The Crowded Grave (First UK Edition)
by Martin Walker
London: Quercus, 2011. First UK Edition. A Bruno Courrèges mystery. Fine in a Fine dust jacket.
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Zero at the Bone (First Edition)
by Mary Willis Walker
New York: St. Martin's [Martins], 1991. First Edition. First Edition. Tiny bump at the jacket heel, else Fine in a Fine dust jacket.
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Original photograph of Wallace and Rita Beery with their daughter Carol, 1932
by Wallace; Beery Rita Beery, Carol Beery (subjects); Clarence Sinclair Bull (photographer)
N.p.: N.p., 1932. Vintage double-weight photograph of Wallace Beery, his wife at the time, Rita Beery, and their two-year-old daughter, Carol, 1933. Mimeo snipe, manuscript annotations and agency stamp on the verso. The couple adopted Carol from Rita Beery's mother's half-sister not long after Wallace Beery's break-out role as Bill in the 1930 comedy, "Bill and Min." ... Read More
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[Inner Sanctum] Pillow of Death (Original screenplay for the 1945 film, Marion Pecht's copy)
by Wallace Fox (director); George Bricker (screenwriter); Dwight V. Babcock (story writer); Lon Chaney, Clara Blandick (starring)
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1944. Draft script for the 1945 film. Copy belonging to studio secretary Marion Pecht, with her name in manuscript pencil at the top right corner of the front wrapper. The sixth and final Inner Sanctum installment, featuring spiritualists, a haunted house, and a murder by suffocation, in what was seemingly a last... Read More
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Archive of photographs of Inez Wallace 1940s-1960s
by Inez Wallace
N.p.: N.p., 1960. Archive of 22 single weight and 7 double weight photographs of newspaper columnist Inez Wallace circa 1940s-1960s, tipped onto the pages of a large format photo album, complete with a manuscript marker title page and mimeograph caption list at the front. Featuring seven oversized photographs of Wallace, as well as several photographs and other ephemera related... Read More
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The Champ (Original post-production screenplay for the 1931 pre-Code film)
by Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Irene Rich (starring); King Vidor (director); Frances Marion, Leonard Praskins (screenwriters)
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1931. Post-production script for the 1931 pre-Code film. A washed-up prizefighter attempts to regain his self esteem and retain custody of his eight-year-old son by quitting gambling and alcohol. Nominated for four Academy Awards, winning two, including Best Actor for Wallace Beery (shared with Fredric March for "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"). ... Read More
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The Pawnbroker (First Edition, signed and dated in the year of publication)
by Edward Lewis Wallant
New York: Harcourt, Brace, and World, 1961. First Edition. First Edition. SIGNED and dated in the year of publication on the front endpaper by the author. Basis for the classic 1964 film directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Rod Steiger. Jacket has a hint of wear at the spine ends, else Near Fine in a Near... Read More
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Behind the Front (Original photograph from the 1926 film)
by Wallace Beery, Raymond Hatton (starring); A. Edward Sutherland (director); Ethel Doherty, Monte Brice (screenwriters)
Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1926. Vintage reference photograph from the 1926 film, showing actors Wallace Beery and Raymond Hatton from behind. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. Two adversaries gradually become best friends as they stumble through World War I together. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus, lightly edgeworn, with paper tape reinforcements... Read More
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She (Original flyer for the 2009 exhibition)
by Wallace Berman, Richard Prince
Los Angeles: Michael Kohn Gallery, 2009. Vintage gatefold flyer for the 2009 exhibition, featuring posthumous work by Wallace Berman alongside contemporary work by Richard Prince. Conceived by writer and curator Kristine McKenna, and held at the Michael Kohn Gallery in in Los Angeles, January 15 through March 7, 2009. 8.5 x 5.5 to 17 x 5.5 inches. Near... Read More
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Ask For Therese (First Edition)
by Evans Wall
New York: Beacon Books, 1960. First Edition. First Edition, a paperback original. Very Good to Fine condition. Light rubbing to the tips. An attractive copy.
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Once Off Guard (First Edition)
by J.H. Wallis
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1942. First Edition. First Edition. Basis for the 1944 film noir "Woman in the Window." Very Good plus in a bright, Very Good plus dust jacket. Jacket has no loss, only a small amount of creasing at a couple of corners and a touch of fading to the spine panel. Rare in dust... Read More
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Rafferty and The Night Watch (Two volumes, both First Editions)
by Bill Ballinger and Thomas Walsh
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1953. First Edition. First Edition. Both novels form the basis for the 1954 film noir "Pushover" (also released under the title "The Night Watch"). Rafferty: Near Fine in a bright, Near Fine dust jacket. The Night Watch: Near Fine in a bright, Near Fine dust jacket. Both volumes housed together... Read More
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Pinocchio (Five photographs from 1978 re-release of the 1940 animated film)
by Walt Disney (producer); Ben Sharpsteen, Hamilton Luske (supervising directors); Carlo Collodi (children's novel); Ted Sears, Otto Englander, Webb Smith, William Cotttrell, Joseph Sabo, Erdman Penner, Aurelius Battaglia (screenwriters); Dick Jones, Cliff E
Burbank, CA: Walt Disney Productions, 1978. Five studio still photographs from the 1978 re-release of the 1940 film. One with a printed snipe on verso and one with a "Silver Screen" stamp on verso. Laid in is an additional compilation photograph of three studio stills printed by The Disney Channel, circa early 1980s. Based on the 1883... Read More
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Servants' Entrance (Original photograph from the 1934 film)
by Walt Disney (animator); Frank Lloyd (director); Samson Raphaelson (screenwriter); Sigrid Boo (novel); Janet Gaynor, Lew Ayres, Ned Sparks, Walter Connolly, Louise Dresser (starring)
Los Angeles: Fox Film Corporation, 1934. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1934 film. Based on the 1930 novel, "Vi som går kjøkkenveien" ("We Who Enter Through the Kitchen") by Sigrid Boo. An heiress, fearing her family is about to go broke, takes a job as a maid and falls in love with a chauffeur. 10... Read More
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Three original photographs from the set of the 1954 film, as well as its premiere)
by Walt Disney (subject, producer); Richard Fleischer (subject, director); James Mason (subject, starring); Jules Verne (novel); Kirk Douglas, Peter Lorre (starring); Earl Felton (screenwriter)
N.p.: N.p., 1954. Three vintage reference photographs relating to the 1954 film, two showing producer Walt Disney with director Richard Fleischer on the set, and one showing the film's British premiere outside of the Odeon cinema in London. Based on the 1870 novel by Jules Verne. In 1868, off the coast of San Francisco, three men set... Read More
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The Three Caballeros (Original photograph of Walt Disney from the 1944 film)
by Walt Disney (subject, producer); Bill Roberts, Clyde Geronimi, Jack Kinney, Harold Young, Norman Ferguson (directors); Clarence Nash, Sterling Holloway, José Oliveira, Joaquin Garay (starring)
N.p.: N.p., 1944. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Walt Disney with Donald Duck, José Carioca, and Panchito Pistoles, produced to promote the 1944 animated propaganda film. Amsterdam distributor stamp on the verso. Originally produced as part of Disney's goodwill message for Latin America under Franklin D. Roosevelt's Good Neighbor policy, and a follow-up to the 1942 animated... Read More
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Alice in Wonderland (Original photograph of Walt Disney, Winston Hibler, Erdman Penner, and Ted Sears examining animation cels for the 1951 film)
by Walt Disney (producer); Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske (directors); Lewis Carroll (novels); Kathryn Beaumont, Ed Wynn, Richard Haydn, Sterling Holloway (starring)
Burbank, CA: Walt Disney, 1951. Vintage publicity photograph of producer Walt Disney, writers Erdman Penner and Winston Hibler, and animator Ted Sears examining drawings and animation cels for the 1951 film. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Based on both "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" (1865) and "Through the Looking Glass" (1871) by... Read More
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Sleeping Beauty (Five photographs from the 1979 re-release of the 1959 film)
by Walt Disney (producer); Clyde Geronimi (supervising director); Charles Perrault (story); Milt Banta, Winston Hibler, Bill Peet, Joe Rinaldi, Ted Sears, Ralph White (screenwriters); Mary Costa, Bill Shirley, Eleanor Audley (starring)
Burbank, CA: Walt Disney Productions, 1979. Five studio still photographs, one of which is a compilation photograph of two images, from the 1979 re-release of the 1959 film. Based on the story "La Bell au bois Dormant" ("The Sleeping Beauty") from the 1697 book "Histoires ou contes du temps passe," by Charles Perrault, which laid the foundation... Read More
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Addictions (First Edition)
by Walter Gabrielson, Edward Wortz (curators)
Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, 1991. First Edition. Softcover. First Edition. First page composed of sealed mixed media, with "toxic materials" warning label, as issued, and a rubber glove and calendar page laid in. Included with the book is a publisher's "With Compliments" letter, along with a brief gloss of the exhibition, and a two-page copy... Read More
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Big Red (Original photograph from the 1962 film)
by Walter Pidgeon, Émile Genest, Gilles Payant (starring); Norman Tokar (director) Jim Kjelgaard (novel); Louis Pelletier (screenwriter)
Burbank, CA: Walt Disney, 1962. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1962 film, showing actor Walter Pidgeon. Based on the 1945 novel by Jim Kjelgaard, about an orphaned boy who forms a friendship with a sporting show dog, a Champion Irish Setter. Shot on location in Big Bear Lake, California, and in Quebec. 8 x... Read More
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Men Are Not Gods (Two original photographs from the 1936 film)
by Walter Reisch (director); Walter Reisch, G.B. Stern, Iris Wright (screenwriter); Miriam Hopkins, Gertrude Lawrence, Sebastian Shaw (starring)
N.p.: London Film Productions, 1936. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1936 film. A British film in which a secretary sacrifices her career to rewrite her employer's scathing review of a production of Shakespeare's "Othello." The main actor's wife pleads with her to save her husband's career, leading the Ann (the secretary) to change the review... Read More
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The Adventures of Quentin Durward (Original photographs from the 1955 film)
by Walter Scott (novel); Richard Thorpe (director); Robert Ardrey, George Froeschel (screenplay); Robert Taylor, Kay Kendall, Robert Morley, George Cole, Alec Clunes, Duncan Lamont (starring)
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1955. Vintage reference photograph from the 1955 film. Mimeo snipe on the verso. Based on the 1823 novel by Walter Scott. The third film in an unofficial trilogy, following "Ivanhoe" (1952) and "Knights of the Round Table" (1953). A Scottish knight is sent to France to ask a countess if she will... Read More
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Guys and Dolls (Original script for the 1955 stage musical)
by Walter Matthau, Helen Gallagher, Ray Shaw, Leila Martin (starring); Abe Burrows, Jo Swerling (book); Frank Loesser (music, lyrics)
New York: Music Theatre, 1955. Vintage script for the 1955 production of the play, staged at New York City Center from April 20 to May 1, 1955, and May 31 to June 12, 1955. Bound in at the rear of the script are a five-page props list and an eight-page costuming list for the play. Based on "The... Read More
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The Jackpot (Original photograph of James Stewart from the 1950 film)
by Walter Lang (director); Frank Powolny (photographer); Phoebe Ephron, Henry Ephron (screenwriters); James Stewart, Barbara Hale, James Gleason (starring)
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1950. Vintage oversize borderless black and white publicity portrait photograph of James Stewart from the 1950 film. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso, along with the stamp of Twentieth Century-Fox crediting photographer Frank Powolny. A man wins several substantial prizes on a radio quiz show, including a pony, washing machine,... Read More
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The Long Riders (Original one sheet poster for the 1980 film)
by Walter Hill (director); Stacy Keach, James Keach (screenwriters, starring); Bill Bryden, Steven Smith (screenwriters); David Carradine, Keith Carradine, Robert Carradine (starring)
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1980. Vintage one sheet poster for the 1980 film. Director Walter Hill's take on the origins, exploits and the ultimate fate of the James-Younger gang, a group of four sets of brothers, who became legendary bank robbers in the post-Civil War Midwest. Famously acted by four sets of actual brothers: Randy and Dennis... Read More
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