New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940. First Edition. Humorously INSCRIBED to author Horace McCoy on the front endpaper by Russell Crouse: "For Horace McCoy / They shoot authors, don't they? / Russel Crouse." An interesting Hollywood association between two screenwriters whose work outside cinema (McCoy a novelist and Crouse a....
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1950. First Edition. Fine in an about Fine, very lightly rubbed dust jacket. A stunning copy.
![Romance de la guardia civil español [The Ballad of the Spanish Civil Guard]](http://www.royalbooks.com/pictures/thumb/135559.jpg?v=1492979135)
Philadelphia: Janus Press, 1962. First printing of this edition. Slim quarto, printed in Monotype Bembo on Okawara paper. One of 45 numbered copies (this being No. 35) SIGNED by the illustrator, Kaplan. Copy belonging to poet Denise Levertov, with both her name in holograph ink and a white owner label...
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1942. Draft Script for the 1942 film. Nominated for two Academy Awards. Third of the seven classic and highly successful "Road" movies Bob Hope made with Bing Crosby. Yellow titled wrappers, dated February 4, 1942, with credits for screenwriters. Title page integral with the front wrapper, as...
New York: Theoretical Records, 1979. Vintage flyer advertising the release of the band's lone 7" titled "Theoretical Record," featuring "My Relationship" b/w "Don't Let Me Stop You." SIGNED by founding member Glenn Branca on the recto. Formed after Branca's previous band Theoretical Girls dissolved, The Static was the first outfit...
![The Love Parade [Parade d'amour]](http://www.royalbooks.com/pictures/thumb/135600.jpg?v=1492979148)
N.p. Cliff Leary, 1929. Vintage sepia photograph of the world premiere of the landmark 1929 film, at the legendary Criterion Theatre in New York. Shot by photographer Cliff Leary, with his stamp on the verso, as well as a numeric reference number (6434), and the stamp of a Scandanavian press...
London: Faber and Faber, 1988. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page: "John Healy / 19-2-2011 / Dublin." Accompanying the book is a ticket to a screening of the 2011 Irish documentary, "Barbaric Genius," on the same date at the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival. The documentary...
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1957. Original US one sheet poster for the third of Budd Boetticher's seven legendary Westerns with Randolph Scott, one of five released through Columbia. Near the end of Randolph Scott's career, producer Harry Brown, Scott, and Boetticher began work on a series of intelligent films...
New York: Random House, 1958. First Edition. Laid in is a typed letter signed by O'Hara, addressed to "Bill and Frank," on stationery from Long Island, NY. The letter is dated June 20, 1960 (in pencil), and in it O'Hara expresses his dislike of the public remarks made by Mark...
N.p. Various, Circa 1966-1996. Archive of material from the estate of Michael Dreyfuss, violinist for progressive folk-rock band McKendree Spring, including material spanning over four decades, with the majority of the material dating from the band's heyday in the 1970s. This listing includes 15 posters, 817 pages of material from...
New York: Sheridan House, 1938. First Edition. The author's first book in the rare dust jacket. A collection of short pieces from his days as a reporter for The New York World-Telegram, The New York Herald Tribune and The New Yorker. Anecdotally it has been said that Mitchell would not...
Hollywood: RKO Radio Pictures, 1940. First Edition, large quarto. The deluxe annual for RKO Studios' 1940-1941 season. Notably, this annual is the earliest advertisement for "Citizen Kane," with a full-page spread featuring Orson Welles, against the working title, "John Citizen, US." Notable among the offerings featured are several literary adaptations...
![Grands soirs et petits matins [Mayday]](http://www.royalbooks.com/pictures/thumb/135608.jpg?v=1492979150)
N.p. William Klein, 1968. Vintage photograph, shot by director-photographer William Klein, during the making of his landmark documentary. With Klein's stamp on the back, noting his address in Paris. In making his cinema verite documentary about the occupation of the Sorbonne begun during the May, 1968 protests in Paris, Klein...
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1966. Vintage borderless production photograph of actress Julie Christie from the set of the 1966 film. Ms. Christie stands just below the film's titular numerals, large and in bold relief. With a Universal mimeo snipe affixed to the verso, a rubber stamped press date of...
N.p. N.p., 1967. First Draft script for an unproduced version of the film, dated February 21, 1967, the year of the source novel and nearly a decade prior to the eventual film’s release. Written by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson based on their novel. Perhaps the first of...
N.p. N.p., 1972. Original eight-panel artwork by Ernie Bushmiller for the September 24, 1972 deluxe Sunday installment of his seminal comic strip Nancy. This particular strip features 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...
Boston: Little, Brown, 1938. First Edition (Arundel Edition), one of 1075 copies (this being No. 618) SIGNED and numbered by both Kenneth Roberts and illustrator N.C. Wyeth. This copy is additionally inscribed by Kenneth Roberts to legendary director John Ford: "Doubly inscribed for John Ford / with the admiration of...
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1937. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the Blackmon to author Peggy Gaddis (Erolie Pearl Gaddis Dern, 1895-1966) on the front endpaper, in the year of publication: "Affectionately, to the Best of Friends / Peggy Gaddis / From the author / Anita Blackmon (Mrs. Harry Pugh Smith) /...
Kyoto, Japan: File, Inc., 1994. First Edition. A monograph of Hopper's photographs from a 1991 visit to Tokyo and a 1994 visit to Kyoto, published in Kyoto in 1994. Only one printing is known and to our knowledge these photographs have never appeared in book form since. Fine saddle stitched two-color photo illustrated wrappers.
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1957. Final Draft script for the 1958 film. Actor Van Heflin's copy, with his notations throughout. A young officer in the army of Empress Catherine of Russia is on his way to his new duty station at a remote outpost. During a blinding snowstorm he comes upon...
![The Magnificent Tramp [Archimede, le clochard]](http://www.royalbooks.com/pictures/thumb/144627.jpg?v=1550096171)
Paris: Intermondia Films / Pretoria / Cinedis, 1959. Collection of 134 original black-and-white single weight still photographs from the 1959 French-Italian film. Featuring Jean Gabin dancing gaily in pub with costar Doll, two photos of Gabin kicking a ball and in a manilla envelope addressed to "M. de La Maziere...
New York: Powerhouse, 2001. First Edition. Review copy with publisher's slip laid in. SIGNED by the photographer on the title page. Fine and unread without dust jacket as issued.
Los Angeles: Eagle Associates / Orion Pictures, 1983. Third Draft script (and Final Shooting script) for the 1983 film, "Gorky Park," based on the 1981 novel by Martin Cruz Smith. Actor Lee Marvin's leather-bound presentation copy from director Michael Apted and producer Howard W. Koch, Jr., bound in maroon leather...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1949. Final Draft script for the 1950 film. With a "New York Legal Department" rubber stamp to the front wrapper and extensive holograph pencil notations throughout, likely by a professional reader, regarding differences between the source novel by Thomas B. Costain and the script. Based on...
New York: Rinehart, 1954. First Edition. SIGNED and DATED in the year of publication by the author on the front endpaper. Near Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Jacket is lightly chipped and rubbed, with some minor bruising to the spine near the crown. An important true crime...
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...
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...
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...
![The Scarlet Hour [Too Late, My Love]](http://www.royalbooks.com/pictures/thumb/142769.jpg?v=1510699051)
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1955. Revised Final White Draft script for the 1956 film. Director Michael Curtiz's presentation copy, in tan leather covered boards with gilt titles and Curtiz's name at the bottom right corner of the front board. Based on the story “The Kiss Off” by Frank Tashlin, aka Tish...
London: Henry Baldwin / Charles Dilly, 1791. First Edition. Quarto, two volumes. With stamps from the Kansas City, MO Public Library on the first page of text of each volume, but otherwise without the usual condition issues associated with ex-libris copies. Second state, volume one with corrected spelling (p. 135...
![The Million Dollar Duck [Mr. Webfoot Waddle]](http://www.royalbooks.com/pictures/thumb/139645.jpg?v=1492980305)
Burbank, CA: Walt Disney Productions, 1969. Revised First Draft script for the classic 1971 Disney film, "The Million Dollar Duck," here under the working title, "Mr. Webfoot Waddle." Based on a story by Ted Key, notable writer who created the famous time-traveling duo, Mr. Peabody and Sherman, both regular characters...
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1976. First Draft script for the 1976 film. The third entry in the wildly popular and paradigm-shifting crime film franchise set in San Francisco, featuring Clint Eastwood as "Dirty" Harry Callahan, a cop who cares little for bureaucracy. This entry finds Harry working with similar resistance...
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...
Chicago: Earl Seubert, 1970. Vintage borderless black-and-white photograph of Richard Avedon holding up a photograph of Rennie Davis (of the Chicago Seven) for an exhibition held in Chicago in June 1970. Shot by Tribune photographer Earl Seubert, with his stamp on the verso, as well as several date stamps (all...
Stratford-on-Avon: The Shakespeare Head Press, 1908. Small octavo. One of 250 numbered copies printed on handmade paper, this being No. 137. Near Fine in publisher's black quarter-cloth and paper-covered boards with gilt titles.
London: Studio Vista, 1970. First Edition. The scarce hardcover edition (also published in a slightly more common softcover variant) of folklorist and noted musician John Fahey's brilliant, loving analysis of his hero Charley Patton's catalogue. One of the most important books on American blues published in the twentieth century, only...