The Megamusical (First Edition)
by Jessica Sternfeld
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006. First Edition. First Edition. A study of large-scale, blockbuster stage musicals. About Fine in a Fine dust jacket.
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The Slap Maxwell Story: Slap Buys the Farm (Original screenplay for an unproduced television episode)
by Steve Cuden (screenwriter); Dabney Coleman, Bill Cobbs, Megan Gallagher, Susan Anspach (starring)
N.p.: N.p., 1987. Draft script for an unproduced television episode from the 1987-1988 television series. This one season television series follows a controversial sportswriter constantly on the brink of being fired from the newspaper he works for. In this installment, the titular character must get a physical done and is scared when they find something out of... Read More
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Minding My Own Business: Pilot Episode (Original screenplay for the pilot episode of the unproduced television show)
by Steve Pepoon, David Silverman, Steve Sustarsic (screenwriters)
N.p.: N.p., 1997. Second Revised Script for the pilot episode of the unproduced television show. This series followed the lives of different women working at a party planning company. In this pilot episode, a career woman starts with the business after losing her job and one the employees starts dating the boss' serial cheating ex. Dolly Parton... Read More
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High Tide (Original screenplay and treatment script for an unproduced film)
by Steve Sustarsic, David Silverman, Steve Pepoon (screenwriters)
N.p.: N.p., 1997. First Draft script and treatment script for an unproduced film. Treatment script here under working title "California Gray". A Mexican drug cartel attempts to smuggle cocaine into the US inside the body of a whale with the help of a corrupt DEA agent, but are thwarted by two dopey college students. Set... Read More
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Le Mans (Original oversize photograph from the 1971 film)
by Steve McQueen, Elga Andersen, Siegfried Rauch (starring); Lee H. Katzin (director); Harry Kleiner (screenwriter)
US: National General Pictures, 1971. Vintage oversize borderless reference photograph of director Lee H. Katzin and actors Steve McQueen and Elga Andersen on the set of the 1971 film. With manuscript ink annotations on the verso. McQueen stars as a racing driver competing in Le Mans one year after an accident killed a fellow racer, one which... Read More
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Nine original photographs of drive-in theaters in Charlotte, North Carolina
by Steve Perille, Elmer Horton, Chuck Burton, Laura Mueller (photographers)
N.p.: N.p., 1991. Nine vintage photographs of drive-in theaters in the Charlotte, North Carolina region. Several photographs credit photographers Elmer Horton, Steve Perille, Chuck Burton, and Laura Mueller, and are dated variously between 1978 and 1991. Two photographs with photographer "Steve Perille" and "Jul 10, 1978" stamps on the versos, one with a newspaper caption clipping affixed to... Read More
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El Croquis: Steven Holl, 1986-2003, In Search of a Poetry of Specifics and Thought, Matter and Experience (First Edition)
by [Steven Holl] Richard C. Levene, Fernando Cecilia Marquez (editors)
Madrid: El Croquis, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. A combined and updated edition of "El Croquis" issues 78, 93, and 108. Text in English and Spanish. Near Fine, with no dust jacket as issued. Oversize volume, shipping billed at cost.
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Bullitt (Original concept artwork for the 1968 film)
by Steve McQueen, Jacqueline Bisset, Robert Vaughn (starring); Norbert Jobst (designer); Peter Yates (director); Robert L. Pike (novel); Alan R. Trustman, Harry Kleiner (screenwriters)
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers / Seven Arts, 1968. Vintage concept artwork for the 1968 film. A striking two-color op-art design by uncredited artist Norbert Jobst, who had previously worked in title design for the 1967 film "Games." The dimensions of the artwork suggests it was designed for a pressbook or film program. Mounted and laminated, and stamped with a... Read More
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Bullitt (Original one sheet poster for the 1968 film)
by Steve McQueen, Jacqueline Bisset, Robert Vaughn (starring); Norbert Jobst (designer); Peter Yates (director); Robert L. Pike (novel); Alan R. Trustman, Harry Kleiner (screenwriters)
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers / Seven Arts, 1968. Vintage one sheet poster for the 1968 film. Based on the 1963 novel, "Mute Witness" by Robert Pike, easily one of Steve McQueen's most minimal performances, and one of the best examples of location shooting ever made. A key crime film, complex and unsentimental, that set the bar for many... Read More
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Traffic (Original For Your Consideration screenplay for the 2000 film)
by Steven Soderbergh (director); Stephen Gaghan (screenwriter); Benicio Del Toro, James Brolin, Dennis Quaid (starring)
Los Angeles: Bedford Falls, 2000. For Your Consideration script for the 2000 film. Shortly after being appointed by the president to lead America's war on drugs, a conservative judge in Ohio discovers that his teenage daughter is addicted to heroin. Meanwhile, the wife of a jailed drug baron attempts to continue her husband's business. Nominated for five Academy... Read More
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Marked for Death [Screwface] (Original screenplay for the 1990 film)
by Steven Seagal, Joanna Pacula, Keith David (starring); Dwight H. Little (director); Michael Grais, Mark Victor (screenwriters)
Los Angeles: SP Films, Inc, 1990. Revised Fourth Draft script for the 1990 film, here under the working title "Screwface." Annotations on label on front wrapper of "Screwface" in manuscript pencil, with "Marked for Death" above, in manuscript ink. Retired DEA agent, John Hatcher (Steven Seagal), returns to his hometown of Lincoln Heights, Illinois, only to discover... Read More
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Raiders of the Lost Ark (Original photograph of Steven Spielberg on the set of the 1981 film)
by Steven Spielberg (director); Lawrence Kasdan (screenwriter); Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman (starring)
Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1981. Vintage borderless reference photograph with left margin, of Steven Spielberg on the set of the 1981 film. An homage to the serialized Saturday matinee films of the 1930s and 40s, "Raiders" is the first in the well-loved Spielberg/Lucas high-adventure trilogy starring Harrison Ford as roguish archaeology professor Indiana Jones. Still one of... Read More
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City That Never Sleeps (Original Film Pressbook)
by Steve Fisher (screenwriter); John H. Auer (director); Gig Young, Mala Powers, and William Talman (starring)
Sherman Oaks, CA: Republic Pictures, 1953. Original pressbook for the 1953 film noir. Screenplay by noted screenwriter Steve Fisher. One sheet folded once as issued, 11 x 17 inches. Near Fine, with a faint horizontal fold crease at the center of the wrapper and pages. Lyons US. Martin 121. Selby US. 71. Spicer US. ... Read More
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New Love American Style: Love and the Birthday Suit (Original screenplay for the unproduced episode )
by Steve Grant, Mel Sherer (screenwriters)
N.p.: N.p., 1985. First Draft script for an unproduced episode of the 1985-1986 television series. An updated version of the 1969-1974 television show "Love, American Style," focused on love and relationships and following in the vignette style of the original. In this installment, a man tries to recreate the birthday parties of his youth and in the... Read More
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The Man Who Wasn't There [Under Pressure] (Original screenplay for the 1983 film)
by Steve Guttenberg, Miguel Ferrer, William Forsythe, Jeffrey Tambor (starring); Bruce Malmuth (director); Stanford Sherman (screenwriter)
N.p.: N.p., 1983. Final Draft script for the 1983 film, seen here under the working title "Under Pressure." Call sheet dated April 25, 1983, laid in. A government worker inadvertently receives a top-secret invisibility potion on the day of his wedding, making him the unknowing target of Russians and other enemies of the state as they fight... Read More
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The Wide Arch (First Australian Edition)
by Dal Stivens [Stevens]
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1958. First Edition. First Edition. Set in Sydney, Australia. Near Fine in a bright, Near Fine dust jacket with a price of 17s 6d at the bottom of the front flap. Some light foxing to the page edges and just a hint of same at the jacket flap extremities.
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (First Photoplay Edition)
by Robert Louis Stevenson
New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1941. First printing of this edition. Photoplay edition, with an image of Spencer Tracy from the 1941 Victor Fleming film on the dust jacket. Includes "The Master of Ballantrae." Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. Jacket chipped on the top corners and spine ends, with moderate toning on the spine. ... Read More
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The Blob (Original photograph from the 1958 film)
by Steve McQueen, Olin Howland, Aneta Corsaut, Stephen Chase (starring); Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr. (director); Theodore Simonson, Kay Linaker (screenwriters)
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1958. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1958 film. A science fiction horror classic, about an amorphous, ever-growing alien that absorbs everything in sight—inspired by the discovery of star jelly in Pennsylvania in 1950. Followed by a 1972 sequel, "Son of Blob," and a 1988 remake. Shot on location throughout Pennsylvania, in... Read More
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Above the Law (Original screenplay for the 1988 film)
by Steven Segal, Pam Grier, Sharon Stone, Henry Silva (starring); Andrew Davis (director, screenwriter); Steven Pressfield, Ronald Shusett (screenwriters)
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1987. Second Draft script for the 1988 film. Steven Seagal, in his film debut, stars as Nico Toscani, an Italian-American ex-CIA agent and martial arts expert working for the Chicago police force. What begins as a drug trafficking investigation soon reveals the CIA's involvement in an international weapons-trade operation. Nico goes to great lengths... Read More
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Above The Law (Original screenplay for the 1988 film)
by Steven Seagal, Pam Grier, Henry Silva, Ron Dean, Daniel Faraldo, Sharon Stone (starring); Andrew Davis (director, screenwriter); Steven Seagal, Steven Pressfield, Ronald Shusett (screenwriters)
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1987. First Draft script for the 1988 film. Steven Seagal's debut role as Nico Toscani, an Italian-American ex-CIA agent and martial arts expert working for the Chicago police force. What begins as a drug trafficking investigation soon reveals the CIA's involvement in an international weapons-trade operation. Nico goes to great lengths to stop... Read More
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The Towering Inferno (Original poster for the 1974 film)
by Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, William Holden, Faye Dunaway, Fred Astaire, Jennifer Jones (starring); John Guillermin (director); Richard Martin Stern (novel); Thomas N. Scortia, Frank M. Robinson (novel)
Bradford: W.E. Berry, 1974. Vintage British quad poster for the 1974 American film. Based on Richard Martin Stern's 1973 novel "The Tower," and on the 1974 novel "The Glass Inferno" by Thomas N. Scortia and Frank M. Robinson. Both Twentieth Century-Fox and Warner Brothers had purchased rights to similar skyscraper disaster novels, when "Master of Disaster" producer... Read More
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Nurse from Brooklyn (Original photograph of Larry J. Blake from the 1938 film)
by Steve Fisher (short story); Roy Chanslor (screenwriter); Sally Eilers, Paul Kelly, Larry J. Blake (starring); S. Sylvan Simon (director)
Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1938. Vintage reference photograph of actor Larry J. Blake from the 1938 film, with a mimeo snipe on the verso. From the archive of noted Hollywood still photographer Ray Jones. Born in Wisconsin on January 1, 1901, Jones worked for Paramount Pictures in the early 1930s, and went on to be the head... Read More
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A WKCR Benefit Concert at Carnegie Hall (Original poster for the 1979 performance)
by Steve Reich, Philip Glass, John Cale, Leroy Jenkins (artists)
New York: Carnegie Hall, 1979. Original poster for a WKCR Benefit Concert held at Carnegie Hall on April 1, 1979, featuring Philip Glass, Steve Reich, John Cale, Leroy Jenkins, The Model Citizens, and others. In the 1970s and 1980s, Carnegie Hall—as well as forward-looking radio stations such as WKCR and WNYC—hosted a number of important performances by... Read More
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Sex, Lies, and Videotape (Original screenplay for the 1989 film)
by Steven Soderbergh (director, screenwriter); James Spader, Andie MacDowell, Peter Gallagher (starring)
Beverly Hills, CA: Leading Artists Inc, 1988. Second Draft script for the 1989 film. Director and screenwriter Steven Soderbergh's directorial debut, and a landmark of independent cinema. A languid, provocative chamber piece exploring intimacy and desire revolving around a husband, John, his wife, Ann, Ann's sister, Cynthia, and John's old drifter friend, Graham, who use Graham's own peculiar... Read More
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The Honkers (Nine photographs from the 1972 film)
by Steve Ihnat (director, screenwriter); Orlando Suero (photographer); Stephen Lodge (screenwriter); James Coburn, Lois Nettleton, Slim Pickens (starring)
Beverly Hills, CA: Levy-Garner-Laven / United Artists, 1972. Nine vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1972 film. A poorly publicized, well regarded film about an aging rodeo champion (a "honker") whose arrogance hurts everyone around him, including his family. A must for Slim Pickens and James Coburn fans. Shot on location in New Mexico. ... Read More
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