Royal Books

New York: Pro-Distributors Publishing Company, 1929. First appearance of the Dashiell Hammett novel, (part 3 of 5 parts), "The Maltese Falcon," in the November 1929 issue of the Black Mask pulp magazine. The five parts were collected and published as a novel by Alfred A. Knopf in 1930. The turning...

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Redding, CT: Charles Ives, 1922. First Edition. Second issue, in publisher's blue cloth with titles and rule in gilt on the front board and spine, and with pages 37-39 printed, and no dust jacket as issued. Fine condition. A collection of avant-garde short pieces in every imaginable format (marches, violin...

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Los Angeles: B.P. Schulberg Productions, 1935. Vintage black-and-white photograph of Peter Lorre on the set, seated with his script, from the 1935 film. Photographed by A.L. Schaefer, with his credit stamp on the verso, as well as a stamp reading "PETER LORRE / COLUMBIA CONTRACT PLAYER."8 x 10 inches (20 x 25 cm). Fine.

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New York: Factory Films, 1968. Vintage black-and-white double weight still photograph of director Paul Morrissey and actor Joe Dallesandro, shot during the making of Andy Warhol's 1968 film "Flesh." Photographer Werner Bokelberg's rubber stamp and holograph pencil notations to the verso. Morrissey's first production for Warhol, Dallesandro's second leading role...

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N.p. N.p., 1977. Original photocopy art print by experimental composer Glenn Branca. SIGNED by Branca on the verso, with his holograph notation noting "#1 of 5." 8.5 x 11 inches (22 x 28 cm). Near Fine with a shallow diagonal crease to one corner.

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London: Don Letts, 1979. Original handbill for the London premiere of the 1977 film documentary, held at the Institute of Contemporary Arts Cinema Club, preceding the New York premiere of the film by nearly 10 months. The definitive London punk documentary. Shot by Don Letts on 8mm film almost exclusively...

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Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1940. Collection of 38 vintage keybook set design photographs from the 1940 film. Based on the Charlie Chan character created by Earl Derr Biggers. The twenty-fourth entry in the famed "Charlie Chan" film series, and the eighth to feature Sydney Toler, wherein the great Honolulu-based detective...

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Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1931. Collection of 20 vintage studio still photographs from the 1931 pre-Code film, and the first adaptation of Dashiell Hammett's classic hard boiled novel. All but two images with the Warner Brothers / Vitaphone logo at the bottom margin. This first adaptation, made well prior to...

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Baltimore: Press Box, 1958. First Edition. SIGNED by 40 team members of the most legendary Colts lineup, including Johnny Unitas, Jim Parker, Raymond Berry, Tom Matte, Don Shula, and many others. Also laid in is a posted envelope, dated December 1965, signed by 6 members of the coaching staff, including...

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Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1933. An early draft, in script format, of the 1933 novel, "Gabriel Over the White House," written by Thomas Frederic Tweed. This draft was developed the same year into the 1933 pre-Code film directed by Gregory LaCava, written for the screen by Carey Wilson, and...

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Berkeley: Berkeley Graphics Arts, 1968. Collection of five vintage bumper stickers from the 1968 political campaigns run via a collaboration between the Black Panthers and the Peace and Freedom Party. Stickers commemorate the Peace and Freedom Party political campaigns of Mario Savio for California state senator, Black Panther founders Huey...

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New York: Atheneum, 1974. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Jean Renoir on the title page: "To Dan and Estelle Rocklin. / Best wishes, / Jean Renoir." Garson Kanin writes of the book: "Jean Renoir's book is a Jean Renoir film. I can think of no higher praise." Renoir went from sitting...

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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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Los Angeles: Self published, 1940. First Draft script for an unproduced film titled "And Now Goodbye," an adaptation of his 1931 novel. Included are three typed letters signed by Hilton. Each letter is from Hilton to producer Lester Cowan on Warner Bros., Columbia Pictures, and RKO Radio Pictures letterhead, dated...

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N.p. N.p., 1970. Original four-panel artwork by Ernie Bushmiller for the February 3, 1970 daily installment of his seminal comic strip Nancy. This artwork features both Nancy and Sluggo.As with American cinema, it was the French who first championed the studied simplicity of Bushmiller's un-deconstructible combination of rigid artistic style...

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Tokyo: Toho Company, 1961. Second Final Draft script for the 1961 Japanese film. Holograph ink notation on rear wrapper and holograph ink and rubber-stamped name (Takahishi Toshihiro, not credited in the final film) on the top and bottom page edges with the same initials (in Arabic lettering) "T.T." near the...

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Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1947. Archive of seven vintage single and double weight fashion publicity photographs from the 1947 film. Mimeograph snipe on the verso of a few photos notes the Jean Louis clothing designs for the film. Photographers’ rubber stamp also to the versos. Based on the 1938...

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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1939. First American Edition. Near Fine in a Very Good plus, price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket shows only a few small chips and tiny closed tears at the extremities, with some light evidence that there was once some reinforcement at the verso, now professionally removed. Basis...

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N.p. N.p., 1961. Five vintage borderless photographs from the New York premiere of Harold Pinter's play, "The Caretaker," in October 1961. With a stamp crediting photographer Sam Siegel on the verso of each photo. Included with mimeograph snipes for the photos and a mimeograph letter from the play's producer Harvey...

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Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, circa 1980. Revised Draft script for the 1980 film "Gilda Live," seen here under the title "Gilda Radner: Live From New York." Laid in is a black and white head shot photograph INSCRIBED "Love, Gilda Radner." Copy belonging to still photographer Ron Munkasci, with his staging...

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N.p. N.p., 1974. Original eight-panel artwork by Ernie Bushmiller for the March 3, 1974 deluxe Sunday installment of his seminal comic strip Nancy. This particular strip features both Nancy, Aunt Fritzi, and Nancy's dog Poochie. As with American cinema, it was the French who first championed the studied simplicity of...

(read more)about Original artwork for Nancy Sunday comic strip, March 3, 1974

Russia: Mezhrabpom-Rus, 1927. Vintage German program for the 1926 Russian silent film. Photo-illustrated throughout. The only cinema paper dating from the decade of release we have encountered for the film. Based on the 1906 novel by Maxim Gorky, about a woman's struggle to free her son from a Czarist prison...

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Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1907 - 1908. First Edition. Warwickshire Edition. Twenty five volumes. An attractive and comprehensive set of Eliot's work, together with a biography of her life written by her husband, which includes entries from her letters and journals. All volumes Near Fine to Fine and unread, with maroon...

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Rome: Mars Film, 1970. Vintage borderless black-and-white photograph from the 1970 Italian film. With the stamp of photographer Angelo Novi on the verso. 7.25 x 9.5 inches. Fine. Arrow Academy 500.

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New York: Frank Shay, 1916. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Eugene O'Neill on the front endpaper with a line from the play: "For Keith Baker / 'a good shipmate he was and is, none better' / Eugene O'Neill / Dec. '38." The first publication of O'Neill's first produced play, a one...

(read more)about The Provincetown Plays, First Series: Bound East for Cardiff, The Game, King Arthur's Socks

N.p. N.p., Circa 1956-1959. Original illustrated humorous essay by Terry Southern and William Pene Dubois, satirizing (or perhaps elucidating) the dress habits of their distinguished friend, American screenwriter William Rose. Southern and Dubois met in the late 1950s, both under the tutelage of William Styron, while both of them were...

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New York: William Morrow, 1935. First Edition. Publisher's file copy, with "OFFICE FILE COPY" stamped on the rear panel of the jacket and several penciled notations and deletions on the front flap and front endpaper. Near Fine in a Very Good or better dust jacket. Evidence of removal on the...

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Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1970. Draft British script for the 1971 UK film. Working copy belonging to actress Billie Whitelaw, SIGNED by Whitelaw on the front wrapper, with her holograph notations throughout in pencil and red and blue ink. Included are four vintage black-and-white still photographs from the film...

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London: Cineguild, 1946. Two vintage black-and-white reference photographs, featuring director David Lean, actors Alec Guinness and John Mills, cinematographer Guy Green, camerman Bob Huke, and others on the set of the 1946 film. Both photos with mimeograph snipes detailing who is in the shot. From the estate of Guy and...

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N.p. Matrixbest production, 1977. Seventh Draft script for an unproduced film. Holograph signature and copy number 80 in black marker by production designer John Beard on the title page. Beard is best known for his work on "Brazil" (1985), "The Meaning of Life" (1983), "Bad Timing" (1980), and "Life of...

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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981. First American Edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page. The author's breakthrough novel, winner of the Booker Prize. Very Good plus or better in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Slight toning to the extremities, and light bumps at two corners. Jacket...

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London: Night Watch Films / EMI-MGM, 1972. Draft British script for the 1973 UK film. Actress Billie Whitelaw's copy, SIGNED in red felt holograph ink on the front wrapper, and with her notations throughout. Based on the play by Lucille Fletcher. A psychological thriller in which Elizabeth Taylor plays a....

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Los Angeles: Vanguard Films, 1946. Final Shooting script for the 1947 film. Based on the 1933 novel by Robert Hitchens, this script dates from the time of the film's production, after having been shelved for over ten years. With credits on the front wrapper for both Alfred Hitchcock and Alma...

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New York: Film Culture Magazine, 1963. First Edition. This copy is INSCRIBED by Brakhage at the blank opposite his introduction to poet Kenneth Irby: "To Ken Irby / That I should meet "Roadrunner" here in these circumstances at this time of most wonderful day I take as the best of...

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Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1944. Second Revised Final Draft script for the 1946 film. Copy belonging to the film's editor Clarence Kolster, with his name in holograph pencil on the first revision page, and notations throughout, mostly noting cut (or completed) scenes. Actress Bette Davis' name on the front wrapper...

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London: Haskins Press, 1975. Limited Edition, preceded by the original 1965 edition. One of 1500 copies (this being No. 511) SIGNED by the photographer on the tipped in limitation page. Fine in an about Near Fine jacket. Jacket lightly toned and rubbed, with a few short closed tears at the...

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