Search Results: Native American Interest from Royal Books, Inc.

N.p.: N.p., Unknown. Draft script for an unproduced television film. With a single manuscript pencil deletion to page I-7. An American Indian man arrives at the White House, claiming the land is rightfully his and demanding recompense for the years of missed rent. Screenwriter Jack Lewis was best known for "The Amazing Transparent Man" (1960) and for his prolific work in Western films, such as "Outlaw Gold" (1950), "Whistling Hills" (1951), and "Black Eagle of Santa Fe" (1965). Set in Washington, DC. Yellow untitled front wrapper, lacking rear wrapper. Title page present, with credits for screenwriter Jack Lewis. 31 leaves, with last page of text numbered I-29. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only. Pages Very Good plus, wrapper Good, bound with a paper clip.

N.p.: N.p., 1970. Draft script for the 1975 film, copy belonging to actor Gordon Hanson, with his name, his character's name, and the page numbers on which his character appears, in manuscript ink on the top right of the front wrapper, with a single annotation in manuscript ink of a check on page 69, where the character first appears. When a mysterious, hidden Indian tribe kidnaps the eldest daughter of a pioneer family, it is up to the eldest son to try and rescue her. Shot on location in Moab, Arches National Park, and Dead Horse Point State Park, Utah. Pink titled wrappers. Title page present, dated October 23, 1970, with credits for screenwriters Douglas Stewart and Eleanor Lamb. 106 leaves, with last page of text numbered 105. Xerographic duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine, bound with two gold brads.

Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1979. Vintage press kit for the 1979 film. Full-color illustrated pocketed folder, containing 18 black-and-white photographs, and 10 gatherings of promotional reading material. A television consultant is hired to organize a telethon in order to raise funds for the now-bankrupt US government, who are on the brink of losing the country to wealthy Native American tribes seeking to repossess the land. Featuring narration by George Carlin, and cameos by Meat Loaf, Jay Leno, Elvis Costello, and more. Folder, photographs, and promotional material Near Fine.

N.p.: N.p., 1971. Vintage reference photograph from the 1971 film. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. The second film in the Billy Jack series, following "The Born Losers" (1967) and preceding "The Trial of Billy Jack" (1974). Although a critical failure, the Billy Jack movies were enormously popular, and largely successful at the box office. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine.

New York: Harper and Row, 1970. First Edition. First Edition. The author's first book, introducing Navajo Tribal Police detective Joe Leaphorn. Fine and unread in a Very Good plus dust jacket. A bit of the usual fading to the jacket spine (but only to the titling), some slight rubbing at the spine ends and corners.

Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1976. Set of eight vintage color studio still photographs from the 1976 western film. With the stamp of a Canadian film distributor on the verso. Based on the 1968 play "Indians" by Arthur Kopit. A revisionist look at the Buffalo Bill legend, in which the buffoonish Bill hires Chief Sitting Bull to star in his Wild West Show, but finds himself frequently butting heads with Sitting Bull's own vision of the American west. Shot on location in Alberta, Canada. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Pitts 554.

Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1975. Shooting script for the 1976 film. Copy belonging to title designer Dan Perri, with his signature in black manuscript ink on the front wrapper. Based on the 1968 play "Indians" by Arthur Kopit. A revisionist look at the Buffalo Bill legend, in which the buffoonish Bill hires Chief Sitting Bull to star in his Wild West Show, but finds himself frequently butting heads with Sitting Bull's own vision of the American West. Set in the American West, shot on location in Alberta, Canada. Tan titled wrappers. Title page present, dated 7/17/75, noted as SHOOTING, with credits for screenwriters Alan Rudolph and Robert Altman. 119 leaves, with last page of text numbered 117. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Fine, wrapper Near Fine, bound with two gold brads. In a custom green quarter-leather clamshell box.

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1961. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1961 film, showing actors Teresa Stratas and Robert Ryan. A group of Sioux refugees arrive in Canada seeking shelter from the Indian wars in the US, but encounter trouble when cowboys ride up from Montana in a surprise attack. Burt Kennedy's directorial debut. Shot on location in Cypress Hills, Saskatchewan. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine.

N.p.: N.p., 1973. Revised Draft script for an unproduced film. Laid in is a letter discussing credits. Based on screenwriter Norman Thaddeus Vane's 1973 novel, a fictionalized account of the Native American chieftain Geronimo and the band of twenty-five he led into the Arizona caves in order to avoid capture by American troops. Set in Arizona. Brown titled wrappers. Title page present, dated 1973, noted as REVISED Screenplay, with credit for screenwriter Norman Thaddeus Vane. 143 leaves, with last page of text numbered 140. Xerographic duplication, rectos only, with blue revision pages throughout. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine, bound with two silver brads.

N.p.: N.p., 1973. Revised scenes for second unit post-production re-shooting and editing for the 1973 film, seen here under the working title "Valdez Horses." With annotations in manuscript ink and pencil throughout. Based on the 1967 novel "The Valdez Horses" by Lee Hoffman, about a mixed-race horse breeder who lives on the outskirts of New Mexican society, a solitary life that is disrupted for better when he takes in a young runaway boy who asks to be his protégé. Set in southwest New Mexico, shot on location in Andalucia, Spain. Blue untitled wrappers. Lacking title page. 40 leaves, with last page of text numbered 38. Carbon typescript, rectos only. Pages Very Good plus, wrapper Very Good plus, bound with two gold brads.

Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1966. Shooting Script for the 1967 Western film. Based on the 1961 novel by Richard Jessup, who also wrote the screenplay. A US army fort is under siege by Arapaho warriors. Chuka (Rod Taylor), a wandering gunman shows up to aid the those inside, each facing their troubled pasts in this moment of desperation. Green wrappers with a die cut title window. Title page present, dated September 6, 1966, noted as SHOOTING SCRIPT, with credits for novelist Richard Jessup and screenwriter Richard Fielder, production number 066. 106 leaves, with last page of text numbered 103A. mimeograph duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine, bound internally with two gold brads.

N.p.: N.p., 1990. Vintage reference photograph from the 1990 film, showing director Kevin Costner and a camera crew capturing a scene on location. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Based on the 1988 novel by Michael Blake. A Union soldier is sent to a remote outpost in Kansas, where he gradually befriends the inhabitants of a nearby Sioux camp. Nominated for twelve Academy Awards, winning seven, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best Cinematography. Shot on location in Kansas, Wyoming, and Nebraska. 7 x 5 inches. About Fine.

N.p.: N.p., 1990. Archive of material from the 1991 film belonging to carpenter Jamie Upham. Included in the archive is a Shooting script dated 8/15/90, and approximately 150 pages of production ephemera, including memos and notes regarding housing, filming locations, transportation, and catering, contact sheets, and call sheets. Based on the 1982 novel by Tony Hillerman, the fifth in the Navajo Tribal Police series, and the second in the series to feature Jim Chee, about a Native police officer who is drawn into a web of theft and murder after a small plane crashes on the reservation. The feature film debut of documentary filmmaker Errol Morris. Shot on location in Tuba City and the Navajo and Hopi Reservations in Arizona, and in New Mexico. Screenplay: Self wrappers. Title page present, dated 8/15/90, noted as 1st Draft Shooting Script, with credits for novelist Tony Hillerman and screenwriters Eric Bergren, Neal Jimenez, and Mark Horowitz. 123 leaves, with last page of text numbered 102.… Read More

Culver City, CA: Selznick International, 1946. Four vintage borderless reference photographs and two vintage bordered reference photographs of director King Vidor on the set of the 1946 Western film. Three linen-backed with printed mimeo snipes affixed to the verso. Based on Niven Busch's 1944 novel. Two brothers fight over their love for a young relative while their father attempts to sway railroad builders from constructing a new line on his land. A lavish "epic" Western from Selznick, who saw the film as a definite successor to his monumental "Gone With the Wind" (1939). Set in Texas, shot on location in Arizona and California. Two 9.5 x 7.25 inches, two 10 x 8 inches. Generally Very Good plus, with light creasing and wear on the edges. Hardy, p. 152. Pitts 1187.

New York: HarperCollins, 1996. Tony Hillerman's original typescript for his novel "The Fallen Man," with his original manuscript corrections in ink. Housed in a plain orange publisher's box, with a memo from Hillerman, on his stationery, affixed to the lid. The history of the manuscript is explained in three documents that accompany the typescript: (1) a letter from the editorial staff at HarperCollins, on the publisher's stationery, stating that this the most recent copy-edited typescript, (2) an autograph note on publisher's memo stationery from Hillerman's editor Eamon Dolan, asking Hillerman to provide final changes, and thanking him for providing jacket copy, which he says is superior to his, and will appear "virtually unchanged on the book's flaps," and (3) an autograph note on Hillerman's personal stationery to a bookseller friend, stating that it is his copy of the final corrected typescript (which was ultimately returned to him by the publisher, after the changes were made for the book).… Read More

N.p.: N.p., 1960. Two vintage reference photographs taken during filming on location for the 1960 film, one showing actor Elvis Presley on a horse, waiting between takes, with a camera crew to his left, the other showing actress Dolores Del Rio in costume, flanked by two unknown crew members, with director Don Siegel in the background, to the right. With manuscript pencil and ink annotations on the verso regarding cropping. The mixed-race son of a rancher finds his loyalties divided when members of a nearby Kiowa tribe begin raiding neighboring white farms. Shot on location in Utah and Los Angeles. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Pitts 1371.

Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1953. Revised final script for the 1953 film "The Great Sioux Uprising," seen here as "Sioux Uprising." Though very loosely based on true events surrounding the two-year Red Cloud's War, during which a Cheyenne Native American chief repeatedly attacked US forces in an effort to stem the flow of White settlers, this film centers around a white man who attempts to help a Sioux tribe retrieve a large number of stolen horses, white attempting to convince them to join up with the Union soldiers instead of the Confederates. Shot on location in Oregon, with a cast partly comprised of local Native Americans. Tan titled wrappers, noted as REVISED FINAL SCREENPLAY on the front wrapper, dated September 3, 1952. Title page present, with credits for screenwriters Levy and Gill. 138 leaves, with last page of text numbered 125. Multilith duplication, with pink and blue revision pages throughout, dated 9/22/52 and 9/15/52. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine bound with… Read More

Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1973. First Edition. First Edition. Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket. An impeccable copy.

Los Angeles: RKO Radio Pictures, 1952. Vintage German program for the 1952 film. A man comes to town and attempts to facilitate communication between the half-Apache leader of the Apache tribe and the white townspeople who believe there is gold under the ground of the reservation. Set in Arizona, shot on location in Los Angeles, California, and Flagstaff, and Sedona, Arizona. 8 x 11.25 inches folded bi-fold. 16.25 x 11.25 inches unfolded. Very Good, with creasing at the top left and right corners and one small tear at the bottom right edges through both pages folded. Also one large crease across the center of the program.

N.p.: N.p., 1965. Archive of material from the 1965 Western film belonging to actor Johnny Crawford. Archive includes a script supervisor's heavily annotated working script, manuscript notes regarding scenes and blocking for the film, a page of sheet music for the film's theme song, six pages of wardrobe and props lists for individual characters, call sheets, and various documents regarding film storage and budget. Based on the 1942 novel by Glenn Balch, about a American Indian boy who sets out into the Great Plains to find his lost pinto pony. Script supervisor's script: Red titled wrappers. Title page present, with credits for novelist Glenn Balch and screenwriter Norman Foster. 159 leaves, with last page of text numbered 152. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only. Pages Very Good plus, lightly edgeworn, wrapper Near Fine, unbound. Production documents generally Very Good plus, with some light creasing. Script and ephemera housed in a Kodak box.