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Micki and Maude [Mickey and Maude] (Original screenplay for the 1984 film)
by Blake Edwards (director); Jonathan Reynolds (screenwriter); Dudley Moore, Amy Irving, Ann Reinking, Richard Mulligan (starring)
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1984. Draft script for the 1984 film. With a few annotations in manuscript ink throughout. Rob Salinger (Moore) works as a television reporter and his wife Micki (Reinking) is a lawyer who is having difficulty getting pregnant, to the chagrin of Rob. While working, Rob meets a cellist Maude (Irving), who he... Read More
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High Time (Three British front-of-house cards from the 1960 film)
by Blake Edwards (director); Tom Waldman and Frank Waldman (screenwriters); Bing Crosby, Fabian, Tuesday Weld (starring)
London: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1961. Collection of 3 vintage full-color British front-of-house cards from the UK release of the 1960 US film. With British certificate labels on the rectos. A late Bing Crosby film, about a widowed restaurant owner who decides to go back to college, where he falls in love with one of the professors. ... Read More
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What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? (Original photograph from the set of the 1966 film)
by Blake Edwards (director); William Peter Blatty (screenwriter); Aldo Ray, James Coburn, Dick Shawn, Sergio Fantoni, Giovanna Ralli (starring)
N.p.: N.p., 1965. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1965 film, showing actors James Coburn and Dick Shawn crouching in a bush, with director Blake Edwards and a camera to the right, capturing the shot. During the Allied invasion of Sicily, an outfit of US soldiers are assigned to capture the small town of Valerno, but find... Read More
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Strictly for Pleasure [The Perfect Furlough] (Seven British front-of-house cards from the 1958 film)
by Blake Edwards (director); Stanley Shapiro (screenwriter); Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh, Keenan Wynn, Linda Cristal (starring)
London: Rank Film Distributors, 1959. Seven vintage full-color British front-of-house cards from the UK release of the 1958 US film. Tony Curtis stars as a sex-starved soldier who wins a date with pinup model Linda Cristal. Janet Legih (Curtis' real life wife) plays an Army shrink tasked with keeping things chaste. 8 x 10 inches.... Read More
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Days of Wine and Roses (Seven original photographs from the 1962 film)
by Blake Edwards (director); Sherman Clark (photographer); J. P. Miller (screenwriter); Jack Lemmon, Lee Remick, Charles Bickford, Jack Klugman (starring)
London: Warner-Pathe, 1962. A collection of 7 vintage vintage black-and-white still photographs from the UK release of the 1962 US film. Distributor rubber-stamps and mimeograph snipes on the versos. Jack Lemmon plays an alcoholic who falls in love with an innocent young women, whom he convinces to start drinking, leading them both lose themselves in the downward... Read More
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Days of Wine and Roses (Two original photographs of Jack Lemmon from the 1962 film)
by Blake Edwards (director); Sherman Clark (photographer); J. P. Miller (screenwriter); Jack Lemmon, Lee Remick, Charles Bickford, Jack Klugman (starring)
London: Warner-Pathe, 1962. Two vintage vintage black-and-white publicity photographs of Jack Lemmon from the UK release of the 1962 US film. Mimeograph snipes affixed to the versos. Lemmon plays an alcoholic who falls in love with an innocent young women, whom he convinces to start drinking, leading them both lose themselves in the downward spiral of addiction.... Read More
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This Happy Feeling (Eight British front-of-house cards from the 1958 film)
by Blake Edwards (director, screenwriter); F. Hugh Herbert (play); Debbie Reynolds, Curt Jurgens, John Saxon, Alexis Smith (starring)
London: Unviersal International Pictures, 1958. Eight vintage full-color British front-of-house cards from the UK release of the 1958 US film. Based on a play by F. Hugh Herbert, about a young woman who asks another guest at party to rescue her from her lecherous boss. When her rescuer suggests that she get out of her wet clothes,... Read More
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A Shot in the Dark (Three original photographs from the 1964 film)
by Blake Edwards (director, screenwriter); William Peter Blatty (screenwriter); Harry Kurnitz, Marcel Achard (playwrights); Peter Sellers, Elke Sommer, George Sanders (starring)
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1964. Collection of 3 vintage black-and-white reference studio still photographs from the 1964 film. The second of the "Pink Panther" films, based on the 1962 book by Harry Kurnitz, which in turn was adapted from Marcel Achard's play, "L'Idiote." Probably one of five funniest films of the 1960s, and the defining installment... Read More
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Mister Cory (Two original photographs from the 1957 film)
by Blake Edwards (director, screenwriter); Tony Curtis, Martha Hyer, Charles Bickford (starring)
Universal City: Universal-International, 1957. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1957 film, both showing actor Tony Curtis. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso of one. An opportunistic busboy at a resort gambles his way into high society, where he falls in love with a wealthy but disinterested young heiress. Director Blake Edwards' third directorial effort. ... Read More
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Mister Cory (Original photograph of Blake Edwards, Tony Curtis, and Martha Hyer on location for the 1957 film)
by Blake Edwards (director, screenwriter); Tony Curtis, Martha Hyer, Charles Bickford (starring); Russell Metty (cinematographer)
Universal City: Universal-International, 1957. Vintage reference photograph from the 1957 film, showing Blake Edwards directing actors Tony Curtis and Martha Hyer on the set. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. An opportunistic busboy at a resort gambles his way into high society, where he falls in love with a wealthy but disinterested young heiress. Edwards' third directorial... Read More
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The Man Who Loved Women (Two original photographs, one color, one black and white, from the 1983 film)
by Blake Edwards (director, screenwriter); Milton Wexler, Geoffrey Edwards (screenwriter); Burt Reynolds, Julie Andrews, Kim Basinger, Marilu Henner (starring)
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1983. Two vintage studio still photographs, one color, one black and white, from the 1983 film. Blake Edwards remake of Francois Truffaut's 1977 film about a sculptor whose obsessive love of women leads to his eventual death, told from the perspective of his analyst and eventual lover. 8 x 10... Read More
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The Great Race [Grande Corsa] (Original photograph from the 1965 film)
by Blake Edwards (director, screenwriter); Arthur A. Ross (screenwriter); Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Peter Falk (starring)
N.p.: N.p., 1965. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1965 film, showing actor Jack Lemmon in costume as Professor Fate, in turn in disguise as Crown Prince Fredrich Hapnick, covered in cake and pie. With the stamp of Globe Photos dated 14 April 1965, two Italian agency stamps, and a stamp noting No. 7053 on the verso. ... Read More
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A Fine Mess (Archive of five architectural blueprints for the 1986 film)
by Blake Edwards (director, screenwriter); Ted Danson, Howie Mandel, Richard Mulligan, Maria Conchita Alonso (starring)
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1986. Archive of five original architectural blueprints for location shooting purposes relating to the 1986 comedy film. Each blueprint numbered one through five (out of five), labeled "Ext. Pazzo Mansion," with the Beverly Hills address of the house, and credits for director Blake Edwards, production designer Roger Maus, and others. The blueprints... Read More
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The Pink Panther (Original insert poster for the 1963 film)
by Blake Edwards (director, screenwriter); Ron Clark, Frank Waldman (screenwriters); Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom, Dyan Cannon, Robert Webber (starring)
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1964. Vintage insert poster for the 1963 film. The first film in the classic, wildly successful "Pink Panther" series, about an inspector's botched attempts to catch a notorious jewel thief before he steals a priceless diamond. Nominated for an Academy Award. Set in Switzerland, shot on location in France, Italy, and California.... Read More
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The Great Race (Original photograph from the 1965 film)
by Blake Edwards (director); Robert Willoughby (photographer); Arthur Ross (screenwriter); Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Peter Falk (starring)
London: Warner-Pathe Distributors, 1965. Vintage full-color still photograph from the UK release of the 1965 US film. A professional daredevil convinces auto makers that a race from New York to Paris will help to promote automobile sales. A rival vows to win the race in a car of his own invention. Shot on location in... Read More
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The Green Stone (First Edition)
by Suzanne Blanc
New York: Harper, 1961. First Edition. First Edition. The author's first book, winner of the 1962 Edgar Award. Very Good plus in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Slight lean, with a bookplate on the front endpaper. Jacket lightly toned and rubbed, as is often found.
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Nähe des Fernen: The Nearness of the Distant (First Edition)
by [Tadao Ando] Werner Blaser
Zurich: Verlag Niggli, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Text in German and English. Fine, with no dust jacket as issued.
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Ross Bleckner (First Edition)
by Ross Bleckner
Zurich: Kunsthalle Zurich, 1990. First Edition. First Edition. Near Fine in pictorial wrappers with french flaps. Vintage bookseller label to the rear flap. Extremities lightly bumped. Catalog of an exhibition held at Kunsthalle Zurich from November 3rd to December 30th, 1990.
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Flowers (First Edition, one of 250 copies)
by Ross Bleckner
Rome: N.p., 1993. First Edition. First Edition. One of 250 numbered copies (this being No. 108). Publisher's cream paper-covered boards quarter bound in maroon cloth. About Fine with no dust jacket as issued. Vintage bookstore label to the rear pastedown. Upper front tip lightly bumped, some very minor soiling to the boards. Scarce.
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Bed-Time [Bedtime] Angel (First Edition)
by William Arthur Neubauer writing as Norman Bligh
New York: Ecstasy Novel / Publishers Productions, 1951. First Edition. No. 9. First Edition, a paperback original. Very Good plus in wrappers, lightly rubbed on the rear wrapper and spine. Holroyd, p. 256.
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Blinky Palermo (First Edition)
by [Blinky Palermo] Gloria Moure, Anne Rorimer, Ángel González García (contributors)
Barcelona: Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, MACBA, 2003. First Edition. Softcover. First Edition. Text in Spanish and English. Published in conjunction with an exhibition which ran from December 13, 2002, through February 16, 2003, at the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona. Very Good plus in perfect-bound wrappers, with small punctures at the heel (see images).
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Palermo: Works (First German Edition, two volumes)
by [Blinky Palermo] Thordis Moeller (editor); Christoph Schreier, Klaus Schrenk (contributors)
Cologne [Koln]: Oktagon Verlag, 1995. Hardcover. First German Edition. Text in German and English. Catalogue raisonné, complete in two volumes. Published in conjunction with a show held at the Kunstmuseum Bonn from November 4, 1994, through January 1, 1995. Both volumes about Very Good plus in Very Good plus clear acetate dust jackets. Jackets lightly toned... Read More
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Justified Lives: Morality and Narrative in the Films of Sam Peckinpah (First Edition)
by [Sam Peckinpah] Michael Bliss
Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1993. First Edition. First Edition. Fine in an about Fine dust jacket.
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Original gathering of typescript notes, detailing a 1976 meeting to discuss a television adaptation of Shirley Jackson's "The Haunting of Hill House
by Robert Bloch
N.p.: N.p., 1976. Vintage six-page gathering of typescript and carbon typescript notes by Robert Bloch, detailing a meeting at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer with producer Mike Wise, writer Lou Randolph, and associates to discuss a then-forthcoming, ultimately unproduced television movie based on Shirley Jackson's 1959 novel "The Haunting of Hill House." Notes dated between February 11 and March 1, 1976. Writer... Read More
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The Werewolf in Paris (Original carbon typescript of the introduction to the 1993 reprint of the 1933 novel)
by Robert Bloch
N.p.: N.p., 1993. Vintage six-page carbon typescript of Robert Bloch's introduction to the 1993 reprint of Guy Endore's 1933 novel. Annotations in manuscript ink on page two, noting deletions. Writer Robert Bloch is best known for penning Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" (1959), although his six-decade writing career encompassed novels, short stories, radio, cinema, and television. A protégé of H.P.... Read More
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