Literature
PATTERNS: FOUR TELEVISION PLAYS WITH THE AUTHOR'S PERSONAL COMMENTARIES BY...
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1957. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. This volume collects four scripts of Serling's plays presented on television, Patterns, Requiem for a Heavyweight, The Rack, and Old MacDonald Had a Curve. Commentaries by Serling and photographs from the productions are included. Requiem for a Heavyweight won 5 Emmy Awards as well as being the basis for the 1962 feature film with Anthony Quinn, Jackie Gleason, Julie Harris and Mickey Rooney. Patterns became the basis for the feature film-noir with Van Heflin and Ed Begley (Patterns also was an Emmy Award winner, Serling's first, for the Kraft Television Theater production).
TIP ON A DEAD JOCKEY: AND OTHER STORIES.
New York: Random House, [1957]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collect ten stories.
DANGER AHEAD.
New York: The Mohawk Press, [1932]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The second novel by future editor of Black Mask magazine; non-mystery, adventure oriented.
THE AMBOY DUKES.
New York: Avon Book Co., Inc., [1948]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Avon 169. From the front cover: "This book specially revised and edited for Avon Books." First trade paperback, not the film tie-in edition cover.
THE AMBOY DUKES.
New York: Avon Book Co., Inc., [1951]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. Later edition. Avon 300. Reprint of Avon 169. This copy lists the multiple printings on the copyright page. From the front cover: "This book specially revised and edited for Avon Books." First trade paperback, not the film tie-in edition cover.
CHILDREN OF THE DARK.
New York: Henry Holt and Company, [1956]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Novel developed from a story treatment and first draft screenplay of the Nicholas Ray/James Dean film Rebel Without A Cause.
THE MAMA TASS MANIFESTO.
New York, Chicago, San Francisco: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [1970]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The author's second novel. A novel of student protest and politics of the time, with an act of violence.
HEIR.
New York: The Macmillan Company, [1968]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Inscribed on the front free end paper by the author's Aunt. The author's first novel, a contemporary story of drugs and excesses of a young man who is heir to a fortune.
GOLDEN REMEDY.
New York: Vanguard Press, 1931. Octavo, pp. [1-4] [1-2] 3-294 [295-296: blank], original red cloth, spine stamped in gold, top edge stained red. First edition. The author's third novel to be published in book form and the last to be published by Vanguard Press (he would move to Farrar and Rinehart with his next book). A mainstream novel concerning a man trying to who is unable to establish a lasting relationship with women. Townsend (ed), Rex Stout: An Annotated Primary and Secondary Bibliography, A7.
THE KITCHEN GOD'S WIFE.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, [1991]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition.
THE DEATH SHIP: THE STORY OF AN AMERICAN SAILOR.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1934. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1-2] 3-372 [373-376: blank] [note: first and last two leaves are blanks], original decorated black cloth, front panel stamped in blind, spine panel stamped in gold, running Borzoi stamped in blind on rear panel, top edge stained red, fore-edge untrimmed, bottom edge rough trimmed. First U.S. edition. First publication of Traven's own English-language translation of DAS TOTENSCHIFF (1926), his first novel. The novel was first published in English by Chatto & Windus, utilizing an English text prepared by Eric Sutton. The UK edition preceded Knopf's edition by several months, but the first American edition, with text translated and revised by Traven, is the preferred version of the novel.
THE ACCIDENTAL TOURIST.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Signed by Tyler on the second free endpaper which has been tipped in by the publisher. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Filmed in 1988, directed by Lawrence Kasdan and featuring kathleen Turner, William Hurt and Geena Davis. Nominated for a several Oscar Awards including best picture, Ms. Davis won for best supporting actress.
CELESTIAL NAVIGATION.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Set in Baltimore in the 1960s.
DINNER AT THE HOMESICK RESTAURANT.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Set in Baltimore. This novel was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award and PEN/Faulkner Award. Highly regarded by critics in which some consider this her best work.
DINNER AT THE HOMESICK RESTAURANT.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Set in Baltimore. This novel was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award and PEN/Faulkner Award. Highly regarded by critics in which some consider this her best work.
EARTHLY POSSESSIONS.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Filmed as a made for television movie in 1999.
MORGAN'S PASSING.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. This was nominated for both the American Book Awards and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
A SLIPPING-DOWN LIFE.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Filmed in 1999 with Lili Taylor and Guy Pearce.
THE TIN CAN TREE.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1965. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. The author's second novel.
THE TIN CAN TREE.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1965. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. The author's second novel.
IT'S ALWAYS FOUR O'CLOCK.
New York: Random House, [1956]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. W.R. Burnett writing under a pseudonym. Novel of a jazz combo in L.A.
FIRES OF YOUTH.
[New York: Magnet Books, 1960]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. MB #309. Paperback original. A very uncommon book.
LAUGHING GAS.
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc., 1936. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition.
THE BRINKMANSHIP OF GALAHAD THREEPWOOD: A BLANDINGS CASTLE NOVEL...
New York: Simon and Schuster, [1964]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition.
THE CRIME WAVE AT BLANDINGS.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1937. Octavo, pp. [1-6] [1] 2-330, original green cloth, front and spine stamped in dark green, fore edge uncut, bottom edge rough cut. First edition. Collects the title story and six others. McIlvane A58a.