Bertram Millhauser (26 results)

Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Book Club Edition. Detective Book Club. Brown cloth binding. The pages are in good condition with a very few small, scattered soil spots. There is a name label on the front end paper. The dust jacket has a few small edge tears and is darkened on the spine area. Included in thi…

Soft Cover. Reprint. 554, "The Champ Was No Gent!", 151pp. Curl/creasing at corners, tanning to paper, light creasing from page handling and light soil to outer edges. Wraps have edge/rub wear, soiling, chipping, tears, creasing and overall curl. A reading copy. Actual book for sale pictured. 10.8 x 16.2 x 1cm, wt200g Size: 16mo…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Good+ dj. First Edition. [solid copy, but with some unsightly staining to edges of text block (including at lower right corner, extending into corners of pages throughout most of the book), fraying to cloth at top edge of rear cover (slight exposure of boards), one-time owner's name rubber-stamped on…

Seven vintage studio still photographs from the 1940 film, including six studio still photographs and one reference photograph. Two with annotations in manuscript ink on the verso, and reference photograph with the stamps of photographer M. Marigold and Dell Publishing Company on the verso. Based on George S. Kaufman's 1925 play…

Vintage publicity photograph of Charles Korvin from the 1944 film, with four provenance stamps on the verso. From the archive of noted Hollywood still photographer Ray Jones. Born in Wisconsin on January 1, 1901, Jones worked for Paramount Pictures in the early 1930s, and went on to be the head of the still photography departmen…

Vintage publicity photograph from the 1943 film. The seventh of 14 films to costar Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce as Sherlock Holmes and John Watson, respectively. Loosely based on Arthur Conan Doyle's 1890 novel "The Sign of the Four," as well as the short stories "The Final Problem", "The Adventure of the Empty House", and "Th…

Vintage publicity photograph of actor William Bendix from the 1946 film. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. Based on Rufus King's novel "Double Murder," originally serialized in "Red Book" in 1929. A butler posing as a wealthy man falls in love with a beautiful woman, promising to help her bail out her sister from overwhe…

Post-Production script for the 1944 film. Script incomplete, lacking the first page. Based on the 1939 novel by James Ronald. A man begins having an affair with a woman he met through work. His wife discovers the affair and forces him to break off all ties to the woman. Unfortunately, his wife dies falling down the stairs in wha…

Draft script for the 1944 film. Based on the popular Arsene Lupin mystery series created by Maurice Leblanc. In this entry, roguish gentleman thief Lupin robs a young heiress of her jewels while on a train to England, but later reconsiders his actions and saves her life. Set in England. Tan titled wrappers, dated May 24, 1944, w…

Vintage reference photograph from the 1947 film noir, showing actors Edmond O'Brien and Maria Palmer. Printed mimeo snipes affixed to the verso. A man hired to be a secret bodyguard for a wealthy industrialist kills a man to protect his employer-but begins to suspect that the murder was a set-up. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus, l…

Vintage studio still photograph from the set of the 1944 film of a pensive Charles Laughton and Ella Raines with director Robert Siodmak. Mimeo snipe on the verso. One of the great noirs of the early 1940s, a high point for Laughton and the third of a trilogy of masterpieces by Siodmak (beginning with "Phantom Lady" and "Christm…

Vintage photograph on the set of the 1944 film noir, showing director Robert Siodmak conferring with star Stanley Ridges while some extras relax behind them. With a mimeo snipe and date stamp of "12 Apr 1945" on the verso. Based on the 1939 novel "This Way Out" by James Ronald, about an unhappily married man who falls in love wi…