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London: Paramount Pictures, 1933. 8 pages, 11.75 x 9.5 inches. An extremely rare film, only shown at festivals on occasion since its release, with only one known nitrate print in storage at UCLA. Along with Baby Face, made the same year, The Story of Temple Drake is one of the most famous of the films from the pre-Code area, so controversial that it was ordered never to be shown again after the Motion Picture Production Code was more rigidly enforced beginning in 1934. ISBN: 281AIB1050542.

Universal City Studios, Inc, 1979. 109 pages. "Bustin' Loose" was released in 1981 starring Richard Pryor and Cicely Tyson. This copy is identified as Family Dream, No. 00545, Second Draft, August 10, 1979 on front cover. Based on an original story by Richard Pryor. One of not too many all Afro-American films with national circulation at the time. Owner's name on cover in holograph: "J. Elkins." An Aaron J. Elkins is credited with writing/creating some characters in the TV series "Gideon Oliver" (1989) starring Louis Gossett Jr. Bound with 3 brads. ISBN: 281AIB1048761.

141 pages. Film script sent from Burbank Studios in 1978. This is the film adaptation of Steinbeck's novels, Cannery Row and Sweet Thursday, released in 1982 starring Nick Nolte and Debra Wenger, produced by Michael Phillips. Reproduced from typed copy. Punched sheets with prong fasteners. ISBN: 281AIB1047911.

Single cream-colored sheet, 8-1/2 by 11. A self portrait in profile done with a black ink pen and signed by Price. ISBN: 281AIB1040393.

[Los Angeles?]: Vanguard Films, 1945. 131 pages. Labeled the "first draft" of Sheldon's Acadamy Award-winning screenplay, here titled "Suddenly It's Spring" and released as "The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer" in 1947. The film starred Shirley Temple as a teen-ager attracted to an older man, played by Cary Grant. Myrna Loy plays Temple's older sister, a judge; Rudy Vallee plays a district attorney. The movie was part courtroom drama, part romantic comedy (albeit about a 17-year-old who falls for a man more than twice her age.

Sheldon had a long and productive career as a writer for TV and film, before branching out in the 1970s with a run of steamy romances that sold millions of copies. ISBN: 281AIB1041665.

Holywood, CA: Seven Arts - Mirisch, 1960. 118 pages. 8-1/2 by 11 inches. An early draft of the screenplay for the 1961 movie directed by John Sturges. This draft still bears Schnee's name; script changes by starring actress Lana Turner drove him crazy and the final film credits a pseudonym, "John Dennis." Schnee won an Academy Award in 1952 for The Bad and the Beautiful. Printed on typescript on one side (verso) only. ISBN: 281AIB1043558.

London: United Artists, 1952. 10 pages, pages 7-10 printed on recto only. Movie starring Charles Chaplin, Clare Bloom with Buster Keaton. The first and only time Chaplin and fellow silent film actor Buster Keaton appeared together. The only Chaplin film to win an Academy Award (albeit for the original score of the 1972 re-release). Title page, pp 2-3: exploitation; pp. 4-5: press adverts; page 6: cast and credits; page 7: synopsis; pp. 8-10: editorials. ISBN: 281AIB1050359.

Los Angeles: Azteca Films, Inc, 1937. Poster, 36.5 x 26 inches. Printed in dramatic color but on fragile paper. Mario Moreno's (a.k.a. Cantinflas) third film and second with co-star Model. This film named as among the '100 best movies of the cinema of Mexico.'. ISBN: 281AIB1050576.

Calcutta: De'ja Pabalisim, 1995. 178 pages plus 20 pages of photographs (8 pages in color). The memoirs (in Bengali) of a prolific Bollywood screenwriter, with more than 90 films to his credit. ISBN: 9788170797234.

Los Angeles: Crescent Moon Productions, 1988. 109 pages. Revised first draft of screenplay based on novel of same name by McMurtry. Movie was released in 1990 and starred Jeff Bridges and Cybill Shepherd. ISBN: 281AIB1048792.

Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1962. Poster, 40.5 x 27 inches, in color. Movie was directed by Martin Ritt and produced by Ritt and Irving Ravetch. Starring Paul Newman, Melvin Douglas and Patricia Neal. ISBN: 281AIB1050360.

Los Angeles: Ernest E. Gagnon Company, 1936. 320 pages. The classic guide to plotting farce comdies, with lists of stock characters, situtations, and problems. Pick from each list and all you have to do is write the in-between bits. ISBN: B003N0O46K.

New York: Republic Pictures Corp, [ca. 1940]. 99 pages. 8-1/4 by 14 inch sheets bound with two brass round-head fasteners. Post-production continuity script for the 1940 film adaptation starring Claire Trevor, John Wayne, Roy Rogers and Walter Pidgeon. It was the only film in which the Western icons Wayne and Rogers appeared together. Based on Burnett's 1938 novel. Printed recto only in typescript. ISBN: 281AIB1042959.

London: Venedon Limited and Foote Cone & Belding Productions, (n.d. but 1974). 100 leaves, printed on one side only. 12 by 8-1/2 inches. Script from the 1975 British film starring Simon Ward and Anthony Hopkins. Based on Herriot's semi-autobiographical novel of the same name, which itself incorporates two books first released in the U. K. titled If Only They Could Talk and It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet. ISBN: 281AIB1027033.

N. Pl: 1962. The title 'Samantha' was later changed to "A New Kind of Love". Melville Shavelson wrote the screenplay and directed and produced the film which was distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film starred Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward with Woodward receiving a nomination for Golden Globe Award as Best Motion Picture Actress in Musical/Comedy. ISBN: 281AIB1049301.

London: Guild of British Kinema Projectionists and Technicians Ltd, 1932-1934. The Journal begins in November, 1932, with 4 pages; the December, 1932 issue is 8 pages and later expands to 12 and 16 pages. It was published monthly (with only 2 numbers in 1932). 12.25 x 9.25 inches. ISBN: 281AIB1051037.

Los Angeles: Omnibus Productions, Inc, [1973]. 154 pages. This screenplay is credited only to Robert Totten, who directed the TV adaptation based on John Steinbeck's novella.. The final teleplay was also credited to Ron Bishop. The made-for-TV movie starred Henry Fonda and Maureen O'Hara. ISBN: 281AIB1040048.

London: Attica Film Company, 1957. One sheet, folded into thirds, 13.2 x 6.4 inches, when folded, creating 6 pages. With an additional order sheet, folded to create 4 pages, 12 x 6 inches when folded, with examples of posters and other advertising materials. Satirical British comedy with Chaplin in his last leading role, which co-stars, among others, his son, Michael. The film presents a satirical view of the McCarthy communist-hunt era and certain other aspects of United States politics and society. The film, which was produced in Europe after Chaplin's exile from the U.S. in 1952, did not open in the United States until 1972. ISBN: 281AIB1050530.