Film Pressbooks from Royal Books, Inc.

Burbank, CA: Seven Arts / Warner Brothers, 1969. Original pressbook from the 1969 film. Laid in with the pressbook is a tri-fold brochure promoting the film. A group of cowboys living in the dying culture of the American West during the 1910s decide to do one last job together. Set in the American West and… Read more about this item

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1973. Collection of seven vintage borderless reference photographs and a pressbook from the 1973 documentary film. A celebration of 1950s rock 'n' roll music, using both archival footage from the era and contemporary concert footage, and focusing largely on Black musicians from the era. Features performances by Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Fats… Read more about this item

Paris: Pierson Production, 1973. Collection of three vintage borderless color oversize reference photographs and a pressbook from the 1973 French adult film. Each photograph with a censorship blindstamp at the upper right corner. After an unsuccessful attempt to sleep with a boy her own age, an eighteen-year-old goes on a odyssey of sexual exploration, culminating in a… Read more about this item

N.p.: Kirt Films International, 1969. Vintage pressbook for the 1969 sexploitation film. A young woman with a prurient interest in animals meets a swinger couple who involve her in the human erotic realm. Two pages, bifold. 11 x 17 inches. Near Fine.

Dallas: Orbit Films, 1966. Vintage pressbook for the US release of the 1966 Japanese film. In a futuristic world, young girls are abducted and transformed into Love Robots, living sex dolls available for sale. Pink film auteur Koji Wakamatsu was one of the most successful Japanese filmmakers of the 1960s, directing a number of notable erotic and… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Olympic International Films, 1963. Vintage pressbook for the 1963 nudie film. A private detective investigates the erotic goings-on in the movie business, where he meets a variety of nude figure models and actresses. Two pages, bifold. 8.5 x 11 inches. Near Fine.

Los Angeles: Olympic International Films, 1965. Vintage pressbook for the US release of the 1965 Japanese film. A wealthy businessman hires two detectives to find his missing daughter, uncovering a violent drug and sex trafficking ring in the process. An early use of the word "hentai" in the US. 11 x 17 inches. Bifold. Near… Read more about this item

Dallas: Orbit Films, 1968. Vintage pressbook for the 1968 film. Con women steal one million dollars from two mob money couriers, forcing the men to find and recover the money before their employers discover the theft. Versatile and prolific cross-genre filmmaker Lee Frost was best known for his string of exploitation films throughout the 1960s and 1970s,… Read more about this item

N.p.: Dore Productions, 1963. Vintage pressbook for the 1963 musical film. Considered the first nudie musical, about a nightclub singer and a comedian who are drawn into the world of nudism through their girlfriends. Two pages, bifold. 11 x 17 inches. Near Fine.

N.p.: Kirt Films International, 1971. Vintage pressbook for the 1971 adult film. Not to be confused with the 1976 film directed by Charles S. Durbin. The erotic adventures of a group of five freewheeling swingers traveling in a Volkswagen bus. Two pages, bifold. 11 x 17 inches. Near Fine.

Beverly Hills, CA: Continental, 1968. Original pressbook for the 1968 film. A searing, emotional depiction of a disintegrating marriage in American middle-class suburbia. John Cassavetes' seminal fourth film as director took three years to complete, was shot (and edited) in his own house, starred his friends (who often doubled as camera operators), and ushered in an entirely… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox / Hammer Films, 1966. Vintage pressbook for the French release of the 1966 British film. Text in French. The locals in a small Cornish village live in fear of attack by a gigantic, man-eating snake creature. Actress Jacqueline Pearce was the only Hammer actress to play two monsters: the snake-woman in this film,… Read more about this item

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1968. Vintage pressbook for the 1968 film. The director's sprawling, science fiction epic traces the evolution of human intelligence under the influence of an unspecified alien force. The film's high scientific accuracy, coupled with bleeding-edge special effects and minimal use of dialogue, make "2001" universally recognized as one of the most influential films… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: ABC Pictures, 1969. Vintage pressbook for the 1969 film. Based on the 1935 debut novel by Horace McCoy. One of the darkest films of the 1960s, bringing to the screen McCoy's classic, grim depiction of the dance marathons of the Depression era. An uncompromising and daring work, in our opinion the best film of Sydney… Read more about this item

Paris: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1980. Four vintage borderless reference photographs and one vintage pressbook for the French release of the 1980 Italian film. Photographs include three matte-finish photographs of actress Eleonora Giorgi, and one glossy photograph of director Dario Argento talking with actor Sacha Pitoëff on the set. Pressbook text in French. The second installment in Argento's… Read more about this item

Hollywood: Republic Pictures, 1953. Vintage pressbook for the 1953 Western. A circus rodeo star and his clown friend expose a ring of diamond smugglers while looking into their high-wire friend's fiancée. 11 x 16.75 inches. Bifold, with punch holes at the bottom edge. Near Fine. Pitts 1142.

Rome: Titanus, 1951. Vintage pressbook for the 1951 Italian film. Text and titles in Italian. An opera singer falls in love with a masked bandit known as the Count of Saint Elmo, who robs the wealthy in order to fund his fight against the oppressive Italian government. Set in Sicily. 8.7 x 12.5… Read more about this item

N.p.: Continental Distributing, 1948. Vintage pressbook for the US release of the 1948 French film. A meek Parisian tax collector sets off on a madcap hunt for his aunt's lost corpse in order to claim his inheritance, leading to his inadvertent involvement in the French criminal underground. 10 x 14 inches. Bifold, with a second horizontal… Read more about this item

Paris: Lux Films, 1961. Original French promotional book for the 1961 French film. Based on the 1952 novel by Beatrix Beck. With a small red rubber stamp from a French movie house at the top center of the front wrapper. A departure for both Melville and Belmondo, both turning from the crime films for which they were… Read more about this item

New York: N.p., 1972. Vintage pressbook for the 1972 adult film. 8.75 x 11.25 inches, four leaves, printed on rectos only. Very Good plus, with a diagonal crease to the first two leaves.