London, Princes Theatre 1961 Stapled wrappers.7.25x5” 24pp.#####'King Kong' was a pioneering South African musical inspired by the life and death of the heavyweight boxing champion Ezekiel Dlamini. Billed as a 'Jazz-Opera', the production was first staged in Johannesburg, opening on February 2nd 1959 and went on to take South Africa by storm. Nelson Mandela attended the opening night and is on record as highlighting the show as his favorite musical. 'King Kong' subsequently opened at London's Princes Theatre on February 23rd 1961 and ran for 201 performances.#####With an all-black cast, the pl... View More...
8vo, ¼ cloth, maroon boards. Stated First Edition.
Alfred Hayes was a British-born screenwriter, television writer, and novelist. He wrote the screenplays for Clash by Night [ Fritz Lang], Island in the Sun, and was a co-writer on Roberto Rossellini's Paisan in 1946 for which he was nominated for an Academy Award. He received another nomination for the film Teresa in 1951. In television he wrote for the Alfred Hitchcock Hour, Mannix, Logan’sRun, and Nero Wolfe. This copy is inscribed on the front end paper to Hollywood film producer/director Jerry Wald. “It isn’t any shorter than ’Loss of R... View More...
1st ed., 8vo, yellow cloth in pictorial dust jacket. 247 [1] pp.
Charles Brackett practiced law for several years before being hired as drama critic at The New Yorker, on the strength of his short stories for The Saturday Evening Post and his second novel, Week-End. He left New York to work as a Hollywood screenwriter, and had his greatest success in a long-running collaboration with Billy Wilder, including Ninotchka, The Lost Weekend and Sunset Blvd. “Entirely Surrounded” is a humorous novel about nineteen-thirties New Yorkers who holiday in Vermont. Many of the characters are stand-in... View More...
Third, revised edition (1967) of Ralph Steadman's first book appearance. The first edition was published in 1958 and is quite scarce. VG-Near fine copy; some erased pencil marks on end-paper and some very light foxing in upper right corner of title page. In VG d/w with a few small nicks and some light spotting on back cover. View More...
1946 reprint of a book first issued in 1924. 8vo illustrated wrappers. 130 pp. A collection of minstrel gags, jokes, and speeches 'adapted to the use of amateurs and professionals.' Fine copy; no chips or tears - mild age-toning to the news pulp pages. View More...
1st ed., 4to, illustrated stiff wrappers, plastic comb binding. Unpaginated.
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One of a series of annual volumes published in conjunction with an annual ball, and New York, Artists Equity Association. From the preface: "This is Volume 5 of Improvisations. First conceived in 1950 from an idea by Julio de Diego, Improvisations has been accepted as a novel and original medium by advertisers in sympathy with the ideals of Artists Equity Association. The member-artists who illustrated the journal were selected by the advertisers and were given complete freedom of expression. Each page was des... View More...
Scenario by Elliott Clawson
[Cover dated June 14, 1928 ; on page 1 dated June 7]
Pale yellow covers, paper label with MGM logo; stamped “file copy”; two-hole punched, brass brads. No. 1666 stamped upper right corner; no. 3580 on the label. Lower right corner: “Script Okayed” by [producer] Mr. [Irving] Thalberg. June 14. 1928. 85 pages mimeographed in black ink. Title page integrated with first lines of text.
West of Zanzibar is a 1928 silent film directed by Tod Browning. The screenplay concerns the vengefulness of a cuckolded magician (Chaney) paralyzed in a brawl with his rival (L... View More...
Story by Harlan Ellison, teleplay by Al Hayes.
A Goff-Roberts-Steiner Production [MGM Television] Final Draft Sept 2, 1977. 53 printed pages plus 2-page integrated title page and character/set list; mostly on white first draft sheets but with about a dozen pink and blue revision sheets inserted.
Script Supervisor Jack Gannon’s copy, with his penciled name on the cover and extensive handwritten annotations and dialog changes on every page, including versos, recounting production notes, changes in dialog, camera references. Probably used to prepare for editing [or for a continuity scri... View More...
First edition, first printing. (1859 on title page; 1860 on front wrapper)
Imperial 4to, ¾ cloth with original paper wrappers bound in. Color plates engraved on steel by Ch. COLIN after RAFFET.
171 pp. Frontispiece, title vignette on India paper and 20 colored plates by Raffet. Text in French by Eugene Fieffe. The color plates show the uniforms of the various regiments of the Imperial Guard; frontispiece of Napoleon in uniform on horseback. The last 80 pp. are a list of all the officers of the Imperial Guard in 1813, the composition of the Guard on Elba Island, text of the decrees relat... View More...
The true first edition (1973) with the original 3-dimensional applique of Mickey Mouse and acetate dustjacket. The book itself is in fine condition, with the white cloth still bright on the front and with just some minor soiling along the top and bottom edges of the back cover (from shelf-wear). The acetate d/w has some scuffs and a few crayon marks and has two 3" closed tears on the back a 1/2" closed tear on the front. View More...
London, Mills & Boon. 1909, 1st Edition. Small 4to, illustrated boards, cloth spine. 132 pp. A humorous account of the “Follies”, the London theatrical phenomenon that was a blend of Vaudeville and the Folies Bergere. “ Songs, Dance, Reciatations…” “With a New Song by H.G. Pelissier.” b/w photos and illustrations by Geoffrey Holme and others. Pasted to the front end paper is a letterhead for the Follies, with manuscript note signed by H.G. Pelissier, the song writer and eventual producer. “ Dear Mr. Lloyd, / I have now taken over the above company -- performers in period costume -- Do you th... View More...
1st ed. (1935) in dust-jacket, inscribed by Hart to western film actor Guinn "Big Boy" Williams. (Dodge City, Santa Fe Trail, the Comancheros). A good copy; interior is clean and tight. Front hinge is a little loose at top, but fully intact. A few stains inside front cover where the inked signature bled when the book was apparently closed before the ink dried. 1/2" light stain on front cover, otherwise exterior has average wear but no significant defects. Only the front panel of the dust jacket is present. View More...
[Black Fury] Archive of film-related correspondence by Sacco-Vanzetti/Nuremberg Justice Michael A. Musmanno#####A remarkable archive of nearly 41 original letters from noted judge/author/screenwriter Michael A. Musmanno concerning the 1935 Warner Brothers film "Black Fury" starring Paul Muni. The letters are written to his ghostwriter/script doctor/amanuensis Bruce Lockwood. With another five letters from Lockwood to Musmanno. #####The film was based on an actual 1929 incident in whichJohn Barkoski, a miner agitating for recognition of theUnited Mine Workers of America, was beaten to death by... View More...
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New York, Dramatists Play Service : 1950
Seller ID: 081404
1st ed., (1950) in dust-jacket. Inscribed by Kanin to Academy Award winning Hollywood producer-director Jerry Wald. [The Roaring Twenties (1939), The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942), Destination Tokyo (1943), Mildred Pierce (1945), Peyton Place (1957), An Affair to Remember (1957). The book itself is in fine condition with no defects other than some light discoloration from the dust jacket resting inside back cover. The dust jacket has no large tears, but is chipped along top edge, a 1/2" closed tear at top rear of back flap, and some light foxing on the back cover and spine. View More...
NY: Vantage Press, 1967. 1st ed., 8vo. 111 pages. Maroon cloth with silver lettering to spine in original dj. A near fine review copy in fair dust-jacket. The book has a ½” hairline crack at the bottom of the frontgutter and some very minor shelf-wear on bottom edge. The dustjacket is not price-clipped but has two open tears on front [1” & ½”], wear to edges, and a large damp-stain on the back not affecting the book. A hilarious autobiography by this "unique" actor. Illustrated with 32 b/w photographs. Laid in is a publisher’s review slip and press release “This is not a great book, but it i... View More...
First UK edition, first printing with "1" as the lowest number in print number line on copyright page. 8vo. green cloth; 189pp, illus with b/w plates. Author's presentation inscription and signature in silver pen to ffep. Light surface wear to d/w, otherwise an as-new fine copy. View More...
First draft, original typescript for an unpublished and unproduced screenplay about migrant farmworkers and UFW organizers in the San Joaquin Valley of California. 8.5x11" in two-post card binder.#####A fictional treatment exploring some of the labor issues Matthiessen explored in his sojourns with Cesar Chavez and his 1969 nonfiction book Sal Si Puedes. 86 typescript pages, with a duplicate final page containing two holographic corrections by Matthiessen and handwritten delivery instructions to his Hollywood agent. Together with a brief handwritten note two decades later about the possibili... View More...
125 pp. Original screenplay for a proposed film based on the National Book Award winning memoir - cowritten by Matthiessen and the Polish producer/director Korzeniowsky. Nearly fine in studio wrappers bound with 3 posts, as issued. The screenplay is an original studio photocopy; the title page typed on production company letterhead. We are aware of no other copies having come on the market. Near fine: light wear to covers, internally fine. Unusual in that PM is a cowriter of the script; most proposed screenplays of his works were adapted by others. View More...
1st ed. thus. 4to, black cloth. Facsimile of the original script for the 1932 Boris Karloff film -- originally entitled "Im-Ho-Tep", screenplay by John Balderston. With 54 pages of introductory essays and photos from the film and promotional materials. Volume 7 in the Universal Filmbooks series, This is the special limited edition of 100 copies signed by the editor, the publisher, contributor Forrest Ackerman, Researcher Gregory Man, Egyptologist Walter Daughterty, and Zika Johann -- Boris Karloff's co-star in the 1932 film who contributes one of the essays. A fine copy but with a yellowed s... View More...
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