Science Fiction from Royal Books, Inc.

San Diego: Schanes and Schanes, 1981. Vintage "The Heavy Metal Original Pencil Art Portfolio" from the 1981 animated film, one of 1000 copies, this being number 0823. The portfolio, housed in an illustrated folder with an Introduction and credits, features seven original graphite and non-photo blue pencil drawings created during the film's production. Each of the 1000… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1965. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1965 film, showing cinematographer Raoul Coutard capturing a shot with actress Anna Karina while Jean-Luc Godard looks on. Cropping annotations in manuscript pencil and a Cinemonde stamp on the verso. Jean-Luc Godard's neo-noir foray into science fiction, following a secret agent in a dystopian future who is assigned… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1953. Vintage reference photograph taken on the set of the 1953 film, showing director Byron Haskin and other crew members with a camera on a mount. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. The first feature film adaptation of H.G. Wells' classic 1898 novel. Winner of an Academy Award for Best… Read more about this item

London: Bloomsbury, 1992. First UK Edition, preceding all others. Wonderfully INSCRIBED by the author on the title page in the year of publication: "To Kate and Tommy / from their amnesiac pal Alasdair / 2 Sept 1992." Basis for the lauded 2023 film directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, starring Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, and Willem Dafoe. Near… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Belisarius Productions, 1992. Draft script for season five, episodes one and two, "Lee Harvey Oswald - October 5, 1957 - November 22, 1963: Parts One and Two," of the 1989-1993 television series, here under the working title "Lee Harvey Oswald." SIGNED on the title page by creator and screenwriter Donald P. Bellisario. Script incomplete, ending on page… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1998. Rainbow Revision Draft script for the 1999 film, here under the working title "Carrie II," copy belonging to an unknown crew or cast member, with six small post-it tabs, affixed to the top of six pages in which characters are killed or injured, annotated with brief descriptions, e.g., "Lisa / Windshield," "Chuck Berry Boy," and "Jesse… Read more about this item

Slough, England: Century 21 Productions, 1968. Draft script for the 1969 film, here under the UK release title "Doppelgänger." Copy belonging to actress Lynn Loring, here referred to by her married name Lynn Thinnes, with the manuscript marker annotations of her name on the title page and "L.T." on the top left of the front wrapper, with manuscript ink… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1969. Collection of five vintage reference photographs from the classic 1969 British science fiction film, including one borderless, and three double weight. A womanizing secret agent uncovers a secret race of beautiful alien superwomen who are kidnapping human women to help repopulate their planet. Shot on location in London. 10 x… Read more about this item

West Hollywood: The Ladd Company, 1982. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1982 film, showing actress Joanna Cassidy. Based on the 1968 novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick. A classic of the genre, building on the claustrophobic, dystopian vision director Ridley Scott previously established in "Alien" (1979), and setting a new standard… Read more about this item

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1974. Collection of 43 vintage studio still photographs from the 1974 film. An unusual and prescient sci-fi thriller that was poorly distributed in the US, but over time counted Stanley Kubrick and Terrence Malick among its admirers. Actor George Segal, in a serious against-type role, is a scientist who agrees to an experimental… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Monarex, 1980. Draft script for an unproduced film. Not to be confused with the 1970 film directed by Carol Reed. Years into the future, World War III has decimated most of the planet, leaving the final battle to take place in southeast Asia. Clear mylar front wrapper, red rear wrapper. Title page present,… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1979. Archive of material from the 1980 film belonging to boom operator Bill Yeager. Archive includes 240 vernacular color and black-and-white photographs taken on the set, a typescript letter from stuntman Tom Clardy to Yeager, two black-and-white reference photographs, and approximately 40 xerographically duplicated production documents. Among the production documents are maps of shooting locations and… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Troma Inc, 1993. Vintage postcard announcement for an exclusive 1993 screening of the 1991 film at the Landmark Nuart Theatre in Los Angeles, Friday, August 27 through Thursday, September 2, 1993. Recto features a glossy, black-and-white photograph of the film's stars, theatrical drag troupe the Sluts a Go Go, including Doris Fish, Miss X, Tippi, Ginger Quest,… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Los Angeles Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy Convention, 1979. Vintage program for three days of screenings of the classic British science fiction television series at the 1979 Los Angeles Science Fiction, Horror, and Fantasy Convention. Program includes an introduction, a brief history of the television series, synopses of the episodes starring Tom Baker, and a biography of… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1985. Fifth Draft Treatment script for an unproduced film. Based on the 1983 novel by Elmore Leonard, who also wrote the screenplay, about a former Secret Service agent who comes to the aid of a famed movie star when she begins receiving threatening messages. The film was slated for production, with Dustin Hoffman signed on… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1979. Revised First Draft script for an unproduced film. With a single annotation in manuscript ink on the front wrapper. In the 22nd century, the majority of the Earth's Black population has emigrated to the planet Mars and renamed it Jackson. Ladies' man and jack-of-all-trades Truck Rodgers is hired by the king of Jackson to find… Read more about this item

London: Taliafilm II, 1984. Draft script for the 1986 film. Laid in with the script is a small "With Compliments" card bearing the name of screenwriter Michael Wadleigh in manuscript ink. From the collection of novelist William Hjortsberg, who worked as a screenwriter in Hollywood between 1977-1985. Hjortsberg is best known for the screenplay adaptation of "Angel… Read more about this item

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1991. Draft script for the 1994 film, with annotations in manuscript ink on the title page. Loosely based on the 1955 novel "The Body Snatchers" by Jack Finney. The third film adaptation of Finney's novel, preceded by "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" (1956), directed by Don Siegel, and starring Kevin McCarthy and Dana Wynter,… Read more about this item

Hollywood: Untitled Productions, 1986. Draft script for the 1986 film, with xerographically duplicated storyboards for sketches in the film variously bound in with the script pages. Copy belonging to an unknown crew member, with their manuscript pencil and ink annotations throughout regarding camera angles, scene sequencing, and revising dialogue. A spoof of 1950s Z-budget sci-fi movies, interspersed… Read more about this item

Dallas: Orbit Films, 1966. Vintage pressbook for the US release of the 1966 Japanese film. In a futuristic world, young girls are abducted and transformed into Love Robots, living sex dolls available for sale. Pink film auteur Koji Wakamatsu was one of the most successful Japanese filmmakers of the 1960s, directing a number of notable erotic and… Read more about this item