![Del amor y de la muerte [Of Love and Death] (Original photograph of Amparo Muñoz from the 1977 film)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/002/922/1639922002.0.l.jpg)
Del amor y de la muerte [Of Love and Death] (Original photograph of Amparo Muñoz from the 1977 film)
by Amparo Muñoz, Simón Andreu, Luis Barboo (starring); Antonio Giménez Rico (director); Miguel Madrid, José Luis García Sánchez (screenwriters)
N.p.: N.p., 1977. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1977 film, showing actress Amparo Muñoz in the nude. Annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on the verso. From the collection of artist and author Duncan Hannah. Duncan Hannah was a key figure in the burgeoning New York underground arts scene, befriending Andy Warhol and his superstars, Lou Reed, Allen Ginsberg, Patti Smith, Salvador Dali, and many others. A graduate of the Parsons School of Design, his paintings... Read More
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Melrose Place (Original photograph from the 1992-1999 television series)
by Amy Locane, Heather Locklear, Andrew Shue, Josie Bissett, Thomas Calabro (starring); Darren Star (creator)
Los Angeles: Fox Broadcasting Company, 1992. Vintage publicity photograph from the 1992-1999 television series, showing actress Amy Locane. A long-running, prime-time soap opera about the inhabitants of an apartment complex located at 4616 Melrose Place, in West Hollywood, California. Locane appeared in 13 episodes in the show's first season. 8 x 10 inches. Light toning along the bottom edge, else Near Fine.
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The Sisters (Original photograph from the 1938 film)
by Anatole Litvak (director); Myron Brinig (novel); Bert Six (photographer); Milton Krims (screenwriter); Errol Flynn, Bette Davis, Anita Louise, Ian Hunter (starring)
London: Films in London Publications, 1939. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the 1939 UK release of the 1938 US film. Distributors rubber-stamps on the verso. Based on the Myron Brinig novel, about three sisters who are considered the most desirable young women in a tiny town in Montana and the troubled marriages each faces. 8 x 10 inches, with no borders as issued. Faint discoloration at the center of the recto (see image), else Near... Read More
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Act of Love (Original three-sheet poster for the 1953 film)
by Anatole Litvak (director); Alfred Hayes (novel); Irwin Shaw (screenwriter); Kirk Douglas, Dany Robin, Gabrielle Dorziat (starring)
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1954. Vintage three-sheet poster for the 1953 film. Based on the 1949 novel "The Girl on the Via Flaminia" by Alfred Hayes. Visiting Villefrance in the early 1950s, Robert Teller (Kirk Douglas) reminisces on his time in the US Army in Paris, nearing the end of WWII, and his romance with the beautiful French peasant girl Lise (Dany Robin). Set in and shot on location in Paris and the French Riviera, France.... Read More
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Confessions of a Nazi Spy (Original photograph from the 1939 film)
by Anatole Litvak (director); Milton Krims, John Wexley (screenwriters); Edward G. Robinson, Francis Lederer, George Sanders (starring)
Los Angeles: First National Pictures, 1939. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1939 film. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Based on a series of articles written by FBI officer Leon G. Turrou, recounting his investigation of spy rings in the US. The first explicitly anti-Nazi film produced by a major American studio, released four months before the start of World War II, and featuring a large cast of German actors, including... Read More
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The Snake Pit (Original screenplay for the 1948 film)
by Anatole Litvak (director); Frank Partos, Millen Brand (screenwriters); Mary Jane Ward (novel); Darryl F. Zanuck (producer); Olivia de Havilland, Celeste Holm (starring)
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1947. Final Draft script for the 1948 film. Based on the 1946 semi-autobiographical novel of the same name by Mary Jane Ward. The story of a woman who suffers a psychological breakdown, and who we then follow through her long recovery at a mental institution. Filming was preceded by three months of intense research by director Litvak in an attempt to accurately portray practices used by mental institutions of the day, including hydrotherapy... Read More
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The Woman I Love (Three original photographs from the 1937 film)
by Anatole Litvak (director); Joseph Kessel (novel); Mary Borden (screenwriter); Paul Muni, Miriam Hopkins, Louis Hayward (starring)
Culver City, CA: RKO Radio Pictures, 1937. Three vintage black-and-white double reference studio still photographs from the 1937 film. A dramatic love triangle occurs between two fellow pilots and one pilot's wife to the backdrop of WWI. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus, with light toning overall and light soiling to the verso. Blue and red manuscript annotations to the verso and a stamp to the verso of image E-88.
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The Lady in the Car (Japanese B2 Poster for the 1970 film)
by Anatole Litvak (director); Sebastien Japrisot (novel); Samantha Eggar, Oliver Reed (starring)
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1970. Japanese B2 poster for the obscure 1970 puzzle thriller, director Anatole Litvak's final directorial effort. A striking, muscular, and jazzy design. Ad agency secretary Eggar decides to take the awesome muscle car belonging to her boss on a weekend spree rather than parking it in the lot after dropping him at the airport. She soon finds herself recognized in places where she has never been, makes love to a hippie, lets... Read More
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![Goodbye Again [Aimez-Vous Brahms] (Original photograph from the 1961 film)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/151/828/881828151.0.l.jpg)
Goodbye Again [Aimez-Vous Brahms] (Original photograph from the 1961 film)
by Anatole Litvak (director, producer); Francoise Sagan (novel); Raymond Voinquel (photographer); Samuel A. Taylor (screenwriter); Ingrid Bergman, Anthony Perkins, Yves Montand (starring)
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1961. Vintage borderless black-and-white still photograph from the French release of the 1961 film. Featuring Ingrid Bergman holding up Anthony Perkins as he seems to be falling backwards outside of a large doorway. From the Tele Cine Documentation archive, originally known as the Collection Daniel Bouteiller, with their sticker to the verso. Also on the verso is the rubber stamp of Maurice Bessy, from whose archives the photo originally came, alongside another small rubber... Read More
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Anastasia (Seven original British front-of-house cards from the 1956 film)
by Anatole Litvak (director); Marcelle Maurette (play); Arther Laurents (screenwriter); Ingrid Bergman, Yul Brynner, Helen Hayes, Akim Tamiroff (starring)
London: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1956. Seven vintage British front-of-house cards from the UK release of the 1956 US film. Based on Marcelle Maurette's stage play, about a scheme to conspiracy to extort ten million pounds from a bank by teaching a homeless girl to impersonate the missing Russian princess Anastasia. Ingrid Bergman won an Academy Award for her lead role. 8 x 10 inches. Tiny faint creases overall,and light soil to one still, else Near Fine.... Read More
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Anastasia (Original screenplay for the 1956 film)
by Anatole Litvak (director); Marcelle Maurette (play); Guy Bolton (adaptation); Arthur Laurents (screenwriter); Ingrid Bergman, Yul Brynner, Helen Hayes (starring)
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1956. Final draft script for the 1956 film. Wrappers trimmed to conform to text block, separating spine from wrapper abd cropping copy number stamp "650" and re-written in manuscript ink. Production number adjusted in manuscript pencil with ."5." "#3" in manuscript in on edge of spine. Based on Marcelle Maurette's 1952 stage play, about a scheme to conspiracy to extort ten million pounds from a bank by teaching a homeless girl to impersonate the... Read More
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Making a Film: The Story of 'Secret People' (First UK Edition, inscribed by Lindsay Anderson to Karel Reisz)
by Lindsay Anderson
London: George Allen and Unwin, 1952. First UK Edition, preceding all others. Tremendous association copy, INSCRIBED by author and director Lindsay Anderson to noted Czech-British filmmaker Karel Reisz, with a quote from the film: "Karel and Julia / from Lindsay / Woman: as a warning / Louis: as a lesson / Secret People E. 13." A remarkable and extremely detailed breakdown of the classic 1952 British film noir, "The Secret People," directed by Thorold Dickinson. Anderson, here... Read More
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Bad Seed (First Edition, signed by Patty McCormack)
by Maxwell Anderson
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1955. First Edition. First Edition of the play. SIGNED on the title page by actress Patty McCormack, who played Rhoda, the titular "bad seed," both on Broadway and in the 1956 film directed by Mervyn LeRoy. Based on the 1954 novel by William March. McCormack was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance. About Fine in a bright, Very Good plus dust jacket.
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Tea and Sympathy (First Edition, inscribed by the author)
by Robert Anderson
New York: Random House, 1953. First Edition. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper: "January 31, 1954 / For Melba / with affection- / Robert Anderson." Laid in is a photograph showing four people sitting at a table, the youngest presumably being Anderson, with an annotation on the verso (not in Anderson's hand), reading "Labor Day / 9/13/38." Basis for the 1956 film directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Deborah Kerr and John Kerr. ... Read More
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I Never Sang For My Father (First Edition, inscribed by Robert Anderson and Gilbert Cates)
by Robert Anderson
New York: Random House, 1968. First Edition. First Edition. INSCRIBED by author Robert Anderson and director Gilbert Cates on the front endpaper in the year of publication: "9/3/68 / Dear Jerome / Thank you for investing in 'Father' / Best / Gil / and I thank you too / Robert Anderson." Basis for the 1970 film directed by Cates, starring Gene Hackman and Melvyn Douglas. Near Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Boards... Read More
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![Just the Ticket [A Piece of Cake] (Original screenplay for the 1998 film, production coordinator's working copy)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/904/247/1568247904.0.l.jpg)
Just the Ticket [A Piece of Cake] (Original screenplay for the 1998 film, production coordinator's working copy)
by Andie MacDowell, Andy Garcia (starring); Richard Wenk (director, screenwriter)
Sherman Oaks, CA: CineSon, 1997. Revised script for the 1998 film, seen here under the working titles "The Scalper" and "A Piece of Cake." Copy belonging to production coordinator Shelley Houis, housed in a black three-ring binder with approximately 250 pages of production documents, including (in addition to the script) cast and crew contact lists, cost-per-day spreadsheets, location lists, shooting schedules, maps, and travel documents. Desperate to win back his girlfriend, a ticket scalper decides to try to... Read More
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Green Card (Original screenplay for the 1990 film)
by Andie MacDowell, Ann Dowd, Gérard Depardieu, Bebe Neuwirth (starring); Peter Weir (director, screenwriter)
New York: The Green Card Production Company, 1990. Sixth Final Draft script for the 1990 film. Copy belonging to an unidentified crew member, with annotations in manuscript ink throughout, highlighting filming locations. An American woman and a French man enter into a marriage of convenience-the man hoping to gain American citizenship, the woman needing to be married to land her dream apartment. Actor Gérard Depardieu's American film debut. Set and shot on location in New York.... Read More
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Tadao Ando: Complete Works (First Edition)
by [Tadao Ando]
Koln [Cologne], Germany: Taschen, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. Oversize volume, shipping billed at cost.
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Tadao Ando: The Process of Creation (First Edition, one of 500 copies, complete in eleven volumes)
by [Tadao Ando]
New York: Yoshii Gallery, 2005. First Edition. Softcover. First Edition, limited to 500 copies. Collects Tadao Ando's architecture drawings in ten emaki-style (folded handscroll) sketchbooks, with an additional volume presenting an essay, project descriptions, and photographs. Sketchbooks include: 1. Church of the Light 2. Rokko Housing I, II, III 3. Chikatsu-Asuka Historical Museum, Osaka 4. Hanshin Awaji Earthquake and Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art and Kobe Waterfront Plaza 5. Benesse House / Naoshima 6. Chichu... Read More
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Tadao Ando (First Edition)
by [Tadao Ando]
New York: Taschen America, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. As New. Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket. Oversize volume, shipping billed at cost.
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Tadao Ando 1: Houses and Housing (First Japanese Edition)
by [Tadao Ando]
Tokyo: Toto, 2007. Hardcover. First Japanese Edition. Text in Japanese and English. A collection of 19 houses designed by noted self-educated Japanese architect Tadao Ando, selected by Ando as turning points in his career. About Fine in a Near Fine, lightly age toned dust jacket. With the publisher's obi (wraparound band).
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Tadao Ando (DVD Book and DVD Box Set]
by [Tadao Ando]
N.p.: NHK XT-1391-93, 2003. Multi-media full-color hardcover cloth-bound book and 4-DVD set on the work of Tadao Ando. Book beautifully illustrated throughout. In original polybag with blue-and-white hype sticker. Text in Japanese.
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![The Mongols [Les Mongols] (Nine original photographs from the 1961 film)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/138/034/1115034138.0.l.jpg)
The Mongols [Les Mongols] (Nine original photographs from the 1961 film)
by André and Leopoldo Savona De Toth (directors); Guglielmo Coluzzi , Aldo Galfano, Dorka (still photographers); Ottavio Alessi, Allesandro Ferraù, Ernesto Gestaldi, Ugo Guerra, Luciano Martino (screenwriters); Jack Palance, Anita Ekberg, Antonella Lualdi
Paris: France Cinema, 1961. Nine vintage borderless black-and-white still photographs from the 1961 Italian-French film, here under the original French title, "Les Mongols." Rubber-stamps on the versos, crediting photographer Dorka and street address. Palance and Ekberg are present in a few photos, including two candid images of Ekberg. Housed in brown envelope and fold, both with French film title in manuscript ink on the front. An ambitious entry in the Barbarian and Viking Peplum (sword-and-sandal) canon, set... Read More
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The Two-Headed Spy (Two original photographs from the 1958 film)
by Andre De Toth (director); Michael Wilson as James O'Donnell, Alfred Lewis Levitt (screenwriter); Jack Hawkins, Gia Scala, Erik Schumann, Alexander Knox, Felix Aylmer (starring)
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1958. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1958 film. With mimeo snipes affixed to the verso. A British man is placed in the German Army as a spy at the end of World War I. He is able to infiltrate high ranking Nazi command during the World War II, eventually working his way to the top. Scripted by writers on the Hollywood blacklist. Set in Germany, shot on location... Read More
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Original photograph of Andre Gide and Andre Malraux at a 1936 antifascist meeting in Paris
by Andre Malraux, Andre Gide (subjects); David Seymour (photographer)
Paris: N.p., 1936. Vintage borderless photograph from an antifascist meeting in Paris in 1936, showing novelist Andre Malraux speaking into a microphone, with novelist Andre Gide seated at a table next to him. Stamp of Magnum Photos photographer David "Chim" Seymour on the verso. Likely a photograph from a meeting of the Popular Front, a French alliance of various left-wing movements, including communists and socialists, during the interwar period. As Magnum Photos was not formed until... Read More
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