Film & TV source books
MARY REILLY.
New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Auckland: Doubleday, [1990]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. A reworking of Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. "A splendid literary conceit, a psychological thriller of the first rank: the spellbinding journals of an introspective Victorian maid--whose employer is none other than Dr. Henry Jekyll. Martin's triumph here is in making the Jekyll/Hyde melodrama, with all its lure, merely vivid backdrop for the equally alluring psychosexual odyssey of heroine..." - Kirkus review 15 January, 1989. Nebula award nominee. Filmed in 1996 with Julia Roberts in the title role. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-714.
BADGE OF EVIL.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, [1956]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Filmed as the memorable film noir; Touch of Evil by Orson Welles, with Charlton Heston and Janet Leigh.
THE SHRINKING MAN.
London: David Bruce & Watson, [1973]. Octavo, boards. First hardcover edition. Introduction by Kingsley Amis. Filmed in 1957 from a screenplay by the author, slated for a possible remake. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-121. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-219. Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels 18.
THE SHRINKING MAN.
London: David Bruce & Watson, [1973]. Octavo, boards. First hardcover edition. Introduction by Kingsley Amis. Filmed in 1957 from a screenplay by the author, currently slated for a possible remake. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-121. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-219. Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels #18.
THE SHRINKING MAN.
London: David Bruce & Watson, [1973]. Octavo, boards. First hardcover edition. Introduction by Kingsley Amis. Filmed in 1957 from a screenplay by the author, currently slated for a possible remake. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-121. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-219. Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels #18.
THE SHRINKING MAN.
New York: Fawcett Publications, Inc., [1956]. Small octavo, cover art by Mitchell Hooks, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Fawcett Gold Medal S577. Paperback original. Filmed in 1957 from a screenplay by the author. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-121. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-219. Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels 18. King list, p. 390. Winter list, p. 270.
THE SHRINKING MAN.
London: David Bruce & Watson, [1973]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Introduction by Kingsley Amis. Filmed in 1957 from a screenplay by the author, currently slated for a possible remake. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-121. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-219. Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels #18.
THE SHRINKING MAN.
London: David Bruce & Watson, [1973]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Introduction by Kingsley Amis. Filmed in 1957 from a screenplay by the author, currently slated for a possible remake. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-121. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-219. Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels #18.
THE SHRINKING MAN.
New York: Fawcett Publications, Inc., [1956]. Small octavo, cover art by Mitchell Hooks, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Fawcett Gold Medal S577. Paperback original. Filmed in 1957 from a screenplay by the author. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-121. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-219. Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels 18. King list, p. 390. Winter list, p. 270.
ASHENDEN: OR THE BRITISH AGENT.
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1928. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 1-304 [305-306: blank], original blue cloth, front and spine stamped in orange. First U. S. edition. A Haycraft-Queen cornerstone volume; Queen's Quorum #78. Maugham's book is based on first hand knowledge of the world of espionage as he was a British agent during World War I. States Eric Ambler: 'the first fictional work on the subject [the life of a secret agent] by a writer of stature with first-hand knowledge of what he is writing about' see Who's Who in Spy Fiction by Donald McCormick, pp. 137-39.
BLOOD RELATIVES.
New York: Random House, [1975]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Signed on the half title page by McBain. An 87th Precinct novel. Filmed in 1978 with Donald Sutherland with the setting moved to Montreal.
COP HATER.
London, New York: T.V. Boardman & Company Limited, [1956]. Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition. The first 87th Precinct novel. First published as a paperback original in the U.S. Filmed in 1958 with Robert Loggia as Det. Steve Carella.
THE PUSHER: A NOVEL OF THE 87th PRECINCT.
London, New York: T.V. Boardman & Company Limited, [1959]. Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition. 87th Precinct novel. First published as a paperback original in the U.S. Filmed in 1960 with Robert Lansing as Det. Steve Carella.
THE PUSHER: A NOVEL OF THE 87th PRECINCT.
London, New York: T.V. Boardman & Company Limited, [1959]. Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition. Signed by McBain on the title page. An 87th Precinct novel. First published as a paperback original in the U.S. Filmed in 1960 with Robert Lansing as Det. Steve Carella. Hubin, p. 521.
THE MARK OF ZORRO.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, n.d., [c1930s]. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-vii 1-300 [301-304: blank], original red cloth, front and spine stamped in yellow. Later printing. First published as a five part serial in the pulp magazine ALL STORY WEEKLY in 1919.
STAR TREK: THE WRATH OF KHAN.
London: Macdonald, 1982. Octavo, Hardcover. First hardcover edition. Novelization of the screenplay.
THE DAY OF THE DOLPHIN.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1969. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Source for the film of the same name.
BURN WITCH BURN! ...
New York: Liveright Inc Publishers, [1933]. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-ix [x] xi-xii [xiii-xiv] 15-301 [302-304: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], original black cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, top edge stained red, other edges rough-trimmed. First edition. "Celebrated weird mystery novel of witchcraft and deadly little dolls." - Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 155. Filmed in 1936 as The Devil Doll, directed by Tod Browning, screenplay by Garrett Fort, Guy Endore and Erich von Stroheim with Lionel Barrymore and Maureen O'Sullivan in lead roles. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-146. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1160. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 552. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature I, pp. 181-83. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 138. Reginald 10058.
BURN WITCH BURN! ...
New York: Liveright Inc Publishers, [1933]. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-ix [x] xi-xii [xiii-xiv] 15-301 [302-304: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], original black cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, top edge stained red, other edges rough-trimmed. First edition. Signed inscription by Merritt on the verso of the half title page: "Best wishes of / A. Merritt." "Celebrated weird mystery novel of witchcraft and deadly little dolls." - Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 155. Filmed in 1936 as The Devil Doll, directed by Tod Browning, screenplay by Garrett Fort, Guy Endore and Erich von Stroheim with Lionel Barrymore and Maureen O'Sullivan in lead roles. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-146. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1160. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 552. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature I, pp. 181-83. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 138. Reginald 10058.
THE FACE IN THE ABYSS.
West Kingston–Hampton Falls: Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc., [1991]. Octavo, illustrations in color and black and white by Ned Dameron, cloth. Limited edition. Limited to 375 copies signed by artist Ned Dameron. "Lost race fantasy adventure novel, possibly Merritt's most imaginative and colourful." - Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 155. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 3-41; (1995) 2-85; and (2004) II-761. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-243. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1158. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 555. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature I, pp. 504-07. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 138. Reginald 10063.
THE FACE IN THE ABYSS.
West Kingston–Hampton Falls: Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc., [1991]. Octavo, illustrations in color and black and white by Ned Dameron, cloth. Limited edition. Limited to 375 copies signed by artist Ned Dameron. "Lost race fantasy adventure novel, possibly Merritt's most imaginative and colourful." - Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 155. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 3-41; (1995) 2-85; and (2004) II-761. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-243. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1158. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 555. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature I, pp. 504-07. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 138. Reginald 10063.
SEVEN FOOTPRINTS TO SATAN.
New York: Boni and Liverwright, 1928. Octavo, cloth. First edition.
SEVEN FOOTPRINTS TO SATAN.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, n.d. [c.1929]. Octavo, cloth. Later printing. Photoplay edition with eight stills from the 1929 motion picture, once a "lost picture", a print now survives, but with no soundtrack. Copyright page is the information from the Boni & Liveright editions, no statement of Grosset printing (though stated third Boni & Liveright edition, this is does not pertain to this edition as a Boni & Liveright third printing exists, this edition most likely used the plates from the last Boni edition).
SAYONARA.
New York: Random House, [1954]. Octavo, cloth backed boards with cloth edges. First edition. A novel of a love story between and American officer and a Japanese woman. Filmed in 1957 featuring Marlon Brando, James Garner and Patricia Owens.
THE DROWNING POOL.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1950. Octavo, boards. First edition. The second Lew Archer novel. "A noirish, centrifugal amorality pervades Archer's world and The Drowning Pool does not conclude nicely or neatly. Yet this narrative ambiguity affirms the complexity of Macdonald's fiction, for as Archer observes bitterly at the denouement: "The happy endings and the biggest oranges were the ones that California saved for export."" - Lucian Robinson, book review 9/1/2012 for The Guardian/The Observer. Basis for the Paul Newman film, the second in which he plays the Archer character, renamed Harper. Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 676-678.