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Screenplay
by Syd Field
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.
Screenplays Books & Ephemera
The Liberation of Lord Byron Jones
by FORD, Jesse Hill
Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press / Little, Brown and Company, 1965. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Illustrated wrappers. Modest general wear with spine slightly sunned and wrinkled, about very good. Advance Review Copy with publisher's business card affixed to front wrap and letter laid in, addressed to poet and critic Lewis Untermeyer. Basis for the 1970 William Wyler film starring Lee Majors and Lola Falana.
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£24.49
![[Playscript]: The Great White Hope](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/000/125/1519125000.0.b.0.jpg)
[Playscript]: The Great White Hope
by SACKLER, Howard
New York: Herman Levin Productions, 1968. Softcover. Near Fine. Revised October, 1968. Control number stamped as copy number 10. Playscript for the original Broadway production. Quarto. Bradbound die-cut wrappers. Old paperclip markings, tear on the front wrap, else near fine. Script for the Pulitzer Prize-winning play based on the life of boxer Jack Johnson, starring James Earl Jones and Jane Alexander, who later reprised their stage roles in the Martin Ritt movie, with a screenplay by Sackler. Scarce.
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£775.58
Four Screenplays
by CLAIR, Rene
New York: Orion, 1970. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First American edition. Translated from the French by Piergiuseppe Bozzetti. Includes Le Silence est d'or, La Beaute du Diable, Les Belles-de-Nuit, and Les Grandes Manoeuvres. Fine in a near fine dustwrapper with light wear.
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£16.33
![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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£2,449.20
The Winged Horse by Pamela Frankau. Film Treatment by Robin Maugham and Keith Gossop
by MAUGHAM, Robin, Keith Gossop. (Pamela Frankau)
[London]: (Scripts Limited), 1970. Softcover. Near Fine. Quarto. 37pp. Quarter cloth and red printed wrappers as issued. Mechanically reproduced sheets printed on rectos only. Light wear, a very near fine copy. A treatment for a proposed film, it appears to have not been produced.
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£530.66
Maidstone: A Mystery
by MAILER, Norman
(New York): Signet / New American Library, 1971. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Paperback original. Illustrated with color photographic plates. Interior wrappers lightly toned at edges, small impression and tiny creases on rear wrap, very good.
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£24.49
![[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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£979.68
![[Playscript]: Richard and Anne: A Play in Two Acts](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/646/313/187313646.0.b.1.jpg)
[Playscript]: Richard and Anne: A Play in Two Acts
by ANDERSON, Maxwell
New York: Brandt and Brandt Dramatic Dept, (No date). Softcover. Fine. Bradbound in Brandt and Brandt ( a New York agency) stiff paper wrappers. Lightly worn, about fine. An unproduced playscript by Anderson that remained unpublished until 1995. Rare. Ex-Carter Burden.
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£285.74
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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£612.30
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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£20.41
![[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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£106.13
![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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£1,224.60
![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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£5,306.60
(Screenplay): Analyze This
by LONERGAN, Kenneth... current revisions by Peter Tolan and Harold Ramis
Burbank: Warner Bros, 1998. Softcover. Fine. Stated "Full Buff Revised" script. Quarto. 132, (1] numbered photo-mechanically reproduced printed rectos only. Screwbound in unprinted gray wrappers. Final leaf states "This Script Was Prepared By Warner Bros. Script Processing Department". Fine. Signed by Robert De Niro on the title page.
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£285.74
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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£81.64
Suggested Treatment for Sinclair Lewis' Angela is Twenty-Two
by FERRIS, Walter (Sinclair Lewis)
1938. Softcover. Near Fine. Carbon typescript. Six pages typed rectos only. Stapled blue wrappers with typed paper title label on front wrap. Light crease at one corner of front wrap, else about fine. Headed "Memo To: Lester Cowan From: Walter Ferris Subject: Suggested Treatment for Sinclair Lewis' Angela is Twenty-Two." Ferris gives his reasons for liking the play as a potential film, and laying out his best plan to treat the characters and action. Cowan was a producer of mostly lighthearted...
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£306.15
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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£122.46
The Land Between the Rivers. A Two-act Libretto, based upon the Characters and Incidents in The Ballad of Billie Potts by Robert Penn Warren
by VAN BUSKIRK, Carl. (Robert Penn Warren)
[No place - Bloomington, Indiana: no publisher - Carl Van Buskirk, 1972. Softcover. Near Fine. Quarto. 71 typed leaves printed rectos only. Brad bound in unprinted wrappers. "Mr. Van Buskirk" written in ink on front wrap, some spotting on the wrappers, gift inscription in an unknown hand on first leaf: "With best wishes for 'Stalky' - Nan. These words were for singing and were sung - most of them. October 24, 1972." Libretto for an opera based on an early poem by Warren. According to Indiana...
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£571.48
![[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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£163.28
Theory and Technique of Playwriting and Screenwriting
by LAWSON, John Howard
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1949. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Enlarged edition. Octavo. xiv, 464pp. Blue cloth stamped in gilt. Contemporary owner name and address on front fly, boards lightly rubbed, near fine in a price-clipped, very good dust jacket with moderate edgewear. New edition of the book first published in 1936. Includes updated introductions to each section, and 150 new pages addressing the problems of screenwriting. From the dust jacket: "The book is a brilliant, exhaustive study of...
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£163.28
![[Playscript]: "Showtime!" (aka:) "Showtime!" in Waco: A Brief Tragic History](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/728/455/897455728.0.b.jpg)
[Playscript]: "Showtime!" (aka:) "Showtime!" in Waco: A Brief Tragic History
by SURHOFF, Sharon M
(Piscataway, New Jersey): Sharon Surhoff, 1997. Softcover. Near Fine. [10], 92pp. Photomechanically generated leaves printed rectos only. Spiral bound in mylar covers. The front mylar cover has pulled through a few of the perforations, else near fine. Author's business card (as Programmer/Analyst in the Rutgers University IT Department) affixed to titlepage. A play, apparently with some musical elements, about the siege of the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas. Somewhat surprisingly, to us at...
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£367.38
The Studio's Own Copies of Four Successive Scripts for King Kong, with the three-part script for Creation, the unfinished film that directly influenced its production
by WALLACE, Edgar, James Ashmore Creelman, and Ruth Rose
Santa Monica: RKO Radio Pictures, 1933. Softcover. Near Fine. An important archive of four significantly different scripts for the landmark and iconic 1933 film *King Kong*, tracing the evolution of the screenplay from conception to execution. Included is the First Draft by mystery writer Edgar Wallace entitled *The Beast*, dated January 5, 1932, completed shortly before his unexpected death; two further drafts by veteran screenwriter James Ashmore Creelman, *The Eighth Wonder* and *Kong*, dated March...
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£134,706.00
(Screenplay): Vermilion O'Toole
by MORRIS, Richard H
Universal City: Universal City Studios, 1965. Softcover. Near Fine. Revised final script. Quarto. 128 photocopied leaves printed rectos only. Bradbound in printed yellow Universal City Studios wrappers. Small stains on front wrap, else near fine. A reproduction of an unproduced 1952 script, noted: "August 19, 1952 (Xeroxed: 7/9/65)." Possibly produced by the studio in anticipation of another effort to produce the film. The writer had become bankable when he had written the screenplay for...
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£244.92
August Snow: A Play
by PRICE, Reynolds
[No place - Durham: No publisher - Reynolds Price?], 1985. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Quarto. 65pp, printed rectos only. Original velobound red printed wrappers. Tiny spots on front wrap, else about fine. Inscribed by Price to poetry editor and book designer Harry Ford and his wife: "For Harry and Kathleen a first spring leaf after long hard winter, much love & hope from Reynolds Price 26 February 85." Almost certainly prepared in this format by Price for presentation.
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£653.12
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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£2,857.40
