New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1939. First American Edition. Near Fine in a Very Good plus, price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket shows only a few small chips and tiny closed tears at the extremities, with some light evidence that there was once some reinforcement at the verso, now professionally removed. Basis...
Paris: Gök in Sipahio lu, Circa 1970. Vintage borderless black-and-white press photograph of George Harrison at press conference for the release of his legendary 1970 album, "All Things Must Pass." Shot by noted Turkish photographer Gök in Sipahio lu, with his Parisian press stamp on the verso. Without question, 1970 was...
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Los Angeles: Twentieth Century Fox, 1942. Final Script for the 1943 film, "Tonight We Raid Calais" [here titled simply "Project 47"], directed by John Brahm, written for the screen by Waldo Salt, and starring Lee J. Cobb, John Sutton, Beulah Bondi, and Howard Da Silva. John Sutton plays a British...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1967. Draft script for the 1968 film. Inscribed to noted journalist Robert Ajemian in an unknown hand ("for Robert Ajemian") on the front wrapper. Ajemian worked at this time for LIFE magazine, and beginning in 1972, national political correspondent and then Washington Bureau Chief for...
New York: Vintage, 1984. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the First Edition. Small crease to the first leaf, else Fine in plain yellow wrappers. Stephenson's first book, the only proof copy we have ever encountered, one of presumably only a few copies that were produced.
N.p. N.p. 1966. Set of three remarkable double weight photograph of Carol Burnett, Rock Hudson, Frank Gorshin, and Ken Berry on the set of one of Carol Burnett's earliest television specials, "Carol and Company," which aired on October 9, 1966. CBS tested the waters with Carol Burnett four times with specials...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940. First Edition. Basis for the little-seen but unforgettable 1948 William Dieterle film starring Joseph Cotten and Jennifer Jones. Fine and unread, with a beautiful topstain, in a dust jacket that is Fine but for some fading to the sensitive pink spine titles. A superb copy.
![Possessed [The Mirage]](http://www.royalbooks.com/pictures/thumb/140728.jpg?v=1492980595)
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1931. Draft script for the classic 1931 pre-code film. Copy belonging to Joan Crawford, bearing the holograph inscription "Miss Crawford" on the front wrapper. Classic Pre-Code romantic melodrama, following Mariane's (Joan Crawford) rise from country girl to sophisticated high class mistress, who falls for an...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century Fox, 1940. Nearly complete set of 96 vintage set design photographs, each numbered from 1 to 97 (photo No. 39 is missing), from the 1940 film. From the collection of set decorator Thomas Little. Barrymore lampoons himself as a famous actor given over to drink. Unlike the...
Tucson, AZ: Nazraeli Press, 2002. First Edition. One of 500 copies, this being No. 55, SIGNED by Robert Adams. Number 12 in the Nazaeli Press One Picture Book series. Containing one tipped in original photographic print, four duotone reproductions of photographs by Adams, and three poems by Carolyn Dunn. Scarce...
N.p. N.p. Circa 1969-1974. Two vintage double weight photographs of The Rolling Stones, circa 1969-1974, with Mick Taylor in the lineup after the departure of Brian Jones. With the stamp of photographer Curt Gunther on the verso of each photograph. From the archive of "Cash Box" magazine. First photograph 9...
N.p. Stan Brakhage, 1967. Original two color hand printed poster advertising the two first public screenings of the 1967 film, as well as selections from Brakhage's "Songs" and a live lecture by Brakhage. The only poster for a Brakhage screening we have ever encountered, as none of Brakhage's films ever received...
Paris: Gallimard, 1967. First French Edition, preceded by the Greek edition published by Editions Themelion in 1966. Association copy, inscribed by Vassilikos to author William Styron and his wife: "For Rose and Bill / With all my happiness for the success of the book / Love and nostalgia / from...
N.p. N.p. Circa 1960. Archive of 38 double weight and 42 single weight vintage photographs, 39 of which are oversize, of opera singer Anna Moffo, all taken circa late 1950s and early 1960s. The majority of the photographs have stamps or other markings identifying the several photographers represented in the...
Mexico City: Ultramar Films, 1952. Draft script for the 1954 Mexican film. Included is a typed letter signed from the film's producer Edward L. Alperson, on his custom rough-edged stationery, discussing the possibility of distribution within the US. Distribution was eventually taken on by United Artists, and Daniel O'Herlihy received...
New York: The Vanguard Press, 1944. First Edition. The author's first book, with a price of $2.50 at the bottom of the jacket front flap as called for. Near Fine in a bright, about Near Fine dust jacket, with a lovely, deep brown topstain. Backstrip and jacket spine panel both very...
Berlin: Verlag Ernst Wasmuth, 1924. First Edition. Very Good plus without dust jacket. Moderate fading to the extremities of the blue cloth boards, with some light dampstaining to the front board and a few underlines in red pencil to the text. Bookplate to the front pastedown. Contains black and white...
Los Angeles: Famous Players-Lasky Corporation / Paramount, 1926. Vintage photograph from the 1926 film starring Louise Brooks. With a mimeo snipe and photo agency sticker on the verso. Based on the 1926 Broadway play, written by George Abbott and John V.A. Weaver, Louise Brooks plays a party girl whose wild...
London: Allen and Unwin, 1920. First edition, first issue with type broken on page 35, line 32. Some offsetting to the second blank, some fading to the book spine, still easily Near Fine in an about Fine dust jacket with light rubbing at the spine ends. A very nice copy...
New York: Callaway Editions, Inc. 1982. First Edition. One of 1,000 hardbound copies SIGNED by the photographer on a tipped in page, issued simultaneously in 2,000 signed softcover editions. 62 full-page black and white plates. A visually stunning photographic reportage of the Ohio River Valley, as commissioned by the Akron...
N.p. Veriscope, 1897. Vintage fragment from a 63mm film print of the 1897 boxing match between "Gentleman" Jim Corbett and Bob Fitzsimmons. The fragment consists of six frames depicting the fighters in a clinch. At over 100 minutes, the film is the first feature film release in world history, and...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1966. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Martha Graham to the late, legendary film director Sidney Lumet at the half-title page: "For Sidney Lumet / Martha Graham." Sidney Lumet's astounding catalog of films slightly predicted (and later joined) the work of the great filmmakers of the 1970s...
New York: LIFE Magazine, 1958. Two vintage oversize black-and-white double weight photographs featuring actor Ed Wynn and other actors and working crew members on the set of the 1959 film, both shot by photographer Ralph Crane on assignment for LIFE Magazine. Both photos with stamps on the verso crediting both...
Los Angeles: Paramount, 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 love...
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...
Tokyo: Nikkatsu, 1966. Draft script for the 1966 film. Text in Japanese. Based on a novel by Takashi Suzuki, a repressed, Catholic young man living in a boardinghouse is infatuated with the landlady's daughter and when he cannot express his feelings, he turns to violence. He joins a gang and...
Paris: Film-Production Carl Dreyer, 1932. Vintage double weight matte finish French still photograph from the 1932 film. Shown is Rena Mandel as Gisele. "Vampyr" was a German-French co-production, and Dreyer, who maintained strict creative control over his films, has production companies in both Berlin and Paris. This photo was issued...
Burbank: Warner Brothers, 1990. Original Press Kit for the 1990 film, "Goodfellas," directed and written for the screen by Martin Scorsese, based on the novel by Nicholas Pileggi, and starring Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Ray Liotta, Paul Sorvino, and Lorraine Bracco. 19 still photographs from the film, all black-and-white...
Brighton, UK: The Rock Music Photographs of Ian Dickson, 2006. First Edition. Number 5 of an unspecified limitation of "DeLuxe" editions produced by photographer Ian Dickson, containing 7 black-and-white photographs struck from the original negatives, taken on June 13, 1977 for "Sounds" magazine during a performance by The Jam at...
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...
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Paris: Productions Sigma, 1939. Vintage double weight photograph from the 1939 film. Shot and struck by the film's still photographer Raymond Voinquel, with his name in tiny print at the bottom left corner of the image, and the film title at the bottom right. A striking image, shot from the top...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1959. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the front flyleaf. About Near Fine in a bright, Near Fine dust jacket. An attractive copy of the eighth Lew Archer novel, with one of the best jacket designs in the classic series.
Burbank: Walt Disney Productions, 1981. Draft script for the 1982 film. Jeff Bridges plays a game designer who ends up in the very game he's been programming, and who must defeat the computer-generated image of his money-grubbing employer. The pinnacle of computer graphics technology at the time, a hybrid of...
Burbank, CA: Buena Vista Pictures, 2000. Archive of two scripts for the 2000 film, including the shooting script with blue and pink revisions bound in, and yellow revisions bound separately, with the studio's production number rubber stamped randomly on the pages throughout. Copy belonging to Bruce Willis' stand-in, Allen Strange...
![Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion [Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto]](http://www.royalbooks.com/pictures/thumb/135544.jpg?v=1492979133)
Italy: Vera Films, circa 1969-1970. Vintage borderless photograph from the 1970 Italian film. With the stamp of photograph Mario Tursi on the verso. An iconic photograph from an iconic film, a study in corruption in which a police inspector investigates a crime that he himself has committed. Winner of the 1971...
London: Robert Hale, 1960. First UK Edition and first edition in hardcover. Near Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Slight lean to book with foxing to the endpapers and page edges. Small numerical ink notation to the front endpaper. Jacket is bright and complete with a bit of...