Southern Literature from Royal Books, Inc.

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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

New York: M. Horowitz, 1938. Vintage program for a 1938 Broadway production of the 1933 play. Six page two-color brown program, with photographs and illustrations throughout, biographies of cast and crew, and history of the play. "Tobacco Road," then the longest-running play on Broadway, opened on December 4, 1933 at the Theatre Masque, moving to the 48th Street… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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,… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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.… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1963. Final script for the 1964 film. Based on Herman Wouk's 1962 novel. Youngblood Hawke (Franciscus) is a Kentucky truck driver who comes to New York City to start a career as a writer. He meets editor Jeanne Green (Pleshette), who falls for him while putting together a book deal. Throughout his first… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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.… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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.