Royal Books

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1971. Vintage oversize double weight candid photograph of Alan J. Pakula, Donald Sutherland, and Jane Fonda on the set of "Klute" in the summer of 1970. Shot, struck, and mounted by the film's still photographer, Bob Willoughby. The photographer has written at the top of the...

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San Francisco: Terry Zwigoff, 1988. First Draft script for an unproduced film, based on R. Crumb's cartoon character "Sassy, the female sasquatch."A project that was in development three years after Zwigoff's first film (a documentary about Howard "Louie Bluie" Armstrong), and preceded by six years the documentary about R. Crumb...

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New York: Self published, 1960. Archive of two pieces from one of the New York Underground's most creative and charismatic orators, Spencer Holst. Includes Holst's self-published first book, "25 Stories" (1960), and a flyer from a reading shortly after publication at The Living Theatre in New York on February 1...

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New York: William Morrow, 1937. First Canadian Edition. Fine in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, unrubbed but lightly worn at spine ends and with three small chips on back panel. An exceptional copy of a very scarce title in dust jacket. The only indication that this the Canadian edition is...

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Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1965. Final Draft script for the 1966 film.Secret agent Derek Flint is a smooth-talking Renaissance man—martial arts master, polyglot, ballet dancer—who works for the international intelligence agency Z.O.W.I.E. When several fellow agents are discovered mysteriously murdered, his agency tasks Flint with finding and stopping the killers...

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N.p. N.p., 1968. Two-color ink drawing of Charlie Chaplin in silhouette, titled "Chaplin a' la Vigo's 'Zero de conduit'" by noted radical caricaturist Robert Osborn. The title makes reference to French filmmaker Jean Vigo's 1933 film, "Zero de conduite," and the drawing, unpublished, was a gift to Osborn's friend Amos...

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New York: Random House, 1939. First Edition. Wonderfully INSCRIBED by the author to actor Paul Muni's wife: "For Bella Muni / Dear Bella / Early in our acquaintance, I reckoned my obligation to you in the terms of light-years / But lately I've lost count and given up. / Sincerely...

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Burbank, CA: NBC Television Network, 1951-1959. Collection of 35 vintage contact sheets from the 1951 to 1959 NBC television series. Stills as well as on the set shots of Jack Webb and Ben Alexander as well as a host of supporting actors.The well loved early police drama created by and...

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Yokohama, Kanagawa: Kurosawa Production Co., circa 1980. Draft script for the 1980 Japanese film. Holograph pencil annotations throughout regarding casting, including the use of professional or amateur actors, as well as a notation regarding lead actor Katsu Shintaro, who was fired on the first day of shooting. The story of...

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New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2002. First Edition. Two volumes. A chronological reference of Alfred Stieglitz' work, spanning the length of his illustrious career in American photography. Both volumes Fine and unread with no dust jacket in a Fine linen slipcase as issued, and housed in the publisher's shipping carton...

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New York: William Morrow, 1946. First Edition. Mainwaring (writing pseudonymously as Homes) made his reputation with this book, but interestingly went on to be more prolific as a noted screenwriter for both films noir and other genres and styles. Basis for the classic 1947 film noir "Out of the Past,"...

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London: Feliks Topolski, 1965. First and only edition. Folded broadside, revealing when unfolded a large scale graphic and textual portrayal of a poetry reading that became a watershed moment in 1960s British counterculture. SIGNED by Alexander Trocchi at the inclusion of his essay. The broadside was published as a part...

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Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1949. Revised Final script for the 1950 film. Bound presentation belonging to producer Sol C. Siegel with his name in gilt on the front board. With 53 studio still photographs tipped in throughout, four pages of retakes and added scenes tipped in at the rear, as...

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Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1956. Draft script for the 1956 film, here under the working title "The Outlaws are in Town." Copy belonging to Robert Arthur, who played Lonny Kesh, with his name on the front wrapper in holograph pencil and his holograph pencil and ink annotations throughout. Lonny Kesh...

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Paris: Filmsonor, 1962. Collection of 67 original single weight borderless film stills for the 1962 French-Italian film, here under the original French title, "Cartouche." Action sequences, men in military regalia, and romantically charged images of Belmondo and Cardinale, with most representing Belmondo either charming people or dueling with swords. Housed...

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Tokyo: Nikkatsu, circa 1956. First Draft script for the 1956 film. Title in English on rear wrapper. Based on a 1946 children’s novel by Michio Takeyama, about a conscience-driven Japanese soldier who adopts the lifestyle of a Buddhist monk after he fails to get his countrymen to surrender to an...

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Hollywood: The Selznick Company, 1959. Leatherbound presentation copy of Second Draft script for the 1962 film. Presented to studio executive David O. Selznick, with his initials in gilt on front board. Henry King's adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic final novel, and his final film as well. King was...

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Burbank, CA: Palomar Pictures, 1969. Vintage borderless double weight photograph of Woody Allen's mug shot, from the 1969 film. Woody Allen's first film as a director, one of the great American comedies, the film that set the template for Allen's 1970s work. A massive archive documenting the birth of an...

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Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1966. Vintage double weight, borderless still photograph of actress Shirley MacLaine from the 1966 film. Nominated for three Academy Awards. Although not indicated on the photograph, shot, struck, and mounted by the film's still photographer, Bob Willoughby. Full provenance available. After studying with Saul Bass...

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Los Angeles: American International Pictures [AIP], circa 1972. Draft script for the 1972 film. With actor Betty Anne Rees' first name and phone number in holograph ink on the front wrapper.Karen (Claudia Jennings) quits her job at a cannery and joins a roller derby team. She quickly clashes with Mickey...

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London: Macmillan, 1941. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the First UK Edition. Basis for the classic 1942 film starring Ronald Colman and Greer Garson, one of the dreamiest, most surreal romances ever to be committed to celluloid. The first proof copy we have ever encountered, and we imagine most likely the last.Brown...

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New York: William Morrow, 1939. First Edition. Very Good in a Good plus example of the scarce dust jacket. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper: "To Margie and Babe / with all my love / Daniel Geoffrey Homes Mainwaring." Book is slightly cocked and a bit shaken, otherwise...

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N.p., 1959. Draft script for the 1959 play. First presented at the Martinique Theatre, New York City, on October 28, 1959 running for 256 performances. Based on Dos Passos' U.S.A. trilogy of novels written between 1930 and 1937, turned dramatic revue by Paul Shyre and John Dos Passos. Shyre's adaptation...

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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Vonnegut and dated January 1971 on the front endpaper: "Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Signed at Heinz Hall Pittsburgh / 11-17-71." Laid in is a photocopy of the reading and workshop Vonnegut gave at the then-newly-refurbished hall, as part of its International...

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N.p. N.p., 1984. Draft script for the 1984 stage musical. Copy belonging to an unknown cast member, who played Smollett, with his lines noted in holograph pencil. A musical based on the 1883 adventure novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. One of the most frequently dramatized novels about pirates and piracy...

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Hollywood: Allied Artists Productions, 1956. Draft script for the 1957 film noir, here under the working title "Night Target." A strike through the printed title and "Footsteps in the Night" and "1956" written in holograph ink on the wrapper with the name of an uncredited crew member written in holograph...

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London: Signal Films, circa 1975. Shooting Script for the 1975 film. Sequel to the 1966 film "Alfie," and based on the 1970 novel by Bill Naughton. Copy belonging to director/screenwriter Ken Hughes, with his heavy annotations throughout. Alan Price takes on the role previously played by Michael Caine of Alfie...

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N.p. N.p., Circa 1990s. Vintage photograph of Muhammad Ali with documentary filmmaker and producer Lindsey Clennell, circa early 1990s. With a holograph notation on the verso identifying the subjects. In articles about Ali from 1988 and 1989, both the "New York Times" and "Washington Post" quote Clennell, and the "Times"...

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Budapest: Szikra Kiadas, 1948. First Hungarian Edition, preceding all others. Lengthily INSCRIBED by the author in Hungarian in the year preceding publication on the first blank leaf, ending with "Budapest / 47.XII.14." A rare signature. A renaissance man in the world of early cinema, Balazs began writing film criticism, poetry...

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Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1977. Revised Draft script for the 1978 film. The Beatles' legendary 1967 masterwork is turned into a 1970s film musical, represented by a star-studded ensemble, with appearances by Donald Pleasence, George Burns (the only actor with speaking lines not accompanied by song), Steve Martin, Alice...

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Culver City, CA: Sage Productions / Columbia Pictures, 1958. Original pressbook for the 1958 film noir. Based on the 1949 Frederic Brown novel. One of the weirdest and most wonderful of the Columbia B-noirs, a very faithful adaptation of Fredric Brown's byzantine mystery novel, with Anita Ekberg (pre-"La Dolce Vita")...

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Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1924. Continuity Draft script for the 1925 film. Studio File Copy, rubber-stamped on the front wrapper. Brief notation on one page in holograph pencil. Based on Tod Robbins' 1917 novel, a classic of horror fiction about a trio of circus freaks who escape captivity in...

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New York: Tams-Witmark Music Library, Circa 1947. Draft script for the 1947 Broadway musical, which debuted on January 10 at the 46th Street Theatre. Copy belonging to an uncredited cast member, Donald Burr, with his name in holograph pencil annotation to the title page and annotations to virtually every page...

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Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1943. Revised Draft script 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...

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Paris: Franfilmdis / Argui-Film, 1933. Collection of four vintage oversize double weight studio still photographs for the landmark 1933 silent film by Jean Vigo. Each with the stamp of French weekly "Tele Magazine" on verso, two with holograph annotations regarding layout. Although he only made four films before his death...

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N.p. N.p., Circa 1930. Vintage photograph of F.W. Murnau, cinematographer Floyd Crosby, a sound engineer, and extras on location during shooting of the 1931 film. Considered the first example of "docufiction." The fourth and final film made by Murnau during his time in the US. Murnau and Robert J. Flaherty...

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