![Mr. [Mister] Freedom (Original oversize photograph of William Klein and Serge Gainsbourg on the set of the 1968 film)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/379/616/1703616379.0.m.jpg)
Mr. [Mister] Freedom (Original oversize photograph of William Klein and Serge Gainsbourg on the set of the 1968 film)
by William Klein (director, screenwriter); Serge Gainsbourg, John Abbey, Delphine Seyrig, Donald Pleasence, Philippe Noiret (starring)
N.p.: N.p., 1968. Vintage oversize borderless reference photograph taken on the set of the 1968 film, showing director William Klein talking with Serge Gainsbourg, who appears in a cameo in the film. Annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on the verso. A satire of superhero films and American imperialism, following the adventures of the eponymous Mr. Freedom,... Read More
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![The Incredible Melting Man [The I.M.M.!] (Original screenplay for the 1977 film)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/325/366/1458366325.0.m.jpg)
The Incredible Melting Man [The I.M.M.!] (Original screenplay for the 1977 film)
by William Sachs (director, screenwriter); Alex Rebar, Burr DeBenning, Myron Healey (starring)
Hollywood: Rosenberg-Gelfman Productions, 1977. Final Shooting script for the 1977 film, here under the working title "The I. M. M.!" Script with copy number "13" in manuscript ink on the title page and annotations in manuscript pencil throughout calling out and detailing the actions of the lead character Steve West, here referred to as "the ghoul." After a... Read More
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Johnny Stool Pigeon (Original post-production script for the 1949 film noir)
by William Castle (director); Henry Jordan (screenwriter); Howard Duff, Shelley Winters, Dan Duryea, Tony Curtis (starring)
Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1949. Post-production Continuity and Dialogue script for the 1949 film noir. A career criminal agrees to help the federal agent who put him behind bars in infiltrating a drug smuggling syndicate. An early film appearance as a mute, murderous henchman by Tony Curtis, here credited as "Anthony Curtis." Partially shot on location in... Read More
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I'll Be Seeing You (Original Post-production Cutting Continuity script for the 1944 film)
by William Dieterle (director); Charles Martin (playwright); Ginger Rogers, Shirley Temple, Joseph Cotton (starring)
Beverly Hills, CA: Selznick International, 1949. Cutting Continuity script for the 1949 rerun of the 1944 film. Based on the play by Charles Martin. An incarcerated woman on a compassionate leave at Christmas meets a soldier on leave with PTSD on the train they are both taking home. She lies to him about her being incarcerated and... Read More
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The Night They Raided Minsky's (Original photograph of William Friedkin and Britt Ekland on the set of the 1968 film)
by William Friedkin (director); Rowland Barber (book); Arnold Schulman, Sidney Michaels, Norman Lear (screenwriters); Britt Ekland, Elliott Gould, Jason Robards (starring)
N.p.: N.p., 1968. Vintage borderless reference photograph for the 1968 film, showing director William Friedkin talking with actress Britt Ekland on the set. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Based on the 1960 novel by Rowland Barber. A mildly exaggerated history of the creation of the striptease, and the downfall of... Read More
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Johnny Holiday (Original mini-banner poster for the 1949 film)
by William Bendix, Stanley Clements, Hoagy Carmichael (starring); Willis Goldbeck (director, screenwriter); Jack Andrews, Frederick Stephani (screenwriters)
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1949. Vintage mini-banner poster for the 1949 film. Troubled young adolescent Johnny Holiday is sent to a reform school in Indiana, where he must choose between his criminally minded friends and the caring tutelage of Sgt. Walker, played by William Bendix. Set in and shot on location in Indiana. 4.75... Read More
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The Legion of the Condemned (Original photograph from the 1928 film)
by William Wellman (director, starring); Fay Wray, Gary Cooper (starring); John Monk Saunders, Jean de Limur (screenwriters)
Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1928. Vintage reference photograph from the 1928 silent film, showing director and actor William Wellman in costume. Mimeo snipe on the verso. A World War I film about four young men who join the Lafayette Escadrille, a group of volunteer pilots known as the titular "legion of the condemned." Now considered a lost... Read More
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![Rustle of Spring [Fruhlingsrauschen] (Seven original oversize photographs from the 1929 German silent film)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/101/664/1387664101.0.m.jpg)
Rustle of Spring [Fruhlingsrauschen] (Seven original oversize photographs from the 1929 German silent film)
by William Dieterle (director, starring); Charlotte Hagenbruch (screenwriter); Lien Deyers, Julius Brandt, Elsa Wagner (starring)
N.p.: N.p., 1929. Seven vintage oversize double weight reference photographs, four of William Dieterle and Lien Deyers, two of Dieterle, and one of Dieterle and Nikolai Malikoff, from the 1929 German silent film—made prior to Dieterle fleeing Germany. Viola von Birkenfeld (Deyers) falls madly in love with the young Friedrich von Bornim (Dieterle) while he cares for her... Read More
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Salome (Original photograph from the set of the 1953 film)
by William Dieterle (director); Irving Lippman (photographer); Harry Kleiner (screenwriter); Rita Hayworth, Stewart Granger, Charles Laughton (starring)
N.p.: N.p., 1953. Vintage reference photograph of Rita Hayworth and Stewart Granger, with director William Dieterle and crew, from the set of the 1953 film. Mimeo snipe on verso. Columbia Pictures highly fictionalized and flamboyant Technicolor Biblical epic, now considered a camp classic, wherein Princess Salome (Hayworth), daughter of King Herod (a deliciously lecherous Charles Laughton), returns... Read More
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The Long, Hot Summer: A Time to Die (Original screenplay for the 1966 television episode)
by William Faulkner (novel, stories); Michael Zagor (screenwriter); Edmond O'Brien, Dan O'Herlihy, Roy Thinnes, Nancy Malone, Ruth Roman (starring)
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox Television, 1966. Revised Final Draft script for the 21st episode of season one of the 1965-1966 television series, which originally aired on February 16, 1966 on ABC. Copy belonging to an unknown crew member, with their name in manuscript ink on the front wrapper. Based on the 1958 film directed by Martin Ritt, which... Read More
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The Long, Hot Summer (Original screenplay for the 1965 television pilot)
by William Faulkner (novel, stories); Earl Hamner (screenwriter); Edmond O'Brien, Dan O'Herlihy, Roy Thinnes, Nancy Malone, Ruth Roman (starring)
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox Television, 1964. First Draft script for the pilot episode of the 1965-1966 television series, which originally aired on September 16, 1965 on ABC. Based on the 1958 film directed by Martin Ritt, which was in turn based on the 1931 novella "Spotted Horses," the 1939 short story "Barn Burning," and the 1940 novel... Read More
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Satorial (sic) Hints for Lunching a la Rose
by William Pene Dubois (illustrations); Terry Southern (author); William Rose (screenwriter, subject)
N.p.: N.p., 1959. Original illustrated humorous essay by Terry Southern and William Pene Dubois, satirizing the dress habits of their distinguished friend, American screenwriter William Rose. Southern and Dubois met in the late 1950s, both under the tutelage of William Styron, while both of them were associated with The Paris Review. During this time William Rose wrote... Read More
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The Taming Of The Shrew (Original photograph from the set of the 1967 film)
by William Shakespeare (play); Franco Zeffirelli (director); Paul Ronald (photographer) Paul Dehn, Suso Cecchi D'Amico, Franco Zeffirelli (screenwriter); Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Cyril Cusack, Michael Hordern, Alfred Lynch (starring)
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1967. Vintage borderless photograph from director Franco Zeffirelli on the set of the 1967 film. With manuscript annotations and the photographer Paul Ronald's rubber stamp on the verso. Based on the play of the same name by William Shakespeare. Nominated for two Academy Awards, for Best Costume Design and Best Art Direction.... Read More
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Sweet Bird of Youth (First Edition)
by Tennessee Williams
New York: New Directions, 1959. First Edition. First Edition. Basis for the 1962 film directed by Richard Brooks and starring Paul Newman and Geraldine Page. Near Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Jacket spine panel lightly faded, with a short closed tear to the center left edge of the front panel.
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (First Edition)
by Tennessee Williams
Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1955. First Edition. First Edition. First issue, with no statement on the copyright page noting a prior appearance of the preface in the New York Times, and no mention of either Lucinda Ballard or Joseph Mielzinger on page xii. Basis for the 1958 film directed by Richard Brooks, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, and... Read More
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Orpheus Descending with Battle of Angels (First Edition)
by Tennessee Williams
New York: New Directions, 1958. First Edition. First Edition. Near Fine in an about Near Fine dust jacket. Neat owner name on the front endpaper. Jacket lightly toned on the spine panel, with minute rubbing at the corners.
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The Rose Tattoo (First Edition)
by Tennessee Williams
New York: New Directions, 1951. First Edition. First Edition. A three-act play written by Tennessee Williams in 1950, basis for the 1955 film directed by Daniel Mann, starring Anna Magnani and Burt Lancaster. Very Good plus in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Boards lightly rubbed. Jacket lightly rubbed, with minute chips at the corners.
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27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other One-Act Plays (Signed First Edition)
by Tennessee Williams
Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1945. First Edition. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the first blank. About Near Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Jacket lightly rubbed, with short closed tears on the heel and flap folds, repaired with cello tape on the verso.
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Baby Doll (Signed First Edition)
by Tennessee Williams
New York: New Directions, 1956. First Edition. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper. Basis for the 1956 film directed by Elia Kazan and starring Carroll Baker and Karl Malden. Very Good plus in a strong Very Good plus dust jacket. Jacket lightly foxed on the verso.
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A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur (First Edition, inscribed by Tennessee Williams)
by Tennessee Williams
New York: New Directions, 1980. First Edition. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper: "To Lillie / Sincerely, / Tennessee Williams." Fine in an about Fine dust jacket.
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The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (Signed First Edition)
by Tennessee Williams
Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1950. First Edition. First Edition. SIGNED on the first blank. About Near Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Boards lightly rubbed. Jacket lightly edgeworn, with two closed tears on the crown and top edge of the front panel, repaired with cello tape on the verso.
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Suddenly Last Summer (First Edition)
by Tennessee Williams
New York: New Directions, 1958. First Edition. First Edition. Basis for the 1959 film directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, starring Katharine Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, and Montgomery Clift. Small splash on the front endpaper, else Fine in an about Fine dust jacket.
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Pieces of My Youth: Selected Early Writings (Original manuscript for an unpublished collection)
by Tennessee Williams
N.p.: N.p., 1970. Draft manuscript for an unpublished collection of early work. Most of the pieces, which include plays, short stories, and poems, were written in the 1940s, and have been published in various editions or collections subsequent to this manuscript. Presumably unpublished material includes occasional brief notes or reflections on the pieces by Williams, alternate versions,... Read More
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Something Cloudy, Something Clear (Original play script for the 1981 play)
by Tennessee Williams
N.p.: N.p., 1980. First Draft script for the 1981 play. A revision and expansion of Williams' unproduced 1941 short play, "The Parade," about a young playwright's unrequited love for another man. The play opened off-Broadway on August 24, 1981 at the Bouwerie Lane Theatre. Blue titled Studio Duplicating Service wrappers, with credits for playwright Tennessee... Read More
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[William Eggleston] Democratic Camera: Photographs and Video, 1961-2008 (First Edition)
by [William Eggleston] Elisabeth Sussman, Thomas Weski (editors)
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Published in conjunction with an exhibition which ran from November 7, 2008, through January 25, 2009, at the Whitney, and from February 20 through May 17, 2009, at the Haus der Kunst in Munich. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. ... Read More
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