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Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1937. Vintage black-and-white reference press photograph from the 1937 film. The photograph features child star Jane Withers, prolific child actress of the 1930s and 1940s, and her pet lamb, Snowdrop. Ditto-style mimeo snipe on the verso. Checkers (Withers) and a horse trainer named Edgar (Erwin), save a racehorse by mending its broken leg and entering it in a race. 8 x 10 inches. About Near Fine.

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1939. Final Draft script for the 1939 comedy film, here under the working title "Roughneck." Three unemployed vaudevillians enlist in the US Army, and are deployed to France, where all three men promptly fall in love with the same girl. Blue titled wrappers, noted as FINAL on the front wrapper, rubber-stamped copy No. 34, dated JUNE 9, 1939. Distribution page present, with receipt intact. Title page present, dated June 9, 1939, noted as Final Script, with credits for screenwriters Lou Breslow and Owen Francis. 127 leaves, with last page of text numbered 125. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only. Pages Fine, wrapper Near Fine, bound internally with three gold brads.

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1937. Three vintage photographs from the set of the 1937 film. With printed descriptions on the verso of each. One photo shown. Please inquire to see others. Checkers (Jane Withers) and Edgar Connell (Stuart Erwin), a veterinarian, mend a horse's leg before a big race that could help save a man's farm. Filmed on location in Pomona, CA. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine.

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 of killing his client. Blue titled wrappers, noted as FINAL on the front wrapper, rubber-stamped copy No. 48, dated MAY 12, 1938. Distribution page present, with receipt intact. Title page present, dated May 12, 1938, noted as Final Script, with credits for screenwriter Jerry Cady. 130 leaves, with last page of text numbered 128. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good plus, bound internally with three gold brads.

Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1940. Final Draft script archive for the 1940 film, here under the working title "Touchdown." Copy belonging to director H. Bruce Humberstone, with his name in manuscript pencil annotation to the title page. Accompanying the script are a promotional book and several production documents, including a legal contract for the film, signed by Humberstone and a Paramount Pictures vice president, and a mechanically duplicated, folded "Day Out of Days" map. Twin brothers in college find themselves at odds over the love of a girl. Housed in a black card folder. Missing titled wrappers, presumably as issued. Title page present, dated July 1, 1940, noted as FINAL, noted as production No. 1275. 126 leaves, with last page of text numbered D-38. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, bound with three gold brads. "Day Out of Days" map is 9 x 22 inches, folded three times as issued. Press kit is 11 x 8.5 inches, bi-fold.

N.p.: N.p., 1945. Third Draft Continuity script for the 1945 film, here under the working title "This is the Law." Copy belonging to producer Ben Silvey, with his name on the front wrapper and manuscript pencil and ink annotations throughout. A stern judge moves with his family across state lines for a new job as a prison warden, unaware that his own son harbors criminal intentions. Blue titled wrappers with credits for screenwriter Eugene Ling on the front wrapper. Title page present, dated 1/23/45, noted as Third Draft Continuity, with credits for screenwriter Eugene Ling. 119 leaves, with last page of text numbered 118. Mimeograph duplication on onionskin stock, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good plus overall, bound internally with two gold brads.

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1941. Revised Final Draft script for the 1942 film. Copy belonging to director H. Bruce Humberstone, with his name in manuscript pencil on the front wrapper. A bratty naval recruit is transformed into a battle-wise soldier several days before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Set and shot on location in San Diego, California. Red titled wrappers, noted as REVISED FINAL, rubber-stamped copy No. 37 and production No. 701, dated OCTOBER 29, 1941. Distribution page present, with receipt removed. Title page present, dated October 29, 1941, noted as Revised Final, with credits for screenwriter Lamar Trotti. 163 leaves, with last page of text numbered 161. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only. Pages Fine, wrapper Near Fine, bound internally with two gold brads.

Hollywood: Fox Film, 1935. First Draft script for the 1935 film, here under the working title "The Lord's Refugee." Copy belonging to director H. Bruce Humberstone, with his name in manuscript pencil on the front wrapper, and single manuscript annotation in pencil to page 74. In an attempt to go straight, a former bodyguard with a violent past shacks up in a tenement house, where he takes a position as a boxing instructor under the tutelage of a local priest. Yellow titled wrappers, noted as First Draft on the front wrapper, noted as copy No. 6, dated 4-12-35, with credits for screenwriters Philip Klein and Robert Yost, and story credits to Gerald Beaumont. Title page integral with the first page of text, presumably as issued. 80 leaves, with last page of text numbered 80. Carbon typescript on onionskin stock, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine, bound with three gold brads.

Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1949. Revised Final Shooting script for the 1950 film, here under the working title "Java." Copy belonging to director H. Bruce Humberstone, with his name in manuscript pencil on the front wrapper and single annotation on page 41. Loosely based on Tay Garnett's 1940 film "Seven Sinners." A sick steamship crewman attempts to clear his name while being blackmailed for wartime collaboration with the Japanese. Liberace's first credited film appearance, as a cabaret performer named "Maestro." Set on the fictional Pacific island of Oraka. Tan textured titled wrappers, noted as REVISED FINAL SHOOTING SCRIPT on the front wrapper, dated June 14, 1949. Title page present, noted as Revised Final Screenplay, with credits for screenwriter Oscar Brodney. 123 leaves, with last page of text numbered 109. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only, with blue, yellow, pink, and white revision pages throughout, dated variously between 6/15/49 and 7/21/49. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near… Read More

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1938. Draft script for the 1938 film. Based on the short story "Private Pettigrew's Girl" by Dana Burnet, and published in "The Saturday Evening Post" on September 14, 1918. Copy belonging to an unknown crew member, with manuscript pencil annotations throughout. Jimmy Stewart plays an idealistic soldier who convinces a Broadway star (Margaret Sullavan) to pretend they're dating in order to impress his other soldier friends. Meanwhile, Sullivan's manager (Walter Pidgeon) has always been in love with her, and objects to the pair's closeness, even as they decide to get married before Stewart is shipped out to France. Stewart and Sullivan pull off surprisingly believable roles for a plot of such sickly sweetness in this, their second on-screen pairing. The third film based on Burnet's "Saturday Evening Post" story, the first two being the 1919 George Melford silent film "Pettigrew's Girl," and Richard Wallace's part-talkie "The Shopworn Angel" (1928),… Read More

London: British Film Institute [BFI], 1956. Vintage reference photograph from the 1956 film. With a stamp from the National Film Archive on the verso. Based on the 1906 short story by H.G. Wells. A man is haunted by a supernatural door that keeps reappearing to him, leading to a seemingly perfect other world. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Vogel, Film as Subversive Art.

Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1953. Collection of five vintage reference photographs of flying saucer or other special effects from the classic 1953 science fiction film. Based on the 1898 novel by H.G. Wells. The first feature film adaptation. Winner of an Academy Award for Best Special Effects, and nominated for two more. National Film Registry. Criterion Collection 1037.

New York: E.P. Dutton, 1942. First Edition. First Edition. Basis for the 1944 film noir "Woman in the Window." Very Good plus in a bright, Very Good plus dust jacket. Jacket has no loss, only a small amount of creasing at a couple of corners and a touch of fading to the spine panel. Rare in dust jacket. In a custom maroon quarter-leather clamshell box. The Dark Page I: 1940-1949, p. 254.

Boston: Little, Brown, 1914. First Edition. First Edition. An exceptional copy. Although uncredited in the final production, Edginton's novel is the basis for the 1919 stage play "My Lady Friends" (The New York Times, "One Farce - Seven Authors," December 14, 1919). The play, in turn, became the basis for the 1925 Broadway musical "No, No, Nanette," which was then filmed twice, once in 1930, directed by Clarence G. Badger and starring Bernice Clair and Alexander Gray, and again in 1940, directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Anna Neagle, Richard Carlson, Victor Mature, and Roland Young. Fine in a fresh, very close to Fine example of the rare dust jacket. Jacket is pristine but for the slightest bit of creasing at the crown.

N.p.: N.p., 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. While surrounded by people who question his Christianity, an American living in India must search for his daughter after she runs off with a dangerous gang. Set in India. Gray titled wrappers. Title page present, with credits for screenwriter Horatius Haeberle. 116 leaves, with last page of text numbered 116. Xerographically duplicated, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine, perfect bound.

London: Pelham Books, 1980. First UK Edition, preceding all others. SIGNED on the title page by the highly acclaimed Formula One driver and author Sir Stirling Moss. Near Fine in an about Fine dust jacket. Spine slightly cocked, with a hint of foxing to the top page edges, else Fine. Jacket has a sticker over the price on the front flap.

Boston: Nielsen Gallery, 2007. First Edition. Softcover. First Edition. Published in conjunction with an exhibition of Jay DeFeo's work which ran from September 22 to October 27, 2007. Near Fine in wrappers.

Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1971. Vintage studio still photograph of Ruth Gordon and young Bud Cort from the 1971 film, with Paramount copyright stamp and cropping annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. Hal Ashby's classic love story between the young, suicide obsessed Harold (But Cort) and the exuberant 80 year old Maude (Ruth Gordon). Set in and shot on location in California. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. National Film Registry. Eureka! 83. Criterion Collection 608.

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1975. Collection of 10 vintage black-and-white studio still photographs from the 1975 film. Featuring Warren Beatty accompanied by numerous women, including Carrie Fisher, Goldie hawn, and Julie Christie. Warren Beatty, who co-wrote the script with Robert Towne, stars as a narcissistic, womanizing hairdresser who begins to discover his shallow lifestyle may be standing in the way of his dream of opening his own salon. Lee Grant won her only Academy Award for her turn as one of Beatty's mistresses, and Beatty and Towne were nominated for their screenplay. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.

N.p.: N.p., 1977. Draft script for the 1978 film. Copy belonging to Lucile Jones, credited in the film as a "friend who did everything," with her first name in manuscript ink on the title page. Laid in with the screenplay are three photographs from the set of the film: one black-and-white studio still photograph showing actors Bruce Dern and Jane Fonda, and two borderless color reference photographs of director Hal Ashby with an unknown woman (possibly Jones) on the set. A key Vietnam-era film, and one of noted director Hal Ashby's finest efforts. Ostensibly a war film, "Coming Home" is really more about the lives of the women left behind during the war, tracking the progress of a housewife who finds herself unexpectedly liberated in her husband's absence, falling into an affair with a wounded veteran. Winner of three Academy Awards, including Best Screenplay, and nominated for five others, including Best Picture and Best Director. Nominated for the Palme d'Or. Screenplay: Red titled… Read More