Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1942. First Edition. INSCRIBED by President Herbert Hoover on the front endpaper to Alvan Markle, Jr., and additionally signed by the book's co-author Hugh Gibson (in the same ink) just below Hoover's inscription, which reads: "To Alvan Markle, Jr. / With good wishes of Herbert Hoover...
![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...
Italy: Produzioni Europee Associati (PEA), 1975. Vintage borderless photograph from the 1975 film, showing director Pasolini behind the camera, surrounded by crew members. With the stamps of photographer Fabian and the Sygma photo agency, as well as a French language mimeo snipe, on the verso. Pasolini's final film, set during...
New York: N.p. Circa 1960. Final revision draft for the 1961 play. Holograph notation in red ink and pencil throughout indicating costume and props. Two carbon typescript pages differing from the bound pages laid in. Based on the 1957 novel by Kyle Onstott. In the pre-Civil War American South, an...
Paris: Greenwich Film Productions, 1971. Original double weight, wide margin photograph of Luis Bunuel and screenwriter Jean-Claude Carriere by Mary Ellen Mark, taken outdoors during the shooting of Bunuel's "The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie." Notated on the verso as having been taken in 1971, with a separate rubber stamp...
Paris: Eugène Penaud et Comp, 1847. First Edition. Text in French. Very Good no dust jacket as issued. Bookplate to the front pastedown. Tissue guard intact. Light foxing to the interior pages, minor splitting to the corners, light fraying to the crown, lightly rubbed overall.
![Slave Ship [The Last Slaver]](http://www.royalbooks.com/pictures/thumb/142525.jpg?v=1505253440)
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century Fox, 1936. Revised Final script for the 1937 film, here under the working title "The Last Slaver". Copy belonging to uncredited crew member Red Fraser with his name and "Property Department", in holograph ink on the front wrapper, holograph pencil notations occasionally referencing props to be...
New York: Covici-Friede, 1928. First Edition. Near Fine in a Very Good plus example of the scarce dust jacket. Jacket is bright, with a lightly faded spine, and two small chips (at the crown and one corner). An epic poem about an aging African-American boxer, extremely popular on its release...
Paris: Film-Production Carl Dreyer, 1932. Vintage double weight matte finish French still photograph from the 1932 film. Shown is Rena Mandel as Gisele. "Vampyr" was a German-French co-production, and Dreyer, who maintained strict creative control over his films, has production companies in both Berlin and Paris. This photo was issued...
Austin, TX: Pyramid Publishing Company, 1972. First Edition. SIGNED by Roky Erickson on the front flyleaf. A book of poems written by Erickson, legendary singer and songwriter for the 13th Floor Elevators, during his stay at the Rusk Hospital for the Criminally Insane in Rusk, Texas. The only physical evidence of...
![Possessed [The Mirage]](http://www.royalbooks.com/pictures/thumb/140728.jpg?v=1492980595)
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1931. Draft script for the classic 1931 pre-code film. Copy belonging to Joan Crawford, bearing the holograph inscription "Miss Crawford" on the front wrapper. Classic Pre-Code romantic melodrama, following Mariane's (Joan Crawford) rise from country girl to sophisticated high class mistress, who falls for an...
![Wild Company [Roadhouse]](http://www.royalbooks.com/pictures/thumb/117140.jpg?v=1492802381)
Fox Film Corporation, 1930. Early Draft Screenplay for the 1930 pre-code film, "Wild Company" (here under the working title, "Roadhouse") directed by Leo McCarey, written for the screen by Bradley King, and starring Frank Albertson and Bela Lugosi. An early example of a film about "rebellious youth," set during Prohibition...
Paris: Gallimard, 1967. First French Edition, preceded by the Greek edition published by Editions Themelion in 1966. Association copy, inscribed by Vassilikos to author William Styron and his wife: "For Rose and Bill / With all my happiness for the success of the book / Love and nostalgia / from...
Burbank: Warner Brothers, 1990. Original Press Kit for the 1990 film, "Goodfellas," directed and written for the screen by Martin Scorsese, based on the novel by Nicholas Pileggi, and starring Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Ray Liotta, Paul Sorvino, and Lorraine Bracco. 19 still photographs from the film, all black-and-white...
![A Matter of Life and Death [Stairway to Heaven]](http://www.royalbooks.com/pictures/thumb/134989a.jpg?v=1492979037)
London: The Archers, 1946. Vintage black-and-white photograph from the 1946 film. With the stamp of the production company, The Archers, on the verso, crediting photographer Eric Gray, along with a mimeo snipe describing the scene, in which Peter (David Niven) has a discussion with The Conductor on the steps of...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986. First American Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the title page: "Par Ted, / del amigo, / Gabriel '87." Fine in a just about Fine dust jacket. Jacket lightly bumped at the spine ends, with a hint of fading to the spine panel, else...
Berlin: Fritz Lang Film / UFA, 1929. Original German program for the 1929 German film, released in the US as "By Rocket to the Moon." Lang's final silent film, two years before he made his sound debut with "M." "Frau im Mond" is generally recognized as the first serious film to...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century Fox, 1947. Final draft script for the 1948 film. Based on the 1946 semi-autobiographical novel of the same name by Mary Jane Ward. The story of a woman who suffers a psychological breakdown, and who we then follow through her long recovery at a mental institution...
New York: Covici-Friede, 1937. First Edition, one of 699 numbered copies (this being no. 638) SIGNED by the author on the colophon page. Near Fine, with a slight bowing to the boards, in a matching Very Good publisher's slipcase. Bookplate to the front pastedown, with faint offsetting on the facing...
New York: George H. Doran, 1921. First American Edition. Fine in a Fine jacket that is very lightly dusted. Jacket is a variant from the one described in the Rothschild collection, with green lettering rather than brown. Basis for two films, the first in 1925 directed by Frank Borzage and...
Los Angeles: Omnibus Productions Inc. / National Broadcasting Company [NBC], 1972. Revised Final Shooting Script for the 1973 television movie, which originally aired on March 18, 1973 on NBC. Numerical notation in holograph ink on the title page. Based on the 1937 novella by John Steinbeck, filmed once before by Lewis...
Paris: Athos Films, 1965. Vintage French petite poster for the 1965 film. The influence of "Alphaville" as the first crime film to be set in a sci-fi context cannot be underestimated, and even the film's legitimate protégés, such as "Blade Runner," don't quite capture its strange sexuality. Shot on location in...
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1941. Draft script for the 1941 film. The 1941 version of "The Black Cat" is neither a remake of Edgar G. Ulmer's 1934 Karloff-Lugosi film of the same name, nor does it bear much relation to the Edgar Allan Poe story (though, in fairness, neither...
![Sawdust and Tinsel [Gycklarnas afton]](http://www.royalbooks.com/pictures/thumb/130182.jpg?v=1434404443)
Stockholm: Svensk Filmindustri, 1953. Original Swedish poster for the 1953 film. A rich, powerful Bergman film that charts the frustrations and humiliations of several performers in a traveling circus troupe. The story takes a domino approach to personal disintegration, with the humiliation of one character leading to another character making...
Burbank: American Broadcasting Company [ABC] / Screen Gems, 1960. Archive of five scripts for Season Two of the television series, consisting of episodes six, eight, nine, ten, and eleven, originally broadcast on ABC in 1960 and 1961. Three scripts belonging to production assistant Roger Smith, two belonging to uncredited crew...
New York: William Morrow, 1937. First Edition. Warmly INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper: "To Noni / From the boss (oh yeah?) / Erle Stanley Gardner." According to Dorothy Hughes' biography of Gardner, Noni Bibler was one of Gardner's early assistants. Very Good plus in a Good dust jacket...
London: Robert Hale, 1960. First UK Edition and first edition in hardcover. Near Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Slight lean to book with foxing to the endpapers and page edges. Small numerical ink notation to the front endpaper. Jacket is bright and complete with a bit of...
Budapest: Hunnia Filmstúdió, 1929. Presentation copy of an early draft script for the Hungarian film, released in Hungry in 1932 as "Tavaszi zàpor," in Frace in 1933 as "Marie, Legende Hongroise," and in the United States in 1935 as "Spring Shower." Housed in a (likely hand-sewn) floral cloth-covered portfolio, the...
London: Harrap, 1949. First Edition. Near Fine in a bright, Very Good plus dust jacket. Jacket shows a touch of color fading to the spine, and a few tiny nicks to spine ends and corners. A nice example of an uncommon title, basis for the 1953 British film noir (retitled...
![Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion [Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto]](http://www.royalbooks.com/pictures/thumb/135544.jpg?v=1492979133)
Italy: Vera Films, circa 1969-1970. Vintage borderless photograph from the 1970 Italian film. With the stamp of photograph Mario Tursi on the verso. An iconic photograph from an iconic film, a study in corruption in which a police inspector investigates a crime that he himself has committed. Winner of the 1971...
Paris: Nouvelles Editions de Films (NEF), 1958. Collection of twelve vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1958 French film. The great French director's second film, about a wealthy woman who has become bored with both her emotionally distant husband and her lover, and abruptly leaves them both to take up...
Los Angeles: Paramount, 1979. Final draft script for the 1980 film. A shining credit for John Travolta, based on an article in Esquire magazine (1978) by Aaron Latham. A country boy moves to the city to take a job with his uncle, meets a cowgirl and the two fall in love...
Los Angeles: Famous Players-Lasky Corporation / Paramount, 1926. Vintage photograph from the 1926 film starring Louise Brooks. With a mimeo snipe and photo agency sticker on the verso. Based on the 1926 Broadway play, written by George Abbott and John V.A. Weaver, Louise Brooks plays a party girl whose wild...
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1951. Lobby card for the 1951 film, Hitchcock's classic adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's existential crime novel by way of Raymond Chandler's pulp sensibilities. 14 x 11 inches. Near Fine with some light soil. Grant US. Hardy, The BFI Companion to Crime. Selby Masterwork. Silver US. Spicer US.
Tokyo: Nikkatsu, 1966. Draft script for the 1966 film. Text in Japanese. Based on a novel by Takashi Suzuki, a repressed, Catholic young man living in a boardinghouse is infatuated with the landlady's daughter and when he cannot express his feelings, he turns to violence. He joins a gang and...
Mexico City: Ultramar Films, 1952. Draft script for the 1954 Mexican film. Included is a typed letter signed from the film's producer Edward L. Alperson, on his custom rough-edged stationery, discussing the possibility of distribution within the US. Distribution was eventually taken on by United Artists, and Daniel O'Herlihy received...