![The Virgin Spring [Jungfrukällan]](http://www.royalbooks.com/pictures/thumb/130114.jpg?v=1434404443)
Stockholm: Svensk Filmindustri, 1960. Original Swedish poster for the 1960 film. A landmark twentieth century film whose irregular but inspired dramatic structure and juxtaposition of beauty and savagery has inspired many other great films, from "The Last House on the Left" (1972) to "Irreversible" (2002). The first of two Bergman...
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...
Garden City: Doubleday, 1978. First Edition. INSCRIBED by editor Charles L. Grant in 1980 on the title page: "Larry / Sleep...maybe / Charles L. Grant / 28 Mar 80." Additionally SIGNED by this volume's key contributor, Stephen King, at the inclusion of his story, "Nona." One of the best anthologies...
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...
Los Angeles: First National Pictures, 1929. Two vintage photographs from the the 1929 film. Based on the 1927 novel by Cornell Woolrich, one of six Fitzgerald-esque novels written by the author before he turned to a life of crime (writing). A spoiled rich girl falls for a poor chauffeur, but their...
Beverly Hills: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1928. Draft script for the 1929 silent film. Lon Chaney plays a (heavily-scarred) wild animal trapper whose daughter's upcoming marriage is threatened by the return of her femme fatale mother. The mother harbors bitterness to Chaney, and seeks revenge on him by attempting to woo her...
Los Angeles: RKO Radio Pictures, 1941. Draft script for the 1942 film. An American ballistics expert in Turkey finds himself targeted by Nazi agents. Safe passage home by ship is arranged for him, but he soon discovers that his pursuers are also on board. Set in Turkey. Yellow titled wrappers, rubber-stamped...
![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...
Los Angeles: Paramount, 1933. Final Script for the 1934 pre-code film musical, "Bolero," directed by Wesley Ruggles, written for the screen by Horace Jackson, Kubec Glasmon, Carey Wilson, and Ruth Ridenour, and starring George Raft and Carole Lombard. A stylish Paramount musical that, unlike so many others from its time...
Mexico City, Mexico: Excélsior, 1975. First Mexican Edition, preceding all others. INSCRIBED by the author on the half title page and signed simply as "Julio," which is typical of how he signed for friends. Text in Spanish. A critique of large corporations' reach into Latin America, designed as a superhero comic...
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1954. Vintage double weight still photograph from the 1954 film, nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Based on the 1951 Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Herman Wouk. Shot, struck, and mounted by the film's still photographer, Bob Willoughby, with his ASMP rubber stamp...
London: Gaumont, 1935. Original UK Pressbook for the classic 1935 film, based on the 1915 novel by John Buchan. A rare and blazingly beautiful artifact from one of the foundational espionage thrillers of the twentieth century. Hitchcock's adaptation of Buchan's novel proved, as usual, to be an improvement on the source...
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...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century Fox, 1958. Revised Final script for the 1959 film. Copy belonging to Clifton Webb, with every inclusion of his character's dialogue, underlined in holograph ink. Notations on nearly every page in holograph pencil, including penciled vertical lines indicating that a scene is complete. Based on the 1957...
New York: Wayne County Defense Fund, 1976. Original poster advertising “The Fantabulous New York Rock Party,” held at the Manhattan Center in New York on May 30, 1976. An ironic moment in New York punk and art scene history, some of the earliest evidence that the movement created to mock...
Paris: Editions Universitaires, 1957. First French Edition, preceding the American by nearly 20 years. INSCRIBED on the half title page by Chabrol and Rohmer: "About a man who likes coffee, brandy, and cigars / vos confrères du Cahiers du Cinema / Chabrol / Eric Rohmer." Only the second copy we...
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1909. Quarto, two volumes. First American Edition. Originally published as a limited edition in London the same year. Publisher's blue cloth, titles, designs and rule in silver on the spine and front boards, top page edges gilt. Shackleton gained fame as a member of Capt. Robert...
Paris: Claude Schwartz, 1965. Vintage silver gelatin photograph of Roman Polanski, Jean-luc Godard and actress Catherine Deneuve at Cannes in May 1965, taken by French press and still photographer Claude Schwartz. With Schwartz's French press stamp appearing 5 times on the verso. Arguably the tall man in the background is...
N.p. N.p. Circa 1956. Vintage photograph of Marilyn Monroe and then-husband Arthur Miller arriving in London for Monroe's filming of "The Prince and the Showgirl" (1957) with Laurence Olivier. With a mimeo snipe on the verso, along with photo agency stamps and copyright sticker. 7 x 9.25 inches (18 x 23 cm). Near Fine.
Neuilly-Sur-Seine, France: Gaumont, 1915. Original double weight matte finish still photograph from the legendary 1915 silent film serial. With the Gaumont logo at the lower right corner. Shown here is Musidora as Irma Vep conferring with another member of The Vampires, an anarchist criminal gang at the center of the...
London: Chatto and Windus, 1930. First Edition. One of 260 copies (this being No. 120) SIGNED by the author. Light fading to the spine, else a bright Fine copy. A lovely copy of this play by the author of "Winnie the Pooh."
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.
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1969. Second Draft script for the 1971 film. Anatevka is a fictional shtetl in prerevolutionary Russia where Tevye works as a dairyman, obsessed with tradition and providing for his family, both of which come under fire as great changes come to his small village. Based...
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1988. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author to New York theater set designer Susan Barras on the title page: "Susan Barras. / May God's blessing be with you always. / In all sincerity / Peter Cushing '92." An uncommon signature from the meticulous actor whose name...
London: British Broadcasting Corporation [BBC], 1965. Draft script for the 1965 BBC television movie "Tea Party," adapted by Pinter from his 1963 short story. The film first aired live on March 25, 1965 on the BBC program "The Largest Theatre in the World." INSCRIBED by screenwriter Pinter on that day...
London: Faber and Faber, 1958. First Edition. Copy belonging to the author's British agent, E.J. Carnell in London, with their label on the front endpaper, reading "NON-STOP / by / Brian W. Aldiss / First American Rights" in holograph manual type. A touch of rubbing to the rear panel, else...
N.p. N.p. Circa 1967-1972. Archive of 41 black and white, double weight photgraphs, taken at various concert in the late 1960s and early 1970s, most apparently unpublished, by noted photographer Michael Montfort, several with stamps of German magazine "Stern" and credit for Montfort on the verso. The archive primarily consists...
N.p. N.p. circa 1930s. Collection of 40 black-and-white photographs by Carl Van Vechten, printed on card stock, many as postcards, as was the case with many of the photographs he developed. The collection of photographs shows a variety of subjects and styles representing a little-seen side of Van Vechten, who...
N.p. N.p. ca. 1977. Original manuscript by Joey Ramone for an unrecorded Ramones song, "Let's Go Playmates," executed by the punk legend in holograph pencil on both the recto and verso of a legal size sheet of lined notebook paper. The lyrics appear in every orientation, a beautiful, messy gathering...
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...
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"...
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1938. Final draft script for the 1938 film. From the library of producer Mark Hellinger, who wrote the film's screenplay, bound in red three-quarter leather with gilt titles and designs, marbled endpapers, raised bands, trimmed edges, and Hellinger's name in gilt on the front board. Also...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century Fox, 1947. Second Revised Final script for the 1947 film. INSCRIBED by screenwriter Richard Murphy during production of the film on the title page: "For Max - / With thanks for everything, but especially the advise that led to doing this magillah - / Murph." With...
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1966. Revised Final Script for the 1967 film musical, "Thoroughly Modern Millie," directed by George Roy Hill, written for the screen by Richard Morris, and starring Julie Andrews, James Fox, Mary Tyler Moore, and Carol Channing. This Oscar-winning director George Roy Hill's working copy, with...
London: AVCO Embassy Pictures, 1973. Draft script for the 1974 film. From the collection of still photographer Bob Willoughby. Rainbow copy with blue, pink, and white leaves. Included are six vintage black-and-white reference still photographs from the film. Bob Willoughby (1927-2009) studied with Saul Bass at the Kann Institute of Art...
![Le Regard du Sourd [Deafman Glance]](http://www.royalbooks.com/pictures/thumb/131843.jpg?v=1436910411)
Paris: 1971. Original poster for the 1971 play directed by Robert Wilson. Lauded for its surreal nature and unusual structure, "Deafman Glance" is a play entirely without words, during which a woman first completes household tasks and then methodically murders two young boys while a deaf third child looks on...