Dress Gray (Six original photographs from the 1986 television series)
by Alec Baldwin, Eddie Albert (starring); Glenn Jordan (director); Lucian Truscott IV (novel); Gore Vidal (screenwriter)
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1986. Six vintage studio still photographs from the 1986 television series, which originally aired on March 9, 1986, on NBC. Based on the 1979 novel by Lucian Truscott IV, about a cadet at a military academy who investigates the murder of a fellow cadet. Adapted for the screen by Gore Vidal. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.
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Prelude to a Kiss (Original photograph from the 1992 film)
by Alec Baldwin, Meg Ryan, Kathy Bates, Ned Beatty, Stanley Tucci (starring); Norman René (director); Craig Lucas (screenwriter, play)
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1991. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1992 film. Based on the 1988 off-Broadway play by Craig Lucas, who also adapted this screenplay, about a young woman who finds her spirit trapped in the body of an elderly man after he kisses her on her wedding day. Considered by many to be an allegory for couples affected by the AIDS crisis. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.
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Prelude to a Kiss (Original screenplay for the 1992 film)
by Alec Baldwin, Meg Ryan, Kathy Bates, Ned Beatty, Stanley Tucci (starring); Norman René (director); Craig Lucas (screenwriter, play)
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1991. Draft script for the 1992 film. Based on the 1988 off-Broadway play by Craig Lucas, who also adapted this screenplay, about a young woman who finds her spirit trapped in the body of an elderly man after he kisses her on her wedding day. Considered by many to be an allegory for couples affected by the AIDS crisis. Red titled Twentieth Century-Fox wrappers, dated January 11, 1991, on the front wrapper. Missing... Read More
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Malice [Damages] (Collection of 24 call sheets from the 1993 film)
by Alec Baldwin, Nicole Kidman, Bill Pullman (starring); Harold Becker (director); Aaron Sorkin, Scot Frank (screenwriters)
N.p.: N.p., 1992. Collection of 24 vintage call sheets from the 1993 film, here under the working title "Damages." The call sheets are dated September 21 to October 21, 1992, with all but one call sheet printed on the rectos and versos, and five call sheets with an attached leaf, noting scenes or a map of directions to the shoot. All of the call sheets also note the day of "Rehearsal," "Pre-Production Photography," and/or "Shooting," i.e.; "1st... Read More
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Serious Money (Two original photographs from the 1988 Broadway play)
by Alec Baldwin, Valerie Bahakel (starring); Caryl Churchill (playwright); Max Stafford-Clark (director)
N.p.: N.p., 1988. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1988 Broadway play. Both photographs with credits on the bottom margin for photographer Martha Swope. A scathing financial satire largely written in rhyming couplets, originally written and performed in the UK, about the British stock market. The show premiered on Broadway on February 9, 1988, at the Royale Theatre, closing after a brief 15 performances. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine.
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The Scapegoat (Original photograph of Daphne Du Maurier, Alec Guinness, and Nicole Maurey on the set of the 1959 film)
by Alec Guinness, Bette Davis (starring); Robert Hamer (director, screenwriter); Daphne Du Maurier (novel); Gore Vidal (screenwriter); Nicole Maurey, Irene Worth (starring)
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1959. Vintage reference photograph of novelist Daphne Du Maurier and her husband, Sir Frederick Browning, visiting actors Alec Guinness and Nicole Maurey on the set of the 1959 film. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. Based on the 1957 novel by Du Maurier, about a lonely university professor who meets his lookalike, a wealthy but discontented count, while vacationing in France, and finds himself unwittingly forced to swap places and assume... Read More
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The Lavender Hill Mob (Original photograph from the 1951 film)
by Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway, Sidney James (starring); Charles Crichton (director); T.E.B. Clarke (screenwriter)
N.p.: N.p., 1951. Vintage reference photograph from the 1951 film. A dutiful bank clerk is convinced by his new neighbor, an eccentric artist, to steal gold bullion in order to melt it down to make miniature Eiffel Towers. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Screenplay. Ranked the 17th greatest British film of all time by the BFI. Set and shot on location in London. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus, lightly creased... Read More
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Pierre Alechinsky: Aux petits soins: Optiques (First French Edition, inscribed)
by [Pierre Alechinsky]
Paris: Atelier Clot, 1989. Softcover. First French Edition. Text in French. Playfully INSCRIBED around the shape of an illustration on the title page by artist Pierre Alechinsky. A collection of 62 drawings of eyeglasses. Very Good plus in lightly smudged, sewn wrappers.
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The Lost Steps (Original screenplay for an unproduced film)
by Alejo Carpentier (novel); Carlos Diegues, Warren Cook (screenwriters)
N.p.: N.p., 1986. Draft script for an unproduced film. Based on Cuban Alejo Carpentier's 1953 novel, wherein a composer and his mistress leave New York City in pursuit of a land untouched by civilization. Set in New York City and South America. White untitled wrappers. Title page present, dated November, 1986, with credits for screenwriters Carlos Diegues and Warren Cook, and novelist Alejo Carpentier. 110 leaves, with last page of text numbered 109.... Read More
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Aleksandr Rodchenko: The Complete Work (First Edition)
by [Aleksandr Rodchenko] Vieri Quilici (introduction, editor)
Cambridge: MIT [Massachusetts Institute of Technology] Press, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket.
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European Nights [Nuits d'Europe] (Original French program for the 1959 film)
by Alessandro Blasetti (director); Ennio De Concini, Gualtiero Jacopetti (screenwriters); Raffaella Carrà, Henry Morgan, Gustavo Rojo, Carmen Sevilla (starring)
Paris: Cinémato, 1959. Original French program for the 1959 Italian-French film, here under the original French title, "Nuits d'Europe." Lavish and compact, the program fits in a shirt pocket and unfolds to reveal four panels of bright primary colors, showcasing various performers seen in the film. An early "mondo" film, in keeping with what would become a predominantly Italian genre, documenting various nightclub acts around Europe. British rock groups, cabaret, circus clowns, magicians, and a lean towards... Read More
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I Love, You Love (Original Film Pressbook)
by Alessandro Blasetti (director); Giuliano Gemma, Nadia Lara, Peter Marshall, Ivan J. Rado (starring)
New York: Royal Films International, 1962. Original 1963 US Pressbook for the 1962 Finnish documentary film. Produced by Dino de Laurentiis, and filmed throughout Europe, the film is an expose of affection and its various means of display the world over. Nadia Lara's final film credit. 4 pages, folded, 9.75 x 13.75 inches. Black-and-white throughout. A horizontal fold at the middle, and some light creasing to one corner, else about Near Fine.
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Contrordre: Revue trimestrielle de création littéraire plastique (No. 6)
by Alexander Calder, Alexandre Bonnier, Michel Vautier, Jean Vaugeois, Raymond Penblanc, Raoul Lazar, Alain Coulange, Maurice Lefaux, Joseph Reis (contributors); Tony Cartano (editor)
Paris: Editions Buchet/Castel, 1973. First Edition. First Edition. Issue No. 6. Text in French. "Contrordre" was founded by writer Tony Cartano in 1971, and aimed to bring literature, poetry, art, and photography together. The quarterly publication folded after four years, after the publication of the eighth issue, and was the subject of a 2023 exhibition at École supérieure d'art et design Le Havre-Rouen. Very Good plus in perfect-bound, pictorial wrappers.
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Dangerous Pursuit [Fast Lane] (Original screenplay for the 1990 television movie)
by Alexandra Powers, Brian Wimmer, Elena Wohl, Robert Prosky (starring); Sandor Stern (director, screenwriter)
N.p.: N.p., 1989. Draft script for the 1990 television film, here under the working title "Fast Lane." A woman discovers that the man with whom she has just had a one-night stand is a hired assassin, and tries to stop him from completing his next hit. Set in New York. Self wrappers. Missing title page, presumably as issued. 107 leaves, with last page of text numbered 102. Xerographic duplication on blue stock, rectos... Read More
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The Ladykillers (Original lobby card from the 1955 film)
by Alexander Mackendrick (director); William Rose (screenwriter); Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom, Peter Sellers, Danny Green, Katie Johnson (starring)
London: Rank Organisation, 1955. Vintage lobby card from the 1955 British film. With manuscript ink annotations on the verso noting the names of actors. A motley group of five small-time criminals rent out rooms from a wealthy octogenarian widow in order to plan a heist, while posing as classical musicians. 14 x 11 inches. Very Good plus, with pinholes to the corners. Grant UK. Lee, The Heist Film.
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Love has Many Faces (Two original photographs from the 1965 film)
by Alexander Singer (director); Marguerite Roberts (screenwriter); Lana Turner, Cliff Robertson, and Hugh O'Brian (starring)
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1965. Two vintage black-and-white reference studio still photographs from the 1965 film. Sex, intrigue, infidelity, and murder all stir up this beach-based melodrama. When an ex lover washes up on shore of Acapulco, wealthy aging Kit and her beach-boy husband become prime suspects. Shot on location in Acapulco, Mexico. 8 x 10 inches and 10 x 8 (25.5 x 20.5). Very Good plus.
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The Fighting Guardsman (Original photograph from the 1946 film)
by Alexandre Dumas (novel); Henry Levin (director); Edward Dein, Franz Schulz writing as Franz Spencer (screenwriter); Willard Parker, Anita Louise, Janis Carter, John Loder, Edgar Buchanan (starring)
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1946. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1946 film. Based on the 1857 novel "The Companions of Jehu" by Alexandre Dumas. In the days leading up to the French Revolution, a baron steals the king's tax profits to give them back to the poor. Set in France. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus.
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Rembrandt (Four original photographs from the 1936 film)
by Alexander Korda (director); Charles Laughton, Gertrude Lawrence, Elsa Lanchester (starring); Carl Zuckmayer, June Head, Lajos Biro (screenwriters)
London: London Film Productions, 1936. Four vintage studio still photographs from the 1936 film, one of Charles Laughton in the lead as artist Rembrandt van Rijn and three of Gertrude Lawrence as Rembrandt's lover Geertje Dircx. In 1933, 3 years prior to "Rembrandt," director Alexander Korda and Charles Laughton made "The Private Life of Henry VIII" firmly establishing Korda as a director of note and Laughton as a star. While "Rembrandt" would not garner the same box office... Read More
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Tower of Screaming Virgins (Original photograph from the 1968 film)
by Alexandre Dumas (play); Franz Antel (director); Kurt Nachmann (screenwriter); Teri Tordai, Jean Piat, Uschi Glas, Véronique Vendell (starring)
N.p.: Maron Films, 1970. Vintage studio still photograph from the US release of the French/Italian/German film. Based on the 1832 play "La Tour de Nesle" by Alexandre Dumas, which was based on the fourteenth century French scandal the "Tour de Nesle affair." Captain Buridan, king's swordsman and hero of the Flanders campaign, returns to Paris, to find the city in fear of a "vampire/witch" in the Tour de Nesle, luring men to a night of sexual ecstasy,... Read More
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Calder / Prouvé (First Edition)
by [Alexander Calder, Jean Prouvé] Annie Cohen-Solal (editor)
New York: Rizzoli, 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Text in French and English. Published in conjunction with an exhibition which ran from June 8 through November 2, 2013, at the Gagosian Gallery, and from October 24 through December 7, 2013, at Galerie Patrick Seguin in Paris. Fine and unread, with no dust jacket as issued.
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My Sister Eileen (Original photograph from the set of the 1942 film)
by Alexander Hall (director); Ruth McKenney (story); Jack Koffman (photographer); Joseph Fields, Jerome Chodorov (screenwriters); Rosalind Russell, Brian Aherne, Janet Blair, George Tobias, ALlyn Joslyn, Grant Mitchell (starring)
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1942. Vintage photograph of cinematographer Joseph Walker, director Al Hall and actors Janet Blair and Rosalind Russell on the set of the 1942 film. With a mimeo snipe, photographer's rubber stamp and manuscript annotations on the verso. Sisters Ruth (Rosalind Russell) and Eileen (Janet Blair) move to New York City from Ohio to pursue writing and acting. They end up living in a basement in Greenwhich Village and encounter a strange cast... Read More
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At Sword's Point [The Sons of the Three Musketeers] (Original photograph from the 1952 film)
by Alexandre Dumas (novel); Cornel Wilde, Maureen O'Hara, Robert Douglas, Gladys Cooper (starring); Lewis Allen (director); Aubrey Wisberg, Jack Pollexfen (screenwriters)
Santa Monica, CA: RKO Radio Pictures, 1952. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1952 film, showing actors Blanche Yurka, Cornel Wilde, Alan Hale Jr., and Dan O'Herlihy. Loosely based on Alexandre Dumas' 1844 novel, following the adventures of the children of the original Three Musketeers. Set in France. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine.
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The Prince of Thieves (Original screenplay for the 1948 film)
by Alexandre Dumas (novel); Howard Bretherton (director); Charles H. Schneer, Maurice Tombragel (screenwriters); Jon Hall, Patricia Morison, Adele Jergens (starring)
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1947. Final Draft script for the 1948 film. Manuscript annotations on first few leaves indicating the names of the actors playing the lead roles. Loosely based on Alexandre Dumas' 1872 novel, this film follows the adventures of English hero Robin Hood and his band of Merry Men. Set in the UK. White titled wrappers, noted as Revised Final Draft on the front wrapper, production No. 887, dated April 23, 1947.... Read More
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Emperor Nicholas II: Last Monarch of Russia 1894-1917 (Original program for two 1964 screenings of the 1954 film at the Crystal Ballroom at the Delmonico Hotel)
by Alexandre Tarsaidze (historical research, screenwriter, essay); Igor Mestchersky (direction); Ivan Obolensky (narration)
New York: Embassy Films, 1964. Vintage program for two May 20, 1964 screenings of the 1954 documentary at the Crystal Ballroom at the Delmonico Hotel, New York, preceded by an essay presented by historian, author, screenwriter, and president of Embassy Films, Inc., Alexandre Tarsaidze, included in the second half of the brochure. The screenings were presented as a benefit for the Association of Russian War Invalids of the First World War. A chronological compilation of historical newsreel... Read More
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Election (Original screenplay for the 1999 film)
by Alexander Payne (director, screenwriter); Tom Perotta (novel); Reese Witherspoon, Matthew Broderick (starring); Jim Taylor (screenwriter)
N.p.: N.p., 1997. Third Draft script for the 1999 film. With manuscript ink annotations relating to the character of Jim McAllister on several pages, possibly in the hand of screenwriter Jim Taylor, and post-it notes with annotations in the same hand attached to five pages. Based on the 1998 novel by Tom Perrotta, loosely based in turn on Budd Schulberg's 1941 novel "What Makes Sammy Run?" A pitch-black comedy about a washed-up high school history teacher who... Read More
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