Andy Warhol (First German Edition)
by [Andy Warhol] Erika Billeter
Bern: Benteli Verlag, 1978. Hardcover. First German Edition. Text in German. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket.
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Breaking In (Original screenplay for the 1989 film)
by Bill Forsyth (director); John Sayles (screenwriter); Burt Reynolds, Casey Siemaszko (starring)
Los Angeles: Act III Productions, 1988. Draft script for the 1989 film. Copy belonging to hair stylist Philip Leto, with his annotations in manuscript ink on the title page, and his name in manuscript ink on a single revision page. A old New York safecracker takes on a bumbling young crook as his lookout and apprentice. The... Read More
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God Says There Is No Peter Ott (Original script for the 1972 play)
by Bill Hare (playwright); Leland Ball (director); Rue McClanahan, Tom Ligon, Ann Sweeny (starring)
N.p.: N.p., 1972. Draft script for the 1972 play, which premiered on April 17 at the McAlpin Rooftop Theatre in New York. A stubborn young woman is sent to live at her aunt's hotel in Cape Cod after her father discovers she is pregnant out of wedlock, leading to deeper and deeper animosities between the two women. ... Read More
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Construction Ahead (First Edition)
by Henry Billings
New York: Viking Press, 1951. First Edition. First Edition. A history of various roads and highway systems, illustrated by the author, with a focus on Route 199 running from Oregon to California. Near Fine in a bright, Very Good plus dust jacket. Board edges and spine lightly faded, gift inscription on the front pastedown; jacket has a few... Read More
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She Couldn't Take It (Five original photographs from the 1935 film)
by Billie Burke, Joan Bennett, George Raft (starring); Tay Garnett (director); Oliver H.P. Garrett (screenwriter); Ray Jones (photographer); Walter Connolly (starring)
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1935. Five vintage photographs from the 1935 film, including three double-weight reference photographs (one on-the-set) and two test Photographs Photographers, one of Joan Bennett and one of Billie Burke. All five photographs with a studio stamp crediting photographer Ray Jones on the versos, and four with mimeo snipes on the same. From... Read More
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Lady Sings the Blues (Original photograph from the 1972 film)
by Billie Holiday (book, subject); Diana Ross, Billy Dee Williams, Richard Pryor (starring); Sidney J. Furie (director); Suzanne de Passe, Chris Clark, Terence McCloy (screenwriters)
London: Cinema International, 1972. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1972 film, showing actors Diana Ross and Richard Pryor on the beach. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso, along with a Cinema International stamp. Based on Billie Holiday's 1956 autobiography, which recounts her troubled rise to fame, failed romantic relationships, and drug addiction. Ross' film debut. ... Read More
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Gang Busters [Gangbusters] (Original photograph from the 1955 film)
by Bill Karn (director, screenwriter); William H. Clothier (screenwriter); Myron Healey, Don C. Harvey, Sam Edwards, Joyce Jameson (starring)
N.p.: Visual Drama, 1955. Vintage studio still photograph of Joyce Jameson and Myron Healey from the 1955 film, here under the alternative title Gangbusters. NBC aired the True Crime television series Gang Busters from March 20, 1952 to October 23, 1952 and reedited the three episode storyline The Pinson Gang into the 1955 feature film Gang Busters.... Read More
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Scrooged (Original photograph from a re-release of the 1988 film)
by Bill Murray, David Johansen, Carol Kane, Karen Allen (starring); Richard Donner (director); Charles Dickens (story); Mitch Glazer, Michael O'Donoghue (screenwriters)
Santa Monica: Home Box Office [HBO] / Max, 1990. Vintage reference photograph from the 1988 film, here with a label on the verso indicating re-use by Cinemax and HBO, showing actors Bill Murray and David Johansen as Frank Cross and the Ghost of Christmas Past, respectively. A holiday classic, based on Charles Dickens' 1843 novella "A Christmas... Read More
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More American Graffiti (Original photograph from the 1979 film)
by Bill Norton (director); Bill Norton, George Lucas, Gloria Katz, and Will Huyck (screenwriter); Candy Clark, Bo Hopkins, and Ron Howard (starring)
San Francisco: Lucasfilm, 1979. Vintage black-and-white studio still photograph from the US release of the 1979 film. Sequel to George Lucas' film "American Graffiti," set in the midst of the Vietnam War. The characters are now in the full swing of 1960s America. Set in California, shot on location in various locations around California. ... Read More
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Serial (Original press kit for the 1980 film)
by Bill Persky (director); Cyra McFadden (novel); Rich Eustis, Michael Elias (screenwriters); Martin Mull, Tuesday Weld, Jennifer McAllister, Sally Kellerman (starring)
Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1980. Vintage press kit for the 1980 film. Full-color illustrated pocketed folder, containing 10 black and white photographs, and 13 gatherings of promotional reading material. Loosely based on Cyra McFadden's 1977 novel "The Serial." A parody of upper-middle-class suburban life at the end of the 1970s, taking aim at second wave women's consciousness-raising groups,... Read More
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Found Money [Max and Sam] (Original screenplay for the 1983 television film)
by Bill Persky (director); Michael Fairman, Richard Sanders (screenwriters); Dick Van Dyke, Sid Caesar (starring)
New York: Cypress Point Productions, 1983. Shooting script for the 1983 television film, which originally aired on December 19 on NBC. Copy belonging to apprentice editor Suzy Elmiger, with her name in manuscript ink annotation to the title page, along with an ink annotation noting copy No. 68. Two older men begin a do-gooder business called "Invisible Friend,... Read More
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Naughty But Nice [Boy Meets Boy] (Original screenplay for an unproduced film)
by Bill Solly (music, lyrics, book); Donald Ward (book); Herman Humble (screenwriter)
N.p.: N.p., 1978. Draft script for an unproduced film. Two-page budget analysis laid in with the script, dated March 20, 1978. Based on the 1975 off-Broadway play "Boy Meets Boy," a lighthearted musical comedy about a romance between two men in 1936, in an alternate reality where lesbian and gay relationships are as accepted as heterosexual ones... Read More
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The Lion at World's End [Christian the Lion] (Two British front-of-house cards from the 1971 documentary film)
by Bill Travers (director, screenwriter); James Hill (screenwriter); Bill Travers, Virginia McKenna, George Adamson, Terence Adamson (starring)
London: Nation Screen Service, 1971. Two vintage black-and-white British front-of-house cards from the 1971 UK film. A documentary following a two men who are reunited with a lion that they had purchased as a cub and which had subsequently been reintroduced to the wild by conservationist George Adamson. 8 x 10 inches. Slight toning, else... Read More
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Operation Haylift (Original photograph from the 1950 film)
by Bill Williams, Ann Rutherford, Tom Brown, Jane Nigh, Richard Travis (starring); William Berke (director); Dean Riesner (screenwriter); Joe Sawyer (screenwriter, starring)
N.p.: Lippert Pictures, 1950. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1950 film. Based on the true story of a US Air Force mission in 1948 and 1949. Air Force men who served during the Berlin Airlift use those same skills to deliver barrels of hay to animals dying from starvation and freezing temperatures in Nevada after 18... Read More
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The Take (Original vinyl 45 RPM record of radio spot announcements for the 1974 film)
by Billy Dee Williams, Albert Salmi, Vic Morrow, Eddie Albert, Frankie Avalon (starring); Robert Hartford-Davis (director); G.F. Newman (novel); Del Reisman, Franklin Coen (screenwriters)
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1974. Vintage 45 RPM vinyl record of two radio spot announcements for the 1974 film. Based on the 1970 novel "Sir, You Bastard," by G.F. Newman. A policeman in San Francisco is sent to New Mexico to help stop a local crime syndicate. There, he discovers widespread corruption in the police department, and... Read More
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Sunset Boulevard [Blvd] (Original photograph from the 1950 film)
by Billy Wilder (screenwriter, director); Charles Brackett, D.M. Marshman Jr. (screenwriters); William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim, Nancy Olson (starring)
Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1950. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1950 film, showing the "wax works" card party, composed of actress Gloria Swanson and actors Anna Q. Nilsson, H.B. Warner, and Buster Keaton (playing themselves). From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. A down-on-his-luck screenwriter stumbles into the home of a forgotten silent... Read More
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Sunset Boulevard [Blvd] (Original photograph from the set of the 1950 film)
by Billy Wilder (screenwriter, director); Charles Brackett, D.M. Marshman Jr. (screenwriters); William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim, Nancy Olson (starring)
Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1949. Vintage studio still photograph from the set of the 1950 film, showing director Billy Wilder and a camera crew capturing a scene with actor Erich von Stroheim playing the organ, while actor William Holden looks on. A down-on-his-luck screenwriter stumbles into the home of a forgotten silent film star, quickly becoming enmeshed... Read More
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Bande à part: New York Underground 60s 70s 80s (First Edition)
by Billy Name, Gerard Malanga (photographers); Glenn O'Brien (foreword)
Paris: Éditions du Collectionneur, 2009. First Edition. Softcover. First Edition. Text in English and French. About Fine in perfect-bound wrappers.
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Kiki's Paris: Artists and Lovers 1900-1930 (First Edition)
by Billy Kluver, Julie Martin
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. A history of the lives of the artists living in Montparnasse from the 1880s through the 1930s, seen through the experiences of Alice Prin, also known as "Kiki, the Queen of the Quarter," a muse, entertainer, and model. Near Fine in a Near Fine... Read More
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Fedora (Original press kit for the 1978 film)
by Billy Wilder (screenwriter, producer, director); I.A.L. Diamond (screenwriter); Thomas Tryon (author); William Holden, Marthe Keller, Hildegard Knef, Jose Ferrer (starring)
Munich: Bavaria Atelier, 1978. Press kit for the 1978 film. Full-color illustrated folder, with six black-and-white borderless reference photographs and 15 gatherings of promotional reading material, housed all together in a white envelope. Based on the novella by Thomas Tryon, from his 1976 collection "Crowned Heads." A struggling Hollywood producer attempts to revive his career by luring... Read More
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Mr. Saturday Night (Original screenplay for the 1992 film, rainbow copy)
by Billy Crystal (director, screenwriter, starring); Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel (screenwriters); David Paymer, Julie Warner, Helen Hunt, Ron Silver (starring)
N.p.: Castle Rock Entertainment, 1991. Rainbow Revision Shooting script for the 1992 film. Copy with the marker annotations of "Set Copy / Please Do Not Take" written on the front wrapper, and a manuscript marker annotation of copy number "193" on the top of the title page. Billy Crystal's directorial debut, about the rise and fall of a... Read More
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A Foreign Affair (Original photograph of Billy Wilder and Marlene Dietrich on the set of the 1948 film)
by Billy Wilder (director, screenwriter); Charles Brackett, Richard L. Breen (screenwriters); Jean Arthur, Marlene Dietrich, John Lund (starring)
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1948. Vintage studio still photograph of director Billy Wilder and actress Marlene Dietrich inspecting a film strip on the set of the 1948 film. With manuscript ink and pencil annotations on the verso. An Iowa congresswoman enlists a US army captain to assist her in an investigation of a former Nazi entertainer. Unbeknownst to... Read More
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Sunset Boulevard (Original photograph from the 1950 film)
by Billy Wilder (director, screenwriter); Charles Brackett, D.M. Marshman Jr. (screenwriters); William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim, Nancy Olson (starring)
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1950. Vintage reference photograph from the 1950 film, showing actor (and real-life director) Erich von Stroheim with a camera crew, preparing to capture the film's iconic final scene. Annotations in manuscript ink on the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. A down-on-his-luck screenwriter stumbles into the home of a... Read More
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Witness for the Prosecution (Original poster for the 1957 film)
by Billy Wilder (director, screenwriter); Agatha Christie (play); Harry Kurnitz, Lawrence B. Marcus (screenwriters); Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton (starring)
Culver City, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1957. Vintage US half sheet poster for the 1957 film. Based on the 1953 play by Agatha Christie, about the trial of a man accused of murder. Nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director Best Actor for Charles Laughton and Best Supporting Actress for Elsa Lanchester. Set... Read More
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A Foreign Affair (Original photograph of Billy Wilder and Marlene Dietrich from the 1948 film)
by Billy Wilder (director, screenwriter); David Shaw, Charles Brackett, Richard L. Breen, Robert Harari (screenwriters); Jean Arthur, Marlene Dietrich, John Lund, Millard Mitchell, Peter von Zerneck (starring)
Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1948. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1948 film, showing director Billy Wilder demonstrating how to embrace actress Marlene Dietrich, with actor John Lund looking on in the background. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso, along with several manuscript annotations regarding layout. An Iowa congresswoman enlists a US army captain... Read More
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