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Allentown, PA: Bonney Forge and Tool Works, 1940. Collection of nine vintage photographs of Bonney Tools sales vans, bound with a plastic comb binding, circa late 1940s. Pencil annotation on the front wrapper of "Master Set / Bonney Forge and Tool Photos / M-9 - M-11." The nine photographs in the collection feature four views of the full… Read more about this item

Burbank, CA: Mark VII Ltd. / Warner Brothers, 1955. Vintage reference photograph taken on the set of the 1955 film noir, showing composer Ray Heindorf at the piano, with actress Janet Leigh and director Jack Webb to the left. With the stamps of Warner Brothers and photographer Floyd McCarty to the verso. In 1927, a Kansas City trumpet… Read more about this item

Universal City: Universal Studios, 1974. Final Shooting script for the 1974 film, copy belonging to character actor J. Edward McKinley, with manuscript marker annotations of "J. Edw. McKinley" and "Passenger" along the top edge of the front wrapper. The script, printed on pink leaves, is preceded by a "Cast" and a "Sets" leaves. Laid in are two, two-page Shooting… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1978. Complete set of eight color studio still photographs for the 1978 film. Stamp of Consolidated Theatre Services of Canada on the versos. Director Walter Hill's existential neo-noir, heavily influenced by Jean-Pierre Melville's "Le Samourai" (1967), with some of the finest car-chase sequences ever committed to celluloid. The film follows a skilled getaway… Read more about this item

Beverly Hills, CA: Gene Slott Productions, 1986. Draft script for the 1986 film. Single annotation in manuscript pencil on page 4, and a copied annotation on page 73. A veteran thief is hired by the feds to steal politically inflammatory computer discs, which he stashes in his high-tech ultra-fast car, the eponymous "Black Moon." When Black Moon-and the… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1978. Vintage photograph album documenting A Brotherhood Against Totalitarian Enactments (ABATE) and other motorcycle rallies in Georgia throughout 1977 and 1978. Album contains 17 photographs and over 120 collaged photograph clippings, as well as two International Drag Bike Association (IDBA) passes and an ABATE photograph identification card. Compiled (as noted on the photograph album's introductory… Read more about this item

Wrigley, TN: N.p., 1990. Archive of over 175 photographs relating to the Wrigley, Tennessee, chapter of the Rare Blood Motorcycle club, a predominantly African American motorcycle club, with at least nine other (largely African American) motorcycle clubs identified in the photographs. 175 photographs are housed in a generic maroon three-ring photograph album, with each photograph affixed to adhesive leaves… Read more about this item

N.p.: Aubrey Baring Productions, 1960. Draft script for the 1960 film, here under the British release title of "Cone of Silence," with annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on 50 pages, striking and noting scenes regarding music. Based upon the 1959 novel, "Cone of Silence," by David Beaty, which was loosely based on a 1952 de Havilland… Read more about this item

London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, 1933. First UK Edition, preceding all others. Very Good plus lacking the dust jacket, with boards lightly bumped and worn at the corners and spine ends.

London and New York: Frederick Warne, 1972. First UK Edition, preceding all others. Very Good plus in a Very Good dust jacket. Boards faintly foxed, with light offsetting on the endpapers. Jacket lightly age toned, with faint foxing on the verso and a short closed tear on the bottom of the rear flap fold.

London and New York: Frederick Warne, 1971. First UK Edition, preceding all others. Very Good plus in an about Very Good price-clipped dust jacket. Boards lightly bumped at the corners and faintly toned on the edges. Jacket lightly edgeworn and rubbed, with a short closed tear on the bottom of the front flap fold.

N.p.: N.p., 1966. Four vintage borderless double weight reference photographs from the 1966 French film. All four with annotations in manuscript ink on the verso. An inexperienced drug runner on a cross-continental train becomes the central figure in the imaginations of a group of filmmakers, who are engaged in the process of drafting their next feature. … Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1966. Collection of 17 vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1966 Czechoslovakian film. With the printed label of Columbus Film in Zurich affixed to the verso. Based on Bohumil Hrabal's 1965 novel, about a young man working at a German-occupied train station in Czechoslovakia during World War II. A key entry in Czechoslovak New Wave… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1977. Final Draft script for the 1978 film. A unique script in terms of the narrative, with each scene described in fragmented sentences. Director Walter Hill's existential neo-noir, heavily influenced by Jean-Pierre Melville's "Le Samourai" (1967), with some of the finest car-chase sequences ever committed to celluloid. The film follows a skilled getaway… Read more about this item

London: Gentry Books, 1979. First UK Edition, preceding all others. An account of the making of the Sunbeam Tiger, a high-performance V8 British roadster produced between 1964 and 1967. Small chip on the top corner of the dust jacket rear flap, else Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket.

N.p.: N.p., 1988. Draft script for the 1989 television miniseries, which originally aired in the US on April 16, 1989, on NBC. Copy belonging to an unknown crew member, with their annotations in manuscript ink throughout, noting props. Based on Jules Verne's 1873 novel, about two English gentlemen who make a high-stakes bet that, using new modes of… Read more about this item

Culver City, CA: RKO Radio Pictures, 1952. Revised Final Script for the 1953 film, here under its working title "The Cook Story." Carbon typescript master, clean, with just a handful of typeovers throughout. Based on the true account of serial killer Billy Cook. Gilbert and Roy (Lovejoy and O'Brien) are two buddies on a fishing trip who stop… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1968. Archive of 46 vintage vernacular photographs of a model airliner in wind tunnel tests, circa 1967-1968. All photographs with an internal reference number, printed from the negative, on the lower right of the image. The photographs on offer are almost certainly internally-produced reference photographs taken during the development of Boeing's 747 airliner, and were likely… Read more about this item

Milwaukee, WI: Alloy Products, 1934. Vintage sales sampler created by Alloy Products Corporation of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, housing 45 linen-backed photographs of various pressure vessels and pressure, as well as technical illustrations and images of fabrication elements. Six photographs bear photographer stamps on the versos, and most of the photographs include a "shipped to" date among the technical information on… Read more about this item

New York: United States Rubber Company, 1950. Archive of fifteen vintage photographs of automobile tire testing by the US Rubber Company at the Lancaster, California proving grounds, circa 1950s. All with United States Rubber Company credit stamps and identification number stamps on the versos, and fourteen with printed mimeo snipes affixed to the versos. The tires presented in… Read more about this item