Italian Cinema from Royal Books, Inc.

N.p.: N.p., 1969. Collection of eleven vintage borderless color reference photographs from the 1969 Italian sexploitation film. Faced with a broken marriage, a woman decides to try to rekindle her incestuous relationship with her younger sister, who is herself happily married to a wealthy older man. 9.25 x 7 inches. Fine.

N.p.: Corona, 1969. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1969 film, showing actors Romina Power and Harald Leipnitz. Printed mimeo snipe in German affixed to the verso. Based on the 1791 novel by the Marquis de Sade, about two orphaned sisters whose lives diverge drastically as they come into adulthood. 9.5 x 7.25 inches. About… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1965. Vintage reference photograph from the 1965 Italian film, showing actress Beba Loncar. Annotations in manuscript pencil and a provenance stamp on the verso. An army officer romances his way through Europe, with the caveat that he can only find romantic satisfaction in situations where his life is in danger. Set and shot on… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1970. Three vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1970 film. Two with the stamp of photographer Angelo Novi on the versos. A young upper-middle class Italian man joins Mussolini's Organization for Vigilance and Repression of Antifascism, and his first assignment is to assassinate his former teacher, a political dissident now residing in France. An intricate and… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1955. Three vintage reference photographs of director Jean Renoir on the set of the 1955 film, two showing Renoir with actress Françoise Arnoul, and one showing Renoir examining the ground while surrounded by cast members. All three photographs with Amsterdam distributor stamps on the versos. A dramatization of the opening of the famed Moulin Rouge nightclub,… Read more about this item

N.p.: Davis-Royal Films, 1962. Collection of six vintage studio still photographs from the 1962 film. "The Reluctant Saint" is the story of Giuseppe Desa (Maximilian Schell), a 17th century Franciscan friar and mystic, recognized as St. Joseph of Cupertino by the Catholic Church. Set in and shot on location in Rome. 8 x… Read more about this item

Rome: N.p., 1955. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1955 Italian film, showing actor Broderick Crawford. Stamp of still photographer G.B. Poletto on the verso. A trio of smalltime, ruthless con artists undergo crises of conscience after facing the condemnation of their families. Director Federico Fellini's followup to "La strada" (1954). 9.75 x 7 inches. Near… Read more about this item

N.p.: Aetos, 1969. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1969 Italian film, showing actress Silvana Mangano. With the stamps of photographer Angelo Frontoni and ABC on the verso, along with annotations in manuscript pencil regarding layout. Over the course of several days, a mysterious visitor seduces each member of a bourgeois Milanese family. The second film in director… Read more about this item

Beverly Hills, CA: Copa, 1957. Draft script for an unproduced film. Based on the 1860 novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne, one of his four major romances. In Italy, four artists of various social standing find themselves in a complicated web of love alliances with their peers. Tan titled wrappers, with credits for screenwriter Leonardo Bercovici and author… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1970. Draft script for an unproduced play. A woman with two unfaithful husbands ends up pregnant. The arrangement begins to unravel when she gives birth to twins. White titled self wrappers, with credits for screenwriter Toni Ermini, and playwright Jaia Fiastri. 94 leaves, with last page of text numbered 93. Xerographic duplication, rectos… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1971. Vintage oversize borderless double weight reference photograph from the 1971 film. A socialite and heiress begins receiving threatening blackmail letters, and suspects the culprit may be her sadistic ex-lover. Edwige Fenech's first film collaboration with noted giallo director Sergio Martino, followed by "All the Colors of the Dark" (1972) and "Your Vice Is a… Read more about this item

Rome: Vogue Film, 1971. Treatment script for an unproduced film. Laid in with the script is a two-page typed summary dated 2-17-72. Text in English. A married lawyer travels to Tehuantepec to seek the extradition of a vicious killer to Italy. He falls in love with a beautiful Mexican woman and decides to leave his wife and… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1968. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1968 film, showing actress Jane Fonda nude underneath a blanket of moss and feathers. Based on the adult comic book by Jean-Claude Forest and published in the French magazine "V" in 1962 and 1964, about the adventures of space traveler and "queen of the galaxy" Barbarella. Likely the… Read more about this item

Rome: Produzioni Europee Associate [PEA], 1967. Vintage Italian locandino poster from the 1967 film. Text in Italian. An Italian and Spanish production, the film is widely acknowledged as a classic of the spaghetti western genre and was a favorite of director and screenwriter Sergio Sollima. The second film of Sollima's political western trilogy, sequel to the 1967 film… Read more about this item

Rome: N.p., 1972. Treatment script for the 1975 film. Text in English. A young Italian priest is sent to New York, where he becomes involved with a group of hippies that declare their plan to publicly commit mass suicide as a protest against modern society. Set in Italy and New York. Blue untitled wrappers.… Read more about this item

Rome: Excelsior, 1970. Original English-language treatment script for an unproduced Italian film. A factory worker recounts his life and loves to his captors after being taken by government operatives on suspicion of having subversive ties. Red untitled wrappers. Title page present, with credits for screenwriter Alfredo Giannetti, with the stamp of Excelsior Cinematografica. 8 leaves, with… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: AVCO Embassy Pictures, 1974. Two vintage studio still photographs from the US release of the 1974 Italian film, both showing actress Charlotte Rampling. Liliana Cavani's international breakthrough, a deeply controversial film about a Holocaust survivor who renews her sadomasochistic sexual relationship with her Nazi captor after a chance encounter, which threatens to expose his fellow former… Read more about this item

Rome: Excelsior, 1978. English-language treatment script for an unproduced Italian film. With a single manuscript ink annotation to page 2, noting an editorial revision. Laid in with the script is a xerographically duplicated cost estimate sheet, in both English and Italian, noting the name of cinematographer Pasqualino de Santis, dated July 1978. A middle-aged, newlywed nobleman feels trapped… Read more about this item

Rome: Unitalia Film / IFE, 1950. Collection of 14 vintage oversize promotional brochures for Italian and international actresses. Each brochure features a one-page biography in Italian and a full-page black-and-white photograph of each actress. Actresses represented are Sylvana Mangano, Isa Miranda, Annamaria Gerrero, Yvonne Sanson, Alida Valli, Delia Scala, Ingrid Bergman, Silvana Pampanini, Lea Padovani, Lucia Bose,… Read more about this item

Rome: Cineriz, 1961. Four vintage borderless double weight publicity photographs from the 1961 film. With stamp on verso identifying photographer H. Martin. Also with file folder with the film title in manuscript ink. A businessman wants to buy land around the village of Cabosse, claiming his desire for seclusion but with intentions to sell the water from… Read more about this item