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Soft Cover. Zustand: Very Good. 23 febhas small crease on coverbasement script center.

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Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1951 film noir, both showing actor Wallace Ford. Based on the 1947 novel by Sam Ross, about a robber who holds a family hostage in their apartment as he grows increasingly paranoid about being caught. Screenwriter Dalton Trumbo was uncredited due to his being blacklisted at the time. Shot on location in Los Angeles and Long Beach, California. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus. Grant US. Selby US. Selby US Canon. Silver and Ward Classic Noir. Spicer US.

Vintage reference photograph from the 1957 film, showing actors Dan Dailey, Edmund Lowe, Maureen O'Hara, May McAvoy, and Mae Marsh. With the stamp of Dell Publishing Company Library to the verso. Based on the life of naval aviator Frank "Spig" Wead, who became a Hollywood screenwriter following a spinal injury which left him paralyzed. Wead was best known for "Hell Divers" (1931), "Ceiling Zero" (1936), and "They Were Expendable" (1945). Set and shot on location on the Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Florida and the US Navy building in Washington DC. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good or better, with light soil to the recto and verso (see accompanying images).

Vintage photograph from the set of the 1967 film. Mimeo snipe and manuscript annotations on the verso. Based on the 1966 novel "Pistolero's Progress" by John Sherry. The young gunslinging outlaw Lot McGuire (Chad Everett) travels to a small Southwestern town to challenge the famous outlaw-turned-marshal (Glenn Ford) to a duel. Shot on location in Arizona and California. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.

Vintage reference photograph from the 1950 film, showing actors Evelyn Varden, Mae Marsh, Charles Halton, and Coleen Townsend. With mimeo snipes affixed to the border of the image, identifying each actor in the photograph, as issued. A small town boy enlists in the Air Force with the hopes of becoming a fighter pilot, but soon finds that his only aptitude is for marksmanship, and as a result he is assigned to a post as a shooting instructor at a base near his hometown. Set in West Virginia, France, Britain, and Germany, and shot on location in Thousand Oaks and Channel Islands, California. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus, with light edgewear and faint toning.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Good hardcover, no dust cover. The text has some markings. Covers have very minor shelf wear. Binding is intact.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Vintage reference photograph from the 1948 film, showing actors Mae Marsh, John Wayne, Ward Bond, and Ben Johnson. Based on the 1913 novel, following three outlaws who discover a dying woman and her infant stranded in the desert. Director John Ford had previously adapted the novel for film with "Marked Men" in 1919. Set in Arizona, shot on location in Mojave and Cantil, California. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus. Pitts 4360.

Vintage studio still photograph from the 1957 film. A major in the US Air Force is asked to join a team working on an experimental Boeing B-47 Stratojet bomber, although the first experiments with human test subjects prove dangerous. Based on a 1955 episode of the "Climax" anthology television series, directed by John Frankenheimer and starring Charlton Heston. 10 x 8 inches. Lightly toned on the margins, else Near Fine.

Eight vintage studio still photographs from the US release of the 1964 British film. A Gothic period drama following a newlywed British aristocrat who returns to his manor with his wife, only to encounter a number of strange, supernatural rumors which have spread around his estate in his absence. Set in Devon. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus, with a few light creases to the edges.

Original US one sheet poster for the 1970 British film. Despite the subject matter, a tame release from director Ford, who would move into more explicit pornographic films in the late 1970s. Posters for the film are not often seen at auction. 27 x 41 inches, folded. Studio stamp on the verso. Very Good plus, with a couple of pinholes and tiny closed tears, and a few faint tape ghosts to the verso.

Vintage reference photograph from the 1958 film, showing Spencer Tracy, Edward Brophy, Pat O'Brien, James Gleason, and Ricardo Cortez. Printed mimeo snipe and Columbia stamp on the verso. Based on the 1956 novel by Edwin O'Connor, about an aging, veteran politician who grows increasingly determined to win a fourth mayoral election and stay in power, despite the reservations of his supporters. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus, with old cello tape at the corners.

Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1958 film. Mimeo snipe on the verso. Based on the 1956 novel by Edwin O'Connor, about an aging, veteran politician who grows increasingly determined to win a fourth mayoral election and stay in power, despite the reservations of his supporters. 10 x 8 inches. Lightly age toned, else Near Fine.

Draft script for the 1965 horror film, here under the working title "Fog." With a single manuscript ink annotation on the front wrapper noting the number 8. Mr. Holmes and Dr. Watson team up once again to stop Jack the Ripper from murdering Whitechapel innocents. Set in London. Blue untitled wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present, dated 15th March 1965, with credits for screenwriters Jim O'Connolly and Donald and Derek Ford, along with novelist Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. 142 leaves, with last page of text numbered 140. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good plus, bound internally with three silver brads.

Draft script for the 1937 film. Specially bound copy bound in green cloth with title in gilt. An American gangster joins the British Army in order to evade the police. Released in Great Britain under the title O.H.M.S., which signifies "On His Majesty's Service." Military propaganda from Britain's War Office made with full Army Council cooperation. American director Raoul Walsh was chosen after his success with "What Price Glory?" in 1926 which helped boost recruiting for the US Marine Corps. Set in New York and London, shot on location in London. Green cloth covered boards with gilt titles with stamped production No. 69 in gilt. Title page present, dated 31st July, 1936, noted as screenplay. 116 leaves. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine with dampstaining on open edge, binding Very Good plus.

Draft script for the 1979 film. Loosely based on the 1899 novella "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad. The ultimate reflection of the American experience in Vietnam, taking Conrad's dark vision of an expedition up the Congo and transplanting it to Vietnam-era Cambodia. Nominated for eight Academy Awards, winning two. Winner of the Palme d'Or. Shot on grueling location in the Philippines. Red untitled wrappers. Title page present, dated December 3, 1975, with credits for director Francis Ford Coppola, screenwriter John Milius, and author Joseph Conrad. 154 leaves, with last page of text numbered 153. Xerographic duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good plus, with front wrapper partially detached from the binding, bound with two gold brads. National Film Registry. Ebert I. Godard, Histoire(s) du Cinema. Rosenbaum 1000.

Draft script for the 1935 film. In a custom quarter leather clamshell box. The second of two films based on Liam O'Flaherty's 1925 novel, the first being Arthur Robison's 1929 British feature, about a former Republic Army member during the Irish War of Independence, who turns in one of his comrades to the British in order to use the bounty money to book passage to America for himself and his girlfriend, who has been forced into prostitution. Winner of four Academy Awards, including Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Director, and Best Actor for McLaglen, nominated for two others, including Best Picture. Screenwriter Dudley Nichols became the first person to decline an Academy Award, when his refused his Oscar due to an ongoing dispute between the Screen Writers Guild and the Academy, though he would eventually claim it three years later. Detached green wrappers, noting the title, screenwriter and director on the spine in manuscript ink. Title page integral with first page of text, with credits for screenwriter Nichols and novelist O'Flaherty. 105 leaves, with last page of text numbered 105. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good, side-stapled. National Film Registry.

Second Revised Final script for the 1941 film. Based on Richard Llewellyn's 1939 novel. The men of the Morgan family earn a living working in their small Welsh town's mine, where they face dangerous and unhealthy conditions, and exploitation at the hands of the mine owners. Winner of five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director. Set in Wales, shot on location in California. Red titled Twentieth Century-Fox wrappers, dated April 18, 1941, noted as SECOND REVISED FINAL. Distribution page present, stamped copy No. 240, with receipt removed. Title page present, with credit for Philip Dunne, noted as 2nd Revised Final, and dated April 18, 1941. 167 leaves, with last page of text numbered 169. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only, with blue revision pages dated 5/19/41 throughout. Pages Very Good plus, slightly yapped, with light tide marks along the bottom edges of the first five leaves, wrapper Poor, bound with two gold brads. National Film Registry.

Three screenplays from the 1956 film, including two draft scripts dated 7-21-55 and one partial draft script dated 2-16-56. One script with manuscript pencil annotations to the inside rear wrapper, noting revisions, and one with manuscript pencil annotations on the front wrapper. Also included in the collection is a memo from technical advisor Admiral John Dale Price to producer Charles Schnee and an unknown crew member, bound in script format, addressing factual errors and questions, dated 2-15-56. Script dated 2-15-56 missing a number of pages, as shown below, likely as used or issued. A dramatization of the experiences of US Navy aviator-turned-screenwriter Frank "Spig" Wead, a rowdy and dedicated pilot who is forced to retire from the Navy after being paralyzed in an accident. Shot on location in Florida and Washington DC. Copy No. 28, dated 7-21-55: Blue titled wrappers, stamped VAULT COPY, MIMEOGRAPH FILE COPY, and TEMPORARY COMPLETE on the front wrapper, rubber-stamped copy No. 28 and production No. 5651, dated 7-21-55, with credits for screenwriter Frank Fenton. Title page integral with the front wrapper, as issued. 111 leaves, with last page of text numbered "111-113". Mimeograph duplication, rectos only, with white revision pages throughout, dated variously between 8-3-55 and 10-10-55. Pages and wrapper Very Good plus, with tide marks to the bottom and fore edges, bound with two gold brads. Copy No. 29, dated 7-21-55: Blue titled wrappers, VAULT COPY, MIMEOGRAPH FILE COPY, and TEMPORARY COMPLETE on the front wrapper, rubber-stamped copy No. 29 and production No. 5651, dated 7-21-55, with credits for screenwriter Frank Fenton. Title page integral with the front wrapper as issued. 154 leaves, with last page of text numbered "111-112". Mimeograph duplication, rectos only, with white revision pages throughout, dated variously between 7-22-55 and 10-10-55. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine, bound with two gold brads. Script dated 2-16-56: Blue titled wrappers, dated 2-16-56 on the front wrapper, rubber-stamped VAULT COPY and production No. 5651, noted as Section of Script. Title page integral with the front wrapper as issued. Approximately 100 leaves, dated variously between 2-16-56 and 2-21-56. Mimeograph duplication on yellow stock, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine, bound with two gold brads.

Vintage reference photograph of Edward G. Robinson and Jean Arthur on the set of the 1935 film. Photograph with three stamps and provenance sticker on the verso, incluiding one stamp crediting photographer Ray Jones, with a mimeo snipe on the verso under the working title "Passport to Fame." Not to be confused with the 1926 silent comedy directed by Edward Laemmle and starring Edward Everett Horton. 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 the head of the still photography department at Universal Pictures in 1935, where he worked well into the 1950s. Based on the 1932 "Collier's" published short story "Jail Breaker" by W.R. Burnett. The meek Arthur Ferguson Jones is mistaken by the police for the evil bank robber killer Mannion, which Mannion decides to use in his favor. Starring Edward G. Robinson in dual roles in an early talkie by director John Ford. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus, with a tiny closed tear to the bottom margin. Byrge and Miller, The Screwball Comedy Films: A History and Filmography 1934-1942.

Three vintage reference photographs of actress Janis Carter from the 1947 film noir. All three photographs with one provenance stamp on the verso and one photograph with some adhesive residue on the verso. One photograph with manucript ink annotation on the bottom border of the recto identifying the actress. A man drives into a small town in a truck with no brakes. He hits another car and is arrested after sitting down at the local diner and befriending a waitress. The waitress bails him out of jail but she has ulterior motives. Partially shot on location at Lake Arrowhead and Big Bear Lake in the San Bernardino National Forest in California. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good, with one photograph with some slight creasing along the bottom edge, one photograph with slight creasing along the top edge, and one photograph with some creasing along the top and bottom edge and offsetting on the bottom right corner of the recto. Grant US. Selby US Canon. Selby US. Silver and Ward Classic. Spicer US.

Two vintage studio still photographs, one borderless with a bottom margin, and one with a wide bottom margin, of Peter Bogdanovich and John Ford, from the 1971 film. One with a mimeo snipe on verso, for the 9th New York Film Festival, the film's US premiere. Bogdanovich's documentary on the life and films of he seminal director, interviewing the notoriously obstinate man himself, as well as some of his most famous actors, notably Henry Fonda, James Stewart, and John Wayne. Affording the rights to the clips, however, exhausted the film's AFI funding, resulting in the film being rarely shown, and then only in non-profit venues. In 2006 Bogdanovich, having been dissatisfied with the initial version, re-edited and included additional interviews with actors and directors, including Clint Eastwood, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, and Walter Hill. 8 x 10 inches. Some light creasing, else Near Fine. Scorsese, A Personal Journey Through American Movies.

Vintage photograph from the set of the 1953 film. Director John Ford and star Clark Gable take a smoke break in between shots. With a mimeo snipe on the verso. Based on the 1928 play "Red Dust" by Wilson Collison, previously adapted to film under that name in 1932, starring Gable, Jean Harlow, and Mary Astor. "Mogambo" moves the action from French Indochina to Africa, where it was shot on location. Ava Gardner and Grace Kelly received Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress nominations, respectively, for their roles in the film. 10.25 x 8 inches. Near Fine.

Vintage photograph from the 1959 film, showing director John Ford sharing a cigar with in-costume actor Hoot Gibson during a break in shooting an outdoor scene. With the stamp of a private collector on the verso. A Union cavalry brigade's mission behind Confederate lines is complicated when they are forced to take a woman prisoner after she overhears their plans. Loosely based on the 1956 novel by Harold Sinclair, which in turn was based on the historic Civl War Battle of Newton's Station and Grierson's Raid. Set in the American South, shot on location in Louisiana and Mississippi. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus, with light toning and a splash stain to the margins.

Vintage borderless photograph of Ava Gardner with the camera-crew on the set of the 1953 film. With mimeo snipe, press agency stamps, and manuscript annotations in blue ink. The remake of the 1932 MGM film Red Dust, adapted from the play of the same name. Victor Marswell (Clark Gable) owns and operates a safari guide company. Eloise Kelly (Ava Gardner) is there to meet the former owner of the company, and in his absence she falls for Victor. Linda Nordley (Grace Kelly) is the wife of Marswells client, an anthropologist who wishes to travel deep into the jungle. Eloise goes along with them, and quickly tensions run high as both Linda and Eloise are attracted to Victor. Shot on location in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. 10 x 6.5 inches. Near Fine.

Vintage studio still photograph from the 1929 film, showing actresses Evelyn Hall and Dorothy Mackaill in an opulent bedroom. Based on the 1927 novel by Cornell Woolrich. Rare. 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 were exhibited in the influential 1980 Times Square Show alongside work by Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat, and several of his paintings are held in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. A spoiled heiress falls in love with a chauffeur. Their romance grows complicated when her family loses their money, while he wins $50,000 at the racetrack. 8 x 10 inches. Poor, with loss at the top left corner, and short closed tears on the top and right edges.

Zustand: Good. 2 vintage photographs. 8 x 10 inches each.Always an avid sportsman, Clark Gable spent breaks in filming hunting in the wild. He was delighted to learn that co-star Grace Kelly enjoyed hunting, too. As they went off together, the two developed a romance. . . . After each day's location shooting, Ava Gardner bathed in a canvas tub set up and filled by the native boy assigned to her. When the British colonial government complained about her appearing naked before the natives while bathing, she laughed, threw off her clothes and paraded naked through the camp.

Vintage reference photograph of director Richard Thorpe and actors Angie Dickinson and Glenn Ford looking over a script on the set of the 1967 Western film. With a printed mimeo snipe (noting the film's original title, "The Pistolero of Red River," which has been crossed out and retitled "The Last Challenge" in manuscript ink annotation) affixed to the verso, along with manuscript ink and pencil annotations and a mimeo snipe. Based on John Sherry's 1966 novel "Pistolero's Progress." A young gunslinger heads into a small western town with the intention of dueling the local sheriff, who is famed for his skill and speed with a gun. Thorpe's final film, concluding a decades-long affiliation with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Shot on location in California and Arizona. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus, with a few light creases to the top right corner. Pitts 2185.

Vintage program for the 1934 film. Based on the 1927 novel by Philip MacDonald. A group of British soldiers stranded in the Mesopotamian desert during World War I must defend themselves from attack by unseen desert bandits. Set in western Asia, shot on location in Yuma, Arizona and Algodones Dunes, California. 9.5 x 12 inches. Eight pages. Very Good plus overall, with light wear to the corners.

Vintage publicity studio still photograph from the 1935 film, showing Edward G. Robinson and Jean Arthur bursting through a newspaper's front page. Based on the 1932 "Collier's" published short story "Jail Breaker" by W.R. Burnett. The meek Arthur Ferguson Jones is mistaken by the police for the evil bank robber killer Mannion, which Mannion decides to use in his favor. Starring Edward G. Robinson in dual roles in an early talkie by director John Ford. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good or better, with light wear to the emulsion, toning, and moderate creasing at the corners. Byrge and Miller, The Screwball Comedy Films: A History and Filmography 1934-1942.