Young Girls Beware (Seven original photographs from the 1957 film)
by Yves Allegret (director); James Hadley Chase (novel); Robert Joffres (photographer); Jean Meckert and Rene Wheeler (screenwriters); Antonella Lualdi, Robert Hossein, Michele Cordoue, Jean Gaven (starring)
London: Miracle Films, 1957. Collection of 7 vintage black-and-white double weight still photographs from the 1957 UK release of the 1957 French film. Distributor rubber-stamps on the versos. Based on James Hadley Chase's novel, "Miss Callaghan Comes to Grief" (1941), banned in the UK upon publication due to its graphic sexual passages involving prostitutes and lost women. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.
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The Proud and the Beautiful [Les orgueilleux] (Original photograph from the 1953 French film)
by Yves Allegret (director, screenwriter); Michele Morgan (starring); Rafael E. Portas (director); Jean Aurenche, Jean Clouzot (screenwriters); Gerard Philipe, Victor Manuel Mendoza, Carlos Lopez Moctezuma (starring)
N.p.: N.p., 1953. Vintage borderless double weight reference photograph from the 1953 French film, showing actress Michele Morgan. With manuscript ink annotations regarding layout on the verso, along with the stamp of City Film N.V. In the midst of a deadly typhoid outbreak, a French tourist finds herself widowed and stranded in a small Mexican village, where she begins to fall in love with a depressed, alcoholic expatriate. Set and shot on location in Veracruz and... Read More
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Dedee d'Anvers [Dedee] (Original double weight photograph from the 1948 film)
by Yves Allegret (director, screenwriter); Henri La Barthe (novel); Roger Poutrel (photographer); Jacques Sigurd (screenwriter); Bernard Blier, Simone Signoret, Marcel Pagliero, Marcel Dalio (starring)
London: Curzon Film Distributors, 1949. Vintage black-and-white double weight still photograph from the 1949 UK release of the 1948 French film. Distributor's rubber-stamp and notation on the verso. Based on a story by Ashelbe (Henri La Barthe), about a prostitute named Dedee (Simone Signoret) who works in a night club in Antwerp. She meets an Italian sailor and they fall in love, giving Dedee a new outlook on life. A film that would bring Signoret great popularity.... Read More
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Dedee d'Anvers [Dedee from Antwerp] (Original carbon typescript for the 1948 film)
by Yves Allegret (director, screenwriter); Ashelbe (novel); Jacques Sigurd (screenwriter); Bernard Blier, Simone Signoret, Marcello Pagliero, Marcel Dalio (starring)
Beverly Hills, CA: Victor Glaser, 1947. Draft script for the 1948 film. Carbon typescript on onionskin stock, a draft of the novel produced for purposes of film development, with brief annotations throughout in manuscript ink. Copy belonging to Victor Glaser, with his name and address on the front wrapper in manuscript ink, and the person to whom the internal annotations presumably belong. Based on the 1939 novel by Henri La Barthe writing as Ashelbe. Dedee (Signoret)works in... Read More
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Port of Desire (Two original photographs from the 1958 film)
by Yves Allégret (director, screenwriter); Maurice Aubergé (screenwriter); Daniel Gélin, Hildengard Knef, Jean Lefebvre (starring)
N.p.: Kingsley-Union, 1958. Two vintage studio still photographs from the US release of the 1958 French film. Both photographs with provenance stamps on the versos. A sailor aboard a French merchant ship arrives at the Port of Hamburg and searches for a woman he knew when he was a prisoner of war in the city during the Second World War. Shot on location in Hamburg, Germany. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. ... Read More
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Qui êtes-vous, Monsieur Sorge? (Collection of 18 original press photographs from a gala for the 1961 film)
by Yves Ciampi (director, screenwriter); Jean Jungmann, Charles Andre (photographers); Tsutomu Sawamura (screenwriter); Thomas Holtzmann, Keiko Kishi, Mario Adorf, Nadine Basile (starring)
Paris: Cinedis, 1961. Collection of 18 original single weight press photographs from a gala surrounding the 1961 French-Italian-West German-Japanese film. Most of the photos represent actress Kishi, here as "Kiski," in kimono, and director Ciampi, on-stage behind a microphone and signing autographs, presumably at the French premiere. Several photographs are rubber-stamped on the versos, crediting photographer Jungmann or Andre, also for Bar-le-Duc. Also included are a few leaves documenting travel expenses and locations associated with the film, and a... Read More
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Le Guerisseur [Comme le sucre dans le cafe...] (Original treatment script for the 1953 film)
by Yves Ciampi (director, screenwriter); Jacques-Laurent Bost, Pierre Very (screenwriters); Jean Marais, Daniele Delorme, Maurice Ronet, Dieter Borsche (starring)
N.p.: N.p., 1953. Treatment script for the 1953 film, here under the working title "Comme le sucre dans le cafe...". Text in French. A doctor turned homeopath poaches patients from his former medical colleagues, but is challenged when his shady treatment further endangers the life of a woman with a brain tumor. Set in Brittany, France. Tall yellow titled wrappers. Title page present, with credits for director YVES CIAMPI. 56 leaves, with last page of text... Read More
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The Confession [L'aveu] (Two original photographs from the 1970 film)
by Yves Montand, Simone Signoret, Gabriele Ferzetti (starring); Costa-Gavras (director); Artur London (book); Jorge Semprun (screenwriter)
N.p.: Les Films Corona / Les Films Pomereu, 1970. Two vintage studio still photographs from the US release of the 1970 film. Based on the 1968 memoirs of Czechoslovak communist Artur London, a defendant in the violent, antisemitic show trial against 14 members of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia in 1952. Shot on location in Nord, Alpes-Maritimes, and Pas-de-Calais, France. 10 x 8 inches. One Very Good plus, the other Good, with bruises... Read More
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The Fenouillard Family [La famille Fenouillard] (Original program for the 1961 film)
by Yves Robert (director, screenwriter); Christophe (comic strip); Jean Ferry (screenwriter); Sophie Desmarets, Jean Richard, Annie Sinigalia, Marie-Hose Ruiz (starring)
Paris: Gaumont, 1961. Original program for the 1961 French film, here under the original French title. Illustrated in red, black, and white, and stills from the film, with laid-in synopsis sheets featuring the "Fenouillard" family and oversize umbrella illustration on the rectos. Based on the 19th century French comic by Marie Louis Georges Colomb (Christophe), one of the earliest in the country's history. Leocadie Fenouillard (Desmarets) and her family travel to France to visit the Eiffel Tower... Read More
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Yves Tanguy and Alexander Calder: Between Surrealism and Abstraction (First Edition)
by [Yves Tanguy, Alexander Calder] Susan Davidson
New York: L and M Arts, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Fine and unread, with no dust jacket as issued, still in publisher's shrinkwrap.
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The Most Deadly Game: Little David (Original screenplay for the 1970 television episode, copy belonging to actor Jack Naughton)
by Yvette Mimieux, Marj Dusay, Ralph Bellamy, Louise Troy (starring); Philip Leacock (director); Burton Wohl (screenwriter)
Hollywood: Aaron Spelling Productions, 1970. Final Draft script for Season 1 Episode 1 of the 1970-1971 television series. Copy belonging to actor Jack Naughton, with his name in manuscript ink on the front wrapper. Laid in with the script is a xerographically duplicated shooting location map. The short-lived series followed three independent criminologists-George Maharis, Yvette Mimieux, and Ralph Bellamy-who took on especially dangerous, high-profile cases. In this debut episode, the trio attempt to solve a murder of a... Read More
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Song of Scheherazade (Original photograph of Tilly Losch and Yvonne de Carlo on the set of the 1947 film)
by Yvonne De Carlo, Brian Donlevy, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Eve Arden (starring); Walter Reisch (director, screenwriter); Tilly Losch (choreographer, subject)
N.p.: N.p., 1947. Vintage reference photograph of choreographer Tilly Losch and actress Yvonne de Carlo on the set of the 1947 film. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. A fictional episode in the life of composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, imagining a love affair with a Spanish cabaret dancer that leads him to pen the titular composition "Scheherazade." 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus.
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The Gal Who Took the West (Original photograph from the 1949 film)
by Yvonne De Carlo, Charles Coburn, Scott Brady, John Russell, Myrna Dell (starring); Frederick de Cordova (director); William Bowers, Oscar Brodney (screenwriters)
Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1949. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1949 film, showing actress Myrna Dell. A young singer joins an opera house out west, soon finding herself caught in a love triangle with the two feuding sons of the venue's powerful patriarch. Set in Arizona, shot on location in Arizona and California. 8 x 10 inches. About Near Fine, with one slight crease to the top left corner.
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Border River (Original publicity photograph from the 1954 film)
by Yvonne De Carlo, Joel McCrea (starring); George Sherman (director); William Sackheim, Louis Stevens (screenwriter)
Universal City: Universal-International, 1954. Vintage publicity photograph from the 1954 film, showing actors Yvonne De Carlo and Joel McCrea in a passionate moment. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. A Confederate officer journeys with his men to an outlaw town in Mexico, where they hope to use two million dollars in gold to acquire weapons and continue the war effort. A Union soldier determines to stop them. From the archive of noted Hollywood still photographer... Read More
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The Desert Hawk (Original photograph from the 1950 film)
by Yvonne De Carlo, Richard Greene, Rock Hudson, Jackie Gleason (starring); Frederick De Cordova (director); Audrey Wisberg, Gerald Drayson Adams, Jack Pollexfen (screenwriters)
Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1950. Vintage publicity photograph from the 1950 film, showing actors Yvonne De Carlo and Richard Greene. Aided by his trusty sidekicks Aladdin and Sinbad, a desert guerilla goes head-to-head with a greedy prince, and eventually marries the caliph's beautiful daughter. From the archive of noted Hollywood still photographer Ray Jones. Born in Wisconsin on January 1, 1901, Jones worked for Paramount Pictures in the early 1930s, and went on to be... Read More
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Salome, Where She Danced (Original photograph from the 1945 film)
by Yvonne De Carlo, Rod Cameron, David Bruce (starring); Charles Lamont (director); Laurence Stallings (screenwriter)
Universal City: Universal Studios, 1945. Vintage publicity photograph from the 1945 film, showing actress Yvonne De Carlo. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. From the archive of noted Hollywood still photographer Ray Jones. Born in Wisconsin on January 1, 1901. Jones worked for Paramount Pictures in the early 1930s, and was the first still photographer to win an Academy Award. He went on to be the head of the still photography department at Universal Pictures, where... Read More
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Salome, Where She Danced (Five original photographs from the 1945 film)
by Yvonne De Carlo, Rod Cameron, David Bruce (starring); Charles Lamont (director); Laurence Stallings (screenwriter)
Universal City: Universal Studios, 1945. Five vintage publicity photographs from the 1945 film, all showing actress Yvonne De Carlo. Two with printed mimeo snipes and provenance stamps on the verso. Loosely based on the life of famed dancer and courtesan Lola Montez. De Carlo's breakthrough role, about an exotic dancer who becomes a spy during the American Civil War. From the archive of noted Hollywood still photographer Ray Jones. Born in Wisconsin on January 1, 1901,... Read More
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Deerslayer (Original photograph from the 1943 film)
by Yvonne De Carlo, Trevor Bardette, Jean Parker (starring); Lew Landers (director); James Fenimore Cooper (novel); John W. Krafft, P.S. Harrison, E.B. Derr (screenwriters)
N.p.: N.p., 1943. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1943 Western film. Annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. Based on James Fenimore Cooper's 1841 novel. In 18th century New York, a white frontiersman raised by the Mohicans helps his former tribe when their princess is stolen by a rival tribe. A breakthrough role for Yvonne De Carlo. From the archive of noted Hollywood still photographer Ray Jones. Born in Wisconsin on January 1, 1901,... Read More
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Watchmen (Original screenplay for the 2009 film)
by Zack Snyder (director); Jackie Earle Haley, Patrick Wilson, Billy Crudup, Carla Gugino, Matthew Goode, Malin Åkerman (starring); Dave Gibbons, Alan Moore (comics); David Hayter, Alex Tse (screenwriters)
N.p.: N.p., 2004. Fifth Draft script for the 2009 film. Copy belonging to an unidentified cast or crew member, with their name watermarked on every page, and annotations in manuscript ink throughout, indicating weapons and fight sequences. Bound in at the rear of the script is a two-page spreadsheet table of prop weapons needed for scenes in the film (see images). Based on Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' acclaimed 1986-1987 comic book series, an alternate timeline in... Read More
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The Shadow of the Wind (Signed First Edition)
by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
New York: The Penguin Press, 2004. First Edition. First American Edition, preceded by the Spanish First Edition published by Editorial Planeta three years prior. SIGNED by the author on the title page. The first book in the author's "Cemetery of Forgotten Books" series. Fine in a Fine dust jacket, with trompe l'oeil distressing on the dust jacket, as issued.
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The Angel's Game (Signed First Edition)
by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
New York: Doubleday, 2009. First American Edition. SIGNED by the author on the second half-title page. The second novel in the author's "Cemetery of Forgotten Books" series. Fine in a Fine dust jacket.
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El Croquis: Zaha Hadid, 1983-2004: Forms of Indetermination and Landscape as a Plan (First Edition)
by [Zaha Hadid] Richard C. Levene, Fernando Cecilia Marquez (editors)
Madras: El Croquis, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. A combined and updated edition of "El Croquis" issues 52, 73, and 103. Text in English and Spanish. Fine, with no dust jacket as issued. Oversize volume, shipping billed at cost.
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Dilemma [A World of Strangers] (Three original photographs from the 1962 Danish film)
by Zakes Mokae, Marijke Mann, Evelyn Frank, Ivan Jackson (starring); Henning Carlsen (director, screenwriter); Nadine Gordimer (novel)
Copenhagen: Politikens Presse Foto, 1962. Three vintage reference photographs from the 1962 Danish film. Printed mimeo snipes in English affixed to the versos, along with the stamps of Politikens Presse Foto and Agence France-Presse. Not to be confused with the 1962 British crime thriller directed by Peter Maxwell. Based on South African writer Nadine Gordimer's 1958 novel "A World of Strangers," about a white, liberal Englishman who befriends a Black man after moving to Johannesburg, only... Read More
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Forlorn River (Original photograph from the 1926 film)
by Zane Grey (novel, screenwriter); John Waters (director); George C. Hull (screenwriter); Jack Holt, Arlette Marchal, Raymond Hatton, Edmund Burns (starring)
Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1926. Vintage reference photograph of actress Arlette Marchal from the 1926 film. Based on the 1927 novel by Zane Grey (not published until a year after the film's release). A fugitive is left in the desert to die by his outlaw partner, but is rescued by a young rancher, unaware that romantic entanglements with a neighboring rancher's daughter will complicate their friendship. Now considered to be a lost film. Shot on location... Read More
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Habit and Other Short Stories (First Edition)
by Darryl Francis Zanuck
Los Angeles: Times-Mirror Press, 1923. First Edition. First Edition. A collection of lighthearted stories by Zanuck, published at a point when his writing career (if one could call it that) was on the ropes, his screenwriting career was well on its way, and his great fame as a producer was yet to begin. An unusually sharp copy, Fine in a Fine dust jacket.
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