CRACKERS .. by Malle, Louis [director], and Jeffrey Alan Fiskin [screenwriter] - 1982

NY: Mysterious Press, 1985. FINE condition in FINE dust jacket and FINE slipcase. HARDCOVER. 1985. LIMITED EDITION of 250 numbered copies. This being number 15. SIGNED by ROBERT B PARKER Author of Introduction. Preface by JAMES PEPPER. AS NEW, book and slipcase bound in light gray cloth with cobalt blue titles. Dust jacket is cobalt blue and silver with painting by John Jinks. Square and tight, UNREAD. Minor rub to upper corner, else FINE. Chandler's original 1948 screenplay with the working title of Playback, never produced. Chandler used title and main female character for unrelated book published in 1959.. Signed by Author of Introduction. Limited. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

[Np: London Film Productions for Selznick Releasing Organization], 19 July 1948.. 118 leaves. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript, printed on rectos only. Bradbound in typescript blue wrappers, with small script number stamp. Slight sunning at edges of wrappers, else about fine. A "second draft" of this original screenplay by Greene, with uncredited contributions by Orson Welles (who it is said wrote his own dialogue) and Carol Reed, the director. The English production premiered in the UK on 31 August 1949, and opened in the U.S. in February 1950, with distribution through Selznick Releasing Organization. This script is one of a small number of preproduction scripts prepared for use by the latter group. The cast included Joseph Cotton, Orson Welles, Trevor Howard and Allida Valli, and the film was appreciated in its own time via a number of nominations and awards, and appreciated even more considerably by posterity. Greene published an adaptation of the original treatment in 1950, and in 1968, a form of… Read More

Los Angeles, Various dates but chiefly 1962 - 1963.. Two carbon typescripts, plus file of correspondence. Generally good to very good. A small but interesting file of material relating to this unproduced film project, a fictionalized treatment of UN Peace Keeping Forces drawing on their involvement in the Congo. The lot includes two variant drafts of a treatment, 99 leaves and 86 leaves, the latter in specially printed production binder, with several rather frayed revised inserts laid in, with scattered manuscript corrections and deletions. Also present is a file of a dozen pieces of correspondence relating largely to research, but as well to trying to place the project. The most significant item among the latter is a long, single-spaced typed letter to Nugent from Frank Capra, rather messily typed, with corrections, signed "Warmest regards, Frank," responding in enthusiastic detail after his reading of the treatment, but declining to get involved due to commitment to another project. He writes, in… Read More

NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1976. FINE condition. HARDCOVER. 1976. FIRST EDITION. AS NEW, bound in blue cloth with gold gilt titles. Square and tight, UNREAD. Light toning to block page edges, else FINE. No dust jacket, as issued. In-depth study of films based on Chandler's novels. Includes black and white photographs.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Not Issued.

Hellman, Lillian: The Searching Wind. PLAY The Viking Press, 1st Ed., First printing Thus, June, 1944. DRAMA. Used. Good/Good unclipped DJ $2.00 price. Protected in a mylar wrap.

[Np: London Film Productions for Selznick Releasing Organization], 19 July 1948.. 118 leaves. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript, printed on rectos only. Bradbound in typescript blue wrappers, with small script number stamp. Slight sunning at edges of wrappers, else about fine. A "second draft" of this original screenplay by Greene, with uncredited contributions by Orson Welles (who it is said wrote his own dialogue) and Carol Reed, the director. The English production premiered in the UK on 31 August 1949, and opened in the U.S. in February 1950, with distribution through Selznick Releasing Organization. This script is one of a small number of preproduction scripts prepared for use by the latter group. The cast included Joseph Cotton, Orson Welles, Trevor Howard and Allida Valli, and the film was appreciated in its own time via a number of nominations and awards, and appreciated even more considerably by posterity. Greene published an adaptation of the original treatment in 1950, and in 1968, a form of… Read More

Los Angeles, Various dates but chiefly 1962 - 1963.. Two carbon typescripts, plus file of correspondence. Generally good to very good. A small but interesting file of material relating to this unproduced film project, a fictionalized treatment of UN Peace Keeping Forces drawing on their involvement in the Congo. The lot includes two variant drafts of a treatment, 99 leaves and 86 leaves, the latter in specially printed production binder, with several rather frayed revised inserts laid in, with scattered manuscript corrections and deletions. Also present is a file of a dozen pieces of correspondence relating largely to research, but as well to trying to place the project. The most significant item among the latter is a long, single-spaced typed letter to Nugent from Frank Capra, rather messily typed, with corrections, signed "Warmest regards, Frank," responding in enthusiastic detail after his reading of the treatment, but declining to get involved due to commitment to another project. He writes, in… Read More

HATFIELD BOOKS AND MEMORABILIA, a FIVE STAR SELLER presents THE FLIRT by Booth Tarkington, illustrated with scenes from the photoplay, A Universal-Jewel Production. New York: Grosset and Dunlap. Only dates are "copyright, 1913, by Doubleday, Page & Company" and "Copyright 1912, 1913, The Curtis Publishing Company." "Printed...at The Country Life Press, Garden City, N.Y." There was a later "Photoplay edition" with names of stars. This is the first one, with no names. Very Good Plus/Good. ORIGINAL DUST JACKET attached, preserved in clear plastic. D.J. is missing a 1/4" x 2" strip on spine, front is whole, though separated from rest, front has stain of former tape. Entire D.J. is well sunned, but clear and colorful. Book cover=red overall, with green particulars front, black particulars on binding. Pages in tact, clean, though moderately tanned. Only marks are price in pencil on first fep. Spine tight. 5" x 9", 378 pages. NOTED BOOK APPRAISER James Beattie has valued this copy at $145.00.

Abdullah, Achmed. The Thief of Bagdad. Readers Library Publishing Co. Ltd., London Film Edition, 1924. USED. TONED. Good Condition/ Good- DJ. QUITE RARE IN THE ORIGINAL DUST JACKET Front dj panel states "Film Edition" Actor Douglas Fairbanks photo on back panel. DJ Spine is chipped. Now protected in a mylar wrap. Summary: The Thief of Bagdad is a 1924 American silent swashbuckler film directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Douglas Fairbanks, and written by Achmed Abdullah and Lotta Woods. Freely adapted from "One Thousand and One Nights", it tells the story of a thief who falls in love with the daughter of the Caliph of Baghdad.

Prouty, Olive Higgins. NOW, VOYAGER, Hodder and Stoughton Limited, London. THE FILM EDITION. Copyright page states: First Printing in this form February, 1943. USED. VG/G UNCLIPPED ORIGINAL 3'-net Yellow Bette Davis Dust jacket. VERY RARE THUS. Bette Davis Front panel with a still from the Warner Bros movie of the same name is in nice shape. Shows B.D. On the telephone. This jacket is not sunned. Bottom of the dj spine is chipped at publisher name. Back panel has a couple of chips at top edge. Protected in a mylar wrap. Orange boards are un-sunned and in nice shape. By the author of Lisa Vale and Stella Dallas, Olive Higgins Prouty. SUMMARY: Now, Voyager is the story of a woman who, through force of circumstances, escapes from a lonely, drab, fear-ridden existence to a rich, full life of her own." 222 pages. 4 ½ X 7 ¼. Not an easy find, this one will ship from United States.