World War I from Royal Books, Inc.

Paris: N.p., 1957. Collection of eight vintage press photographs from an anniversary showing of the 1937 French film, circa 1957. Most with the film title and director Jean Renoir's name in manuscript ink on the verso. Housed in a vintage manila envelope with the film title in manuscript ink on the front. Renoir is seen with fans and… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1931. Four vintage reference photographs from the 1931 film. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. A largely fictionalized account of the life of Mata Hari, exotic dancer and courtesan, who was executed by France for espionage during World War I. A sensation in the US and Europe, it was Greta Garbo's most… Read more about this item

New York: Batten, Barton, Durstine and Osborn, 1942. Draft script for the 1942 radio show episode, originally broadcast on May 14, 1942. With a few annotations in manuscript pencil and ink on the front wrapper. The anthology series was part of a campaign by the DuPont chemical corporation to rehabilitate its image following the public exposure of… Read more about this item

New York: Batten, Barton, Durstine and Osborn, 1942. Draft script for the 1942 radio show episode, originally broadcast on March 23, 1942. With a few annotations in manuscript pencil and ink on the front wrapper. The anthology series was part of a campaign by the DuPont chemical corporation to rehabilitate its image following the public exposure of… Read more about this item

New York: Batten, Barton, Durstine and Osborn, 1942. Draft script for the 1942 radio show episode, originally broadcast on January 5, 1947. With a few annotations in manuscript pencil and ink on the front wrapper. The anthology series was part of a campaign by the DuPont chemical corporation to rehabilitate its image following the public exposure of… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: The Selznick Company, 1956. Souvenir script for the 1957 film, issued by the Selznick Studio upon the film's release for film industry promotion. Based on Ernest Hemingway's 1929 semi-autobiographical novel, about an American soldier stationed in Italy whose romance with a Red Cross nurse becomes his only joy amidst the horrors of war. The second film… Read more about this item

Prague: Filmove studio Barrandov, 1975. Revised Draft script for the 1975 film, seen here under the working title "Assassination at Sarajevo." The story of a group of Yugoslav rebels who inadvertently begin World War I through their assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Set in Sarajevo. Mustard titled wrappers. Title page present, dated March 4,… Read more about this item

London: Thorntip United, 1980. Treatment script for an unproduced film. Single annotation in manuscript ink on page three. Explores Bouboulina, a legendary figure in Greek seafaring, who gave birth to nine children and led Greece as an admiral in the War of Independence against the Ottoman Empire. Set in Greece. White titled self… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1933. Post-production Final script for the 1933 film. Lt. Henry Crocker, a blithe Royal Air Force pilot, realizes that the constant violence of war is beginning to take a harsh toll on Lt. Jerry Young, his flying ace buddy. When Young breaks down and eventually commits suicide, Crocker decides to stage his death as… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1926. Vintage reference photograph from the 1926 film, showing actors Wallace Beery and Raymond Hatton from behind. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. Two adversaries gradually become best friends as they stumble through World War I together. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus, lightly edgeworn, with paper tape reinforcements… Read more about this item

Paris: UniFrance Film, 1965. Vintage borderless reference photograph of director Georges Franju on the set of the 1965 French film, arranging the coat of actress Emmanuele Riva. Stamp specific to the film's French release on the verso, along with the stamp of UniFrance Film. Based on the 1923 novel by Jean Cocteau, about a teenager who is… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1928. Vintage reference photograph from the 1928 silent film, showing director and actor William Wellman in costume. Mimeo snipe on the verso. A World War I film about four young men who join the Lafayette Escadrille, a group of volunteer pilots known as the titular "legion of the condemned." Now considered a lost… Read more about this item

Universal City: Universal-International, 1957. Vintage reference photograph of actors Rock Hudson, Dorothy Malone, and Jack Carson relaxing between takes on the set of the 1957 film. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. Based on the 1935 novel "Pylon" by William Faulkner. A disillusioned war hero now works as a barnstorming pilot at rural air shows, accompanied… Read more about this item

New York: Jean Wick, 1915. First Edition. First Edition. Review Copy, with publisher's review slip laid in. Association Copy, lengthily INSCRIBED on the front endpaper by author Marshall Kelly to Senator Robert M. "Fighting Bob" La Follette Sr. Additionally SIGNED by La Follette on the front endpaper. In 1917, while most American politicians supported US intervention in… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1964. Vintage reference photograph from the 1964 film, showing director Joseph Losey on the set. One photograph with the stamp of Israel Film Archive and a printed mimeo label on the verso. Based on the 1964 play "Hamp" by John Wilson, in turn based on the 1955 novel "Return to the Wood" by James Lansdale… Read more about this item

Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1928. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1928 silent film, showing actors Norma Talmadge and Gilbert Roland in a decidedly passionate moment. Based on Denison Clift's 1926 play, in turn loosely based on Guy de Maupassant's 1880 story "Boule de Suif." A kind Austrian sex worker finds herself the subject of two… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Fox Film Corporation, 1926. Vintage press photograph from the 1926 silent film, showing director Raoul Walsh posing with actors Barry Norton, Leslie Fenton, Edmund Lowe, Dolores del Rio, Victor McLaglen, and others on the set. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. During World War I, a US Marine sergeant finds… Read more about this item

West Germany: Allianz Filmproduktion / Regina Ziegler Filmproduktion, 1983. Third Draft script for the 1989 film. Text in English. Based on Joseph Roth's 1923 novel, about a mercenary World War I veteran who swears vengeance on those he deems responsible for Germany's downfall-Democrats, Jews, and and socialists. Set in Germany, shot on location in West Germany.… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1961. Revised Final Draft script for the 1962 film. Based on Ernest Hemingway's "A Farewell to Arms," as well as his "Nick Adams" stories, about a 19-year-old who leaves his Michigan home, holding various jobs before signing up to become an ambulance driver for the Italian Army during World War I. Nominated for… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1957. Final Draft script for the 1957 film. The first screen adaptation of the 1926 novel by Ernest Hemingway. One of the most honest film adaptations of its era, attributable mainly to the screenplay by novelist and Hemingway acolyte Peter Viertel. Featuring a standout performance by Errol Flynn as the hedonistic, hard-drinking, burned-out… Read more about this item