British Interest from Royal Books, Inc.

London: London Features International, 1978. Vintage photograph of the Sex Pistols during the first performance of their 1978 US tour, at the Great Southeast Music Hall in Atlanta, on January 5, 1978. Mimeo snipe and the label of London Features International on the verso. Initially scheduled for nine dates, the Pistols' tour was cut short after five… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Barovick Konecky Braun Schwartz and Kay, 1978. Draft script for an unproduced film. With a single annotation in manuscript pencil on the first page. Based on the 1978 novel by Michael Barak. In order to win World War II and understand where Nazi Germany's bombs are going to fall, Winston Churchill tasks his intelligence service… Saber más sobre este artículo

N.p.: N.p., 1959. Shooting Final script for the 1960 film. Presentation copy belonging to producer Jerry Wald, with his name in gilt on the spine. 20 reference photographs bound in variously among the script pages. Jerry Wald is best remembered for his long and successful association with Warner Brothers as both a screenwriter and producer of a… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: London Features International, 1984. Vintage photograph of Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart during a promo spot for MTV in 1984. MTV is considered by many to have been largely responsible for the "Second British Invasion" in the 1980s, promoting a number of British synth pop and new pop artists that would dominate the US charts until… Saber más sobre este artículo

Los Angeles: Mohawk Film Company, 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. A British shipping clerk is laid off from his position in Los Angeles, but is shortly thereafter offered a job as a bodyguard. Set in Los Angeles. Gray untitled wrappers. Title page present, with credit for screenwriter C. Arthur Rivers. 126 leaves,… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: The Royal Princess' Theatre, 1852. Vintage broadside for a series of performances at the Royal Princess's Theatre, Saturday, December 11, 1852, including Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night, or What You Will," Samuel Birch's 1825 musical drama "The Adopted Child," and John Poole's 1833 play "Deaf as a Post: A Farce, in One Act," two of which are noted as the… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: The Theatre Guild, 1943. Early Draft script for the 1943 play, seen here under the working title "A New Play." Based on Richard Hughes' 1929 novel "A High Wind in Jamaica, Or, the Innocent Voyage." Writer Paul Osborn was a prolific writer for screen and stage, and is best remembered today for his 1955 film… Saber más sobre este artículo

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… Saber más sobre este artículo

N.p.: N.p., 1983. Vintage script for the New York run of the 1981 British play. A series of conversations between the five women who frequent a Turkish bathhouse in London that has been set to close in order to be replaced by a leisure center and a parking complex. Initially opening at the Theatre Royal… Saber más sobre este artículo

N.p.: N.p., 1966. Draft script for the 1966 play, which ran from September 27 through October 15, 1966, at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre in Guildford. Based on the 1948 novella by Robin Maugham, a dark, squeamish parable about class and sexuality in mid-century London. Four years later Maugham's novella would serve as the basis for Joseph Losey… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Sir Nigel Films, 1960. Treatment script for an unproduced film. Based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's 1891 novel "The White Company." A work of historical fiction taking place during the Hundred Years War. Sir Nigel Loring, considered the Don Quixote of England, is the leader of the Free Companions, a volunteer army fighting for England. … Saber más sobre este artículo

London: London Features International, 1970. Collection of 13 vintage photographs of Elton John, circa 1970s, including twelve bordered photographs and one borderless. Twelve photographs with printed agency labels or stamps on the verso, and many with photographer stamps and manuscript ink annotations on the verso. Two photographs show John alongside his longtime lyricist Bernie Taupin, although the… Saber más sobre este artículo

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1930. Vintage double weight portrait photograph of writer P.G. Wodehouse, circa 1930. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio stamp crediting photographer Clarence Sinclair Bull on the verso, and Bull's blindstamp on the bottom right corner of the recto. Wodehouse went to Hollywood in 1929, largely at the behest of his wife, Ethel May Wayman. He signed as… Saber más sobre este artículo

N.p.: N.p., 1979. Collection of eight vintage black and white photographs of Elvis Costello and the Attractions in concert during 1979, several with bassist Bruce Thomas in the background in four of the images, in support of the release of "Armed Forces." With the stamp of photographer Duana LeMay on the verso, and one with LeMay's printed… Saber más sobre este artículo

N.p.: N.p., 1976. Two vintage black and white photographs of musicians Ray and Dave Davies performing onstage with The Kinks-on different evenings-as part of the Schoolboys in Disgrace Tour in 1976. Each with the stamp of photographer Duana LeMay to the verso. "Schoolboys in Disgrace" was the band's final album in the theatrical style they sustained beginning with… Saber más sobre este artículo

N.p.: N.p., 1975. Archive of 20 photographs, consisting of eight vintage black and white photographs of British rock group Faces performing onstage in 1975, and twelve vintage black and white candid photographs of lead singer Rod Stewart and guitarist Ronnie Wood relaxing backstage and signing autographs. With the stamp and printed label of photographer Duana LeMay to the verso,… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Public Broadcasting Service [PBS], 1976. Four vintage studio still photographs from the US premiere of the 1976 British television series. One photograph with a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. The series covered the formation and rise to fame of fictional rock group The Little Ladies, following the three women making up the band… Saber más sobre este artículo

N.p.: N.p., 1968. Vintage photograph of Pink Floyd in 1968. Cropping annotations in manuscript pencil and ink on the verso. Founding member Syd Barrett would leave the band in 1968 due to his deteriorating mental health and drug use, to be replaced by guitarist and vocalist David Gilmour. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. … Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Hemdale, 1990. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1990 film, showing actors Mai Zetterling, Frances McDormand, and Bernard Bloch. In the wake of her activist boyfriend's assassination in the streets, an American lawyer becomes obsessed with uncovering the conspiracy precipitating his murder. Director Ken Loach's take on the Troubles, comparing the fascist dictatorship of Pinochet to… Saber más sobre este artículo

N.p.: N.p., 1983. Vintage borderless photograph of British writer and journalist Graham Greene at his desk in his apartment in Antibes, France, in 1983. Daily Telegraph stamp on the verso, dated May 1983. Greene lived in a small apartment on the Rue Pasteur for 24 years, eventually moving to Corseaux, Switzerland in the final years of his… Saber más sobre este artículo