![Till minnet av mig själv [In Memory of Myself] (First Swedish Edition)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/507/343/1720343507.0.m.jpg)
Till minnet av mig själv [In Memory of Myself] (First Swedish Edition)
by Christer Strömholm
Stockholm: Nordisk Rotogravyr, 1965. Softcover. First Swedish Edition, a softcover original. Text in Swedish. A breakthrough collection of black-and-white photography by noted Swedish photographer Christer Strömholm. Very Good plus in perfect-bound wrappers. Sticker shadow on the top right corner of the front wrapper. Parr and Badger Vol. 1.
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Original screenplay for an unproduced, untitled film
by Chris Strongo
N.p.: N.p., Unknown. Draft script for an unproduced film. Laid in with the script is a small handwritten note, addressing the script to casting agent Paul Kohner and noting the name of screenwriter Chris Strongo. A wild cautionary tale against teen drinking and drug use, following young Terri as she runs away from her broken home after being... Read More
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Mrs. Miniver (First Edition, in the original box)
by Jan Struther
New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1940. First Edition. First Edition. In publisher's two-part box as issued. Basis for the 1942 film directed by William Wyler and starring Greer Garson and Teresa Wright. A film that, according to both Winston Churchill and director Wyler, was a major boost to the war effort in addition to being one of the most... Read More
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The Sculptress (Original screenplay for the 1996 television film)
by Stuart Orme (director); Reg Gadney (screenwriter); Minette Walters (novel); Pauline Quirke, Caroline Goodall (starring)
London: Red Rooster Film and Television Entertainment, 1995. Four shooting scripts for the 1996 television film first aired in four parts on BBC on November 13, 1997, complete in four volumes. With two typed leaves detailing the proposed cast list laid in. Several scripts missing pages, as noted below, likely as used or issued. Based on the 1993... Read More
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![Beachhead [Beachhead] (Eight British front-of-house cards from the 1954 film)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/527/771/684771527.0.m.jpg)
Beachhead [Beachhead] (Eight British front-of-house cards from the 1954 film)
by Stuart Heisler (director); Richard G. Hubler (novel); Richard Alan Simmons (screenwriter); Tony Curtis, Frank Lovejoy, Mary Murphy, Eduard Franz (starring)
Beverly Hills, CA: Waterlow and Sons / United Artists, 1954. Eight vintage full-color British front-of-house cards from the UK release of the 1954 US film. Based on Richard G. Hubler's 1946 novel, "I've Got Mine," about two soldiers on a Japanese-occupied island during World War II. A true survival tale, as the soldiers must escort a scientist... Read More
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![Guyana: Crime of the Century [Guyana, Cult of the Damned] (Original press kit for the 1979 film)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/901/884/1477884901.0.m.jpg)
Guyana: Crime of the Century [Guyana, Cult of the Damned] (Original press kit for the 1979 film)
by Stuart Whitman, Gene Barry, John Ireland, Jennifer Ashley (starring); Rene Cardona Jr. (director, screenwriter)
Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1979. Vintage press kit for the 1979 Mexican-American exploitation film. Full-color illustrated pocketed folder, containing nine black and white photographs, and four gatherings of promotional reading material. The increasingly paranoid, fanatical leader of a large, independent church in San Francisco moves his congregation to a plot of land in Guyana in the hopes of... Read More
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Brubaker (Original press kit for the 1980 film)
by Stuart Rosenberg (director); Thomas O. Murton, Joe Hyams (book); Richter, W.D. (screenwriter); Robert Redford, Yaphet Kotto, Jane Alexander (starring)
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1980. Vintage press kit for the 1980 film. A glossy bi-fold, printed on the recto and verso, enclosing a three-page promotional article and twelve black and white photographs. Inspired by the 1969 nonfiction book "Accomplices to the Crime" by Thomas O. Murton and Joe Hyams about abuse and corruption in the Arkansas prison system.... Read More
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![Love and Bullets [Love and Bullets, Charlie] (Original screenplay for the 1979 film)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/093/731/1476731093.0.m.jpg)
Love and Bullets [Love and Bullets, Charlie] (Original screenplay for the 1979 film)
by Stuart Rosenberg (director); Wendell Mayes, John Melson (screenwriters); Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, Rod Steiger, Henry Silva (starring)
Venice, CA: Capricorn Productions, 1977. Revised Draft script for the 1979 film, here under the working title "Love and Bullets, Charlie." With some copied manuscript annotations throughout, but also with a few manuscript pencil annotations, made from a master. A lawman travels to Switzerland to convince the girlfriend of a well-known gangster to come back to America to... Read More
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Voyage of the Damned (Original photograph from the 1976 film)
by Stuart Rosenberg (director); Gordon Thomas, Max Morgan Witts (book); David Butler (screenwriter); Orson Welles, Laura Gemser, Faye Dunaway, Lee Grant, Wendy Hiller, Oskar Werner, Julie Harris, Jonathan Pryce (starring)
N.p.: N.p., 1976. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1976 film, showing actress Faye Dunaway. A dramatization of the tragic 1939 voyage of the ocean liner St. Louis, a ship carrying hundreds of German Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany that seemingly no European nation is willing to save from certain doom. Shot on location in... Read More
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The Laughing Policeman (Four original photographs from the 1974 film)
by Stuart Rosenberg (director); Thomas Rickman (screenwriter); Maj Sjowall, Per Wahloo (novel); Walter Matthau, Bruce Dern, Louis Gossett Jr. (starring)
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1974. Four vintage black-and-white studio still photographs from the 1974 film. Based on the 1970 novel by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo. A gritty crime drama in which a mass murderer kills a police detective and his partner is left to attempt to find the killer. Set in San Francisco. ... Read More
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Overlord (Original screenplay for the 1975 film)
by Stuart Cooper (director, screenwriter); Christopher Hudson (screenwriter); Nicholas Ball (starring)
New York: Janus Films, 1974. Draft script for the 1974 British film. A young man who has had a premonition of his death is called up to train and fight with the British forces during World War II, ultimately ending in his actual death in battle on D-Day. Shot in black and white on vintage Kodak film stock,... Read More
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Cool Hand Luke (Original photograph of Stuart Rosenberg and Paul Newman on the set of the 1967 film)
by Stuart Rosenberg (director); Donn Pearce (novel, screenwriter); Frank Pierson (screenwriter); Paul Newman, George Kennedy (starring)
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1967. Vintage studio still photograph of director Stuart Rosenberg and actor Paul Newman on the set of the 1967 film. With manuscript ink annotations on the verso. Based on the 1965 novel by Donn Pearce, who co-wrote the screenplay, about a convict who wins a bet to eat 50 hard-boiled eggs in an... Read More
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Night Cry (First Edition)
by William L. Stuart
New York: Dial, 1948. First Edition. First Edition. Basis for the 1950 film noir "Where the Sidewalk Ends," directed by Otto Preminger and starring Gene Tierney. Fine in a bright, Near Fine dust jacket. A very sharp copy, with only the slightest hint of wear at the corners. The Dark Page II: 1959-1965, p. 180. ... Read More
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Original press kit for films released through Media Home Entertainment, including Charlie Brown features, The Lift, The Expendables, Cocaine Wars, and others, 1988
by [Film studios]
Culver City, CA: Media Home Entertainment, 1988. Vintage press kit, containing promotional information for films released (and re-released) through Media Home Entertainment June 14 and 21, 1988, including three pages of xerographically duplicated film reviews and 15 gatherings of promotional reading material. Films represented in the kit include "Haunted Summer," "The Expendables," "Survival Run," "The Lift," "Venus on... Read More
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Films of Twentieth Century-Fox 1926-1975
by [Film Studios]
N.p.: N.p., 1976. Original compendium of films released by Twentieth Century Fox, 1926-1975, circa 1976, with manuscript pencil annotations on eleven pages checking particular titles, and a partial page attached with a paper clip to page 74, adding a film omitted from the 1937 listing. From the archive of producer and agent Paul Kohner, who was active in... Read More
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Six original photographs of Hollywood studios, circa 1936
by [Hollywood] [Film studios]
N.p.: N.p., 1936. Collection of six vintage photographs of Hollywood studios, circa 1936. Includes three double-weight and three single-weight photographs. Two photographs with the stamp of Holly Photo Service on the verso. One photograph shows an aerial view of Warner Brothers, First National, and Cosmopolitan studios in Burbank. One photograph shows Columbia Studios, with an annotation in... Read More
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Three original keybook photographs taken at Fox Movietone City, circa 1930s
by [Hollywood] [Movie Studios]
Hollywood: Fox Movietone Studio, 1930. Three vintage keybook photographs of sets in Fox Movietone City, the filming lot that would eventually become the Twentieth Century-Fox studio lot. The Fox Studio, known historically as Movietone City, was the first complete facility created specifically for the production of motion pictures. First opened in October 1928, the studio was built... Read More
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Original photograph showing an aerial view of Twentieth Century-Fox studios, circa 1936
by [Twentieth Century-Fox] [Film studios]
Beverly Hills, CA: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1936. Vintage photograph showing an aerial view of Twentieth Century-Fox film studios, circa 1936. Printed mimeo snipe in French affixed to the verso. Twentieth Century Pictures and Fox Film Corporation merged in 1935. Production chief Darryl F. Zanuck signed a suite of fresh-faced stars in the ensuing years to help buoy the... Read More
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Collection of ten original UFA postcards from "Metropolis" and "Faust
by [UFA] [Film Studios]
Berlin: Ross Verlag, 1920. Collection of ten vintage UFA postcards, including two depicting scenes from F.W. Murnau's "Faust" (1926) and eight depicting scenes from Fritz Lang's "Metropolis" (1927). 5.5 x 3.5 inches. Lightly and evenly toned, else Near Fine.
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Original photograph of Walt Disney Studios' Animation Building, circa 1950s
by [Walt Disney Studios]
N.p.: N.p., 1950. Vintage photograph of Walt Disney Studios' Animation Building, circa 1950s. With a faint reference number stamp on the verso reading "1153 204." The building housed the studio's artists and animators, and is still located on the large Burbank lot purchased by Disney in 1938. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine, with light creasing to... Read More
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Strictly Dishonorable (First Edition, copy belonging to Delmer Daves, with his ownership signature on the front pastedown)
by Preston Sturges
New York: Horace Liveright, 1929. First Edition. First Edition. Copy belonging to director and screenwriter Delmer Daves, with his ownership signature and the year (1930) on the front pastedown. Basis for the 1951 film starring Janet Leigh and Ezio Pinza. Near Fine, lacking the dust jacket, with light toning and wear on the spine. ... Read More
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Webster (Original photograph from the 1983 television series)
by Stu Silver (creator); Susan Clark, Alex Karras, Emmanuel Lewis (starring)
Burbank, CA: American Broadcasting Company [ABC], 1983. Vintage black-and-white photograph from the 1983 television episode. An ex-football star and his wife adopt the son of his former teammate after he is killed in a car accident. "Webster" ran for four years and is comparable to "Diff'rent Strokes," in which a young African American boy is also adopted... Read More
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The Long March (First UK Edition, inscribed by the author)
by William Styron
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1962. First UK Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the title page. Author's second novel, originally published as a paperback original in 1952. Very Good plus in a Near Fine dust jacket. Spine lean, foxing to the page edges, extremities lightly toned. Jacket spine toned, with light foxing to the verso and rear panel.... Read More
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Set This House on Fire (First Edition)
by William Styron
New York: Random House, 1960. First Edition. First Edition. Near Fine in a Very Good plus price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket with light toning to the spine and flap folds, some slight wear to the crown, and a tiny chip to the upper left portion of the spine.
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Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness (First Edition)
by William Styron
New York: Random House, 1990. First Edition. First Edition. Near Fine and unread in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Jacket evenly faded at the spine panel.
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