Original photograph of Sam Jaffe from the 1951 film)
by Sam Jaffe (actor)
N.p.: N.p., 1950. Vintage reference photograph of actor Sam Jaffe, relaxing on the set of an unknown film, circa 1950s. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.
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Original post-card photograph of Susanna Foster, circa early 1940s
by Susanna Foster (actor)
N.p.: N.p., 1940. Vintage postcard photograph of actor Susanna Foster, circa early 1940s, with her signature printed from the negative, and a postcard layout on the verso. Singer and leading lady, Foster is best known for her role as the terrified prima donna Christine in Arthur Lubin's 1943 film "Phantom of the Opera," opposite Lon Chaney. At 5... Read More
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France Asselin (Two original photographs of the French actress)
by France Asselin (actress)
Paris: Unifrance, 1954. Two vintage black-and-white photographs of France Asselin. Both photos with manuscript annotations on the verso, one detailing the actress' films up to "Classe Tous Risques" (1960). One photo is a still presumably from her film "The Count of Monte Cristo" (1954). Asselin's film credits include "Cecile Is Dead" (1944), "the Love of a Woman,"... Read More
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Ibsen (First Edition, inscribed to David Mamet and Lindsay Crouse in the year of publication)
by Harold Clurman (author); Henrik Ibsen (subject); David Mamet (playwright); Lindsay Crouse (actress)
New York: Macmillan, 1977. First Edition. First Edition. INSCRIBED to playwright and film director David Mamet and his then-wife, actress Lindsay Crouse, in the year of publication on the title page: "For two beautiful people / Lindsay and David / Harold Clurman / Dec. 21, 1977." A remarkable association, connecting three generations of historic figures in world theatre.... Read More
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Original screenplay for an unproduced film)
by Thomas Hardy (novel); Allan Scott (screenwriter); Jennifer Jones (actress)
Los Angeles: Selznick International, 1946. Draft script for an unproduced film based on the 1892 Thomas Hardy novel. David O. Selznick held the movie rights to Hardy's story for many years (with Jennifer Jones in mind for Tess). Selznick's two greatest dreams had been to film "Gone With the Wind" and "Tess of the D'Urber villes." He... Read More
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![The Nutt House [The Nutty Nut] (Original photograph of Traci Lords and Stephen Kearney from the set of the 1992 film)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/706/487/1360487706.0.m.jpg)
The Nutt House [The Nutty Nut] (Original photograph of Traci Lords and Stephen Kearney from the set of the 1992 film)
by Adam Rifkin (director); John Paschal (photographer); Sam Raimi, Ivan Raimi, Bruce Campbell (screenwriters); Stephen Kearney, Traci Lords, Amy Yasbeck (starring)
Arcadia: Celebrity Photo Agency, 1991. Vintage borderless reference photograph, with left margin, of Traci Lords and Stephen Kearney sitting amongst the aftermath of a massive pie fight, on the set of the 1992 film. Printed snipe label, here under using the working title "The Nutty Nut," and photographer "John Paschal" stamp on verso. Wealthy Presidential candidate Philbert... Read More
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The Outer Limits: The Invisible Enemy (Original screenplay for the 1964 television episode)
by Adam West, Chris Alcaide, Joe Maross, Robert DoQui, Rudy Solari (starring); Byron Haskin (director); Jerry Sohl (screenwriter)
N.p.: N.p., 1964. Draft script for Season 2 Episode 7 of the 1963-1965 television series. Copy belonging to an unidentified crew member, with a penciled drawing with annotations on the rear wrapper, laying out a set design. In the year 2024, astronauts visiting Mars are picked off one by one by mysterious "Sand-Beasts," shark-like monsters that live and... Read More
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The Rivals (Original script for an unproduced play)
by Richard Sheridan (playwright); June Shannon (adaptation)
N.p.: N.p., 1950. Ribbon copy typed manuscript for an unproduced play, with essays on the history of the project, the production, casting, and set/costume design written by June Shannon, a drama student at the Carnegie Institute of Technology. With extensive manuscript annotations in ink and pencil on virtually every page, and 15 hand painted watercolor sketches of set and... Read More
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Lisak Volpone (Original flyer for the 1966 Czechoslovakian stage production)
by Ben Johnson Stephan Zweig (adaptation)
Prague: Jiriho Wolkra Theatre, 1966. Original flyer for a 1966 production of Stephan Zweig's 1928 adaptation of Ben Johnson's Jacobean Era play, "Volpone," at the Jiriho Wolkra Theatre in Prague in May 1966. 5.75 x 8.75 inches. Offset lithograph image with letterpress text to the recto and verso. Light foxing to the verso, else bright and Near... Read More
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What to Tell Your Children About Sex (Vintage Paperback)
by Adie Suehsdorf (editor); Milton I. Levine, M. D. (foreword)
New York: Perma Books [Permabook] No. M-4106, 1959. First printing of this edition. Copyright states "PERMABOOK edition published January, 1959 / 1st printing / November, 1958." New and revised illustrated edition, prepared by the Child Study Association of America. Cover design by Virginia Cowden. About Fine in illustrated wrappers.
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Compañeras and Compañeros (Archive of ten original photographs from the 1970 film)
by Adolfas Mekas, Barbara Stone (directors)
New York: Contemporary Films, 1970. Archive of ten vintage reference photographs from the 1970 film. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso, along with the stamp of Israel Film Archive. From the collection of film historian Joel Finler. A documentary about the Cuban revolution, told through interviews with activists, workers, students, and others. Co-director Adolfas Mekas was the... Read More
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Hallelujah the Hills with Scorpio Rising (Promotional broadside)
by Adolfas Mekas (director, screenplay); Kenneth Anger (director, screenplay)
Los Angeles, 1963. Promotional broadside, designed to resemble an oversized postcard, for the Los Angeles premiere of Adolfas Mekas' feature film debut, "Hallelujah the Hills," along with the debut of Kenneth Anger's short film, "Scorpio Rising." Mekas was the brother of Jonas Mekas, a film critic, filmmaker, and essentially father figure of the avant-garde New American Cinema... Read More
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The Circus Queen Murder (Original pressbook for the 1933 film)
by Adolphe Menjou, Donald Cook, Greta Nissen (starring); Roy William Neill (director); Jo Swerling (screenwriter)
New York: Columbia Pictures, 1933. Vintage pressbook for the 1933 pre-Code mystery film. Based on the 1932 Thatcher Colt novel by Fulton Oursler, and sequel to the 1932 film "The Night Club Lady," about a district attorney who heads upstate for a vacation, only to be drawn into a grisly murder involving a smalltime circus. ... Read More
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Hi Diddle Diddle (Original photograph from the 1943 film)
by Adolphe Menjou, Martha Scott, Pola Negri (starring); Andrew L. Stone (director); Edmund L. Hartmann, Frederick J. Jackson (screenwriters)
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1943. Vintage studio still photograph, linen-backed, from the 1943 comedy film, showing actors Adolphe Menjou and Martha Scott. When the mother of a soon-to-be bride claims she has been swindled by one of her daughter's former suitors, the groom's father—a small-time con man—schemes to set the situation right. 10 x 8 inches... Read More
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The Goldwyn Follies (Four original photographs from the 1938 film)
by Adolphe Menjou, Vera Zorina, Kenny Baker, Andrea Leeds (starring); Ben Hecht (screenwriter); George Marshall (director)
Los Angeles: The Samuel Goldwyn Company, 1938. Two vintage double-weight studio still photographs and two vintage reference photographs from the 1938 film. Seeking audience feedback, a film producer recruits an ordinary girl to evaluate his movies from the perspective of the everyday American. Set in Hollywood. Three 10 x 8 inches, one 8... Read More
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Collier's Magazine: Vol. 132, No. 5 (August 7, 1953)
by Adrian Conan Doyle, Pearl S. Buck, Fulton Oursler (contributors); Roger Dakin (editor)
New York: Collier, 1953. Volume 132, Number 5. Features stories by Fulton Oursler, Adrian Conan Doyle, and Pearl S. Buck. 11 x 14 inches. 55 leaves, rectos and versos. Very Good plus in side-stapled wrappers, moderately edgeworn.
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![Foxes [California Girls] (Original screenplay for the 1980 film)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/429/421/1578421429.0.m.jpg)
Foxes [California Girls] (Original screenplay for the 1980 film)
by Adrian Lyne (director); Gerald Ayres (screenwriter); Jodie Foster, Scott Baio, Sally Kellerman, Randy Quaid, Cherie Currie (starring)
N.p.: N.p., 1977. Early First Draft script for the seminal 1980 film, here under the working title "California Girls." Copy belonging to uncredited crew member Jim Brown (no relation to the actor, we suspect), with his name in manuscript ink on the title page. A bleak, seminal coming-of-age drama about four teenage girls grappling with their families,... Read More
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Behind the Green Door (Original typescript short story, basis for the 1972 adult film)
by [Adult films] Marilyn Chambers (starring); Artie Mitchell (director, screenwriter); Jim Mitchell (director)
N.p.: N.p., 1970. Vintage eleven-page ribbon copy typescript short story, later serving as the basis for the 1972 adult film. An explicit short story penned by an anonymous author sometime before or during World War II, circulated underground in typescript or carbon typescript copies during the 1940s. Basis for the successful 1972 adult film, notable as one of... Read More
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Original American Express display featuring Lou Reed
by [Lou Reed] [Advertising]
N.p.: N.p., 1988. Vintage 1988 cardboard display stand featuring Lou Reed, with a pocket for holding American Express application forms, expressly targeting college students. An artifact from Reed's brief phase as a corporate pitchman, which also saw him shilling for Honda scooters in an advertisement that repurposed "Walk on the Wild Side." 14 x 6 inches. Near... Read More
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Archive of 1970s General Motors design and advertising reference photographs and print advertising proofs
by [Automobile Design and Advertising]
Detroit, MI: General Motors, 1980. Substantial archive of over 750 General Motors (GM) design, assembly, and advertising photographs, 23 contact sheets of vehicles and parts photographs, and 100 print advertising proofs and mockups from the Chevrolet Motor Division of General Motors, dating from 1973 through 1980. Nearly all the materials in the archive are overlaid with Campbell Ewald Advertising... Read More
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Archive of 26 original die-cut wax-based advertising stickers, circa 1980s
by [Advertising]
Racine, Wisconsin: S.C. Johnson, 1980. Archive of 26 vintage wax-based die-cut stickers advertising S.C. Johnson products. The S.C. Johnson company was founded in 1886 in Racine, Wisconsin, primarily selling wax for parquet flooring. The company would expand throughout the twentieth century, eventually departing from wax-based products in 1955 with the launch of Raid insecticide, accompanied over the next... Read More
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Selecting a Producer (First Edition)
by [Early Film Production] [Wilding Picture Productions] [Industrial Films] [Advertisement]
Various American Cities: Wilding Picture Productions, 1930. First Edition. First Edition. A volume produced by Wilding Picture Productions (also known as Wilding Studios), advertising their audiovisual communications services for industrial use. Contemporary ownership annotation in manuscript ink on the second leaf. Wilding was founded in Detroit in 1914, moving into the Essanay Building in Chicago in 1937.... Read More
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Archive of 26 original mid-Atlantic roadside alert signs with advertisements, circa 1930s-1940s
by [Transportation] [Automobiles] [Photography] [Advertisement]
N.p.: N.p., 1940. Archive of 26 vintage photographs of mid-Atlantic roadside alert signs with advertisements, circa 1930s-1940s. Includes 21 double weight photographs and two matte-finish. Three photographs bear annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. The collection contains thirteen photographs of alert signs advertising Champion spark plugs, seven advertising hotels (the Biltmore in Dayton, Hotel Sinton in Cincinnati,... Read More
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Original batik sampler notebook, compiled by a student in Accra, Ghana, circa 1960s
by [Fabrics] [Islands] [Africana]
Accra, Ghana: N.p., 1960. A small archive of 43 batik fabric samples, housed in a "School and College Jotter," compiled by a student in Accra, Ghana, circa 1960s, with ink annotations of "Samples / Batik" and the name "Albert Turkson" on the front wrapper and an Accra address on the rear wrapper. The jotter was manufactured by the Presbyterian... Read More
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![Kristy and Jimmy McNichol Present ABC All-Star Saturday [ABC All-Star Saturday Preview Special] (Original screenplay for the 1978 television special, copy belonging to Haywood Nelson)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/999/789/1432789999.0.m.jpg)
Kristy and Jimmy McNichol Present ABC All-Star Saturday [ABC All-Star Saturday Preview Special] (Original screenplay for the 1978 television special, copy belonging to Haywood Nelson)
by [African-American Interest] Kristy McNichol, Jimmy McNichol, Benji, Donny Most, Haywood Nelson (starring); Tim Kiley (director); Franielle Silver and Steve Adams, George Geiger, Lee Maddux, David Brown, Bruce Kirschbaum and Scott McGibbon (screenwriters)
Orem, Utah: Osmond Television, 1978. Rough Final Draft script for the 1978 television special, copy belonging to Haywood Nelson, his name printed on bottom right of binder housing the script, and written in manuscript ink on top of two script pages. The variety show special aired on ABC on September 9, 1978, starring Kristy and Jimmy McNichol, and co-starring... Read More
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