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CHINATOWN [ca. 1973] Jack Nicholson's copy of early draft film script by Robert Towne by Robert Towne

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Title: CHINATOWN [ca. 1973] Jack Nicholson's copy of early draft film script by Robert Towne
Author: Robert Towne
Seller: Walterfilm, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Paramount. Softcover/Paperback. Near Fine. [Los Angeles]: Paramount Pictures, [ca. 1973]. Vintage original film script, printed die-cut Paramount Pictures wrappers, 11 x 8 1/2" (28 x 22 cm.). First-generation xerographic printing, 187 pp. Pp. 178-187 are hand-numbered in ink. Light creasing to back cover, last few pages have minute stains at extreme top blank margins, overall near fine. Jack Nicholson's copy of a very early draft by Robert Towne. The script contains innumerable photocopied revisions, almost certainly in Towne's hand, and some underlinings and notes in ink in Nicholson's hand. Almost all of the great American private eye films -- The Maltese Falcon, Murder My Sweet, The Big Sleep, Out of the Past, Kiss Me Deadly -- are adapted from preexisting works, with one outstanding exception: 1974's Chinatown, based on an original screenplay by Robert Towne that is a masterpiece of narrative construction, meta-history, and myth. This early draft of the Chinatown screenplay, with corrections by writer Towne and annotations by star Jack Nicholson, is substantially different from the screenplay that was eventually filmed -- rougher and much longer. It has voiceover narration missing from the completed film. Where later versions of the screenplay -- and the film -- begin with the detective protagonist Jake Gittes (Nicholson) in conference with a cuckolded client (Burt Young), this version, set like the film in the 1930s, begins with the eventual murder victim, water commissioner Hollis Mulwray, examining the bed of the L.A. River. What appear to be Towne's photocopied annotations are essentially corrections (portions of lines crossed out, many hand-printed words added to the dialogue), suggesting this is an early draft, if not the first draft, of the completed script. What appear to be Nicholson's annotations, handwritten in this copy, are comments suggesting a dialogue between Towne and Nicholson (who had been friends and collaborators for many years) regarding the development of the script. The screenplay was clearly written with Nicholson in mind as the lead. Although the movie is much tighter than this early draft, and scenes have been revised, replaced, or rearranged, the bare bones of the plot are the same as in all later versions -- the mystery of why massive amounts of L.A.'s water are being diverted into the ocean, the strange interrelationship of water engineer Hollis Mulwray and his beautiful wife Evelyn Mulwray (Faye Dunaway), her monstrously wealthy father and Hollis's former partner Julian Cross (renamed Noah Cross and played by John Huston in the movie), and the incest theme, the hidden girl who turns out to be Evelyn's daughter by her own father. Between this draft and the completed film, some characters were added and others eliminated. Unlike in the movie, the screenplay's patriarchal villain, Julian Cross, doesn't appear until late in the story. And he has far fewer scenes and lines. The most radical difference between this draft, subsequent drafts, and the completed film is its final act and conclusion. In this early draft, Cross, the man behind it all, is shot dead by Evelyn off-screen -- whereas in the completed movie's stunning ending (written by director Roman Polanski), Evelyn is the one who is shot and Cross leaves the scene with Evelyn's terrified daughter in his custody. Evil and corruption prevail. Jack Nicholson's copy of a very early draft by Robert Towne. The script contains innumerable photocopied revisions, almost certainly in Towne's hand, and some underlinings and notes in ink in Nicholson's hand. The script belongs to a collector who acquired it at Heritage Auctions in 2010 for $14,340 and has now consigned it to me. Almost all of the great American private eye films -- The Maltese Falcon, Murder My Sweet, The Big Sleep, Out of the Past, Kiss Me Deadly -- are adapted from preexisting works, with one outstanding exception: 1974's Chinatown, based on an original screenplay by Robert Towne that is a masterpiece of narrative construction, meta- history, and myth. This early draft of the Chinatown screenplay, with corrections by writer Towne and annotations by star Jack Nicholson, is substantially different from the screenplay that was eventually filmed -- rougher and much longer. It has voiceover narration missing from the completed film. Where later versions of the screenplay -- and the film -- begin with the detective protagonist Jake Gittes (Nicholson) in conference with a cuckolded client (Burt Young), this version, set like the film in the 1930s, begins with the eventual murder victim, water commissioner Hollis Mulwray, examining the bed of the L.A. River. What appear to be Towne's photocopied annotations are essentially corrections (portions of lines crossed out, many hand-printed words added to the dialogue), suggesting this is an early draft, if not the first draft, of the completed script. What appear to be Nicholson's annotations, handwritten in this copy, are comments suggesting a dialogue between Towne and Nicholson (who had been friends and collaborators for many years) regarding the development of the script. The screenplay was clearly written with Nicholson in mind as the lead. Although the movie is much tighter than this early draft, and scenes have been revised, replaced, or rearranged, the bare bones of the plot are the same as in all later versions -- the mystery of why massive amounts of L.A.'s water are being diverted into the ocean, the strange interrelationship of water engineer Hollis Mulwray and his beautiful wife Evelyn Mulwray (Faye Dunaway), her monstrously wealthy father and Hollis's former partner Julian Cross (renamed Noah Cross and played by John Huston in the movie), and the incest theme, the hidden girl who turns out to be Evelyn's daughter by her own father. Between this draft and the completed film, some characters were added and others eliminated. Unlike in the movie, the screenplay's patriarchal villain, Julian Cross, doesn't appear until late in the story. And he has far fewer scenes and lines. The most radical difference between this draft, subsequent drafts, and the completed film is its final act and conclusion. In this early draft, Cross, the man behind it all, is shot dead by Evelyn off-screen -- whereas in the completed movie's stunning ending (written by director Roman Polanski), Evelyn is the one who is shot and Cross leaves the scene with Evelyn's terrified daughter in his custody. Evil and corruption prevail.

Carta Geografica General de la Republica Mexicana Comenzada en 1878 por la Comision Geografico-Exploradora: Atlas Topografico de los Alrededores de Puebla. 3A serie by Comisión Geográfico-Exploradora

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Title: Carta Geografica General de la Republica Mexicana Comenzada en 1878 por la Comision Geografico-Exploradora: Atlas Topografico de los Alrededores de Puebla. 3A serie
Author: Comisión Geográfico-Exploradora
Seller: The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Title leaf & 13 leaves of maps, being mounted albumen photograph reductions of the original map. Photographs are approximately (7¼" x 8¾"), on card stock leaves. Oblong royal octavo (9 "x 12½") bound in original red cloth, rebacked with modern leather with original gilt-lettered leather spine laid on. (References: P-LG 5121. El Territorio Mexicana, Vol II, p 457 reproduces 5th map of 1st edition. International Geographical Exposition and Congress of London. Geographical and Exploring Commission of the Mexican Republic. Catalogue of the Exhibits presented by the Commission with a short sketch of its organization and labors by the Directing Engineer, Julio Alvarado C. E. Mexico 1895. p 32) First and only edition.Rare atlas of photographs of the map of the region around Puebla, southwest of Mexico City. Warren Heckrotte describes the atlas and the enterprise that produced it: "The Comision Geografica-Explordora was established by a decree of December 13, 1877. It was directed to prepare a map of the Republic with all the scientific accuracy desirable. The region around the town of Puebla, southwest of Mexico City, was the first effort of the Commission. The surveying was done by astronomical determinations and triangulation. Between 1879 and 1882, the planned nine sheets, lithographed in Mexico City, were issued at a scale of 1:20,000. Elevations are shown by contour lines. For this atlas, the sheets were issued as photographs, the maps reduced in scale to 1:50,000. A photographic edition at the scale of 1:100,000 was also issued. Other areas of the country were mapped. The ultimate goal was to produce a map of the country at a scale of 1:100,000 in 1100 sheets. At the time the Commission closed shop in 1914, a little over 200 sheets had been completed. This mode of production suggests that a small number of these atlases were produced." Indeed, OCLC/WorldCat locates only two copies, at the University of California Berkeley and Dartmouth College.Condition:Some soiling to covers; expertly rebacked by Sandra Good; new endpapers; internally fine or nearly so, a bit of darkening to margins of mounts.

Autograph indenture agreement between Johannes Schuster, Bremen, Germany and Mark Reeve of Burlington, New Jersey in 1802 by Schuster, Hannah - INDENTURED AT THE AGE OF SIX

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Title: Autograph indenture agreement between Johannes Schuster, Bremen, Germany and Mark Reeve of Burlington, New Jersey in 1802
Author: Schuster, Hannah - INDENTURED AT THE AGE OF SIX
Seller: Palinurus Antiquarian Books (United States)
Condition: Very good; some old folds.
Description: Burlington, NJ, 1802. As issued.. Very good; some old folds.. Single sheet written by Josiah Foster, Justice, Burlington NJ Johannes Schuster, the father of Hannah Schuster, indentured his daughter to Mark Reeve and his heirs until she was 18 (in 1814) for the price of her passage to New Jersey from Bremen Germany ($45.). She was to receive full lodging, apparel, five quarters of "day schooling", and at the end of her term of indenture her clothes and $10. in payment. Signed by Johannes Schuster and marked by his daughter with an "X".

Catalogue of Egyptian Antiquities in the British Museum VI: Jewellery I From the earliest times to the Seventeenth Dynasty by Andrews, Carol A. R.

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Title: Catalogue of Egyptian Antiquities in the British Museum VI: Jewellery I From the earliest times to the Seventeenth Dynasty
Author: Andrews, Carol A. R.
Seller: Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller (United States)
ISBN: 9780714109282
Condition: Near fine condition
Description: London: British Museum Publications Limited, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine condition. Folio. 102, 48 plates. Original tan cloth with gilt lettering and publisher's device on brown label of spine, in original, light blue dustjacket with black lettering on spine. Andrews' work is based on material collected by Alix Wilkinson with drawings by Marion Cox. Profusely illustrated with six hundred and thirty-six items on forty-eight plates, in b/w offset reproductions. Contains list of plates, abbreviations, detailed description of object from twelve periods, appendices, concordance, index of proper names, and general index at front. "The collection of ancient Egyptian jewellery in the British Musuem is huge and not generally well known. This volume is the first in a series which will present the whole of this body of material to the scholarly world in a systematic manner. Jewellery from the earliest times down to the end of the Second Intermediate Period is included here, covering a time-span of about 2,000 years. The catalog contains a high proportion of pieces from excavations, and is rich in material from Predynastic Periods, and from Nubian sites." (Publisher). Minor wear to dustjacket.

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