Cold War from Royal Books, Inc.

N.p.: N.p., Unknown. Draft script for an unproduced film. With an annotation in manuscript ink on the title page noting the film's title and the name of screenwriter Ken Hyman. Two CIA agents tail a neo-Nazi murderer in West Berlin. Hyman was best known as a producer during the 1960s and 1970s. Set in West Berlin… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Sasha and the Greystones, 1983. Treatment script for an unproduced film. Two men stumble into an unlikely friendship in Moscow, but their cultural differences and the strained diplomatic relations between their two countries threatens to separate them. Set in Moscow. Pink untitled wrappers, dated May 13, 1983. Title page present, dated February… Read more about this item

London: J. Arthur Rank, 1958. Final Draft script for the 1958 film. Based on the 1957 novel by Compton Mackenzie, sequel to Mackenzie's 1947 novel "Whisky Galore," which was also adapted for film in 1949. Britain's Royal Air Force declares plans to establish a guided missile base on a small Hebridean island, aggravating the locals, who intentionally… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: RKO Radio Pictures, 1951. Vintage banner poster from the 1951 film. Elliott Reid, a magazine writer on a fishing vacation in Wisconsin, stumbles upon a nearly deserted town, where all of the fish have mysteriously died and the villagers are either tight-lipped or outright hostile, eventually uncovering a communist plot to poison the US water supply. … Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1980. Draft script for an unproduced film. Single annotation in manuscript pencil on the first page. Written by Spencer Eastman, whose other screenwriting credits include "Hide in Plain Sight" (1980), "Kansas" (1988), "War Party" (1988), and "Night Game" (1989). A story set in West Berlin after the Second World War, involving members of the CIA,… Read more about this item

Munich: Sunset Films, Unknown. Treatment script for an unproduced film. Bound in with the script are two copied letters, one addressed to film producer Stefan Abendroth from a talent agent discussing actor Stacy Keach's interest in the title role, and one from screenwriter Zbigniew Kaminski expressing willingness to write a full screenplay on the materials addressed in the treatment. … Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1973. Collection of 86 QSL cards from 45 countries, housed in a 32 page generic scrapbook binding, from dedicated radio enthusiast Mark Murphy, 1954-1973, the majority of which dates from the late 1950s. The majority of the QSL cards are addressed to Murphy, at various addresses in New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. QSL cards were sent… Read more about this item

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1968. Collection of five vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1968 film. Four with mimeo snipes to the verso. A tense, two-part Cold War thriller, based on the 1963 novel. The US nuclear attack submarine Tigerfish is sent to the North Pole to rescue the personnel of Drift Ice Station Zebra, a… Read more about this item

London: Times Newspapers, 1970. First Edition. First Edition. The Times Authors series presented gatherings of resources relating to an author, including newspaper reviews, offprints of articles, film stills, and various ephemera, created for use by students and available for purchase via mail order from the "Times Education Services" office in London. This edition, noted as No. 2,… Read more about this item

N.p.: Columbia British Productions, 1968. Three vintage studio still photographs from the 1968 film. Based on the 1966 novel by Derek Marlowe. A British spy is ordered to track down a KGB agent, though he himself is that KGB agent. He must disparage his partner's suspicions and ensure the secrecy of his identity. Set in… Read more about this item

Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1964. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1964 film. A Cambridge professor of astrophysics accidentally gets mixed up in a plot to make it appear that he has defected to Russia. Set and shot on location in England. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine.

Glendale, CA: Allied Artists Pictures, 1963. Vintage reference photograph from the 1963 film. With mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. A Russian nuclear scientist is hired by the British government, but is soon arrested for passing information along to another spy posing as an employee. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.

Beverly Hills, CA: M.C. Productions / United Artists, 1962. One vintage studio still photograph and one vintage reference photograph from the 1962 film. Reference photograph with a printed mimeo snipe attached to the verso. Based on Richard Condon's 1959 novel. A film that managed the unlikely feat of being both timely and well ahead of its time,… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1965. Vintage press kit for the 1965 film, containing 43 black and white photographs, and 1 promotional color flyer. Based on John le Carre's 1963 novel, the first ever adaptation of his works. A British agent refuses to leave his duties during the Cold War, taking on another mission-one that may prove to… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1984. Second Draft script for the 1985 film. Copy belonging to an unknown crew member, with their name in manuscript ink annotation on the title page. A group of college students who go to Paris together are fans of playing the game gotcha, a game similar to tag. There, one of the men starts a relationship… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1957. Vintage borderless double weight reference photograph from the 1957 Soviet film, showing a row of large rockets lined up outdoors. Several provenance stamps on the verso, along with manuscript ink annotations in Spanish, noting the film's title in Spanish. A documentary film that also veers into speculative science fiction, focusing on the scientific principles… Read more about this item

N.p.: Biplane Cinematograph Productions, 1969. Draft script for an unproduced film, written by Tony Bill and Vernon Zimmerman. Actor, director, and producer Bill, has worked in Hollywood for 45 years, and in 1974 won an Academy Award for Best Picture as a producer of "The Sting." Screenwriter and director Zimmerman has worked in film in television for four decades,… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1961. First Draft script for an unproduced television series. Based on Upton Sinclair's 1944 novel "Presidential Agent," the fifth novel in his Lanny Budd series. Lanny Budd was the only son of a major American arms dealer who actions have the power to affect global decisions. Red untitled wrappers. Title page present, dated… Read more about this item

Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1957. Post-production Continuity and Dialogue script for the 1957 film. Co-written by Gene Coon, who would go on to become a major player in the creation of the original "Star Trek" series in 1966. A campy Red Scare thriller, wherein Stalin fakes his own death, undergoes extreme plastic surgery to make himself unrecognizable, and… Read more about this item

Culver City, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1976. Draft script for the 1976 neo-noir film. Copy belonging to an unknown cast or crew member, with their name in manuscript pencil to the first revision page. Laid in with the script are several production documents, including a 17-page typed shooting schedule dated 12/29/76, a revised shooting schedule on pink stock dated 2/6/77,… Read more about this item