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N.p.: N.p., Unknown. Original carbon typescript draft for an unpublished Motion Picture Magazine article about Charles Bronson and Jill Ireland's wedding day. With holograph ink and pencil proofreader's annotations throughout. Title page present, with credits for journalist Marcia Borie. 19 leaves, with last page of text numbered 18. Carbon typescript on yellow onionskin stock, rectos only. Pages Very… Read more

New York: Time, 1978. Vintage borderless wire photograph of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., published following the release of the findings of the US House Select Committee on Assassinations, 1978. The iconic photograph by Joseph Louw for Time magazine, taken moments after the April 4, 1968 assassination of King at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, is… Read more

N.p.: N.p., 1966. Archive of photographs, newspaper clippings, and various ephemera belonging to a Kenny Aumont Brown (1943-2016), of Burlington, North Carolina, largely relating to automobiles and automobile accidents, 1963-1966. The archive, assembled by Brown when in his early twenties, documents his preoccupation with automobiles, automobile accidents, and racing, at a time when Brown was first employed as… Read more

San Francisco: May 21st Defense Fund, 1979. Vintage two-color Revolution is the Poor Peoples' Crime of Passion poster, in support of the May 21st Defense Fund, 1979. On May 21, 1979, San Francisco Supervisor, and former police officer, Dan White, was acquitted of the charge of first degree murder, and convicted on the substantially lesser charge of voluntary… Read more

Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1949. Vintage pressbook for the 1949 film. A woman accompanies her reporter husband while he covers a story in Las Vegas, and develops a pernicious gambling addiction, even stealing from her husband's expense fund. Shot on location in Nevada. 12 pages, saddle stitched, 12 x 18 inches. Very Good plus,… Read more

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1961. Vintage pressbook for the 1961 film. A wealthy young playboy inherits his uncle's newspaper empire, and is promptly saddled with trying to keep the details of his uncle's death quiet. 18 pages, saddle stitched, 12.25 x 18.75 inches. Very Good plus overall.

Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1948. Two vintage pressbooks from the 1948 film noir. Based on the 1946 novel by Jonathan Latimer. The editor-in-chief of a crime magazine finds himself at the center of a brutal murder, and must hide from his own investigative reporters, who believe that he is the killer. One pressbook 12.25 x… Read more

London: Sunday Telegraph, 1989. Vintage oversize photograph of author and journalist Tom Wolfe aboard the Peking ship at the South Street Seaport Museum in New York City. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso, dated 6.12.89, crediting Sunday Telegraph photographer Julian Simmonds. 11.5 x 8.25 inches. Near Fine.

New York: Signet, 1968. First Edition. First Edition. INSCRIBED in the year of publication by the author on the third leaf: "New York / 8 May '68 / For Lynn- / Good Luck! / David Duncan." Very Good in perfect bound wrappers. Wrappers moderately edgeworn, with light soil on the rear wrapper and glue residue (printer's defect) along… Read more

New York: RKO Radio Pictures, 1940. Revised Draft script for the 1940 film noir, generally considered to be the first in the American film noir cycle. An aspiring reporter is the key witness at the murder trial of a young man accused of cutting a cafe owner's throat and is soon accused of a similar crime himself. Widely… Read more

N.p.: N.p., 1931. Vintage oversize reference photograph from the 1931 pre-Code film, showing actor Edward G. Robinson surrounded by newsroom staff. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Based on the 1930 play by Louis Weitzenkorn. The beleaguered managing editor of a flagging tabloid newspaper attempts to resurrect the publication's readership by reinvestigating… Read more

N.p.: N.p., 1976. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1976 film, showing actor Robert Redford stepping out of a taxi, with the US Capitol in the background. With holograph ink annotations on the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Based on the 1974 book by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward. … Read more

Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1939. Post-production Continuity and Dialogue script for the 1940 film. A young journalist finds himself unjustly accused of murder. White titled wrappers, noted as production No. 1033, dated DECEMBER 19, 1939, with credits for director Harold D. Schuster and actors Frank Albertson, Constance Moore, Jerome Cowan, and others. Title page integral… Read more

N.p.: N.p., 1976. Vintage reference photograph, with horizontal margins, of director Alan J. Pakula, Dustin Hoffman, and Robert Redford on the set of the 1976 film. Based on the 1974 book by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward. The iconic New Hollywood account of the Watergate investigation, starring Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman in exceptionally strong… Read more

N.p.: N.p., 1980. Collection of materials related to post-production editing for the 1981 film, including notes on film reels and pages of proposed sequences for each reel. Director, screenwriter, and actor Warren Beatty's epic political drama, which follows a left-wing American journalist who becomes involved with the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia. Nominated for twelve Academy Awards, winning… Read more

Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1969. Three vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1969 film, a highlight of early New Hollywood cinema. One shows actor Harold Blankenship, the other with actors Robert Forster, Peter Bonerz, and Janet Langhart. One with a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso along with the stamp of Paramount Pictures, the other with the stamp… Read more

Saint Ouen: PPCM Photo Press Agency, 1998. Photograph of Hunter S. Thompson and shotgun, outside his Woody Creek, Aspen, Colorado home, 1990, by photographer Paul Harris, struck by PPCM Photo Press Agency, circa 1998. Issued to promote the Terry Gilliam's 1998 film adaptation of Thompson's 1971 novel "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" PPCM incorrectly dates the image… Read more

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1972. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1972 film, showing actors Gary Lockwood and Jacqueline Bisset in a candid pose. A journalist returns to her hometown to write an article about women's liberation, and is surprised to discover her mother and sister are already self-declared feminists. Shot on location in Denver, Colorado. … Read more

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1938. Final Draft script for the 1938 film, here under the working title "Meridian." Laid in with the script are two copies of a set of two carbon typescript pages of notes on the film. A newspaper reporter and photographer investigate a murder in order to exonerate the main suspect, a bank runner accused… Read more

N.p.: International Creative Management [ICM], 1980. Early Revised Draft script for the 1987 film, here under the working title "Streets of New York." Magazine reporter Jonathan Fisher (Christopher Reeve) fabricates a story about a New York pimp after he is unsuccessful getting information on the streets. But the police, the district attorney, and a real pimp and… Read more