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N.p.: Gilbert Miller and Peter Saunders, 1954. Vintage program for the 1954 Broadway play, which ran from December 16, 1954, to June 30, 1956, at Henry Miller's Theatre. Based on Agatha Christie's 1925 short story "Traitor's Hands," and originally staged in London in 1953. Actors Patricia Jessel and Francis L. Sullivan won Tony Awards for their performances,… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1985. Fifth Draft Treatment script for an unproduced film. Based on the 1983 novel by Elmore Leonard, who also wrote the screenplay, about a former Secret Service agent who comes to the aid of a famed movie star when she begins receiving threatening messages. The film was slated for production, with Dustin Hoffman signed on… Read more about this item

New York: SJS Entertainment, 1985. Vintage script for the 1987 play, which premiered at the Cort Theater in New York on May 3, 1987. A man posing as a police officer is drawn into a complicated love triangle with a theatre director. Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Mystery Play. Clear mylar front wrapper, black… Read more about this item

New York: Pantheon, 1970. First American Edition (and first edition in English), Winner of the Edgar Award, and basis for the gritty, realistic 1973 police procedural film directed by Stuart Rosenberg and starring Walter Matthau, Bruce Dern and a young Louis Gossett, Jr. Near Fine in a Near Fine, price-clipped dust jacket.

New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux [FSG], 1968. First American Edition, preceded by the Greek Edition published in 1966. Basis for the 1969 Academy Award-winning film directed by Costa-Gavras, starring Yves Montand. Near Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Jacket lightly worn at the spine ends and corners.

London: Michael Joseph, 1967. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the First UK Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the title page: "Barry / Hi! / Dick Francis." 1969 Edgar Award nominee for Best Novel. Very Good plus in brown wrappers as issued. Very slightly cocked, with vertical wrinkling at the spine and a small splash on the bottom edges… Read more about this item

New York: Harper and Row, 1966. First Edition. First Edition. The sixth book in the Van der Valk series, winner of the 1966 Edgar Award for Best Novel. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1974. First Edition. ADVANCE READING COPY [Uncorrected Proof], preceding the First Edition. Winner of the Edgar Award. Very Good plus in perfect-bound wrappers, with a small splash on the front wrapper.

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1956. First Edition. First Edition. The author's first book, winner of the Edgar Award for Best First Mystery Novel. Very Good plus in a Very Good plus, price-clipped dust jacket. Contemporary gift inscription on the bottom edge of the front endpaper. Jacket lightly rubbed, with brief wear at the spine ends and… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1954. Vintage photograph of writer Lawrence Treat awarding writer Roald Dahl an Edgar Award for Best Short Story for Dahl's 1953 story "Someone Like You." Stamp of photographer Alex Wilson on the verso. Dahl would receive a second Edgar in 1960 for his short story "The Landlady." 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. … Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1972. Archive of material for an unproduced film, dated variously between 1971 and 1972, including one First Draft script, one Revised Second Draft script with manuscript ink annotations noting substantive revisions and deletions, one typed letter from screenwriter Frank Conroy, and eighteen handwritten revision pages, with corresponding printed pages addressing the revisions. Based on the… Read more about this item

New York: HarperCollins [Harper Collins], 2007. Limited Edition, one of 1000 hand-numbered copies (this being No. 628) SIGNED by the author. Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket, in an about Fine example of the publisher's wooden slipcase.

New Orleans: B.E. Trice, 1997. Limited Edition, one of 150 numbered copies (this being No. 20) SIGNED by the author. The first novel in James Lee Burke's Billy Bob Holland crime series, winner of the Edgar Award. Fine and unread in an about Fine example of the publisher's slipcase.

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1977. Original scenario artwork for the 1978 horror film. Depicting the interior of Peggy Ann Snow's Catskills home. Based on the 1976 novel by William Goldman, who also wrote the screenplay for the film. A young Anthony Hopkins plays a mentally disturbed magician who rises to fame when he begins utilizing a ventriloquist… Read more about this item