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My Movie Business
by John Irving
John Winslow Irving was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1942. He is the author of nine novels, among them A Prayer for Owen Meany and A Widow for One Year. Mr Irving is married and has three sons; he lives in Toronto and in southern Vermont.From the Hardcover edition.
Brokeback Mountain
by Annie Proulx
Annie Proulx has written some of the most original and brilliant short stories in contemporary literature, and for many readers and reviewers, "Brokeback Mountain" is her masterpiece. Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist, two ranch hands, come together when they're working as sheepherder and camp tender one summer on a range above the tree line. At first, sharing an isolated tent, the attraction is casual, inevitable, but something deeper catches them that summer. Both men work hard, marry, and have kids...
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Screenplays Books & Ephemera
Screenplay
by Field, Syd
A screenplay or script is a written work that is made especially for a film or television program. Screenplays can be original works or adaptations from existing pieces of writing. A play for television is known as a teleplay.
![[Playscript]: Rich and Famous](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/513/357/257357513.0.b.1.jpg)
[Playscript]: Rich and Famous
by GUARE, John
1975. Softcover. Near Fine. Revised edition, "11/14/75." A copy of the corrected typescript of the play. Very good in an Acco binder.
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CHARLIE CHAN AT THE RACE TRACK (May 9, 1936) Revised Final shooting script
by Robert Ellis, Helen Logan, Edward T. Lowe, John Patrick
[Los Angeles: Twentieth Century Fox], 1936. Vintage original film script, 11 x 8 1/2" (28 x 22 cm.), blue titled wrappers, noted as REVISED FINAL SHOOTING SCRIPT on the front wrapper, dated May 9, 1936, with credits for screenwriters Robert Ellis, Helen Logan, Edward T. Lowe and John Patrick, and novelist credits to Earl Derr Biggers. Title page integral with the first page of text, as issued. 125 leaves, with last page of text numbered 121. Mimeograph, with blue revision pages throughout, dated...
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Five Screenplays
by PINTER, Harold
(London): Methuen & Co Ltd, 1971. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. First edition. Modest edgewear, top corners bumped, near fine in a good only torn dustwrapper with spine faded, one inch chip on bottom front panel edge. Containing the screenplays: "The Servant," "The Pumpkin Eater," "The Quiller Memorandum," "Accident," "The Go-Between.
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NZ$255.33
The Screenplay of The French Lieutenant's Woman
by PINTER, Harold
London: Jonathan Cape, 1981. Softcover. Near Fine. Uncorrected Proof of the first English edition. Foreword by John Fowles. Rubbing along the spine edges, else near fine in wrappers.
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NZ$170.22
The Apollo 50th Anniversary Special Rehearsal & Taping Schedule
Los Angeles / New York: Don Mischer Productions / Summit Hotel Production Office, 1985. Softcover. Very Good. Quarto. Stapled three-hole punched green photocopied leaves printed rectos only. Ten leaves. A couple of faint stains, vertical crease, very good. A few hand corrections (in one case replacing Luther Vandross with Stevie Wonder in a duet of "Signed Sealed Delivered"). Very detailed schedule for the gala television special, hosted by Bill Cosby with an all-star cast that included Debbie Allen,...
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NZ$1,276.65
![[Playscript]: Up the Establishment! [Carbon Copy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/496/139/494139496.0.b.1.jpg)
[Playscript]: Up the Establishment! [Carbon Copy]
by SHARPIRO, Stanley
[No place: no publisher, 1969. Softcover. Near Fine. Playscript. Quarto. 147 leaves printed rectos only. Bradbound in textured illustrated wrappers. Near fine with a touch of wear at the corners. The unproduced comedy playscript about an unhappy white business man who discovers he has a black son; later adapted into the 1981 film *Carbon Copy* which featured the debut appearance of Denzel Washington. Shapiro was a successful television and film writer who won an Academy Award for the 1959 romantic...
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NZ$2,042.64
![[Film Treatment]: Eternal Waltz: Outline of a Screen Play about the life of Oscar Straus](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/555/885/581885555.0.b.jpg)
[Film Treatment]: Eternal Waltz: Outline of a Screen Play about the life of Oscar Straus
by BARRET, Kent A
Hollywood: Paul Kohner, Inc, 1955. Softcover. Near Fine. Quarto. 39 typed (carbon) leaves printed rectos only and brad bound into printed yellow Paul Kohner, Inc. wrappers. Registration number affixed on first leaf, near fine. Apparently unproduced bio pic about Strauss, a Viennese composer who died in 1954 and who himself wrote many scores for film.
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NZ$212.78
![THE THIRD MAN .... SECOND DRAFT SCRIPT [wrapper title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/525/100/522100525.0.b.jpg)
THE THIRD MAN .... SECOND DRAFT SCRIPT [wrapper title]
by Greene, Graham [screenwriter]
[Np: London Film Productions for Selznick Releasing Organization], 19 July 1948.. 118 leaves. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript, printed on rectos only. Bradbound in typescript blue wrappers, with small script number stamp. Slight sunning at edges of wrappers, else about fine. A "second draft" of this original screenplay by Greene, with uncredited contributions by Orson Welles (who it is said wrote his own dialogue) and Carol Reed, the director. The English production premiered in the UK on 31 August...
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NZ$2,553.30
The Screenplay of The French Lieutenant's Woman
by PINTER, Harold
(London): Jonathan Cape, 1981. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. First edition. Foreword by John Fowles. Shadow from sticker removal on the front endpapers else fine in a fine price-clipped dust jacket with a crease on the front flap. Based on the novel by John Fowles.
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NZ$51.07
The Road to Glory: A Screenplay
by FAULKNER, William and Joel Sayre
Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press, 1981. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition, hardcover issue. Edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli. Afterword by George Garrett. Gently bumped at the spine ends else fine in fine dust jacket with corresponding gentle bumping. First printing of the screenplay for the 1936 Twentieth Century-Fox film, directed by Howard Hawks (his first collaboration with Faulkner) and produced by Darryl F. Zanuck.
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NZ$68.09
From Dusk Till Dawn
by TARANTINO, Quentin, screenplay by. Story by Robert Kurtzman
New York: Miramax Book / Hyperion, 1995. Softcover. Fine. Fist edition. Trade paperback. 178pp. Foreword by Clive Barker. Corners slightly curled, else fine.
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NZ$34.04
![[Screenplay]: Heaven Can Wait](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/462/477/40477462.0.b.1.jpg)
[Screenplay]: Heaven Can Wait
by RAPHAELSON, Samson
(New York): 20th Century Fox, 1943. Softcover. Fine. Continuity and Dialogue Script Taken from the Screen. Mimeographed sheets bradbound in blue stiff wrappers. About fine. Stamped "Received New York Legal Department Jul. 19 1943." Apparently prepared for the legal department to review, and dated just one month before the film was released. The Ernst Lubitsch-directed classic, highlighed by Raphaelson's witty script, featured Don Ameche as a would-be sinner not quite bad enough to get into Hell on his...
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![[Screenplay]: The Prince and the Pauper](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/635/265/468265635.0.b.jpg)
[Screenplay]: The Prince and the Pauper
Warner Brothers, 1937. Softcover. Very Good. Screenplay. Narrow folio. 104pp. Bradbound at the top edge with textured printed wrappers stamped "Spanish" in the lower right corner and "664" several times. Very good, lacking rear wrap with moderate wear at the extremities. A post-production screenplay used for the preparation of the Spanish-language release of the 1937 film starring Errol Flynn and Claude Raines. Each page of the screenplay presents the dialogue in English followed by...
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![SHALL WE DANCE [under working title: STEPPING TOES] (Dec 7. 1936) Estimating script by Allan Scott, Ernest Pagano](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/499/459/1513459499.0.b.jpg)
SHALL WE DANCE [under working title: STEPPING TOES] (Dec 7. 1936) Estimating script by Allan Scott, Ernest Pagano
by Allan Scott, Ernest Pagano
RKO Radio. Softcover/Paperback. Near Fine. Culver City, CA: RKO Radio Pictures, 1936. Vintage original film script. Estimating script for the 1937 film, here under the working title Stepping Toes. Blue titled wrappers, noted as "Screen Play" on the front wrapper, rubber-stamped "PLEASE RETURN TO RKO STORY FILES" and production No. 880, dated December 7, 1936 and "CHANGES DEC 11 1936", and with a credit for screenwriters Allan Scott and Ernest Pagano. Title page integral with the first page of text. 151...
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NZ$5,106.60
![[Television Script]: Life with Father - TV Show No. 53 - 4. Sunday, Dec. 13th 1953](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/643/705/1537705643.0.b.jpg)
[Television Script]: Life with Father - TV Show No. 53 - 4. Sunday, Dec. 13th 1953
by CHEEVER, John, William Roberts, John Whedon
[No place], 1953. Unbound. Near Fine. Television script. 49 mimeographed leaves printed rectos only on white paper, with revisions inserted on blue paper. Unbound. Small nicks and a phone number on the first leaf, else very near fine. Cheever is listed as one of three co-writers of the television episode, which was based on the successful Broadway play of the same name written by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse, itself based on Clarence Day's novel - indeed Lindsay, Crouse, and Katherine B. Day...
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NZ$2,978.85
![Orson Welles (screenwriter, director) THE DEEP [working title: DEAD RECKONING] (ca. 1967) Film script](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/050/392/1565392050.0.b.jpg)
Orson Welles (screenwriter, director) THE DEEP [working title: DEAD RECKONING] (ca. 1967) Film script
by Orson Welles
Orson Welles. Softcover/Paperback. Near Fine. Beverly Hills: [ca. 1967]. Vintage original film screenplay (under working title DEAD RECKONING), 11 x 8 1/2" (28 x 22 cm.), die cut wrappers, brad bound, mimeograph, 167 pp. Minor stains to front wrapper and title page, overall near fine or better. One of Orson Welles' legendary uncompleted projects, The Deep was filmed at sea...
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![[Teleplay]: Compromising Positions (adapted from the novel by Susan Isaacs)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/594/477/40477594.0.b.1.jpg)
[Teleplay]: Compromising Positions (adapted from the novel by Susan Isaacs)
by ZINDEL, Paul. (Susan Isaacs)
Burbank: Warner Bros. Television, 1982. Softcover. Fine. Filmscript. Second draft. Computer generated sheets in yellow Warner Brothers wrappers. Fine. Eventually issued as a feature film with a screenplay credited to novelist Isaacs, and starring Susan Sarandon and Raul Julia. Ex-Carter Burden.
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NZ$510.66
![[Screenplay]: In Country](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/123/196/38196123.0.b.1.jpg)
[Screenplay]: In Country
by PIERSON, Frank (Bobbie Ann Mason)
[No place]: Yorktown Productions, 1987. Softcover. Very Good. Screenplay. Quarto. Bradbound in production company wrappers. Revised script from Bobbie Ann Mason's novel, including several revisions through December 10, 1987. A couple of tears and bumps to the wrappers, a very good plus example. The 1989 finished film, with a screenplay credited to Pierson and Cynthia Cidre, was directed by Norman Jewison and starred Bruce Willis in his first dramatic lead role.
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NZ$221.29
Oscar and Lucinda
by JONES, Laura
(London): Faber and Faber, 1998. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. 152pp. Illustrated. Trade paperback original. Just about fine. Text of the screenplay for Peter Carey's novel.
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NZ$34.04
La Petite Voleuse
by MILLER, Claude
London: Faber and Faber, 1989. Softcover. Near Fine. First British edition. Pictorial wrappers. From the original screenplay by Francois Truffaut and Claude Givray. Translated by Jayne Pilling. Wrappers modestly edgeworn, a near fine copy.
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NZ$42.56
![(Screenplay): The Man from Bar-20 [Hidden Gold]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/731/060/1188060731.0.b.jpg)
(Screenplay): The Man from Bar-20 [Hidden Gold]
by GERAGHTY, Gerald and Jack Mersereau. (Clarence E. Mulford)
[No place - Universal City, California]: A Harry Sherman Production, 1939. Softcover. Near Fine. Quarto. 115 mimeographed pages printed rectos only in stapled self-wrappers. Pencil name of a director ("Derwin M. Abrahams") on first leaf, and a few small pencil notes in text, modest wear on first and last few leaves, near fine. Script for the Hopalong Cassidy film released in 1940 as *Hidden Gold*, featuring William Boyd and directed by Lesley Selander.
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NZ$1,021.32
Three Screenplays. Viridiana. The Exterminating Angel. Simon of the Desert
by BUNUEL, Luis
New York: The Orion Press, 1969. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First American edition. Near fine in very near fine dustwrapper with a little age-toning. A nice copy and uncommon thus.
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NZ$170.22
Moby Dick: the Screenplay
by Bradbury, Ray
U.S.A.: Subterranean, 2008. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1ST. Outstanding Copy - A First Edition, First Printing. Book Is In Fine Condition. Boards Are Clean, Not Bumped. Fore Edges Are Clean. Interior Is Clean And Legible. Not Remaindered. Dust Jacket Is In Fine Condition. Not Chipped Or Crinkled. Not Price Clipped. Dust Jacket Is Covered By Mylar Brodart. Thanks And Enjoy..
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NZ$178.73
![[Screenplay]: Ford Fairlane](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/713/997/574997713.0.b.2.jpg)
[Screenplay]: Ford Fairlane
by WATERS, Dan
No place: A Silver Pictures Production, 1989. Softcover. Fine. Shooting script. Quarto. Mimeographed sheets printed rectos only, bradbound in illustrated wrappers. Revisions from director Renny Harlin, and from each of the three producers inserted on different colored paper. One leaf wrinkled and torn (but complete and present), else very near fine. Released in 1990 as *The Adventures of Ford Fairlane* with Andrew Dice Clay. *OCLC* locates two copies of the script; this one and another earlier draft by...
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How To Write Photo Plays: With a Complete Scenario as Written by Them of "The Love Expert
by EMERSON, John, Anita Loos
Philadelphia: James A. McCann Company, 1921. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition? (1921 on titlepage; 1920 on copyright page). Octavo. 154pp. Plates. Frontispiece of authors. Some foxing on first and last couple of leaves, some light spotting on the boards, else near fine in very good or better dust jacket with light soiling and a modest chip on the rear panel. Uncommon, particularly in jacket. Loos was an important early screenwriter, but is best known for her book *Gentleman Prefer...
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NZ$1,617.09
