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

N.p.: N.p., 1974. Original poster advertising a the first reading by Russian poet Nahum Korzhavin after his emigration to the United States in 1973. SIGNED by Korzhavin at the top left corner. The reading was held on April 16, 1974, and also featured readings of English translations of other Russian poetry by Gregory Orr. The event was held at the University of Michigan. Today a noted poet, with numerous publications by Copper Canyon Press and others, Orr is a winner of the Guggenheim fellowship and two endowments from the National Endowment for the Arts. Card stock, 8 x 11 inches. Slightly toned at the edges, faint horizontal crease near the bottom edge, else Near Fine.

Santa Monica, CA: Steven Bochco Productions, 1995. Draft script for the third episode of season three of the 1993-2005 television series, which originally aired on November 7, 1995 on ABC. With manuscript ink and pencil annotations throughout, most noting deletions. A detective attempts to locate a suspect in a string of rapes across Manhattan, while another officer's family's domestic abuse issues escalate. The popular television series ran for 12 seasons, and followed the detective squad of Manhattan's fictional 15th precinct. Set in Manhattan. Self wrappers. Title page integral with front wrapper, dated Aug. 21, 1995, noted as Script No. 3, with credits for director Michael M. Robin, screenwriter Gardner Stern, and other crew members. 64 leaves, with last page of text numbered 58. Xerographic duplication, rectos only, with rainbow revision pages throughout, dated variously between 08/21/1995 and 08/30/1995. Pages Near Fine, bound with two gold brads. Full provenance available.

Santa Monica, CA: Steven Bochco Productions, 1995. Draft script for the twelfth episode of season three of the 1993-2005 television series, which originally aired on February 6, 1996 on ABC. With a printed label affixed on the front wrapper reading "EDITORS / 2." A detective's family is struck by tragedy when her father is found dead, with all evidence pointing to her young brother as the culprit. Meanwhile, a mysterious woman arrives at the precinct with information regarding a cold case disappearance. The popular television series ran for 12 seasons, and followed the detective squad of Manhattan's fictional 15th precinct. Set in Manhattan. White titled pictorial wrappers, noted as copy No. 12 on the front wrapper. Title page present, dated Dec. 06, 1995, noted as copy No. 12, with credits for director Donna Deitch, screenwriter Theresa Rebeck, and other crew members. 59 leaves, with last page of text numbered 56. Xerographic duplication, rectos only. Pages Fine, wrapper Fine, bound with two… Read More

Santa Monica, CA: Steven Bochco Productions, 1995. Draft script for the sixth episode of season three of the 1993-2005 television series, which originally aired on November 28, 1995 on ABC. A wealthy Indian woman is discovered dead, with many potential culprits. Meanwhile, two detectives investigate a case involving a man left to die of an overdose. The popular television series ran for 12 seasons, and followed the detective squad of Manhattan's fictional 15th precinct. Set in Manhattan. Self wrappers. Title page integral with front wrapper, dated Sep. 26, 1995, noted as Script No. 6, with credits for director Jim Charleston, screenwriter Leonard Gardner, and other crew members. 66 leaves, with last page of text numbered 63. Xerographic duplication, rectos only, with blue, pink, and green revision pages throughout, dated variously between 09/28/1995 and 10/04/1995. Pages Near Fine, bound with two gold brads. Full provenance available.

Santa Monica, CA: Steven Bochco Productions, 1995. Draft script for the ninth episode of season three of the 1993-2005 television series, which originally aired on January 9, 1996 on ABC. With a printed label affixed on the front wrapper reading "EDITORS / (2)," and manuscript ink annotations throughout, most noting deletions. A Chinese-American teenage girl is found dead with strange markings on her leg, leading detectives Simone and Sipowicz to team up with a Chinese-American detective to investigate. The popular television series ran for 12 seasons, and followed the detective squad of Manhattan's fictional 15th precinct. Set in Manhattan. White pictorial titled wrappers, noted as copy No. 9 on the front wrapper. Title page present, dated Nov. 01, 1995, noted as Script No. 9, with credits for director Michael M. Robin, screenwriter Gardner Stern, and other crew members. 60 leaves, with last page of text numbered 55. Xerographic duplication, rectos only, with rainbow revision pages throughout,… Read More

Paris: Omnifilms, 1959. Draft script for the 1960 film "The Nabob Affair" here under the French title, "Au Voleur!" (translated: Thief!). Written by Sacha Guitry but subsequently reworked by Jean Bernard-Luc, and released after Guitry's death. Laid in are eight pages detailing production, including sets and shooting times, from Sacha Guitry, carbon typescript on onionskin stock, rubber-stamped "Carlton Cole," a talent agency in New York. Also rubber-stamped on the script title page, with a brief notation in manuscript ink. Brief annotations in manuscript pencil throughout. A mysterious employer hires a man to steal a rare diamond, who in turn engages an attractive and intelligent woman to help him. Gray untitled wrappers. Title page present, undated. 82 leaves, with last page of text numbered 80. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good, side-stapled.

New York: Robert Halmi Productions, 1984. Draft script for the 1984 television film, here under the working title "Nairobi." The film originally premiered on October 17, 1984, on CBS. The Kenyan government hires a former Green Beret to stop a group of violent and unpredictable poachers. Blue untitled front wrapper, lacking rear wrapper. Title page present, dated April 1984, with credits for screenwriter David Epstein. 96 leaves, with last page of text numbered 95. Xerographic duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine, bound with two gold brads.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1997. First Edition. First Edition. INSCRIBED on the title page by Elmore Leonard, Carl Hiaasen, and Dave Barry: "To Bob / a great fan! / Carl Hiaasen / Elmore Leonard / Dave Barry." Fine in an about Fine dust jacket.

N.p.: N.p., 1969. Three vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1969 sexploitation film, two black and white and one in color. One with the stamp of Studio 111 on the verso. Two 9.5 x 7 inches, one 6.5 x 9.5 inches. Very Good plus, one with light fading on the recto.

Glendale, CA: Allied Artists, 1964. Vintage reference photograph of actress Patsy Kelly from the 1964 film. Basis for the late film noir by Samuel Fuller, released in 1964, starring Constance Towers as a former call girl trying to make good in a new town. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus, with one large seam down the middle-right of the photograph. Criterion Collection 18. Grant US. Scorsese, A Personal Journey Through American Movies. Silver and Ward Classic Noir. Spicer US. Weldon 1983.

N.p.: N.p., 1964. Vintage reference photograph from the 1964 film, showing actress Constance Towers consulting a newspaper with a salacious headline. Director Samuel Fuller's bizarre, outrageous, and perverse pulp masterwork. Kelly (Constance Towers), a former call girl who tries to make good in a new town nursing handicapped children, falls in love with the saintly businessman J.L. Grant (Michael Dante), who has a dark secret of his own. Set in the fictional town of Grantville, USA. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 18. Scorsese, A Personal Journey Through American Movies. Spicer US. Silver and Ward US. Grant US.

New York: Belmont Books, 1964. First Edition. First Edition, a paperback original. Scarce. Basis for the late film noir by Samuel Fuller, released in 1964, starring Constance Towers as a former call girl trying to make good in a new town. Intriguingly, the book makes specific mention of a key meta-moment in the film, where Towers walks past a movie marquee advertising "Shock Corridor," the now-classic film that Fuller directed the year before. Near Fine in wrappers. Scarce. In a custom green cloth clamshell box. The Dark Page II: 1959-1965, p. 70.

N.p.: N.p., 1991. Vintage borderless reference photograph of director David Cronenberg and actor Peter Weller on the set of the 1991 film. Based on William S. Burroughs' 1959 novel. Although the film was a box office flop upon release, it is now considered a cult film, entirely faithful to the thematic spirit of the novel, if not the actual text. Set in Interzone and Annexia, shot on location in Ontario. 9.5 x 6.5 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 220. Rosenbaum 1000.

New York: Horace Liveright, 1930. First Edition. First Edition, in the rare dust jacket. The final two pages of the book are dedicated to a glossary of Harlem slang. A Jazz Age novel, with proletarian leanings, about an ill-fated love affair between an idealistic young woman from Connecticut and a rambling snake oil salesman who travel from to New York, where they open a coffee house, while "the wolves of the underworld and the hounds of Harlem [snarl] at the door" (from rear flap). Lower board edges slightly rubbed, else Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Jacket extremities very slightly worn, with light, even fading to the spine. Hanna 377.

Boca Raton, FL: Penthouse, 1973. Vintage oversize, double weight, borderless still photograph from the 1973 film, based on the 1947 novel by Andrew Lytle. Shot, struck, and mounted by the film's still photographer, Bob Willoughby, with a manuscript notation in his hand on the verso. Full provenance available. Culp and Eggar romp in a bed that is the middle of the woods for some reason, while the haunted house that will exert a corrupting influence on the couple looms in the background. An image that does not appear in the so-bad-its-nearly-avant garde film, but one that nevertheless captures its aura of surreal eroticism quite well. Set in the countryside of Southern California, shot on location in British Columbia (Indian Arm and Vancouver). After studying with Saul Bass at the Kann Institute of Art in Los Angeles, photographer Robert Willoughby began working for magazines such as "Life," "Look," and "Harper's Bazaar" in the late 1940s. He spent the next 20-plus years as a set photographer for… Read More

New York: Bantam Books, 1955. First Edition. No. 1295. First Edition, a paperback original. A collection of seven Lew Archer short stories. Faint check mark on the top left corner of the front wrapper, else Near Fine in wrappers. Holroyd, p. 135.

N.p.: N.p., 1973. Treatment script for an unproduced film. A British expatriate living in Burma decides to travel to Hong Kong, but is imprisoned en route when heroin is found in his luggage. He also finds himself the target of assassination attempts for no discernible reason. Set in Hong Kong. Red untitled wrappers. Title page present, dated 1973, with credit for screenwriter George M. Reid. 75 leaves, with last leaf of text numbered 72. Xerographic duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine, unbound.

N.p.: N.p., 1960. Treatment script for an unproduced film. Based on Clifford McBride's 1932-1961 comic strip "Napoleon and Uncle Elby," a syndicated newspaper strip about the comic adventures of an ungainly, willful dog and his aging owner. Yellow generic Paul Kohner Agency wrappers. Title page present, undated, with credits for screenwriter Mary McCarthy and comic artist Clifford McBride. 48 leaves, with last page of text numbered 47. Carbon typescript on onionskin stock, rectos only. Pages and wrapper Near Fine, bound internally with two gold brads.

N.p.: N.p., 1955. Two vintage reference photographs of director Sacha Guitry on the set of the 1955 film, taken by photographer Edward Quinn. "Ed. Quinn" stamps on verso of both, one with additional "Cinema Napoleon" stamp. Guitry's historical epic depicting the life of Napoleon from his early life in Corsica to his death at Saint Helena, with Napoleon depicted by two actors, Daniel Gelin as the young, and Raymond Pellegrin as the old. Featuring notable cameos by Erich von Stroheim as Ludwig van Beethoven and Orson Welles as Napoleon's British jailor, Sir Hudson Lowe. Shot on location throughout France. 7 x 9.75 inches. Light edgewear and light creasing at extremities, else Near Fine.

Burbank, CA: American Broadcasting Companies, Inc, 1975. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Robert Altman on the set of the 1975 film. Mimeo snipe on verso. Robert Altman's brilliant, caustic view of American politics and culture, seen through the microcosm of five days in the Nashville country and gospel music scene, with 24 main characters and multiple storylines, a tour-de-force, and a key piece of New Hollywood Cinema. Winner of an Academy Award, nominated for four more including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actress. Shot on location in Nashville, Tennessee. 10 x 7 inches. Some brief toning to portions of recto, else Near Fine. National Film Registry. Criterion Collection 683. Ebert I. Eureka 80.