Royal Books

London: Maclehose / Quercus, 2008, 2009. First UK Editions of the three books in Stieg Larsson's trilogy, each volume Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket, without a trace of wear or the spine bumping endemic to these titles. The second volume is SIGNED by translator Reg Keeland on...

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N.p. N.p. 1971. Original three-panel artwork by Ernie Bushmiller for the February 1, 1971 daily installment of his seminal comic strip Nancy. As with American cinema, it was the French who first championed the studied simplicity of Bushmiller's un-deconstructible combination of rigid artistic style and even more rigidly governed humor...

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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 confreres du Cahiers du Cinema / Chabrol / Eric Rohmer." Only the second copy we...

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Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1942. Revised Final Script for the 1942 film musical, "Springtime in the Rockies," directed by Irving Cummings, based on the screenplay for the 1936 comedy "Second Honeymoon," written for the screen by Walter Bullock, Ken Englund, Jacques Thery, and Philip Wylie and starring Betty Grable, Carmen...

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Paris: Anne-age-Bela, 1975. Collection of ten vintage borderless photographs (five black-and-white and five in color) from the 1975 film. Generally considered the peak of the collaborative work on video done by Godard and Mieville, presenting scenes from the everyday interactions of a working class family, with a special focus on...

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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."

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N.p. N.p. 1971. Original six-panel artwork by Ernie Bushmiller for the November 14, 1971 deluxe Sunday installment of his seminal comic strip Nancy. This particular strip features both Nancy and Sluggo. As with American cinema, it was the French who first championed the studied simplicity of Bushmiller's un-deconstructible combination of...

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Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, circa 1970. Draft script for the 1970 film. Based on the 1968 novel by Gore Vidal. One of the key twentieth century films about Hollywood, and a prescient one in terms of LGBT interests, which at this time received almost no attention from major studios. Based...

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Berlin: Film-Kurier, 1929. Original program for the legendary 1929 silent film. Replete with beautiful gravure-printed production photographs, including a stunning deep focus shot on the rear panel from a party scene in the film, with Louise Brooks at the center of attention. Film-Kurier was the first German film journal, published...

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Berlin: Keystone Pressedienst, 1978. Original silver gelatin photograph of director Rainer Werner Fassbinder on the set of his 1978 film, "Ein Jar mit 13 Monden" ["In a Year with 13 Moons"]. With label of German press agency Keyston Pressedients on the verso, along with a holograph notation, "Rainer Werner Fassbinder...

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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...

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Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1927. Vintage hand color tinted lobby card for the 1927 silent film. Pictured are a curly haired Louise Brooks, looking past an oblivious Wallace Beery and toward a typically sly Adolphe Menjou. Based on the French play "L'homme en habit" ("The Man in Evening Clothes) by Andre...

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Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1936. Vintage sepia toned double weight photograph from the filming of the 1936 Universal Studios newsreel "You Can't Get Away With It." Shot in the office of J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the FBI, on October 14, 1936, the photo shows Hoover filming his Assistant...

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France / Italy: Affiches Gaillard / Cineriz, Circa 1961. Archive of 139 vintage borderless single weight still photographs from the 1961 Italian-French film. Seen in the images is starring actor Fernandel and other members of the cast in action, and a few images of the film crew at work. Notations...

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N.p. N.p. circa 1979. Composite typescript by Terry Southern, with paste-ups, white-outs, holograph corrections, etc. 5 pages, complete and unpublished. An outline for a film version of Southern's novel, "Blue Movie."The film outline appears to be unique and unpublished, a parallel piece of sorts to "Outline for Blue Movie," an...

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Tokyo: Shinchosha Company, circa 1988. Preparation Draft script for the 1988 Japanese animated film. Based on the semi-autobiographical 1967 short story by Akiyuki Nosaka. Text in Japanese. A draft script of the film, in which the ending had not yet been finalized. "Grave of the Fireflies" follows the final days...

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Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1966. Original one sheet poster, designed as a pin-up, for the 1966 science fiction film. The very scarce Style D poster featuring a young and exquisitely beautiful Raquel Welch in all her glory. Oddly, a far superior image to the more famous one from "One Million...

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Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1942. Original Screenplay for the 1942 film. Copy belonging to studio secretary Marion Pecht, with her notations in holograph pencil throughout, noting revisions to dialogue and direction, and her name on several pages. Based on Rex Beach's 1906 novel, about a miner in Alaska named...

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Paris: Jolly Film, 1967. Original French theatrical poster for the 1967 French film. Monsieur Hulot first came to the attention of the world during his beach vacation in "Monsieur Hulot's Holiday" (1953), then reappeared in a modern French neighborhood in "Mon Oncle" (1958). The third feature finds him in the...

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New York: William Morrow, 1937. First Edition. Warmly INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper: "To Noni / With best from the boss / Erle Stanley Gardner." According to Dorothy Hughes' biography of Gardner, Noni Bibler was one of Gardner's early assistants. Very Good in a Very Good dust...

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London: William Heinemann, 1961. First UK Edition and first edition in hardcover. INSCRIBED by the author to noted bookseller Anthony Rota in 1961 on the leaf facing the title page: "For Anthony Rota / In appreciation of his many acts of friendship / Alexander Trocchi / September 1961." The only...

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New York: DoubledayDoran, 1930. First Edition. A superb example of the fifth Jeeves title, collecting 11 short stories that originally appeared in "Liberty" and "Cosmopolitan" magazine in the US. Slightest lean, else Fine in an about Fine dust jacket with just a hint of fading to the spine. An exceptional...

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Los Angeles: Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS], 1969. Third Revision script for the 1969 television special, originally broadcast on November 5, 1969 on CBS. Presentation script belonging to uncredited production manager Gary Necessary, with his name and the title stamped on the front board of the custom spring binding. With holograph...

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Boston: Little, Brown, 1930. First American Edition. First book in Hamilton's "20,000 Streets Under the Sky" trilogy. INSCRIBED by the author to his wife, and dated in the year and month of their marriage (as well as the year of publication): "To Lois / from / her own private novelist...

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N.p. N.p. Circa 1932. Vintage photograph of director Rene Clair in the midst of an outdoor shot with his cinematographer Georges Perinal on location for the 1933 film. A wonderful image, capturing Clair and Perinal as they set up the kind of shot that distinguished the director's work: viewing an...

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Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1957. Original US one sheet poster for the third of Budd Boetticher's seven legendary Westerns with Randolph Scott, one of five released through Columbia. Near the end of Randolph Scott's career, producer Harry Brown, Scott, and Boetticher began work on a series of intelligent films...

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New York: Random House, 1958. First Edition. Laid in is a typed letter signed by O'Hara, addressed to "Bill and Frank," on stationery from Long Island, NY. The letter is dated June 20, 1960 (in pencil), and in it O'Hara expresses his dislike of the public remarks made by Mark...

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Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1936. Final script for the 1936 film. Included is an 8 x 10 publicity still of Tony Martin, Judy Garland, and Jack Haley, dated 1936, with a credit for the film and production studio. Judy Garland's first feature film, to be followed only three years later...

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New York: Macmillan, 1977. First Edition. INSCRIBED to playwright and film director David Mamet and his then-wife, actress Lindsay Crouse, in the year of publication on the title page: "For two beautiful people / Lindsay and David / Harold Clurman / Dec. 21, 1977."A remarkable association, connecting three generations of...

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N.p. Monogram Pictures, 1946. Typescript of the Final Shooting script for the 1947 Poverty Row film noir. Based on Cornell Woolrich's short story, "Two Men in a Furnished Room," first published in the 1946 short story anthology "The Dancing Detective" under his pseudonym William Irish. The tale of a manhunt...

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New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1932. First Photoplay Edition. An attractive copy of this difficult title. Based on the 1932 film noir antecedent, directed by Charles Brabin and starring Walter Huston and Jean Harlow, from an original screen story by W.R. Burnett. Near Fine in a Very Good plus dust...

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Denver, CO: Wiseman Film Productions, 1964. Original one sheet poster for the 1964 film. Only one style of the poster is known to have been issued for its initial release. A seminal film from many points of view. The second feature to be directed by Shirley Clarke, one of the...

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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...

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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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Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1986. Revised Draft script for the 1987 film "Predator," here under the working title, "Hunter." Small stray notation in holograph ink on one page. One of the best action films of the 1980s, memorable in the pantheon of alien films, and easily a highspot of Arnold’s...

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Cleveland, OH: N.p. 1944-1949. Archive of 204 black and white 4 x 5 inch inter-negatives from the Cleveland, Ohio branch of the Hearst-owned Telenews theater chain, dating from 1944 to 1949 and including images of some eventful days during the course of World War II, such as Victory Over Japan...

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