannoy. Photos 9.25 x 11.75 inches. Very Good plus overall with light curling discoloration. Intermondia Films / Pretoria / Cinedis unknown books
1962ref. 132471London: National Screen Service / MGM 1962. Collection of 6 vintage full-color British front-of-house cards from the 1962 UK film. A handsome drifter on the run accused of murder gets involved with a pretty circus girl. Nancy Kwan stars as an Italian horse rider. 8 x 10 inches. Light creases at the extremities else Near Fine. National Screen Service / MGM unknown books
1962ref. 150846N.p.: N.p. 1962. Two vintage reference photographs from the 1962 film one showing actress Mai Zetterling the other showing Zetterling with actor Pat Boone. A drifter on the run from a murder charge joins a traveling circus where his attentions are torn between two beautiful women. Shot on location in England. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. N.p. 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
1969ref. 147832N.p.: Cinemation Industries 1969. Vintage studio still photograph of Robert Walker Jr. and Phyllis Diller from the 1970 film here under the working title "The Man from O.R.G.Y. in 'The Real Gone Girls'." Based on Ted Mark's "The Man from O.R.G.Y." series 1965-1981 written under the pseudonym Theodore "Ted" Mark Gottfried. Steve Victor Walker head of the Organization for the Rational Guidance of Youth O.R.G.Y. searches for three prostitutes each bearing a tattoo of a gopher on their buttocks who have inherited a uranium mine from their former madam. Set in and shot on location in New York City and Puerto Rico. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with light creasing and edgewear. Cinemation Industries unknown books
1959ref. 149472Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1959. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Alan Ladd in a dynamic pose with the image manipulated for effect from the 1959 film noir. Based on the 1956 novel by Hugh Wheeler under the pseudonym Patrick Quentin. A struggling artist Alan Ladd is accused of murdering his unstable alcoholic wife Carolyn Jones when she goes missing and must flee from the lynch mob forming amongst the townsfolk. Set in fictional Stoneville Connecticut shot on location in Woodstock and Thompson Connecticut and Framingham Massachusetts. 8 x 10 inches. Light edgewear and faint toning at edges else Near Fine. Selby US. Spicer US. Grant US. United Artists unknown
1970ref. 153808N.p.: N.p. 1970. Treatment script for an unproduced film. The adventures of roguish gambler and man-about-town Anthony "Mink" Romano. A later effort by comic book writer and artist Bob Kane best known for co-creating the DC Comics character Batman alongside artist Bill Finger. In his later career Kane turned to screenwriting and film work serving as a consultant on Tim Burton's 1989 adaptation "Batman" and its three sequels. Mustard titled wrappers with credits for screenwriter Bob Kane. Title page present undated with credits for screenwriter Bob Kane. 74 leaves with last page of text numbered 67. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1957ref. 138492Paris: Cocinor 1957. Vintage French Moyenne or Affiche Moyenne poster for the 1957 French-Italian film "The Man in the Raincoat" here under the French title "l'homme a l'impermeable." Printed in brilliant color by the French illustration company Bobigny with artwork by the prolific Jean Mascii. Notation in manuscript ink on the verso. Based on James Hadley Chase's 1954 novel "Tiger by the Tail." In a case of mistaken identity a lonely clarinet player named Albert Fernandel is appointed to see a call girl Magre. While he waits in her living room the girl is murdered and someone is seen leaving the scene of the crime in a raincoat. Albert is then followed by blackmail and professional killers. 23.5 x 31 folded. Very Good with tears and chips. Cocinor unknown
1970ref. 153808N.p.: N.p. 1970. Treatment script for an unproduced film. The adventures of roguish gambler and man-about-town Anthony "Mink" Romano. A later effort by comic book writer and artist Bob Kane best known for co-creating the DC Comics character Batman alongside artist Bill Finger. In his later career Kane turned to screenwriting and film work serving as a consultant on Tim Burton's 1989 adaptation "Batman" and its three sequels. Mustard titled wrappers with credits for screenwriter Bob Kane. Title page present undated with credits for screenwriter Bob Kane. 74 leaves with last page of text numbered 67. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1959ref. 149472Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1959. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Alan Ladd in a dynamic pose with the image manipulated for effect from the 1959 film noir. Based on the 1956 novel by Hugh Wheeler under the pseudonym Patrick Quentin. A struggling artist Alan Ladd is accused of murdering his unstable alcoholic wife Carolyn Jones when she goes missing and must flee from the lynch mob forming amongst the townsfolk. Set in fictional Stoneville Connecticut shot on location in Woodstock and Thompson Connecticut and Framingham Massachusetts. 8 x 10 inches. Light edgewear and faint toning at edges else Near Fine. Selby US. Spicer US. Grant US. United Artists unknown books
1957ref. 138492Paris: Cocinor 1957. Vintage French Moyenne or Affiche Moyenne poster for the 1957 French-Italian film "The Man in the Raincoat" here under the French title "l'homme a l'impermeable." Printed in brilliant color by the French illustration company Bobigny with artwork by the prolific Jean Mascii. Notation in manuscript ink on the verso. Based on James Hadley Chase's 1954 novel "Tiger by the Tail." In a case of mistaken identity a lonely clarinet player named Albert Fernandel is appointed to see a call girl Magre. While he waits in her living room the girl is murdered and someone is seen leaving the scene of the crime in a raincoat. Albert is then followed by blackmail and professional killers. 23.5 x 31 folded. Very Good with tears and chips. Cocinor unknown books
1942ref. 148224Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1942. Vintage reference photograph of actress Vivien Oakland from the 1942 film. The communicative ghost of a long-dead bookie seeks justice for his wrongful murder. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good with light edgewear and soil to the bottom right corner. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
