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...
London: The Archers, 1947. Complete set of 8 UK color front-of-house cards from the first-run screening of the 1947 film. Each with the contemporary rubber stamp of Girosign, Ltd., on the verso. Front-of-house cards served the same purpose in the UK as lobby cards in the US, but were generally...
Los Angeles: Paramount, 1928. Original oversize tabloid style pressbook for the 1928 silent film. With many images of the iconic Louise Brooks, both illustrated and photographed, and replete with many essays on the making of the film. Included as well is an illustrated section showing some of the various available...
![The Double Suicide at Ten No Amijima [Double Suicide]](http://www.royalbooks.com/pictures/thumb/132232.jpg?v=1418060196)
Tokyo: Kiyoshi Awazu, 1969. Original poster for the 1969 Japanese film. Designed by Kiyoshi Awazu. A hand made silkscreen print gifted from Awazu to noted film historian and iconoclast Amos Vogel, with a margin design significantly different from the trade edition of the poster issued by Awazu (also in small...
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1947. First Edition. Basis for Francois Truffaut's 1969 film noir, "Mississippi Mermaid" ("La Sirene du Mississippi"), starring Catherine Deneuve and Jean-Paul Belmondo; and more recently the 2001 neo-noir, "Original Sin," starring Antonio Banderas and Angelina Jolie. Near Fine in a bright, Very Good plus dust jacket. Light fading...
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...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1960. Vintage oversize borderless black-and-white double weight press photograph from the set of the 1960 film. Shot by Jean Schmidt for the French magazine Cinemá, with stamps for both parties on the verso. A cinematic experiment tailor made for Welles, in which three actors portray two...
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...
New York: Arthur Allen Studios, 1915-1925. Photo album portfolio sold to subscribers by Allen from his Arthur Allen Studios circa 1915-1925, containing more than 40 pages of original nude photographic prints pasted onto stiff pages. Each photo is discreetly rubber stamped (1 to 40) at the bottom right corner. Each leaf...
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Los Angeles: Paramount, 1972. Draft script for the 1973 film. Nick (Williams) is a federal agent tracking down a heroin ring, with the help of a few recruits he's trained, and seeking revenge for his deceased daughter. Prostitution, Vietnam War vets, and a Jewish ex-con make the nearly three-hour hit...
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1955. Vintage oversize double weight photograph of Frank Sinatra and Kim Novak in conference with director Otto Preminger on the set of "The Man with the Golden Arm" in the fall of 1955. Shot and struck by the film's still photographer, Bob Willoughby. SIGNED by...
New York: N.p. 1973. Archive of photographs and negatives, shot by and belonging to photographer Andy Romanoff, of director Nicholas Ray at work on his collaborative, experimental film "We Can't Go Home Again" at the Chateau Marmont in 1973. In addition to the material, sale of the archive includes complete...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], circa 1944. Collection of 14 original preliminary advertising concept art sketches for the release of sultry 1944 B-picture. Executed variously in graphite, charcoal, and gouache on onion skin paper, each leaf tipped on to white paper stock at the corners, some with notations at the...
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1959. First library edition, though not ex-library. Fine in maroon cloth covered boards with white titles and a Very Good plus dust jacket. Jacket has moderate bruising to the front panel, with professional repair to holes and tears at the verso. Bottom corner of the...
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 play...
New York: Bantam Books, 1973. No. R7678. First Edition, a paperback original. Melvin Van Peebles' copy, with his name, company name ("Y.E.A.H., Inc."), address, and phone number in holograph ink on the inside front wrapper. Contains the script and lyrics for Van Peebles's Broadway play, a series of 19 politically outspoken...
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N.p. N.p. Circa 1979. Charles Willeford's original, heavily hand-corrected submission to his one-time publisher, Pegasus Rex, for "The Writing on the Walls," eventually re-titled "Off the Wall." Willeford's name, address, and phone number are in blue holograph ink at the top of the title page, and each of the eighteen...
Paris: Carthago Films, 1983. Second Draft script for the 1986 film, dated three years prior to its release. Nominated for an Academy Award. One of Polanski's most underrated efforts, in many ways a companion to "The Fearless Vampire Killers" in that it is a beautifully executed, comedic valentine to the genre...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1933. Draft script for the 1933 film musical. Based on the 1932 novel by James Warner Bellah. Pre-Code musical film starring Joan Crawford as Janie Barlow, a down-in-her-luck young burlesque dancer who, after an embarrassing stint in jail for indecent exposure, is rescued by Tod...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1943. Revised Final Draft script for the 1943 film. Winner of four Academy Awards (including Best Actress and Best Cinematography) and nominated for another eight (including Best Picture, Best Screenplay, and Best Director). In 1858 France, Bernadette (Jennifer Jones), an adolescent peasant girl, has a vision of...
London: Cresset, 1950. First UK Edition. Basis for the 1951 Hitchcock classic, and the author's first book. Jacket design by J. Yunge-Bateman. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Slight spine lean, moderate toning and rubbing overall, a few faint dampstains to the boards, with indiscreet touchup to the rear...
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1957. Vintage oversize double weight photograph of Jean Seberg, Otto Preminger, David Niven, and the stand-ins for Seberg and Niven on the set of "Bonjour Tristesse" in the late summer of of 1957 in Côte d'Azur, France. Shot, struck, and mounted by the film's still...
Beverly Hills: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1956. Draft script for the 1956 film. Copy belonging to assistant director James H. Ware, with his name and notations throughout in holograph pencil and ink. Ware was a major presence in British and American cinema, best known for his work on "Beat the Devil" (1953)...
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.
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Rome: Produzioni Cinematografiche Associate, 1954. Original French program for the rarely seen 1954 Italian / French coproduction "Giovanni d'Arco al rogo," here under the French titled "Jeanne au bucher." Presumably programs were made for both French and Italian audiences. In a rather bold film experiment for its time, Rossellini filmed...
![Nuit et brouillard [Night and Fog]](http://www.royalbooks.com/pictures/thumb/137041.jpg?v=1492979431)
Paris: Argos Films, circa 1956. Original French moyenne poster (affiche) for the 1955 film, printed for use as part of a program with other films during its initial release. Winner of the 1956 Prix Jean Vigo and Grand prix du cinéma française. Rare, with no copies found in OCLC or...
![The Bride Wore Black [La mariée était en noir]](http://www.royalbooks.com/pictures/thumb/134990.jpg?v=1492979038)
Paris: Les Films du Carrosse, 1968. Vintage borderless black-and-white double weight photograph from the 1968 French film noir. With a notation in holograph ink that the photo comes from the collection of Patrice Enard on the verso. Based on the classic 1940 crime novel by Cornell Woolrich, a Haycraft Queen Cornerstone. 9.75...
Los Angeles: Mirisch Productions, Inc. / United Artists, 1968. Final Draft script for the 1969 film. Copy belonging to actress Merie Earle (her first film credit), and INSCRIBED on the front wrapper: "This was my first / "on location" picture / Everything was / "red carpet" I loved it /...
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Paris: N.p. Circa 1960. Two vintage photographs of director Jean-Luc Godard, dark sunglasses and cigarette accounted for, reviewing still photographs for his 1960 film, "À bout de souffle." Shot by Philippe R. Doumic. Both photographs with Godard's name stamped in blue on the verso. Both photos 5 x 7 inches (13 x 18 cm). Fine.
Los Angeles: Fox Film Corporation, 1931. Script for the 1932 pre-code film, "She Wanted a Millionaire," directed by John G. Blystone, based on a story by Sonya Levien, written for the screen by William Anthony McGuire, and starring Spencer Tracy and Joan Bennett. A drama featuring early performances by Bennett...
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...
N.p. N.p. circa 1960s. A collection of eight mounted color 35mm transparency slides and four unmounted 6cm color transparencies of Steve McQueen likely taken during the 1960s. Images include various shots of McQueen as he appeared in "Sand Pebbles" (1966), "The Cincinnati Kid" (1965), "The Magnificent Seven" (1960), "Baby the...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1972. Final shooting script for the 1972 film. The fourth of five films in the original motion pictures series based loosely on Pierre Boulle's 1963 novel. Following thematically on the heels of its predecessor "Escape from the Planet of the Apes," an intelligent time traveling ape...
New York: Robert M. McBride, 1927. First Edition. An uncommon Smith title, a meditation on wayward youth that is a departure from his trademark ribald humor. Offsetting to the last two rear blanks, else Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Vintage bookstore label to the rear pastedown. Jacket is lightly...
Los Angeles: Paramount, 1979. Shooting script for the 1980 film, including a 3-page shooting schedule. The first major studio effort by the famed Zucker brothers, following their rather inspired patchwork comedy, "Kentucky Fried Movie" (1977). With "Airplane!" the brothers brought their brand of silly, unhinged comedy out of the midnight...
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...