Photoplay Editions from Royal Books, Inc.

Paris: Gallimard, 1961. First Edition. First Edition. Photoplay edition, illustrated throughout with stills from the film. Top page edges uncut. Basis for the 1961 film directed by René Clair. The film echoes director's Clair's early silent films, interweaving separate themes of comedy and fantasy, involving a well with supernatural powers that lengthens life expectancy. Very… Read more about this item

Paris: Editions de Minuit, 1961. First Edition. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the half-title page: "Pour Dominique Aury / avec toute mon amitie / Alain Robbe-Grillet." ("For Dominique Aury / with all my friendship / Alain Robbe-Grillet."). Photo-illustrated with stills from the film. Text in French. Screenplay for the 1961 film, Last Year at Marienbad,… Read more about this item

Paris: Gallimard, 1961. First Edition. First Edition. SIGNED and briefly inscribed by René Clair in manuscript ink on the front endpaper. Photoplay edition, with stills from the film, and released in a dust jacket featuring a still of Bourvil on the front. Top edges uncut. Basis for the 1961 eponymous film, directed by Clair, starring Bourvil, Alfred Adam,… Read more about this item

New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1929. First Photoplay Edition. Photo-illustrated with stills from the film. Based on the 1929 silent film, directed by Frank Borzage, and starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell, about a disabled World War I vet returning home to the girl he left behind. Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket.… Read more about this item

Budapest: Singer es Wolfner Irodalmi Intezet, 1927. First Hungarian Edition. Screenplay for the 1927 silent film, a photoplay edition with a photographic image of the film's star, Pola Negri, on the front wrapper. With the logo of the film's Hungarian distributor, Royal Apollo, on the front wrapper at the bottom right corner. Biro wrote the 1917 play,… Read more about this item

New York: William Morrow, 1968. First American Edition. Director Claude Berri's novelization of his classic 1967 film. Very Good plus in a Very Good, price-clipped dust jacket. Slight spine lean, with faint soil on the rear board. Jacket lightly toned at the extremities, with a small closed tear on the bottom left edge of the front panel.… Read more about this item