The American Parade (Original photograph from the 1974-1976 television mini-series)
by Susan B. Anthony (subject); Mary Tyler Moore (narrator); Vinnette Carroll, Leora Dana, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Maeve McGuire (starring); Jack Kuney (director); Eve Merriam (screenwriter)
Los Angeles: CBS, 1974. Vintage reference photograph of actress Geraldine Fitzgerald from, "We the Women," Episode 1, Season 1 of the 1974-1976 television mini-series. With mimeo snipe affixed to the verso promoting the broadcast of the episode on Sunday March, 17 1974. A documentary fiction series made to celebrate the 1976 bicentennial, and a photograph centered on... Read More
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Foxfire (Original script for the 1982 play)
by Susan Cooper (playwright, lyrics); Hume Cronyn (playwright, lyrics, starring); Jonathan Holtzman (lyrics, music); Keith Carradine, Jessica Tandy, Katherine Cortez (starring)
New York: International Creative Management [ICM], 1982. Final Draft script for the 1983 play, which opened on November 11, 1982 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre for a run of 213 performances, closing on May 15, 1983, starring Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy, and Keith Carradine. Laid in is a letter written by Cronyn to Christian Science Monitor journalist Arthur Unger... Read More
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The Other Side of Midnight (Original screenplay for the 1977 film)
by Susan Sarandon, Marie-France Pisier, John Beck, Raf Vallone (starring); Charles Jarrott (director); Sidney Sheldon (novel); Daniel Taradash (screenwriter)
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1975. First Draft script for the 1977 film. Laid in is a typed letter signed on Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation letterhead, dated Sept. 27, 1978, from Executive Story Editor Henry Klinger to a Kirt Dressler, regarding the script. Based on the 1973 novel by Sidney Sheldon. John Beck stars as an American pilot,... Read More
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Night Cries (Original screenplay for the 1978 television movie)
by Susan Saint James, Michael Parks, Jamie Smith-Jackson (starring); Richard Lang (director); Brian Taggert, Tony Lawrence (screenwriters)
Studio City, CA: Charles Fries Productions / Stonehenge Productions, 1978. Draft script for the 1978 television film which originally aired on January 28, 1978 on ABC. Single manuscript ink annotation to page 19, amending the word "place" to "part". A woman who is told that her baby died in childbirth refuses to believe that the infant is... Read More
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Outlaw Blues (Original screenplay for the 1977 film)
by Susan Saint James, Peter Fonda (starring); Richard T. Heffron (director); Bill L. Norton (screenwriter); John Crawford, James T. Callahan (starring)
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1976. Revised First Draft script for the 1977 film. Bobby (Peter Fonda) is a struggling musician who gets a chance to showcase some of his songs to country star, Garland Dupree (Callahan). The country star steals Bobby's best song, "Outlaw Blues," and makes it a hit. Receiving no credit, Bobby confronts Garland, and... Read More
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Soap (Four original photographs from the 1977-1981 television series)
by Susan Harris (creator, screenwriter); Jay Sandrich (director); Katherine Helmond, Richard Mulligan, Cathryn Damon, Robert Mandan, Billy Crystal (starring)
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures Industries, 1981. Four vintage studio still photographs, of which one is a compilation photograph, from the 1977-1981 ABC television series. Mimeo snipe affixed to the verso and folded over recto to one of the photographs. The scandalous American sitcom Soap, created by Susan Harris, was a prime time parody of daytime soap operas,... Read More
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Kapo (Original oversize photograph from the 1960 film)
by Susan Strasberg (starring); Gillo Pontecorvo (director, screenwriter); Franco Solinas (screenwriter); Laurent Terzieff, Emmanuelle Riva, Didi Perego (starring)
N.p.: N.p., 1960. Original borderless oversize reference photograph from the 1960 film, showing actress Susan Strasberg, with two Nazi officers in the background. A Jewish women is sent to a concentration camp during World War II, but decides to lead an escape attempt even as the turmoil of war threatens to defeat her will. An engaging war... Read More
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Dead Man Walking (Three original photographs from the 1995 film)
by Susan Sarandon, Sean Penn (starring); Tim Robbins (director, screenwriter); Helen Prejean (book)
New York: Gramercy Pictures, 1995. Three vintage studio still compilation photographs from the 1995 film, including two showing director Tim Robbins on the set. Based on Helen Prejean's 1993 book, about a nun who becomes the spiritual advisor to a convicted murderer facing death row. Nominated for four Academy Awards, winning one for Best Actress for Susan Sarandon.... Read More
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Babes (Archive of twelve original screenplays from the 1990-1991 television series)
by Susan Peretz, Wendie Jo Sperber, Lesley Boone, Rick Overton, Nedra Volz (starring); Tracey Jackson, Gail Parent (creators); David Silverman, Stephen Sustarsic (screenwriters)
N.p.: N.p., 1990. Archive of twelve scripts from the 1990-1991 television series. Archive belonging to screenwriter Stephen Sustarsic, with his name on a printed label affixed to two front wrappers. Laid in with the scripts is a xerographically duplicated flyer for the show's wrap party at Columbia Bar and Grill in Los Angeles, dated March 13, 1991. Archive... Read More
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Working Class (Original screenplay for an unproduced television pilot)
by [Stephen Sustarsic]
N.p.: N.p., 1997. Draft script for an unproduced television pilot. Bound in after the script are nine extra pages of dialogue, as well as a brief synopsis of the show's central themes. The never-produced sitcom followed a teenage working-class couple struggling to make ends meet and support their young daughter. Screenwriter Stephen Sustarsic wrote frequently for sitcom... Read More
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The Stranger (Original manuscript for an unpublished short story)
by Stephen Sustarsic
N.p.: N.p., 1970. Original ribbon typescript copy of an unpublished short story, with manuscript marker annotations on four pages. Screenwriter Stephen Sustarsic wrote frequently for sitcom television throughout the 1980s and 1990s, most memorably for the television series "Alice" (1976-1985) and "The Jeffersons" (1975-1985). Sustarsic was also one of the creators of the children's animated series "The Wild... Read More
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Inspector (Original typescript for an unproduced television episode)
by [Stephen Sustarsic]
N.p.: N.p., 1970. Draft typescript for an unproduced television episode. With brief editorial annotations in manuscript pencil and ink throughout. A brief murder mystery comedy, satirizing Sherlock Holmes and Watson. Screenwriter Stephen Sustarsic wrote frequently for sitcom television throughout the 1980s and 1990s, most memorably for the television series "Alice" (1976-1985) and "The Jeffersons" (1975-1985). Sustarsic was also... Read More
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A Rage to Live (Original screenplay for the 1965 film)
by Suzanne Pleshette, Bradford Dillman, Ben Gazzara, Peter Graves (starring); John O'Hara (novel); Walter Grauman (director); John T. Kelley (screenwriter);
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1964. Draft script for the 1965 film. A young woman, Grace Caldwell (Pleshette) is assaulted in her room as a teenager by her brother's friend, leading her to experience problems in her later sexual and romantic relationships. Nominated for an Academy Award. Set in Pennsylvania. Pale green studio... Read More
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Japanese Style (First UK Edition)
by Suzanne Slesin, Cliff Stafford, Daniel Rozensztroch
London: Thames and Hudson, 1987. Hardcover. First UK Edition, preceded by the First American Edition published by Clarkson Potter. Near Fine in a Near Fine, lightly age toned dust jacket.
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Kumano (First Japanese Edition)
by Risaku Suzuki
Kyoto: Korinsha, 1998. First Edition. Softcover. First Edition. Text in Japanese and English. Very Good plus in perfect-bound wrappers, with the publisher's wraparound band laid in.
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Risaku Suzuki | Fire: February 6 (Signed Limited Edition)
by [Risaku Suzuki]
Tuscon, AZ: Nazraeli Press. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, one of 500 copies (this being No. 276) SIGNED and numbered by the photographer. With a unique tipped-in print on the penultimate leaf. Fine in orange paper-covered boards.
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Sakura (First Edition)
by Risaku Suzuki
New York: Yoshii Gallery, 2006. First Edition. Softcover. First Edition. Published in conjunction with an exhibition which ran from April 26 to June 24, 2006, at the Yoshii Gallery in New York. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Oversize volume, shipping billed at cost.
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![The Penthouse [La nuit des alligators] (Two original oversize photographs of actress Suzy Kendall from the French release of the 1967 film)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/667/277/1590277667.0.m.jpg)
The Penthouse [La nuit des alligators] (Two original oversize photographs of actress Suzy Kendall from the French release of the 1967 film)
by Suzy Kendall, Martine Beswick, Tony Beckley, Terence Morgan (starring); Peter Collinson (director); Scott Forbes (play); Peter Collinson (screenwriter)
Buckinghamshire: Paramount British Pictures, 1967. Two vintage oversize matte-finish borderless double weight reference photographs from the French release of the 1967 film, both showing actress Suzy Kendall. Loosely based on the 1967 play "The Meter Man" by Scott Forbes. A pair of oafish thugs break into a wealthy London penthouse apartment, planning to terrorize the couple they... Read More
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![Original photograph of Gloria Swanson, publicity for Sunset Boulevard [Blvd], 1950](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/271/695/988695271.0.m.jpg)
Original photograph of Gloria Swanson, publicity for Sunset Boulevard [Blvd], 1950
by Gloria Swanson
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1950. Vintage Paramount Pictures publicity photograph of Gloria Swanson, looking frighteningly happy, taken in 1950 in conjunction with the release of Billy Wilder's "Sunset Boulevard." With manuscript annotations on the verso. Swanson received her third and final Best Actress Oscar nomination for her role in the film. 8 x 10 inches. Pinholes... Read More
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Archive of screenplay and manuscript material by W.R. Burnett
by W.R. Burnett [H.N. Swanson]
N.p.: N.p., 1963. An archive of 17 mimeograph manuscripts for short stories, novels, and screenplays, many never published or produced, by W.R. Burnett. All identified by stamp, label or cover sheet as being from H.N. Swanson, Inc., Burnett's literary agent. Four of the scripts are ribbon copy typescript or carbon typescript, two of the scripts have been briefly annotated... Read More
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The Shootist (First Edition)
by Glendon Swarthout
Garden City: Doubleday, 1975. First Edition. First Edition. Basis for the 1976 film directed by Don Siegel and starring John Wayne, in his final role. Very Good plus in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Slightest spine lean. Jacket lightly rubbed, with faint toning on the spine and rear panel and a nick at the heel.
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![Werewolf [Were-Wolf] (Original manuscript for the 1929 serialization of the 1928 mystery novel)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/953/623/1699623953.0.m.jpg)
Werewolf [Were-Wolf] (Original manuscript for the 1929 serialization of the 1928 mystery novel)
by Charles Lee Swem
Cleveland: The Cleveland Plain Dealer, 1929. Original typescript for the 1929 serialization of the 1928 mystery novel. Bound in before the manuscript is a 47-page typescript short mystery story titled "The Virgin Tower," ostensibly also written by Charles Lee Swem, with a few brief manuscript ink and pencil annotations on the first leaf. Title page of "Werewolf" mentions... Read More
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Secret Dead Men (Signed First Edition)
by Duane Swierczynski
Holicong: Point Blank, 2005. First Edition. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Additionally signed by editor Allan Guthrie on the copyright page. Fine in a Fine dust jacket.
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Exit A (First Edition, inscribed to author Chris Offutt)
by Anthony Swofford
New York: Scribner, 2007. First Edition. First Edition. Association Copy, INSCRIBED on the title page to author Chris Offutt: "To Chris and Melissa and the Boyz / Thank you for welcoming me home—and for being my family / Love / Anthony / I. 2007." Offutt is the author of “Kentucky Straight” and other short story collections, novels, nonfiction,... Read More
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Little Big Shot (Original screenplay for the 1935 film, presentation copy belonging to screenwriter Jerry Wald)
by Sybil Jason, Glenda Farrell, , Edward Everett Horton, Jack La Rue, J. Carrol Naish, Robert Armstrong (starring); Michael Curtiz (director); Jerry Wald, Julius J. Epstein, Hardy Andrews (screenwriters)
N.p.: N.p., 1935. Final script for the 1935 film. Specially bound copy belonging to screenwriter Jerry Wald, with his name in gilt on the front board. Jerry Wald is best remembered for his long and successful association with Warner Brothers as both a screenwriter and producer of a number of notable films, including "Mildred Pierce" (1945), "Humoresque" (1946),... Read More
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