New York: Robert M. McBride, 1927. First Edition. An uncommon Smith title, a meditation on wayward youth that is a departure from his trademark ribald humor. Offsetting to the last two rear blanks, else Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Vintage bookstore label to the rear pastedown. Jacket is lightly...
London: Faber and Faber, 1958. First Edition. Copy belonging to the author's British agent, E.J. Carnell in London, with their label on the front endpaper, reading "NON-STOP / by / Brian W. Aldiss / First American Rights" in holograph manual type. A touch of rubbing to the rear panel, else...
N.p. N.p. ca. 1972. Draft script for an unproduced film, "Player Piano," based on Kurt Vonnegut's first novel. After his directorial debut with Jules Feiffer's "Little Murders" in 1971, Alan Arkin wrote this adaptation of Vonnegut's legendary science fiction novel and announced plans to direct in the summer of 1972...
![The Bride Wore Black [La mariée était en noir]](http://www.royalbooks.com/pictures/thumb/134990.jpg?v=1492979038)
Paris: Les Films du Carrosse, 1968. Vintage borderless black-and-white double weight photograph from the 1968 French film noir. With a notation in holograph ink that the photo comes from the collection of Patrice Enard on the verso. Based on the classic 1940 crime novel by Cornell Woolrich, a Haycraft Queen Cornerstone. 9.75...
![À bout de souffle [Breathless]](http://www.royalbooks.com/pictures/thumb/135586.jpg?v=1492979147)
Paris: N.p. Circa 1960. Two vintage photographs of director Jean-Luc Godard, dark sunglasses and cigarette accounted for, reviewing still photographs for his 1960 film, "À bout de souffle." Shot by Philippe R. Doumic. Both photographs with Godard's name stamped in blue on the verso. Both photos 5 x 7 inches (13 x 18 cm). Fine.
Paris: Carthago Films, 1983. Second Draft script for the 1986 film, dated three years prior to its release. Nominated for an Academy Award. One of Polanski's most underrated efforts, in many ways a companion to "The Fearless Vampire Killers" in that it is a beautifully executed, comedic valentine to the genre...
London: Secker and Warburg, 1969. First UK Edition, preceding all others. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper in 1974: "To Raymond, / Have a free look in hope of a good write-up - we welcome all criticism if it's favorable. / Gordon / Dryden Chambers / 1st Nov...
Los Angeles: Selznick International, 1946. Draft script for an unproduced film by Selznick International. David O. Selznick held the movie rights to Hardy's story for many years (with Jennifer Jones in mind for Tess). Selznick's two greatest dreams had been to film "Gone With the Wind" and "Tess of the D'Urber...
Los Angeles: N.p. 1964. Typed letter signed, and colorfully illustrated, from Charles Bukowski to one of his earliest publishers, Jon and Louise Webb. With holograph corrections in green ink by Bukowski throughout. Affixed to the letter are 4 multi-colored abstract drawings in marker and paint, rendered on oddly-cut pieces of...
N.p. N.p. circa 1960s. A collection of eight mounted color 35mm transparency slides and four unmounted 6cm color transparencies of Steve McQueen likely taken during the 1960s. Images include various shots of McQueen as he appeared in "Sand Pebbles" (1966), "The Cincinnati Kid" (1965), "The Magnificent Seven" (1960), "Baby the...
New York: Roger L. Stevens / Joel Schenker, 1963. Two draft revisions of the script for the 1963 play. Based on the 1961 memoir, "My Life in Court," by Louis Nizer. Copies belonging to actor Van Heflin, with his noted throughout. Van Heflin played the lead character in the play, lawyer...
Los Angeles: Paramount, 1954. Revised Final draft script for the 1955 film. The 8th and final collaboration of James Stewart and Anthony Mann, and the second film to be released in VistaVision. "Dutch" (Stewart) is a professional baseball player and an ex-pilot who fought during WWII who is recalled to service...
London: William Heinemann, 1949. First Edition. The author's first book, notoriously scarce in jacket, basis for the elegant 2003 British film. Ms. Smith went on the write "The Story of the 101 Dalmations." Near Fine with a bright lavender topstain, in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Small owner name...
Los Angeles: United Artists, 1961. Vintage oversize, double weight, borderless still photograph from the 1961 film. Shot, struck, and mounted by the film's still photographer, Bob Willoughby, with his ASMP rubber stamp on the verso. Full provenance available. Based on Lillian Hellman's 1934 play, about two teachers at an all-girls boarding...
Budapest: Singer és Wolfner Irodalmi Intézet, 1927. First Hungarian Edition. Screenplay for the 1927 silent film, a photoplay edition with a photographic image of the film's star, Pola Negri, on the front wrapper. With the logo of the film's Hungarian distributor, Royal Apollo, on the front wrapper at the bottom...
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1957. Vintage oversize double weight photograph of Jean Seberg, Otto Preminger, David Niven, and the stand-ins for Seberg and Niven on the set of "Bonjour Tristesse" in the late summer of of 1957 in Côte d'Azur, France. Shot, struck, and mounted by the film's still...
N.p. Stan Brakhage, 1967. Original two color hand printed poster advertising the two first public screenings of the 1967 film, as well as selections from Brakhage's "Songs" and a live lecture by Brakhage. The only poster for a Brakhage screening we have ever encountered, as none of Brakhage's films ever received...
New York: Fleet Publishing, 1962. First Edition. An in-depth look at Jacqueline's effect on the fashion of the 1960s, containing multiple black and white illustrations of her wardrobe as well as chapters on developing a personal style and what styles best suit one's body type. Near Fine in a Very Good...
New York: N.p. 1973. Archive of photographs and negatives, shot by and belonging to photographer Andy Romanoff, of director Nicholas Ray at work on his collaborative, experimental film "We Can't Go Home Again" at the Chateau Marmont in 1973. In addition to the material, sale of the archive includes complete...
Los Angeles: Sonny Amusement Enterprises, Inc. / S. A. C. L. 1950. Collection of 15 vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1950 Spanish-Argentine film. The financial success of the 1949 exploitation film "She Shoulda Said No," a morality tale involving the use of marijuana, prompted distributors to import this film...
New York: Appleton-Century, 1947. Octavo. First Edition. Fine in a lovely, Near Fine dust jacket. Jacket shows only the most minute rubbing at the extremities, and without a trace of the spine fading endemic to the this title. Goodis' fourth book, one of five hardcover titles published prior to the...
Los Angeles: Paramount, 1929. Early treatment for the 1929 film, the first Sherlock Holmes film to have been produced with sound, and the first to include the Holmes utterance, "Elementary, my dear Watson" (a phrase never used by Doyle), though that statement regrettably does not appear in this draft. The...
New York: Yoko Ono, 1961. Two vintage mimeograph flyers, one doubling as a program, for the legendary first performance evening devoted entirely to the music of La Monte Young at Yoko Ono's loft, marking both Young's formal performance debut and the seventh performance in Ono's loft. Young had participated as...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1981. Revised First draft script for the 1982 film. Laid in is a photocopied MGM memorandum from Steven Spielberg addressing the confidentiality of the "Poltergeist" project. Red numeric watermark on each page as called for. A quintessential entry in the horror film oeuvre, "Poltergeist" tells the...
Universal City, CA: Universal City Studios / Universal Pictures, 1969. First Draft script for the 1969 film. Michelle Gallagher (Moore), Irene Hawkins (McNair) and Barbara Bennett (Elliot) are three nuns who volunteer to go as nurses into a mixed-race neighborhood, without their customary garb. The clinic where they are sent...
New York: Random House, 1974. First Edition. REVIEW COPY, with a photostat (not a Xerox) of the publisher's review slip laid in. The last of Westlake's 1970s Parker novels under the Stark pseudonym, and one of the scarcest. A lovely copy. Fine and unread in a Near Fine dust jacket. Jacket is...
![Film: Gegner von Heute - Freunde von Morgen [Enemy of Film Today - Friend of Film Tomorrow]](http://www.royalbooks.com/pictures/thumb/125348.jpg?v=1436555825)
Berlin: Verlag Hermann Reckendorf G.M.B.H. 1929. First Edition. Small quarto. A companion volume to Werner Graff's "Es Kommt der Neue Fotograf," an early and highly influential study of experimental film published to coincide with the 1929 Film und Foto exhibition in Stuttgart. Illustrated with numerous photographs, film stills, and film...
N.p. Societe Generale des Films, 1933. Vintage US one sheet poster for the 1933 sound reissue of the 1928 French film, a 61-minute cut of the film featuring narration by radio star David Ross and no intertitles. One of the most significant films in cinema history, directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer...
Paris: Les Films du Carrosse, 1959. Original French Grande poster for the 1959 film. Poster design by Boris Grinsson. Truffaut's auspicious debut, winner of Best Director at Cannes, nominated for the Palme d'Or, and also nominated for a Best Original Screenplay Oscar the following year. 47 x 62 inches (119 x....
Vienna: Werner Herzog Filmproduktion, 1982. Vintage borderless black and white photograph of a crazed Klaus Kinski from the 1982 film. 7 x 9.5 inches. Fine.
Los Angeles: Robert Mulligan and Richard Roth / Warner Brothers, 1970. Final Script for the 1971 film, "Summer of '42," directed by Robert Mulligan, written for the screen by Herman Raucher based on his 1971 novel, and starring Jennifer O'Neill and Gary Grimes. Raucher's nostalgic autobiographical novel about a teenager...
London: The Archers, 1947. Complete set of 8 UK color front-of-house cards from the first-run screening of the 1947 film. Each with the contemporary rubber stamp of Girosign, Ltd., on the verso. Front-of-house cards served the same purpose in the UK as lobby cards in the US, but were generally...
New York: William Morrow, 1937. First Canadian Edition. Fine in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, unrubbed but lightly worn at spine ends and with three small chips on back panel. An exceptional copy of a very scarce title in dust jacket. The only indication that this the Canadian edition is...
![The Double Suicide at Ten No Amijima [Double Suicide]](http://www.royalbooks.com/pictures/thumb/132232.jpg?v=1418060196)
Tokyo: Kiyoshi Awazu, 1969. Original poster for the 1969 Japanese film. Designed by Kiyoshi Awazu. A hand made silkscreen print gifted from Awazu to noted film historian and iconoclast Amos Vogel, with a margin design significantly different from the trade edition of the poster issued by Awazu (also in small...
N.p. March 4, 1928. Typed letter signed by Herbert Asbury, on his personal coated stationery, with his New York City address. A letter with significant content, including detailed mention of the author's non-fiction book, "The Gangs of New York," as well as his newspaper work and injuries sustained during the...
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...