Film & TV source books
2061: ODYSSEY THREE.
New York: Ballantine Books, [1988, i.e. 1987]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. The third book in the series. This book was schedule for release January 1988 but copies were put on sale late 1987.
CHILDHOOD'S END.
New York: Ballantine Books, [1953]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Signed on the title page by Clarke. An enormously popular novel presaging Clarke's major thematic statements in 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY. Recently aired as a miniseries on the SyFy channel in December 2015. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-246. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels 9. Survey of Science Fiction Literature I, pp. 337-41.
THE GHOST FROM THE GRAND BANKS.
New York: Ballantine Books, [1990]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First U.S. edition. A novel of a race to raise the Titanic in the early 21st Century.
JONATHAN STRANGE & MR NORRELL.
[New York and London]: Bloomsbury, [2004]. Octavo, illustrations by Portia Rosenberg, boards. First edition. First printing with red endpapers and number line beginning with "1." The U. S. edition preceded the UK edition by two weeks. Alternate world fantasy. Winner of the 2005 Hugo Award, the 2005 World Fantasy Award, the Locus Award for best first novel, a Nebula nominee, and a Booker Prize long list candidate. A 2012 BBC television series was based on this novel.
KING RAT.
Boston, Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, [1962]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Author's first book.
PATHS OF GLORY.
New York: The Viking Press, 1935. Octavo, pp. [1-6] [1-2] 3-265 [266: blank], title page printed in brown and black, original two-part blue and raspberry cloth with gold bands, top edge edge stained brown, other edges rough trimmed, cream endpapers. First edition. The author's first novel and only book. One of the great antiwar novels, the basis for the acclaimed 1957 film directed by Stanley Kubrick.
BLOOD SIMPLE: AN ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY BY...
New York: St. Martin's Press, [1988]. Wrappers. First edition. Text of the screenplay from Blood Simple, the brothers first feature film.
THE BIG EASY.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1970. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Author's first book, basis for film of the same name.
COMA.
Boston: Little, Brown, 1977. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Author's first thriller. Filmed in 1978, directed by Michael Crichton.
LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT ... BASED ON THE SCENARIO OF THE TOD BROWNING PRODUCTION ILLUSTRATED WITH SCENES FROM THE PHOTOPLAY A METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER PICTURE STARRING LON CHANEY.
N.p. [London?]: [The Imaginary Book Company Ltd.], 2012. Octavo, with film stills, cloth. New edition. One of 300 numbered copies. Novelization of the Tod Browning screenplay. For this new edition the editors compared the U.K. and American editions and found discrepancies. This could be considered a definitive edition. Twelve pages of stills from the film.
DISCLOSURE.
New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. Octavo, boards. First edition. Thriller novel. Made into a feature film.
THE LOST WORLD.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. Octavo, boards. First edition. The sequel to Jurassic Park. Filmed in 1997 by Steven Spielberg.
THE TERMINAL MAN.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. To control his violence a man agrees to have surgical implants which connect to a computer to control his behavior. This was produced as a feature film in 1974.
THE TERMINAL MAN.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. To control his violence a man agrees to have surgical implants which connect to a computer to control his behavior. This was produced as a feature film in 1974.
MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1947]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Story that was the basis for the classic 1947 Christmas film (as well as the later versions). The novella was published to capitalize on the 1947 film release.
BILLION DOLLAR BRAIN.
London: Jonathan Cape, [1966]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's fourth spy novel with his nameless hero. Produced as a film in 1967 with Michael Caine in the lead role. Jay Pederson: St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, pp. 288-291. Smith and White: Cloak and Dagger Fiction (3rd ed.) 1581.
FUNERAL IN BERLIN.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, [1965]. Octavo, boards. First U.S. edition. The author's third spy novel with his nameless hero. Produced as a 1966 film with Michael Caine in the lead role. Jay Pederson: St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, pp. 288-291. Smith and White: Cloak and Dagger Fiction (3rd ed.) 1585.
SPY STORY.
New York and London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1974]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First U.S. edition. The author's sixth spy novel with his nameless hero. Produced as a film in 1976. Jay Pederson: St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, pp. 288-291. Smith and White: Cloak and Dagger Fiction (3rd ed.) 1594.
DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP?
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1968. Octavo, cloth. First edition. In a depleted world, where android animals are marketed to help expiate the guilt people experience because the real ones have been largely exterminated, the protagonist must hunt down androids illegally imported from Mars. A 1968 Nebula nominee. "A key novel in Dick's canon." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-326. Basis for the feature film "Blade Runner," directed by Ridley Scott. Pringle, Science Fiction the Best 100 Novels 55. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, Additions.
UBIK: THE SCREENPLAY.
Minneapolis, Minnesota: Corroboree Press, 1985. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 1250 copies printed of which this is one of 1200 trade copies. Dick's filmscript incorporates an ending that differs from that of his novel.
A SCANNER DARKLY.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1977. Octavo, boards. First British edition. New Path uses group attack therapy to cure addiction to hallucinogenic Substance D (nicknamed "Death"), relentlessly reprograming the subject to obey authority. And New Path is apparently growing the flower from which Substance D is made, thus helping to perpetuate itself. Winner of the British Science Fiction Association Award, Novel, 1978. Basis for a feature film, released in 2006. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-333. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, Additions.
BILLY BATHGATE.
New York: Random House, [1989]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Novel set in the 1930s involving the Dutch Schultz gang. Winner of the 1990 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and runner up for the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Filmed in 1991 with Dustin Hoffman, Nicole Kidman and Bruce Willis.
RAGTIME.
New York: Random House, [1975]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. "...a historical novel in a satirical, speculative mood that has emerged as one of the truly artistic profitable veins in SF. It is a version of an alternate history of the early years of twentieth century America to the end of Wordl War I..." Barron, Anatomy of Wonder (1981) 3-286. Nominated for the Nebula Award for best novel. Filmed in 1981, with James Cagney in his final role.
THE HUNTER.
New York: A Permabook Edition Published By Pocket Books, Inc., [1963]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Permabook # M-4272. Paperback original. The first Parker novel. Filmed several times, Point Blank (1967) and Payback (1999). Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 1039-1041.
A DESERT DRAMA: BEING THE TRAGEDY OF THE KOROSKO.
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1898. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 9-277 [278: blank] [279-288: ads], original light blue cloth, front stamped in dark blue, brown and green, spine stamped in dark blue, gold, brown and green. First U.S. edition. A party of tourists sailing on the Nile are abducted by Dervish warriors, during captivity they are asked to renounce Christianity. Imperialistic view of North Africa. Adapted into a stage play and filmed twice (1923 & 1932). Green and Gibson, A22c.