Search Results: Pulitzer Prize from Royal Books, Inc.

Garden City: Doubleday, 1959. Later printing. Round robin copy, SIGNED by the cast and crew of the film adaptation during its production in 1962. Autographs include director Otto Preminger, novelist Allen Drury and actors Henry Fonda, Peter Lawford, Charles Laughton, George Grizzard, Malcoln Atterbury, Walter Pidgeon, Betty White, Chet Stratton, Lew Ayres, Paul Ford, and others. Drury's first novel, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and basis for the 1962 film. Very Good plus in a Very Good dust jacket. Light offsetting on the endpapers. Jacket lightly edgeworn, with faint toning on the spine panel and flap folds, and a few splashes on the center spine.

New York: Theatre Communications Group [TCG], 2015. First Edition. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket.

New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux [FSG], 1969. First Edition. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Taylor in 1970 on the half-title page: "Peter Taylor / Charlottesville / May 1, 1970." From the author of "A Summons to Memphis," and winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Literature. Very Good plus in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Top board edges slightly faded, with a few tiny splashes to the top page edges, spine ends lightly bumped. Jacket lightly toned overall, with light foxing, and tiny closed tears at the edges.

New York: W. Eugene Smith, 1950. Collection of five vintage oversize borderless photographs, taken during the original 1949-1950 Broadway production of Arthur Miller's 1949 play. All photographs bear catalog stamps and credit stamps of noted photographer W. Eugene Smith on the versos. The production made its debut on February 10, 1949, at the Morosco Theatre, and ran for 742 performances, closing on November 18, 1950. Winner of the Tony Awards for Best Play, Best Supporting Actor, Best Author, and Best Director, as well as the 1949 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The play has since been revived on Broadway five times, in 1975, 1984, 1999, 2012, and 2022, and has been adapted for the screen ten times, including the Academy Award-nominated 1951 film directed by Laslo Benedik, starring Fredric March and Mildred Dunnock. Described by critic Sean O'Hagan in a 2017 article in "The Guardian" as "perhaps the single most important American photographer in the development of the editorial photo essay," W. Eugene… Read More

New York: Morosco Theatre, 1949. Vintage playbill for the 1949 Broadway production. The play premiered on February 10, 1949 at the Morosco Theatre, closing on November 18, 1950 after 742 performances. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award for Best Play, a classic American drama and basis for a number of film and television versions featuring, among others, Fredric March, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger, Dustin Hoffman, and Brian Dennehy playing the role of failed salesman Willy Loman. 6.5 x 9 inches, side stapled. About Near Fine, with faint foxing on the wrapper binding.

New York: Viking Press, 1949. First Edition. First Edition. First issue dust jacket, with a price of $2.50 on the front flap and a photograph of the author on the rear flap. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, a classic American drama and basis for a number of film and television versions with, among others, Fredric March, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger, Dustin Hoffman, and Brian Dennehy playing the role of failed salesman Willy Loman. Jacket design by Joseph Hirsch. Fine in an about Near Fine jacket. Jacket lightly faded on the spine. A superior copy. In a custom brown cloth clamshell box.

New York: Theatre Communications Group [TCG], 2000. First Edition. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket.

New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux [FSG], 1966. First Edition. First Edition. Copy belonging to noted postmodern writer John Barth, with a publisher's "With Compliments" slip laid in noting Barth's name and address. Basis for the 1968 film directed by John Frankenheimer and starring Alan Bates and Dirk Bogarde. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award. Slight residue on the front endpaper where "With Compliments" slip was once adhered, else Fine in an about Fine dust jacket.

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1967. Draft script for the 1968 British film. Based on Bernard Malamud's 1966 Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning novel. Set in Czarist Russia, Frankeheimer's adaptation is a brutal realization of Malamud's novel, wherein a poor Jew named Yakov Bok assumes the identity of a Gentile after moving from the country to Kiev, in order to secure a job working for a drunken anti-Semite. When Bok is wrongfully accused of murder, he must go to prison to avoid stigmatizing the entire Jewish community. Alan Bates was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Bok. By 1960, the blacklisted Trumbo (one of the Hollywood Ten) began to receive credit for his work in Hollywood, after serving time in a federal penitentiary for his conviction in the House Un-American Committee hearings to impugn possible Communists in the US. Shot on location in Hungary. Light blue titled wrappers, dated September 7, 1967, with a credit for… Read More

N.p.: N.p., 1982. Four vintage photographs of writer Alice Walker in 1982. Each with annotations in manuscript ink on the recto margins crediting photographer Victoria Rouse. In 1982 Walker released her groundbreaking epistolary novel "The Color Purple," which won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Walker was the first African American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. 8 x 10 inches. Two with tiny paint smudges on the bottom recto margin, else Fine.

N.p.: N.p., 1975. Draft script for the 1977 play, which premiered on Broadway on October 6, 1977 at the John Golden Theatre. Single annotation in manuscript ink on the title page, noting copy No. 13. Copy belonging to actor Hume Cronyn, with his printed name and address at the bottom right corner of the title page. Cronyn starred in the play alongside his wife Jessica Tandy. A two-person, two-act play, about two elderly nursing home residents who converse while playing a series of gin rummy games, gradually exposing the others' weaknesses and vulnerabilities, each attempting to further belittle and humiliate the other. The play had a run of 517 performances, closing on December 31, 1978. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and winner of the Tony Award for Best Actress for Jessica Tandy. Black titled Studio Duplicating Service wrappers, with credit for playwright D. L. Coburn. Title page present, with credit for playwright D. L. Coburn. 72 leaves, with last page of text numbered 2-2-34.… Read More

N.p.: N.p., 1984. Vintage US window card poster for the 1984 Broadway play. The play initially premiered at London's National Theatre in 1983 before moving to the US the following year, making its Broadway debut at the John Golden Theatre, the run advertised here, where it ran for 378 performances. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and nominated for four Tony Awards, winning one for Best Actor for Joe Mantegna. Basis for the neck-snapping 1992 film starring Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Ed Harris, Alan Arkin, Alec Baldwin, Jonathan Pryce, and Kevin Spacey. David Mamet's masterpiece, considered by some to be the late century equivalent of Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman." Set in Chicago. 14 x 22 inches. Very Good plus, lightly rubbed, with faint creasing to the top right corner.

New York: Viking Press, 1939. First Edition. First Edition. First issue dust jacket with first edition statement at the bottom front jacket flap. Wraparound jacket art by Elmer Hader, whose work graced four Steinbeck titles. Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, literature's lasting testament to the Great Depression, singled-out in his citation for the Nobel Prize decades later. Basis for the 1940 John Ford film starring Henry Fonda as Tom Joad. Ford and supporting actress Jane Darwell won Academy Awards for their work. Near Fine in a bright, Near Fine dust jacket. Small tap on the top edge of the rear board. Jacket is lightly toned along the top edges of the flaps and spine, with a touch of rubbing on the flap folds and two tiny chips on the crown. An attractive copy. Ahearn APG 014d.

New York: Farrar and Rinehart, 1929. First Edition. First Edition. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and basis for the 1936 film, co-directed by the author and starring Rex Ingram. A lovely copy. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. None of the usual foxing or offsetting on the endpapers, and only a touch of the usual toning on the jacket spine.

New York: Farrar and Rinehart, 1930. First Illustrated Edition. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and basis for the 1936 film, co-directed by the author and starring Rex Ingram. Very Good plus in a Good dust jacket. Boards lightly rubbed at the extremities with taps to the bottom board corners. Jacket with toning on the front panel, spine, and extremities, moderate edgewear, and starting at the flap and spine folds.

New York: Viking Press, 1975. First Edition. ADVANCE READING COPY, preceding the First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Winner of the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Near Fine in wrappers, with brief wear overall and light toning on the spine.

New York: Viking Press, 1975. First Edition. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the first blank. Winner of the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Near Fine in an about Near Fine dust jacket. Jacket with a few light creases on the flap folds and a faint vertical crease along the spine panel.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936. First Edition. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the second blank. Winner of the 1936 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and basis for the 1939 film starring Clark Gable. Very Good plus in an about Very Good plus dust jacket. Light offsetting on the endpapers, with an evenly faded spine. Jacket moderately rubbed and edgeworn overall, with cello tape reinforcements on the inside spine ends.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. First Edition. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Awards. About Fine in wrappers.

New York: Covici-Friede, 1933. First Edition. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper in the year of publication. The author's first book, winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Basis for the 1934 pre-Code film directed by Ryszard Boleslawski and starring Clark Gable and Myrna Loy. Very Good plus in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Board corners and spine ends lightly toned and rubbed. Jacket lightly edgeworn and rubbed, with a short closed tear on the right corner of the rear panel, and tiny chips at the corners and spine ends.