Irish Interest from Royal Books, Inc.

N.p.: N.p., 1954. Typed Letter Signed from John Huston to Victor Stoloff, dated November 9, 1954, and executed on "Elstree Pictures Limited" letterhead. The letter regards an unproduced collaboration between Huston and Stoloff called "The Great Films Series," which Huston says he likes. Huston urges Stoloff to "get in touch with Morgan Maree and discuss this with him."… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1965. First Draft script for an unproduced film. Laid in is a thank you note from agent Paul Kohner. The heir to the Irish throne is denied his birthright, and all of Ireland must unite behind him in order to win their freedom and sovereignty from England. Set in Ireland. Green… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1974. Draft script for an unproduced film. Letter stapled to the front wrapper from a publicity agent, addressed to Paul Kohner agent Arnold Stiefel, urging him to enlist Jan Troell as director for the film. An unconventional young woman moves west from Boston, becoming a successful prostitute on the frontier. Yellow titled wrappers, with… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1970. Vintage borderless reference photograph of David Lean and a camera crew filming on location for the 1970 film. Mimeo snipe on the verso. The year after the suppressed 1916 Easter Rising, a young Irish woman is torn between a British officer she loves and the nationalists from her own home town. The third collaboration between… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1939. Vintage borderless vernacular photograph of Geraldine Fitzgerald, circa 1939, shortly after her arrival in Hollywood. Fitzgerald was an Irish stage, film, and television actress who was an Academy Award and Tony Award nominee, and an Emmy Award recipient. She made her theatrical debut at 19 in 1932 and starred in several British films before… Read more about this item

New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1930. First Edition. First Edition. The book that first brought illustrator Robert Lawson to popular attention. Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. Jacket lightly edgeworn, with light toning on the flap folds and spine panel, and a few small chips on the spine ends and top edges. Scarce in jacket. … Read more about this item

New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1931. First Edition. First Edition. A follow-up to Arthur Mason's "The Wee Men of Ballywooden," published the year prior. Three tales for children, set in Ireland. Near Fine in a Good dust jacket. Jacket moderately edgeworn and rubbed, with creasing and loss on the top edge of the rear panel, and a lightly… Read more about this item

London: British Lion, 1959. Draft script for the 1959 film, seen here under the working title "The Big Birthday." Copy belonging to producer Alec Snowden, with his name in manuscript ink on several leaves, and his extensive annotations in manuscript pencil and ink on virtually every page (and many page versos as well). Bound in before and after the… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1953. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1953 film, showing actors Blanche Yurka and Dan Dailey. Loosely based on Jean-Paul Le Chanois' 1951 French film "Without Leaving an Address." An ill-tempered New York cabbie helps an Irish immigrant with an infant son locate her missing husband. Set and shot on… Read more about this item

Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1992. Vintage photograph of director Ron Howard on the set of the 1992 film. A young Irish couple (Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman) flee to the US to seek their fortune in the Land Run of 1893. Set in and shot on location in Ireland, Montana, and California. 8 x… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

Toronto: Roy Krost Productions. Draft script for an unproduced film. A woman comes to a Vietnam vet turned private investigator to learn the truth about her dead fiance, who she still believes is alive. Both are Irish and are led on a long road of Irish organizations, some fighting for a United Ireland, some old blood from… Read more about this item

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1975. Collection of ten vintage color studio still photographs from the 1975 film. With the stamp of a Canadian film distributor on the verso, along with a stamp noting production No. 75-218. Director Stanley Kubrick's groundbreaking period drama, based on William Makepeace Thackeray's 1844 novel "The Luck of Barry Lyndon," charting the astronomic rise… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1949. Vintage one sheet poster for the 1949 film. The Blarney Stone is stolen and singing insurance investigator Joe Mulqueen (Bing Crosby) travels from America to Ireland to recover it, the local policeman's lovely daughter Conn (Ann Blyth) in tow. Set in and shot on location in Blarney Castle, Ireland. 27… Read more about this item

London: Pinewood Studios, 1957. Shooting script for the 1958 British film. Annotation in manuscript ink of copy number "64" on front wrapper. Laid in are two loose pink revision pages and 36 bound pink revision pages. Based on the 1957 novel by Catherine Cookson. John Gregson, in a memorable performance, stars as Dublin trash collector James Ignatius Rooney,… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Continental Distributing, 1967. Collection of six vintage reference photographs from the 1967 film. With printed mimeo snipes affixed to the verso. The first film adaptation of James Joyce's influential modernist novel, and one of the only adaptations to take its dialogue directly from the book. The film came under heavy threat of censorship due to… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1952. Revised Draft script for the 1953 film. With screenwriter Daniel Fuchs' manuscript pencil and ink annotations throughout, most noting substantive revisions and deletions. Loosely based on Jean-Paul Le Chanois' 1951 French film "Without Leaving an Address." An ill-tempered New York cabbie helps an Irish immigrant with an infant son locate her missing husband.… Read more about this item

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1995. Vintage reference photograph of director Peter Yates on the set of the 1995 film. Based on the 1991 novel by screenwriter Shane Cannaughton, Richard Yates final theatrical feature film. An Irish boy finds his strained relationship with his oppressive, widowed father, at its breaking point when he falls for an affluent northern… Read more about this item

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1971. Two vintage photographs from the 1971 film, one studio still of Ron Moody with Jack Wild and Helen Raye, and one headshot of Ron Moody. Both with "SIlver Screen Archives" stamp on the verso. Based on the 1963 Children's novel by Walter Macken. Two orphaned children, Finn and Derval Dove (Wild… Read more about this item

London: HandMade Films, 1987. Revised Draft script for the 1987 film. Single manuscript notation in ink on page 62 (a scene deletion). Based on the 1955 novel by Brian Moore. A pious spinster living in a boardinghouse begins an ersatz romance with a fellow resident looking to bankroll his next business venture. Novelist Moore, born and raised in… Read more about this item