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Augusta (Original script for the 1975 play)

Augusta (Original script for the 1975 play)

by David Black (director); Larry Ketron (playwright); Mark Curran, Faith Catlin, Jeffrey De Munn (starring)

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N.p.: N.p., 1975. Draft script for the 1975 play, which premiered on April 20 at the Theatre de Lys in New York. A southern melodrama focusing on the toxic relationship between a former heavyweight boxing champion and a young teacher. Set in rural Georgia. Blue titled wrappers with credits for playwright Larry Ketron. Title page present, dated 1975, with credits for playwright Larry Ketron. 98 leaves, with last page of text numbered 2-3-36. Xerographic duplication, rectos only. Pages Very Good plus, wrapper Very Good plus, bound with two gold brads.
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Clock Without Hands (First Edition, review copy)
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Clock Without Hands (First Edition, review copy)

by Carson McCullers

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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1961. First Edition. First Edition. REVIEW COPY, with slip laid in. First state dust jacket, with glassine mounted to the die-cut window on the front panel. One of few McCullers titles not adapted to film, yet still a classic portrayal of good and evil. Near Fine in a Very Good plus, price-clipped dust jacket. Light foxing to the top page edges, brief ink notation on the verso of the last page. Discreet touch-up to the die-cut window of the jacket, and light toning to the spine and folds, else quite attractive.
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Devil's Elbow (First Edition, inscribed in the year of publication)

Devil's Elbow (First Edition, inscribed in the year of publication)

by Brainerd Cheyney

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New York: Crown Publishers, 1969. First Edition. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author in the year of publication, using his nickname: "7-31-69 / To -- and -- / With my love and esteem / 'Lon." The author was nicknamed "Lon" after the actor Lon Chaney when he was a student at Vanderbilt in the 1920s. An uncommon title in 1960s Southern fiction, about a young man who leaves Nashville's "Bohemia" for a more stable life in Georgia. But he brings with him a co-ed he has met at Vanderbilt who is pregnant, and a very unexpected future unfolds in the ensuing 20 years that make up the novel's story. Fine and unread in a Near Fine dust jacket with minute rubbing and slight fading to the spine titles.
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Flamingo Road (First Edition, in publisher's trial dust jacket)
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Flamingo Road (First Edition, in publisher's trial dust jacket)

by Robert Wilder

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New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1942. First Edition. First Edition, one of only a handful of copies made with publisher's trial dust jacket. Basis for the 1949 film noir directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Joan Crawford, Zachary Scott, and Sydney Greenstreet. Rare. Very Good in a Very Good example of the variant trial dust jacket. Board edges moderately rubbed, with faint soil and foxing on the endpapers, and an owner signature on the front pastedown. Jacket spine panel lightly toned, with a vertical crease and a small bruise, and a few splashes. The Dark Page I: 1940-1949, p. 272.
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Flannery O'Connor and the Mystery of Love (First Edition, review copy)

Flannery O'Connor and the Mystery of Love (First Edition, review copy)

by Richard Giannone

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Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1989. First Edition. First Edition. REVIEW COPY, with laid-in slip. A penetrating book on O'Connor's characters, use of metaphor, scriptural and theological resources, and more. Foxing to the page edges, and front board slightly bowed, else Near Fine and unread in a Near Fine dust jacket.
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Foxfire (Original script for the 1982 play)
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Foxfire (Original script for the 1982 play)

by Susan Cooper (playwright, lyrics); Hume Cronyn (playwright, lyrics, starring); Jonathan Holtzman (lyrics, music); Keith Carradine, Jessica Tandy, Katherine Cortez (starring)

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New York: International Creative Management [ICM], 1982. Final Draft script for the 1983 play, which opened on November 11, 1982 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre for a run of 213 performances, closing on May 15, 1983, starring Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy, and Keith Carradine. Laid in is a letter written by Cronyn to Christian Science Monitor journalist Arthur Unger expressing gratitude for an enthusiastic review of the television movie adapted from the play, signed in manuscript marker by Cronyn. Missing 15 pages, likely as used or issued. Based on Foxfire (magazine), a quarterly magazine which began in 1966 by students at Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School about aspects and practices in Appalachian culture. Aging widow Annie Nations faces the choice of selling off her farm to a developer and moving in with her son and his daughters or spending her final days on the farm she's known all her life. Remade as a CBS television movie which aired on December 13, 1987, starring Tandy, Cronyn, and John Denver… Read More
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Green Thursday (First Edition)

Green Thursday (First Edition)

by Julia Peterkin

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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1924. First Edition. First Edition. One of 2000 numbered copies (this being No. 1595). Publisher's patterned paper boards with green vellum spine and paper spine label. The author's first book, written four years prior to her 1928 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, "Scarlet Sister Mary." The first entry in this collection of stories about life on a slavery plantation in the South, "Ashes," was basis for the 1984 television film "Tales of the Unknown South," directed by Randy Brinson and starring James Dickey and Rosanna Carter. Very Good in a Good to Very Good example of the rare dust jacket. Dampstains to the endpapers at the top edges, slight spine lean, extremities rubbed and bumped. Corresponding dampstains to the jacket top edges, with several large chips and closed tears, with professional repair on the front flap fold and rear spine fold.
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How Far She Went (Signed First Edition)

How Far She Went (Signed First Edition)

by Mary Hood

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Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1984. First Edition. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page, and inscribed by the author on the dedication page, with a quote by Martin Myers: "For Terry Teachout / With best wishes / Mary Hood / June 29, 1986." Winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. Author's first collection of stories. Foxing to the page edges and jacket verso, and a hint of fading to the jacket spine, else Near Fine and unread in a Near Fine dust jacket.
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The Hunter is the Hunted (First Edition)

The Hunter is the Hunted (First Edition)

by A.B. Cunningham

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New York: E.P. Dutton, 1950. First Edition. First Edition. Late novel by the West Virginia mystery author featuring Kentucky sheriff Jess Roden, who goes undercover to search for a moonshiner who killed a US Deputy Marshal. Near Fine in a bright, Near Fine dust jacket. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.50), with a faint vertical crease along spine panel and a single, tiny tear. Hubin.
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In the Heat of the Night (Original screenplay for the 1967 film)

In the Heat of the Night (Original screenplay for the 1967 film)

by [African American Interest] [Film scripts] Norman Jewison (director); John Ball (novel); Stirling Silliphant (screenwriter); Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates, Lee Grant (starring)

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Los Angeles: The Mirisch Corporation, 1966. Revised First Draft script for the 1967 film. Laid in is a Call Sheet from the production, dated Tuesday, November 29, 1966. Based on John Ball's 1965 novel. An African American police detective from Philadelphia is recruited to help solve a murder in a small, bigoted Mississippi town. Winner of five Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Actor for Rod Steiger, nominated for two others. After the success of the film version, the characters were developed further for a police procedural television series in 1988, developed by James Lee Barrett, and starring Carroll O'Connor and Howard Rollins, which aired on NBC, then CBS, from 1988 to 1995. Set in the fictional town of Sparta, Mississippi, and shot largely on location in Illinois. Poitier insisted the movie be filmed in the North because of a 1964 incident in Mississippi, in which he and Harry Belafonte had been run off the road and almost killed by Klansmen while in the state to support the SNCC… Read More
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The Long March (First UK Edition, inscribed by the author)

The Long March (First UK Edition, inscribed by the author)

by William Styron

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London: Hamish Hamilton, 1962. First UK Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the title page. Author's second novel, originally published as a paperback original in 1952. Very Good plus in a Near Fine dust jacket. Spine lean, foxing to the page edges, extremities lightly toned. Jacket spine toned, with light foxing to the verso and rear panel. Scarce.
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A New Life: Stories and Photographs from the Suburban South (First Edition, inscribed in the year...

A New Life: Stories and Photographs from the Suburban South (First Edition, inscribed in the year of publication)

by Alex Harris (editor); Alice Rose George (photography editor); Allan Gurganus (afterword)

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New Yorkand Durham, NC: W.W. Norton / The Center for Documentary Studies, 1997. First Edition. First Edition. INSCRIBED by editor Alex Harris on the half-title page, prior to publication: "For -- / With admiration and thanks for your advice and encouragement on this book / Alex." A pairing of fiction writers and photographers whose subject is the suburban South Writers represented include Bobbie Ann Mason, Alan Cheuse, Julius Lester, Marita Golden, Robert Olen Butler and others. Photographers include Thomas Tulis, Eric Breitenbach, Clarissa Sligh, Mark Steinmetz, William K Greiner and others. With an Afterword by Allan Gurganus. Photos in color and black and white, with the entire book printed on coated paper. Fine and unread in a Near Fine, slightly spine faded dust jacket.
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The Rebel Outlaw: Josey Wales (First Edition)
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The Rebel Outlaw: Josey Wales (First Edition)

by Asa Earl writing as Forrest Carter

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Gantt, AL: Whipporwhill, 1973. First Edition. First Edition. An exceptional copy of the author's scarce first book. Basis for the vengeful 1976 Western film "The Outlaw Josey Wales," directed by and starring Clint Eastwood. Fine in a Fine jacket. Book is very faintly foxed to the top page edges, with just a hint of offsetting to the endpapers, else tight and unread.
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Reflections in a Golden Eye (34 original photographs from the 1967 film)
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Reflections in a Golden Eye (34 original photographs from the 1967 film)

by John Huston (director); Carson McCullers (novel); Chapman Mortimer, Gladys Hill (screenwriter); Elizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brando, Brian Keith, Julie Harris (starring)

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N.p.: Warner Brothers / Seven Arts, 1967. Collection of 34 vintage studio still photographs from the 1967 film. John Huston's lurid and campy adaptation of Carson McCuller's 1941 novel. A melodrama of lust, infidelity, repressed homosexuality, self mutilation, suicide, and murder, with a spectacular cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brando, Brian Keith, Julie Harris and Robert Forster. Shot on location in New York and Lazio, Italy. 29 - 8 x 10 inches, 3 - 8 x 9.25 inches, 2 - 7.5 x 9.75 inches. Very Good to Near Fine, some light creasing and light curling, one with staining on bottom and several pinholes, one with a modest transparent ink stain.
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Reflections in a Golden Eye (Original photograph of Elizabeth Taylor and John Huston from the set...

Reflections in a Golden Eye (Original photograph of Elizabeth Taylor and John Huston from the set of the 1967 film)

by John Huston (director); Carson McCullers (novel); Bob Penn (photographer); Chapman Mortimer, Gladys Hill (screenwriter); Elizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brando, Brian Keith (starring)

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N.p.: Warner Brothers / Seven Arts, 1967. Vintage borderless reference photograph, with bottom margin, of John Huston and Elizabeth Taylor on the set of the 1967 film. Illegible release stamp with annotations in manuscript pencil on verso. John Huston's lurid and campy adaptation of Carson McCuller's 1941 novel. A melodrama of lust, infidelity, repressed homosexuality, self mutilation, suicide and murder, with a spectacular cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brando, Brian Keith, Julie Harris and Robert Forster. Shot on location in New York and Lazio, Italy. 7.5 x 9.75 inches. Near Fine.
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The Reivers (Original screenplay and shooting schedule for the 1969 film)
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The Reivers (Original screenplay and shooting schedule for the 1969 film)

by William Faulkner (novel); Mark Rydell (director); Harriet Frank, Jr., Irving Ravetch (screenwriters); Steve McQueen, Sharon Farrell, Ruth White, Michael Constantine (starring)

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Los Angeles: Cinema Center Films / Duo Films / Solar Productions, 1968. Revised Draft script for the 1969 film. Accompanying the script is a shooting schedule, dated 8/22/68. Based on Faulkner's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1962 novel, his last book. Boon (McQueen) and his buddy are reivers, or thieves, who steal the McCaslin family's new car, a Winton Flyer. They are out on bond by the owner of the car, but Boon can't help himself, and steals the car again, this time traveling to Memphis to see his beau Corrie (Farrell). Shot on location in Mississippi. Nominated for two Academy Awards. Orange titled wrappers, rubber-stamped copy No. 151. Title page present, dated 8/9/68, with credits for screenwriters Ravetch and Frank. 128 leaves, with last page of text numbered 119. Mechanical duplication, with blue, white, green and yellow revision pages throughout, dated variously between 8/14/68 and 9/4/68. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good plus, bound with two gold brads. Shooting schedule 29 leaves,… Read More
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Something More than Earth (First Edition)

Something More than Earth (First Edition)

by Helen Norris

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Boston: Little, Brown, 1940. First Edition. First Edition. Noted Alabama author's first novel, set in the Old South, published with the help and support of Margaret Mitchell. Norris did not publish another book until 1958, and then not again until 1985. In 1994 and 1997 she completed her writing career with two collections of poetry. Her work has remained a subtle staple of Southern literature, and has been adapted into two films, including the beloved Christmas television movie, "The Christmas Wife," with Julie Harris and jason Robards, produced in 1988 by the then-new HBO. Fine in an about Fine dust jacket, with jacket showing just a touch of toning to the spine titles. A stunning copy of a book normally found in poor condition.
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To Kill a Mockingbird (Four oversize photographs from the 1962 film)
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To Kill a Mockingbird (Four oversize photographs from the 1962 film)

by Harper Lee (novel); Robert Mulligan (director); Horton Foote (screenwriter); Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Phillip Alford, Brock Peters, Robert Duvall (starring)

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N.p.: N.p., 1962. Four vintage oversize borderless reference photographs from the classic 1962 film. Based on the 1960 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Harper Lee. One of the greatest and most loved literary adaptations ever to reach the screen, and the film debut of Robert Duvall, in a dialogue-free role, as Boo Radley. Nominated for eight Academy Awards, winning three, including Best Actor for Gregory Peck and Best Screenplay. Nominated for the Palme d'Or. Set in fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama, shot on location in Monroeville, Alabama and Pasadena, California. 13.5 x 10.5 inches. Near Fine. National Film Registry. Penzler, 101 Greatest Films of Mystery and Suspense.
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To Kill a Mockingbird (Original screenplay for the 1962 film)
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To Kill a Mockingbird (Original screenplay for the 1962 film)

by Harper Lee (novel); Robert Mulligan (director); Horton Foote (screenwriter); Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Phillip Alford, Brock Peters, Robert Duvall (starring)

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Universal City: Universal-International Pictures, 1961. Final script for the classic 1962 film. Copy belonging to uncredited unit publicist Betty Mitchell, with her name on the front wrapper in manuscript ink. Based on the 1960 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Harper Lee. One of the greatest and most loved literary adaptations ever to reach the screen, and the film debut of Robert Duvall, in a dialogue-free role, as Boo Radley. Nominated for eight Academy Awards, winning three, including Best Actor for Gregory Peck and Best Screenplay. Nominated for the Palme d'Or. Set in fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama, shot on location in Monroeville, Alabama and Pasadena, California. Red titled wrappers, noted as FINAL SCREENPLAY on the front wrapper, dated December 27, 1961. Title page present, noted as Final Screenplay, with credits for screenwriter Horton Foote. 148 leaves, with last page of text numbered 136. Mimeograph duplication on eye-rest green stock, rectos only, with blue and pink revision pages… Read More
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Tobacco Road (Original 1938 program for the 1933 play)
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Tobacco Road (Original 1938 program for the 1933 play)

by Jack Kirkland (playwright); Erskine Caldwell (novel); Anthony Brown (director); Norman Budd, Sara Perry, John Barton (starring)

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New York: M. Horowitz, 1938. Vintage program for a 1938 Broadway production of the 1933 play. Six page two-color red program, with photographs and illustrations throughout, biographies of cast and crew, and history of the play. "Tobacco Road," at the time the longest-running play on Broadway, opened on December 4, 1933 at the Theatre Masque, moving to the 48th Street Theatre on January 15, 1934, then to the Forrest Theatre on September 17, 1934. The play had a run of an astounding 3,182 performances, closing on May 31, 1941. This program is for the 1938 season at the Forrest Theatre. Based on the 1932 novel by Erskine Caldwell. In 1941 John Ford would direct the film version, adapted from both the novel and the play by screenwriter Nunnally Johnson, starring Gene Tierney and Dana Andrews in the first of the several films they would make together. Depicting the plight of Depression-era Georgia sharecroppers who cannot escape the vicious cycle of poverty, Caldwell's novel was transformed into a… Read More
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