![Dengler [Vietnam Exclusive: I Escaped from a Red Prison]](http://www.royalbooks.com/pictures/thumb/122978.jpg?v=1418079985)
N.p. N.p., 1966. Heavily corrected original typescript for a story by Dieter Dengler and ghost-writer Trevor Armbrister, "Dengler" (here with the hand-corrected title, "Vietnam Exclusive: I Escaped from a Red Prison"). The story first appeared in the December 3, 1966 issue of the "Saturday Evening Post," and was adapted many...
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1975. First Edition. One of 75 numbered copies (this being No. 22) SIGNED by Bukowski, with a an original watercolor painting by him tipped in at the front. Fine in a Fine example of the publisher's acetate jacket with trivial rubbing. Basis for the 2005...
Mission Viejo, CA: ASAP Press, 2005. First Edition. One of 150 numbered copies SIGNED by Bruen, Jason Starr (who wrote the introduction) and Phil Parks (the illustrator). Fine in publisher’s green linen-covered boards. A Jack Taylor short story.
![Akuma No Machi [Satan's Town]](http://www.royalbooks.com/pictures/thumb/141458.jpg?v=1494029254)
Tokyo: Nikkatsu, 1956. Draft script for the 1956 film. Text in Japanese. A yakuza boss and his right hand man escape from prison and examine their relationship, both matters of loyalty and betrayal, as well as the scams and crimes they pull in their criminal history. White titled perfect bound...
London: Chatto and Windus, 1934. First UK Edition, and first edition in English. Translator Basil Creighton's annotated copy of his own translation of Traven's masterpiece, with notations throughout for serialization. INSCRIBED by him on the front endpaper: "Annotated for serialization / Basil Creighton." The text of the book is filled...
N.p. N.p., Circa 1965. Vintage borderless press photograph of Fondas Henry, Peter, and Jane outside of the a Whelan's Drugstore in New York City, circa the mid-1960s. With the New York stamp of photographer Don Ornitz, and the stamp of UK press agency Pictorial Press on the verso. 8 x....
New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1964. First Edition in hardcover, originally published as a paperback original by Fawcett Gold Medal under the pseudonym Harry Longbaugh. INSCRIBED by the author on the title page: "9 Sept 80 / For Doug Pagen / William Goldman." Basis for the superb 1968 thriller directed...
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1955. First Edition. The sixth Abercrombie Lewker mountain murder mystery, set in Nepal. Near Fine in a Near Fine, price clipped dust jacket. Small, neat owner name on the front flyleaf. An attractive copy.
New York: New York Shakespeare Festival, 1973. Draft script for the 1973 play. Based on actual events, a boy in the American Southwest has a magnetic personality, and the mindset of a psychopath. He lures two young girls to him and murders them both. William Hauptmann is best known for...
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1957. First Draft script for the 1960 film. Copy belonging to associate producer James H. Ware with his name on the front wrapper, and his notations throughout in holograph pencil and ink. Ware was a major presence in British and American cinema, best known for...
Tokyo: Nikkatsu, circa 1963. Draft post-production script for the 1963 film. Round robin copy, SIGNED by director Shohei Imamura and six members of the cast and crew on the front wrapper, including Sachiko Hidari, Kazuo Kitamura, Shoichi Ozawa, Jitsuko Yoshimura, and composer Toshiro Mayuzumi, with signatures dated in the mid-1990s...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1967. Draft script for the 1968 film. Inscribed to noted journalist Robert Ajemian in an unknown hand ("for Robert Ajemian") on the front wrapper. Ajemian worked at this time for LIFE magazine, and beginning in 1972, national political correspondent and then Washington Bureau Chief for...
Los Angeles: Trimark Pictures, 1994. Draft script for the 1995 film. The directorial debut of Noah Baumbach. After college graduation, Grover's girlfriend Jane decides to move to Prague to write. When he declines to join her, Grover instead moves in with some college friends and sets about separating himself from...
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1971. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author. REVIEW COPY with a publisher’s slip and promotional letter laid in. Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. The author’s third book.
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists / Parklane Productions, 1954. Original one sheet poster for the 1954 film noir. One of the best psychological B-noirs of the 1950s, beautifully photographed by Franz Planer and tightly directed, with a plot strain that is kin to "Somewhere in the Night" (1946) and "Impact"...
London: British Nation Films, 1942. Original British program for the 1942 film. A fascinating piece, in that it consists almost entirely of a long transcription by Pressburger of the true-life narrative by Sir George Corbett, which forms the basis for the film. Photo illustrations from the film throughout. Saddle-stitched illustrated...
Los Angeles: Saul Bass and Associates, 1960. Original glossy photographic title card for plate No. 3 in the title sequence from Stanley Kubrick's 1960 film, "Spartacus." This plate was used for the portion of the title card sequence showing "LAURENCE OLIVIER as Crassus." Only a small portion of the photographic...
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1942. First American Edition, and first edition under this title. Preceded by the UK edition, titled "Uneasy Freehold" published by Peter Davies in 1941. Basis for the 1944 film classic, directed by Lewis Allen and starring Ray Milland, recently named by Martin Scorsese as his favorite...
Tokyo: Nikkatsu, 1959. Draft script for the 1959 film. Text in Japanese. Based on Sueko Yasumoto's novel, and one of the first examples of media dealing with the plight of zainchi or ethnically Korean Japanese citizens, and their identity and struggles. One man has always worked faithfully for the Toho...
New York: Delacorte Press, 1977. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the First Edition. SIGNED by Leonard on the title page. Near Fine in tall plain blue wrappers, with a small stain at the top of the front wrapper. The only proof copy we have ever seen.
![La Planete des Singes [The Planet of the Apes]](http://www.royalbooks.com/pictures/thumb/107547.jpg?v=1470253018)
Paris: Le Cercle du nouveau livre, 1963. First French Edition, preceding all others, one of an unspecified limitation of numbered copies. Published in the US in 1963 (Planet of the Apes) then in the UK in 1964 (Monkey Planet), and finally the basis for the imaginative and very successful 1968...
New York: The Vanguard Press, 1944. First Edition. The author's first book, with a price of $2.50 at the bottom of the jacket front flap as called for. Near Fine in a bright, about Near Fine dust jacket, with a lovely, deep brown topstain. Backstrip and jacket spine panel both...
New York: Viking Press, 1949. First Edition. All first issue points present, including jacket issue points. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, one of the classics of American drama and basis for a number of film and television versions with, among others, Fredric March, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger, Dustin Hoffman...
Burbank, CA: National Broadcasting Company [NBC] / Mark VII Ltd., 1957. Final Draft script for Season 7, episode 17 of the 1951-1959 television series, which originally aired January 16, 1958 on NBC. Script belonging to Lyn Thomas, who played Mona Morgan in the episode, with her holograph name in red...
New York: Putnam, 1942. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author in the year of publication on the front endpaper: "To Harry / Sincerely / Bob / Robert Wilder / 1942." Basis for the 1949 film noir directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Joan Crawford, Zachary Scott, and Sydney Greenstreet. Very...
New York: William Morrow, 1940. First Edition. Warmly INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper: "To Noni / Who wrote the damn thing leaving me only with the job of dictating it / Yours / Erle Stanley Gardner. According to Dorothy Hughes' biography of Gardner, Noni Bibler was one...
![A Life in the Theatre [Theater]](http://www.royalbooks.com/pictures/thumb/104571.jpg?v=1434404353)
New York: Grove, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover issue. Not to be confused with the more common softcover issue or the Book Club edition, the latter having no price on the front flap. Fine and unread in a Near Fine dust jacket. A lovely copy of a difficult Mamet title.
N.p. Mafilm, 1977. Dialogue script for the 1979 Hungarian film "Allegro Barbaro." The second of Jancso's two-part dramatized history of Hungary, from the turn of the century to World War II, as told by the conflicted son of a wealthy landowner. Shot on location in Hungary. Gray titled wrappers, dated...
Neuilly-sur-Seine, France: Argos Films, 1959. Collection of eight vintage, borderless reference photographs from the 1959 film. Four photographs with the stamp of production company Argos Films, seven with a sticker noting they are from the collection of film historian, collector, and founder of the Tele Cine Documentation (TCD) cinema photo...
Paris: Editions 213 / Steidl, 2015. Deluxe Limited Edition portfolio. One of five copies (this being copy No. 1) of photographer Sophie Bramly's portfolio of 47 matte finish photographic prints in both black and white and color, depicting the emerging hip hop scene of 1980s New York. Signed and numbered...
London: Pinewood Studios, 1973. Cutting and Continuity script for the 1973 film, "The Wicker Man," directed and written for the screen by Robin Hardy and starring Edward Woodward and Christopher Lee. An important and rare document that details a now-classic film that from the beginning experienced serious complications. The original...
Bensenville, IL: Open Skull Press, 1966. First Edition. One of "no more than" 400 copies. Published by Douglas Blazek's Open Skull Press, and INSCRIBED by Bukowski to Blazek inside the front wrapper: "For Doug Blazek / As if a man don't have just enough pain just looking out a window...
Gallup, NM: Southwesterner Books, 1989. First Edition. One of 26 lettered copies, this being a non-lettered presentation copy, with a full-color drawing by Franklin laid in. SIGNED by Hillerman, Franklin, and the publisher. A collection of in-depth interviews with the author about his writing process, illustrated throughout. Fine in a Fine slipcase.
New York: Arthur Allen Studios, 1915-1925. Photo album portfolio sold to subscribers by Allen from his Arthur Allen Studios circa 1915-1925, containing more than 40 pages of original nude photographic prints pasted onto stiff pages. Each photo is discreetly rubber stamped (1 to 40) at the bottom right corner. Each...
N.p. Various, Circa 1966-1996. Archive of material from the estate of Michael Dreyfuss, violinist for progressive folk-rock band McKendree Spring, including material spanning over four decades, with the majority of the material dating from the band's heyday in the 1970s. This listing includes 15 posters, 817 pages of material from...
London: Romulus, 1961. Draft script for the 1962 film. Copy belonging to producer James H. Ware with his name and notations in holograph ink and pencil throughout. Ware was a major presence in British and American cinema, best known for his work on "Beat the Devil" (1953), "Room at the...