New York: Francis Productions, Inc, circa 1968. First Draft script for the 1968 film. Copy belonging to Frank Perry, with his name in red holograph ink on the title page. Perry considered making the film, but it was ultimately directed by Christian Marquand. This draft is credited solely to Southern...
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1973. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page and dated 21 October 1983. Very Good plus in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Importantly, the dust jacket is not price-clipped and shows a price of $5.95 on the front flap. Only the second such...
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...
Altadena, CA: Twin Palms, 1992. First Edition. One of 100 numbered copies (this being No. 57) SIGNED by Horst. A wonderful retrospective of the great fashion photographer's work, with photographs ranging from 1932 to 1990. Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket and slipcase, as issued.
Paris: Président Films, 1976. Vintage black-and-white borderless still photograph from the French release of the 1976 French film. Three stamps on the verso for Cine-Revue magazine (dated variously between 9/2/76 and 2/3/77), as well as a studio stamp for Président Films, crediting the title, Birkin, Dallesandro, and Gainsbourg. The petite waitress...
London: The Who, circa 1972. Psychedelic promotional poster for The Who, circa 1972, produced to promote worldwide tours and the release of "Who's Next" (1971). The only example we have ever encountered. Die cut double weight paper stock. 24 x 28 inches, rolled. Near Fine.
Los Angeles: United Artists, 1947. Original pressbook for the 1947 film noir, "Body and Soul," directed by Robert Rossen and starring John Garfield and Lilli Palmer. 18 pages, 11 x 17 inches. About Near Fine condition, with the unusual distinction of having a two-color outer wrapper, faintly creased from having...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1947. Original pressbook for the seminal 1947 film noir, "Kiss of Death," based on the novel by Eleazar Lipsky, directed by Henry Hathaway, written for the screen by Ben Hecht, and starring Victor Mature, Brian Donlevy, Colleen Gray, and Richard Widmark (in his screen debut). Very...
![The Trial [Le procès]](http://www.royalbooks.com/pictures/thumb/135566.jpg?v=1492979136)
N.p. Roger Corbeau, 1962. Two oversize double weight still photographs from the set of the 1962 film. Each shot and stamped by still photographer Roger Corbeau, and with unique rubber stamped reference numbers, on the verso. "Le procès" (released as "The Trial" in the UK and the US) was co-produced by...
Los Angeles: Fox Film Corporation, 1933. Final Script for the 1933 film, "Berkeley Square," directed by Frank Lloyd, written for the screen by John L. Balderston and Sonya Levien, based on Balderston's play. Starring Leslie Howard. A pre-code film adaptation of Balderston's stage fantasy in which a scientist (Leslie Howard)...
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1957. Collection of 6 vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1957 US film, adapted by David Goodis from his own 1953 novel. Duryea and his gang, including Mansfield, rob an emerald necklace from a wealthy widow. The group falls to bickering over what to do...
Paris: Jean-Louis Seigner, 2001. Vintage oversize black-and-white still photograph of Roman Polanski on location in Warsaw in 2001 during the production of his 2002 film. Winner of three Academy Awards, including Best Director and Best Screenplay, and nominated for four others, including Best Picture and Best Cinematography. On a popular level...
N.p. N.p. Circa 1966. Archive of 30 vintage oversize press photographs by Michael Montfort of actor Klaus Kinski, his second wife, actor Brigitte Tocki, and their then five year old daughter, actor Nastassja Kinksi. Five of the photographs with the stamp of German magazine "Bild am Sontagg" crediting Montfort, and...
London: Michael Powell (Theatre), circa 1960. Vintage borderless production photograph from the UK release of the 1960 British film. Shown is Austrian actor Carl Boehm, sitting pensively in front of the tripod-mounted film projector to which he is hopelessly devoted. On the verso is a rubber stamped credit and disclaimer...
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1943. First Edition. About Near Fine in a Good dust jacket. Colorful child's bookplate to the front pastedown ("This mine / Merc Relvas"), very slight rumple to the cloth at the rear board, else book is bright and clean. The rare jacket has no major...
Santa Monica, CA: RKO Radio Pictures, 1941. Two vintage borderless black-and-white reference still photographs from the 1941 film. Both stills with notations on the verso, one with an RKO Radio Pictures rubber stamp. The first still shows a young Kane (Orson Welles), at a celebration for the inauguration of his newspaper...
Beverly Hills, CA: Faces Distribution, 1976. Original US one sheet poster, "dancer in dressing room" style, for the 1976 film, picturing actress Catherine Wong in a pensive pose. One of eight known one sheet styles (no priority) issued by Faces Distribution for the film. Faces was a company as radical as...
Brighton, UK: The Rock Music Photographs of Ian Dickson, 2006. First Edition. Number 5 of an unspecified limitation of "DeLuxe" editions produced by photographer Ian Dickson, containing 7 black-and-white photographs struck from the original negatives, taken on June 13, 1977 for "Sounds" magazine during a performance by The Jam at...
![Les Films De Ma Vie [The Films in my Life]](http://www.royalbooks.com/pictures/thumb/59001.jpg?v=1434404341)
Paris: Flammarion, 1975. First French Edition (and correct first), SIGNED by Truffaut and inscribed to noted French film critic Robert Chazal: "To Robert Chazal, whose complete works would constitute over 30 volumes. With admiration, Francois Truffaut." Truffaut's third book, one of the most important books of film criticism written in...
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1944. Draft script for the 1944 film. Studio file copy, carbon typescript, each leaf watermarked CONTRACT FILE COPY in red. Brief notations throughout in holograph pencil. The third Inner Sanctum installment, directed by Reginald Le Borg, who also directed "Calling Dr. Death" (1943) and "Weird...
![Love is a Four Letter Word: Two Plays on a Single Theme [Dead Letters / The Campers]](http://www.royalbooks.com/pictures/thumb/141753.jpg?v=1494453558)
N.p. N.p. Circa 1971. Original script for two plays by Academy Award winning screenwriter Howard Koch. Copy belonging to an unknown actor who played the character of Norm in "Dead Letters," with his lines highlighted and holograph notations regarding dialogue and action throughout. In a preliminary note, Koch describes "Dead...
Rome: Riama Film, 1960. Original Program for the classic 1960 film. A striking and rare first-run program for what can easily be described as Fellini's most pivotal film, if not his finest. Unlike the more sentimental and abstract films that would follow, "La Dolce Vita" is an unflinching 7-day journey...
Burbank: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1940. Revised Draft script for the 1941 film. Studio file copy, with rubber-stamps on the front wrapper. Brief notations in holograph pencil on both sides of the front wrapper. Text ends with scene 392, as called for. Based on Francis de Croisset's 1932 play, "Il Etait Une Fois."...
Tokyo: Nikkatsu, 1960. Draft script for the 1960 film. Text in Japanese. Two inmates are killed when a police truck is assaulted and the driver is held responsible for negligence. He takes it upon himself to find the bandits which attacked the van. Pink titled perfect bound wrappers. Title page...
Culver City, CA: Faces Music / Columbia Pictures, 1970. Original oversize program for the 1970 film. SIGNED next to their photographs in the program by John Cassavetes, Ben Gazzara, and Peter Falk. Additionally signed by Cassavetes' wife, actor Gena Rowlands (who does not appear in the film), and two unidentified...
New York: Film-Makers' Cinematheque, 1966. First Edition. The second issue of a monograph series published by Jonas Mekas' Film-makers' Cinematheque. With a brief typed note signed by Stan Brakhage's wife, Jane Brakhage, to a Jim Adams in San Francisco, letting Mr. Adams know where a copy of the journal "Metaphors"...
Concord, NH: William B Ewert, 1992. First Edition. One of 40 deluxe copies (this being No. 25) SIGNED by the author. Fine in cloth binding, with lovely handmade paper covered boards and just about Fine tissue dust jacket as issued. First separate publication of this story, which originally appeared in the New Yorker.
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1942. ?
![The Passion of Joan of Arc [La passion de Jeanne d'Arc]](http://www.royalbooks.com/pictures/thumb/135601.jpg?v=1492979148)
Paris: Studio Soulat-Boussus, 1928. Vintage double weight photograph from the set of the 1928 film. Shot by Jean Soulat and Mauric Boussus of Studio Soulat-Boussus in Paris, with respective stamps on the verso. An excessively rare photograph from Dreyer's masterpiece, capturing Maria Falconetti in what one could accurately described as "in...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1968. Final script for the 1969 film. A landmark of the New Hollywood Cinema, and arguably the high spot (as well as the beginning) of an incredible streak of inventive cinematic achievements directed by George Roy Hill in the late 1960s and 1970s that included "Slaughterhouse-Five" (1972)...
![Quatre nuits d'un rêveur [Four Nights of a Dreamer]](http://www.royalbooks.com/pictures/thumb/126562.jpg?v=1450911278)
Paris: Albina Productions, 1971. Original French theatrical release poster for the first of three films made by Robert Bresson in the 1970s. "Quatre nuits d'un rêveur" is based on a short story by Dostoevsky titled "White Nights," originally published in the magazine "Annals of the Fatherland" in 1846. A typically...
New York: Callaway Editions, Inc. 1982. First Edition. One of 1,000 hardbound copies SIGNED by the photographer on a tipped in page, issued simultaneously in 2,000 signed softcover editions. 62 full-page black and white plates. A visually stunning photographic reportage of the Ohio River Valley, as commissioned by the Akron...
New York: Alfred H. King, 1933. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author and screenwriter on the front flyleaf: "To Joe Hoffman / Once a mug, always one. Hope you like it. / Jerry Wald (John Bascom)." REVIEW COPY, likely one belonging to the author for presentations, with the publisher's review...
New York: Putnam, 1946. First Edition. Warmly INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper. Basis for the 1956 film classic directed by Douglas Sirk and starring Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack and Dorothy Malone. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Jacket has a dampstain at the bottom...
New York: William Morrow, 1941. Uncorrected Proof, preceding the First Edition. About Very Good in publisher's self-wrappers, with a publication date of July 23, 1941 rubber-stamped on the front endpaper. Slight lean, vertical creasing to the spine panel, some splitting to the front flap fold. A presentable copy of the...
Spain: N.p. circa 1958-1961. Archive of 44 black and white vintage photographs, 21 photographic reproductions of artistic renderings, one invitation, and three programs for the openings of various buildings whose interiors were designed by Valencia-based interior designer Vicente Melió Alfonso during Francisco Franco's Fascist Spanish regime. This archive largely illustrates...