THE OUTCASTS AN ORIGINAL SCREEN TREATMENT BY ... by Fast, Howard [screenwriter] - [ nd]

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.

Boston: Focal Press. Very Good-. 1995. First Edition; First Printing. Trade Paperback. 0240801954 . Book is Very Good - (minus). First Edition with complete number line. Clean and unmarked text. Tight and sturdy binding. Very light edge/corner wear to cover. Very light surface shelf wear to cover. Very slight forward lean to binding. Top and bottom spine ends at back corner have very small closed chips that are about 1/8 inch. Pages 67 and 121 have small top corner dog-ear. Small sticker on back cover. The front cover has light front edge lift when laying flat. Few pages near front have very slight top tip curl - no creases. A single light 2 inch surface ripple to bottom page edge of first 3 pages. ; Trade PB; 271 pages .

[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

WILLIAM FAULKNER! Stated Second Issue, 2nd Printing Thus. NOBEL PRIZE WINNER. Faulkner, William: PYLON. Stated 2nd Issue, 2nd Printing 1935, Smith & Haas, NY. RARE IN THE ORIGINAL BLUE DUST JACKET. RARE SASCHA MAURER COVER ART. ART DECO. Used. Very Good-/ Very Good- Blue cloth, \ The second printing (stated). In second issue dust jacket (blank rear panel and flap. Faulkner's tale of the exciting, dangerous, and short-lived, sport of airplane "barnstorming". Set in New Orleans during Mardi Gras. Original source material for the 1958 film "Tarnished Angels" Starring Rock Hudson, Dorothy Malone, Robert Stack, and Jack Carson and directed by Douglas Sirk (born Hans Detlef Sierck; 26 April 1897 – 14 January 1987)."

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.

Boston: Focal Press. Very Good-. 1995. First Edition; First Printing. Trade Paperback. 0240801954 . Book is Very Good - (minus). First Edition with complete number line. Clean and unmarked text. Tight and sturdy binding. Very light edge/corner wear to cover. Very light surface shelf wear to cover. Very slight forward lean to binding. Top and bottom spine ends at back corner have very small closed chips that are about 1/8 inch. Pages 67 and 121 have small top corner dog-ear. Small sticker on back cover. The front cover has light front edge lift when laying flat. Few pages near front have very slight top tip curl - no creases. A single light 2 inch surface ripple to bottom page edge of first 3 pages. ; Trade PB; 271 pages .

[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

WILLIAM FAULKNER! Stated Second Issue, 2nd Printing Thus. NOBEL PRIZE WINNER. Faulkner, William: PYLON. Stated 2nd Issue, 2nd Printing 1935, Smith & Haas, NY. RARE IN THE ORIGINAL BLUE DUST JACKET. RARE SASCHA MAURER COVER ART. ART DECO. Used. Very Good-/ Very Good- Blue cloth, \ The second printing (stated). In second issue dust jacket (blank rear panel and flap. Faulkner's tale of the exciting, dangerous, and short-lived, sport of airplane "barnstorming". Set in New Orleans during Mardi Gras. Original source material for the 1958 film "Tarnished Angels" Starring Rock Hudson, Dorothy Malone, Robert Stack, and Jack Carson and directed by Douglas Sirk (born Hans Detlef Sierck; 26 April 1897 – 14 January 1987)."