The Associate (Original screenplay for the 1996 film, production coordinator's working copy)
by Whoopi Goldberg, Dianne Wiest, Tim Daly (starring); Donald Petrie (director); Nick Thiel (screenwriter); Jenaro Prieto (novel)
Burbank, CA: Buena Vista, 1996. Shooting Draft script for the 1996 film, with rainbow revisions. Copy belonging to Production Coordinator Shelley Houis, with her name in manuscript ink on the title page. Script housed in a blue three-ring binder with approximately 100 pages of production documents, including (in addition to the script) cast and crew contact lists, filming permits,... Read More
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Odds and Sods (Original poster for the 1974 album)
by The Who
London and New York: Track / MCA, 1974. Original promotional poster for the 1974 album. In the autumn of 1973, while members of The Who were preparing for the film version of "Tommy," John Entwistle was put in charge of compiling an album to counter the widespread bootlegging of the band's concerts. "I tried to arrange it... Read More
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Two Cities (Uncorrected Proof, signed by the author)
by John Edgar Wideman
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998. First Edition. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Lightly edgeworn, else Fine in wrappers.
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True Patriot Love Veritable Amour Patriotique (First Edition, with Signed card laid in)
by Joyce Wieland
Ottawa: The National Gallery of Canada, 1971. First Edition. First Edition. Laid in is an Isaacs Gallery card INSCRIBED by Joyce Wieland to noted curator Brenda Richardson (and an unidentified "Tom"), "Dear Tom & Brenda - the book is for / both of you to share / Thanks for all your kindness / Joyce." Published in conjunction with an... Read More
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Cloud Seven (Original treatment script for an unproduced television series)
by Wilbur Stark, John Woodcock, Tex Elman (screenwriters)
N.p.: N.p., 1960. Treatment script for an unproduced television series. During WWII, a man from Boston joins the Air Force, but is soon captured and forced to live in a prisoner of war camp. After the war he returns home, only to face rejection by his family, prompting him to move to California. He is reenlisted in... Read More
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The Lonely Hunter (First Edition)
by Collin Wilcox
New York: Random House, 1969. First Edition. First Edition. Slight lean, else about Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket.
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Dead Aim (Signed First Edition)
by Collin Wilcox
New York: Random House, 1971. First Edition. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper in 1984. The third Lieutenant Hastings novel. Very Good plus in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Extremities rubbed and lightly bumped, slight lean. Jacket moderately rubbed, with one short corner crease. Scarce.
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The Portrait of Mr. W.H. (Later printing, one of 425 copies)
by Oscar Wilde
Portland, ME: Thomas B. Mosher, 1904. Second Edition. Limited Edition, one of 425 unnumbered copies. Very Good, lacking the slipcase, with a slight lean, owner bookplate on the front endpaper, and light age toning and a few splashes on the extremities.
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John McLaughlin 1898-1976: Paintings of the Seventies (First Edition)
by [John McLaughlin] Nicholas Wilder
New York: Andre Emmerich Gallery, 1988. First Edition. Softcover. First Edition. Published in conjunction with an exhibition of John McLaughlin's work which ran from November 10 to December 3, 1988. Near Fine in wrappers.
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Flamingo Road (First Edition, in publisher's trial dust jacket)
by Robert Wilder
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1942. First Edition. First Edition, one of only a handful of copies made with publisher's trial dust jacket. Basis for the 1949 film noir directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Joan Crawford, Zachary Scott, and Sydney Greenstreet. Rare. Very Good in a Very Good example of the variant trial dust jacket. Board edges... Read More
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The Woman of Andros (First Edition)
by Thornton Wilder
New York: Albert and Charles Boni, 1930. First Edition. First Edition. Early novel by the author of "The Bridge of San Luis Rey" (1927). Toning to the book extremities and jacket spine and folds, and light foxing to the page edges, else about Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket.
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Wm. T. Wiley [William T. Wiley]: Milano 1971 (First Edition)
by William T. Wiley
Milan: Studio Marconi, 1971. First Edition. First Edition. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at Studio Marconi in September, 1971. Text in English and Itatlian. Near Fine and unread in card wrappers with a plastic clip binding. Light toning throughout and a small tap to the bottom right corner.
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In Pictures: A Hollywood Satire (First Edition)
by Will Connell (photographer); Nunnally Johnson, Patterson McNutt, Gene Fowler, Grover Jones (text)
New York: T.J. Maloney, 1937. First Edition. First Edition. Lengthily INSCRIBED and dated 1949 by co-author Gene Fowler on the front endpaper, with brief, additional annotations in manuscript ink and pencil to the title page and page nine. A penetrating, satirical take on the film industry, illustrated throughout with black-and-white photographs. Gene Fowler was an... Read More
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The Thing That Couldn't Die (Original photograph from the 1958 film)
by Will Cowan (director); David Duncan (screenwriter), William Reynolds, Andra Martin, Gideon Drew, Carolyn Kearney (starring)
Universal City: Universal, 1958. Vintage photograph from the 1958 horror film. When an ancient box is unburied and opened, the head of a man executed for sorcery 400 years earlier comes to life and begins telepathically controlling people in an attempt to reunite with his body and regain his full power. 10 x 8 inches.... Read More
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Poontang (First Edition, inscribed in the year of publication)
by Charles Willeford
Crescent City, FL: New Athenaeum Press, 1967. First Edition. Crescent City, FL: New Athenaeum Press, 1967. First Edition. Issued in green and gray wrapper variants (no priority), this being the gray variant. INSCRIBED and dated in the year of publication by the author on the front endpaper with typical aplomb: "To Les Dubinas / I hope you... Read More
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Off the Wall (First Edition)
by Charles Willeford
Montclair, NJ: Pegasus Rex Press, 1980. First Edition. First Edition. A nonfiction account of the Son of Sam murders, focusing on the work of deputy sheriff Craig Glassman. Faint foxing on the top page edges, else Near Fine in a lightly age-toned, Near Fine dust jacket.
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Cockfighter (First Hardcover Edition, inscribed in 1973)
by Charles Willeford
New York: Crown Publishers, 1972. First hardcover edition, preceded by a paperback original published by Chicago Paperback House in 1962. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper, with typical dry wit: "To Palmer [and] Marge Carlson - / Your determination in getting this book almost—almost—matches Frank Mansfield's. My warmest personal regards. Yours, / Charles Willeford / 17 Feb... Read More
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The Writing on the Walls [Off the Wall] (Original typescript with profuse holograph corrections)
by Charles Willeford
N.p.: N.p., 1979. Charles Willeford's original, heavily hand-corrected submission to his one-time publisher, Pegasus Rex, for "The Writing on the Walls," eventually re-titled "Off the Wall." Willeford's name, address, and phone number are in blue manuscript ink at the top of the title page, and each of the eighteen chapters (each grouped with paper clips at the top left)... Read More
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Miami Blues (First Edition)
by Charles Willeford
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1984. First Edition. First Edition. The first Hoke Mosley mystery, basis for the superb 1990 film starring Fred Ward, Alec Baldwin, and Jennifer Jason Leigh. A touch of rubbing at the jacket corners, else Fine in an about Fine dust jacket.
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The Woman Chaser (First Edition)
by Charles Willeford
Chicago: Newsstand Library, 1960. First Edition. No. U137. First Edition, a paperback original. Basis for the 1999 neo-noir film starring Patrick Warburton. Near Fine in wrappers. Holroyd, p. 383.
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Cockfighter (First Edition)
by Charles Willeford
New York: Crown Publishers, 1972. First Edition. First Edition in hardcover, preceded by the paperback First Edition published by Chicago Paperback House ten years prior. The beginning of Charles Willeford's second phase, turning away from bizarre crime fiction to focus on the hard-as-nails world of the cockfighting circuit. Basis for the 1972 Monte Hellman film "Born to Kill,"... Read More
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Sketchbook No. 1: Three Americans (First Edition)
by [Willem de Kooning, Igor Stravinsky, Buckminster Fuller] Robert Snyder, Michael Sonnabend (directors)
New York: Time Magazine, 1960. First Edition. Softcover. First Edition. Reproduces the script of a 1960 documentary film about contemporary art, focusing on de Kooning, Stravinsky, and Fuller, along with "Time" articles relating to same. Robert Snyder and Michael Sonnabend previously collaborated on the 1950 documentary "The Titan." Near Fine in perfect-bound wrappers with French... Read More
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Roadhouse 66 [Roadhouse] (Original screenplay for the 1984 film)
by Willem Dafoe, Judge Reinhold, Kaaren Lee (starring); John Mark Robinson (director); Galen Lee, George Simpson (screenwriters)
Los Angeles: Roadhouse Productions, Inc, 1983. First Draft script for the 1984 film, here under the working title "Roadhouse. " While driving cross country down Route 66 to California, Beckman's (Judge Reinhold) car is shot at by three hoodlums. When he meets former rock and roll musician, Johnny Harte (Willem Dafoe), they decide to teach the hoodlums a... Read More
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The Spirit (Original screenplay for the 1987 television film)
by Will Eisner (characters); Michael Schultz (director); Steven E. de Souza (screenwriter); Sam J. Jones, Nana Visitor, Bumper Robinson, Garry Walberg (starring)
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers Television, 1986. Third Draft script for the 1987 television film which aired on ABC on July 31, 1987. Bound in following the script is a two page Staff and Crew List, dated March 7, 1986, a 19 page Shooting Schedule, dated 3/7/86, a ten page Revised Shooting Schedule, dated 3/9/86, an eight page Revised Shooting... Read More
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Action: One Easy Piece (Original screenplay for the 2000 television episode)
by Will Forté (screenwriter); Don Reo (director); Jay Mohr, Illeana Douglas, Jarrad Paul, Jack Plotnick (starring)
Culver City, CA: Columbia TriStar Television, 1999. Shooting script for the 2000 television episode, which originally aired on Fox on September 5, 2000. Copy belonging to crew member Lisa Doty, with a printed ownership label affixed to the title page. The show aired on Fox for one season, from 1999-2000, and followed a failed Hollywood producer named... Read More
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