Vengeance is Mine (Original screenplay for the 1979 film)
by Shohei Imamura (director); Masaru Baba, Shunsaku Ikehata (screenwriters); Ryuzo Saki (novel); Ken Ogata, Rentaro Mikuni, Chocho Miyako, Mitsuko Baisho (starring)
Tokyo: Imamura Productions, 1979. Draft script for the 1979 film. Text in Japanese. With a single notation in manuscript ink. Based on Ryuzo Saki’s novel, about real-life con man, thief, and multiple murderer Akira Nishiguchi (changed to Iwao Enokizu in the film), told in multiple flashbacks as he awaits execution for his crimes. Black titled... Read More
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Archive of approximately 570 vernacular color photographs from the Chicago Auto Show, 1979-1990
by [Auto shows]
N.p.: N.p., 1990. Archive of approximately 570 vernacular color photographs of the Chicago Auto Show, housed in two generic photograph albums with plastic overlays, covering every year from 1979 through 1990, lacking 1981. The first photograph album, a blue 3-ring binder of 58 leaves with a "Chicago Auto Show Pictures" label on the front board, contains approximately 320... Read More
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Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets (Two original photographs from the 1971 Japanese film)
by Shûji Terayama (director, screenwriter); Eimei Sasaki, Masahiro Saito, Yukiko Kobayashi, Fudeko Tanaka, Akihiro Miwa, Sei Hiraizumi (starring)
N.p.: N.p., 1971. Two vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1971 Japanese Pink film, both showing scenes featuring nude women. Provenance stamps and annotations in manuscript ink on the versos. An experimental film about a young man's psychosexual odyssey, stemming from a dysfunctional relationship with his family, and culminating in alienation. 6 x 4.5 inches. Near Fine.... Read More
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The Amboy Dukes (First Edition in paperback)
by Irving Shulman
New York: Avon Books, 1948. First Edition. No. 169. First Edition in paperback. Not to be confused with the later film tie-in edition. Basis for the 1949 film "City Across the River," directed by Maxwell Shane. Very Good plus in wrappers, with spine creasing and a newsstand stamp on the rear wrapper. Holroyd,... Read More
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Cry Tough (First Edition)
by Irving Shulman
New York: Henry Holt, 1956. First Edition. First Edition. Basis for the 1959 film noir starring John Saxon, Linda Cristal, and Joseph Calleia. Extremely scarce. Near Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Jacket slightly faded on the spine as is usually found, with light rubbing at the spine ends and corners. The Dark Page II:... Read More
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The Breaking Wave (First Edition)
by Nevil Shute
New York: William Morrow, 1955. First American Edition, preceded by the UK edition published by Heinemann the same year as "Requiem for a Wren." Scarce. Very Good plus in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Minor bump to the upper spine end, with slight lean. Jacket lightly toned, with light chipping to the extremities.
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Woodstock 69: Summer Pop Festivals (First Edition)
by Joseph J. Sia
New York: Scholastic Book Services, 1970. First Edition. TX 1618. First Edition, a paperback original. Moderate foxing on the wrapper versos, else Near Fine in perfect-bound wrappers.
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Collection of eleven original photographs relating to television actor Sid Caesar, circa 1950-1967
by Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca, Carl Reiner (subjects)
N.p.: N.p., 1967. Collection of eleven vintage photographs relating to television actor, writer, and comedian Sid Caesar, variously dating between 1950 and 1967. Caesar appears in nine of the photographs, and Caesar's longtime costar, Imogene Coca, appears in two. Notably, one photograph shows Carl Reiner, then a writer and occasional cast member on Caesar's landmark television series "Your Show... Read More
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The 30-Foot Bride of Candy Rock [The Thirty-Foot Bride of Candy Rock] (Original photograph from the 1959 film)
by Sidney Miller (director); Rowland Barber, Arthur A. Ross (screenwriters); Lou Costello, Dorothy Provine, Gale Gordon, Jimmy Conlin (starring)
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1959. Vintage reference photograph from the 1959 film, showing actor Lou Costello giving a more than suggestive shower to Dorothy Provine, his new gargantuan girlfriend. A rare appearance of Lou Costello without Bud Abbott, wherein a junk collector and inventor accidentally turns his girlfriend into a giantess. Shot on location at... Read More
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The Organization (Four original photographs from the 1971 film)
by Sidney Poitier, Barbara McNair, Gerald S. O'Loughlin, Sheree North (starring); Don Medford (director); James R. Webb, John Ball (screenwriters)
N.p.: N.p., 1971. Four vintage reference photographs from the 1971 film. Stamp specific to the film's Brussels release on the versos. The third entry in the "Virgil Tibbs" series, following "In the Heat of the Night" (1967) and "They Call Me Mr. Tibbs!" (1970). A group of young revolutionaries break into the headquarters of a crime syndicate... Read More
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Lovin' Molly [Molly, Gid, and Johnny] (Original screenplay for the 1974 film)
by Sidney Lumet (director); Larry McMurtry (novel); Anthony Perkins, Beau Bridges, Blythe Danner, Ed Binns, Susan Sarandon (starring); Stephen J. Friedman (screenwriter)
Beverly Hills, CA: Friedman Films, Inc, 1972. Draft script for the 1974 film, here under the working title "Molly, Gid & Johnny." Copy belonging to hair stylist Philip Leto, with his annotations in manuscript ink throughout, marking completed scenes. Based on the 1962 novel "Leaving Cheyenne" by Larry McMurtry. A pair of Texas farm boys vie for... Read More
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Bloodline (Original press kit for the 1979 film)
by Sidney Sheldon (novel); Audrey Hepburn, Ben Gazzara, James Mason, Claudia Mori, Irene Papas (starring); Laird Koenig (screenwriter); Terence Young (director)
Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1979. Vintage press kit for the 1979 film. Full-color illustrated pocketed folder, containing 23 black and white photographs, and 5 gatherings of promotional reading material. Based on Sidney Sheldon's 1977 novel. A pharmaceutical industry billionaire dies in a mysterious climbing accident, leaving his daughter to investigate the circumstances of his death. Folder,... Read More
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Journey to the Seventh Planet (Two original photographs from the 1962 film)
by Sidney W. Pink (director); Ib Melchior (screenwriter); John Agar, Carl Ottosen, Ove Sprogoe, Greta Thyssen, Louis Miehe-Renard, Peter Monch (starring)
Brussels: Pardon Films, 1962. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1962 film. With the stamp of Pardon Films on the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. A five-man team of astronauts is sent to the frozen planet Uranus, only to discover a bizarre, alien brain capable of inducing mass delusions upon... Read More
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[The] Debauchers (Original photograph from the 1970 film)
by Sidney Knight (director); William Ray (screenwriter); Tina Russell, Claude Rube, Daria Barton (starring)
N.p.: Mature Pictures, 1972. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1970 film. Provenance stamp on the verso. Meta sexploitation film in which Tina Russell stars as May, a woman held hostage in a mansion after seeking a job in an experimental film. 8 x 10 inches. Light edgewear, else Near Fine.
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Hit! (Original photograph taken on the set of the 1973 film)
by Sidney J. Furie (director); Alan Trustman, David M. Wolf (screenwriters); Billy Dee Williams, Richard Pryor (starring)
N.p.: N.p., 1973. Vintage reference photograph of director Sidney J. Furie and actor Billy Dee Williams with a camera crew between takes on the set of the 1973. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. A federal agent becomes hell-bent on tracking down a heroin ring in order to exact revenge for his... Read More
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Hit (Original screenplay for the 1973 film)
by Sidney J. Furie (director); Alan Trustman, David M. Wolf (screenwriters); Billy Dee Williams, Richard Pryor, Paul Hampton, Gwen Welles (starring)
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1972. Draft script for the 1973 film. A federal agent becomes obsessed with taking down a drug ring after the death of his teenage daughter in a heroin overdose. Featuring many cast and crew members from director Sidney J. Furie's "Lady Sings the Blues," released the year prior. Shot on location in... Read More
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The Pawnbroker (Two original photographs from the set of the 1964 film)
by Sidney Lumet (director); Edward Lewis Wallant (novel); Morton S. Fine, David Friedkin (screenwriters); Rod Steiger, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Brock Peters, Jaime Sanchez (starring)
Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1964. Two vintage studio still photographs from the set of the 1964 film, both showing director Sidney Lumet on location in New York City. From the collection of Joel Finler Based on the 1961 novel. A powerful, brooding film in which Rod Steiger stars as a Jewish pawnbroker in Harlem, haunted by his... Read More
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Hanky Panky (Original photograph of Sidney Poitier on the set of the 1982 film)
by Sidney Poitier (director); Henry Rosenbaum, David Taylor (screenwriters); Gene Wilder, Gilda Radner (starring)
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1982. Vintage borderless reference photograph of director Sidney Poitier behind the camera on the set of the 1982 film. Printed snipe affixed to the verso. During his business trip to New York, a Chicago architect unwittingly becomes the chief suspect in a murder investigation. Set and shot on location in Massachusetts... Read More
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Fast Forward (Five original photographs from the 1985 film)
by Sidney Poitier (director); Richard Wesley (screenwriter); John Scott Clough, Don Franklin and Tamara Mark (starring)
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1984. Five vintage black-and-white studio still photographs from the United States release of the 1985 film. A group of country kids come to New York City intending to "make it big" by competing in a dance competition. However, upon arrival, they are faced with an array of unexpected problems that threaten their... Read More
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Buck and the Preacher (Original photograph from the 1972 film)
by Sidney Poitier (director); Ernest Kinoy, Drake Walker (screenwriters); Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, Ruby Dee (starring)
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1972. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1972 film. Directed by Sidney Poitier and significant as an early cinematic example of black resistance against a white majority. Poitier stars as Buck, a freed slave who partners with a con-man preacher in this 1972 Western. Shot on location in California and... Read More
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The Anderson Tapes (Original one sheet poster for the 1971 film)
by Sidney Lumet (director); Lawrence Sanders (novel); Frank Pierson (screenwriter); Sean Connery, Dyan Cannon, Martin Balsam (starring)
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1971. Vintage one sheet poster for the 1971 film. Based on Frank Pierson's 1970 novel, about an ex-con who initiates a cascade of chaos when he decides to rob his upscale apartment building. Actor Christopher Walken's feature film debut, as well as a breakthrough role for Sean Connery, who moved beyond being typecast... Read More
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Circus of Horrors (Original photograph from the 1960 British film)
by Sidney Hayers (director); George Baxt (screenwriter); Anton Diffring, Erika Remberg, Yvonne Monlaur, Donald Pleasence (starring)
London: Lynx Films / American International Pictures, 1960. Vintage reference photograph from the 1960 British film, showing actors Vanda Hudson and Jack Carson. A deranged plastic surgeon becomes the owner of a traveling circus, specializing in a "Temple of Beauty," transforming disfigured women into the glamorous stars of his show. Their beauty, however, comes at a price,... Read More
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I Promised to Pay [Payroll] (Collection of nine original photographs from the 1961 film noir)
by Sidney Hayers (director); Derek Bickerton (novel); George Baxt (screenwriter); Michael Craig, Francoise Prevost, Billie Whitelaw (starring)
Glendale, CA: Allied Artists, 1961. Collection of nine vintage studio still photographs from the 1961 British film noir, seen here under the title for its US release, "Payroll." Based on Derek Bickerton's 1959 novel, wherein a gang of crooks' plan to rob a local factory is complicated by the accidental murder of the getaway driver, leading the... Read More
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Hanky Panky [Traces] (Original screenplay for the 1982 film)
by Sidney Poitier (director); Gene Wilder, Gilda Radner, Kathleen Quinlan, Richard Widmark (starring); Henry Rosenbaum, David Taylor (screenwriters)
Burbank, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1981. Revised Draft script for the 1982 film, here under the working title "Traces." Annotation in manuscript pencil on the front wrapper, noting the release title. During his business trip to New York, a Chicago architect unwittingly becomes the chief suspect in a murder investigation. Originally developed as a sequel to the 1980 hit... Read More
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A View From The Bridge (Two original photographs from the 1962 film)
by Sidney Lumet (director); Arthur Miller (play); Jean Aurenche, Giuseppe Aldo Rossi, Norman Rosten (screenwriter); Raf Vallone, Jean Sorel, Maureen Stapleton, Raymond Pellegrin, Morris Carnovsky (starring)
Paris: Transcontinental Film Productions, 1962. Two vintage photographs of Sidney Lumet directing on the set of the 1962 film. With manuscript annotations and a rubber stamp on the versos of each. Based on the 1955 play by Arthur Miller, about an unhappily married man whose obsession with his niece leads to tragedy when she falls for an... Read More
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