![Rock 'n' Roll Revue [Harlem Rock 'n' Roll]](http://www.royalbooks.com/pictures/thumb/133353a.jpg?v=1434404492)
Los Angeles: Studio Films, 1955. Complete set of 8 vintage two-color lobby cards from the 1955 film. Each of the lobby cards features one of the African American starring performers, and each card advertises the Poverty Row studio, Studio Films, and the short-lived film process "WonderColor," used to make it...
New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1926. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on a pasted-down note to the front endpaper: "For Sydney Williams / With the very best of the author, who wishes he were here in the land of good wines / Louis Bromfield." Winner of the Pulitzer Prize...
Various cities: Various studios, 1937-1984. Collection of 311 vintage still photographs from 95 sexploitation films released between 1941 and 1981, comprised predominantly of black and white studio photographs but with some color or reference photos. Sexploitation films in the mid-century featured female stars in sexually charged roles, as lesbians, stewardesses...
Tokyo: Imamura Productions, 1980. Draft script for the 1981 film. Text in Japanese. A period drama featuring a man returning from exile in America during the Edo era and begins searching for his wife. He gets caught up in revolutionary fervor and his emotions get the best of him. Orange...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1924. First Edition. One of 2000 numbered copies (this being No. 1595). Publisher's patterned paper boards with green vellum spine and paper spine label. The author's first book, written four years prior to her 1928 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, "Scarlet Sister Mary." The first entry in...
Beverly Hills: United Artists, 1975. Draft script for the 1975 film. In an over-the-top parody of 19th century Russian literature, Boris Grushenko (Woody Allen), a babbling pacifist and pseudo-intellectual is forced to join the Russian Army. He accidentally becomes a war hero and marries his second cousin Sonja (Diane Keaton)...
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1969. First Draft script for the 1971 film. Anatevka is a fictional shtetl in prerevolutionary Russia where Tevye works as a dairyman, obsessed with tradition and providing for his family, both of which come under fire as great changes come to his small village. Based...
New York: Arts at St. Anna's, 1991. Original program for a performance by the Orchestra of St. Luke's, conducted by David Alan Miller, held at The Town Hall in New York City on June 8 and 9, 1981. The performance featured four pieces: "Freeform" and "Shivering Air," composed by Glenn...
Beverly Hills, CA: Walter Shenson Films / United Artists, 1965. Collection of four vintage black-and-white still photographs from the release of the 1965 British-American film. All four of the boys wonderfully represented here, gals in tow, having a fine time on the ice (John and George), in the jungle (Paul)...
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1970. Final Draft script for the 1971 film. Copy belonging to James "Jim" Gregory, who played Sam Foley in the film, with his name in holograph ink on the front wrapper and character name on the title page. Bound in is a casting note addressed...
San Francisco: Pasteurize Press / Zephyrus Image, 1975. UNCORRECTED PAGE PROOFS, preceding the First Edition. An offprint of Brakhage's remarks following a screening of his film, "The Text of Light," at the San Francisco Art Institute, Nov 18, 1974. One of what could only possibly be a handful of proofs...
New York: New Directions, 1949. First American Edition. Author's first book, basis for the 1990 Bernardo Bertolucci film starring Debra Winger and John Malkovich. Fine and unread in a Near Fine dust jacket. Bookplate to the front pastedown. Jacket is lightly toned, with a touch of nicking to the extremities...
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 Cote d'Azur, France. Shot, struck, and mounted by the film's still...
London: Victor Gollancz, 1992. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Near Fine in trade-size wrappers (softcover) with light soiling and rubbing overall. Hornby's first novel, an ode to obsessive love for a losing sports team. Adapted twice, first as a delightful 1997...
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1945. Post-production Release Dialogue Script for the 1946 film. The only script associated with the legendary noir that we have ever seen, and presumably the earliest continuity, dated 7 months prior to the film's release. "The Blue Dahlia" got off to a shaky start, as Raymond Chandler...
![Experiment in Evil [Le testament de Docteur Cordelier]](http://www.royalbooks.com/pictures/thumb/142159.jpg?v=1499440614)
France: Radio-Television Francaise (RTF) / Societe Financiere de Radiodiffusion / Compagnie Jean Renoir, 1959. Archive of 36 press photographs taken on the set of the 1959 film, mounted to four printed card stock proof sheets from "Telerama" magazine, with each sheet containing holograph ink notations with the name of the...
New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. First Edition. Boldly SIGNED by Sonny Rollins in black marker on the front endpaper, along with a small doodle of a sixteenth note couplet. Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket. Full provenance available.
New York: Park Place Gallery, 1967. Poster advertising an early performance by Steve Reich at Park Place Gallery in New York on March 17, 18, and 19, 1967, also featuring Max Neuhaus performing and "distributing" a new piece called "BI-PRODUCT" (currently listed on Neuhaus' website as "By-Product," in contravenance of...
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...
New York: Powerhouse, 2001. First Edition. Review copy with publisher's slip laid in. SIGNED by the photographer on the title page. Fine and unread without dust jacket as issued.
New York: Pro-Distributors Publishing Company, 1929. First appearance of the Dashiell Hammett novel, (part 3 of 5 parts), "The Maltese Falcon," in the November 1929 issue of the Black Mask pulp magazine. The five parts were collected and published as a novel by Alfred A. Knopf in 1930. The turning...
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1907 - 1908. First Edition. Warwickshire Edition. Twenty five volumes. An attractive and comprehensive set of Eliot's work, together with a biography of her life written by her husband, which includes entries from her letters and journals. All volumes Near Fine to Fine and unread, with maroon...
New York: New American Library (NAL), 1968. First Edition. First issue, with NAL printed in red at the foot of the jacket spine. Basis for (and released simultaneously with) Stanley Kubrick's 1968 science fiction classic, written for the screen by Kubrick and Clarke based on Clarke's short story, "The Sentinel."...
Syracuse, NY: N.p., circa 1940-1960. Album containing 367 vintage vernacular photographs (350 black and white and seventeen color) compiled by Syracuse, New York resident Margaret Embree. The collection includes images of Mrs. Embree's family life, as well as images of her longtime employment at the Iroquois China Company in Solvay...
Stratford-on-Avon: The Shakespeare Head Press, 1908. Small octavo. One of 250 numbered copies printed on handmade paper, this being No. 137. Near Fine in publisher's black quarter-cloth and paper-covered boards with gilt titles.
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...
New York: J.J. Augustin, 1945. First Edition. A presentable copy. Very Good plus in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Slight lean, with light foxing to the page edges. Jacket is lightly soiled, with light chipping to the extremities. Roth 101, p. 114-115. Parr and Badger, Vol. I, p. 200.
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1942. Revised Final Script for the 1942 horror film, based on the 1936 novel by Jessie Douglas Kerruish. A well-crafted (and in some ways, superior) variation on Universal's "Wolfman" films of the 1930s and 1940s, released as a double-feature with the equally intriguing "Dr. Renault's Secret"...
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...
New York: Harper and Row, 1984. First Edition. SIGNED and dated in the year of publication by the author on the title page, with an accompanying sketch of a bird. Fine and unread in a Near Fine dust jacket. Jacket has light rubbing at the spine ends and corners. An...
Munich: Universum Film [UFA], 1927. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the original German release of the 1927 film. With the UFA logo at the bottom right corner. Director Lang's expressionist masterpiece, based on the novel and written for the screen by then-wife von Harbou, one of the most enduring and...
New York: Random House, 1972. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Westlake on the title page: "To Mike / Donald Westlake." The third Parker novel to be issued in hardcover. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Small bump to the heel, bookplate on the front endpaper; jacket shows touch of...
Los Angeles: Fox Film Corporation, 1931. Script for the 1932 pre-Code film. A drama about the extreme hazards of marrying for money, featuring early performances by Joan Bennett and Spencer Tracy. Bennett begins as a poor girl from Missouri, the daughter of a railway brakeman. Tracy works for the same...
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1984. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Willeford on the front endpaper: "To John Melville / Sincerely / Charles Willeford." The first Hoke Mosley mystery, basis for the superb 1990 film starring Fred Ward, Alec Baldwin and Jennifer Jason Leigh, and arguably the best of the author's...
![Archive of material on "White Shadows in the South Seas" [Southern Skies] from the estate of Monte Blue](http://www.royalbooks.com/pictures/thumb/140906.jpg?v=1501083861)
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1928. Archive of material from the 1928 film. From the estate of actor Monte Blue, who starred in the film. Included in the archive are a carbon typescript draft script, here under the working title “Southern Skies,” four vintage photographs, each with a mimeo snipe...
New York: William Morrow, 1941. Uncorrected Proof, preceding the First Edition. About Very Good in publisher's self-wrappers, with a publication date of July 23, 1941 rubber-stamped on the front endpaper. Slight lean, vertical creasing to the spine panel, some splitting to the front flap fold. A presentable copy of the...