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IPCRESS FILE, THE [IPCRESS] (1965) Italian due foglio poster
by Rank Film
Vintage original 39 x 55" (100 x 140 cm.) poster, Italy. Michael Caine, Nigel Green, Guy Dolman, Sue Lloyd, dir: Sidney J. Furie; Rank Film. Folded, fine.Popular 1960s crime/espionage thriller based on The IPCRESS File by Len Deighton and set and filmed in London, touching upon the local political atmosphere at the time. Michael Caine played Harry Palmer, a counter-espionage agent, investigating the kidnapping and brainwashing of British scientists. The spectacled Caine represented a new kind of British...
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$325.00
ALL THE YOUNG MEN (Sep 15, 1959) Revised Final Draft script by Hall Bartlett
by Hall Bartlett
Hall Bartlett (screenwriter) Hollywood: Columbia Pictures. Brad bound, quarto, mimeograph, 131 pp., a few penciled notes throughout, a few pages with markings in heavy pen, and some pages of revisions on yellow paper dated Sept. 22, 1959. Various editorial notes on back wrapper in an unknown hand, overall NEAR FINE.A Korean War film in which Sidney Poitier was second-billed in the role of a stalwart troop commander who is forced to deal with racism as well as incoming fire.
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$450.00
Double Vision: My Life in Film
by Wajda, Andrzej
London: Faber and Faber. Good in Good dust jacket. 1989. First British Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0571141099 . Offsetting to the endpapers, and tanning to the page edges. The dust jacket has short tears and rubbing. The Polish director outlines his approach to filmmaking. Filmography, illustrated. ; 136 pages .
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$29.00
MY LADY'S LIPS (1925) One sheet poster
by B. P. Schulberg, Preferred Pictures Corp
No binding. Very Good. Fine Art Print. Vintage original 27 x 41" (68 x 102 cm.) one sheet poster, USA. Clara Bow, William Powell, Alyce Mills, Frank Keenan, Ford Sterling, dir: James P. Hogan; B. P. Schulberg/Preferred Pictures Corp. On linen, there was some fold line separation, especially at edge borders, there has been some minor inpainting in the area of the words "MY" and "LIPS", but poster has extraordinary, bright, original colors, near fine.An extremely rare poster and one of the earliest to...
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$15,000.00
MURDER, MY SWEET (1944) Lobby card
by RKO
No binding. Very Good. Fine Art Print Vintage original 11 x 14"" (28 x 35 cm.) lobby card, USA. Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley, dir: Edward Dymtryk; RKO. A tense moment in the story is presented in this scene card. Advertising line is ""Meet the NEW Dick Powell!"" After years of playing the ingénue male in great Warner Bros. musicals (and briefly at MGM), Powell revitalized his career in film noir. RKO was on the brink of bankruptcy and signed Powell to make some musicals, his stipulation...
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$300.00
BLUE DAHLIA, THE (1946) Pressbook
by Paramount
Raymond Chandler (screenplay) [Hollywood]: Paramount Pictures, 1946. Vintage original pressbook, 15 x 12 1/2" (38 x 32 cm.), 24 pp. Folded once (as issued), printed wrappers, NEAR FINE.Producer John Houseman had to keep screenwriter Raymond Chandler equipped with cases of expensive scotch while Chandler was writing this screenplay. Although Chandler did work on other screenplays in the 40s and early-50s, all the other efforts were collaborations, and this was Chandler's only solo screenwriting effort,...
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$500.00
Spider Magazine, Volume 1, Number 3 (April 15, 1965) - includes interview with Kenneth Anger
by DeCanio, Steve (ed.), Kenneth Anger (interviewed), et al
Oakland: Spider Magazine, 1965. 1st edition. No Binding. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 8vo, 24pp (including printed wrappers). This scarce 1965 Bay Area countercultural magazine includes the original appearance of an important interview with Kenneth Anger that was subsequently reprinted in Film Culture. Unmarked VG copy, light toning/wear.
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$60.00
IN A LONELY PLACE (1950) Campaign book
by Columbia
Vintage original 12 x 16" (30 x 40 cm.) campaign book, 16 pp., USA. Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy, Carl Benton Reid, dir: Nicholas Ray: Columbia. Lightly folded and has been stored flat. There is some wear at the fold on various pages, ABOUT FINE.Classic film noir, now on the National Film Registry, about a screenwriter asked to adapt a trashy bestseller. Finding it difficult to read, he has a hat check girl tell him the story in her own words. She ends up murdered, and he is a prime...
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$325.00
Pasolini Requiem
by Schwartz, Barth David
Pantheon Books, Inc. New York, 1992. Book. Very Good. Cloth. 786 pages. Hardcover biography, bound in black cloth covered boards and wrapped in an illustrated paper dustjacket. There is some light speckling to the top edge of the page block, with very light shelfwear to the edges of the boards. Else, the binding is solid, and the interior is clean and clear of markings. Text in English, with illustrations in black and white. A monumental achievement of scholarship on a most fascinating filmmaker..
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$35.00
The Films of Josef Von Sternberg
by Sarris, Andrew
Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1966. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. 56 pages. Hardcover, bound in mustard brown colored cloth covered boards and wrapped in a printed paper dustjacket. There is some soiling to the boards, with a horizontal black line near the bottom edge of the front cover, concealed by the dustjacket, which is bright, non-price-clipped, and encased in a Mylar sleeve. The edges and corners of the boards are sharp, and the interior is clean and free of markings. 27 illustrations. Text in English..
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$25.00
Revisão Crítica Do Cinema Brasileiro
by Rocha, Glauber
Cosac & Naify Edições, São Paulo, 2003. Book. Near Fine. Stiff Wrappers. 238 pages with black and white illustrations throughout. Minor rubbing to the paper covers with a very faint crease to to the lower, right-hand corner and top edge. Preface by Ismail Xavier. Stiff Printed wraps. Text is in Portuguese. Index..
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$100.00
The First 20 Years of Monty Python
by Kim "Howard" Johnson
Kim "Howard" Johnson.The First 20 years of Monty Python. Illustrated with photographs. St. Martins Press, NY, Used. Softcover. VG Condition. 269 pages. 8 ½ X11.
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History and Heartburn: The Saga of Australian Film 1896-1978
by Reade, Eric
Sydney: Harper & Row. 1979. Quarto Size. Very Good in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in a purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Presentation plate to prelims. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 353 pages. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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$13.07
CRIME WITHOUT PASSION (1934) Half sheet poster style A
by Paramount
No binding. Very Good. Fine Art Print Vintage original 22 x 28" (56 x 71 cm.) half sheet poster style A, USA. Claude Rains, Margo, Whitney Bourne, Stanley Ridges, Leslie Adams, dir: Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur, Lee Garmes; Paramount. Paper-backed, originally unfolded, minor touch-ups to white margins, near fine.Controversial screenplay by Ben Hecht (with Charles MacArthur) based on Hecht's story CABALLERO OF THE LAW. This was one of the first true independent productions (Hecht-MacArthur) and was...
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$1,500.00
Sound Films, 1927-1939; Feature Films, 1940-1949; Feature Films, 1950-1959 (Three Volumes) A United States Filmography
by Fetrow, Alan G
Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc.. Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1992-1999. Hardcover. SOUND FILMS (1992) has rubbing to the green cloth, with some smudging to the free endpaper. FEATURE FILMS, 1940-1949 (1994) is slightly shaken, with minor rubbing. FEATURE FILMS, 1950-1959 (1999) is also slightly shaken. All three volumes are unmarked except for thumb smudging to the page edges. Comprehensive filmography references from the beginning of the "talkies" era through 1959. .
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$47.00
BLUE DAHLIA, THE (1946) Lobby card ft. Ladd, Dowling
by Paramount
No binding. Very Good. Fine Art Print Vintage original 11 x 14"" (28 x 35 cm.) lobby card, USA. Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, William Bendix, Howard Da Silva, dir: George Marshall; Paramount. One of the finest classic film noir titles and written by the master of the genre, Raymond Chandler. The story involved a war vet who returns home to see his wife with another man. She is murdered and he is the prime suspect. The Blue Dahlia is a nightclub where much of the action takes place. Chandler initially had...
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$200.00
The Total Film-Maker
by Lewis, Jerry
New York: Random House. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1971. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0394467574 . Brown cloth with a film canister illustration stamped to the front board. A bump to the bottom corner, and a smudge to the free endpaper. The dust jacket has modest creasing. Publisher's price of $6.95 on the front flap. Every phase of fundamental film technique is explained, from production and direction to distribution. Includes a few black and white photos. ; 208 pages .
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$199.00
MURDER IN THE AIR (1940) Title lobby card
by Warner Brothers
No binding. Very Good. Fine Art Print Vintage original 11 x 14"" (28 x 35 cm) title lobby card, USA. Ronald Reagan, John Litel, Lya Lys, James Stephenson, dir: Lewis Seiler; Warner Brothers. This is a textured linen card. There are pinholes at each of the four corners, a pinhole at each margin halfway down the card, three minor edge tears and tear area to the left edge of the card, which have been addressed with archival tape on the verso, very good-fine.Though described as an action thriller, this...
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$250.00
The Sound of Music Companion
by Maslon, Laurence
New York: Simon & Schuster. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2007. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 1416549544 . Purple cloth with blue endpapers. A touch of rubbing to the spine and corners. The dust jacket has modest creasing, primarily to the rear cover. Publisher's price of $40.00 to the front flap. Foreword by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Illustrated, index.; 192 pages .
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$23.00
BIG CLOCK, THE (1948) Pressbook
by Paramount
Paramount. Softcover/Paperback. Just About FIne. Kenneth Fearing (source) [Hollywood]: Paramount Pictures, 1948. Vintage original pressbook, printed wrappers, 15 x 12 1/4" (38 x 31 cm.), 20 pp., JUST ABOUT FINE. Kenneth Fearing's classic crime novel was the basis for this film noir thriller directed by John Farrow and starring Ray Milland, Maureen O'Sullivan, and Charles Laughton -- a story of a ruthless magazine publisher who commits murder and then frames his lead editor for it.
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$375.00
(Film noir) ONE WAY STREET (Sep 14, 1949) Revised first continuity script by Lawrence Kimble
by Lawrence Kimble
Universal. Softcover/Paperback. Near Fine. Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1949. Vintage original film script, 11 x 8 1/2" (28 x 22 cm.), noted as Revised First Continuity script, here under the film's working title Death on a Side Street. That title has been struck through in pencil, with the film's final title One Way Street written just above it. Copy belonging to studio secretary Marion Pecht, with her name in manuscript pencil on a second title page. Brief annotations throughout in...
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$850.00
BIG KNIFE, THE (1955) Pressbook
by United Artists
United Artists. Softcover/Paperback. Near Fine. Clifford Odets (source) [Hollywood]: United Artists, 1955. Vintage original pressbook, 16 3/4 x 11" (43 x 28 cm.), 20 pp.. pictorial wrappers, light creasing at spine, NEAR FINE.Robert Aldrich directed this devastating film noir, in which movie star Charles Castle (Jack Palance) is being blackmailed by studio boss Stanley Shriner Hoff (Rod Steiger) into renewing his contract, even though it goes directly against all his professional and artistic...
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$300.00
James Cain (source) THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE (1946) Set of 5 photos
by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. No binding. Near Fine. [Los Angeles]: MGM, 1946. Set of five (5) vintage original 8 x 10" (20 x 25 cm.) black-and-white photos, overall near fine.
Five dramatic images from this film noir classic. Lana Turner is in all five photos, and John Garfield is in four of the five.
Photos coded: 1355-24, 46, 73, 78, 79.
Five dramatic images from this film noir classic. Lana Turner is in all five photos, and John Garfield is in four of the five.
Photos coded: 1355-24, 46, 73, 78, 79.
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$500.00
The MGM Story : The Complete History of Sixty-Five Roaring Years
by Eames, John Douglas
London: Pyramid Books. 1990. Folio Size [38x28cm approx]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Colour & Black and White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. Good Index. 416 pages. This is a heavy book and will cost more to ship internationally. Please contact us for a precise quote for your part of the world. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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$13.07
BULLITT (1968) Three sheet poster
by Warner Brothers
No binding. Fine. Fine Art Print. Vintage original 41 x 81" (103 x 203 cm.) three sheet poster on linen, USA. Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset, Don Gordon, Robert Duvall, dir: Peter Yates; Warner Brothers. Unrestored, with great, nicely matched colors and all minor original issues addressed in conservation. Fine.The classic 1960s action-crime thriller, with an iconic performance by Steve McQueen playing the San Francisco cop who becomes obsessed with finding the underground leader...
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$10,000.00
