Film & TV source books
MONKEY SHINES.
New York: Freundlich Books, 1983. Octavo, Hardcover. First U.S. edition. Basis for movie of same name.
THE HAND IN THE GLOVE.
New York, Toronto: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., [1937]. Octavo, pp. [1-4] [1-2] 3-284, original red cloth, front and spine stamped in black, fore edge uncut, bottom edge rough cut. First edition. Mystery novel introducing the character Theodolinda "Dol" Bonner. The only novel to feature Stout's female detective, she did make appearances in several short stories. "Against a sophisticated modern background, where details irrelevant to the plot are allowed to take a normal place, with puzzles within puzzles, really interesting characters, and a logical and surprising solution at the end, "The Hand in the Glove" is as well rounded as it is ingenious. And Dol Bonner should be welcomed with cheers." - NY Times book review, 19 September, 1937. Filmed in 1992 as a made for television picture titled "Lady Against the Odds." Hubin, pp. 777-778. Townsend, Rex Stout: An Annotated and Secondary Bibliography, A15a.
GHOST STORY.
New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, Inc., [1979]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. "A seminal work of modern dark fantasy" - Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 6-351. Basis for the 1981 film with the same title. Jones and Newman (eds), Horror: 100 Best Books 81. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature II, pp. 607-11. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-208. King list, p. 391. Winter list, p. 271.
GHOST STORY.
New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, Inc., [1979]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. "A seminal work of modern dark fantasy" - Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 6-351. Basis for the 1981 film with the same title. Jones and Newman (eds), Horror: 100 Best Books 81. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature II, pp. 607-11. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-208. King list, p. 391. Winter list, p. 271.
GHOST STORY.
New York: Hill House Publishers, [1985]. Octavo, cloth. Limited edition. One of 400 numbered copies signed by Straub and artist Stephen Gervais. "A seminal work of modern dark fantasy" - Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 6-351. Basis for the 1981 film with the same title. Jones and Newman (eds), Horror: 100 Best Books 81. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature II, pp. 607-11. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-208. King list, p. 391. Winter list, p. 271.
PRISONERS OF POWER ... Translated from the Russian by Helen Saltz Jacobson.
[Hammondsworth, Middlesex]: Penguin, [1983]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First British paperback edition. Signed by both the Strugatsky's on the first leaf. "This novel from the Strugatskys’ Noon Universe is not just about a space traveler from Earth crash landing on an alien planet and finding himself stuck there for years. It’s also about the journey from naivete to understanding–in terms of power structures, belief systems, and one’s own limitations. It is, indeed, a science fictional bildungsroman borne out of the stresses and hardships of Soviet psychological and literary censorship; and as always, the Strugatskys deliver." - review by Rachael Cordasco 24 May 2020 for a new edition of the work, now titled "The Inhabited Island." Made into a feature film in Russia, in two part, released in 2008 and 2009.
NIGHT CRY.
New York: The Dial Press, 1948. Octavo, boards. First edition. Basis for the film noir, Where the Sidewalk Ends, directed by Otto Preminger from a script by Ben Hecht with Dana Andrews and Gene Tierney. Selby, Dark City: The Film Noir, 467. Silver and Ward (eds.), Film Noir: An Encyclopedic Reference to the American Style (3rd edition), pp. 308-310. Keaney, Film Noir Guide, pp. 463-64.
THE RARE BREED.
Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications, Inc., [1966]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Fawcett Gold Medal d1626. Paperback original. Novelization of the screenplay of the 1966 film.
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New York: Lancer Books, 1963. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. Adaptation of the American International film starring Ray Milland. Directed by Roger Corman. Screenplay by Robert Dillon and Ray Russell.
PHOTOGRAPHING FAIRIES: A NOVEL ...
New York: Ballantine Books, [1992]. Octavo, First edition. The author's first novel. A 1997 film directed by Nick Willing was based on this novel.
THE GOLDFINCH.
New York, Boston, London: Little, Brown and Company, [2013]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Pulitzer prize winner. Filmed in 2019.
THE GODSEND.
New York: St. Martin's, 1976. Octavo, boards. First edition. Author's first novel. "Taylor commands strong reader identification with his protagonist, gradually intensifying suspense from the first page to the last. A truly terrifying novel." - Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 4-295. Made into a (bad) film in 1980.
DARBY O'GILL AND THE GOOD PEOPLE.
New York: McClure, Phillips & Co., 1903. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1-2] 3-294 [295-305: ads] [306-308: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], original decorated green cloth, front, rear and spine panels stamped in blind, printed label affixed to spine panel, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. First edition. Basis for the 1959 Walt Disney Productions film "Darby O'Gill and the Little People," starring Sean Connery. This 1903 McClure, Phillips edition preceded the 294-page Reilly & Lee edition (published after 11 January 1919 when Reilly & Britton became Reilly & Lee), which added a frontispiece with illustration by John R. Neill, and is sometimes incorrectly termed the first edition. The McClure, Phillips edition is a very scarce book in the trade. Bleiler (1978), p. 191. Reginald 14018. Smith, American Fiction, 1901-1925 T-107.
THE GRIFTERS.
Evanston: Regency Books, [1963]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Regency Books RB 322. Paperback original. Filmed in 1990, directed by Stephen Frears from a screenplay by Donald Westlake with Anjelica Huston, Annette Bening and John Cusack.
THE KILL OFF.
New York: Lion Library, 1957. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Lion Library #LL142. Paperback original. Source for a feature film.
THE KILLER INSIDE ME.
Greenwich, CT: Fawcett/Gold Medal, n.d. [1965]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. Later edition. This is the first Fawcett edition which reprints the Lion first edition.
POP. 1280.
Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications, Inc., [1964]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Gold Medal #k1438. Paperback original. Filmed in 1981 as "Coup de Torchon" directed by Bertrand Tavernier. Hubin p. 796.
CRISS-CROSS.
[New York]: The American Mercury, Inc., [1938]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Mercury Book #9. Digest size paperback edition. First paperback edition of this book, which is quite scarce in first edition hardcover (Vanguard, 1934). Basis for the classic 1949 film noir of the same name, directed by Robert Siodmak and starring Burt Lancaster, Yvonne de Carlo and Dan Duryea.
THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1935. Octavo, pp. [1-10] [1-2] 3-366 [367-370: blank] [note: first two and last two leaves are blanks], original black cloth, front panel stamped in blind, spine panel stamped in gold, running Borzoi stamped in blind on rear panel, top edge stained maroon, fore-edge untrimmed, bottom edge rough trimmed. First U.S. edition. Traven's most famous novel and his second book published in America. This edition was prepared from Traven's English-language manuscript, but supposedly was heavily rewritten by Knopf's editorial staff. Basis for the classic film starring Humphrey Bogart and Walter Huston.
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.
EARTHLY POSSESSIONS.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Filmed as a made for television movie in 1999.
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.
SORRY, WRONG NUMBER.
[New York]: Random House, 1948. Octavo, boards. First edition. Novelization of the 1948 film noir directed by Anatole Litvak from a screenplay by Lucille Fletcher. Starring Barbara Stanwyck and Burt Lancaster. "One of those auspicious meldings of high noir style and content that depicts a grim, hyterical situation with maximum levels of narrative depth, credibility and suspense." Selby, Dark City: The Film Noir, 376. Silver and Ward (eds.), Film Noir: An Encyclopedic Reference to the American Style (3rd edition), pp. 262-263. Keaney, Film Noir Guide, p. 394.
THE VOYAGE OF THE SPACE BEAGLE.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1950. Small octavo, boards. First edition. Signed inscription by Van Vogt; "--- /All Best Wishes /A.E. van Vogt." Fix-up novel stitched together from magazine stories, which includes his first story "The Black Destroyer." Plot elements from several of these stories are credited as the basis for the film Alien. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-181.
BAD RONALD.
San Francisco, California, Columbia, Pennsylvania: Underwood-Miller, 1982. Octavo, imitation leather. First hardcover edition. One of 200 numbered copies signed by Vance. A novel of suspense. Filmed in 1974 as a movie of the week for television. Hewett and Mallett, The Work of Jack Vance, A43c.