West of Zanzibar (Original photograph from the 1928 silent film)
by Tod Browning (director); Chester De Vonde (play); Elliott J. Clawson (screenwriter); Lon Chaney, Lionel Barrymore, Mary Nolan, Warner Baxter (starring)
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1928. Vintage reference photograph from the 1928 silent film, showing actress Mary Nolan. With a mimeo snipe to the verso, along with manuscript pencil annotations regarding layout. A bitter magician in charge of a small outpost in Zanzibar, paralyzed by the man who wooed and killed his wife, seeks to exact revenge upon... Read More
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Miracles for Sale (Original photograph from the 1939 film)
by Tod Browning (director); Clayton Rawson (novel); Harry Ruskin, Marion Parsonnet, James Edward Grant (screenwriters); Robert Young, Florence Rice, Frank Craven (starring)
N.p.: N.p., 1939. Vintage double weight matte-finish reference photograph from the 1939 film, showing actors Robert Young, Henry Hull, and Florence Rice. Annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. Based on Clayton Rawson's 1938 novel "Death from a Top Hat." A retired magician sells illusions for use in magic shows, and makes a hobby of exposing fake... Read More
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Fast Workers (70 original photographs from the 1933 film)
by Tod Browning (director); John McDermott (play); Karl Brown, Ralph Wheelwright, Laurence Stallings (screenwriters); John Gilbert, Robert Armstrong, Mae Clarke (starring)
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1933. 70 vintage double weight reference photographs from the 1933 film, including seven of cast and crew at work on the set, three of which feature director Tod Browning. Also included is a later print of a fourth image of Browning on the set. From the estate of Tod Browning, housed in a Kodak... Read More
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Far From Heaven (For Your Consideration screenplay for the 2002 film)
by Todd Haynes (director, screenwriter); Julianne Moore, Dennis Quaid, Dennis Haysbert, Patricia Clarkson (starring)
Universal City: Focus Features, 2002. For Your Consideration script for the 2002 film. Laid in with the script is a letter on Focus Features letterhead, presenting the script in consideration for Best Screenplay. Noted filmmaker Todd Haynes' homage to Douglas Sirk, about a wealthy suburban housewife in the 1950s whose seemingly perfect life begins to unravel as... Read More
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Original manuscript letter signed to cartoonist C.D. Batchelor
by Alexandra Tolstoy [Tolstaya]
N.p.: N.p., 1959. Vintage manuscript letter signed from Alexandra Tolstoy, daughter of Leo Tolstoy, dated October 29, 1959, and addressed to Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist C.D. Batchelor. Included with the letter is the original mailing envelope. A warm letter, thanking Batchelor for a drawing and expressing wishes to meet again and gather mushrooms at "Friends Advice," the... Read More
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The Jackie Thomas Show: Poker, Schmoker (Original screenplay for the 1993 television episode)
by Tom Arnold, Breckin Meyer, Alison La Placa, Dennis Boutsikaris (starring); Michael Lessac (director); David Silverman, Stephen Sustarsic (screenwriters)
Burbank, CA: Lorimar Productions, 1993. Final Draft script for Season 1 Episode 17 of the 1992-1993 television series. This episode originally aired March 23, 1993 on ABC. This single season sitcom follows the life of a famous standup comic. In this installment, the title character tries to rig a poker match to win back a car he... Read More
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New Tap Terminology (First Edition)
by Aron [A.] Tomaroff
Unknown: Self published, 1935. First Edition. First Edition (presumed). A 21-page glossary of tap-dancing terminology, written by noted Moldovan-American bodybuilder, dancer, dance instructor, and choreographer Aron Tomaroff. Spirit duplication, rectos only. 21 leaves, with last page of text numbered 21. Very Good plus in yellow wrappers, bound with two gold brads. Closed tear repaired with old cello... Read More
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Assignment in Stockholm (Original screenplay for an unproduced film)
by Tom Cannan, Gunnar Hellstrom (screenwriters)
N.p.: N.p., 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. Screenwriter Gunnar Hellstrom's address on the title page in manuscript ink. German and Italian ambassadors meet in Stockholm in discuss how neutral Sweden will work for the Axis war effort in 1943, with a particular focus on acquisition of the Swedish steel industry. Set in Stockholm. ... Read More
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Destination Moonbase-Alpha (Seven British lobby cards for the 1978 film)
by Tom Clegg (director); Gerry Anderson, Sylvia Anderson, Terence Feely (screenwriters); Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Catherine Schell, Tony Anholt (starring)
England: ITC Entertainment, 1978. Seven vintage full-color British lobby cards from the 1978 British film. After an atomic explosion blasts the Moon into deep space, the Moonbase-Alpha and its several hundred inhabitants drift until a rescue party from Earth arrives. the commander of the space station sees the rescue party differently, as aliens hellbent on extracting radiation... Read More
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Losin' It [Tijuana!] (Original screenplay for the 1983 film)
by Tom Cruise, Jackie Earle Haley, Shelley Long (starring); Curtis Hanson (director); Bill Norton as B.W.L. Norton (screenwriter)
N.p.: N.p., 1980. Draft script for the 1983 film, seen here under the working title "Tijuana!". In the summer of 1965, four teenage boys drive from Los Angeles to Tijuana in hopes of losing their virginities and getting into trouble. They find their plans waylaid, however, by an unexpected companion: a heartbroken woman determined to get a... Read More
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Welcome Back, Kotter (Four original photographs of illustrations from the 1975-1979 television series)
by Tom Crabtree (artist); Gabe Kaplan (creator, starring); Alan Sacks (creator)
N.p.: American Broadcasting Company [ABC] / The Komack Company Inc, 1975. One vintage promotional photograph of an illustration and three color separation photographs by artist Tom Crabtree from the 1975-1979 television series. The photograph with mimeo snipe on the bottom of the recto dated "the week of September 21, 1975," advertising the series' weekly broadcast on Tuesdays on ABC-TV... Read More
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Tom Friedman (First Edition)
by [Tom Friedman] Thyrza Nichols Goodeve, Lawrence Douglas and Alexander George (essays)
Beverly Hills, CA: Gagosian Gallery, 2006. First Edition. First Edition. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at Gagosian Gallery between October 24 and December 9, 2006. Near Fine with no dust jacket as issued. Light soiling and light bumps to corners of boards.
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100 Rifles [One Hundred Rifles] (Original oversize photograph of Raquel Welch and Jim Brown from the 1969 film)
by Tom Gries (director, screenwriter); Robert MacLeod (novel); Clair Huffaker (screenwriter); Jim Brown, Raquel Welch, Burt Reynolds (starring)
N.p.: N.p., 1969. Vintage oversize borderless satin-finish reference photograph of Jim Brown and Raquel Welch between takes on the set of the 1969 film. A Native American man robs a bank in the US in order to buy guns for his people who are being repressed by the government. A lawman quickly sets out into Mexico to... Read More
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Breakheart Pass (Original photograph from the 1975 film)
by Tom Gries (director); Alistair MacLean (novel, screenwriter); Ken Bell (photographer); Charles Bronson, Ben Johnson, Richard Crenna, Jill Ireland (starring)
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1976. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the 1976 UK release of the 1975 US film. Mimeograph snipe and layout annotations on the verso, and layout annotations on the recto. Based on Alistair MacLean's 1974 novel, starring Charles Bronson as John Deaken, a prisoner on a train with medical supplies and small US... Read More
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Hell's Horizon (Original screenplay for the 1955 film)
by Tom Gries (director, writer); Wray Davis (producer); John Ireland, Bill Williams, Marla English (starring)
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1955. Draft script for the 1955 film. A crew of Air Force soldiers are called in for a difficult bombing mission on the border of Manchuria and North Korea, and while the mission is successful in the end it takes a hefty toll on the group. White untitled wrappers. Title... Read More
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Word of Mouth (Original screenplay for the 1999 film)
by Tom Lazarus (screenwriter, director); L.L. Thomaso (screenwriter); Catalina Larranaga, Mark Pellegrino, LoriDawn Messuri, Mark Sweeney (starring)
Malibu, CA: Word of Mouth Productions, 1999. Draft script for the 1999 film. Laid in are a collection of documents, two autographed letters from screenwriter and director Tom Lazarus to Jack Murphy, dated February 26, March 5, and March 29, 1991, urging him to please read and consider producing his film. Finally there is a typed biography of Lazarus,... Read More
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Whitsuntide (Original script for the 1972 play)
by Tom LaBar (playwright), Russell Treyz (director), Michael Miller, Joyce Elliott, George DiCenzo (starring)
New York: NR Productions, 1969. Draft script for the 1972 play, which opened on March 26, 1972 at the Martinique Theater. Not listed in the Internet Broadway Database. Parishioners at St. Thomas' on-the-Green Episcopal Church in the cozy Connecticut town of Westwood suddenly erupt in a rash of glossolalia - speaking in tongues. Set in Westwood, Connecticut.... Read More
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The Master Gunfighter (Two original photographs from the set of the 1975 film)
by Tom Laughlin (director, screenwriter, starring); Ron O'Neal, Lincoln Kilpatrick, Geo Anne Sosa, Barbara Carrera (starring)
N.p.: Billy Jack Enterprises. Two vintage press photographs from the set of the 1975 film. With an studio stamp on the verso of one. Riding high on his fame from "Billy Jack," probably this was Tom Laughlin's most ambitious effort as a director-star. One photo shown. Please inquire to see the other. A remake of the 1969... Read More
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Billy Jack (Original photograph from the 1971 film)
by Tom Laughlin (director, starring, screenwriter); Delores Taylor (starring, screenwriter)
N.p.: N.p., 1971. Vintage reference photograph from the 1971 film. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. The second film in the Billy Jack series, following "The Born Losers" (1967) and preceding "The Trial of Billy Jack" (1974). Although a critical failure, the Billy Jack movies were enormously popular, and largely successful at the box office. ... Read More
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Return of the Big Cat (Original photograph from the 1974 television film)
by Tom Leetch (director); Lew Dietz (novel); Herman Groves (screenwriter); Jeremy Slate, Pat Crowley, David Wayne, Christian Juttner, Kim Richards, Jeff East (starring)
Burbank, CA: Walt Disney Productions, 1974. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1974 television film. With a provenance stamp and mimeo snipe regarding the films television premiere on the verso. Based on the 1972 children's novel by Lew Dietz. A family living in California in the 1890s has been terrorized by a cougar living in the woods,... Read More
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Gavilan (Original photograph from the 1982-1983 television series)
by Tom Mankiewicz (creator); Robert Urich, Patrick Macnee, Kate Reid, Tadashi Yamashita, Jeanne Mori (starring)
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1982. Vintage reference photograph of actor Fernando Lamas promoting the 1982-1983 television series. With mimeo snipe on the verso advertising the shows broadcast on Tuesday nights. Actor Fernando Lamas was originally cast in the series until he withdrew after filming only a few episodes due to his illness that ended his life... Read More
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The Midnight Eye Guide to New Japanese Film (First Edition)
by Tom Mes, Jasper Sharp (authors); Hideo Nakata (foreword)
Berkeley: Stone Bridge Press, 2005. First Edition. First Edition. Near Fine in perfect-bound wrappers.
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Cheech and [and] Chong's The Corsican Brothers (Two original photographs from the 1984 film)
by Tommy Chong (director, screenwriter, starring); Bruce Ditchfield (photographer); Cheech Marin and Rikki Marin (screenwriters, starring); Roy Dotrice, Shelby Fiddis, Edi McClurg (starring)
Los Angeles: Orion Pictures Corporation, 1984. Two vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1984 US film. Cheech and Chong's period piece about the French Revolution, a comedy geared toward a wider audience, with the two moving away from the stoner comedy that made them famous. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.
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Around the World in 80 Ways (Two original photographs from the 1969 film)
by Tommy Goetz (director); Mary Aster, Tommy Goetz, Rita Joyce, Lois Lane (starring)
N.p.: Distribpix, 1969. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1969 film. Each photograph with provenance stickers on the verso, and each with a label on the verso obscuring a previous provenance stamp. A group of wealthy stockbrokers form an international sex club with the most beautiful women and men, and organize an epic orgy. Set... Read More
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Rhinoceros (Original poster for the 1974 film)
by Tom O'Horgan (director); Eugene Ionesco (playwright); Julian Barry (screenwriter); Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder (starring)
New York: AFT International, 1974. Vintage US one sheet poster for the 1974 US film. Based on the 1959 play by Eugene Ionesco. A reimagining of Ionesco's darkly comical indictment of human gullibility and herd mentality—a response to rising fascism in pre-WWII Europe—wherein citizens of a small town inexplicably begin turning into rhinoceroses. Set in 1970s... Read More
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