Search Results: Maritime Interest from Royal Books, Inc.

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1957. Two vintage studio still photographs from the US release of the 1957 British film, one showing actress Mai Zetterling, the other showing Zetterling tending to actor Tyrone Power. With printed mimeo snipes affixed to the verso, along with the stamp of Columbia Pictures. 20 survivors of a sunken luxury liner find themselves crowded onto a lifeboat fitted for 9 people, causing no small consternation as their food and water run out and a hurricane approaches. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus, one with manuscript ink annotations on the right edge of the recto. Both photos with a serrated edge at the left margin from where they were once attached to a keybook tab.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1887. First Edition. Quarto. First Edition. A text on yachts and yachting, illustrated with 50 photogravure plates accompanied by descriptions of each vessel. Very Good plus with no dust jacket, bound in full brown morocco with gilt lettering and edges, and marbled endpapers. Rebacked, with an owner bookplate with autograph gift inscription adhered to the front pastedown, and corresponding owner signature on the half-title.

N.p.: N.p., 1980. Treatment script for an unproduced film. An oil tanker experiences difficulty delivering its load to Rotterdam, and falls into a snag in the English Channel, where its position will be severely compromised. Set in Dover. Lacking wrappers. Title page present, dated 1980, with credits for screenwriters Damien Enright, and Nikolas Janis. 21 leaves, with last leaf of text numbered 17. Xerographically duplicated, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, partially bound with a staple.

San Francisco: N.p., 1915. Archive of five vintage oversize photographs of San Francisco, circa 1909-1915, relating variously to Portola Week, the U.S.S. South Dakota battleship, the Panama-Pacific Exposition, and the opening of the Panama Canal. Manuscript captions on the rectos of each. Portola Week was a five-day festival that originated in 1909, in honor of Spanish explorer Don Gaspar de Portola's expedition to the San Francisco Bay in 1769. The festival featured parades, fireworks, and lighted floats, led by a man dressed as Portola, accompanied by dragoons, that processed from the Golden Gate to Pier 2. The festival took place a second time in 1913, and then not until 1948, when it was revived by a local civic club. The collection on offer here includes a photograph captioned "the king and queen of our last celebration," ostensibly taken during the first Portola Week in 1909. The Panama-Pacific Exposition was a world's fair held in San Francisco from February 20 to December 4, 1915. The… Read More

N.p.: N.p., 1991. First Draft script for an unproduced film. Laid in with the script is a xerographically duplicated design for the film title, and a typed list of editorial notes on the script, dated 7/24/91, with a manuscript ink annotation to the top right corner, noting "Viacom's list." Loosely based on the nonfiction writings of Tom Clancy, about the members of a special, deep cover military unit as they attempt to manage a volatile hostage situation. Set in Tampa, Florida and Washington DC. Self wrappers. Title page present, dated 7/17/91, noted as First Draft, with credits for screenwriter Michael Ahnemann. 116 leaves, with last page of text numbered 111. Xerographic duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrappers, Near Fine, bound with three gold brads.

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1937. Final script for the 1938 film. The S.S. Gigantic, an expensive, "radio-powered" ocean liner prepares to race its rival, the ocean liner S.S. Colossal, across the Atlantic, from New York to Cherbourg, in two and a half days. Sabotage and romantic hijinks ensue on both sides. Bob Hope's first feature film appearance. Self wrappers. Title page present, dated September 11, 1937, noted as FINAL WHITE SCRIPT, stamped FILE COPY and MASTER FILE, noted as production No. 1157. 145 leaves, with last page of text numbered D-54. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only, with blue revision pages throughout, dated 10-15-37. Pages Very Good plus, with the title page and last three leaves separated from the binding, side stitched with two staples.

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1958. Vintage press kit for the 1958 film. Illustrated pocketed folder, containing four gatherings of promotional reading material. A dramatization of the Battle of New Orleans in the War of 1812, featuring Yul Brynner as famed privateer Jean Lafitte. A remake of Cecil B. DeMille's 1938 swashbuckler classic. Folder and promotional material Very Good plus overall. Olive Films 357.

Boston: Charles E. Lauriat, 1931. First Edition. First Edition. An account of the exploits of Bully Hayes, a pirate, slave trader, and confidence man who operated in the Pacific Ocean from the 1850s until his murder in 1877. Very Good plus in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Housed in a Very Good, moderately edgeworn black slipcase. Faint foxing on the fore-edges. Jacket slightly wavy, with a small splash on the crown and a few tiny chips on the corners.

Boston: Little, Brown, 1956. First Edition. First Edition. Very Good plus in a bright, Very Good plus dust jacket. Moderate foxing to the endpapers and top page edges, owner name on the half-title page. Jacket lightly rubbed, with a few chips on the corners and a vertical crease on the front flap.

N.p.: N.p., 1945. Two vintage reference photographs from the 1945 film. With a library stamp on the verso, along with a manuscript ink annotation noting No. 211. A dramatization of the life of ruthless, cutthroat pirate Captain William Kidd. Set in the Indian Ocean. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1944. Shooting Final Draft script for the 1945 film, here under the working title "Two-Faced Quilligan." Production No. 911 and copy No. 6 rubber stamped on the front wrapper, with SHOOTING FINAL printed at the top right corner of same. Single annotation in the script, in manuscript pencil, noting three names, on the verso of last leaf. Patrick Michael Quilligan (William Bendix), captain of a barge named Mary (named after his mother), meets and falls for two women (Joan Blondell and Mary Treen) who remind him of his beloved deceased mother, inadvertently marrying both. Set in Brooklyn and Utica, New York. Brown titled wrappers, noted as SHOOTING FINAL on the front wrapper, rubber-stamped copy No. 6 and production No. 911, dated DECEMBER 21, 1944. Distribution page present, with receipt intact. Title page present, dated December 21, 1944, noted as Shooting Final, with credits for screenwriter Arthur Kober. 127 leaves, with last page of text numbered 125.… Read More

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1948. Final Draft script for the 1949 film. Copy belonging to an unknown crew member, with several manuscript pencil annotations on the verso of revision pages. A whaling ship captain takes his grandson along on an expedition, intent on teaching the boy life values, instead engaging in a battle of wills with an unruly first mate. Set in nineteenth-century Massachusetts, shot on location at Seal Beach, California. Blue titled wrappers, dated July 13, 1938, noted as FINAL on the front wrapper, rubber-stamped copy No. 143. Distribution page present, with receipt removed. Title page present, dated July 13, 1948, noted as Final Script. 151 leaves, with last page of text numbered 148. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only, with blue revision pages throughout, dated variously between 8/17/48 and 10/2/48. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good plus, slightly yapped to the fore edges, bound internally with three gold brads.

Hollywood: Lindsley Parsons Productions, 1948. Lined Draft script for the 1948 film. Copy belonging to uncredited script supervisor Ilona Vas, with her extensive annotations on rectos and versos throughout. Bound in after the script are three form pages in which Vas lists each major character and the script page in which the character first appears. Based on the 1886 novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in the May to July 1886 issues of Young Folks magazine. Adapted for film and television ten times, first in 1917, directed by Alan Crosland and starring Raymond McKee, and most recently in 2005 as a television movie directed by Brendan Maher and starring James Anthony Pierson. Young heir David Balfour's greedy uncle Ebenezer conspires to have the boy kidnapped at sea and sold into slavery to keep him from his birthright. Blue titled wrappers, with credits for author Robert Louis Stevenson. Distribution page integral with title page, with receipt removed, with credits for author Robert… Read More

London: Contemporary Films, 1960. Collection of eight vintage double weight studio still photographs from the 1960s UK re-release of the 1934 French film. Manuscript ink annotations identifying scenes on the versos. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. A classic of French cinema, Jean Vigo's only theatrical feature, a film that in the minds of many (including Francois Truffaut) predicted and even helped define the French New Wave that would come 20 years later. Shot on location in Paris, Yvelines, and Seine-Maritime, France. 10 x 8 inches. Four Near Fine, four Very Good plus, with faint dampstains to the bottom edges. Ebert I. Rosenbaum 1000.

Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1846. First Edition. First Edition. Very Good, without dust jacket as issued. Boards lightly rubbed, with rubbing and light fraying at the corners and crown, with rear hinge starting at crown, and gilt lettering on spine moderately rubbed. Pages with light foxing overall.

London: Collins, 1956. First Edition. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Basis for the 1959 film directed by Michael Anderson, starring Gary Cooper and Charlton Heston, and with screenplay by Eric Ambler. Very Good plus in a Very Good dust jacket. Owner name on the front endpaper. Slight lean, with light soiling to the boards. Jacket is lightly soiled, with chipping to the extremities, and a few closed tears.

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1939. Draft script for the 1939 film. With a few manuscript pencil annotations on the title page. An unpopular college student pushes for the establishment of a crew boat racing team in order to win back his ex-girlfriend by receiving a letter in a sport. White titled self wrappers, noted as production No. 1218, dated March 25, 1939. Title page integral with the front wrapper, as issued. 119 leaves, mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good plus, with fading and edgewear on the front binding, bound with three gold brads.

N.p.: N.p., 1980. Draft script for an unproduced film. In nineteenth-century Nicaragua, a sailor kidnaps the child of the head chief of an indigenous tribe, and delivers the boy to the colonial governor of Jamaica in hopes that Britain will secure future control over the territory. Set in Nicaragua and Jamaica. Lacking front wrapper, with a green rear wrapper. Title page present, undated, with credits for screenwriter Gregg Maze Butler. 151 leaves, with last page of text numbered 150. Xerographic duplication, rectos only. Pages Very Good plus, bound with three gold brads.

Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1939. Second Buff script for the 1939 film, here under the working title "Ruler of the Seas." Paramount "File Copy" and "Master File" stamps on front wrapper. Script divided into sequences, as was customary for the period. Inspired by the success of "Lloyds of London" (1936), Paramount made a series of million-dollar "spectacles" revolving around the history of companies. Based on the history of the British Cunard Line, the story of the SS Savannah, the first steamship to cross the North Atlantic from Britain to the US. Featuring the writer and director of the MGM hit "Mutiny on the Bounty" (1939), Talbot Jennings and Frank Lloyd, respectively. Self wrappers, front wrapper dated April 10, 1939, noted as 2ND BUFF SCRIPT, rubber-stamped production No. 1540. 124 leaves, with last page of text numbered U-14. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, with chip on upper left of title page, bound with three gold brads.

New York: Continental Talking Pictures, 1931. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1931 film, showing actress Molly O'Day. A newly escaped ex-convict decides to stow away on a treasure hunting ship bound for far-off waters. 7.25 x 9.5 inches (trimmed for press use). Very Good plus.