Film Pressbooks from Royal Books, Inc.

Paris: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1980. Collection of four vintage borderless reference photographs and one vintage pressbook for the French release of the 1980 Italian film. Photographs include three matte-finish photographs of actress Eleonora Giorgi, and one glossy photograph of director Dario Argento talking with actor Sacha Pitoëff on the set. Pressbook text in French. The second installment… Read more about this item

Hollywood: Republic Pictures, 1953. Vintage pressbook for the 1953 Western. A circus rodeo star and his clown friend expose a ring of diamond smugglers while looking into their high-wire friend's fiancée. 11 x 16.75 inches. Bifold, with punch holes at the bottom edge. Near Fine. Pitts 1142.

Rome: Titanus, 1951. Vintage pressbook for the 1951 Italian film. Text and titles in Italian. An opera singer falls in love with a masked bandit known as the Count of Saint Elmo, who robs the wealthy in order to fund his fight against the oppressive Italian government. Set in Sicily. 8.7 x 12.5… Read more about this item

N.p.: Continental Distributing, 1948. Vintage pressbook for the US release of the 1948 French film. A meek Parisian tax collector sets off on a madcap hunt for his aunt's lost corpse in order to claim his inheritance, leading to his inadvertent involvement in the French criminal underground. 10 x 14 inches. Bifold, with a second horizontal… Read more about this item

Paris: Lux Films, 1961. Original French promotional book for the 1961 French film. Based on the 1952 novel by Beatrix Beck. With a small red rubber stamp from a French movie house at the top center of the front wrapper. A departure for both Melville and Belmondo, both turning from the crime films for which they were… Read more about this item

Rome: Euro International Film, 1969. Vintage pressbook for the 1969 Italian film. Text in Italian. Based on Euripides' tragedy, first performed in 431 BC, which was in turn based on the Greek myth of Medea, who famously killed her sons as revenge against her unfaithful husband. The sole feature film appearance of noted opera legend Maria Callas, one… Read more about this item

New York: N.p., 1972. Vintage pressbook for the 1972 adult film. 8.75 x 11.25 inches, four leaves, printed on rectos only. Very Good plus, with a diagonal crease to the first two leaves.

New York: Boss Distributors, 1969. Vintage pressbook for the 1969 adult film. 11 x 17 inches, bi-fold. Very Good plus, folded horizontally, with faint creasing at the top.

London: Scotia-Barber Distributors, 1971. Vintage pressbook for the 1971 film. At his home on the North Cornish coast, a demented sculptor murders a young woman in order to cast a bronze sculpture of her form. Shot on location in Cornwall and London. Bifold. 6.5 x 10 inches. Near Fine.

Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1958. Original pressbook for the 1958 film. Just as Erskine Caldwell's 1933 novel was met with scrutiny and censorship upon its publication, the film adaptation twenty-five years later met with similar disapproval. Scenes involving actresses Tina Louise and Fay Spain were perceived as obscene, the film was said to call marital fidelity… Read more about this item

New York: Joseph Brenner, 1951. Vintage pressbook for the US release of the 1951 German film. The doctor of an invalid heiress marries her out of pity, not expecting her to live more than a few years after their marriage, but begins to fall in love with her. Shot in Rome and Naples, Italy, and… Read more about this item

Hollywood: Sony Pictures Classics, 1999. Vintage program for the debut of the 1999 film. Based on the 1946 play by Terence Rattigan, about a British family whose attempts to defend their teenage son from accusations of postal theft escalate into a costly and scandalous media storm. Set and shot on location in London. 6.5… Read more about this item

Munich: Constantin-Film, 1963. Vintage pressbook for the 1963 German film. Text and titles in German. Based on the 1930 novel "Die Königin der Nacht" ("The Queen of the Night") by Louis Weinert-Wilton. An alcoholic journalist investigates a string of murders by poisoning that have affected the members of a small South American expedition. 11.75 x… Read more about this item

Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1958. Vintage pressbook for the 1958 film. Based on Will C. Brown's 1955 novel "The Border Jumpers." A former criminal is stranded in the desert after an attempted stagecoach robbery, and is forced to rejoin his old band of outlaws, now led by his uncle, to survive. One of Gary Cooper's final… Read more about this item

N.p.: Normandy Pictures, 1936. Vintage pressbook for the 1936 film. Loosley based on the novel "The Lad and the Lion" by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Previously made as a silent film in 1917, directed by Alfred E. Green, starring Vivian Reed, Will Machin, and Charles Le Moyne. Jon Hall stars as the "Lion Man," seeking to exact his… Read more about this item

London: American International Pictures [AIP], 1974. Vintage pressbook for the 1974 film. Downbeat sexploitation film (ultimately quite political) about a group of women who have all been attacked by the same hockey-mask-wearing serial rapist. Fed up, the women band together to form a vigilante crime-fighting squad dedicated to finding the perpetrator. Shot on location in… Read more about this item

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1970. Vintage pressbook for the 1970 film. Based on the 1965 novel "The Liberation of Lord Byron Jones" by Jesse Hill Ford. A wealthy African American funeral director suspects a white policeman of having an affair with his considerably younger wife, leading to a series of violent interactions with the police force,… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: United Producers, 1965. Vintage pressbook for the 1965 film. With several promotional pages laid in. A poor farmer wants to sell his daughter to a traveling bathing suit salesman in order to save his farm. A slapstick entry in the hicksploitation genre. One leaf, bifold. 11 x 17 inches. Very Good plus overall.… Read more about this item

Santa Monica: RKO Radio Pictures, 1948. Vintage pressbook for the 1948 film. Sequel to "Badman's Territory" (1946). While fighting outlaws, an Oklahoma town marshal falls into forbidden love with a beautiful desperado. Eight pages. 11 x 17 inches. Very Good plus overall. Pitts 3383.

Burbank, CA: Buena Vista / Walt Disney Productions, 1960. Vintage pressbook for the 1960 film. Based on the 1880 children's book by James Otis Kaler. Unhappy with his life at a foster home, a young orphan runs away to join the circus. 26 pages, saddle stitched, 11.5 x 15 inches. Very Good plus, with faint… Read more about this item