Film & TV source books
THE MYSTERIES OF PITTSBURGH.
New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., [1988]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. The author's first novel. Made into a film released in 2008.
THE LADY IN THE LAKE.
New York: Editions for the Armed Services, Inc., n.d. [1945]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Armed Services #838. Philip Marlowe. Issued for military servicemen. Bruccoli: Raymond Chandler: A Descriptive Bibliography, A4.3.
DARK DUET.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1943. Octavo, pp. [1-10] 1-240 [241-242: blank], original green cloth, front and spine stamped in dark green, fore-edge uncut. First U. S. edition. WW II espionage book. The first of the "Dark" series. "Cheyney does an excellent job of conveying the world of spying, with all its twists and double crosses. No one is what he seems, and everyone knows that; but no one is sure just what anyone else really is. Readers of John le Carré and William Haggard would recognize Cheyney's world at once." - Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, p. 136. Hubin, pp. 160-161.
THE SUM OF ALL FEARS.
New York: Putnam, 1991. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition.
A CRY IN THE NIGHT.
New York: Simon and Schuster, [1982]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Signed inscription by Clark on the title page. Produced as a made for television film in 1992.
STILLWATCH.
New York: Simon and Schuster, [1984]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Signed by Clark on the title page. Produced as a made for television film in 1987.
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY.
New York: New American Library, 1968. Octavo, boards. First edition. Novelization of the film screenplay by Clarke and Stanley Kubrick which was based in part on Clarke's short story "The Sentinel." Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-254. Survey of Science Fiction Literature V, pp. 2343-9.
2010: ODYSSEY TWO.
New York: Ballantine Books, [1982]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. In this sequel to 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968), "a joint Russian/American expedition to Jupiter resurrects HAL and discovers life on Europa; then the intelligence controlling the monoliths of 2001 begins to move in its characteristically mysterious way, sending a messiah to Earth to save humankind and issuing a new commandment forbidding access to Europa. The combination of technological realism and awed mysticism works as well in these novels as anywhere else in Clarke's work, and the religious imagery is even more pronounced than in CHILDHOOD'S END (1953)." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-254. Made into a film in 1984 directed by Peter Hyams.
2010: ODYSSEY TWO.
Huntington Woods, MI: Phantasia Press, 1982. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 650 numbered copies signed by Clarke. In this sequel to 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968), "a joint Russian/American expedition to Jupiter resurrects HAL and discovers life on Europa; then the intelligence controlling the monoliths of 2001 begins to move in its characteristically mysterious way, sending a messiah to Earth to save humankind and issuing a new commandment forbidding access to Europa. The combination of technological realism and awed mysticism works as well in these novels as anywhere else in Clarke's work, and the religious imagery is even more pronounced than in CHILDHOOD'S END (1953)." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-254. Made into a film in 1984 directed by Peter Hyams. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-110.
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.
CHILDHOOD'S END.
New York: Ballantine Books, [1953]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. An enormously popular novel presaging Clarke's major thematic statements in 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY. 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.
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.
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.
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.