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114. FAULKNER, William. A Fable. (NY): Random House (1954). A parable of the Passion of Christ, set in World War I; winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Top stain faded; near fine in a very good, price-clipped dust jacket with modest rubbing and edge wear.
115. FAULKNER, William. The Mansion. NY: Random House (1959). The third volume in the Snopes trilogy, which is considered one of Faulkner's great accomplishments. A fine copy in a very good dust jacket with light wear at the corners and crown and fading to the spine lettering.
116. (Film). The Deer Hunter. Universal City: Universal Studios, 1978. Press Packet for the film, with biographies of and interviews with Robert De Niro, Meryl Streep, John Savage, Christopher Walken and others. With 11 publicity photos and 14 pages of production notes for the film. The Deer Hunter was Michael Cimino's directorial debut, and won five Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director. Near fine in press folder.
117. (Film). GOLDMAN, William. Maverick. Burbank: Warner Bros., 1993. "Final Draft" screenplay dated August 18, 1993, with revisions in four different colored pages dated through 11/24/93. Maverick was based on a 1950s-era TV show that starred James Garner as Bret Maverick, a con artist and gambler. Mel Gibson played the Maverick role in the film, with Garner appearing as Marshal Zane Cooper, in a tip of the hat to the original show. Jodie Foster had the female lead, and it was directed by Richard Donner, who had directed Mel Gibson in the first three Lethal Weapons films. This script is signed by Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster, James Garner and the director Richard Donner. Bradbound pages; fine. Uncommon as an original script, with the revisions inserted, and especially so signed by the principals.
118. (Film). SAYLES, John. Apollo 13. Los Angeles: Imagine Entertainment, 1994. Photocopied screenplay, "Fourth Revised Draft August 6, 1994," with revisions dated through 9/3/24. (Revision pages, although stipulated in nine different colors, are here white.) Bradbound in printed cardstock covers. Signed by the director, Ron Howard. Near fine. Sayles apparently didn't get a final credit on the film.
119. FISHER, M.F.K. Spirits of the Valley. (NY): Targ Editions, 1985. A memoir of life in Hemet Valley, California by the noted essayist and by general consensus the finest writer ever on the subject of food and drink. This is one of 250 copies printed at the Grenfell Press and signed by the author. A fine copy in an aged glassine dustwrapper. An attractive edition.
120. (FITZGERALD, F. Scott). COSTIGAN, James. The Screen Test: F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood. NY: Titus Productions, 1974. Original shooting script, bearing the ownership signature of actress Dolores Sutton, who played the role of Dorothy Parker in the film. Marked "Revised October 1, 1974" and with 10/21/1974 revision sheets bound in. Sutton has made several annotations to the text. Several other pages -- shooting schedule, cast list, later revisions, etc. -- are laid in. The film was made for television and aired in 1976 with the subtitle as the title. Jason Miller played Fitzgerald and Tuesday Weld played Zelda. Bradbound in creased cardstock covers; very good. Very uncommon.
121. FITZGERALD, Zelda. Save Me the Waltz. NY: Scribner, 1932. An autobiographical novel by Zelda, F. Scott Fitzgerald's wife, and her only book. Zelda was the quintessential flapper girl and had a rocky relationship with Scott, which both provided fuel for his writing and also distracted him from it. She, for her part, beginning in 1930 suffered a series of mental breakdowns, eventually diagnosed as schizophrenia, and she spent much of the last 18 years of her life institutionalized. It is said that she wrote Save Me the Waltz in six days, in a lucid period following a series of schizophrenic attacks. An uncommon book and a notable work of its era. Although not identified as such overtly, this copy is from the library of William Shawn, longtime editor of The New Yorker magazine. Cloth a bit sunned and dusty; near fine in a very good, lightly rubbed dust jacket with the spine a bit dulled and shallow chipping at the base. Scarce in jacket.
122. FLYNN, Vince. Term Limits. St. Paul: Cloak and Dagger (1997). The author's highly praised first novel, a thriller published by a small Minnesota press. Flynn has since published a number of bestsellers and has worked as a consultant for the acclaimed television series 24. Signed by the author in 2004. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
123. -. Same title. Second printing. With a card signed by the author laid in. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
124. FOER, Jonathan Safran. Everything is Illuminated. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2002. The advance reading copy of his first novel, named Book of the Year by the Los Angeles Times and winner of the Guardian First Book Prize, among other literary awards. A film adaptation was done by Liev Schreiber, which starred Elijah Wood and won the Laterna Magica Prize at the 2005 Venice Film Festival. Fine in wrappers.
125. FORD, Richard. From The Sportswriter. (n.p.): Oxford/Salt-Works Press, 1986. A broadside excerpt from The Sportswriter. 8 1/2" x 11". One of 129 numbered copies signed by the author. One of the scarcer items in the Ford oeuvre, having been done both in a small edition and in a somewhat out of the way location, with most copies not making it into the book collecting mainstream. Fine.
126. FORD, Richard. The Lay of the Land. NY: Knopf, 2006. An advance copy, in the form of bound photocopied galley sheets. 8 1/2" x 11", tapebound in acetate covers. The third novel in the acclaimed Frank Bascombe series, following The Sportswriter and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Independence Day. This uncommon issue precedes the more common advance reading copy in illustrated wrappers. Fine.
127. FRANZEN, Jonathan. My Father's Brain. London: Belmont Press, 2002. A limited edition of this memoir of his father's life with Alzheimer's that first appeared in The New Yorker and won a National Magazine Award. One of 200 numbered copies signed by the author. Fine in saddle-stitched corrugated wrappers.
128. FRAZIER, Charles. Thirteen Moons. (NY): (Random House) (2006). An advance copy, in the form of bound photocopied galley sheets, 8 1/2" x 11", of the second novel by the author of the National Book Award-winning Cold Mountain. Tapebound; fine in acetate covers. Uncommon.
129. FROST, Robert. A Boy's Will. NY: Henry Holt, 1915. The first American edition, first issue, of the first book by this four-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, among his many other awards. Frost's poetry was rooted in the New England where his family had lived and where he spent most of his adult life, and he drew on both the natural world and the farm life of New England for his images. Very slight rubbing to cloth; near fine, lacking the dust jacket.
130. -. Same title. NY: Henry Holt (1934). Later edition, in a new, larger format, and with illustrations. This copy signed by Frost at Albany on the front free endpaper. Front hinge just starting; cloth a bit sunned; near fine in a very good, spine-tanned dust jacket with several small edge chips and some very faint dampening to the front panel.
131. FROST, Robert. Come In and Other Poems. (NY): Henry Holt (1945). Fifth printing. Inscribed by Frost in Lexington, Kentucky in 1948. Fine in a very good, spine-tanned dust jacket with a couple closed edge tears.