Search Results: Authors starting with Y from Royal Books, Inc.

Brussels: S.A. Dupuis, Unknown. Draft script for an unproduced film. With a few small annotations in manuscript ink throughout, mostly noting grammatical revisions and deletions. Text in English. After her lover-a composer working on his final great opera-is killed in a horseback riding accident, a young woman remembers the events leading up to his death. Set in Belgium. Tall pink untitled wrappers. Title page present, with credits for screenwriters Y. LOMBART and Cl. ROMAN. 141 leaves, with last page of text numbered 140. Xerographic duplication, rectos only. Pages Very Good plus, wrapper Very Good plus, bound with a gold prong.

Tokyo: Haruki Kadokawa Films Inc, 1976. Second Draft script for the 1977 film. A young African American is killed upon his arrival in Tokyo. The Japanese detective in charge of his case teams up with a New York City detective to try to solve the murder. Set and shot on location in New York City and Tokyo. Red untitled wrappers. Title page present. Noted as Draft #2 on the first page of text. 101 leaves, with last page of text numbered 100. Xerographic duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine, with a silver clasp binding.

Tokyo: Shochiku, 1956. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1956 film. With manuscript ink annotations on the verso noting the film's title and the names of director Yasujiro Ozu and actor Chishu Ryu. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. A married white-collar worker begins an affair at his job with a young woman nicknamed Goldfish. Ozu's first film after a three year hiatus, and one of the last of his marriage-related films. Set and shot on location in Tokyo, Okayama, Shiga, and Kanagawa. 6 x 4.5 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection.

Tokyo: Shochiku, 1962. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Shima Iwashita from the 1962 Japanese film. With the stamps of Tele-Magazine and manuscript pencil and ink annotations regarding layout on the verso. An aging widower arranges a marriage for his only daughter. Director Yasujiro Ozu's final film, a farewell to his mother, whom he had lived with and cared for his entire life, with the title drawn from a poem he wrote upon returning from her funeral. Ozu became ill shortly thereafter and died from cancer at age 60 in 1963. 9.75 x 8 inches. Very Good plus overall.

Tokyo: Takarazuka Productions, 1961. First Draft script for the 1961 film. Working copy belonging to uncredited crew member Takahashi Toshihiro, with his name rubber stamped on the first leaf and the last page of text. Director Yasjiro Ozu's penultimate film, about a widower and his daughters, who become concerned when he begins visiting an old flame, while also trying to find husbands for his youngest daughter and widowed daughter-in-law. White titled wrappers, noted as 1 on the front wrapper, dated 1961. Title page present. 52 leaves, with last page of text numbered d-26. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good with some slight foxing. Criterion Collection Eclipse Series 3.

Tokyo: Shochiku, 1959. Draft script for the 1959 Japanese film. Text and titles in Japanese. Angered by their parents' refusal to buy them a television set, two young brothers decide to go on a silence strike against all adults, leading to a number of comic misunderstandings in their tight-knit community. Set in a suburb of Tokyo. White titled wrappers. 16 leaves, with last page of text numbered 31. Mimeograph duplication, printed on rectos and versos. Pages Very Good plus, wrapper Very Good, lightly foxed with some wear to the binding, with perfect binding. Rosenbaum 1000. Criterion Collection 84. Vogel, Film as a Subversive Art.

Tokyo: Shochiku, 1958. Four vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1958 film. With the stamp of Shochiku Co. on the verso, along with a mimeo snipe noting the film's Japanese title, "Higanbana." From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Based on Ton Satomi's 1957 novel. A businessman hopes to arrange a marriage for his headstrong youngest daughter, who has fallen in love with a musician. Director Yasujiro Ozu's first color film. Set and shot on location in Tokyo. 6 x 4.5 inches. Near Fine. BFI 1071. Criterion Eclipse 3.

1959. Vintage screenplay for the 1959 film. Text in Japanese. Annotations in manuscript pencil on several leaves, noting revisions and amendments. A remake of the 1934 silent film "A Story of Floating Weeds," also directed by Yasujiro Ozu. The leader of a traveling theatre troupe goes to visit his former mistress and their son, who is unaware that the man is his father. Meanwhile, the man's current lover, jealous of his attentions to his former mistress, schemes to shame him by convincing a young actress in the troupe to seduce his son. One of the final films the prolific Japanese director made before his death in 1963. Set on the Japanese coast. White titled wrappers. 107 leaves, with last page of text numbered e-22. Mimeograph duplication, rectos and versos. Pages Very Good plus, wrapper Very Good, with perfect binding. Criterion Collection 232. Ebert I. Eureka Masters of Cinema 41.

Watertown, MA: Ploughshares Books, 1985. First Edition. First Edition. SIGNED on the front endpaper by authors Richard Yates and William Styron. A screenplay by Yates based on Styron's 1951 novel. Fine in an about Fine dust jacket.

New York and Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press / Little, Brown, 1961. First Edition. First Edition. An advance review copy, issued with a different jacket than the trade edition, featuring lavish praise from the publisher on the front and rear panels, including an excerpted blurb by Alfred Kazin. Basis for the Academy award nominated 2008 film, directed by Sam Mendes and reuniting Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet for the first time since "Titanic." Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. Very light foxing to the top page edges; jacket has light chipping to the extremities and a few short closed tears, none of which affect the jacket text. Rear flap fold shows some creasing, and the spine panel is a bit toned, with the title and author's name written neatly in ink on the spine, likely by the publisher or the publicist. A very presentable copy.

Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1998. First Edition. Softcover. First Edition. Published in conjunction with a traveling exhibition of Yayoi Kusama's work which ran from March 8, 1998 to July 4, 1999. About Fine in wrappers.

New York: Rizzoli, 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket.

New York: Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum Smithsonian Institution, 1997. First Edition. First Edition. Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket.

London: Excelsior Film Productions, 1970. First Draft script for an unproduced film with the tentative titles, "Kiss Me" and "In Confidence Limited," written by Peter Yeldham, whose notable film credits include "The Long Duel" (1967), "Age of Consent" (1969), and "The Call of the Wild" (1972). Brief notation in manuscript ink on two pages. Set in London, where romance and slapstick abound, featuring private detectives who are after a missing widow. Blue titled wrappers with die-cut window. Title page present, undated, noted as First Draft in manuscript ink, with a credit for screenwriter Yeldham. 151 leaves, with last page of text numbered 150. Roneograph. Pages Very Good plus, wrapper detached but present, bound internally with two silver brads.

London: Excelsior Film Productions, 1970. First Draft script for an unproduced film with the tentative titles, "Kiss Me" and "In Confidence Limited," written by Peter Yeldham, whose notable film credits include "The Long Duel" (1967), "Age of Consent" (1969), and "The Call of the Wild" (1972). Brief annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on a few pages. Set in London, where romance and slapstick abound, but also private detectives tracking a missing widow. Blue titled wrappers with die-cut window. Title page present, undated, noted as First Draft in manuscript ink, with a credit for screenwriter Yeldham. 151 leaves, with last page of text numbered 150. Roneograph. Pages and wrapper Near Fine, bound internally with two silver brads.

N.p.: N.p., 1940. Vintage felt pennant for the New York Yankees, circa 1940s. 28 x 11.5 inches. Very Good plus, lightly worn.

N.p.: N.p., 1940. Vintage felt pennant for the New York Yankees, circa 1940s. 24.5 x 8 inches. Very Good plus, lightly worn.

Tokyo: Nikkatsu, 1983. Three vintage borderless reference photographs and a triple parallel fold color brochure (in Japanese) from the 1983 pinku film. Directed by Yoshimitsu Morita, director of the acclaimed film "Kazoku Gemu" ("The Family Game," 1983), and winner of the Japanese Academy Award for Best Director for "Ashura no Gotoku" ("Like Asura," 2003), and nominated for eight others. Mayumi and her friend Mai make a killing when they open a barber and beauty shop which serves customers in the nude. A Japanese "pink" film for Nikkatsu Studio's "Roman Porno" series. Pink film is a broad genre of low budget Japanese softcore films, though often with artistic and visual inventiveness and narrative drive far beyond their American counterparts. Nikkatsu was particularly well known for allowing almost unlimited artistic freedom to filmmakers, as long as they met the studio mandated requirement of four nude or sex scenes per hour of running time. Photographs: 6 x 4.25 inches, Brochure: Folded, 4.75… Read More

Tokyo: Gendai Eigasha, 1969. Draft script for the 1969 film. Front wrapper notes a date of 1969 and credit as a Gendai Eigasha production. The second page is a elegaic introduction to the film story: "On the erotology and insurrection of sugi Sakae, who wrote of dancing as flowers strangled and left in spring, and It Noe, who lived her entire life in confused beauty-we, the youth, and you and I, in our degenerate joy, which reaches an unbalanced complicity, are talking." Based on the life of anarchist Sakae sugi and his relationship with three women.It is the first film in Yoshida's trilogy of Japanese radicalism, followed by "Heroic Purgatory" (1970) and "Coup d'Etat" (1973). Considered to be one of the most representative films from the Japanese New Wave movement. Set in and shot on location in Japan. White titled wrappers, dated 1969. Title page present. 86 leaves, with last page of text numbered d-44. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good plus with mild foxing on rear… Read More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. First Edition. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the title page: "For Terry- / Dec. 2007 / David Young." Small bump on the crown, boards slightly bowed, else Fine in a Fine dust jacket.