Media And Journalism from Royal Books, Inc.

N.p.: N.p., 1931. Vintage oversize reference photograph from the 1931 pre-Code film, showing actor Edward G. Robinson surrounded by newsroom staff. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Based on the 1930 play by Louis Weitzenkorn. The beleaguered managing editor of a flagging tabloid newspaper attempts to resurrect the publication's readership by reinvestigating a decades-old murder case.… Read more

New York: Times Books, 1980. Later printing, Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper.

N.p.: N.p., 1976. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1976 film, showing actor Robert Redford stepping out of a taxi, with the US Capitol in the background. With holograph ink annotations on the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Based on the 1974 book by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward. The iconic New Hollywood account… Read more

Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1939. Post-production Continuity and Dialogue script for the 1940 film. A young journalist finds himself unjustly accused of murder. White titled wrappers, noted as production No. 1033, dated DECEMBER 19, 1939, with credits for director Harold D. Schuster and actors Frank Albertson, Constance Moore, Jerome Cowan, and others. Title page integral with the front wrapper,… Read more

N.p.: N.p., 1976. Vintage reference photograph, with horizontal margins, of director Alan J. Pakula, Dustin Hoffman, and Robert Redford on the set of the 1976 film. Based on the 1974 book by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward. The iconic New Hollywood account of the Watergate investigation, starring Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman in exceptionally strong performances, as Washington Post… Read more

N.p.: N.p., 1980. Collection of materials related to post-production editing for the 1981 film, including notes on film reels and pages of proposed sequences for each reel. Director, screenwriter, and actor Warren Beatty's epic political drama, which follows a left-wing American journalist who becomes involved with the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia. Nominated for twelve Academy Awards, winning three for… Read more

Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1969. Three vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1969 film, a highlight of early New Hollywood cinema. One shows actor Harold Blankenship, the other with actors Robert Forster, Peter Bonerz, and Janet Langhart. One with a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso along with the stamp of Paramount Pictures, the other with the stamp… Read more

Saint Ouen: PPCM Photo Press Agency, 1998. Photograph of Hunter S. Thompson and shotgun, outside his Woody Creek, Aspen, Colorado home, 1990, by photographer Paul Harris, struck by PPCM Photo Press Agency, circa 1998. Issued to promote the Terry Gilliam's 1998 film adaptation of Thompson's 1971 novel "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" PPCM incorrectly dates the image as being… Read more

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1972. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1972 film, showing actors Gary Lockwood and Jacqueline Bisset in a candid pose. A journalist returns to her hometown to write an article about women's liberation, and is surprised to discover her mother and sister are already self-declared feminists. Shot on location in Denver, Colorado. 8 x 10 inches. Near… Read more

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1938. Final Draft script for the 1938 film, here under the working title "Meridian." Laid in with the script are two copies of a set of two carbon typescript pages of notes on the film. A newspaper reporter and photographer investigate a murder in order to exonerate the main suspect, a bank runner accused of killing… Read more

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1938. Final Draft script for the 1938 film. Copy belonging to director H. Bruce Humberstone, with two pages of his handwritten notes and a typed page of proposed revisions on onionskin stock attached with a paperclip to the verso of the front wrapper, and his holograph pencil annotations throughout the script. A newspaper editor investigates… Read more

N.p.: International Creative Management [ICM], 1980. Early Revised Draft script for the 1987 film, here under the working title "Streets of New York." Magazine reporter Jonathan Fisher (Christopher Reeve) fabricates a story about a New York pimp after he is unsuccessful getting information on the streets. But the police, the district attorney, and a real pimp and police suspect,… Read more

Springfield, MA: Willey, 1891. First Edition. First Edition. A history of African-American newspapers beginning in 1827 and continuing through to the book's publication, with over 70 biographical sketches of editors and journalists, including a separate chapter dedicated to female African American journalists, and essays on the state of the Black press and its relationship to "Anglo-Saxon" newspapers. Rare. About Very… Read more

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1939. Vintage photograph of director Alfred Werker and actors Preston Foster, Lynn Bari, George Barbier, and Russell Gleason on the set of the 1939 film. Printed description on the verso. Steve Drum (Preston Foster), a crusading newspaper editor helps free a man framed for a crime, and aids in finding the real culprit. Staff reporter… Read more

Paris: Ulysse Production / Cinedis, 1959. Collection of 370 original black-and-white keybook still photographs from the 1959 French film, consisting of two unique and complimentary pieces, one being a studio film still keybook with 97 contact prints of small format transparencies, most with 12 images per print, amounting to over 1,000 images captured, nearly all images with series number… Read more

Paris: Cinedis, 1959. Collection of 11 original black-and-white photographs from the 1959 French film. Most feature starring actress Morgan, and a few show other actors, including Vidal. Three on-the-set photographs of Morgan being fitted by a female crew member, possibly costume designer Tanine Autré, and eleven still photographs, with Morgan and Blanche at a bar, even an image of… Read more

Paris: Migra, 1962. Five issues of "Le Guide de la femme" (roughly, "Woman's Guide"), a mid-century Parisian periodical published with the patronage of French author, journalist, politician, and noted feminist, Louise Weiss. The periodical, not unlike similar publications of today found on wire racks at grocery checkout lines, was produced by and for France's modern Woman, "at the forefront… Read more

Paris: Les Editions du Presse du Miroir, 1964. Four issues of "le miroir de l'information" (roughly, "Mirror of Information"), a Parisian periodical published for press relations, including coverage on the press itself, radio, film, television, and other various media. Little is documented on "le miroir," with only a few held in institutions and libraries. The magazine seemingly focused on… Read more

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1925. Vintage double weight studio still photograph from the 1925 silent film. Bumbling newspaper clerk Henry Baxter is helplessly in love with a coworker in this silent-era comedy. The subject of his longing barely acknowledges his existence. His unrequited love coupled with his manager's devious daily taunts makes work tortuous for the poor clerk. He… Read more

New York: Newsweek, 1985. First Edition. First Edition. April 22, 1985 issue. Vintage magazine featuring crime fiction writer Elmore Leonard on the front wrapper and in an essay by Peter S. Prescott, examining the author's career and writing process. Also includes essays and articles on "special ops," Ringling Brothers circus goats, President Ferdinand Marcos, "coming out in the convent,"… Read more