New York: The Seabury Press, 1973. First Edition in English, preceding the UK edition that was published by Methuen two years later in 1975. Quite scarce in jacket. An intense work of speculative science fiction, basis for the challenging and highly praised 2013 film by Aleksey German, which played festivals...
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1931. Later printing. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper: "For Virginia Allan / from Margaret Ayer Barnes." Winner of the 1931 Pulitzer Prize for Literature. Barnes also wrote "Dishonored Lady," a play twice adapted to film. Beginning in the 1890s, the story follows an upper-middle...
![Point Break [Riders on the Storm]](http://www.royalbooks.com/pictures/thumb/138320.jpg?v=1508881869)
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1991. Shooting script and production archive, with rainbow revisions, for the 1991 film, belonging to the film's production manager, Burt Bluestein. Includedg are the script, with many holograph notations and drawing, as well as two binders full of legal research and documents, cast and crew contact...
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1955. Vintage oversize double weight photograph of Frank Sinatra and Kim Novak in conference with director Otto Preminger on the set of "The Man with the Golden Arm" in the fall of 1955. Shot and struck by the film's still photographer, Bob Willoughby. SIGNED by...
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1959. First library edition, though not ex-library. Fine in maroon cloth covered boards with white titles and a Very Good plus dust jacket. Jacket has moderate bruising to the front panel, with professional repair to holes and tears at the verso. Bottom corner of the...
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N.p. Grand National Pictures, 1935. Early Draft script for the 1939 film, "The Mysterious Mr. Reeder," here under the working title (and the title Monogram Pictures used for its 1940 re-release), "The Mind of Mr. Reeder." Copy belonging to screenwriter Bryan Edgar Wallace (Edgar Wallace's son), with his name and...
N.p. N.p., 1974. Vintage oversize double weight still photograph of Diana Ross from 1974. Photographer's rubber stamp to the verso. Featuring Ross sitting in a chair, a striped jacket thrown over the back. Ross is considered the most successful female musician in history, with 70 hit singles both from her...
New York: LIFE Magazine, 1958. Two vintage oversize black-and-white double weight photographs featuring actor Ed Wynn and other actors and working crew members on the set of the 1959 film, both shot by photographer Ralph Crane on assignment for LIFE Magazine. Both photos with stamps on the verso crediting both...
Beverly Hills, CA: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1970. Draft script for the 1972 film. An early example of the film's script, still slated to be a Twentieth Century-Fox production, with their imprint on the front wrapper. The fourth Roth novel (after "Goodbye, Columbus" in 1972) to be adapted to the screen, and...
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1955. First Edition. Second issue jacket, export issue, with "30-60" printed at the bottom of the front flap, but lacking the additional "No. 5671A" code, and with no price. Just a hint of rubbing to the extremities of both the book and jacket, else Fine...
Tokyo: Nikkatsu, 1958. Draft script for the 1958 film. Text in Japanese. Title based on a song popularized by the leading actor, Frank Nagai. A comedy featuring a drugstore owner, who begins an extramarital affair when his wife and child go on vacation. White illustrated titled perfect bound wrappers. Title...
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1955. Revised Final Draft script for the 1956 film. Copy belonging to the script supervisor, Adele Cannon, profusely notated throughout in holograph ink and pencil. Laid in is a vintage black-and-white studio photograph from the film, featuring the Creature and people in peril. Third installment...
N.p. N.p., Circa 1990s. Photograph of Miles Davis from 1971, cracking a rare smile while in a dressing room, trumpet in hand. Struck by photographer Jim Marshall circa 1990s, with his stamp, holograph identification number and date on the verso. As a photographer for both record labels and magazines such...
Los Angeles: 1963. Promotional broadside, designed to resemble an oversized postcard, for the Los Angeles premiere of Adolfas Mekas' feature film debut, "Hallelujah the Hills," along with the debut of Kenneth Anger's short film, "Scorpio Rising." Mekas was the brother of Jonas Mekas, a film critic, filmmaker, and essentially father...
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1968. First Edition, one of 1500 copies printed. "The American Cinema" introduced auteur theory to America when it was published in 1968, and sparked a long and famous debate between Sarris and Pauline Kael. Auteur theory sees a film director (rather than the producer, studio, screenwriters...
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1977. An archive of material from the making of the 1977 Steven Spielberg film, "Close Encounters of the Third Kind." From the estate of Phil Abramson, set director for the film, whose work earned an Academy Award nomination. The archive includes: A typed letter to...
![Trafic [Traffic]](http://www.royalbooks.com/pictures/thumb/135907.jpg?v=1492979201)
N.p. John Kender, 1972. Vintage double weight black-and-white press photograph of director Jacques Tati, walking against traffic at the corner of 45th Street and 7th Avenue in New York City. With the stamp of photographer John Kender on the verso. Unfailingly sublime, here Tati is shown during his visit to...
Garden City: Doubleday, 1959. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Stravinsky in the year of publication on the front endpaper: "To (Mrs.) Ralph's Mother [sic] / Mima / Respectful and Sincerely / Igor Stravinsky / July 13, '59." A deeply personal revelation of the variety of interests of the Russian composer, pianist...
New York: Random House, 1967. First Edition. Cloth-backed boards with holographic cover, and various tipped- and bound-in materials, and black-and-white illustrations throughout. Warhol's famed "pop-up book for hipsters," and his first widely accessible photo illustrated book, after a series of smaller, private publications. One of the best documents to emerge...
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1971. First American edition in hardcover in a first issue jacket, with a code of 971 at the top right corner of the front flap, and a price of $5.50 at the bottom of same. INSCRIBED by the author on a generic bookplate tipped in at the...
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1952. Shooting script for the 1953 film, "Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," Very Good plus in original gray titled wrappers with black titles, with the Universal International Pictures logo at the bottom center. Dated December 15, 1952, 103 pages, with SECOND...
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987. First Edition, a paperback original. Perfect bound in illustrated wrappers. Copy belonging to ex-Columbia Pictures chairman David Puttnam, and colorfully INSCRIBED by Spike Lee: "To David Puttnam / Thanks for everything / I appreciate it / Fuck Columbia!!! / love, Spike Lee." Housed in...
N.p. N.p., 1953-1986. A curated collection of 9 typed letters signed written by John D. MacDonald to various serious inquiries from readers all over the world regarding his fiction, as well as some correspondence with the Finnish publisher Eurographica (who published "The Annex and Other Stories in 1987), all dating...
London: The Archers / Eagle-Lion, 1946. Original UK Program for the 1946 film, released in the US as "Stairway to Heaven." SIGNED by director Michael Powell on page 12, just above the photo next to his biographical sketch. While it is certainly arguable that the greatest Powell-Pressburger film is a....
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1935. Vintage photograph of author Dashiell Hammett, George Raft, and Frank Tuttle on the set of the 1935 film noir. Snipe, stamps, and notations on the verso, all indicating that this photo was used a number of times since it was struck in 1935. Based on the...
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."...
Burbank, CA: Walt Disney Productions, 1969. Revised Final Draft script for the 1970 Disney film. Based on a story by Marty Roth, executive story editor for the television series, "The Dukes of Hazzard" (1979-1985). Coast Guard Ensign Garland (Morse) falls in love with sailing instructor Kate (Powers), but his bumbling...
New York: Macaulay, 1929. First Edition. Publisher's black cloth with titles and front board illustration in yellow. The second of three crime novels by this noted African-American crime author originally from Jamaica. Supernatural elements, including spiritualism, seances, and astrology present as well. An uncommon and important title in early genre...
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...
Tokyo: Nikkatsu, circa 1956. Draft script for the 1956 Japanese film. Rear wrapper with title in Burmese. Based on a 1946 children's novel of the same name written by Michio Takeyama. Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. In the War's closing days, when a conscience-driven Japanese...
London: Cineguild, 1948. Vintage black-and-white reference photograph of director David Lean, cinematographer Oswald Morris, and lighting cameraman Guy Green on the set of the 1948 film. With a mimeograph snipe detailing who is in the shot. From the estate of Guy and Celia Green, with a letter of provenance attesting...
New York: Random House, 1933. First Edition, not to be confused with the signed limited edition published the same year. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper with a line from the play: "For Keith Baker - / 'Somewhere out on the long trail' / Eugene O'Neill / Dec...
Rome: Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, 1984. Original poster for the 1984 opera directed by Robert Wilson with music by Philip Glass, David Byrne, Gavin Bryars, and others, as performed at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma in March of 1984. "The CIVIL warS" was originally conceived as six movements, created in...
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Poland: S. P. Eagle / Romulus Horizon, Circa 1957. Original Hungarian poster for the 1968 film. Jancso's followup to "The Red and the White." In 1919, soldiers of the short-lived Hungarian Red Army are now on the run from relentless secret policemen and patrol units of the nationalist Royal Gendarme...
Boston and New York: Atlantic / Little, Brown, 1961. First Edition. An advance review copy, issued with a different jacket than the trade edition, featuring lavish praise from the publisher on the front and rear panels, including an excerpted blurb by Alfred Kazin. Basis for the Academy award nominated 2008...
Paris: Etudes Cinematographiques no. 30 - 31, 1964. First Edition. SIGNED by Akira Kurosawa in both Japanese and Roman letters. Founded in 1960 by professor and literary critic Georges-Albert Astre and literature and film critic Henri Agel, "Etudes Cinematographiques" distinguished itself from the other foundational French film journals "Cahiers du...