US Marines from Royal Books, Inc.

Atlanta, GA: New World Pictures, 1986. Revised Draft script for the 1987 film. With a few annotations in holograph pencil throughout. Gunnery Sergeant Burns (Dryer) is sent to the Middle East, where he acts as a guard at the local US Embassy. However, due to the pacific nature of the ambassador, the marine corps detachment is severely… Read more

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1949. Temporary script for the 1950 film. A gritty WWII film starring Richard Widmark, Richard Boone, Jack Palance, and Karl Malden. It follows a platoon of U.S. Marines as they fight to gain control of a Japanese-held island. It was to be the last American-made WWII film for Lewis Milestone, who would eventually… Read more

N.p.: Jaffe-Lansing, 1984. Vintage US one sheet poster for the 1984 US film. In one of his earliest rolls, actor Sean Penn costars with Nicolas Cage in this World War II era drama. Two teenage boys are shipping out to train as Marines in six weeks, and the film follows their last days of civilian life.… Read more

New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1894. First Edition. First Edition. Very Good condition. Dampstain near hinge on interior leaves, tear on heel and crown, and light soil on front and rear boards. Bright illustrations.

Novato, CA: Presidio Press, 1999. First Edition. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper: "For that great marine of two wars - my very fine friend who got saddled with two copies of this magnificent addition to the literature of the great war / Llewellyn W. Lord of Baltimore from / George B. Clark / Semper… Read more

New York: Putnam, 1966. First Edition. First Edition. SIGNED and dated (Sept. 13, 1981) by the author on the front flyleaf. Author's second novel, about a young boy in Vermont at the end of WWII. Basis for the 1988 H. Anne Riley film starring Lukas Haas and Dylan Baker. Very Good plus in a Very… Read more

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1962. First UK Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the title page. Author's second novel, originally published as a paperback original in 1952. Very Good plus in a Near Fine dust jacket. Spine lean, foxing to the page edges, extremities slightly toned. Jacket spine toned, with light foxing to the verso and rear panel.… Read more

New York and Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press / Little, Brown, 1973. First Edition. First Edition. Novelization of the author's experience as a Marine during the Vietnam War. Foxing to the top edges, with toning and a few tiny tears to the jacket, else Near Fine and unread in a Near Fine, price-clipped dust jacket.

Burbank, CA: Waterlow and Sons / Warner Brothers, 1955. Collection of 7 vintage British front-of-house cards from the UK release of the 1955 US film. Based on Leon Uris' first book, about a new recruitment of Marines primed for battle, but the battle comes when they least expect it. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.… Read more