1998Best.-Nr. 163928Culver City CA: Tingle Productions 1998. Shooting Draft script for the 1999 film here under working title "Killing Mrs. Tingle." From the archive of crew member Chris Scher. A high school student seeks revenge on a teacher who gave her a bad grade threatening her ability to become valedictorian. Shot on location in Southern California. Chris Scher has worked in American films from 1994 to the present. She was a propmaker construction accountant/estimator/buyer and carpenter on over 20 movies including "The Last Seduction" 1994 "Pulp Fiction" 1994 "From Dusk Till Dawn" 1994 "The Horse Whisperer 1998 "Joy Ride" 2001 and others. She also performed the same work for prestige television dramas including "The Bridge" 2014 "Ozark" 2017 and "Yellowstone" 2018. Yellow titled self wrappers lacking rear wrappers noted as Shooting Draft on the front wrapper dated 5/17/98 with credits for screenwriter Kevin Williamson. Title page integral with front wrapper. 128 leaves with last page of text numbered 110. Xerographic duplication rectos only with blue pink and yellow revision pages throughout dated variously between 4/30/98 and 5/16/98. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Tingle Productions unknown books
1967Best.-Nr. 162400N.p.: N.p. 1967. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1968 film showing actress Vanessa Redgrave in costume as Isadora Duncan. A biographical film about Isadora Duncan an American dancer and artist who gained fame for her innovation in modern dance and outspoken bohemian lifestyle. Nominated for the Palme d'Or. Set in Paris and Chicago. 9.25 x 7.25 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1990Best.-Nr. 163385Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1990. Revised Second Draft script for the 1991 film comedy. Based on Neil B. Shulman's 1979 book "What Dead. Again" After crashing his car in a small town a doctor who dreams of a wealthy life in Beverly Hills is forced to spend several days working at the town hospital. Set in Grady South Carolina and in Beverly Hills and shot on location in Santa Clarita and Beverly Hills California and in Gainesville McIntosh Mechanicsville Micanopy Florida and in Richmond Virginia. Self wrappers. Title page present dated July 10 1990 noted as "Rewrite: Second Draft" with credit for screenwriter Daniel Pyne. 126 leaves with last page of text numbered 122. Xerographic duplication on pink stock rectos only with rainbow revision pages throughout dated variously between 11/6/90 and 1/11/91. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Warner Brothers unknown books
1989Best.-Nr. 151977London: Roadshow Productions 1989. Draft script for the 1989 film. Based on the 1979 book by Joan and Clay Blair detailing a 1944 Japanese naval transport of thousands of British and Australian prisoners-of-war during which the ships used to transport the prisoners were torpedoed by US submarines causing 1559 of the captives to perish. Set in Japan shot on location in the Philippines. Tall red untitled wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present undated with credits for screenwriter Paul Mayersberg and writers Joan and Clay Blair. 114 leaves with last page of text numbered 113. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with a silver prong. Roadshow Productions unknown books
1963Best.-Nr. 152260London: Twentieth Century-Fox 1963. Archive of production material from the 1965 British film including a Revised Draft screenplay three original character design illustrations and a hand drawn storyboard. A British newspaper offers a substantial prize to the winner of a cross-channel air race bringing aviators from around the world to compete for the chance at victory and grabbing the attentions of various women. A number of authentic airplanes from the 1900s were used during production including a 1910 Deperdussin Monoplane and a 1912 Blackburn Monoplane. Set and shot on location in England including at Book Airfield in Buckinghamshire. Fuchsia titled wrappers. Title page present dated December 1963 noted as REVISED SCRIPT with credits for director-screenwriter Ken Annakin and screenwriter Jack Davies. 181 leaves with last page of text numbered 174. Multilith duplication on eye-rest green stock rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus lightly faded on the front wrapper bound internally with two silver brads. Storyboard and design illustrations varying sizes Near Fine overall housed in a manila folder. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1973Best.-Nr. 161147N.p.: N.p. 1973. Vintage French mini-poster for the 1973 French film. Based on the groundbreaking 1879 play by Henrik Ibsen. Nora leads a quiet existence with her authoritarian husband Torvald but is forced to reconsider her marriage when a blackmailer threatens to reveal secrets from her past. Shot on location in Reros Norway. 8.5 x 11 inches. Very Good plus with light edgewear and creasing. N.p. unknown books
1988Best.-Nr. 298248Wilmington: Eros Pub 1988. Magazine. 48p. includes covers 8.5x11 inches b&w and color photos of fetish sex scenes involving men in drag transsexuals and dominatrixes worn magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Straight gay lesbian trans fetish wear and sex. Eros Pub unknown books
1986Best.-Nr. 298244Wilmington: Eros Pub 1986. Magazine. 48p. includes covers 8.5x11 inches b&w and color photos of fetish sex scenes involving men in drag transsexuals and dominatrixes worn magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Straight gay lesbian trans fetish wear and sex. Eros Pub unknown books
1994Best.-Nr. 300859Wilmington: Magcorp 1994. Magazine. 48p. includes covers 8.5x11 inches b&w and color photos of fetish sex scenes involving men in drag transsexuals and dominatrixes lightly worn magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Straight gay lesbian trans fetish wear and sex. Magcorp unknown books
1997Best.-Nr. 301068Wilmington: Magcorp 1997. 48p. includes covers 8.5x11 inches b&w and color photos of fetish sex scenes involving men in drag transsexuals and dominatrixes lightly worn magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Straight gay lesbian trans fetish wear and sex. Magcorp unknown books
1989Best.-Nr. 7348New York: Abrams 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Signed by Laurent de Brunhoff on the second front endpaper. Fine in a Near Fine jacket unclipped no price some pulling to the laminate on the back panel. Yellow cloth with red ink lettering and designs on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound clean internally. A collaborative effort between Weber and Laurent to provide not only a history of Babar but also an account of the techinques Jean and Laurent used when illustrating. Abrams hardcover books
1950Best.-Nr. 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
1969Best.-Nr. 7158Somerviller: Abyss Publications 1969. Paperback. Near Fine. Second Printing limited to 300 copies. With a TLS from Fox on his personal letterhead. Near Fine. Wraps toned and soiled at the spine and edges. Square and firmly bound with two staples clean internally. An early printing of the first critical study on Bukowski. Abyss Publications paperback books
2007Best.-Nr. 11728Elibron Classics 2007. Paperback. Good . Paperback. 8 1/4" X 5 1/4". Very mild shelf wear to covers corners and edges of pictorial paper wraps. A few instances of inked underlining to pages of Volume II. Pages of Volume I are clean and unmarked. Bindings are sound. These works are facsimiles of the original 1876 edition published in two volumes. This set is heavy and oversized and will require additional postal charges to ship internationally. Please contact us today for an international shipping quote. ABOUT THIS SET: These volumes present a biography of the life of John Locke the English philosopher. Locke spent nearly twenty years developing his empirical theory of epistemology. He is known as the father of English empiricism and wrote many papers on this subject as well as on his liberal constitutionalist ideas on government. These volumes takes the reader on a journey through Locke's life beginning in 1632 and ending with his death in 1704.Publisher. 8 1/4" X 5 1/4". Very mild shelf wear to covers corners and edges of pictorial paper wraps. A few instances of inked underlining to pages of Volume II. Pages of Volume I are clean and unmarked. Bindings are sound. These works are facsimiles of the original 1876 edition published in two volumes. This set is heavy and oversized and will require additional postal charges to ship internationally. Please contact us today for an international shipping quote. ABOUT THIS SET: These volumes present a biography of the life of John Locke the English philosopher. Locke spent nearly twenty years developing his empirical theory of epistemology. He is known as the father of English empiricism and wrote many papers on this subject as well as on his liberal constitutionalist ideas on government. These volumes takes the reader on a journey through Locke's life beginning in 1632 and ending with his death in 1704.Publisher. Elibron Classics paperback books
2004Best.-Nr. 153632New York: Whitney Museum of American Art 2004. First Edition. First Edition. Published in conjunction with a traveling exhibition which opened at the Whitney Museum of American Art on February 11 2005 and closed at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on September 5 2005. Near Fine and unread without a dust jacket as issued. Whitney Museum of American Art unknown books
1973Best.-Nr. 154836N.p.: N.p. 1973. Four vintage borderless reference photographs taken on the set of the 1973 film including several shots of director Joseph Losey actors Jane Fonda and Edward Fox and other cast and crew members. Cinemagence stamp on the verso. Based on the 1879 play by Henrik Ibsen about a woman named Nora who leads a quiet existence with her authoritarian husband Torvald but is forced to reconsider her marriage when a blackmailer threatens to reveal secrets from her past. Shot on location in Reros Norway. 7 x 5 inches. About Fine. N.p. unknown books
1973Best.-Nr. 153359Berkeley: University Art Museum 1973. First Edition. Trade softcover. First Edition. Published in conjunction with a 1973 exhibition of Terry Fox's work at the University Art Museum in Berkeley. Near Fine in wrappers. University Art Museum unknown books
1993Best.-Nr. 153393Lancaster OH: The Hammond Galleries 1993. First Edition. Softcover. First Edition. Published in conjunction with an exhibition of work by Terry Fox Bill Viola Robert Smithson and Andres Serrano which ran from July 20 to August 14 1993. Fine in wrappers. The Hammond Galleries unknown books
2004Best.-Nr. 8948New York: Paulist Press 2004. Hardcover. Very good . Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". xiv 434pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers corners and edges of pictorial paper over boards with spine backed in textured blue paper and lettered in white. Price sticker to rear cover. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm tight and sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: This volume the ninth on Islamic material to be published in the Classics of Western Spirituality series brings to light a highly significant but little known area of Islamic spirituality. Editor John Renard has assembled here a volume of texts most translated here for the first time culled from the great Sufi manuals of spirituality on the theme of the complex and multi-faceted role of knowledge in relation to the spiritual life. He presents excerpts on knowledge from the works of nine major Muslim teachers most translated from Arabic but also including important texts from Persian originals. The Introduction offers a survey of the development of Sufi modes of knowing through the thirteenth century in their broader context and then focuses on the manuals or compendia of Sufi spirituality treated here. Historical notes provide brief identifications of many of the individual sources and personalities mentioned throughout the treatises.Publisher. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". xiv 434pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers corners and edges of pictorial paper over boards with spine backed in textured blue paper and lettered in white. Price sticker to rear cover. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm tight and sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: This volume the ninth on Islamic material to be published in the Classics of Western Spirituality series brings to light a highly significant but little known area of Islamic spirituality. Editor John Renard has assembled here a volume of texts most translated here for the first time culled from the great Sufi manuals of spirituality on the theme of the complex and multi-faceted role of knowledge in relation to the spiritual life. He presents excerpts on knowledge from the works of nine major Muslim teachers most translated from Arabic but also including important texts from Persian originals. The Introduction offers a survey of the development of Sufi modes of knowing through the thirteenth century in their broader context and then focuses on the manuals or compendia of Sufi spirituality treated here. Historical notes provide brief identifications of many of the individual sources and personalities mentioned throughout the treatises.Publisher. Paulist Press hardcover books
1963Best.-Nr. 150119N.p.: N.p. 1963. Two vintage reference photographs from the set of the 1963 film with a blind stamp in the upper corner of each. Based on the 1948 novella by Robin Maugham. The first of Joseph Losey's three legendary collaborations with screenwriter-playwright Harold Pinter a dark squeamish parable that tells a servant-becomes-master tale but goes beyond what could have been a mediocre finish and journeys into the psyche and personal problems of the servant himself. Stunningly photographed by Douglas Slocombe. A classic of 1960s British cinema. Set in and shot on location in London. 8 x 10.25 inches. Light creases and edgewear at the extremities else Near Fine. Spicer UK. N.p. unknown books
1986Best.-Nr. 152264Beverly Hills CA: Leading Artists Inc 1986. Early Draft Spec script for the season 5 episode 12 "My Mother My Friend" of the popular NBC television sitcom which aired on December 18 1986 here under the working title "Elyse's New Friend." Leading Artists agency wrappers with card stock note laid in on Leading Artists letterhead to "Webster" screenwriter Robbie Jayson from the assistant of Leading Artists partner Robb Rothman on behalf of screenwriter Kate Boutilier. When Mallory brings her college friend Allison home to visit and she immediately bonds with Elyse Mallory grows jealous questioning her relationship with her mom. The series was nominated for 19 Emmy Awards over its 7 season run winning 5 including 3 Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy awards for Michael J. Fox in a star-making role. Untitled Leading Artists wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Kate Boutilier. 43 leaves with last page of text numbered 42. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper with light rubbing else Near fine bound internally with three gold brads. Leading Artists Inc unknown books
1968Best.-Nr. 146438Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1968. Draft script for an unproduced film. Laid in with the script is a note typed on casting agent Paul Kohner's office letterhead introducing the screenplay addressed to actor Charles Bronson. The note is paper-clipped to a four page typed synopsis of the unproduced film "The Last Jump" which is also mentioned in the note. Based on noted South Carolinian humorist William Price Fox's 1967 novel following a pair of mischievous teenage boys trying to scrape together enough money to buy a car-encountering bootleggers revivalist preachers loan sharks and other figureheads of southern life in the 20th century along the way. Set in Columbia South Carolina. Blue titled wrappers rubber-stamped copy No. 109 dated April 22 1968 with credits for screenwriter Everett Freeman and novelist William Price Fox. Title page integral with the front wrapper as issued. 134 leaves with last page of text numbered 134. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1994Best.-Nr. 150134N.p.: N.p. 1994. Vintage borderless double weight color reference photograph of director Robert Altman with Julia Roberts and Lyle Lovett on location at Roissy Airport Charles de Gaulle Airport for the 1994 film. French and English printed "Sipa Press" snipe and "Pica Pressfoto" label on verso. Altman's sardonic take on Paris Fashion Week featuring an enormous and star-studded ensemble cast of international actors models and designers. Set in and shot on location in Paris France . 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1944Best.-Nr. 128914Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1944. Draft script for the 1945 film. Copy belonging to studio secretary Marion Pecht with her name in manuscript pencil at the top right corner of the front wrapper. The sixth and final Inner Sanctum installment featuring spiritualists a haunted house and a murder by suffocation in what was seemingly a last gasp from the studio's film series. Sadly the film's failure superseded its potential even with all the right elements of a chilling melodrama. ChaneyJr. plays attorney Wayne Fletcher who is engaged in an affair with his secretary Donna Joyce who is tied to a rich family. He arrives home after a late night at the office to discover his wife has been murdered a death by asphyxiation with Wayne as the suspect. With the help psychic Julian Julian Bromberg the police investigate the murder. The psychic's motives are questionable but he says he can contact Wayne's dead wife. At a seance to reach Vivian's spirit the reluctant Wayne hears what he thinks is her voice but discovers Julian Julian in the shadows and accuses him of conspiracy. After several sleepless nights haunted by the voice of his lost wife Wayne finally "gives in" to her spirit and attempts to kill Donna with a pillow but is overpowered by police and leaps from a window to his death per his wife's instructions. Gray card titled wrappers lacking rear wrapper rubber-stamped production No. 7285 dated February 19 1945 with credits for screenwriter Bricker and story writer Babcock. 106 leaves mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Good lacking rear wrapper bound with two gold brads. Weaver Universal Horrors. Universal Pictures unknown books
1963Best.-Nr. 146913N.p.: Estree Distributors 1963. Vintage borderless photograph of Sarah Miles and Joseph Losey on the set of the 1963 film. Crop annotations in manuscript marker on recto crop annotations in manuscript pencil and "Theo Cowan LTD" and "Paris-Presse" stamps and 1 1/4" mimeo snipe on the verso. The first of Joseph Losey's three legendary collaborations with screenwriter-playwright Harold Pinter a dark squeamish parable that tells a servant-becomes-master tale but goes beyond what could have been a mediocre finish and journeys into the psyche and personal problems of the servant himself. Stunningly photographed by Douglas Slocombe. A classic of 1960s British cinema. Set in and shot on location in London. 7.5 x 9.75 inches. Very Good plus some faint creasing. Estree Distributors unknown books
