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1974ref. 9004583Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1974. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. Bound in the publisher's original quarter navy blue and white cloth with the front cover and spine stamped in silver. Houghton Mifflin hardcover books
1954ref. 9001262Morehead State College Press 1954. 1st. paperback. Very Good. Wrappers. Cover design by Ann Felix. Includes two poems by Wendell Berry published here before his first novel. Morehead State College Press paperback books
2007ref. 72259Emeryville CA: Shoemaker & Hoard 2007. First Shoemaker & Hoard edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. SIGNED. Slim quarto 25 cm. Sage and cream colored cloth boards no dust jacket as issued. Based on the fine press edition by the Press on Scroll Road. Foreword by James Baker Hall with wood engravings by Wesley Bates. Signed by Wendell Berry on the title page. Authored while Wendell Berry looked out the multipaned window of his writing studio these poems contemplate Berry's personal life and describe the seasons he witnessed through the window. First designed and printed on a Washington hand press by Bob Barris at the Press on Scroll Road "Window Poems" includes elegant wood engravings by Wesley Bates that complement the philosophical and meditative beauty of Berry's poems. Shoemaker & Hoard hardcover books
1973ref. 164905Garden City: Anchor Press / Doubleday 1973. First Edition. First Edition. INSCRIBED on the title page by editor Ed McClanahan: "Ed McClanahan / for Jeff Rogers / Lex / 5/9/87." A collection of articles poetry and fiction. Very Good plus in perfect-bound wrappers. Anchor Press / Doubleday unknown books
ref. 170959Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox Television 1978. Draft script for the 1982 television movie seen here under the working title "Sisters" Originally aired on June 7 1982 on NBC. Rare. One of only two original feature-length original screenplays written by Maya Angelou the other being the 1972 television movie "Georgia Georgia". In a small town in North Carolina a young schoolteacher's life is upended with the arrival of her younger sisters who challenge her straitlaced ultra-moral attitude towards life. Filmed in 1979 but not aired until 1982. Set in North Carolina and shot on location in Montgomery and Opelika Alabama. Blue titled wrappers dated June 12 1978 and noted as REVISED FINAL on the front wrapper. Title page present dated June 12 1978 noted as REVISED FINAL with credit for screenwriter Maya Angelou. 122 leaves with last page of text numbered 116. Mimeograph duplication on eye-rest green stock rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox Television unknown books
2000ref. 163292N.p.: N.p. 2000. Three scripts for the television series that aired on the USA Network during the summer of 2000 constituting a three-part story constituting the "finale" of the series' only season. - Eighth Revised Shooting Draft script of Season 1 Episode 11 - Second Revised Revised Shooting Draft script for Season 1 Episode 12 and Second - Revised Shooting Draft script for Season 1 Episode 13 A procedural in which a cop moves from Los Angeles to an eccentric town in Arizona after the mysterious death of his wife. In the first installment the Mayor suspects his father is trying to kill him and the sheriff's son runs away. In the second installment the sheriff's son starts illegally smuggling drugs back home in LA sending the sheriff and Mayor after him. In the third and final installment the sheriff's son runs away again and people are out to kill the Mayor. Set in Manhattan Arizona. Eighth Revised Shooting Draft "What Makes Atticus Run": Salmon titled self-wrappers noted as SHOOTING DRAFT on the front wrapper dated August 7 2000 with credits for screenwriters Joe Port and Joe Wiseman. Title page integral with front self-wrapper. 33 leaves with last page of text numbered 32. Xerographic duplication rectos only with rainbow revision pages throughout dated variously between 7/27/00 and 8/7/00. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Second Revised Shooting Draft "Atticus Doesn't Live Here Anymore": Pink titled self-wrappers noted as REVISED SHOOTING DRAFT on the front wrapperdated August 8 2000 with credits for screenwriters Michael Lisbe and Nate Reger. Title page integral with front self-wrapper. 31 leaves with last page of text numbered 30. Xerographic duplication rectos only with blue and pink revision pages throughout dated variously between 8/4/00 and 8/8/00. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Second Revised Shooting Draft script "The Voyage Home" Pink titled self-wrappers noted as SHOOTING DRAFT on the front wrapper dated August 9 2000 with credits for screenwriters Joe Port and Joe Wiseman. Title page integral with front self-wrapper. 33 leaves with last page of text numbered 30. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Treatment script 1: Lacking wrappers. Title page integral with first page of narrative text dated 6/26/00. 6 leaves with last page of text numbered 6. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Near Fine bound with a staple at the top left corner. Treatment script 2: Lacking wrappers. Title page integral with first page of narrative text dated 6/27/00. 10 leaves with last page of text numbered 9. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Near Fine bound with a staple at the top left corner. Treatment script 3: Lacking wrappers. Title page integral with first page of narrative text dated 6/29/00. 9 leaves with last page of text numbered 9. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Near Fine with manuscript ink annotations throughout. Bound with a staple at the top left corner. Treatment script 4: Lacking wrappers. Title page integral with first page of narrative text dated 6/30/00. 2 leaves with last page of text numbered 2. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Very Good with manuscript ink annotations. Bound with a staple at the top left corner. N.p. unknown books
1971ref. 162501N.p.: Futurama International 1971. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1971 film here under the working title "The Touch of Melissa." Photograph with provenance stamps on the verso. On the road from San Francisco to Austin Jodie makes a brief stop at a farm where he meets and falls in love with Melissa the lovely farmer's daughter. Unfortunately Melissa's insane great-grandmother is in the mix unaware Melissa is in fact a 127-year old witch and that Melissa is actually her sister. Shot on location in Santa Ynez California. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Nightmare USA. Code Red. Futurama International unknown books
1967ref. 161836N.p.: Trans Continental Artists 1967. Vintage studio still photograph of Rita Alexander from the 1967 film. Three women who are old friends reunite to plan a heist of the King of Sex's crown during the Mardi Gras carnival. Shot on location in New Orleans. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Trans Continental Artists unknown books
1965ref. 161828N.p.: Cresent International Pictures 1965. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1965 film. Provenance stamp on the verso and two labels one obscuring a previous provenance stamp. Myrtle is in search for someone who can satisfy her desires since her husband George either can't or won't. Shot on location in Texas. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with faint creasing. Cresent International Pictures unknown books
1966ref. 161823N.p.: Astro Films 1966. Vintage compilation photograph of Lorna Maitland from the 1966 film. Country girl Diane is sold by her hillbilly step-dad for $50 to hick stud Rick who takes off the next day leaving the note "I got my $50 worth" leaving Diane to fend for herself against various junkies predatory lesbians go-go dancers evil bartenders and mysterious gangsters. Set in and shot on location in Mesquite and Dallas Texas. 8 x 10 inches. Light edgewear else Near Fine. Astro Films unknown books
1965ref. 161827N.p.: Astro Films 1965. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1965 film. A stripper is a mule for her gangster boyfriend transporting heroin from Mexico across the border into the US. Shot on location in Dallas and Houston Texas and Mexico City Mexico. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with a half inch closed tear to the lower right. Astro Films unknown books
1959ref. 170456N.p.: N.p. 1959. Vintage reference photograph from the 1959 film showing rock-and-roll icons Ritchie Valens and Jimmy Clanton chatting over a record player. Provenance label on the verso. Valens' only film appearance released months after his death in a plane crash alongside Buddy Holly and The Big Bopper and the final film of American disc jockey Alan Freed. Freed would later become embroiled in a "payola" controversy that would end his career. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus. N.p. unknown books
1965ref. 161629N.p.: Barry Mahon Production 1965. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1965 film. A fake documentary of clips reputedly censored from various films all shot by director and producer Barry Mahon pictured in the second photo here. Shot on location in New York City. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with light edgewear. Barry Mahon Production unknown books
1973ref. 161105Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1973. Eight vintage borderless reference photographs and a pressbook from the 1973 documentary film showing Bo Diddley 2 Chubby Checker 2 The Shirelles 3 Bobby Comstock and Comstock Limited. A celebration of 1950s rock 'n' roll music using both archival footage from the era and contemporary concert footage and focusing largely on Black musicians from the era. Features performances by Chuck Berry Little Richard Fats Domino Chubby Checker Bo Diddley The Shirelles The Coasters Bill Haley and the Comets Bobby Comstock and Comstock Limited and others. Photographs 9.5 x 7.25 inches. Very Good plus. Pressbook 11 x 17 inches folded twice vertically and once horizontally. Very Good with bruises and faint dampstaining on the right edges. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1968ref. 161186N.p.: N.p. 1968. Draft script for the 1970 film seen here under the working title "The Scene." Copy belonging to director William Rowland with his name in manuscript ink on the front wrapper and two revision pages and his annotations in manuscript ink throughout noting deletions scene locations and revisions to dialogue. A psychiatrist details her most outlandish cases largely involving her teenage patients and their experiences with drugs sex and politics culminating in her attempt to help her own daughter. Rowland's final directorial effort. Set and shot on location in Los Angeles. Yellow titled wrappers. 120 leaves with last page of text numbered 117. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue and white revision pages throughout dated variously between 6/26/68 and 7/3/68. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1951ref. 159619Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1951. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1951 film noir both showing actor Wallace Ford. Based on the 1947 novel by Sam Ross about a robber who holds a family hostage in their apartment as he grows increasingly paranoid about being caught. Screenwriter Dalton Trumbo was uncredited due to his being blacklisted at the time. Shot on location in Los Angeles and Long Beach California. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus. Grant US. Selby US Canon. Silver and Ward Classic Noir. Spicer US. United Artists unknown books
1975ref. 158810Los Angeles: Motown Productions 1975. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1975 film. One photograph with a mimeo snipe attached to the verso one photograph with a folded mimeo snipe attached to the verso. A young woman from Chicago dreams of making it big in the fashion industry when she gets discovered and reinvented into fashion model Mahogany. Even with her new found success in Rome she still feels lost without her love she left back home in Chicago. Set in Chicago and Rome shot on location in Chicago and Rome. One photograph 8 x 10 inches one photograph 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Motown Productions unknown books
1967ref. 0000097New York: Harcourt Brace & World Inc 1967. First Edition Second Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Flat signed by author on front free endpaper. Octavo. 8.75 x 5.75 inches. 550 pp. Publisher's original yellow-brown cloth over board with brown and green stamping to spine. Orange endpapers. Tan dust jacket with illustration printed in brown green and white. "B.10.67" on copyright page. Binding sound and square. Tips sharp. Interior clean and unmarked. Unclipped dust jacket shows three small closed tears one near lower leading corner of rear panel one at upper edge of real panel and one near upper leading corner of front panel. Creasing to head and heel of spine. Light chipping to head of spine top edge of front panel and both upper tips. Spine and edges rubbed and toned. Dust jacket now in removeable archival protective cover. Freedman A5. Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc hardcover books
1982ref. 151015N.p.: N.p. 1982. Three vintage reference photographs from the set of the 1982 film one of Jacques Demy and Dominique Sanda and two of Demy and crew with camera. One with with provenance stamp of film scholar and author "Jean-Pierre Berthome" on verso. Although similar to Demy's 1964 "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg" in that it is an operettta-musical in which all the dialogue is sung here Demy is much more explicitly political and possibly even more tragic. Set during the Nantes worker's strike in 1955 shipyard worker Francois Guilbaud a strikers falls in love with his upper-class landlady's married daughter Edith. Set in and shot on location in Nantes France. 1 9.5 x 6 inches 2 9.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 719. Rosenbaum 1000. N.p. unknown books
1987ref. 150937Universal City: Universal Studios 1987. Vintage promotional photograph of director Taylor Hackford from the 1987 film. Provenance stamp of collector historian and author "Frank Driggs" on verso. Hackford's documentary of two 1986 concerts on October 16 1986 at the Fox Theatre in St. Louis celebrating Chuck Berry's 60th birthday. Featuring performances and interviews with a multitude of musicians spanning musical genres and generations including Keith Richards Eric Clapton Robert Cray Linda Ronstadt Etta James Steve Jordan and others. Set in and shot on location in the Fox Theater St. Louis Missouri. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Universal Studios unknown books
1980ref. 152436N.p.: N.p. 1980. Draft script for an unproduced film. Written by noted African American screenwriter S. Torriano Berry. A rock star dies in a freak accident but is reincarnated to the chagrin of his greedy recording company who have already made plans to replace him in the spotlight. Heavily influenced by earlier films "Heaven Can Wait" Ernst Lubitsch 1943 and "Heaven Can Wait" Warren Beatty and Elaine May 1978 Blue titled front wrapper missing rear wrapper with credits for screenwriter S. Torriano Berry. Missing title page presumably as issued. 75 leaves with last page of text numbered 75. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1948ref. 149732N.p.: N.p. 1948. Vintage oversize borderless reference photograph from the 1948 film showing actors Gene Tierney and Dana Andrews. Based on the real experiences of Ivor Gouzenko a Communist code-breaker assigned to the Soviet Embassy in wartime Canada who defected from the USSR after the war. Subject to controversy upon release with liberals protesting the film's depiction of the Soviet cause and conservatives protesting the liberal picketers. Set and shot on location in Ottawa Ontario Canada. 10 x 12.75 inches. Very Good lightly creased to the edges. N.p. unknown books
1985ref. 144097Philadelphia: N.p. 1985. Second Draft script for an unproduced film. A drama about the members of the fictional Omega Que Rho fraternity likely based on Omega Psi Phi an historically Black fraternity of which screenwriter S. Torriano Berry was a member. Berry would go on to find success in the horror film genre creating an anthology series "The Black Beyond" writing and directing one of the first urban horror films "Embalmer" 1996 and working as the cinematographer on Troma's entry into urban horror "Bugged" 1997. Title page present dated 7/16/85 noted as Second Draft with credits for screenwriter S. Torriano Berry. 123 leaves with last page of text numbered 120. Xerographically reproduced. Pages Near Fine overall rear wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1970ref. 137691N.p.: Self published 1970. Typescript treatment script for an unproduced film called "Who Loves Jackie" written by Richard G. Berry. Copy belonging to Paul Kohner agency representative Ilse Lahn with two manuscript letters addressed to her from Berry: one letter requesting that Lahn read the script noting a date of 9/7/78 and the other thanking Lahn for reading the script but disagreeing the her suggestions about changes to the script. Both letters signed by Berry. A story about a girl named Jackie violently raped and intent on revenge with an undertone of Oedipal frustrations. Black wrappers with title label on the front wrapper. Title page present undated with a credit for screenwriter Berry. 53 leaves with last leaf of text numbered 51. One letter consists of 1 leaf on yellow lined legal notebook paper the other letter of 3 leaves on similar paper. d an interoffice memo laid in. Typescript on onionskin stock. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound internally with a silver prong brad. Letters folded horizontally else Near Fine. Self published unknown books
1952ref. 132396London: Twentieth Century-Fox 1952. Vintage full-color British front-of-house card from the UK release of the 1951 US film. In 1858 France Emperor Napoleon sends military officers to Normandy in search of a group of rebels. They encounter a masked cavalier and his companions including an heiress to the fabled treasure of Monte Cristo. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with pinholes at the corners. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
