Film & TV source books
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.
[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.
STARDUST.
[New York: Spike / Avon Books, Inc., 1999]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Gaiman on the title page. This is the novel without the Vess illustrations. Basis for the 2007 film with Claire Danes and Charlie Cox.
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.
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.
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.
STREET OF NO RETURN.
New York: Gold Medal Books / Fawcett Publications, Inc., [1954]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Gold Medal #428. Paperback original. Another with a bleak backdrop of Philadelphia and a couple of losers. Filmed in 1989, directed by Sam Fuller. Hubin, p. 335.
ODD MAN OUT.
London: Michael Joseph Ltd., [1945]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Novel of a wounded IRA man. Filmed in 1947 with James Mason, also released as Gang War. Filmed again in 1969 as The Lost Man with Sidney Poitier.
ODD MAN OUT.
New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, [1947]. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition. Novel of a wounded IRA man. Filmed in 1947 with James Mason, also released as Gang War. Filmed again in 1969 as The Lost Man with Sidney Poitier.
ODD MAN OUT.
New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, [1947]. Octavo, cloth. First U. S. edition. Novel of a wounded IRA man. Filmed in 1947 with James Mason, also released as Gang War. Filmed again in 1969 as The Lost Man with Sidney Poitier. Hubin, p. 348.
THE CAVEMAN'S VALENTINE.
New York: Warner Books, 1994. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Signed by the author. Winner of the Edgar Award for best first novel 1994.
LOSER TAKES ALL.
Melbourne, London, Toronto: William Heinemann Ltd, [1955]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. An engaged couple goes to Monte Carlo where the husband to be starts gambling to pay the hotel bill. Filmed twice, in 1956 and again in 1990 as Strike It Rich. Hubin, p. 349.
OUR MAN IN HAVANA: AN ENTERTAINMENT.
New York: The Viking Press, 1958. Octavo, cloth. First U. S. edition. Middle-aged Englishman who is a vacuum cleaner salesman in Havana becomes a British agent. Made into a film directed by Carol Reed with Alec Guiness. Hubin, p. 349.
THE THIRD MAN.
New York: The Viking Press, 1950. Octavo, cloth. First U. S. edition. Source for the film noir directed by Carol Reed starring Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles. Greene wrote the story specifically to frame the film and had originally not intended it to be published. Hubin, p. 349.
NIGHTMARE ALLEY.
New York, Toronto: Rinehart and Company, Inc., [1946]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The author's first book. "Grotesque thriller in which a carnival huckster tries to exploit the tricks of his trade in carving out a career as a high society occultist. Its deployment of carnival bizarrerie links it to THE CIRCUS OF DR. LAO (1935) and SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES (1962)." - Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 4-58. Basis for the 1947 film noir (the film was directed by Edmund Goulding and starred Coleen Gray and Joan Blondell). Recently remade. Hubin, p. 352. Johnson, The Dark Page, p. 122.
NIGHTMARE ALLEY.
New York, Toronto: Rinehart and Company, Inc., [1946]. Octavo, original black cloth, spine stamped in gold and green, fore edge untrimmed, bottom edge trimmed, top edge stained green. First edition. The author's first book. "Grotesque thriller in which a carnival huckster tries to exploit the tricks of his trade in carving out a career as a high society occultist. Its deployment of carnival bizarrerie links it to THE CIRCUS OF DR. LAO (1935) and SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES (1962)." - Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 4-58. Basis for the 1947 film noir (the film was directed by Edmund Goulding and starred Coleen Gray and Joan Blondell). Recently remade. Johnson, The Dark Page, p. 122.
NIGHTMARE ALLEY.
New York, Toronto: Rinehart and Company, Inc., [1946]. Octavo, original black cloth, spine stamped in gold and green, fore edge untrimmed, bottom edge trimmed, top edge stained green. First edition. The author's first book. "Grotesque thriller in which a carnival huckster tries to exploit the tricks of his trade in carving out a career as a high society occultist. Its deployment of carnival bizarrerie links it to THE CIRCUS OF DR. LAO (1935) and SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES (1962)." - Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 4-58. Basis for the 1947 film noir (the film was directed by Edmund Goulding and starred Coleen Gray and Joan Blondell). Recently remade. Hubin, p. 352. Johnson, The Dark Page, p. 122.