Original Manuscripts from Royal Books, Inc.

N.p.: N.p., 1961. Original carbon typescript manuscript for the 1961 novel, with blue revision pages and a few manuscript pencil and ink annotations throughout, mostly noting editorial revisions or addressing pagination. A hardboiled detective story, wherein a sharp-shooting private eye seeks retribution after being wrongfully framed for a woman's murder. Author Jack Lewis was best known as… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1960. Original manuscript for an unpublished memoir. Also included with the manuscript are a plot summary and an extended chapter outline. With a single annotation in manuscript ink on page 157, and several xerographically duplicated annotations on the final leaves. A tell-all about the exploits of David "The Duke" Monteverde, a burglar who stole thousands… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1979. Draft manuscript for the 1979 novel. A fictionalized account of a romance between Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy, America's Singing Sweethearts, who met off-camera and continued their relationship for the rest of their lives. Set in Hollywood. Orange untitled wrappers, with credit for author Diane Goodrich. Title page present, with… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1950. Original manuscript for an unpublished novel. With manuscript ink annotations throughout, mostly noting editorial revisions and deletions. A wealthy voodoo priestess on a Caribbean island faces off against her childhood friend, a man who is now an ordained Catholic priest. Author and screenwriter Malcolm Stuart Boylan contributed to over 90 screenplays and… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1960. Draft for an unpublished novel. Tan titled wrappers. Title page present, with credit for author Frederick Kohner. 244 leaves, with last page of text numbered 242. Typescript. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine, bound internally with three gold brads.

N.p.: N.p., 1979. Vintage xerographically duplicated manuscript for the 1979 Western novel, housed in a lightweight beige cardboard box. With manuscript ink annotations to the box noting the title of the novel and the name of author Peter Gentry, and extensive copied annotations to the script throughout, noting substantive and editorial revisions. The author's third book, ultimately published… Read more about this item

New York: Pocket Books, 1981. Vintage manuscript for the 1982 science fiction novel, the third in Robert Stallman's "Beast" trilogy. With copied annotations throughout, most addressing proofreading revisions. Included with the manuscript are two later printings of the first two books in the series, "The Orphan" and "The Captive," and a typed letter from literary agent Ilse… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., Unknown. Outline for an unpublished novel. The rags to riches story of an easily corrupted businessman who is sentenced to four years in Sing Sing for his crimes, jumps parole, and establishes a thriving trucking operation in California. Clear mylar front wrapper, black rear wrapper. Title page present, with credits for author George Bishop.… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1977. Original printed manuscript for the 1977 book. A biography of noted Czech-American talent agent and producer Paul Kohner, written by his brother, the screenwriter Frederick Kohner. Throughout his sixty-year career Kohner worked with a stable of Golden Age luminaries, including Ingrid Bergman, Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, John Huston, Billy Wilder, and more, and was… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1972. Original printed manuscript of the first five chapters of the 1972 book, housed in the its original gray envelope with the annotations "'Save the Tiger' / Original Novel MS. / (First 79 PP.)." Steve Shagan's Academy Award nominated debut feature screenplay, "Save the Tiger," was originally written in 1970, three years before the film's 1973… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1960. Original typescript for an unpublished young adult novel. Bound in with the text is a brief typed letter addressed to Ilse Lahn, an agent with the Paul Kohner agency, signed by authors Allen and Dorothy Childs, and a 20 cent stamp tucked above the letter. Incomplete as issued, with an outline of further chapters in the… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1970. Original manuscript of Terry Southern's short story. Boldly inscribed by the author in manuscript ink to author and editor Jean Stein on the title page: "To darling Jean, this personally inscribed copy of 'The Donkey and the Darling,' now on prominent display at your basic Museum of Modern Art in downtown Gotham, the Empire City, in… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1958. Vintage carbon typescript draft on onionskin for the 1958 short story. Originally published in American Weekly magazine on April 27, 1958. A "The Woman in the Case" mystery, part of a series of femme fatale true crime mysteries originally published in American Weekly magazine in 1958 and 1959, and published in the 1967 anthology "The… Read more about this item

Hollywood: Seeger Publications, 1950. Archive of photographs, text copy, cartoons, letters, story and photo submissions, banking documents and other ephemera from the short-lived men's magazine "My Escort," published in Hollywood, circa late 1950s. Not to be confused with the British men's magazine "Escort," which began publication in 1980. Detailed inventory available upon request. The majority of the… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1970. Substantial archive of material belonging to Austrian-American stage hypnotist and magician John Kolisch, including two three-ring card binders with typescript and manuscript notes for Kolisch's live shows, and 271 vintage photographs of Kolisch in performance. Archive appears to date from the 1950s through the 1970s, the heyday of Kolisch's career. One binder holds notes… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Eric Ambler, 1964. Original ribbon copy typescript letter, signed by Eric Ambler, on Ambler's letterhead, dated March 23, 1964, to Executive Secretary Catherine Barth of the Mystery Writers of America, Inc. (MWA), in response to a letter from Barth, announcing Ambler's 1962 novel, "The Light of Day" being awarded an Edgar Award for Best Novel, and inviting… Read more about this item

Temecula, California: Erle Stanley Gardner, 1958. Original ribbon copy typescript letter, signed by Erle Stanley Gardner, on Gardner's letterhead, dated October 5, 1959, to author Veronica Parker Johns of the Mystery Writers of America, Inc. (MWA). The letter, written in response to one from Johns, regards a questionnaire Johns sent to various public figures regarding mystery stories for the… Read more about this item

Temecula, California: Erle Stanley Gardner, 1958. Original two-page ribbon copy typescript letter, signed by Erle Stanley Gardner, on onionskin with Gardner's letterhead, dated October 3, 1961, to author Richard M. Gordon of the Mystery Writers of America, Inc. (MWA), declining to be the editor of a proposed mystery anthology by MWA, and offering other options in support. 8.5… Read more about this item

Temecula, California: Erle Stanley Gardner, 1953. Original ribbon copy typescript letter, signed by Erle Stanley Gardner, on onionskin with Gardner's letterhead, dated May 12th, 1953, to the Mystery Writers of America, Inc., expressing appreciation for the 1953 Best Fact Crime, Edgar Award, for Gardner's 1952 true crime book "The Court of Last Resort." Gardner's first foray into true… Read more about this item

Temecula, California: Erle Stanley Gardner, 1958. Original ribbon copy typescript letter, signed by Erle Stanley Gardner, on onionskin with Gardner's letterhead, dated June 19, 1958, to Catherine Barth, Executive Secretary to the Mystery Writers of America, Inc., expressing gratitude for forwarding the gold and onyx Edgar Allan Poe ring presented to Gardner from the Mystery Writers of Japan. … Read more about this item