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THE HUNGER AND OTHER STORIES.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1957]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's first book. Collects seventeen stories, of which eight are printed here for the first time. Classic collection by one of the major contributors to "The Twilight Zone" TV series. Signed inscription by Beaumont on the front free endpaper: "For Bill Froug -- / Here's to softened / lines, pure exposition, / and devious dialogue! / Chuck Beaumont." Beaumont wrote for most of the episodic television shows in the early to mid 1960s, but "The Twilight Zone" was clearly his favorite, with 22 scripts. Similarly, Bill Froug was an active producer on many shows in the early '60s, but had a particularly strong connection to "The Twilight Zone," producing, by coincidence, 22 shows. The two would work together on two episodes: "Queen of the Nile" (6 March 1964) and "Number 12 Looks Just Like You" (24 January 1964). A remarkable association copy, acquiring special poignance through Beaumont's early death at age 38, just ten years after the publication of this book. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 110. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 27. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-12. King list, p. 389. Winter list, p. 268. See Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-27.
STAR TREK 2...
Toronto, New York, London: Bantam Books, [1968]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Bantam Books F3439. Eight television episodes adapted to story form by Blish. Includes "Arena" and "City on the Edge of Forever."
AN EYE FOR AN EYE.
Garden City, New York: Published For The Crime Club By Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1957. Octavo, boards. First edition. Psychological thriller in which a lawyers wife is kidnapped by the violent ex-husband of a woman who was his client in a divorce case. This book became the basis for the television series Markham. Hubin, p. 93.
AN EYE FOR AN EYE.
Garden City, New York: Published For The Crime Club By Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1957. Octavo, boards. First edition. Psychological thriller in which a lawyers wife is kidnapped by the violent ex-husband of a woman who was his client in a divorce case. This book became the basis for the television series Markham. Hubin, p. 93.
AN EYE FOR AN EYE.
Garden City, New York: Published For The Crime Club By Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1957. Octavo, boards. First edition. Psychological thriller in which a lawyers wife is kidnapped by the violent ex-husband of a woman who was his client in a divorce case. This book became the basis for the television series Markham. Hubin, p. 93.
AN EYE FOR AN EYE.
Garden City, New York: Published For The Crime Club By Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1957. Octavo, boards. First edition. Psychological thriller in which a lawyers wife is kidnapped by the violent ex-husband of a woman who was his client in a divorce case. This book became the basis for the television series Markham. Hubin, p. 93.
HARLAN ELLISON'S WATCHING.
LA/Columbia: Underwood-Miller, 1989. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 600 signed copies.
AMERICAN GODS.
[New York]: William Morrow, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2001]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Gaiman on the title page. "The central premise of the novel is that gods and mythological creatures exist because people believe in them (a type of thoughtform). Immigrants to the United States brought with them spirits and gods. The power of these mythological beings has diminished as people's beliefs wane. New gods have arisen, reflecting America's obsessions with media, celebrity, technology, and drugs, among other things." - Wikipedia. Nominated for virtually all the major genre awards it won the 2002 Hugo, Nebula, Locus and Bram Stoker awards. Now a major cable television serial.
NEVERWHERE.
New York: Avon Books, [1997]. Octavo, jacket art by Dave McKean, boards. First U.S. edition. Novelization of the television series written by Gaiman and Lenny Henry. After helping a young woman a young businessman becomes invisible to his world and enters a new reality which exists in subterranean London. The author's first solo novel after writing a number of graphic novels. The U.S. edition has some textual changes.
THE MAGICIAN KING.
[New York]: Viking, [2011]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The second volume in the The Magicians series. An adult fantasy novel in which magicians exist in their own society and have their own university. Made in to a television series.
THE MAGICIANS.
[New York]: Viking, [2009]. Octavo, boards. First edition. First volume in the The Magicians series. An adult fantasy novel in which magicians exist in their own society and have their own university. Made in to a television series.
THE MAGICIANS.
[New York]: Viking, [2009]. Octavo, boards. First edition. First volume in the The Magicians series. An adult fantasy novel in which magicians exist in their own society and have their own university. Made in to a television series.
STORM OF THE CENTURY.
New York, London, Toronto... Pocket Books, [1999]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. Screenplay of the television mini-series.
A CLASH OF KINGS.
New York, Toronto, London, Sydney, Auckland: Bantam Books, [1999]. Octavo, boards. First U. S. edition. Second book of the "A Song of Ice and Fire" series. Sequel to A GAME OF THRONES (1996).
A DANCE WITH DRAGONS ...
New York: Bantam Books, [2011]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The fifth book of the "A Song of Ice and Fire" series.
A FEAST FOR CROWS ...
New York, Toronto, London, Sydney, Auckland: Bantam Books, [2005]. Octavo, boards. First U. S. edition. The fourth book of the "A Song of Ice and Fire" series.
A STORM OF SWORDS ...
New York, Toronto, London, Sydney, Auckland: Bantam Books, [2000]. Octavo, boards. First U. S. edition. The third book of the "A Song of Ice and Fire" series.
FLASH FORWARD.
New York: TOR, [1999]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Sawyer on the title page. Basis for a short lived television series.
FLASH FORWARD.
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, [2010]. Octavo, full leather, a.e.g. Later edition. Signed by Sawyer on a special page. Basis for a short lived television series.
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).
THE GLOW.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1979. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Vampire novel. Made into a bad television movie in 2002.
IRONSIDE.
New York: Popular Library, [1967]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Popular Library # 60-2244. Novelization of the tele-film.
FROST AT CHRISTMAS.
London: Constable, [1989]. Octavo, boards. First British and first hardcover edition. The first Inspector Frost mystery novel, this is the first hardcover edition (first published in paperback in 1984 in Canada). The Frost books became the basis for a U.K. television series.