Take it or Leave It (Original screenplay for the 1944 film)
by Benjamin Stoloff (director); Mac Benoff, Harold Buchman, Snag Werris (screenwriters); Phil Baker, Edward Ryan, Madge Meredith (starring)
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1944. Final Draft script for the 1944 film, with name of actor and entertainer Phil Silvers, who played himself in the film, in manuscript pencil on top left of distribution page. Based on the popular radio series "Take It or Leave It" (1940-1949) starring host Phil Baker (which would later become the television... Read More
Offered by Royal Books, Inc.
Pascali's Island (Original photograph from the 1988 film)
by Ben Kingsley, Helen Mirren, Charles Dance (starring); James Dearden (director, screenwriter); Barry Unsworth (novel)
Santa Monica: Avenue Pictures, 1988. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1988 film, showing Ben Kingsley and Helen Mirren. Based on the 1980 novel by Barry Unsworth, about a spy in Turkey who is persuaded to help a couple of English thieves steal a priceless Greek statue. Shot on location in Rhodes and Simi, Greece.... Read More
Offered by Royal Books, Inc.
Species (Original screenplay for the 1995 film)
by Ben Kingsley, Michael Madsen, Alfred Molina, Forest Whitaker (starring); Roger Donaldson (director); Dennis Feldman (screenwriter)
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1994. White Revision (Shooting Script) for the 1995 film. A group of scientists must stop a alien-human hybrid seductress on a killing spree in Los Angeles before she finds a mate. A cult classic which spawned three sequels, "Species II" (1998), "Species III" (2004), and "Species: The Awakening" (2007). Shot on... Read More
Offered by Royal Books, Inc.
Beyond the Fringe (First Edition)
by Bennett, Alan, Peter Cook, Jonathan Miller, Dudley Moore
London: Souvenir Press, 1963. First UK Edition. Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Jacket spine lightly faded, nicking to the edges, and light soil.
Offered by Royal Books, Inc.
What's My Line? (Six original photographs from the 1950-1967 television series)
by Bennett Cerf, John Charles Daly, Dorothy Kilgallen, Arlene Francis, Ernie Kovacs (subjects)
New York: Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS], 1950. Six vintage promotional photographs from the 1950-1967 television series. Collection includes three portrait photographs of Arlene Francis, Dorothy Kilgallen, John Charles Daly, and Bennett Cerf, as well as a photograph of Daly with Arlene Francis, a photograph of Daly, Francis, Cerf, and Kilgallen with guest Ernie Kovacs. Printed mimeo snipes affixed to... Read More
Offered by Royal Books, Inc.
Burning Under (First Edition, inscribed to author Chris Offutt)
by Tom Bennitt [Bennett]
Nacogdoches, TX: Stephen F. Austin University Press, 2018. First Edition. First Edition, a trade softcover original. Association Copy, INSCRIBED on the title page to author Chris Offutt: "Chris / To a great mentor! Thanks for the support / Tom." Offutt is the author of “Kentucky Straight” and other short story collections, novels, nonfiction, and memoirs, and, in 1996,... Read More
Offered by Royal Books, Inc.
Thief of Souls (Signed First Edition)
by Ann Benson
New York: Delacorte [Press], 2002. First Edition. First Edition. SIGNED on the title page. Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket.
Offered by Royal Books, Inc.
Tropic Thunder (Original screenplay for the 2008 film)
by Ben Stiller (director, screenwriter, starring); Justin Theroux, Etan Cohen (screenwriters); Robert Downey Jr., Jack Black, Tom Cruise (starring)
Universal City: Dreamworks, 2007. Revised Draft script for the 2008 film. Rainbow revision copy belonging to production coordinator Eve Honthaner, with her name in manuscript ink on the first leaf of the title page. Included with the script are numerous gatherings of production documents, including shooting schedules, call sheets, maps of filming locations, script supervisor breakdowns, and travel logs,... Read More
Offered by Royal Books, Inc.
What is Theatre (Signed First Edition)
by Eric Bentley
New York: Horizon Press, 1956. First Edition. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper: "Dorothy / With best wishes for 1957 / Eric and Joanne." Joanne [Davis] was Bentley's wife at the time, and is the book's dedicatee. One of the great theatre critics of his day, Bentley was inducted into the American Theatre... Read More
Offered by Royal Books, Inc.
Four Stories by Ingmar Bergman: The Touch, Cries And Whispers, The Hour Of The Wolf, and The Passion Of Anna (First Edition, inscribed)
by Ingmar Bergman
New York: Anchor Press / Doubleday, 1976. First Edition. First Edition. INSCRIBED in Swedish by director and author Ingmar Bergman on the front endpaper, and rare thus. Remainder spray to bottom page edges, else Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Lightly soiled boards and endpapers. Jacket is soiled on the verso, with light wear at spine... Read More
Offered by Royal Books, Inc.
Original press soundphoto (wire photo) of Ingrid Bergman with twin daughters, Isabella and Ingrid Rossellini, 1953
by Bergman, Ingrid, Isabella Rossellini, Ingrid Rossellini (subjects)
New York: International News Photos, 1953. Vintage press soundphoto (wire photo) of Ingrid Bergman holding her one year old twins, Isabella and Ingrid, celebrating their first birthday on June 18, 1953, at Bergman and Roberto Rossellini's home. Soundphoto dated 6-20-53. "Ingrid Bergman Ingrid & Isabella" stamp, faint "International News Photo" stamp, and "Jun 23 1953" "Received Examiner Reference Library"... Read More
Offered by Royal Books, Inc.
Jumping Jenny (Hardcover)
by Anthony Berkeley
London: Chivers / Black Dagger Crime, 1997. Hardcover. First printing of this edition. As New. Near Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket. Unaccountably scarce.
Offered by Royal Books, Inc.
Songs from Irving Berlin's "Alexander's Ragtime Band" (First Edition, inscribed by Irving Berlin, association copy)
by Irving Berlin
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1938. First Edition. First Edition. Association copy, INSCRIBED on the second front endpaper by Irving Berlin: "To / Dorothy Hechtlinger / with my best / Irving Berlin." A scarce promotional songbook issued by Twentieth Century-Fox in connection with their successful 1938 musical film "Alexander's Ragtime Band." Dorothy Hechtlinger was Twentieth Century-Fox studio head Darryl... Read More
Offered by Royal Books, Inc.
Eugène Berman 1928-1964 (First Edition, inscribed by Berman)
by [Eugène Berman]
Paris: M. Knoedler, 1964. First Edition. Softcover. First Edition. INSCRIBED on the title page by Eugène Berman: "To John Lucas / with so many thanks and all best wishes and cordialement saluts / EB." Text in French. Published in conjunction with an exhibition held from November 6-28, 1964, at M. Knoedler. Illustrated in black-and-white. Near Fine... Read More
Offered by Royal Books, Inc.
![Krakatoa: East of Java [Volcano] (Original photographs from the 1975 re-release of the 1968 film)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/985/868/1548868985.0.m.jpg)
Krakatoa: East of Java [Volcano] (Original photographs from the 1975 re-release of the 1968 film)
by Bernard L. Kowalski (director); Cliff Gould as Cliff Newton Gould, Bernard Gordon (screenwriter); Maximilian Schell, Diana Baker, Brian Keith, Barbara Werle, Sal Mineo (starring)
N.p.: Security Pictures, 1975. Vintage reference photograph from the 1975 re-release of the 1968 film. With mimeo snipe advertising the film's television premiere on ABC on January 16, 1976 affixed to the verso. A man tries to rescue a sunken cargo ship and its crew, but a volcano on Krakatoa erupts near the wreckage. Set... Read More
Offered by Royal Books, Inc.
Ride Out for Revenge (Eight original photographs from the 1957 film)
by Bernard Girard (director); Norman Retchin (screenwriter); Rory Calhoun, Gloria Grahame, Lloyd Bridges, Joanne Gilbert (starring)
N.p.: Bryna Productions, 1957. Eight vintage studio still photographs from the 1957 film. Marshal Tate (Rory Calhoun) finds himself caught in a conflict between a bigoted town, led by the racist and cowardly Cavalryman Cpt. George (Lloyd Bridges) and Cheyenne out for revenge when one of Cpt. George's men kill Chief Yellow Wolf (Frank DeKova). ... Read More
Offered by Royal Books, Inc.
Run Like a Thief (Eight British front-of-house cards from the 1968 film)
by Bernard Glasser (director); Myron Jay Gold (screenwriter); Kieron Moore, Ina Balin, Keenan Wynn, Fernando Rey (starring)
London: Warner-Pathe Distributors, 1969. Eight vintage full-color British front-of-house cards from the UK release of the 1968 Spanish-American film. Set in the Mexican jungle, about a soldier who involuntarily steals a bevy of diamonds and the ensuing chase across the country, with the syndicate police, a gangster, and a scheming girl complicating his escape to the border.... Read More
Offered by Royal Books, Inc.
Directors at Work: Interviews with American Film-makers (First Edition)
by Bernard R. Kantor, Irwin R. Blacker, Anne Kramer (editors)
New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1970. First Edition. First Edition. Near Fine and unread in a Very Good plus price-clipped dust jacket. Light foxing to the top edge. Jacket with light rubbing overall.
Offered by Royal Books, Inc.
Fear No More (Two original photographs from the 1961 film)
by Bernard Wiesen (director); Leslie Edgley as Robert Bloomfield (screenwriter, novel); Jacques Bergerac, Mala Powers, John Harding, Helena Nash, John Baer (starring)
N.p.: Sutton Pictures, 1961. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1961 film. Based on the 1946 novel by Leslie Edgley. A woman on the train is knocked unconscious by a man with a gun after she sees a woman who appears to be dead laying on the floor behind him. When she comes to she is... Read More
Offered by Royal Books, Inc.
![Le Saut de L'ange [Angel's Leap] (Original French Film Program)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/110/842/512842110.0.m.jpg)
Le Saut de L'ange [Angel's Leap] (Original French Film Program)
by Bernard-Paul Lallier (novel); Yves Boisset (director, screenwriter); Richard Winkler and Claude Veillot (screenwriters); Jean Yanne, Senta Berger, Sterling Hayden, Raymond Pellegrin (starring)
France: Lira Films / European Trash Cinema, 1971. Original Program for the 1971 French film. A French detective thriller with noirish overtones, and Boisset's trademark violence. He would have his heyday in the 1970s, with "The Assassination" (1972), "The Common Man" (1975), and "The Purple Taxi" (1977). 4 pages, folded once, 9.5 x 12.25 inches. Very Good... Read More
Offered by Royal Books, Inc.
The Conformist (Original photograph from the 1970 film)
by Bernardo Bertolucci (director, screenwriter); Alberto Moravia (novel); Angelo Novi (photographer); Jean-Louis Trintignant, Stefania Sandrelli, Gastone Moschin (starring)
Rome: Mars Film, 1970. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Jean-Louis Trintignant and Stefania Sandrelli from the 1970 film. Stamp of photographer Angelo Novi on verso. An intricate and incisive examination of the psychological tribulations of a man who will do anything to be "normal." Marcello Clerici (Trintignant), a young and upper-middle class Italian, joins Mussolini's Organization for... Read More
Offered by Royal Books, Inc.
La Luna (Original photograph from the set of the 1979 film)
by Bernardo Bertolucci (director, screenwriter); Franco Arcalli, Giuseppe Bertolucci, Clare Peploe (screenwriters); Jill Clayburgh, Matthew Barry, Fred Gwynne (starring)
Italy / US: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1979. Vintage borderless photograph showing actor Jill Clayburgh and director Bernardo Bertolucci in a pensive moment during on outdoor shoot from the set of the 1979 film. With the stamp of US co-producer Twentieth Century-Fox and identifying manuscript notation on the verso. The son of a famous opera singer falls into heroin... Read More
Offered by Royal Books, Inc.
1900 (Original photograph on the set of the 1976 film)
by Bernardo Bertolucci (director, screenwriter); Franco Arcalli, Giuseppe Bertolucci (screenwriters); Robert De Niro, Gerard Depardieu, Dominique Sanda, Francesca Bertini (starring)
Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1976. Vintage photograph on the set of the 1976 film, showing director Bernardo Bertolucci giving instructions to actors Robert De Niro, Gerard Depardieu, and Romolo Valli. Director Bernardo Bertolucci's epic film was a gargantuan undertaking, requiring the resources of three European countries and a trio of American movie studios. Set in the small... Read More
Offered by Royal Books, Inc.
Angelique (Original photograph from the 1964 film)
by Bernard Borderie (director, screenwriter); Anne Golon (novel); Claude Brulé (screenwriter); Michéle Mercier, Robert Hossein, Jean Rochefort (starring)
N.p.: Imperial Pictures, 1964. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1964 film. Based on the 1956 novel "Angélique, Marquise des Anges," by Anne and Serge Golon. The first of a series of five films, followed by "Marvelous Angelique" (1965), "Angelique and the King" (1966), "Untamable Angelique" (1967), and "Angelique and the Sultan" (1968). Angelique finds herself entangled... Read More
Offered by Royal Books, Inc.
La Luna (Original photograph from the set of 1979 film)
by Bernardo Bertolucci (director, screenwriter); Franco Arcalli, Giuseppe Bertolucci, Clare Peploe (screenwriters); Jill Clayburgh, Matthew Barry, Fred Gwynne (starring)
Italy / US: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1979. Vintage studio still photograph of actress Jill Clayburgh and director Bernardo Bertolucci on the set of the 1979 film. The son of a famous opera singer falls into heroin addiction, and his mother begins an incestuous relationship with him to help him kick the habit. 10 x 8 inches.... Read More
Offered by Royal Books, Inc.