Recent Arrivals from Royal Books, Inc.
Recent Arrivals from Royal Books, Inc.
Afraid to Die [Karazaze Yaro] (Original photograph from the 1960 Japanese film noir)
by Yukio Mishima, Yaeko Mizutani, Takashi Shimura, Ayako Wakao (starring); Yasuzô Masumura (director); Hideo Andô, Ryûzô Kikushima (screenwriters)
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Kanagawa: Daiei Studios, 1960. Vintage Japanese reference photograph from the 1960 Japanese film noir, showing actors Yukio Mishima and Yaeko Mizutani in an intimate moment.
After being released from prison, a young man decides to turn his back on his past as a yakuza mobster, but finds that escaping his former life is harder than expected. Mishima's… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Night of the Following Day (Two original photographs from the 1969 neo-noir film)
by Rita Moreno, Marlon Brando, Richard Boone (starring); Hubert Cornfield (director, screenwriter); Lionel White (novel); Robert Phippeny (screenwriter)
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- 1969
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N.p.: N.p., 1969. Two vintage borderless reference photographs from the stark 1969 neo-noir film, both showing actress Rita Moreno. Mimeo snipes on the versos.
Based on Lionel White's 1953 novel "The Snatchers," about a wealthy young woman who is kidnapped and held hostage in a remote French beach house.
Set and shot on location in Le… Read more about this item Item Price
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Woman in the Dunes [Suna no onna] (Four original photographs from the 1964 film)
by K b Abe (novel, screenwriter); Hiroshi Teshigahara (director); Eiko Yoshida (screenwriter); Eiji Okada, Kyoko Kishida, Hiroko Ito (starring)
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- 1964
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N.p.: N.p., 1964. Four vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1964 Japanese film. Three with faint censorship blindstamps on the versos.
A masterpiece of 1960s Japanese cinema, based on the novel by K b Abe and adapted by Abe for the screen, about an amateur entomologist who is held captive in a small, impoverished seaside village.
7.25… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Barkleys of Broadway (Original photograph of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers on the set of the 1949 film)
by Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Oscar Levant, Billie Burke (starring); Charles Walters (director); Betty Comden, Adolph Green (screenwriters)
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- 1949
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N.p.: N.p., 1949. Vintage reference photograph of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers between takes on the set of the 1949 film.
A husband-and-wife musical comedy team decides to break up the act when the wife is persuaded to try her luck as a dramatic actress. The first film to reunite Astaire and Rogers after ten years apart… Read more about this item Item Price
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Emmanuelle (Two original photographs from the 1974 French film)
by Sylvia Kristel (starring); Just Jaeckin (director); Emmanuelle Arsan (novel); Marika Green, Alain Cuny, Daniel Sarky (starring); Jean-Louis Richard (screenwriter)
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- 1974
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N.p.: N.p., 1974. Two vintage reference photographs from the 1974 film. Annotations in manuscript ink on the versos.
Based on the 1959 novel. While living in Bangkok, a naive French diplomat's wife experiences a whirlwind of sexual discovery. The first film in the wildly successful, much-emulated series.
Set and shot on location in Thailand and the Seychelles.
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Gypsy (Original photograph of Natalie Wood from the 1962 film)
by Natalie Wood, Rosalind Russell, Karl Malden (starring); Mervyn LeRoy (director); Arthur Laurents (musical); Leonard Spigelgass (screenwriter); Stephen Sondheim (lyrics); Jule Styne (music)
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- 1962
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Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1962. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1962 film, showing actress Natalie Wood.
Based on the 1959 Broadway musical. The rise to fame of burlesque dancer Gypsy Rose Lee, aided by her ambitious mother, Mama Rose.
Set in New York.
8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus, lightly edgeworn.… Read more about this item Item Price
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Porgy and Bess (Two original photographs taken on the set of the 1959 film)
by Otto Preminger (director); N. Richard Nash (screenwriter); DuBose Heyward (opera); Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge, Sammy Davis Jr. (starring)
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- 1959
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New York: United Press International, 1959. Two vintage reference photographs from the set of the 1959 film, including one glossy and single weight, and one matte finish, borderless, and double weight. One photograph shows actor Sidney Poitier talking with producer Sam Goldwyn, and the other shows Poitier with actors Dorothy Dandridge and Brock Peters. One with a provenance stamp… Read more about this item Item Price
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Song of Scheherazade (Original photograph of Tilly Losch and Yvonne de Carlo on the set of the 1947 film)
by Yvonne De Carlo, Brian Donlevy, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Eve Arden (starring); Walter Reisch (director, screenwriter); Tilly Losch (choreographer, subject)
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- 1947
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N.p.: N.p., 1947. Vintage reference photograph of choreographer Tilly Losch and actress Yvonne de Carlo on the set of the 1947 film. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso.
A fictional episode in the life of composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, imagining a love affair with a Spanish cabaret dancer that leads him to pen the titular composition "Scheherazade."… Read more about this item Item Price
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Interlude in Paris (Original treatment script for an unproduced film)
by E. Lourie (screenwriter)
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- 1974
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N.p.: N.p., 1974. Treatment script for an unproduced film.
Follows the travels of a Vietnam veteran and expatriate living abroad in France.
Set in Paris.
Red titled wrappers, with credits for screenwriter E. Lourie. Title page present, dated 1974, with credits for screenwriter Lourie. 21 leaves, unnumbered. Xerographic duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine,… Read more about this item Item Price
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Cruising (Original photograph from the 1980 film)
by William Friedkin (director, screenwriter); Al Pacino, Paul Sorvino, Karen Allen (starring); Larry Cohen (screenwriter); Gerald Walker (novel)
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- 1980
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N.p.: N.p., 1980. Vintage reference photograph taken during shooting on location for the 1980 film, showing actors Gene Davis (in drag) and Randy Jurgensen. Mimeo snipe on the verso.
Based on the 1970 novel by Gerald Walker, about a cop who goes undercover in the leather scene in New York to catch a serial killer targeting gay men.… Read more about this item Item Price
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Cocaine [Cocain] (Original double weight publicity photograph from the 1921 film)
by Ursel Renate Hirt, Ernst Pittschau, Gustav Adolf Semler (starring); Willi Schaeffers (director); Robert Heymann, Erich Kraft (screenwriters)
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- 1921
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€613.99
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Berlin: N.p., 1921. Vintage borderless double weight publicity photograph from the lost 1921 German film, showing actress Ursel Renate Hirt slouched in a chair. Insignia of photographer Alexander Binder from the negative at the bottom right corner the recto, with Binder's stamp and a printed mimeo snipe on the verso.
Noted portrait and film photographer Alexander Binder… Read more about this item Item Price
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Kiss Me Deadly (Collection of five original photographs from the 1955 film noir)
by Robert Aldrich (director); A.I. Bezzerides (screenwriter); Mickey Spillane (novel); Ralph Meeker, Albert Dekker, Paul Stewart, Strother Martin, Jack Elam, Cloris Leachman (starring)
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- 1955
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N.p.: N.p., 1955. Collection of five vintage reference photographs from the 1955 film. Two with provenance labels affixed to the versos.
Perhaps the ultimate film noir in the classic cycle, and by far the best (and most insanely interpreted) Spillane adaptation. Director Robert Aldrich spins the hard boiled source material into a symphony of speed, violence, and… Read more about this item Item Price
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Who Was That Lady? (Original photograph from the 1960 film)
by George Sidney (director); Norman Krasna (play, screenwriter); Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh, Dean Martin, Barbara Nichols (starring)
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- 1960
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€307.00
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Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1960. Vintage reference photograph from the 1960 film, showing director George Sidney inspecting a chorus line of women's legs. Columbia Pictures stamp specific to the Dutch release on the verso.
Based on Norman Krasna's 1958 Broadway play "Who Was That Lady I Saw You With?" A mild-mannered chemistry professor falsely claims to be… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Kiss of the Spider Woman (Four original photographs from the 1985 film)
by William Hurt, Raul Julia, Sônia Braga (starring); Héctor Babenco (director); Manuel Puig (novel); Leonard Schrader (screenwriter)
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- 1985
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€354.22
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N.p.: N.p., 1985. Four vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1985 film, including one showing director Héctor Babenco talking with actor William Hurt on the set.
Based on the 1976 novel by Manuel Puig, about two cellmates who form an unusual bond during their imprisonment in a Brazilian prison. Nominated for the Palme d'Or. Puig's novel also… Read more about this item Item Price
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My Dinner with Andre (Two original photographs taken on the set of the 1981 film)
by Louis Malle (director); Wallace Shawn, Andre Gregory (screenwriters, starring)
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- 1981
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N.p.: N.p., 1981. Two vintage borderless reference photographs taken on the set of the 1981 film, one showing actor Wallace Shawn talking with director Louis Malle, the other showing Malle laughing with Shawn and Andre Gregory between takes.
A comedy starring screenwriters Shawn and Gregory, playing fictionalized versions of themselves, sharing a long conversation about experimental theatre,… Read more about this item Item Price
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North Dallas Forty (Original press kit for the 1979 film)
by Ted Kotcheff (director, screenwriter); Peter Gent, Frank Yablans (screenwriter)
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- 1979
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Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1979. Vintage press kit for the 1979 film. Full-color illustrated pocketed folder, containing 13 black-and-white photographs, and 11 gatherings of promotional reading material.
Based on the 1973 novel by Peter Gent. A satire of American pro football loosely based on the Dallas Cowboys in the 1970s, following an aging wide receiver for a Texas… Read more about this item Item Price
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Dehors-dedans [Outside-In] (Four original photographs from the 1975 French film)
by Catherine Jourdan (starring); Alain Fleischer (director, screenwriter)
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- 1975
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N.p.: N.p., 1975. Four vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1975 French film, all four showing actress Catherine Jourdan. All four with a stamp on the verso relating to the film's French release.
An early, highly abstract work by French avant-garde filmmaker, writer, and academic Alain Fleischer.
5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. Item Price
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Alphaville (Original photograph from the 1965 film)
by Jean-Luc Godard (director, screenwriter); Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina, Akim Tamiroff (starring)
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- 1965
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N.p.: N.p., 1965. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1965 film, showing cinematographer Raoul Coutard capturing a shot with actress Anna Karina while Jean-Luc Godard looks on. Cropping annotations in manuscript pencil and a Cinemonde stamp on the verso.
Jean-Luc Godard's neo-noir foray into science fiction, following a secret agent in a dystopian future who is assigned… Read more about this item Item Price
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Lightning Over Water [Nick's Film] (Original photograph from the 1980 documentary)
by Wim Wenders (director); Nicholas Ray (director, subject); Susan Ray, Tom Farrell, Ronee Blakley (subjects)
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- 1980
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N.p.: N.p., 1980. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1980 documentary, showing director Wim Wenders and his subject, the director Nicholas Ray. Annotations in manuscript ink on the verso.
Wenders joins Ray, his friend and hero, in New York City to discuss Ray's dying wish to make a film about a painter with a terminal illness who… Read more about this item Item Price
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Acapulco Uncensored (Five original photographs from the 1968 film)
by Donald A. Davis (director); Virginia Gordon, Victor Izay, Vic Lance (starring)
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- 1968
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€141.69
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N.p.: Hollywood Cinema Associates, 1968. Five vintage bizarrely male-centric studio still photographs from the 1968 sexploitation film, all with "Tom Conroy Photos" provenance stamps on the verso.
The second film by exploitation director Donald A. Davis, wherein Victor Izay stars as Captain Carter, who narrates the sexual exploits of his passengers partying in Acapulco, Mexico.
8 x… Read more about this item Item Price
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