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New York: Batten, Barton, Durstine and Osborn, 1942. Draft script for the 1942 radio show episode, originally broadcast on March 23, 1942. With a few annotations in manuscript pencil and ink on the front wrapper. The anthology series was part of a campaign by the DuPont chemical corporation to rehabilitate its image following the public exposure of… Read more about this item

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1942. Draft script for the 1943 film. Copy belonging to crew member Ramsay Hill, with his extensive manuscript pencil annotations throughout. Based on the 1937 biography by Eve Curie. A dramatization of the shared romantic and professional lives of Nobel Prize-winning scientists Pierre and Marie Curie, cut tragically short by Pierre's untimely… Read more about this item

New York: N.p., 1955. Draft script for the 1955 Broadway play. Copy belonging to an uncredited cast or crew member, with their name in manuscript pencil on the title page and their annotations throughout, noting substantive revisions. Loosely based on the famed 1925 Scopes "Monkey" Trial, a thinly veiled means of discussing the then-contemporary McCarthy trials. The… Read more about this item

New York: Rinehart, 1955. First Edition. First Edition. Robert Lindner was best known as the author of the 1944 book "Rebel Without A Cause: The Hypnoanalysis of a Criminal Psychopath," basis for Nicholas Ray's 1955 film. Very Good plus in a Very Good plus, price-clipped dust jacket. Spine, board edges, and endpapers lightly toned. Jacket has a… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1953. Vintage promotional flyer for the 1953 short film. A short film based on the semantics of communication as outlined in Claude Shannon's 1949 book "The Mathematical Theory of Communication." Legendary modernist designers Charles and Ray Eames produced 125 short films between 1950 and 1982, using the medium as a vehicle for experimentation and education.… Read more about this item

New York: Grune and Stratton, 1944. First Edition. First Edition. Factual case study of an imprisoned teenage psychopath, later developed into a storyline synopsis by director Nicholas Ray and subsequently made into the classic 1955 film starring James Dean. A serious work on the subject of juvenile psychopathy and its treatment. Very Good in a Very Good plus… Read more about this item

New York: Gallery Books, 1988. First Edition. First Edition. An exploration of the deserts of the American southwest, illustrated with black-and-white and color photographs. Near Fine in a Very Good plus, lightly toned dust jacket.

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1940. Two vintage reference photographs of Spencer Tracy from the 1940 film. A fictionalized biographical depiction of the life of inventor Thomas Edison. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. The second Edison biopic released by MGM in 1940, "Young Tom Edison," starring Mickey Rooney, was released two months earlier. … Read more about this item

N.p.: Willis Kent Productions, 1938. Vintage one sheet poster for the 1938 film. An early exploitation film masquerading as an educational exposé of the medical underground, about a district attorney who becomes hell-bent on taking down an overzealous doctor who is pressuring young women into procuring illegal abortions. "Race suicide" was an alarmist term used in eugenics rhetoric… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1910. Two vintage borderless photographs of two Bioscope shows at the Oxford St. Giles Fair, circa 1910s. Both photographs with the stamp of Oxford-based photographer Henry Taunt on the verso, along with a provenance stamp and manuscript pencil annotations regarding cropping. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Bioscope shows were a… Read more about this item

New York: E.P. Dutton, 1969. First Edition. Advance Galleys, preceding the First Edition, sent to distributors for review purposes, with a review slip dated July 3, 1969 laid in. SIGNED by Arthur Miller on the half-title page. Very Good plus in wrappers.

Chapel Hill, NC: Duke University Press, 1996. First Edition. First Edition. Near Fine in wrappers.

New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1990. First Edition. First Edition. SIGNED on the front endpaper by the author and by actor Richard Chamberlain, who narrated the episode "Greed and Wildlife" of the 1989 television series, which aired on TBS and PBS. Photo-illustrated throughout. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket.

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1930. First Edition. First Edition. Basis for the 1931 film directed by John M. Stahl. Included with the book is an extraordinary original bi-fold program for the April 17, 1931 Hollywood premiere of Stahl's film at the Carthay Circle Theatre in Los Angeles, printed in black and gold on lavender card stock, styled to emulate… Read more about this item

New York: Dodd, Mead, 1922. First Edition. First Edition. Very Good. Spine toned, with light soil to the boards, and light foxing to the page edges and endpapers.

N.p.: N.p., 1966. Notebook belonging to an unknown pharmacist detailing the pharmacy's on hand stock of amphetamines, barbiturates, tranquilizers, and other drugs which contained one or more of those in combination, and noted "effective Feb. 1 - 1966." Also noted is that the inventory was compiled in accordance with recently passed Drug Abuse Control Amendment Act of… Read more about this item

Burbank, CA: National Broadcasting Company [NBC], 1961. Draft script for the 1961 television special. A musical special in the form of a cultural forecast, in anticipation of a changing world. The show addresses topics including: science, technology, politics, entertainment, and leisure. Grey titled wrappers. 83 leaves, with last page of text numbered 82. Mimeograph duplication,… Read more about this item

Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1935. Treatment script for the 1936 film. Seen under the early working title "The Shining Spectre." Boris Karloff plays scientist Janos Rukh, who discovers a radioactive meteor in Africa that in turn causes him to become radioactive as well. His colleague Dr. Felix Benet (Bela Lugosi) develops a serum that holds the… Read more about this item

Culver City, CA: Frankovich Productions / Columbia Pictures, 1968. First Estimating script for the 1971 film. Based on the 1967 novel "Doctors' Wives" by Frank G. Slaughter, a real life physician who attended Johns Hopkins medical school. One of the few feature films directed by George Schaefer, known mostly for his work directing plays and musicals for… Read more about this item

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961. First Edition. First Edition. Robert Rossen's annotated copy of the novel, with his name in manuscript ink on a label affixed on the front board. Rossen would go on to adapt to the novel to the screen and direct in 1964. The film, a psychological drama that was very much an antecedent for… Read more about this item