Search Results: Broadsides from Royal Books, Inc.

San Diego: San Diego Timing Association, 1964. Archive of vintage programs, bulletins, flyers, and newspaper clippings published by and relating to the San Diego Timing Association, a foundational sanctioning organization in US drag racing. In postwar America, the return of risk-loving, unmarried ex-GIs with advanced mechanical skills and extra money to spend led to the rise in popularity of illegal street racing. Southern California racers took advantage of the growing number of abandoned military strips in the state, colloquially known as "drags," such as the Santa Ana Drags and Sweetwater Dam Navy Outlying Field. Local car clubs pressured law enforcement to allow racing on the strips, efforts which would precipitate the formation of the San Diego Timing Association. The SDTA held their first sanctioned meet at the Sweetwater Dam drag, which the members renamed Paradise Mesa, on March 11, 1951. The events drew spectators and racers from across Southern California, catching the attention of the… Read More

N.p.: N.p., 1970. Archive of 32 vintage photographs documenting the October 20, 1970 collision of two trains along the Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific Railroad line in Raytown, Missouri. Also included in the archive is a single broadside reward poster offering $5000 for information pertaining to the accident. According to a contemporary newspaper article which appeared in nearby Jackson County's Independence Examiner, the accident was believed to have been caused by juvenile vandalism to a nearby track switch. The collision and subsequent derailment resulted in the death of one engineer, whose partial body is visible in several photographs. The photographs in the archive range from close-up shots of the mangled train cars and tracks to distance views of the surrounding woods. Frequently displayed in the images is a small, handwritten police chalkboard noting the date, location, and case numbers. A vivid and interesting look at investigative photography and railway disasters in the late… Read More

Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1999. Original broadside poster advertising a poetry contest for fans of post-Beat poet Charles Bukowski. Issued by Bukowski's longtime publisher, Black Sparrow Press, in collaboration with Copperfield's Books and Music store, and the Sonoma County Independent. The contest was held to commemorate the iconic literary figure, and entries were personally judged by John Martin to determine those that captured the "spirit of Bukowski's writing." The poster itself reprints the Bukowski poem, "Wide and Moving." 9.5 x 12.5 inches, printed recto only in black and red. Near Fine.

N.p.: Edison Manufacturing, 1902. Vintage broadside advertising a motion picture show held at the Methodist Episcopal Church in Caughdenoy, New York, circa 1902. Thomas Edison patented the Kinetograph (a motion picture camera) and the Kinetoscope (a single-user, peep hole film viewer) in 1897. The latter would eventually give way to projection devices that would allow larger audiences to view films. The Edison Manufacturing Co. (later known as Thomas A. Edison, Inc.) not only built the apparatus for filming and projecting motion pictures, but also produced films for public consumption. Most early examples were "actuality films," short motion pictures showing famous people, news events, disasters, new modes of travel and technology, and expositions, as the broadside on offer attests. As audience enthusiasm for "actualities" faded, the company's production emphasis shifted to fictional films, mostly comedies and dramas, by 1903. 5.5 x 14.5 inches. Very Good plus, with faint foxing at the bottom… Read More

N.p.: Midnight Paper Sales / Hungry Mind, 1996. First Edition. First Edition. One of 90 numbered copies (this being No. 60) SIGNED by the author. An excerpt from Alexie's "Indian Killer," given during a reading at the Hungry Mind in 1996. Near Fine. 10 7/8 x 14 7/8 inches.

Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 1980. Vintage broadside, one of 85 numbered copies (lacking number). SIGNED on the bottom portion by the author. Broadside measuring 9.5 x 13 inches, in an archival mat measuring 16.5 x 19.5 inches. Lightly faded, else Near Fine.

N.p.: N.p., 1984. Original broadside excerpt from the 1984 novel. SIGNED by Jayne Anne Phillips on the bottom right corner of the leaf. The book was Phillips' first novel, published in 1984 by E.P. Dutton. 8.5 x 11 inches. Near Fine.

Pompton Lakes, NJ: Chivers Motor Company, 1934. Original flyer for a remote radio-controlled Ford Motors automobile event sponsored in Pompton Lakes, New Jersey on August 16, 1934. The event was sponsored by the Chivers Motor Company, featuring three Ford cars operated from a distance on the grounds of a local high school. "Magic car" or "phantom auto" shows became popular in the 1930s and 1940s, and were often used to promote car companies or demonstrate road safety. Radio engineers would follow behind the car in a second vehicle (or in some cases, in a low-flying airplane) and control the brakes, steering wheel, and horn using a morse key and spherical antennae attached to the car. 9 x 12 inches. Mimeograph duplication. Very Good plus, with short closed tears to the left and right edges.

Berkeley: Okeanos Press, 1994. Original broadside excerpt from the 1994 novel, one of 1000 unnumbered copies. 8 x 11.5 inches on handmade paper. Near Fine.

Berkeley: Black Oak Books, 1994. Original broadside excerpt from the 1993 novel. SIGNED by the author on the bottom edge. The novel was originally published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1993, winning the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and serving as the basis for a 2001 film directed by Lasse Hallstrom and starring Kevin Spacey, Judi Dench, and Julianne Moore. 6.5 x 11.5 inches. Fine.

Stanford, CA: Stanford University, 2001. Poster advertising a colloquium on Joseph Brodsky at Stanford University on Friday February 23, 2001. Topics include "Joseph Brodsky and the Russian Tradition" and "Joseph Brodsky and the Anglo-American Tradition." Thin, non-glossy tan card stock. 11 x 14 inches. Fine.

Stanford, CA: Stanford University, 2001. Poster advertising a colloquium on Joseph Brodsky at Stanford University on Friday February 23, 2001. Topics include "Joseph Brodsky and the Russian Tradition" and "Joseph Brodsky and the Anglo-American Tradition." Glossy black and white card stock. 11 x 14 inches. Fine.