The Broccoli Patch (Original photograph from the 1969 film)
by [Sexploitation]
N.p.: N.p., 1969. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1969 film, with a provenance on the verso on a label obscuring a previous provenance stamp. Rare. We have been unable to locate any information on this film other than the information on the photograph, and the film's tag line, found on previously documented posters for the film, "Three... Read More
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C.C. and Company [C.C. Ryder and Company] (Original screenplay for the 1970 film)
by Seymour Robbie (director); Roger Smith (screenwriter); Joe Namath, Ann-Margret, William Smith (starring)
Los Angeles: Rogallian Productions, 1970. Fourth Draft script for the 1970 film, seen here under the working title "C.C. Ryder and Company." Bound in with the script is a two-page call sheet. A biker falls in with the "Heads Company," a notorious biker gang, and must save a young woman and defeat the gang's leader in a motorcycle... Read More
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Flame of Calcutta (Original photograph from the set of the 1953 film)
by Seymour Friedman (director); Sol Shor, Robert E. Kent (screenwriter); Denise Darcel, Patric Knowles, Paul Cavanagh, George Keymas, Joseph Mell, Ted Thorpe (starring)
Los Angeles: Esskay Pictures Corporation, 1953. Vintage photograph of actors Denise Darcel and Patric Knowles, producer Sam Katzman, and production manager Bert Leonard on the set of the 1953 film. Mimeo snipe and an rubber studio stamp on the verso. Set in 1765 in India. Calcutta's King, Amir Khasid (Gregory Gaye) is ousted from his position by... Read More
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Save the Tiger (First Edition, inscribed by the author in the year of publication)
by Steve Shagan
New York: Dial Press, 1972. First Edition. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author in the year of publication on the front endpaper: "For Wayne / hope it works as well as the screenplay / Best wishes / Steve Shagan / Nov. 1972 / Los Angeles." Basis for the 1973 film, adapted by Shagan from his novel, starring Jack... Read More
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Save the Tiger (Original manuscript of the first five chapters of the novel)
by Steve Shagan
N.p.: N.p., 1972. Original printed manuscript of the first five chapters of the 1972 book, housed in the its original gray envelope with the annotations "'Save the Tiger' / Original Novel MS. / (First 79 PP.)." Steve Shagan's Academy Award nominated debut feature screenplay, "Save the Tiger," was originally written in 1970, three years before the film's 1973... Read More
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A Midsummer Night's Dream (Original photograph taken on the set of the 1935 film)
by [Shakespeare] William Dieterle, Max Reinhardt (directors); William Shakespeare (play); Charles Kenyon, Mary C. McCall Jr. (screenwriters); Mickey Rooney, Olivia de Havilland, James Cagney, Dick Powell, Billy Barty (starring)
N.p.: N.p., 1935. Vintage reference photograph taken on the set of the 1935 film, showing directors William Dieterle and Mac Reinhardt with producer Mervyn Le Roy and visiting director Michael Curtiz. Copyright stamp and annotations in manuscript pencil and ink on the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Based on the... Read More
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Chesty Anderson, U.S. Navy (Eight original photographs from the 1976 film)
by Shari Eubank, Rosanne Katon, Dorrie Thomson, Scatman Crothers (starring); Ed Forsyth (director); H.F. Green, Paul Pompian (screenwriters)
N.p.: Atlas Films, 1976. Eight vintage studio still photographs from the 1976 film, including five glossy and three matte-finish. A fearless WAVE (Woman Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) in the US Navy embarks on a mission to find her missing friend, a search which leads her and her fellow WAVEs into a world of illicit Mafia corruption.... Read More
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The Wrecking Crew (Original photograph of Sharon Tate from the 1968 film)
by Sharon Tate, Elke Sommer, Dean Martin (starring); Phil Karlson (director); Donald Hamilton (novel); William P. McGivern (screenwriter)
N.p.: N.p., 1967. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1968 film, showing actress Sharon Tate posing in a negligee. Tate's final film before her tragic death at the hands of Manson Family members, the fourth and final entry in the comedy/spy franchise starring Dean Martin as Matt Helm, based on the popular novels by Donald Hamilton and... Read More
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The Fearless Vampire Killers (Original photograph from the 1967 film)
by Sharon Tate (starring); Roman Polanski (director, screenwriter, starring); Gérard Brach (screenwriter); Jack MacGowran, Alfie Bass (starring)
N.p.: N.p., 1967. Vintage reference photograph from the 1967 film, showing Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate. Layout annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. An elderly professor travels with his assistant to Transylvania, looking for vampires. During his trip, the assistant falls in love with the daughter of an inn keeper, who has recently caught the eye... Read More
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The View from Section 111 (First Edition)
by Mike Shatzkin
New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1970. First Edition. First Edition. Near Fine in a Near Fine, price-clipped dust jacket.
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The Gentle People (First Edition)
by Irwin Shaw
New York: Random House, 1939. First Edition. First Edition. Basis for the 1941 film noir "Out of the Fog," directed by Anatole Litvak and starring John Garfield and Ida Lupino. Near Fine lacking the dust jacket.
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![Miniatures of the Chludov Psalter [Miniatiury Khludovskoi psaltyri] (First Russian Edition)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/291/741/1722741291.0.m.jpg)
Miniatures of the Chludov Psalter [Miniatiury Khludovskoi psaltyri] (First Russian Edition)
by [Chludov Psalter] Marfa Vyacheslavovna Shchepkina
Moscow: Iskusstvo Art Publishers, 1977. Hardcover. First Russian Edition. Text in Russian. Profusely illustrated in color. Dedicated to the Chludov Psalter, an illuminated Byzantine psalter dating to the mid-9th century. Near Fine in a lightly corner-rubbed, else Near Fine dust jacket. Housed in publisher's folding cardboard box.
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Black Series: Poems (Uncorrected Proof)
by Laurie Sheck
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. First Edition. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the First Edition. Fine in wrappers.
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Pinballs for Profit (First Edition)
by [Arcade games] Ben Sheets
Garden Grove, CA: 21st Century Graphics, 1977. First Edition. First Edition. Rare guide to running a successful pinball arcade. OCLC locates no holdings. 5.5 x 8.5 inches, with illustrated card wrappers. Side-stapled. Very Good plus, with a small bruise and light edgewear to the front wrapper, and light toning to the page edges.
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Uncensored (First Edition)
by Sheila Reid, Alexandra Tuttle, Michael Giroud (text)
Paris: Fiat Lux, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Text in English, French, and German. Editor Sheila Reid is best known for her 1993 book "Art Without Rejection." Spine lean, else Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket.
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Arthur? Arthur! [Arthur, Arthur] (Original screenplay for the 1969 British film)
by Shelley Winters, Donald Pleasence, Terry-Thomas (starring); Samuel Gallu (director); Julian Symons (novel); John Esmonde, Bob Larbey, Simeon George (screenwriters)
London: Gallu Productions, 1969. Draft script for the 1969 British film. Copy belonging to an unknown crew member, with their name in manuscript ink on the front wrapper and one revision page. Based on Julian Symons' 1967 novel "The Man Who Killed Himself." An unsuccessful inventor creates a fearless, womanizing alter ego for himself. OCLC... Read More
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The Brady Bunch Movie [The Brady Bunch] (Original screenplay for the 1995 film)
by Shelley Long, Gary Cole, Christine Taylor, Michael McKean (starring); Betty Thomas (director); James Berg, Stan Zimmerman, Bonny Turner, Terry Turner, Laurice Elehwany, Rich Copp, Sherwood Schwartz, Lloyd J. Schwartz (screenwriters)
N.p.: The Ladd Company, 1994. First Shooting Draft script for the 1995 film. A contemporary parody of the popular 1969-1974 ABC family sitcom created by Sherward Schwartz. Notably, Sherwood Schwartz and sitcom producer Lloyd J. Schwartz both received screenwriting credits on the script found here, though Sherwood Schwartz received only character credits in the released film. The... Read More
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Whoever [Who] Slew Auntie Roo? (Original photograph from the 1972 film)
by Shelley Winters, Mark Lester, Judy Cornwell (starring); Curtis Harrington (director); David Osborn, Robert Blees, Jimmy Sangster, Gavin Lambert (screenwriters)
Los Angeles: American International Pictures [AIP], 1971. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1972 film. Loosely based on the fable of Hansel and Gretel, with the setting updated to 1920s England, about a mad widow who lures children into her mansion by way of an annual charity Christmas party for orphans. 10 x 8 inches. Near... Read More
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3 Women (Collection of seven original photographs from the 1977 film)
by Shelley Duvall, Sissy Spacek, Janet Rule, Robert Fortier (starring); Robert Altman (director, screenwriter)
N.p.: N.p., 1977. Seven vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1977 film. Provenance stamps on the versos. Director Robert Altman's experimental, dreamlike masterwork about three ethereal, fractured women, originally overlooked but later celebrated. Featuring brilliant performances from Shelley Duvall as the self-deluded, socially maladroit Millie, Rule as the mysterious pregnant painter Willie, and Sissy Spacek as the... Read More
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Burn Out: A History of the World Up in Smoke (Original screenplay for an unproduced film)
by Shelley Berc (screenwriter, stage play)
N.p.: N.p., 1984. Draft script for an unproduced film. With the resume of screenwriter Shelley Berc bound in before the title page, at the front of the script. An adaptation of an experimental stage play also written by Berc, a musical about a New York fireman. Title page present, copyright date noted as 1984, with credit... Read More
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The Boyfriend School [Don't Tell Her It's Me] (Original screenplay for the 1990 film)
by Shelley Long, Steve Guttenberg, Jami Gertz, Kyle Maclachlan, Mädchen Amick (starring); Sarah Bird (novel, screenwriter); Malcolm Mowbray (director)
Santa Monica, CA: Braunstein / Hamady Productions, 1989. Draft script for the 1990 film. From the archive of crew member Chris Scher. Based on the 1989 novel by Sarah Bird. With the help of his sister, a cancer survivor pretends to be someone he is not to get a woman to fall in love with him. ... Read More
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One Day at a Time: The Not So Silent Partner (Two original screenplays for the 1982 television episode)
by Shelley Fabares, Valerie Bertinelli, Pat Harrington Jr. (starring); Alan Rafkin (director); Stephen Sustarsic, David Silverman (screenwriters)
Los Angeles: T.A.T Communications, 1981. First Draft and Final Draft scripts for Season 7 Episode 10 of the 1975-1984 television series. Both copies belonging to screenwriter Steve Sustarsic, with his extensive annotations in manuscript pencil throughout both scripts. Series following a divorced career woman and single mother as she tries to raise her two teenage daughters in an... Read More
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Day out of Days (First Edition, inscribed to author Chris Offutt)
by Sam Shepard
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010. First Edition. First Edition. Association Copy, INSCRIBED in the year of publication on the half-title page to author Chris Offutt: "Chris / All the best for the New Year [and] many thanks for inviting me into 'Tough Trade' / it should work out to be a wonder / Sam / 1/5/10 / NY."... Read More
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Mardi Gras (Eight British front-of-house cards from the 1958 film)
by Sheree North (starring); Edmund Goulding (director); Curtis Harrington, Hal Kanter, Winston Miller (screenwriters); Pat Boone, Christine Carere, Tommy Sands (starring)
London: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1959. Eight vintage full-color British front-of-house cards from the UK release of the 1958 US film. Film musical about a military cadet who wins a date with a French actress—who also happens to be the queen of Mardi Gras. Stock footage from actual New Orleans Mardi Gras celebrations were used in the film. ... Read More
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The Bare Hunt or My Gun is Jammed (Two original photographs from the 1963 film)
by Sheri Everett, Marv Watson, Marilyn Savage (starring)
Los Angeles: Olympic International Films, 1963. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1963 film, one with a provenance stamp on the verso. Inept investigator Max T. Unemployment is hired to try and track down a killer of beautiful young women. A proto-slasher/Giallo film with violent murders of young women countered with the outrageous, cartoon humor of... Read More
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