Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1930. First Edition. Born in England, David Betts drifted around the American West before coming to New York and finding work driving cabs. He was dubbed "The Taxi Philosopher" after publishing several letters featuring his views on life and in the "New York Evening Post" during the 1920s. Proletarian through and through, "I'm Lucky At That".....
Rome: Vides Cinematografica, 1980. Set of 10 master typescripts for the ambitious 1982 television mini-series, all dated June 1980, used as a master for printing the final scripts. Anthony Burgess was one of the series writers (credited on the title page of each segment), and Ennio Morricone composed the original score. Present are scripts for all 8 segments of the.....
Beverly Hills, CA: Faces, 1974. Original one-sheet poster for the 1974 film. One of four variants issued by Cassavetes' production company Faces, Inc., this variant picturing Peter Falk's shadowed countenance. Along with "Faces" (1968), considered to be one of the groundbreaking director's most important and uncomfortable films, a painfully intimate study of a couple—and a family—in deep emotional crisis. 27.....
Los Angeles: American International Pictures [AIP], 1975. Draft script for the 1976 film. The final film to be released by Amicus Productions, an arm of American International Pictures that served as Hammer Films' chief rival for horror and genre pictures in the 1960s and 1970s. Without a doubt one of the silliest Burroughs adaptations, with no-budget special effects and an.....
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1957. Set of 8 vintage black and white still photographs from the 1957 film, based on the novel by Graham Greene. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine, with "The Quiet American" noted in neat holograph pencil on the verso of each photograph. Phillips US.
London: The Rank Organization, 1957. Original British quad poster for the 1957 British film noir A low budget British film noir that brought Rod Steiger across the ocean in order to put his formidable character acting skills into what became a critically praised film. Shot in Spain (but represented as Mexico), "Across the Bridge" expands on Graham Greene's short story, bringing.....
London: Atlantic Productions, 1973. Original UK Quad poster for the 1973 British film. Greene's novel was set in Stockholm, and involved the internal deconstruction of a ne'er-do-well bodyguard Anthony Farrant, who finds himself working for a dubious Swedish financier whose character is loosely inspired by Ivar Kreuger. The setting of the film version was changed to Nazi Germany during the.....
London: Independent Film Producers / Distributor's Corporation of America, 1956. Original British quad poster for the 1956 British film. The fourth of 7 screenplays written by Greene, and his third adaptation of his own work. An unusual foray for the author, a late screwball comedy in which a mild mannered assistant accountant, in the midst of his honeymoon, becomes tangled.....
London: The Rank Organization, 1957. Vintage program for the 1957 British film noir. Based on the 1938 short story by Graham Greene, expanding on Greene's story about a crooked businessman on the run who steals a man's passport in order to hide out in Mexico, only to discover that the passport belongs to a wanted political assassin. A low budget.....
New York: Cinema Center Films, 1970. Original Pressbook for the 1970 film directed by Robert Clouse, written for the screen by Ed Waters based on the John D. MacDonald novel, and starring Rod Taylor, Theodore Bikel, Suzy Kendall and Jane Russell. One of only two times Travis McGee was ever put to celluloid, and a fine film too, but one.....
New York: Liveright, 1933. First Edition. Boldly INSCRIBED by the author opposite the title page: "Best wishes of / A. Merritt." Basis for the 1936 film, "The Devil Doll," directed by Tod Browning, written for the screen by Garrett Fort, Guy Endore and Erich von Stroheim, and starring Lionel Barrymore and Maureen O'Sullivan. Fine in a strong Very Good plus.....
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. First Edition. Octavo, three volumes. Beginning with Roman Britain and ending with theatre of the late 1990s, the collection presents a picture of the evolution of British theatre. Includes a bibliography and index. Contributors include Dennis Kennedy, Sophie Nield, Jan McDonald, John Bull, and Liz Tomlin, et al. Black-and-white photographs throughout. All volumes Near Fine.....
Florence, MA: Red Trillium Press / Aqui en la lucha, 2009. First Edition. One of a deluxe edition limited to 50 copies (this being No. 15) signed by the photographer Eduardo Hernandez Santos, with two signed original prints all housed in a gray clamshell case. A photographic exploration of one of Havana's hidden communities. Interweaving stark photography with excerpts from.....
New York: Robert M. McBride, 1927. First Edition. An uncommon Smith title, a meditation on wayward youth that is a departure from his trademark ribald humor. Offsetting to the last two rear blanks, else Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Vintage bookstore label to the rear pastedown. Jacket is lightly soiled, with some minor nicking, but without loss and.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1968. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author and dated in the year of publication on the front endpaper: "For Michael Ratcliffe / with best wishes / Paul Theroux / 23 Oct, 1968." Ratcliffe was literary editor at the Times during the period when Theroux was writing reviews for that publication. The author's second novel, with a vibrant.....