Royal Books

N.p. N.p. 1966. Vintage borderless, oversize press photograph of Nobel Prize winning writer Bob Dylan at an press conference during the Paris leg of his 1966 world tour. With the stamp of the Paris International Presse agency on the verso. After debuting his electric live sound at the 1965 Newport...

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N.p. N.p. 1944, 1946, 1949. Archive of four letters between Carl Theodore Dreyer and film historian and eventual "Cahiers du Cinema" co-founder Joseph-Marie Lo Duca primarily regarding Lo Duca's proposed sound-added release of Dreyer's 1927 silent masterpiece "The Passion of Joan of Arc," and the French release of Dreyer's 1943...

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Stockholm: Svensk Filmindustri, 1963. Original Swedish photographic style poster for the 1963 film. The second entry in Bergman's legendary and highly personal "Faith" trilogy, a series of films that launched a new and important phase in the director's career. "Winter Light" takes place in entirely within a three-hour period on...

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Paris: Editions 213 / Steidl, 2015. Deluxe Limited Edition portfolio. One of five copies (this being copy No. 1) of photographer Sophie Bramly's portfolio of 47 matte finish photographic prints in both black and white and color, depicting the emerging hip hop scene of 1980s New York. Signed and numbered...

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Caldwell, ID: Caxton Printers, 1949. First Edition. SIGNED and DATED in the year of publication by the author on the verso of the front endpaper. Brigman was an important and influential early photographer, who, in 1906, became the only photographer living west of the Mississippi to be named a Fellow...

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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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New York: Signet Books, 1951. No. 915. First printing of this edition. INSCRIBED by the author to Signet Books founder Kurt Enoch: "Hi Kurt / I'm just hoping this sells as many as you printed! / Sincerely / Mickey Spillane." From the Kurt Enoch collection, with a letter of provenance...

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Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, ca. 1959. Draft script for the 1960 film "Ocean's Eleven," seen here as "Oceans Eleven or And the Angels Sing." Copy belonging to actor Peter Lawford, with his name to the front wrapper and his holograph notations throughout. Lawford owned the rights to the film, and...

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Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1991. Shooting script and production archive, with rainbow revisions, for the 1991 film, belonging to the film's production manager, Burt Bluestein. Includedg are the script, with many holograph notations and drawing, as well as two binders full of legal research and documents, cast and crew contact...

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London: George Routledge and Sons, 1874. Small quarto. First printing of this edition. First published in 1842 by Rudolph Ackerman in London. Thirty-five color illustrations by Henry Alken, all present. One page of ads at the rear. Marbled boards in half-bound red morocco leather, compartments, titles and designs all gilt...

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Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1927. Draft script for the 1927 silent film "Mockery," seen here under two early draft titles "Terror" and "The Harelip." Lon Chaney is a half-witted Russian peasant who is promised food and a place to live if he escorts a Countess (Bedford) safely home. He...

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Paris: Societe d'Exploitation et de Distribution de Films, 1938. Set of 3 black-and-white still photographs from the US premiere of the 1964 film. Each with a mimeo snipe affixed to the verso, as issued, noting that the film is making its debut at the Esquire Theatre in Los Angeles. Also...

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Vintage double weight press photograph from Hollywood beach house party, held on June 19, 1926, attended by the movie's industry elite of the day. Dated snipe on the verso notes that among those in the photo are Rudolph Valentino (who would die two months later in New York City), Pola...

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New York: John Cage, 1953. Poster brochure advertising a festival concept, developed by John Cage and David Tudor, designed to feature recitals, readings, dance classes, lectures, and panel discussions. Composers, musicians, poets, and thinkers on board for the festival of "experimental" works included Cage, Tudor, Merce Cunningham, and Mary Caroline...

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Paris: Jean-Michel Place, 1999. First printing of this edition, originally published by Reynal and Hitchcock in 1939.Husband and wife team Dorothea Lange and Paul Taylor were hired by the Farm Security Administration to document the 300,000 strong, Depression-era exodus, and the struggles theses migrant workers overcame in search of basic...

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Munich: Universum Film [UFA], 1926. Vintage photograph from the 1926 silent film. With the UFA logo at the bottom left corner of the recto, and a few holograph notations on the verso. Murnau’s final German film before emigrating to America, where he would make four more films before his untimely...

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New York: Yoko Ono, 1961. Two vintage mimeograph flyers, one doubling as a program, for the legendary first performance evening devoted entirely to the music of La Monte Young at Yoko Ono's loft, marking both Young's formal performance debut and the seventh performance in Ono's loft. Young had participated as...

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New York: Signet Books, 1956. Signet Double Volume No. D1299. First printing of this edition. INSCRIBED on the inside front wrapper by the author to Signet Books founder Kurt Enoch in the year of publication: "For Kurt Enoch / With thanks and best regards / Chester Himes / Paris /...

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Los Angeles: ABC / Contemporary Productions / Harold Hecht Productions, 1960. Draft Script for the 1961 film, "The Young Savages" (here under its working title, "A Matter of Conviction"), SIGNED by director John Frankeheimer on the front wrapper. Directed by Frankenheimer, based on the 1959 novel, "A Matter of Conviction,"...

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Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1980. Early draft script for the 1980 film, with Roman Polanski credited for screenwriting on the title page. The screen credit ultimately went to Mann Rubin, who rewrote the script extensively. Based on the 1973 novel by Lawrence Sanders.Notable both for being one of Frank...

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Various cities: Walt Disney Pictures / HanWay Films, 1926-1967. Album of thirty lobby cards and photographs from thirteen animated films, all SIGNED or INSCRIBED by animation directors to fellow animator Les Gibbard. Lotte Reiniger,Norman McLaren, John Hubley, Arthur Babbitt, Grim Natwick, and four of Disney's famed "nine old men," Frank...

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Poland: S. P. Eagle / Romulus Horizon, Circa 1957. Original Hungarian poster for the 1968 film.Jancso's followup to "The Red and the White." In 1919, soldiers of the short-lived Hungarian Red Army are now on the run from relentless secret policemen and patrol units of the nationalist Royal Gendarme. If...

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Hollywood, CA: Paramount Pictures, 1979. Final draft script for the 1980 film.A shining credit for John Travolta, based on an article in Esquire magazine (1978) by Aaron Latham. A country boy moves to the city to take a job with his uncle, meets a cowgirl and the two fall in...

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N.p. Cinema V, 1969. Original silkscreen poster designed by legendary title and poster artist Saul Bass for the US release of the 1968 French film "Alexandre le bienheaureux." Printed at the Art Krebs Screen Studios in Los Angeles, and used for the film's premiere at the legendary Cinema II Theater...

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Fox Film Corporation, 1930. Early Draft Screenplay for the 1930 pre-Code film, "Wild Company, here under the working title, "Roadhouse". An early example of a film about "rebellious youth," set during Prohibition, about the exploits of a spoiled young man who squanders his parents' money in an illicit speak-easy, and...

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London: Robert Hale, 1970. First UK Edition. Fine in a bright, Very Good plus dust jacket. Jacket has no loss, but is rubbed at the spine ends and corners, with some soiling to the white rear panel. Basis for the 1970 film directed by Richard Quine and starring Patrick McGoohan...

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Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1941. Draft script for the 1941 film, here under the working title %The Great Man,% with holograph annotations on nearly every page. W.C. Fields' last starring film before his death in 1946. Told as a "real life" film starring Fields as himself, "Never Give a....

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New York: Harper and Brothers, 1957. First Reinforced Library Edition, but not an ex-library copy. About Fine in brown cloth covered boards and a Near Fine, price clipped dust jacket. Just a hint of a spine lean, with a gift inscription to the front end paper. Jacket is bright and...

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Lausanne, Switzerland: Editions L'Age D'Homme, 1981. First Edition, a trade softcover original. INSCRIBED by Satyajit Ray on the half title page: "For Pierre Goulliard / Satyajit Ray / 1/4/83." Ray's contribution to twentieth century cinema is inestimable, and brought the reality of Indian culture to the world by way of...

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N.p. N.p. Circa 1970-1971. Vintage double weight black-and-white weight still press photograph taken by photographer Dmitri Casterine on the set of the 1972 film sometime between fall 1970 and spring 1971. In the photograph, director Kubrick lies on his back with a camera, setting up a shot of a giant...

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New York: N.p. 1980. Original two-color silkscreen poster for "The Trap Door" (1980), by Beth B and Scott B, starring Jack Smith and John Ahearn, featuring numerous New York artists, including Jenny Holzer, Gary Indiana, Richard Prince, and William Rice. Printed on the verso, upside down, is a proof image...

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Moscow: Mosfilm, 1966. Collection of three vintage borderless black-and-white reference photographs from the French release of the 1966 film. With the archival stamp of the noted cinema historian Maurice Bessy on the verso of each photo. A stunning set of battle scene photos, including one three-part panoramic shot, demonstrating the...

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London: Smith, Elder and Comapny, 1858, 1867. Second Edition. Three volumes. Set belonging to US Army General, White House Staff Secretary, and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient Andrew Goodpaster, with a presentation bookplate on the front pastedown of each volume. Very Good plus. Rebound in full leather, with marbled endpapers...

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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1960. First Edition. Fine and unread in a Near Fine dust jacket with a touch of overall toning and light soil to the rear panel. An attractive copy of this non-Archer thriller, featuring young California lawyer Bill Gunnarson.

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Hollywood, CA: Wallis-Paramount Pictures-Hazen / Paramount Pictures, 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...

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New York: National Broadcasting Company [NBC], 1950. Draft script for Season 1, episode 10 of the science fiction radio show "Dimension X," "The Greens Hills of Earth," originally broadcast on June 10, 1950. Based on the Robert A. Heinlein short story of the same name, originally published in February 8...

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