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97. EASTLAKE, William. Castle Keep. NY: Simon & Schuster (1965). A novel of World War II that was both a critical and, on a smaller scale, commercial success. This is the dedication copy, inscribed: "For Martha who helped so much with this book my writing career & my life - Love Bill." A near fine copy in a very good jacket chipped at spine crown and on the back panel. The film was directed by Sydney Pollack, and featured Burt Lancaster and Peter Falk, among others.
98. ELIOT, T.S. The Film of Murder in the Cathedral. NY: Harcourt Brace (1952). First American edition. The film adaptation of Eliot's play, which includes additional, previously unpublished scenes by Eliot written for the film version. Illustrated with stills from the movie. Fine in a trimmed, internally tape-strengthened dust jacket with one closed edge tear at the upper front panel; near fine. Despite its flaws, an attractive copy.
99. ELLIS, Bret Easton. Less Than Zero. NY: Simon & Schuster (1985). A review copy of this first book which, together with Jay McInerney's Bright Lights, Big City, helped define the literary "Brat Pack" of the 1980s -- considered the representative voices of a new generation. Ellis's nihilistic novel was softened for the screen, reportedly in order to get an "R" rating, which according to critics robbed the movie of some of the book's power. Fine in a fine dust jacket, with two pages of densely written reviewer's notes laid in.
100. -. Another copy, not a review copy. Fine in dust jacket with a tiny nick.
"A Boy and His Dog"
101. ELLISON, Harlan. The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World. (NY): Avon (1969). A paperback original. A story collection that includes the first American publication (expanded from its original publication in a British magazine) of "A Boy and His Dog," which became the cult film starring Don Johnson. Spine-creasing; still about near fine.
102. (ELLROY, James). HELGELAND, Brian and HANSON, Curtis. L.A. Confidential. (NY): Warner Books (1997). The screenplay for the film based on Ellroy's novel. With an introduction by Ellroy. Signed by James Ellroy and Curtis Hanson. Fine in wrappers.
103. ELMAN, Richard. Taxi Driver. NY: Bantam (1976). A paperback original of the novelization of Paul Schrader's screenplay for Scorsese's powerful film, which starred Robert DeNiro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd and Harvey Keitel. Inscribed by Elman, who was well-known as a novelist before writing this adaptation. Very near fine in wrappers.
104. ENDE, Michael. The Neverending Story. (n.p.): Doubleday (1983). The first state uncorrected proof of the American edition of this contemporary fantasy classic. Shot from typescript, presumably the translator's, with many holograph changes reproduced. Near fine in wrappers.
105. -. Same title, a later state proof, typeset and incorporating the changes made in the above volume. Near fine in wrappers. Basis for two movies, so far.
106. ESQUIVEL, Laura. Like Water for Chocolate. NY: Doubleday (1992). The advance reading copy of the first American edition of this phenomenally successful Mexican novel, which sold more than four million copies and was made into the most successful Spanish-language film ever released in the U.S., grossing over $20 million. Directed by Esquivel's then-husband. A literary and publishing phenomenon. Fine in wrappers.
107. EVANS, Nicholas. The Horse Whisperer. (NY): Delacorte (1995). The advance reading copy of this novel that made headlines when it was reported that the screen rights had been sold for $3 million before the novel was even completely written -- a remarkable occurrence for a first-time novelist. With the attendant publicity (not to mention money) surrounding this title, the first printing was slated at 600,000. The advance reading copy, while not especially uncommon, is likely many hundreds of times scarcer than that. Slightly bumped page corners, still fine in wrappers, with wraparound band. A Waterstone's Book of the Century (#100 on their list).
108. EXLEY, Frederick. A Fan's Notes. NY: Harper & Row (1968). The uncorrected proof copy of the author's first book, a fictional memoir and one of the defining books of the Sixties, which helped blur the line between fiction and nonfiction much the way the New Journalism of that era did. Previously stringbound (one string missing, one string broken) galley sheets. 6 1/2" x 7 5/8"; printed on rectos only. Front cover sunned along one edge; else fine. An extremely scarce, early state of an important book; we have never seen another copy of this issue offered for sale. A Fan's Notes was made into a relatively little-known Canadian film in 1972.
109. FAULKNER, William. The Hamlet. NY: Random House, 1940. The first book in the Snopes trilogy, a Yoknapatawpha County sequence which is considered one of Faulkner's great accomplishments. Filmed as The Long Hot Summer starring Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, and later remade with Don Johnson and Judith Ivey. Modest foxing to endpages; a near fine copy in a very good, bright pictorial dust jacket with minor edgewear. By far the scarcest of the Snopes novels, the other two of which were written in the 1950s, after he had won the Nobel Prize, and had first printings much larger than this title did.
110. -. Same movie, The Long Hot Summer (NY: New American Library, 1958). The first separate appearance of this section of The Hamlet, a Signet paperback original published to coincide with the release of the Newman and Woodward movie. Price scratched out and inked in on front cover; short crack to spine; very good in wrappers.
Poster for a Faulkner Epic!
111. (FAULKNER, William). Movie Poster for Land of the Pharaohs. Warner Brothers, 1955. Written by William Faulkner, Harry Kurnitz and Harold Jack Bloom; directed by Howard Hawks. "The Barbarous Love That Left Egypt's Great Pyramid As Its Wondrous Landmark!" "Spectacularly filmed in Egypt with a cast of 11,500 by the largest location crew ever sent abroad from Hollywood." Advertised on this poster with a scantily clad Joan Collins (in the role of concubine) in the foreground and the multitudes of laborers in the background. 27" x 41". Folded in eighths; else fine.
112. FEIFFER, Jules. Carnal Knowledge. NY: FSG (1971). The screenplay of the landmark Mike Nichols film, starring Jack Nicholson, Art Garfunkel, Candice Bergen and Ann-Margaret. One of the defining films of the era. This is a review copy of the issue in wrappers. Inscribed by the author. Near fine. Feiffer originally wrote this as a play and then adapted it for the screen.
113. FERBER, Edna. Giant. Garden City: Doubleday, 1952. A novel of Texas in the postwar period by this Pulitzer Prize-winning author. Made into an award-winning epic film with Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor and James Dean (in his final film appearance). Near fine in a very good dust jacket with a short tear at the lower front spine fold, a longer tear at the flap fold, and a small piece missing from the upper corner of the rear flap (not affecting text). One of the American Film Institute's top 100 Films of the Century.
114. FERRIS, Walter. Death Takes a Holiday. NY: Samuel French, 1930. A three-act play first filmed in 1934 and starring Frederic March. Remade as a television movie and then again as the film Meet Joe Black with Brad Pitt in the title role. A very near fine copy in a very good, mildly rubbed dust jacket with light chipping at the spine crown and one chip at a lower rear corner. A very attractive copy of an uncommon book.
115. FITZGERALD, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. NY: Bantam (1946). The third printing of the Bantam paperback edition, which was the first paperback edition offered for sale of this title (there was an Armed Services Edition that was distributed outside of the normal book trade). The third printing was done in March of 1946, and in 1949 Bantam added a dust jacket, with an illustration showing Alan Ladd in a scene from the Paramount movie. This was the first and probably the only printing issued in dust jacket. For a time, Bantam issued dust jackets for its paperbacks, generally to reinvigorate sales of slow-moving titles. That this copy bears a jacket added in 1949, three years after the book's most recent printing and two years before it would be reprinted again, supports this idea. The jacket art differs dramatically from the cover art. This is a near fine copy with light wear to the spine extremities, in a good dust jacket with small chips at the spine extremities and extremely fragile folds, particularly the front spine fold, which is within inches of splitting. Exceedingly scarce: of the two dozen Bantam titles that were ever issued in dust jacket -- all of which are extremely uncommon -- Gatsby is reportedly one of the three scarcest. Fitzgerald's third novel is, by consensus, his masterpiece -- one of the great American novels of the twentieth century. It has been rather unsuccessfully brought to the screen on three occasions, most recently in 1974 with a Francis Ford Coppola script.
116. -. Same title, (n.p.: Limited Editions Club, 1980). One of 2000 copies, illustrated by Fred Meyer and introduced by Charles Scribner III. Fine in a very slightly scuffed slipcase. Signed by the illustrator.
117. FLEMING, Ian. You Only Live Twice. (NY): NAL (1964). The twelfth James Bond novel and one of the early ones to be filmed, starring Sean Connery, and scripted by Roald Dahl. Near fine in a good, price-clipped dust jacket.
118. FORD, Daniel. Incident at Muc Wa. Garden City: Doubleday, 1967. An early, important novel of the Vietnam War, set in 1964 before the large-scale escalation of the conflict; filmed as Go Tell the Spartans, with Burt Lancaster as a U.S. "advisor" who is beginning to have doubts about the war. Spine-cocked; abrasion to front flyleaf; very good in a good, price-clipped dust jacket with several edge and gutter tears.
119. FORSYTH, Frederick. The Day of the Jackal. NY: Viking (1971). The first novel by this thriller writer, made into a successful movie. Fine in a dust jacket with a small, inoffensive pale blue spot on the rear panel; else fine.
120. -. Same title. The advance reading copy in printed white wrappers. Spine cocked and tanned; soiling to covers; about very good.
121. FOWLES, John. The Collector. Boston: Little Brown (1963). The first American edition. Fine in a very near fine dust jacket with small spots of rubbing at the tips. A very nice copy of an important first book, made into a memorable movie.
122. -. Same movie. Movie Poster for The Collector. Columbia Pictures (1965). Screenplay by Stanley Mann and John Kohn for this eerie movie based on Fowles' first book. "Almost a love story," starring Terence Stamp and Samantha Eggar, pictured on the poster. 27" x 41". Folded in eighths, with a small tear at one of the fold points. Near fine.
123. FOWLES, John. The Magus. London: Cape (1966). The uncorrected proof copy of the first British edition of Fowles' second novel, set on a Greek island and involving a young expatriate Englishman who is drawn into the fantastic designs of a self-styled psychic. The film version, with Anthony Quinn, Michael Caine, Candice Bergen and Anna Karina, gained a cult following in the Sixties. Signatures darkening in varying degrees, minor spine creasing; near fine in wrappers. A very uncommon proof.
124. FOWLES, John. The French Lieutenant's Woman. London: Cape (1969). The uncorrected proof copy of the first edition of what many consider to be Fowles' best and most important book, a landmark novel that uses an unconventional love story to explore the decline of Victorian England and the advent of the modern age and modern notions of freedom and self. Filmed with Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons, from a Harold Pinter script. Spine-creased and cocked; outer edges sunned; the cheap proofing paper has acidified at different rates, causing browning to some of the signatures. A very good copy in wrappers, and very scarce.
125. -. Same title, the first American edition (Boston: Little Brown, 1969). Owner inscription on first blank, slight sag to text block; very good in a very good, price-clipped dust jacket with some rubbing and edgewear.
126. FOWLES, John. The Ebony Tower. London: Jonathan Cape (1974). The first British edition of this collection of novellas. Filmed for television in the U.K. Owner name and date front endpaper; else fine in a near fine dust jacket with rubbing at the spine extremities and corners.
127. -. Same title, the uncorrected proof copy of the British edition. Very near fine in a near fine proof dust jacket.
128. -. Another copy of the British proof. Owner name; near fine in a very good proof dust jacket.
129. -. Another copy of the British proof. Spine-creased; still about near fine in a very good proof dust jacket.