Chicago and New York: Ziff-Davis, 1946. First Edition. The only novel by radio personality Forbes, basis for the classic 1948 film noir (better known today under its UK title, "The Scar"), shot by John Alton and starring Paul Henreid and Joan Bennett. Extremely scarce. Near Fine in a Very Good, price-clipped...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1944. Final Shooting script from the 1945 film. With credit on the title page for screenwriter Anita Loos, who would go uncredited in the final film. Based on the classic 1943 coming-of-age novel by Betty Smith. Nominated for Best Screenplay, and James Dunn won for Best...
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1944. Second Revised Final script for the 1945 film. Kurt Kreuger's working copy, with his ownership name in holograph pencil on the front wrapper, and holograph notations in pencil and ink throughout. Based on Vicki Baum's 1943 novel, about a several refugees, Nazis, spies, and freedom...
New York: Boni and Gaer, 1948. First Edition. Signed by author Gordon Kahn and by each of the ten men indicted by the House Committee on Un-American Activities, known collectively to history as the "Hollywood Ten": Herbert Biberman, John Howard Lawson, Dalton Trumbo, Lester Cole, Samuel Ornitz, Adrian Scott, Edward...
Burbank, CA: American Broadcasting Company [ABC], 1964. Five draft scripts in deluxe presentation bindings for the 1961 television series. Stella Stevens' personal copies. Episodes represented include: "Autumn Without Red Leaves," "But Who Shall Beat the Drums," "You Fish or You Cut Bait," "A Bird in the Solitude Singing," and "August...
![Four Daughters [Because of a Man: Sister Act]](http://www.royalbooks.com/pictures/thumb/140118.jpg?v=1500415176)
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1938. Final Draft script for the 1938 film, here under the working title "Because of a Man: Sister Act." Copy belonging to composer Max Rabinowitz, with his name in holograph pencil on the front wrapper and with significant notations by him throughout. Rabinowitz wrote "Mickey Borden's...
Yonkers, NY: Alicat Book Shop Press, 1946. First Edition. This copy is INSCRIBED by the publisher Oscar Baradinsky (later Oscar Baron) to his friend the writer D.S. Savage. One of 750 copies, published in the Alicat Bookshop Press' Outcast series. An uncommon and key document in experimental cinema, published the...
New York: Samuel Kootz, 1948. First Edition. A fine press book conceived by Paul Rand in which several major authors of the late 1940s interpret the work of artists from the same era, all on the subject of women, and mostly quite abstract. This copy has been SIGNED by Tennessee...
![Princesse [Princess] Tam-Tam](http://www.royalbooks.com/pictures/thumb/139639.jpg?v=1492980303)
Paris: Productions Arys, 1935. Two vintage still photographs of Josephine Baker from the 1935 French film. The film, about a novelist who finds inspiration for his new book from a Tunisian girl while on holiday, was banned from wide release in the US by the Hays Office after its New...
New York: Macmillan, 1977. First Edition. INSCRIBED to playwright and film director David Mamet and his then-wife, actress Lindsay Crouse, in the year of publication on the title page: "For two beautiful people / Lindsay and David / Harold Clurman / Dec. 21, 1977." A remarkable association, connecting three generations of...
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)...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1965. Revised Final script for the 1966 film. Actor Van Heflin's working copy, with his notations throughout. 1960s remake of the 1939 John Ford Western. Studio self-wrappers, noted as REVISED FINAL on the front wrapper, dated June 15, 1965, with credits for screenwriter Landon. 130 leaves, mimeograph...
Baton Rouge: Louisiana University Press, 1985. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. The reported first printing of only 500 copies were mainly shipped to libraries. An early collection of stories by the author.
London: Michael Joseph, 1965. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the First Edition. Very Good in plain brown wrappers as issued. Spine lean and some vertical wrinkling to same. Generic bookplate SIGNED by the author laid in (i.e., not attached). A very presentable copy of the earliest state of this title.
Los Angeles: Universal Pictures, 1980. Draft script for the 1981 film. Copy belonging to production designer Stephen B. Grimes, with his name on the front wrapper in holograph pencil, and brief notations on a few pages in holograph ink. Based on Ernest Thompson's play, about a father-daughter relationship that has...
Paris: Editions Universitaires, 1957. First French Edition. True first edition, preceding the American by nearly 20 years. INSCRIBED by Alfred Hitchcock on the half-title page ("To Peter, Alfred Hitchcock") followed by a large drawing of his well-known self-caricature. Eric Rohmer and Claude Chabrol wrote this book near the beginning of...
New York: Covici-Friede, 1928. First Edition. One of 275 copies (this being No. 53) SIGNED and numbered by the author. Illustrated by Alexander King. Quarter-cloth, with art deco-style, patterned paper-covered boards. Lacking the scarce publisher's slipcase. An epic poem about an aging Afrcan-American boxer and his last night in the ring...
New York: 2001. First Edition. SIGNED on the front endpaper by several notable Magnum photographers, including Bruce Davidson, Susan Meiselas, Dennis Stock, and others. An immediate, photographic retrospect on September 11, 2001, published just months after the attacks. Fine and unread with no dust jacket as issued.
Yokohama, Kanagawa: Kurosawa Production Company, 1963. Japanese Shooting script for the 1965 film. This draft dated 1963 on the front wrapper (and 8/19/1963 on the last page of text), a working script with holograph annotations in Japanese throughout. Text in Japanese. Toshiro Mifune's final film with Akira Kurosawa, considered one of...
![Andrei Tarkovsky on the set of Nostalghia [Nostalgia]](http://www.royalbooks.com/pictures/thumb/140938.jpg?v=1492980641)
Soviet Union: Mosfilm, 1983. Vintage borderless photograph from the set of the 1983 film, showing the director striking a contemplative pose while behind the camera. With a holograph ink notation on the verso identifying the film. The only vintage photograph of the great director at work on location we have...
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...
London: Hogarth Press, 1938. First Edition. An especially sharp copy, Fine and unread in a bright, fresh, very nearly Fine dust jacket. Jacket has a couple of tiny nicks at the crown, and just a hint of foxing at the front and rear panels, but with none of the toning...
Los Angeles: United Artists, 1953. Original American three-sheet illustrated poster for the 1953 film noir, "I, the Jury," based on the novel by Mickey Spillane, directed by Harry Essex and starring Biff Elliot as Mike Hammer. This entry was the first of four Spillane B-movie adaptations made by the small...
London: George G Harrap and Co, 1923. Large quarto. First Edition. Issued by Harrap in an edition of 2000 copies in 1923, 250 of which were distributed by Stokes in the US. With 48 richly colored plates interspersed with sheets of calligraphic text. Housed in a custom maroon quarter-leather clamshell...
![Es war einmal - La Belle et la Bête [Beauty and the Beast] [La belle et la bête]](http://www.royalbooks.com/pictures/thumb/132225.jpg?v=1418060193)
Munich: P. R. Wilk / Neue Filmkunst / Walter Kirchner, circa 1961. Original early 1960s German A1 poster for the 1946 French film, illustrated by Isolde Baumgart. From the collection of noted film historian Amos Vogel. Full provenance available. A classic 1946 French romantic fantasy film adaptation of the traditional fairy tale...
![Woman in the Dunes [Suna no onna]](http://www.royalbooks.com/pictures/thumb/132258.jpg?v=1418081126)
Japan: Toho Company, Ltd. 1964. Original Japanese B2 poster for the 1964 film. With the English language title for the film discreetly rubber stamped onto the poster in two spots, and with a tiny copyright notice in black at the bottom right corner for the Toho Company, dated 1964. A masterpiece...
N.p. N.p. 1956, 1963. Small archive consisting of two notes from film director and author Kenneth Anger to his friend, British film critic Roy Edwards. Two items are dated 1956 and 1963, pretty much the epicenter of Anger's coming into prominence as a film director of importance, with the releases...
Los Angeles: Wallis-Paramount-Hazen / Paramount, 1961. Revised Final White script for the 1961 film. Notation (name) in holograph pencil on the front wrapper, though the association is unknown. One of Elvis Presley's most successful post-Army efforts. Presley plays Chad Gates, fresh out of the Army, and heir to a Hawaiian...
Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Ministerstwa Obrony Narodowej, 1961. First Polish Edition, preceding all others. Not published in another language until the French edition in 1964, and not in English until the Walker edition in 1970. Lem's seminal novel about a vast ocean world that resists communication from the outside by imposing hallucinations on...
![Marcel Pagnol on the set of "Le femme du boulanger" [The Baker's Wife]](http://www.royalbooks.com/pictures/thumb/133241.jpg?v=1434404490)
N.p. N.p. 1937. Vintage double weight photograph from the 1938 film. A candid, on-the-set photograph by the film's credited still photographer, Roger Corbeau, of a cafe scene featuring the film's principal character (actor Raimu), with the camera crew just to the left, in the shadows, the borders of the studio...
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 1936...
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1946. Advance Reading Copy, preceding the First Edition. About Fine in illustrated wrappers. Just a hint of toning, brief offsetting at the front endpapers from something once laid in, and light rubbing at the spine ends. Basis for the well-loved 1948 film comedy starring Cary...
New York: Random House, 1936. First Edition. One of 300 copies (this being no. 28) SIGNED by the author. Along with "The Sound and the Fury," the key novel in Faulkner being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949. Very Good without dust jacket as issued. Light foxing to...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1938. Collection of 84 vintage keybook set design photographs from the 1938 film. Original brown card front wrapper present, with film title written on the wrapper Margot Weston (Stanwyck) is left heartbroken and pregnant as her husband dies speeding to their wedding. The newborn is given...
Toronto: Bell and Cockburn, 1912. Octavo, two volumes. First Canadian Edition, first printing. Published the same year as the English first (and correct first) edition. Publisher's maroon cloth, gilt titles, top page edges gilt, red borders on the front boards with Norwegian flag designs. All plates, maps, and illustrations present...
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...