Royal Books

N.p. N.p., 1941. Purchase, Rights, and Royalties agreement between James M. Cain and Alfred A. Knopf for Cain's book, "Mildred Pierce," SIGNED by both Cain and Knopf, and dated May 8, 1941. Cain has also initialed several corrections and deletions. The book went on to become one of Cain's best-loved...

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New York: William Morrow, 1939. First printing of this edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper: "To Noni / Who wrote it / From the guy who paid her for doing it / Erle Stanley Gardner." According to Dorothy Hughes' biography of Gardner, Noni Bibler was one of...

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London: C. Hitch and C. Davis, 1735. Two volumes. First Edition. About Near Fine in rebound three-quarter leather, with marbled paper boards and gilt decoration and titles, raised bands. Minor offsetting, a hint of toning to page edges, and mild soil. A comprehensive set, containing in formation on how to...

(read more)about Dictionarium Polygraphicum: or, the Whole Body of Arts Regularly Digested

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...

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New York: Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS], 1948. Treatment script for an unproduced film, as well as a produced radio broadcast script for the May 25th,1948 CBS radio adaptation. Holograph ink on front wrapper, noting title, screenwriter Daniel Tardash, and story based on the 1946 novel by Isak Dinesen (writing under...

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New York: Stuart Company, 1966. Draft script for the 1966 Broadway musical. A series of three playlets tied together by themes, such as dissatisfaction with getting what one wants, and repeated references or design elements, such as the color brown. Each playlet based on an existing work, with the first...

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Dallas: Sack Amusement Enterprises, 1947. Original lobby card for the 1947 film. One of the better known films produced for African American filmgoing audiences in the 1940s, and the last in a series of films directed by African American actor/writer Spencer Williams. Williams was one of only a few African...

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Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1958. Final script for the 1959 film. Based on the novel of the same name by Pulitzer Prize winning author A.B. Guthrie, Jr., the third installment in Guthrie's trilogy about the Old West. SIGNED by actor Don Murray on the title page. An unusual Western, with...

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N.p. N.p., 1916. Vintage Swiss one sheet lithograph poster, made to promote the 1916 opening of Speck's Orient-Cinema in Zurich, during the heart of the silent film era. Designed and illustrated by costume and commercial designer Ernst Deutsch-Dryden. The poster's illustration portrays well-dressed clientele watching a Western movie, likely meant...

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Culver City, CA: Faces Music / Columbia Pictures, 1970. Vintage oversize double weight photograph of Ben Gazzara on the set of the 1970 film. 9.25 x 12.25 inches (23.5 x 31 cm). In an archival mat. Near Fine.

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Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1966. First Draft script for the 1967 film "Tony Rome," here under the working title "Shamus." Based on the 1960 novel by Marvin H. Albert. Paul Brenner of Allmovie.com notes: "Frank Sinatra brings a sneering Rat Pack ethos to his first hard-boiled detective role in Tony...

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Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1968. Second Revised Final script for the 1970 film. A Cold War-era science fiction film in the vein of Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove," in which US and USSR supercomputers join forces to create either world peace or, if crossed, world destruction. When cast, actor Eric Braeden...

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Los Angeles: Selznick International Pictures / Vanguard Films, 1945. First Draft script for the 1947 screwball comedy, "The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer" (here under its working title, "Suddenly It's Spring"), directed by Irving Reis, written for the screen by Sidney Sheldon, and starring Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, Shirley Temple, and...

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N.p. ITC Entertainment, 1976. Draft script for the 1976 German-Italian-British film. A train traveling in Europe has been exposed to a deadly disease, and the passengers are forbidden to leave the train. Terrorism and disaster follow, with a star-studded cast, including Richard Harris, Martin Sheen, and producer Carlo Ponti's wife...

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Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1961. Vintage photograph from the 1961 film. An image with an intentional" trick of the light," showing Monroe playing paddle ball as a crew member runs a cable in foreground. A famously difficult shoot, and just as famously, the final film of both Gable's and...

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New York: Library Publishers, 1955. First American Edition, originally published in the UK by Derek Verschoyle the previous year. Photo illustrated throughout, with different images than the UK edition. An early examination of the negative influence of pop culture on the American public, with sections on film, pin ups, pulp...

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Paris: Films A2, 1987. Collection of 3 vintage oversize studio photographs from the 1987 film. Co-directed by acclaimed photographer and filmmaker Robert Frank (his only feature length fiction film) and acclaimed wirter Rudy Wurlitzer, who wrote the screenplay, "Candy Mountain" is a musician's road movie, heavily influenced by the lives...

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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...

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Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1941. Draft script for the 1941 film. Actor Van Heflin's copy. A delightful comedy about a man who does not believe in jealousy, much to the annoyance of his lovely wife, who constantly finds herself accosted by other men. Lacking front wrapper, rear wrapper is...

(read more)about The Feminine Touch [Female of the Species

Universal City: Dreamworks, 2007. Draft rainbow revision script for the 2008 film. Copy belonging to Second Unit Clearance Coordinator Ashley Kravitz, her name in holograph pencil on an included one line schedule. Included are eight revision pages differing from those in script, two different one line schedules, and other ephemera...

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Hollywood: Sierra Pictures / RKO Radio Pictures, Circa 1948. Draft script for the 1948 film, "Joan of Arc," here under its working title, "Joan of Lorraine." Original scripts from Fleming's films rarely are seen on the market. Based on Maxwell Anderson's play, "Joan of Lorraine." Anderson's play debuted on Broadway...

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London: Faber and Faber, 1988. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page: "John Healy / 19-2-2011 / Dublin." Accompanying the book is a ticket to a screening of the 2011 Irish documentary, "Barbaric Genius," on the same date at the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival. The documentary...

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Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1973. Revised Final Script for the 1974 film, "The Longest Yard," directed by Robert Aldrich, written for the screen by Tracy Keenan Wynn and Albert S. Ruddy (though only Wynn is credited here), and starring Burt Reynolds, Eddie Albert, and Bernadette Peters. Ex-football star Burt Reynolds ends...

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New York: Frank Shay, 1916. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Eugene O'Neill on the front endpaper with a line from the play: "For Keith Baker / 'a good shipmate he was and is, none better' / Eugene O'Neill / Dec. '38." The first publication of O'Neill's first produced play, a one...

(read more)about The Provincetown Plays, First Series: Bound East for Cardiff, The Game, King Arthur's Socks

London: Navarone Productions, 1977. Revised Draft script for the 1978 British-American film. Copy belonging to property master Tony Teiger (presumed), with "Props." in holograph ink on the title page. Based on Alistair MacLean's 1968 novel, and sequel to J. Lee Thompson's 1961 Academy Award-winning film, "The Guns of Navarone," also...

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New York: N.p., 1952. Draft script for the 1952 play production. Copy belonging to actor Van Heflin, who starred in the Broadway production. Set in the ward of a mental hospital, the play follows one of its patients, a theatrical director driven to attempted suicide by his domineering wife, Anne...

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Stockholm: Svensk Filmindustri (SF), 1970. Vintage black-and-white borderless double weight Swedish press photograph from the 1971 film, shot in 1970. Stamps on the verso for the Pressens Bild Ab Feature-Service in Sweden, as well as a Swedish mimeo snipe describing the scene, dated October 1970 and crediting still photographer Jorgen...

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Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1934. Draft script for the 1934 film, here under the working title "Honor Bright." With holograph pencil notations to the front wrapper.In an attempt to go straight, a con man and his girlfriend take in his young daughter, who has been living with his deceased wife's...

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N.p. N.p., 1976. Vintage black-and-white photograph of director Joseph Losey and Alain Delon on the set of the 1976 film. Shot by French photographer Michel Ginfray for Gamma, with a stamp for both parties on the verso, along with a printed mimeo snipe in French and brief notations in holograph...

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N.p. Ramco Productions, 1970. Draft script for the 1970 film.Two criminals, Elsie and Johnny, cross paths with Morgan, a down-and-out man who used to be a minister before his life fell apart and he took to drinking. Johnny coerces Elsie into posing as an evangelical healer and under Morgan's tutelage...

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New Haven, CT: The Yale University Press, 1934. First Edition. The author's first book, a collection of poetry. Far and away the best copy we have ever encountered. Near Fine in a spectacular, Near Fine dust jacket. The book is very slightly toned along the top edge and along the...

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San Francisco: Galeria de la Raza, 1978. Original color silkscreen print,One of an edition of 300 printed. SIGNED AND DATED IN 1978 by the artist. Published by the Galeria de la Raza, La Raza Silkscreen Center, San Francisco, and the artist. 23 x 17.5 inches. Fine condition, unframed.

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Paris: Les Films de la Pleiade, 1962. Collection of four vintage borderless photographs from the 1962 film. With holograph notations and rubber stamps on the versos. Based in part on the nonfiction study "Ou en est la prostitution" by Marcel Sacotte, who also contributed to the screenplay. Godard’s least “intellectual”...

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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.

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New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1939. First Edition. With the rare publisher's wraparound band, noting that this the only play to have ever received both the Pulitzer Prize and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award (Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire" was bestowed the same honor in 1948). Basis for...

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Various cities: Various studios, 1951-1964. Collection of 49 vintage still photographs from various film adaptations of Tennessee Williams plays. All stills are black and white and US issue unless otherwise noted. Included are:A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (1951, Elia Kazan)1 press photograph of Marlon Brando and Kim Hunter, with TCF stamp...

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