Film & TV source books
THUNDERBALL.
London: Jonathan Cape, [1961]. Octavo, original black boards, front stamped in blind, spine stamped in gold. First edition. A James Bond novel. Source for several feature films. Hubin, p. 288. Smith and White: Cloak and Dagger Fiction (3rd ed.) 1889.
TOO HOT TO HANDLE (MOONRAKER).
New York: Perma Books, [1956]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First U.S. paperback edition. Perma Books #M-3070. First U.S. paperback edition of Moonraker. A James Bond novel.
TOO HOT TO HANDLE (MOONRAKER).
New York: Perma Books, [1956]. Small octavo, cover art by Lou Marchetti, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Perma Books #M-3070. First U.S. paperback edition of Moonraker. James Bond.
YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE.
[New York]: A Signet Book/Published by The New American Library, [1965]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First U.S. paperback edition. Signet # P2712. Paperback.
ADMIRAL HORNBLOWER IN THE WEST INDIES.
Boston, Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, [1958]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. A Horatio Hornblower novel. Sea adventure during the Napoleanic wars.
COMMODORE HORNBLOWER.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1945. Octavo, dust jacket painting by N. C. Wyeth, cloth. First U. S. edition. A Horatio Hornblower novel. Published in the U. K. as THE COMMODORE. Sea adventure during the Napoleanic wars.
HORNBLOWER AND THE HOTSPUR.
Boston, Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, [1962]. Octavo, cloth. First U. S. edition. A Horatio Hornblower novel. Sea adventure during the Napoleanic wars.
HORNBLOWER DURING THE CRISIS: AND TWO STORIES: HORNBLOWERS TEMPTATION and THE LAST ENCOUNTER.
Boston, Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, [1967]. Octavo, cloth. First U. S. edition. The posthumously published final Hornblower book which the author was working on upon his death. Sea adventure during the Napoleanic wars.
LORD HORNBLOWER.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1946. Octavo, dust jacket painting by N. C. Wyeth, cloth. First edition. A Horatio Hornblower novel. Sea adventure during the Napoleanic wars.
OUTLAND.
New York: Warner Books, 1981. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original of the novelization of the screenplay (by Peter Hyams). Contains stills from the film.
THE COLLECTOR.
London: Jonathan Cape, [1963.]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's first book. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 6-39.
THE COLLECTOR.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1963. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's first book. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 6-39.
COLD MOUNTAIN.
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1997. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Winner of the 1997 National Book Award for fiction, Pulitzer Prize winner. Basis for the feature film.
MIRRORMASK: THE ILLUSTRATED FILM SCRIPT OF THE MOTION PICTURE FROM THE JIM HENSON COMPANY.
[New York]: William Morrow, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2005]. Large octavo, cloth. First edition. The storyboarded script and scenes from the film with additional material. Story by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean, screenplay by Neil Gaiman, storyboards by Dave McKean.
STARDUST (with original drawing).
New York: William Morrow, [2012]. Octavo, cloth. First limited edition. Of of 2000 signed and numbered copies signed by Gaiman this copy is one of five copies sent to artist Charles Vess, marked PC. The copies Vess received omitted the color frontispiece so he did an original signed drawing on the title page. This edition includes a revised introduction and a new postscript by Gaiman. Also includes a story not in the original edition, "Wall: A Prologue." Basis for the 2007 film with Claire Danes and Charlie Cox.
STARDUST.
[New York: Spike / Avon Books, Inc., 1999]. Octavo, boards. First edition. This is the novel without the Vess illustrations. Basis for the 2007 film with Claire Danes and Charlie Cox.
BATMAN.
London: Macdonald, 1989. Octavo, boards. First hardcover edition. Novelization of the film. Includes 8 pages of color stills.
DR. CYCLOPS.
New York: Phoenix Press, Publishers, [1940]. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 9-255 [256: blank], original red cloth, front and spine stamped in black. First edition. Novelization of the 1940 film starring Albert Dekker as the ruthless and sadistic mad scientist in the Peruvian jungle who uses radioactivity to miniaturize living things, including a group of human beings who are reduced to one fifth of their natural size. "Not only is Dr. Cyclops a literate horror/sci-fi film with good animation and special effects; it is also filmed in Technicolor, something unheard of for such a low-budget film at that time." - Parish & Pitts, The Great Science Fiction Pictures, pp. 104-105. The novel, often attributed to, but not by, Henry Kuttner, was perhaps written by Alexander Samalman. Kuttner did write a shorter magazine version from the film script which was published in THRILLING WONDER STORIES, June 1940.
INVADERS FROM MARS.
New York: Pocket, 1986. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Novelization of the screenplay written by Dan O'Bannon and Don Jakoby of the remake released in 1986 (directed by Tobe Hooper).
EYES OF LAURA MARS.
New York, Toronto, London: Bantam Books, [1978]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Bantam 12125-1. Novelization of the screenplay written by John Carpenter and David Zelag Goodman.
THE PUBLIC ENEMY.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, Publishers, [1931]. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 1-280 [281-282: publisher's adverts], four inserted plates with stills from the motion picture, original red cloth, front and spine stamped in black, top edge stained light green. First edition. Novelization of the 1931 gangster film directed by William Wellman with James Cagney, Jean Harlow, Ed Woods and Joan Blondell. Glasmon and Bright were originally Chicago newspaper reporters, several other stories of theirs were filmed. Bright worked as a Hollywood screenwriter and was one of 10 founders of the Screen Writers Guild. He was blacklisted in the 1950s. Hubin, p. 330.
SOLDIER IN THE RAIN.
New York: Atheneum, Publishers:, 1960. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The author's third book. A novel of the adventures of two sergeants at an U. S. Army base during the waning days of the Korean War. Filmed in 1963 featuring Steve McQueen, Jackie Gleason and Tuesday Weld.
THE MOON IN THE GUTTER.
New York: Fawcett Publications, Inc., [1953]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Gold Medal #348. Paperback original. Filmed in 1983 as La Lune dans le Caniveau.
THE MOON IN THE GUTTER.
New York: Fawcett Publications, Inc., [1953]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Gold Medal #348. Paperback original. Filmed in 1983 as La Lune dans le Caniveau.
THE MOON IN THE GUTTER.
New York: Gold Medal Books / Fawcett Publications, Inc., [1953]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Gold Medal #348. Paperback original. A dock worker in Philadelphia meets a high class girl. Filmed in 1983 as La Lune dans le Caniveau. Hubin, p. 335.