Search Results: Titles starting with A from Royal Books, Inc.

N.p.: N.p., 1980. Draft script for an unproduced film. A discontented, isolated writer befriends and falls in love with a mermaid named Merda. Set in California. Green titled wrappers. Title page present, undated, with credits for screenwriter Nan Crawford. 189 leaves, with last page of text numbered 188. Xerographic duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good plus, bound with two gold brads.

N.p.: N.p., 1970. First Draft script for an unproduced film. A group of celebrities and wealthy elites all meet at a remote mansion in order to learn how to avoid being kidnapped for ransom. Pink untitled wrappers. Title page present, noted as FIRST DRAFT, with credit for screenwriter Luther Davis. 150 leaves, with last page of text numbered 149. Xerographic duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good plus, with a silver prong binding.

Los Angeles: American Broadcasting Company [ABC], 1974. First Draft script for the 1975 episode "The Deadly Volley" from the television series "The Wide World of Mystery," first aired on January 27, 1975. An unliked professional tennis team owner is nearly murdered and the team members are all suspects. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present, dated 10/10/74, noted as SECOND DRAFT, with credits for screenwriter Margaret Armen. 92 leaves, with last page of text numbered 88. Mimeograph duplication, with pink and blue revision pages throughout, dated 10/10/74 and 10/11/74. Pages Fine, wrapper Near Fine, bound with two gold brads.

N.p.: Gordon Park Jr. Robert Anderson Production, 1974. Draft script for the 1975 film, here under the working title "Aaron and Angela." Gordon Park's Harlem-set coming of age story, wherein the love between an aspiring black basketball player and a Puerto Rican girl from Spanish Harlem not only sparks disapproval from their families, friends, and neighbors, but threatens violence. Featuring excellent location footage of a violent, decaying, half-abandoned 1970s New York. Gordon Park Jr's final film and Irene Cara's screen debut. Set in and shot on location throughout New York. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present, dated December 1, 1974, with credits for screenwriter Gerald Sanford. 142 leaves, with last page of text numbered 140. Xerographic duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine, bound internally with two gold brads. Howard, Blaxploitation Cinema. Parish & Hill 1.

New York and Boston: Little Brown / New York Graphic Society / Center for Creative Photography, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Fine in a moderately rubbed, about Near Fine dust jacket.

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1957. Two vintage studio still photographs from the US release of the 1957 British film, one showing actress Mai Zetterling, the other showing Zetterling tending to actor Tyrone Power. With printed mimeo snipes affixed to the verso, along with the stamp of Columbia Pictures. 20 survivors of a sunken luxury liner find themselves crowded onto a lifeboat fitted for 9 people, causing no small consternation as their food and water run out and a hurricane approaches. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus, one with manuscript ink annotations on the right edge of the recto. Both photos with a serrated edge at the left margin from where they were once attached to a keybook tab.

Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1948. Vintage publicity photograph from the 1948 film, showing actors Bud Abbott and Lou Costello facing off against Lon Chaney Jr., Bela Lugosi, and Glenn Strange (as the Wolf Man, Dracula, and Frankenstein's monster, respectively). Freight handlers come across the remains of Frankenstein's monster, and soon find themselves caught in a battle between Dracula, who seeks to resurrect the monster, and the Wolf Man, who wishes to thwart Dracula. The first of several horror-comedy films facing off Abbott and Costello against Universal monsters, preceding "Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man" (1951), "Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" (1953), and "Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy" (1955). 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine.

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1952. Vintage reference photograph from the 1952 film. Two workers at an inn are accidentally handed a map to Captain Kidd's treasure on Skull Island. They are able to use this as leverage to get onto the captain's ship, where they undergo a variety of humorous adventures. Set in Tortuga, Haiti. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1952. Vintage reference photograph of actors Bill Shirley and Fran Warren from the 1952 film. Two workers at an inn are accidentally handed a map to Captain Kidd's treasure on Skull Island. They are able to use this as leverage to get onto the captain's ship, where they undergo a variety of humorous adventures. Set in Tortuga, Haiti. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus.

N.p.: N.p., 1970. Revised Draft script for an unproduced film. Single annotation in manuscript ink on page 106. Searching for deeper meaning in her life, a single mother with three daughters decides to research and write a book on sex, much to the chagrin of her friends and family. Set in Big Sur. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present, noted as Revised, with credit for screenwriter Blanche Hanalis. 164 leaves, with last page of text numbered 161. Xerographic duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good plus, bound with two gold brads.

Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1954. Vintage six sheet poster for the 1954 film. Based on the 1950 novel by Vina Delmar. Boarding house owner Mrs. Vivien Leslie (Shirley Booth) reminisces on her affair with the secretive George Leslie (Robert Ryan) and their annual retreats at an Big Sur. Set in Beverly Hills, California. 80 x 80.5 inches. Four panels, folded as issued. About Very Good overall, silverfish damage to center right of top left panel with loss along crease, splitting in creases and some small closed tears at the extremities.

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1987. First Draft script for the 1988 film. Steven Seagal's debut role as Nico Toscani, an Italian-American ex-CIA agent and martial arts expert working for the Chicago police force. What begins as a drug trafficking investigation soon reveals the CIA's involvement in an international weapons-trade operation. Nico goes to great lengths to stop Zargon (Henry Silva), the corrupt CIA agent behind it all. Shot on location in O'ahu and Chicago. Orange titled studio wrappers, noted as First Draft on the front wrapper, dated March 4, 1987, with credits for screenwriters Steven Pressfield, Ronald Shusett, Andrew Davis, and Steven Seagal. Title page present, dated March 4, 1987, noted as First Draft, with credits for for screenwriters Steven Pressfield, Ronald Shusett, Andrew Davis, and Steven Seagal. 110 leaves, with last page of text numbered 107. Photocopy, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine, bound with two gold brads.

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1987. Second Draft script for the 1988 film. Steven Seagal, in his film debut, stars as Nico Toscani, an Italian-American ex-CIA agent and martial arts expert working for the Chicago police force. What begins as a drug trafficking investigation soon reveals the CIA's involvement in an international weapons-trade operation. Nico goes to great lengths to stop Zargon (Henry Silva), the corrupt CIA agent behind it all. Shot on location in O'ahu and Chicago. Red titled wrappers. Title page present, dated March 27, 1987, noted as SECOND DRAFT, with credits for screenwriters Steven Pressfield, Ronald Shusett, and Andrew Davis, and story credits for Andrew Davis and Steven Seagal. 112 leaves, with last page of text numbered 110. Mechanical duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine, bound with two gold brads. Moore, The Good, the Tough and the Deadly: Action Movies and Stars 1960s-2015.

Berlin: Malik-Verlag, 1923. First Edition. First Edition. A collection of 57 political drawings and caricatures. Text and titles in German. Part of the "Kleine Revolutionäre Bibliothek" series. Very Good plus in wrappers, lightly age toned.

London: Palace [Absolute Beginners] Limited, 1985. Final Draft script for the 1985 musical film. Single manuscript ink annotation to the title page. Based on the 1959 novel. A rock musical set in London during the late 1950s, following two former lovers on their parallel paths to fame. David Bowie, an acquaintance of director Julien Temple, agreed to write a single for the film if he could also play the part of flashy ad executive Vendice Partners, resulting in the hit single "Absolute Beginners." Goldenrod untitled wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present, dated 9th May 1985, noted as Final Draft, with credits for director Julien Temple, screenwriters Richard Burridge, Christopher Wicking, and Don Macpherson, and additional dialogue credits to Terry Johnson. 124 leaves, with last page of text numbered 123. Xerographic duplication, rectos only. Pages Fine, wrapper Near Fine, bound with two gold brads.

Various cities: Scalo, 1999. Hardcover. Fine in an about Fine dust jacket.

N.p.: Hollywood Cinema Associates, 1968. Five vintage bizarrely male-centric studio still photographs from the 1968 sexploitation film, all with "Tom Conroy Photos" provenance stamps on the verso. The second film by exploitation director Donald A. Davis, wherein Victor Izay stars as Captain Carter, who narrates the sexual exploits of his passengers partying in Acapulco, Mexico. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with light edgewear and creasing at the extremities, with one with two pinholes in the bottom margin, and one with splashing to the lower right margin.

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1987. Revised Final Draft script for the 1988 film, based on the 1985 novel by Anne Tyler. Pink self-wrappers, noted as Revised Final Draft on the front wrapper, dated October 30, 1987, with credits for screenwriter Kasdan and writer Tyler. 143 leaves on pink stock, mechanical duplication. Pages Fine, wrapper Near Fine, bound with two gold brads.

N.p.: N.p., 1967. Vintage reference photograph of director Joseph Losey in conversation with actors Dirk Bogarde and Stanley Baker on the set of the 1967 film. With a printed mimeo snipe in Spanish affixed to the verso. Based on the 1965 novel by Nicholas Mosley. A professor at Oxford University finds himself enamored with his beautiful, young student Anna, the fiancee of his other student, Michael. Their three lives become horribly entwined by a brutal car crash. The second of three legendary collaborations between director Joseph Losey and screenwriter Harold Pinter, the others being "The Servant" (1963) and The Go-Between" (1970). Shot on location in Oxford, London, and Middlesex, UK. 9.5 x 7.25 inches. Very Good plus.

New York: Samuel French, 1936. First Edition. First Edition. Association Copy, INSCRIBED in the year of publication on the front endpaper by the author to playwright George Middleton and his wife, activist and actress Fola La Follette: "To / George and Fola / with my love / Martin / 7/28 '36." Middleton's nephew David's ownership stamp on the front pastedown. New Jersey-born playwright, director, and producer George Middleton served as president of the Dramatists Guild of America from 1927 to 1929. He is perhaps best remembered today for his instrumental role in creating the Minimum Basic Agreement, a collective bargaining agreement that covers benefits, rights, and protections for Writers Guild of America members. Middleton was also known for his collaborations with Guy Bolton, including the successful 1917 stage comedy "Polly With a Past," basis for the 1920 film adaptation. The daughter of Senator Robert M. "Fighting Bob" La Follette and women's suffrage leader Belle Case, Flora Dodge "Fola"… Read More