Los Angeles: Wallis-Paramount-Hazen / Paramount, 1964. Final White script for the 1964 film. Notation (name) in holograph pencil on the front wrapper, and in pencil and ink on one page, though the association is unknown. Included are two vintage black-and-white reference photographs from the film. Charlie Rogers (Elvis Presley) is a....
![122 Colour Photographs [122 Farvefotographie]](http://www.royalbooks.com/pictures/thumb/131135.jpg?v=1434404449)
Copenhagen: Schoenberg Publishers, 1948. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author to photographer and former student John Wood on the front endpaper: "Jan. 1951 / To John Wood, a fine photographer [and] person. / with compliments / Keld Helmer-Petersen." An important, early book of color photography, prefiguring the work of William...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1964. Original contract agreement between Kenneth Millar (writing as Ross Macdonald) and Alfred A. Knopf, dated April 24, 1964, for the publication of the thirteenth Lew Archer novel, "The Far Side of the Dollar." SIGNED by Macdonald, a publisher's representative, and a witness. Several clauses...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century Fox, 1936. Final draft script for the 1936 film. Quarter-bound red leather Presentation script belonging to executive producer Darryl F. Zanuck, with his name in gilt on the front board. Bound throughout are ten black-and-white stills from the film, backed with paper. Based on Harry Hamilton's...
![Space Master X-7 [Missile into Space]](http://www.royalbooks.com/pictures/thumb/140666.jpg?v=1492980585)
N.p. Regal Films, 1958. Draft script for the 1958 film. Copy belonging to actress Lyn Thomas, with notations throughout relating to her character in the film, Laura. A space probe returns to earth bearing an unusual extraterrestrial fungus which, when accidentally mixed with human blood, turns into space rust. The rust...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] / Loew's, 1958. Revised Shooting script for the 1959 film. Studio Vault copy, rubber-stamped on the front wrapper. Brief notations in holograph pencil throughout, and in ink and pencil on the front wrapper. Pre-production and production scripts of any Hitchcock film are rare, presumably because...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century Fox, 1944. Revised draft script for the 1944 film. Presentation copy, bound in brown cloth with gilt titles and Presidential Seal design on the front board, with lavish title and credits pages bound in. A lush chronicle of Wilson's political career, beginning with his decision to...
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1929. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper: "Inscribed for Mrs. White / by / Dorothy Scarborough / May 1930." Very Good in a Very Good plus, price-clipped example of the rare dust jacket. Jacket is lightly toned at the spine, with...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century Fox, 1939. Final Script for the 1939 Shirley Temple film, "Susannah of the Mounties," directed by Walter Lang, written for the screen by Muriel Dennison, Robert Ellis, Walter Ferris, Fidel LaBarba, and Helen Logan (with only Ellis and Logan credited here), and starring Shirley Temple, Randolph...
London: Faber and Faber, 1934. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the first UK edition. Very Good in plain brown wrappers, title label on the spine. Square and tight with a few creases to the spine panel. In a custom quarter-leather clamshell box. The UK edition of Stout's book is itself a rarity...
New York: N.p. circa 1971. Original script for the US premiere of the 1971 play. Working copy belonging to the play's musical director, Fred "Fritzy" Hughes, with profuse annotations by Hughes on virtually every page, along with additional annotations in at least two other hands, two very clearly by Warhol...
New York: Marian Zazeela, 1974, 1975, 1978. Three posters advertising performances composed by and featuring La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela: a set of four September 1978 duet performances of "The Well-Tuned Piano" in 1978 at the Dia Bosendorfer Imperial in New York City; and two performances, from April-May 1974...
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...
![The Last Roman [A Struggle for Rome]](http://www.royalbooks.com/pictures/thumb/131331A.jpg?v=1418080772)
Glendale, CA: Allied Artists, 1968. Draft script for the 1968 film. Seen here under its literal English translation "A Struggle for Rome" on the front wrapper, with credits for production company C.C.C. Film (CCC Filmkunst). Extensive notations throughout, unattributed, in various colors of holograph ink and in pencil, including substantive...
![Burn [Quemada]](http://www.royalbooks.com/pictures/thumb/137566.jpg?v=1492979679)
Colombia: Emidela / United Artists, 1969. Collection of vintage black-and-white negatives, contact sheets, and mounted slides and transparencies from the 1969 Italian-French film, "Burn!," here under the original Spanish title "Quemada." From the collection of Sam Gilman, with his name on several of the film processing envelopes in holograph ink...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1941. Original one sheet poster for the 1941 film. Frank Morgan received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the film. The fourth Steinbeck script to be adapted in as many years. Not as well known today as "The Grapes...
New York: J.B. Lippincott, 1973. First printing of this edition, and first American edition in hardcover. INSCRIBED in the year of publication on the front endpaper to Denver Post book editor Clarus Backus: "For Clair and Earlene / Thank you for one of those very good, very rare evenings /...
N.p. N.p. 1952. Vintage oversize double weight matte finish photograph from the set of the 1952 film. A sobering and striking image of the film's destitute loner and his dog Flike, standing in the streets of Rome late in the evening. Shot by the film's still photographer Angelo Pennoni, using a....
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1953. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author in the year of publication: "To my dear friends, Barbara and Art Gladd / Roy / 6-12-53 / The Hilltop / Encino, Calif." Basis for the groundbreaking 1954 western directed by Nicholas Ray and starring Joan Crawford, Mercedes...
London: John Lane, 1917. First Edition. A classic of horror fiction from Robbins, about a trio of circus freaks who escape captivity in the circus, open a curiosity shop, and use it as a base from which to launch a devastating crime wave. Basis for two films, the first a....
New York: Boni and Gaer, 1948. First edition. INSCRIBED by actor Paul Robeson in the year of publication on the front endpaper: "All best wishes / and thanks / Paul Robeson / April 28, 1948." Many African-American witnesses subpoenaed to testify at the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) hearings in...
New York: Crowell-Collier Publishing, 1940-1942. First Edition. Thirty-seven issues of Collier's Magazine, dated variously between April 20,1940 and July 11, 1942, all featuring Crockett Johnson's first magazine comic, "The Little Man with the Eyes." This collection represents roughly a third of Johnson’s work for Collier’s. Johnson’s popularity as a sketch artist...
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Gentilly, FR: Ateliers Lalande, 1962. Original French poster for the 1962 British film. The early 1960s take on Gaston Laroux's novel, done in Hammer horror fashion. A very accessible version and probably the least ponderous, little seen today but considered second only to the 1925 Lon Chaney version by cinephiles. The...
Newark: Newark Theatre, Circa 1915. Original handbill for a theatrical run of D.W. Griffith's "Birth of a Nation" (1915) at the Newark Theatre in Newark, New Jersey. Noted on the bill are cast members Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Donald Crisp, and Raoul Walsh (here spelled "Raul Walsh"), who played John...
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...
![The Day the Clown Cried [Clown]](http://www.royalbooks.com/pictures/thumb/137964.jpg?v=1493907517)
N.p. Self published, 1967. Original typescript treatment for the never-released 1974 film, "The Day the Clown Cried," here under the working title, "Clown." Copy belonging to screenwriter Peter Berneis, who would go uncredited upon the film's release, with his name and profuse additions and corrections in holograph ink throughout, dated...
New York: Viking Press, 1980. First Edition. SIGNED by 3 contributors, each at the inclusion of their respective stories: Stephen King ("The Mist"), Ray Bradbury ("Touch of Petulance"), and Gene Wolfe ("The Detective of Dreams"). King's story is the basis for the 2007 film of the same name. An important collection...
![Goodbye Emmanuelle [Emmanuelle 3]](http://www.royalbooks.com/pictures/thumb/135605.jpg?v=1492979149)
Paris: Trinacra Films, 1977. Vintage double weight photograph from the set of the 1977 film, shot by still photographer Etienne George. Shown are director François Leterrier and his crew to the left on a dolly, and actress Sylvia Kristel on the right in a state of semi-undress. The last film in...
N.p. N.p. circa 1975. Vintage borderless double weight photograph, circa 1975, featuring mystery writer John Le Carré in conversation with an unknown figure to the right of the photograph. Partially stricken attribution rubber stamp to the verso, with pencil holograph notations indicating the copyright belonging to photographer Marina Cicogna. One...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1937. Advance Reading Copy, preceding the First American Edition. Very Good in publisher's standard card wrappers, stating "SPECIAL ADVANCE COPY: For private and confidential use only." Tipped on to the front wrapper, as issued, is the full-color illustration from the first edition jacket. Basis for...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century Fox, 1937. Collection of 103 vintage keybook set design photographs from the 1937 film. Nominated for an Academy Award. Original brown card wrappers present, with film title printed on the front cover. In British India, a young girl, played by Shirley Temple is beloved by the...
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1959. First Edition. REVIEW COPY, with tipped-in publisher's slip at the front endpaper. A few notations on the jacket indicate that this copy was a publisher's file copy: a sticker on the spine with the number "44887" in pencil, the same number in pencil on...
New York: J.J. Augustin, 1945. First Edition. A presentable copy. Very Good plus in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Slight lean, with light foxing to the page edges. Jacket is lightly soiled, with light chipping to the extremities. Roth 101, p. 114-115. Parr and Badger, Vol. I, p. 200.
Beverly Hills, CA: Faces, 1977. Original one sheet poster for the 1970 film, issued by John Cassavetes' small production company, Faces Music. The last film to be produced and distributed by Cassavetes' company, and surprisingly one of the scarcest of its iconoclastic, elegantly designed posters. 27 x 41 inches. Rolled as issued, Near Fine.
Los Angeles: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1925. Original program for the 1925 film, Erich von Stroheim's first effort after his 9-hour masterpiece, "Greed," released in 1924. Includes an essay about von Stroheim working on-set, with quotes from the director throughout. A lush romantic meolodrama with touches of humor involving a European prince...
Paris: Arte Adrien Maeght, 1961. Original lithograph by Joan Miro, one of an unknown number of copies printed. Listed as Figure 295 in "Miro Lithographs II," the second volume of the artist's catalogue raisonné. 19.25 X 26.25 inches, linen backed and rolled. Near Fine Miro Lithographs II 295.