Swedish Cinema from Royal Books, Inc.

N.p.: N.p., 1960. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Ingmar Bergman directing actress Bibi Andersson on the set of the 1960 film, with script supervisor Ulla Furas looking on to the left. With a mimeo snipe affixed to the verso, along with a stamp noting No. 60-0-279, and the stamp of uncredited still photographer Lennart Nilsson. The Devil… Read more about this item

Stockholm: Svensk Filmindustri [SF], 1958. Collection of 14 vintage black and white oversize double-weight studio still photographs from the 1958 film. A traveling magic show led by a depressed, fraudulent illusionist (Max von Sydow) faces opposition from a small town's authorities, who wish to expose the spectacle as a sham. Shot on location in Stockholm,… Read more about this item

Stockholm: Svenska Dagbladet, 1976. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1976 film, showing director Ingmar Bergman talking between takes with actors Liv Ullmann and Erland Josephson. Mimeo snipe on the verso along with the stamp of Svenska Dagbladet. A psychiatrist is afflicted by an inexplicable depression while on vacation. Desperate to escape her torment, she has an… Read more about this item

Stockholm: European Pressphoto Agencies Union, 1967. Vintage borderless oversize reference photograph from the 1968 film, showing actress Liv Ullmann wearing a parka on the set. Printed mimeo snipe and stamps of European Pressphoto Agencies and Agence France-Presse on the verso. Two former violinists are caught up in the trauma of civil war despite their desire to live simply… Read more about this item

Stockholm, Sweden: Concorde Film, 1974. Draft script for an unproduced film. With the name of the script written across the folder in manuscript pencil, and a few small manuscript pencil and ink annotations (presumably secretarial) throughout correcting grammatical errors. Laid in with the script is a three-page typed summary of the story, and a two-page typed letter addressed from… Read more about this item

Stockholm: Omega Film, 1985. Draft script for the 2005 Swedish film. Text in English. A young man recalls the strange, emotionally intense year he spent working as the sous chef in the claustrophobic galley of a ship headed for Cape Town. A very early draft of the script, written twenty years before the film's release. Set and… Read more about this item

Berlin: Personafilm, 1978. Post-production script for the 1978 film, noted in brown manuscript ink on the front wrapper as "P.D. copy." With manuscript ink annotations throughout, mostly regarding word choice and grammatical revisions, likely in preparation for the film's release in English. Included with the script are two copies of dialogue from reels one and six. Text in English. … Read more about this item

Duisburg, Germany: Atlas Filmverleih, 1964. First Edition. First Edition of Atlas Filmheft double issue booklet number 32 on the 1963 film, text in German. Featuring 18 essays, an Ingmar Bergman filmography, and illustrated with black and white film still photographs throughout. The third entry in Ingmar Bergman's trilogy of faith and redemption, preceded by "Through A Glass Darkly"… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1977. First Edition. First Edition publicity manual, reminiscent in content to a press kit, but with much more detail. Produced by Dino De Laurentiis to advertise legendary Swedish director Ingmar Bergman and his psychological drama "The Serpent's Egg" (1976). Profusely photo-illustrated with over 60 black and white images, including film stills and on the set photography of… Read more about this item

New York: Film Forum 2, 1988. Portrait photograph of director Maurtiz Stiller, circa 1930, to promote Film Forum 2's two-week series "Sjostrom & Stiller: The Screen's First Masters," which ran from November 11 through November 24, 1988, at Film Forum 2 in New York. Maurtiz Stiller, born in Helsinki, Finland, was a Swedish director, writer, and actor,… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1969. Vintage reference photograph from the 1969 Swedish television film, showing actor Anders Ek in a menacing demonic mask. With a printed mimeo snipe specific to the film's UK release affixed to the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. A theatrical troupe is called before the Swedish courts due to… Read more about this item

London: Mondial Films, 1953. Collection of three vintage reference photographs from the 1953 film. With printed mimeo snipes specific to the film's UK release affixed to the verso. Based on Per Anders Fogelstrom's 1951 novel. Two young lovers from Stockholm steal a boat and run away together, but are forced to return home as the summer ends.… Read more about this item

Stockholm: Svensk Filmindustri, 1952. Collection of eight vintage reference photographs, seven borderless, from the 1952 Swedish film. Three with mimeo snipes on the verso, and all with manuscript ink and pencil annotations as well as the stamp of Svensk Filmindustri. While vacationing at a summer home, four sisters-in-law tell each other stories from their respective marriages, ranging from… Read more about this item

Stockholm: Svensk Filmindustri, 1953. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Harriet Andersson from the 1983 film. Printed Swedish Svensk Filmindustri snipe, featuring full cast and crew credits, affixed and folded, "Svensk Filmindustri" stamp, and small barcode label, all on verso. Based on the 1951 Swedish novel "Sommaren med Monika" by Per Anders Fogelstrom. Conceived as a vehicle… Read more about this item

Berlin: Road Movies Filmproduktion, 1980. Vintage oversize borderless reference color photograph from the 1980 film. With manuscript ink annotations to the verso noting the film's title. An image and a film that was "meta" before the term was coined, let alone culturally over-saturated. Wim Wenders joins his friend and hero, director Nicholas Ray, in New York City… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1971. Draft script for the 1971 film. With what we assume to be translator Alan Blair's handwritten ink annotations throughout the script, mostly in English but occasionally in Swedish, noting many substantive revisions and deletions. Text in English. Bergman's first English language film, shot in England and Sweden, and his first film to involve a… Read more about this item

London: Gala Film Distributors, 1963. Collection of eight vintage series contact print photographs from the 1963 film. Three images per print, amounting to 24 complete images. Two estranged sisters, Ester and Anna, and Anna's 10-year-old son travel to an unnamed Central European country on the verge of war. Ester becomes seriously ill and the three of them move… Read more about this item

Stockholm: Cinematograph AB, 1972. Collection of three vintage borderless black-and-white photographs taken on the set of the 1972 film, two showing director Ingmar Bergman, and the other showing Bergman with actresses Harriet Andersson, Kari Sylwan, and Ingrid Thulin. With manuscript pencil and ink annotations to the verso. Bergman's self-titled portrait to his mother, with each of the women… Read more about this item

New York: Anchor Press / Doubleday, 1976. First Edition. First Edition. INSCRIBED in Swedish by director and author Ingmar Bergman on the front endpaper, and rare thus. Remainder spray to bottom page edges, else Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Lightly soiled boards and endpapers. Jacket is soiled at the verso, otherwise with light wear at… Read more about this item

New York: Janus Films, 1964. Collection of thirteen vintage studio still photographs from the US release of the 1963 Swedish film. Three with mimeo snipe and "R.R. Stuart Collection" stamp on the verso. The third entry in Ingmar Bergman's trilogy of faith and redemption, preceded by "Through A Glass Darkly" (1961) and "Winter Light"(1963). A stark… Read more about this item