The Woman of Andros (First Edition)
by Thornton Wilder
New York: Albert and Charles Boni, 1930. First Edition. First Edition. Early novel by the author of "The Bridge of San Luis Rey" (1927). Toning to the book extremities and jacket spine and folds, and light foxing to the page edges, else about Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket.
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Wm. T. Wiley [William T. Wiley]: Milano 1971 (First Edition)
by William T. Wiley
Milan: Studio Marconi, 1971. First Edition. First Edition. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at Studio Marconi in September, 1971. Text in English and Itatlian. Near Fine and unread in card wrappers with a plastic clip binding. Light toning throughout and a small tap to the bottom right corner.
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In Pictures: A Hollywood Satire (First Edition)
by Will Connell (photographer); Nunnally Johnson, Patterson McNutt, Gene Fowler, Grover Jones (text)
New York: T.J. Maloney, 1937. First Edition. First Edition. Lengthily INSCRIBED and dated 1949 by co-author Gene Fowler on the front endpaper, with brief, additional annotations in manuscript ink and pencil to the title page and page nine. Lacking the original illustrated paper slipcase. Housed in a custom clamshell box and matching chemise. A penetrating, satirical take on the film industry, illustrated throughout with black-and-white photographs. Gene Fowler was an American author, dramatist,... Read More
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The Thing That Couldn't Die (Original photograph from the 1958 film)
by Will Cowan (director); David Duncan (screenwriter), William Reynolds, Andra Martin, Gideon Drew, Carolyn Kearney (starring)
Universal City: Universal, 1958. Vintage photograph from the 1958 horror film. When an ancient box is unburied and opened, the head of a man executed for sorcery 400 years earlier comes to life and begins telepathically controlling people in an attempt to reunite with his body and regain his full power. 10 x 8 inches. Light diagonal creasing to the corners, else Near Fine.
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Miami Blues (First Edition)
by Charles Willeford
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1984. First Edition. First Edition. The first Hoke Mosley mystery, basis for the superb 1990 film starring Fred Ward, Alec Baldwin, and Jennifer Jason Leigh. A touch of rubbing at the jacket corners, else Fine in an about Fine dust jacket.
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Cockfighter (First Edition)
by Charles Willeford
New York: Crown Publishers, 1972. First Edition. First Edition in hardcover, preceded by the paperback First Edition published by Chicago Paperback House ten years prior. The beginning of Charles Willeford's second phase, turning away from bizarre crime fiction to focus on the hard-as-nails world of the cockfighting circuit. Basis for the 1972 Monte Hellman film "Born to Kill," for which Willeford wrote the screenplay and took an acting turn as a cockfighting judge, and starring Warren Oates in... Read More
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The Woman Chaser (First Edition)
by Charles Willeford
Chicago: Newsstand Library, 1960. First Edition. No. U137. First Edition, a paperback original. Basis for the 1999 neo-noir film starring Patrick Warburton. Near Fine in wrappers. Holroyd, p. 383.
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The Writing on the Walls [Off the Wall] (Original typescript with profuse holograph corrections)
by Charles Willeford
N.p.: N.p., 1979. Charles Willeford's original, heavily hand-corrected submission to his one-time publisher, Pegasus Rex, for "The Writing on the Walls," eventually re-titled "Off the Wall." Willeford's name, address, and phone number are in blue manuscript ink at the top of the title page, and each of the eighteen chapters (each grouped with paper clips at the top left) have numerous corrections in the author's hand. Chapters 2, 16, 17, and 18 are the original typescript, the remaining chapters... Read More
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Poontang (First Edition, inscribed in the year of publication)
by Charles Willeford
Crescent City, FL: New Athenaeum Press, 1967. First Edition. Crescent City, FL: New Athenaeum Press, 1967. First Edition. Issued in green and gray wrapper variants (no priority), this being the gray variant. INSCRIBED and dated in the year of publication by the author on the front endpaper with typical aplomb: "To Les Dubinas / I hope you all like 'Poontang' / Chas Willeford / 23 Jan '67." A self-published book of poetry by the noted... Read More
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Off the Wall (First Edition)
by Charles Willeford
Montclair, NJ: Pegasus Rex Press, 1980. First Edition. First Edition. A nonfiction account of the Son of Sam murders, focusing on the work of deputy sheriff Craig Glassman. Faint foxing on the top page edges, else Near Fine in a lightly age-toned, Near Fine dust jacket.
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Cockfighter (First Hardcover Edition, inscribed in 1973)
by Charles Willeford
New York: Crown Publishers, 1972. First hardcover edition, preceded by a paperback original published by Chicago Paperback House in 1962. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper, with typical dry wit: "To Palmer [and] Marge Carlson - / Your determination in getting this book almost-almost-matches Frank Mansfield's. My warmest personal regards. Yours, / Charles Willeford / 17 Feb 1973." Scarce signed. The "Frank Mansfield" to whom Willeford refers is the narrator of "Cockfighter," a disgraced gamecock... Read More
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Sketchbook No. 1: Three Americans (First Edition)
by [Willem de Kooning, Igor Stravinsky, Buckminster Fuller] Robert Snyder, Michael Sonnabend (directors)
New York: Time Magazine, 1960. First Edition. Softcover. First Edition. Reproduces the script of a 1960 documentary film about contemporary art, focusing on de Kooning, Stravinsky, and Fuller, along with "Time" articles relating to same. Robert Snyder and Michael Sonnabend previously collaborated on the 1950 documentary "The Titan." Near Fine in perfect-bound wrappers with French flaps.
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Roadhouse 66 [Roadhouse] (Original screenplay for the 1984 film)
by Willem Dafoe, Judge Reinhold, Kaaren Lee (starring); John Mark Robinson (director); Galen Lee, George Simpson (screenwriters)
Los Angeles: Roadhouse Productions, Inc, 1983. First Draft script for the 1984 film, here under the working title "Roadhouse. " While driving cross country down Route 66 to California, Beckman's (Judge Reinhold) car is shot at by three hoodlums. When he meets former rock and roll musician, Johnny Harte (Willem Dafoe), they decide to teach the hoodlums a lesson. Set in Kingman and Oatman, Arizona, shot on location in Kingman, Oatman, and Bagdad, Arizona, and Santa Clarita,... Read More
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The Spirit (Original screenplay for the 1987 television film)
by Will Eisner (characters); Michael Schultz (director); Steven E. de Souza (screenwriter); Sam J. Jones, Nana Visitor, Bumper Robinson, Garry Walberg (starring)
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers Television, 1986. Third Draft script for the 1987 television film which aired on ABC on July 31, 1987. Bound in following the script is a two page Staff and Crew List, dated March 7, 1986, a 19 page Shooting Schedule, dated 3/7/86, a ten page Revised Shooting Schedule, dated 3/9/86, an eight page Revised Shooting Schedule, dated 3/21/86, and a second two page Staff and Crew List, dated March 26, 1986. Laid in is a... Read More
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Action: One Easy Piece (Original screenplay for the 2000 television episode)
by Will Forté (screenwriter); Don Reo (director); Jay Mohr, Illeana Douglas, Jarrad Paul, Jack Plotnick (starring)
Culver City, CA: Columbia TriStar Television, 1999. Shooting script for the 2000 television episode, which originally aired on Fox on September 5, 2000. Copy belonging to crew member Lisa Doty, with a printed ownership label affixed to the title page. The show aired on Fox for one season, from 1999-2000, and followed a failed Hollywood producer named Peter Dragon. Self wrappers. Title page present, dated November 15, 1999, noted as Shooting Script, with credits for... Read More
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Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (Original screenplay for the 2004 film)
by Will Ferrell (starring, screenwriter); Adam McKay (director, screenwriter); Christina Applegate, Paul Rudd, Steve Carell, Kathryn Hahn, Ben Stiller (starring)
Universal City: Dreamworks, 2003. Revised Shooting script for the 2004 film. In San Diego in the 1970s, successful news anchor Ron Burgundy is forced to confront his prejudices when the station owners hire a woman anchor, who promptly proceeds to climb her way to the top. Followed by a 2013 sequel, "Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues." Shot on location in San Diego, Los Angeles, Glendale, and Long Beach. Self wrappers. Title page present, dated 06/09/03,... Read More
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The Film That Was Lost (First Edition)
by Will H. Hays, Howard Dietz (text)
New York: Museum of Modern Art Film Library [MOMA], 1942. First Edition. First Edition. Very Good plus in illustrated saddle-stapled wrappers, with light overall rubbing, toning at the extremities, and a small faint stray pen mark on the bottom of the front wrapper.
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Jezebel (Original oversize photograph of Bette Davis and Henry Fonda from the 1938 film)
by William Wyler (director); Owen Davis (play); Clements Ripley, Abem Finkel, John Huston (screenwriters); Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, George Brent, Margaret Lindsay (starring)
N.p.: N.p., 1938. Vintage oversize reference photograph from the 1938 film, showing actors Margaret Early, Janet Shaw, Bette Davis, and Henry Fonda. In antebellum Louisiana, a strong-willed southern belle loses her fiancé as a result of her vanity and arrogance, and vows to win him back. Winner of an Academy Award for Best Actress for Bette Davis, and for Best Supporting Actress for Fay Bainter. Shot on location in Louisiana. 14 x 11... Read More
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Red Alert (Original screenplay for the 1977 television movie)
by William Hale (director); Harold King (novel); Sandor Stern (screenwriter); William Devane, Adrienne Barbeau, M. Emmet Walsh (starring)
Los Angeles: Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS], 1977. Final Revised Draft script for the 1977 television movie. Based on the 1977 book by Harold King. Included is a vintage production photo of William Devane from the film, with a snipe on the verso with the CBS television logo. A computer at a nuclear power plant malfunctions and seals off the reactor room, believing that a dangerous explosion has occurred, and trapping the crew inside. One of a string... Read More
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Juarez (Original photograph from the set of the 1939 film)
by William Dieterle (director); Bertita Harding (novel); Franz Werfel (play); Elmer Fryer (photographer); John Huston, Aeneas MacKenzie, Wolfgnag Reinhardt (screenwriter); Paul Muni, Bette Davis, Brian Aherne, Claude Rains (starring)
N.p.: N.p., 1939. Vintage reference photograph showing Claude Rains, Gale Sondergaard, Montagu Love, and director William Dieterle on the set of the 1939 film. Mimeo snipe on verso. Based upon the 1939 biography of Emperor Maximilan of Mexico and his wife Charlotte, "Phantom Crown" by Bertita Loenarz and the 1925 play "Juarez and Maximilian" by Franz Werfel. Democratic-leaning Mexico President Benito Juarez (Paul Muni) threatens France's rule and battles with Napolean III's (Claude Rains) newly installed... Read More
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Leave Her to Heaven (First Edition)
by Ben Ames Williams
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1944. First Edition. First Edition. Basis for the superb 1945 film, a late, blazing-Technicolor noir starring Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, and Vincent Price. Scarce in this condition. Meeting all first edition points, which include: (1) red cloth, with titles stamped in black, (2) date of 1944 at the bottom of the title page, (3) measures roughly 8 by 5.5 inches, (4) 429 pages of text, and (5) price of $2.50 on the front jacket flap.... Read More
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Lord John in New York (First UK Edition)
by C.N. and A.M. Williamson Williamson
London: Methuen, 1918. First Edition. First Edition. A collection of short stories, written by the prolific, early twentieth century British husband-and-wife mystery writing team. Very Good in a Very Good example of the rare dust jacket. Pages significantly toned though still somewhat supple. Jacket with minor chipping along the top and bottom edge (no loss to titling), neat cellotape reinforcement along the top edge, and significant foxing to the verso. A very presentable copy.
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Two-Up (First Edition, inscribed to fellow author Chris Offutt)
by Eric Miles Williamson
Huntsville, TX: Texas Review Press, 2006. First Edition. First Edition, hardcover issue. Association copy, INSCRIBED by Williamson to fellow author Chris Offutt on the half-title page: "For Chris / In admiration of your work, and with appreciation for your friendship / Eric Miles Williamson." The author has also SIGNED the title page in the same ink. From the collection of Chris Offutt. Offutt is the author of "Kentucky Straight" and other short story collections, novels, nonfiction,... Read More
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Lord Loveland Discovers America (First UK Edition)
by C.N. and A.M. Williamson Williamson
London: Methuen, 1910. First Edition. First Edition. A non-mystery featuring Lord Loveland, written by the prolific, early twentieth century British husband-and-wife mystery writing team. The story here involves the collision of British mores (in the form of Lord Loveland) with the reality of New York society of the early twentieth century. Lord Loveland arrives in American expecting all to bow before him, but is quickly humbled and finds himself enduring a "moral education," including "amusing, exciting, and... Read More
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The Siege of Trencher's Farm (First UK Edition, signed by the author)
by Gordon D. Williams
London: Secker and Warburg, 1969. First UK Edition, preceding all others. SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper. Basis for Sam Peckinpah's violent 1971 film "Straw Dogs," starring Dustin Hoffman and Susan George, considered by many to be his finest directorial effort in a career that included many important films. Small creases on the bottom right corner of the front flap and top left corner of the rear flap, else Fine in a Fine dust... Read More
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