Portrait photograph of Paul Muni
New York: December 9, 1932. Slightly darker print (from the same negative) than that published in PORTRAITS: the... Read More
Price: $1,000
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Key Largo. A Play in Prologue and Two Acts.
Washington, D.C: Anderson House, 1939. First edition. Read More
Price: $175
The Singing Cowboy Signs with 20th-Century Fox
Two Typed Letters of Agreement, signed, to Twentieth-Century Fox, confirming two amendments regarding the starting date of a previously signed...
Los Angeles: July 15 & November 17, 1939. The Singing Cowboy Signs with 20th-Century Fox. Following this agreement — due, it is said, to the intervention of 20th-Century Fox star Jane Withers — Western box-office star Gene Autry signed with the Hollywood giant, and made his first movie with them... Read More
Price: $850
"if it was easy everyone would be doing it"
Typed letter signed "Gene"
Los Angeles: 29 March 1993. "if it was easy everyone would be doing it" Responding to Hartley's enquiry into the importance of education to his career. The Cowboy-singer responded "I have always considered a good education extrememly important and one of the best tools to take along with you in... Read More
Price: $150
Portrait photograph of Tallulah Bankhead, with her lion cub Winston Churchill.
New York: July 15, 1941. Read More
Price: $1,500
Cremaster 3.
New York: Guggenheim Museum Publications, 2002. First edition. SIGNED by Barney (”Matthew Barney”) on the title-page. Read More
Price: $300
Signed Limited
Memories: An Autobiography.
New York: Harper & Brothers, [1955]. First edition, Number 221 of 265 copies, Signed by the Author, on special paper. Signed Limited. Read More
Price: $250
“For 'Doug' Jr”
Portrait photograph of John Barrymore, inscribed by Barrymore to Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
Hollywood: Spurr, [ca. 1926]. “For 'Doug' Jr”. Superb, large portrait of the great John Barrymore (1882-1942) by the well-known Hollywood photographer of the the silent era, Melbourne Spurr, inscribed lower right to Douglas Fairbanks, Jr, (whose signature is on the verso), “For 'Doug' Jr with sincerest good wishes from his... Read More
Price: $3,500
Inscribed to his Sister
Autograph music manuscript, "Ossity Hongroise, op. trente"
n.p. [Paris?]: n.d [ca. 1920-1954]. Inscribed to his Sister. A lyrical piece in A minor, with a central section in A major, composed for the piano and inscribed by Lionel Barrymore to his sister: “Dédieé à Mlle. Ethel Barrymore.” Barrymore composed a variety of music, from solo pieces to large orchestral works... Read More
Price: $2,000
Portrait photograph of Richard Barthelmess "Richard Barthelmess at Malibu"
New York: July 19, 1933. Richard Barthelmess, Born 9 May 1895 in New York, New York, USA, as Richard Semler Barthelmess. Died 17 August 1963 in Southampton, New York, USA, of throat cancer.Married actress Mary Hay 18 June 1920; divorced 1927. Married Jessica Stewart Sargent 1928,together until his death. Richard... Read More
Price: $500
Portrait photograph of Richard Barthelmess, "Richard Barthelmess at Malibu"
New York: July 19, 1933. Richard Barthelmess, Born 9 May 1895 in New York, New York, USA, as Richard Semler Barthelmess. Died 17 August 1963 in Southampton, New York, USA, of throat cancer. Married actress Mary Hay 18 June 1920; divorced 1927. Married Jessica Stewart Sargent 1928,together until his death... Read More
Price: $500
New Nixon Theatre / Matinee Every Day / D.W. Griffith Presents / The Birth of a Nation / An Historical...
[Atlantic City, N.J.]: [1915]. A handbill advertising a screening in Atlantic City, New Jersey, of what remains one of the most controversial American films, The Birth of a Nation, dating from the year of the film's release. The Birth of a Nation was banned in numerous cities, including Atlantic City... Read More
Price: $150
Affectionate Letter from Shirley Temple Black to Alfred Eisenstaedt
Autograph Letter Signed to Alfred Eisenstaedt, Woodside, CA, June 1965.
Affectionate Letter from Shirley Temple Black to Alfred Eisenstaedt. By the time she was six she had made 20 films. FDR stated, "As long as our country has Shirley Temple we will be all right". At age seven, her films had saved 20th-Century Fox from bankruptcy, and she had become... Read More
Price: $400
The Life of Lon Chaney
Production Budget for the making of “Man of a Thousand Faces” with James Cagney (as Lon Chaney), Dorothy Malone, Jane...
[Los Angeles]: University International, 1956. The Life of Lon Chaney. A fascinating account of the detailed costs involved in making this black and white production of Lon Chaney's life compiled November 15, 1956 by Robert Daley, of the Production Budget Department, with the inserted “Picture Cost Report” providing an update... Read More
Price: $750
![Autograph Note Signed to photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt, New York, 1938 [with, on verso:] Autogtraph Notes Signed by HOFFMANN, Josef, DeMILLE, Cecil B., and DURBIN, Deanna, 1937-38. Eddie Cantor.](/pictures/thumb/40561.jpg?v=1534804371)
Eddie Cantor, Josef Hoffmann, C.B. DeMille to Alfred Eisenstaedt
Autograph Note Signed to photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt, New York, 1938 [with, on verso:] Autogtraph Notes Signed by HOFFMANN, Josef, DeMILLE...
Eddie Cantor, Josef Hoffmann, C.B. DeMille to Alfred Eisenstaedt. Eddie Cantor (1892-1964) began his stage career in 1907, and a half-century later was still going strong on TV's “Colgate Comedy Hour”. He was a Ziegfeld Follies star, a radio headliner with his own shows, and a star of screen and... Read More
Price: $300
Chandler Sells Part of His Soul
Original Typed Document, signed in ink (“Raymond Chandler”), dated 29 May 1942, assigning exclusive motion picture rights for his unpublished...
Los Angeles: 29 May 1942. Chandler Sells Part of His Soul. Chandler assigns film rights for his third novel, completed in March 1942, here still bearing his original title, The Brasher Doubloon as well as the alternate title that Chandler gave it at Blanche Knopf’s suggestion. The High Window was... Read More
Price: $9,000
Ronald Colman's Copy
Cinema Arts. Volume I. Number 3.
New York: September 1937. Number 147 of a Limited Edition of 700 copies, specially bound and numbered "presented to Ronald Colman, Esq." Ronald Colman's Copy. Only 3 issues of this costly magazine were issued. This issue also carries a full page ad for "The Prisoner of Zenda" Read More
Price: $250
‘It Can Be Done’
Typed letter signed "Carl Laemmle" to "Mr. Halpern" (Seymour Halpern) in response to Halpern's inquiry regarding the keys to success.
New York: February 11, 1930. ‘It Can Be Done’. An encouraging letter by one of the founders of Universal Studios. Reading in part: “When I reached America in 1884, I was probably about your age. I was the proud possessor of $50.00 - - A world of adventure lay ahead... Read More
Price: $300
Motion Picture Problems. The Cinema and the League of Nations.
New York: The Avondale Press, (1929). First edition. Seabury was the General Counsel to the Motion Picture Board of tarde and the National Association of the Motion Picture Indsutry. Read More
Price: $150
Paths of Glory.
New York: Viking Press, 1935. First edition. One of the great anti-war novels to come out of the First World War and the basis for the film by Stanley Kubrick starring Kirk Douglas and Adolphe Menjou. Read More
Price: $175
The Blood of a Poet. A Film. Translated by Lily Pons with Translator's Note.
[New York]: A Hugo Edition of the Bodley Press, [1949]. First American edition. Read More
Price: $100
The Blood of a Poet. A Film. Translated by Lily Pons with Translator's Note.
[New York]: A Hugo Edition of the Bodley Press, [1949]. First American edition. Read More
Price: $150
SKIING & MORMONS
Signature.
Sun Valley, Idaho: Feb 8 1937. SKIING & MORMONS. With sentiments signed by: Robert Young: "I aspire to your perfection in photography." Melvyn Douglas-1936 Sun Valley Wesley Ruggles: "Knowing you has been a great pleasure-Sincerely-Wesley Ruggles-1937." On verso: Helen Meinardi: " 'I met him in Sun Valley' 1937 An original by Helen Meinardi D'Arcy Rutherfurd: "Very... Read More
Price: $400
![Portrait photograph of Leo Coleman [aka Leopoldo Savarona] as Toby in Gian-Carlo Menotti's opera, THE MEDIUM. Leo Coleman, Carl Van Vechten.](/pictures/thumb/222444.jpg?v=1534805104)
Toby, in Menotti's THE MEDIUM, 1946
Portrait photograph of Leo Coleman [aka Leopoldo Savarona] as Toby in Gian-Carlo Menotti's opera, THE MEDIUM.
New York: May 18, 1946. Toby, in Menotti's THE MEDIUM, 1946. A very rare and early image (none are in the Library of Congress) of the versatile and prolific actor, choreographer, screenwriter and director who worked on stage and screen in Italy in the 50s, 60s, and 70s. Born Leopoldo... Read More
Price: $900
Coop in Ten North Frederick
Typed Contract signed, between Gary Cooper and Twentieth-Century Fox , being agreement that Cooper play the role of "Joe Chapin"...
Los Angeles, Calif: November 13, 1957. Coop in Ten North Frederick. Read More
Price: $1,250
Typed Contract signed, between Gary Cooper and Twentieth-Century Fox , to portray the role of "Lt. John Harkness" in the...
Los Angeles, Calif: September 13, 1950. Cooper was to receive 3% of the gross receipts -- up to $350,000 -- for his role in the film which came out in the following year as YOU'RE IN THE NAVY NOW. Read More
Price: $850