Royal Books

N.p. N.p., 1964. Archive containing five vintage oversize borderless photographs and two contact sheets (with 59 images) of the Thelonious Monk Quartet in performance at the La Maison de l’ORTF (Office de Radiodiffusion-Television Francaise) in Paris on February 23, 1964. Photographs with the stamp of photographer Alain Dessalles on the...

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New York: Farrar and Rinehart, 1937. First Edition. Near Fine in a Very Good example of the rare dust jacket. Jacket has some chipping at the spine ends and corners, though no titling is affected. In a custom clamshell box. Stout's fourth novel, the first (and only) Dol Bonner mystery...

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Budapest: Balsz Bela Studio, 1977. Vintage post-production promotional script for the 1977 Hungarian film. Includes a prose narrative describing the film story, reviews, quotes, and critical essays. Text in Hungarian.Easily the most rigidly philosophical promotional script ever issued, with the narrative portion being essentially one long run-on sentence wherein Tarr...

(read more)about Family Nest [Csaladi Tuzfeszek

N.p. N.p., 1971. Vintage borderless photograph of Andy Warhol and the cast of the 1971 play. Holograph ink annotation on the verso crediting photographer Jack Mitchell, identifying the subjects, and giving a date of "5/71."Based on tape-recorded telephone conversations between Andy Warhol and Brigid Berlin about her family’s private life...

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Crescent City, FL: New Athenaeum Press, 1967. First Edition. Issued in green and gray wrapper variants (no priority), this being the gray variant. INSCRIBED and DATED in the year of publication by the author on the front endpaper with typical aplomb: "To Les Dubinas / I hope you all like...

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Tokyo: Nikkatsu, 1967. Draft script for the 1967 film. Text in Japanese. An experimental, absurdist, pop art satire of yakuza films and film noir, Suzuki’s film was a failure on release, leading him to be fired and then blackballed by the studio for making films that made neither sense nor...

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Shanghai: Browhite Arts, 1930. First Edition. Very Good plus, with red and gilt stamping on the front board, without dust jacket as issued. Light rubbing at the extremities and light page toning.

(read more)about Romantic China: An Album Containing Forty-two Photographic Studies of China's Historic Monuments...

New York: Lewis Colby, 1845. First Edition. Compilation of a series of letters debating the institution of slavery between two Baptist preachers. Richard Fuller was one of the founders of the Southern Baptist Convention, which had split from the main Baptist church the previous year over the issue of slavery...

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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1937. Publisher's prospectus for the First Edition. A perhaps unique and certainly rare piece advertising the release of Cain's second novel, containing the title-page, first chapter, and a specifications leaf. In a custom clamshell box with dark red cloth, quarter bound in dark red leather...

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Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1972. Draft script for the 1973 film. Based on the 1963 Parker novel by Donald E. Westlake (writing as Richard Stark). Copy belonging to uncredited actor Norman Kaplan. One of the great crime films of the early 1970s, today a cult classic, with understated performances...

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New York: Signet Books, 1954. No. 1152. First printing of this edition. INSCRIBED by the author to Signet Books founder Kurt Enoch: "To Kurt Enoch / Another in a series which I hope will ever grow longer and longer / James M. Cain / Hyattsville, MD / August 22, 1954."...

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Beverly Hills, CA: Three Michaels Film Productions / United Artists, 1971. Revised Draft script for the 1972 film. Cameraman Dusty Miller's working copy, with his annotations throughout. Variously INSCRIBED in round-robin fashion on the title page by director Mike Hodges ("Thank you for coming to my funeral"), cast members Lizabeth...

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Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1934. Vintage oversize borderless double weight black and white photograph from the set of the 1934 film. Snipe in manual type on the verso, mentioning Karloff in "his latest picture for Universal, The Black Cat," and rubber stamps crediting photographer Roman Freulich, noting that the struck...

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London: Tekli Film Productions / Animated Motion Pictures, 1963. Final shooting script for the 1963 film, "The Yellow Teddybears," here under both that title and the film's working title, "The Yellow Golliwog," and released in the US as "Gutter Girls." Director Robert Hartford-Davis' working copy, with his holograph ink and...

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Burbank, CA: Cinema Epoch, 1977. Draft script for the 1977 film. Text in Japanese. A female golfer tries to perform to the very best of her abilities but must contend with the men in her life, her neighbors, her family and a stalker who will not leave her alone. Pink...

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Tokyo: Nikkatsu, 1961. Treatment script for the 1961 film. Text in Japanese. A 1920s playwright meets a beautiful woman who might be the ghost of his patron's deceased wife. White titled perfect bound wrappers. Title page present. 39 leaves, with last page of text numbered 38. Mechanical duplication. Pages Very...

(read more)about Hyakuman-doru o tatakidase [Million Dollar Smash-and-Grab

Mexico City: Libreria Madero, 1969. First Mexican Edition, preceding all others. Slim quarto, perfect-bound softcover. A cornerstone of Latin American pop photography, and included in "The Latin American Photobook." Designed by Vicente Rojo, with photographs by Hector Garcia, one of the most important Mexican photojournalists. A private edition published by a....

(read more)about Principados y potestades [Principles and Powers

N.p. N.p., Circa 1966. Two vintage borderless photographs of actors William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, and DeForest Kelly eating lunch on the set of the television series "Star Trek," circa 1966. Stamp of photographer Del Hayden on the verso of each.10 x 8 inches. Near Fine.

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Valencia: IVAM [Institut Valencia d'Art Modern], 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. Very Good Plus in a Very Good Plus dust jacket, with a few small bumps and nicks to the jacket extremities.

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New York: Vanguard, 1937. First Edition. Briefly INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper: "With best wishes / Dan Fuchs." Basis for the 1947 film noir "The Gangster." One of the rarest film noir source novels, and a key work of proletarian fiction.Very Good in a Good to Very...

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N.p. N.p., Circa 1927. Vintage reference photograph from the 1927 French silent film, a fourth wall breaking moment featuring actors Josephine Baker and Adolphe Cande. With holograph pencil annotations on the verso. A beautiful, lonely islander falls in love with a visiting French engineer, unaware of his forthcoming nuptials to...

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Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1977. Final Draft script for the November 7, 1977 television episode, "The Crypt," season 1, episode 7 of the science fiction series "Logan's Run." This episode is based on an original story by Harlan Ellison. Copy belonging to an uncredited crew member named Chuck Sereci...

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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940. First Edition. Basis for the little-seen but unforgettable 1948 William Dieterle film starring Joseph Cotten and Jennifer Jones. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket, with light fading to the sensitive pink spine titles of the jacket as is often found.

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London: Camera Press, circa 1950. Vintage borderless photograph of author W. Somerset Maugham at his residence at the villa La Mauresque at Cap Ferrat on the French Riviera, circa 1950. Mimeo snipe "IMAPRESS" sticker, "IMAPRESS" stamp, "CAMERA PRESS, LTD" stamp and struck (with holograph ink) "Parimage" stamp on the verso.8...

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New York: Vanguard, 1936. First Edition. INSCRIBED by author Daniel Fuchs on the half-title page, in an early hand: "With best wishes / Daniel Fuchs."Fuchs' second novel, and the second book in his Williamsburg trilogy.Very Good plus in a Very Good or better dust jacket. Some darkening at the gutters...

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N.p. N.p., 1967. Double weight photograph of an appropriately blissed out Brian Jones, a cooly aloof Nico, and a typically scary and intense Dennis Hopper (staring straight at the camera), taken at the Monterey Pop Festival in June 1967. Struck by photographer Jim Marshall circa 1990s, with his stamp, holograph...

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Sherman Oaks, CA: Republic Pictures, 1953. Original pressbook for the 1953 film noir. Screenplay by noted screenwriter Steve Fisher. One sheet folded once as issued, 11 x 17 inches. Near Fine, with a faint horizontal fold crease at the center of the wrapper and pages. Lyons US. Martin 121. Selby...

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Beverly Hills, CA: Faces Music, 1976. Original poster for the 1976 film, this being the Ben Gazzara style, with Gazzara in a "puffy shirt." One of eight known one sheet styles (no priority) issued by Faces Distribution for the film. Faces was a company as radical as the director himself...

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Tokyo: Toho Company, circa 1959. Early Draft script for the 1959 Japanese film, crediting Masahiro Makino as the director, who would be later replaced by Toshio Sugie. Text in Japanese. Based on a story by novelist Juro Miyoshi, originally released in 1937 as two parts, "Saga of the Vagabonds Part...

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Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1938. Vintage black-and-white studio still photograph from the set of the 1938 film noir antecedent. Shown are director Fritz Lang and George Raft on the set. Stamps on the verso crediting photographer C. Kenneth Lobben, Paramount, and an exclusivity notice. 8 x 10 inches with wide margins...

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Rome: Arco Films, 1967. Vintage borderless photograph from the set of the 1967 Italian film. Director Pier Paolo Pasolini is seen behind the camera, shooting Silvia Mangana and Franco Citti. Short typescript description in Italian and Roma Press rubber stamp on the verso. A sparse, intensely personal modern adaptation of...

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N.p. San Marco, Circa 1969. Two vintage borderless reference photographs of Pier Paolo Pasolini and Maria Callas on the set of the 1969 film. With the stamp of photographer Mario Tursi on the verso. Based on the ancient Greek myth, and loosely on the 431 BC play by Euripides, wherein...

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Berlin: Film-Kurier, 1929. Original program for the legendary 1929 silent film. Replete with beautiful gravure-printed production photographs, including a stunning deep focus shot on the rear panel from a party scene in the film, with Louise Brooks at the center of attention. Film-Kurier was the first German film journal, published...

(read more)about Diary of a Lost Girl [Tagebuch Einer Verlorenen

New York: Sarx, 1972. Draft script for the 1973 film. Single holograph ink annotation to the title page, noting copy No. 3. Small typed note stapled to the bottom edge of the inside rear wrapper, noting the film's German title, "Fleisch fur Frankenstein." An X-rated, Andy Warhol-produced take on Mary...

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Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1971. First Edition. Boldly INSCRIBED in the year of publication by the author to her academic contemporary and fellow Tougaloo College alumna Savannah Miller Young: "To Savannah Miller, / You are Tomorrow's / Tomorrow. My warmest / regards. / Love in Blackness, / Joyce Ladner /...

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N.p. Cafe Au Pere de Nico, 1956-1974. An archive of 80 daily menus from Cafe Au Pere de Nico in Chelsea, London, signed by visiting luminaries from world leaders to icons of the entertainment world, displayed for in the cafe for nearly two decades between 1956 and 1974. Together with...

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