![Thunder Over Mexico [Que Viva Mexico]](http://www.royalbooks.com/pictures/thumb/136595.jpg?v=1492979320)
Los Angeles: Principal Distributing Corporation, 1933. Collection of seven vintage black-and-white studio still photographs from the 1933 film. Eisenstein had spent many frustrating months in Hollywood, ending with a failed attempt to adapt Dreiser's "An American Tragedy." With backing from avowed socialist Upton Sinclair, Eisenstein left Hollywood to create what would...
Tokyo: Film Art Association, 1949. Japanese Shooting script for the 1949 Japanese film noir. Generally considered to be the greatest film noir made in Japan, and hugely influential on American film noir of the 1950s and 1960s. A sweltering day in the summertime finds a young police officer trying to track...
New York: Hotel Astor, circa 1920s. Handwritten Final Draft manuscript for the 1920s "Back Porch" vaudeville skit, seen here under the early working titles "Sleeping Porch" and "Porch Scene." Executed in holograph ink by W.C. Fields on Hotel Astor letterhead stationery. Also included is a typescript draft of the same...
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1954. First Draft script for the 1955 film. Production manager's working script (name unknown), with holograph notations and color tabs throughout regarding shooting locations (studio, back lot, Hong Kong, etc.) Based on the novel by A.S. Fleischman, published in 1955 as a paperback original. In an unusual...
Santa Fe, NM: Twin Palms Publishers, 1998. First Edition. One of 4,000 copies. SIGNED by the photographer on the front endpaper. Bruce Davidson's exploratory photobook of 1950's Brooklyn street gangs. Jacket very lightly rubbed, else Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket.
New York: William Morrow, 1935. First Edition. Publisher's file copy, with "OFFICE FILE COPY" stamped on the rear panel of the jacket and several penciled notations and deletions on the front flap and front endpaper. Near Fine in a Very Good or better dust jacket. Evidence of removal on the...
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.
New York: Leah Salisbury Inc. 1958. Draft script for the 1958-1959 play. Actor Dana Andrews' working copy, from his estate. With a letter of provenance from Andrews' daughter, Katharine Smith. Notations throughout in holograph pencil. Laid in are three leaves of script changes, carbon typescript, with notations in holograph pencil. Gibson's...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1938. Temporary complete draft for the 1939 short film, one of several classic shorts featuring the great Algonquin Round Table humorist Robert Benchley. A stereotypically clueless husband is left in charge to show his apartment to a prospective subletting couple while his wife is at...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1938. Final script for the classic 1938 film, "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm," based on the novel by Kate Douglas Wiggin, directed by Allan Dwan, produced by Darryl F. Zanuck, written for the screen by Don Ettlinger and Karl Tunberg, and starring Shirley Temple, Randolph Scott, Jack...
Universal City: Universal, 1969. Collection of ten borderless press photographs from the set of the 1969 film. Seven photographs featuring director Hitchcock at work. Eight photographs with the stamp of the French news agency BEZ on the verso. Based on 1967 novel by Leon Uris, about a French agent who...
Los Angeles: Paramount, 1943. Revised draft for the 1943 film. Co-written for the screen by Raymond Chandler and Frank Partos. Chandler's contribution to the script had mostly to do with Alan Ladd's character and his tough dialogue (elements sneered at by the media upon the film's release). Laid in is...
London: Jonathan Cape, 1981. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page. The author's breakthrough novel, and winner of the Booker Prize. About Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket, with a hint of the usual fading to the spine.
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1945. Nearly complete set of 150 vintage set design photographs, each numbered from 1 to 153 (four are missing), from the 1945 film musical. From the collection of set decorator Thomas Little. Two-hole punch at the left margin of each photograph, bound in brown card wrapper with...
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.
N.p. UFA, 1941. First Edition. Hungarian film annual for German films released between 1931 and 1941, containing full page advertisements for 31 films, several with stunning illustrated transparency overlays. Bound in printed wooden boards, as issued. The majority of the films were released by UFA, although Terra-Filmkunst and Wien Film are...
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1943. Revised Draft script for the 1944 film. The second of Universal's Technicolor fantasy adventures (after "Arabian Nights," 1942, and "White Savage," 1943), loosely based on the classic Arabian Nights tales, with a fitting score by Edward Ward to match Lubin's directorial flair. A fun...
New York: Film-makers' Cinematheque, 1966. Original film program for the 1966 screening of six Kenneth Anger films, being shown on the Spring Equinox (March 21, 1966). Screened at Jonas Mekas's Film-maker's Cinematheque coopperative theater, then located at 125 West 41st Street in New York. Films at the screening included "Kustom...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1971. Revised draft script for the 1971 Euro-Western film, a US-UK co-production shot in Spain. Notations throughout in holograph pencil. Based on L'Amour's 1963 novel. Catlow (Brynner) is a renegade outlaw determined to pull off a gold heist, after having served in the Civil War...
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1941. First Edition. The author's signature title, basis for the classic 1942 film starring Bette Davis, Paul Henreid and Claude Rains. Near Fine in a bright, Very Good plus dust jacket. Jacket has nicking and some rubbing to spine ends and corners, and a couple of faint vertical...
London: Edward Arnold, 1936. Later printing. SIGNED by E.M. Forster on the title page. Additionally INSCRIBED by W.H. Auden on the front endpaper: "To Bill and Phil / with best wishes for their future happiness. / from / Wystan." Forster was an influence and favorite of Auden's, with Auden dedicating "Journey...
Tucson, AZ: Nazraeli Press, 2000. First Edition. One of 500 copies, this being No. 366, SIGNED by the photographer. Number One in the Nazaeli Press One Picture Book series. Containing one original Type C print and twelve reproductions of color copier prints. Fine and unread without dust jacket as issued.
N.p. N.p. 1969. Single page, carbon typescript (the original letter presumably sent to Burroughs, this copy from Southern's estate), single spaced, with several typeovers. A friendly, sassy letter to Burroughs, beginning with an expression of Southern's great anticipation of a visit from Burroughs: "Buzz along the rialto has it that...
N.p. N.p. 1967. Collection of 8 borderless reference photographs from the French release of the 1967 film. Arguably Jean-Pierre Melville's crowning achievement (though we feel there are no low points among his crime films), wherein Delon plays an icy hitman who is utterly anonymous, living alone in a single bedroom apartment...
Jacksonville, FL: Norman Film Studios, 1920. Original US one sheet poster for the now-lost 1920 silent film. The first film to be made with an all-black cast by Norman Pictures, which came to specialize in cinema starring all-black casts and distributed to African-American movie houses. From the Norman Film archive...
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1976. First Edition. Basis for the 1993 film directed by Gus Van Sant and starring Uma Thurman. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Jacket lightly soiled, with a shallow vertical crease to the rear flap fold.
N.p. N.p. Circa 1978-1982. Vintage double weight matte finish photograph, a self portrait taken by Andre Kertesz while seated in a barber's chair, showing both the front and back of his head, just after having received a haircut. With the stamp of Kertesz's long time printer, Igor Bakht, on the...
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Rome: Igor Film, 1966. Two oversize borderless double weight black and white photographs from the 1966 film. With a few identifying notations in holograph pencil and ink on the verso. Italian neorealist director Gillo Pontecorvo’s careful, documentary style account of the guerrilla war for Algerian independence from France, concentrating on the...
Paris: Paris Audiovisuel, 1988. First Edition. INSCRIBED in the year of publication by Alice Springs to Robin Gibson of the National Portrait Gallery in London: "Robin / What a wonderful time of my life it was with you and Terence at the N.P.G. / London / 17/11/88." Robin Gibson worked at...
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1976. Final Shooting 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...
Beverly Hills, CA: The Mirisch Corporation / United Artists, 1967. Collection of five original title card maquettes for the 1967 film hand lettered by Harold Adler. Based on the 1965 novel by John Ball. Harold Adler was a calligrapher who created hand lettered titles on over 100 films, worked frequently with...
Paris: Athos Films, 1965. Vintage French petite poster for the 1965 film. The influence of "Alphaville" as the first crime film to be set in a sci-fi context cannot be underestimated, and even the film's legitimate protégés, such as "Blade Runner," don't quite capture its strange sexuality. Shot on location in...
![A Night to Remember [Atlantique Latitude 41 Degrees]](http://www.royalbooks.com/pictures/thumb/125081.jpg?v=1434404432)
London: The Rank Organization, 1958. French theatrical release poster for the seminal 1958 British docudrama, "A Night to Remember," here under it's French title, "Atlantique Latitude 41 Degrees." Probably the most distinctive poster produced for the film. Novelist Ambler and director Baker set out to make a film that depicted the...
London: Canal / Image UK, 1985. British Script for the 1986 British film comedybased on an original screenplay by novelist and playwright Michael Frayn. Monty Python alumnus Cleese exploits to perfection his talent for portraying a composed British gentleman unraveling toward complete collapse, and novelist-playwright Frayn, in one of his...
Sao Paolo: Metron, 1989. First Edition. INSCRIBED and dated 14.2.90 by the artist on the front endpaper: "Por caros Nomita e George, Este immenso prazer em recebe-los aqui, assim tao espontaneamente. Meu abraco amigo e os uatos de felicidades, o Carlos Bracher, Ouro Preto, 14.2.90". Fine in a Near Fine...
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...