johnson rare books & archives, ABAA (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First Edition. Octavo. Original blue cloth binding, with gilt titles. Issued without a dust jacket. Light wear to the corners and tips; otherwise very good.

Seller Inventory # 65709

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First Edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by Zimmerman on the half-title. Additionally, two holographic notes from Zimmerman is laid in. Tall octavo. Original black cloth binding, with blue titles. Light bumping to the corners and tips, with some very mild edgewear to the dust jacket. Better than very good.

Seller Inventory # 69326

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Third Edition. ".investigates questions raised by films about the Holocaust." Profusely illustrated. Octavo. Original black cloth binding, with silver titles. Issued without a dust jacket. A few tiny bumps along the extremities of the boards; else a crisp, unread copy. Near fine.

Seller Inventory # 68311

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near fine. First Edition. Limited to 1,000 trade copies. Inscribed by Philip Dunne to Emmy Award-winning screenwriter David Lloyd and inscribed by publisher James Pepper on the front flyleaf. Fiftieth Anniversary edition of Dunne's screenplay for the 1941 Twentieth Century-Fox feature film, based on the best-selling novel by Richard Llewellyn. Includes an introductory essay by Dunne. Tall octavo: 105 p. Original brown cloth binding, with gilt titles. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with some light rubbing.

Seller Inventory # 74801

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. First edition. 112 p. Foreword by Jason Reitman. 12 color photographs. Includes the complete shooting script and complete cast and crew credits for the acclaimed 2007 film directed by Jason Reitman and starring Ellen Page and Michael Cera. Juno won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and earned three other Oscar nominations, including Best Picture and Best Actress for Page. Inscribed by Cody on the title page. Original pictorial paper wrappers. A fine copy. Inscribed by Author.

Seller Inventory # 61682

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. 337 p. Foreword by Twiggy Lawson. Numerous textual photographs. The British film director whose use of shock and sensationalism earned him both praise and reprehension from critics, Russell (1927-2011) is best known for his Oscar-winning Women in Love (1969), The Devils (1971), The Who's Tommy (1975), and the science fiction film Altered States (1980). Inscribed by Russell on the front flyleaf. Octavo. Just a hint of soiling along the edges; else very good or better in a very lightly edgeworn dust jacket. Inscribed by Author.

Seller Inventory # 63235

A binder with 66 original 8" x 10" photographs that served as the film set continuity book for the film noir Hangover Square (1945). Freely adapted from Patrick Hamilton's 1941 novel, this 20th Century Fox production concerns a mild-mannered composer turned psychotic killer in Edwardian London. It was directed by John Brahm and starred Laird Cregar, Linda Darnell, and George Sanders, with art direction by the Academy Award-winning set decorator Thomas Little. Laird Cregar (1913-44), a fan of Hamilton's novel, encouraged 20th Century Fox to acquire the film rights. Fox agreed, and in hopes of recreating the success it had enjoyed with The Lodger (1944), reunited Cregar with George Sanders and John Brahm. Cregar, who has ambitions of being a leading man, realized he could use his romantic scenes with Linda Darnell and Faye Marlowe to his advantage in order to change his public image and began a radical crash diet using amphetamines to give his character more physical appeal. As such, the film had to be shot entirely in sequence so as to be consistent with Cregar's real-life weight loss. This shedding placed considerable strain on Cregar's system, resulting in abdominal issues. Following surgery, he suffered a fatal heart attack, about two months before the film's release. The photographs are two-hole punched and bound with a metal clip in plain brown paper wrappers with typed titles on the front panel. The images are clean and unblemished. Some light toning and wear to the wrappers.

Seller Inventory # 73797

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: Grumpy on Deer Layout Drawing (Walt Disney, 1937). Grumpy rides to the rescue on a reindeer in this original drawing from Disney's first animated feature film. These two drawings are in graphite and colored pencil with a red pencil border, with an image size of 7" x 5". In 1989, the United States Library of Congress deemed Disney's Snow White "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" and selected it as one of the first 25 films for preservation in the National Film Registry. The American Film Institute ranked it among the 100 greatest American films, and also named the film as the greatest American animated film of all time in 2008. The images have been professionally mounted and framed. They were acquired at a Los Angeles County Public Assessor's auction in the early 1990s, and are being sold on behalf of the family of Roger Gozdecki.

Seller Inventory # 77129