Search Results: Authors starting with P from James Pepper Rare Books, Inc.

Los Angeles: Arnold Kopelman Productions, October 20, 1992. Original 133 page script for the well regarded horror film directed by Taylor Hackford and starring Al Pacino, Keanu Reeves, & Charlize Theron. Fine. Bradbound in red printed studio wrappers. Al Pacino is the head of a high powered law firm and is secretly Satan.

Los Angeles: International Creative Management, (1984). First Edition. Original 104 page early draft written by screenwriter Robert Dillon. This script was made by Dillon’s agents, ICM, and precedes the later drafts issued in the UK when the film went into production. Bradbound in original printed agency wrappers. Directed by Hugh Hudson, starring Al Pacino, Donald Sutherland and Nastassja Kinski. Pacino appears as a New York fur trapper who initially unwillingly gets engaged with the Revolutionary forces during the American Revolutionary War. The film was rushed to release and bombed at the box office. In 2007, director Hugh Hudson and Al Pacino restored the film adding 10 minutes removed by the company before the picture’s original premiere, finally presenting the picture the way it was intended, and the new version has received some acclaim.

1930s. Original autograph signature of Canadian mystery author Frank L. Packard, written in vintage fountain pen ink on a 4” x 3” piece of paper, inscribed to British autograph collector, L.E.L. Downing: “To L.E.L. Downing, Esq., with sincere good wishes, Frank L. Packard.” Fine. written in vintage fountain pen ink on a 4” x 3” piece of paper. Fine. Frank Lucius Packard (1877 - 1942) is the author of ‘Tiger Claws,’ ‘The Locked Book,’ ‘Jimmie Dale and the Phantom Clue,’ ‘Shanghai Jim,’ etc.

Santa Monica, CA: Ruth Bachofner Gallery, 1988. First Edition. Paperbound, oblong format, 13 1/2” X 5”. An illustrated catalogue issued to accompany an exhibit of sculptural works by George Page. Fine in printed wrappers.

San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books, 2013. First Edition. Signed by the author and development team member, Karen Paik, and by the writer and director Dan Scanlon. Oversized pictorial format, 11 1/4” x 9 1/4”, 167 pages. A collection of the art of the Disney Pixar animated film Monsters University. With behind-the-scenes interviews with the film’s artists and filmmakers, color scripts, storyboards, character studies, environment art, lighting studies, and more. Fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Monsters University was written and directed by Dan Scanlon, and features the voices of Billy Crystal, John Goodman, Steve Buscemi, Helen Mirren, Peter Sohn, Joel Murray, Sean Hayes, and Alfred Molina.

1930s. Original autograph signature of British author Humphrey Pakington, written in vintage fountain pen ink on a 4” x 3” piece of paper. Fine. Humphrey Pakington is the author of ‘English Villages and Hamlets. With a foreword by E.V. Knox. Illustrated from Drawings by Sydney R. Jones and From Photographs by Will F. Taylor and Others,’ ‘The Eligible Bachelor,’ ‘Vynes of Vyne Court,’ etc.

London: Methuen, 1995. First Edition. Signed and dated on Michael Palin on the title page. The first novel by Palin, noted member of the Monty Python Flying Circus comedy group, about Martin Sproale who has a “passionate obsession the life work, and personality of Ernest Hemingway” with “an encyclopedic knowledge of everything about the man and living in a room surrounded by Hemingway memorabilia” who “allows his obsession to take over more and more of his life”. As new in dust jacket.

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1999. First Edition. Signed by the author, Michael Palin on the title page. Fine copy in a fine bright dust jacket. A literary travel book in which Michael Palin steps into the life story of Ernest Hemingway by exploring some of Hemingway’s world, including stops in Chicago, First World War battlefields, Paris, Spain, Venice, Africa, Cuba, Key West, Idaho, and more.

Los Angeles: Paramount Television / CBS, 2006. First Edition. Signed by the stars of the hit television series, NCIS, Mark Harmon, Lauren Holly, David McCallum, Pauley Perrette, Cote de Pablo, Michael Weatherly, and Sean Murray. Hardbound in brown cloth covered boards with gilt-stamping to the spine. Original 76 page revised draft shooting script, with color rewrite pages, dated through September 9, 2006, used in the production of the television series, NCIS, entitled ‘Sandblast’ written by Robert Palm which aired on November 7, 2006 (Season 4, Episode 7). Fine. Accompanied by a video recording of the finished episode. The series is in its fifth season, and debuted in the fall of 2003. The story line for the series revolves around a team of special investigators who operate outside of the military chain of command in a unit known as NCIS (Naval Criminal Investigative Service), and stars Mark Harmon, Lauren Holly, David McCallum, Pauley Perrette, Cote de Pablo, Michael Weatherly, and Sean Murray.… Read More

Boston, 2006. Collection of original 5 by 7 inch prints taken by Tessa Frootko Gordon on stage and behind the scenes at Amanda Palmer’s 2006 Boston Concert at the Orpheum Theatre. Accompanied by an Autograph Letter Signed from phtographer Gordon presenting the photographs to Amanda Palmer. From the collection of a former road manager to Palmer.

2009. First Edition. Original printed detailed book of tour plans made in a handful of copies for members of Amanda Palmer’s tour. With detailed information on concert venues, hotels, plane flights, etc. This copy belonged to one of the tour managers and has 5 post-it notes stuck in with his notes dealing with the tour. Spiral bound in thick cardstock decorated and printed covers. Made in only a tiny quantity for immediate members of the tour. Very rare. Fine condition. Laid in is a color promotional postcard showing Amanda Palmer for her album Who Killed Amanda Palmer which is boldly signed by Amanda Palmer in gold ink. From the collection of a former road manager to Palmer.

Los Angeles: Henry Fonda Theater, December 16, 2008. Original limited concert poster designed by artist Eric Pieper. This is number 16 of 225 posters and is signed by Pieper. Signed and inscribed by Amanda Palmer with a heart drawing to one of her tour managers, Sean Francis. Additionally, signed by the five members of the Danger Ensemble which was Palmer’s theatrical component group. The poster is approximately 14 inches wide by 23 inches long. Some creases and ripples which a good pressing could improve. Very good.

5 1/4” x 3 1/2”, n.d. Original autograph postcard signed by the world-famous prima ballerina, Galina Panova, with a black & white photograph by Jennie Walton of Ms. Panova and her husband, ballet star, Valery Panov, in a head and shoulders length dramatic pose. The text addresses various productions in which they were performing in Europe, including ‘Cinderella.’ Fine. Galina Panova and Valery Panov are both Russian emigre dancers who were once members of the Kirov Ballet.

New York: Amacom, 2007. First Edition. Signed by the author, Chuck Panozzo. Laid in is an Author Trading Card of Chuck Panozzo, 2” x 3”, from the Booksmith bookstore in San Francisco, with his black & white photograph on the front and biographical information on the verso. Illustrated. As new in an as new dust jacket. The behind-the-scenes story of Chuck Panozzo, bass player for the 70s rock band Styx, and his struggles to reconcile his public life as a rock star with his private life as a gay man. Styx had a number of mega-hits, including ‘Mr. Roboto’, ‘Lady’, ‘Come Sail Away’, ‘Renegade’, etc.

New York: Abbeville Press, 2007. First Edition - American. Inscribed by the author / art collector Giuseppe Panza and his wife Rosa in Italian, from the Albright-Knox Gallery and dated 2007. Quarto, 415 pages. Illustrated with 110 full-color photographs, representing a virtual tour of Mr. Panza’s massive art collection and his life. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Giuseppe Panza (1923 - 2010) was one of the world's most prominent collectors of modern art. Born in Milan, Panza began collecting contemporary art in the late 1940s, and was amongst the first to acquire the works of Rothko, Kline, Lichtenstein, Carl Andre, Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, Robert Mangold, Greg Colson, Sol LeWitt, Brice Marden, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, Robert Ryman, Richard Serra, James Turrell, Lawrence Weiner, Joseph Kosuth and many other major figures. Parts of his collection have been acquired or exhibited by the Guggenheim, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and others. From the book’s rear jacket flap as to his… Read More

Bristol: Scorpion Press, 1992. First Edition. One of 99 numbered copies signed by the author, Sara Paretsky. Contains a special introduction by Frances Fyfield printed only in this edition. Deluxe bound with leather spine and marbled boards. Fine without dust jacket as issued.

New York: Delacorte, 1991. First Edition. A collection of twenty-one mystery stories, all written by women, signed by the author on the title page by ten of the book’s contributors: Marcia Muller, Corolyn G. Hart, Julie Smith, Dorothy B. Hughes, Dorothy Salisbury Davis, Nancy Pickard, Susan Dunlap, Sue Grafton, Sara Paretsky, and Marilyn Wallace. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

New York: Random House, 1942. First Edition, First Printing. With a New York Herald Tribune clipping laid-in, dated April 26, 1942 reviewing this book. Decorative endpapers. Near fine copy with just a trace of rubbing to the lettering at the spine without dust jacket. Elliot Paul was one of the noted American Paris expatriates of the 1920s, co-editor of Transition magazine and knew all the notables of the period. Of the flowering of writing that came out of 1920s Paris, Paul is the only American to write a lengthy memoir of what it was like to interact and immerse oneself in the people of his Paris neighborhood. This book is basically the story of the lives of the people of the street on which he lived, the Rue de la Huchette. Paul lived there for the better part of 18 years, until the Nazi occupation of France prevented his return. A genuine classic.

Paris: Gallerie 1900-2000, 1989. First Edition. Paperbound, 8 1/4” x 11 5/8”. Text in French. An illustrated catalogue issued to accompany an exhibition of sculptural works by Aeyung Park. With an introductory essay by Mary Delahoyd. Fine in printed wrappers.

Original autograph signature of actress Eleanor Parker on a 5 7/8” x 3” sheet from an autograph album. Fine. Eleanor Parker appeared in many terrific films, including ‘Of Human Bondage,’ ‘Scaramouche,’ ‘The Naked Jungle,’and ‘The Sound of Music.’ She received Oscar nominations for Best Actress in a Leading Role ‘Interrupted Melody’ (1955), Best Actress in a Leading Role ‘Detective Story’ (1951), and Best Actress in a Leading Role ‘Caged’ (1950).