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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]: Who Murdered Mozart](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/647/265/468265647.0.b.1.jpg)
[Playscript]: Who Murdered Mozart
by WERNER, Fred and Lois Gibson
Softcover. Very Good. Photocopied playscript. Quarto. 41pp. and 69pp. Bradboud with paper rear wrappers and acetate front wrapper. Near fine with some rubbing to the wrappers. While an obvious photocopy, it contains various correction and notes thorough. An unproduced musical in which Mozart returns from the dead to find the person who killed him - hijinks ensue. Co-written by Werner, a Tony-nominated musical director.
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£60.71
![[Radio script]: Jeannie. Radio Adaptation by Philip Lewis](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/236/322/568322236.0.b.2.jpg)
[Radio script]: Jeannie. Radio Adaptation by Philip Lewis
by LEWIS, Philip. (Aimee Stuart)
[No place]: United States Steel Corporation presents The Theatre Guild on the Air, 1951. Softcover. Near Fine. Marked "Second Rehears." Quarto. Stapled mimeographed leaves printed rectos only. 85pp. Some foxing and moderate wear on the first leaf, else near fine. A comedy about an Ohio man (played by Barry Sullivan) who encounters a Scottish woman. The Theatre Guild on the Air began as an hour long dramatic series on radio and later for television from 1953 to 1963 sponsored by the United States Steel...
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£222.61
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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£769.02
I Shot Andy Warhol
by Harron, Mary and Minahan, Daniel
New York: Grove Press, 1996. First edition/1st Printing . Paper. The screenplay about Valerie Solanas the woman who nearly killed Andy Warhol. Also includes her SCUM Manifesto and 8pgs. of stills on plates. Fine.
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£12.14£9.71
![[Screenplay]: Once Upon A Time](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/456/885/581885456.0.b.1.jpg)
[Screenplay]: Once Upon A Time
by CONNOLLY, Myles (Hans Christian Anderson)
[No place]: Myles Connolly, 1939. Softcover. Near Fine. Dated May 1, 1939. Quarto. 148 mimeographed leaves printed rectos only and brad bound into typed orange wrappers. Small creases on front wrap, near fine. A screenplay suggested by the life and stories of Hans Christian Anderson. Eventually produced in 1952 as *Hans Christian Anderson*, a musical and directed by Charles Vidor and featuring Danny Kaye as Hans Christian Andersen, and Farley Granger. the screenplay was credited to Moss Hart, and as...
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£222.61
![(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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£485.70
![[Playscript]: Hogan's Goat](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/883/004/215004883.0.b.1.jpg)
[Playscript]: Hogan's Goat
by ALFRED, William
New York: William Alfred, 1965. Softcover. Near Fine. Mimeographed pages screw bound in Hart Stenographic wrappers. Just about fine. Basis for a 1965 Off-Broadway play featuring Faye Dunaway, a 1970 musical play *Cry for Us All*, and again under its original title as a 1971 TV movie again featuring Dunaway. Scarce.
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£404.75
Three Screenplays: L'Eternel Retour, Orphée, La Belle et la Bête
by COCTEAU, Jean
New York: Grossman Publishers, 1972. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First American edition. Translated by Carol Martin-Sperry. 250pp. Illustrated from stills from the films. Very near fine in a near fine dust jacket with a tiny spot at the top of the front panel and slight toning. Screenplays of three of Cocteau's most important films: *Orpheus*, *Beauty and the Beast* and *The Eternal Return*.
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£28.33
![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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£5,261.75
![[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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£105.24
![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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£2,428.50
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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£2,833.25
Platoon & Salvador. The Original Screenplays.
by Stone,Oliver & Boyle,Richard
NY Vintage/Random House 1987.. 1st Paper Edition/1st Printing . The 2 critically acclaimed screenplays for which Oliver Stone received Oscar nominations for Best Original Screenplay for both films losing out to Woody Allen for Hannah And Her Sisters. Platoon did win Picture and Stone won for best director. illus. w. 24 stills. Also inclds. forwrd. & aftwrd. by Stone. Minor sun fading to the spine panel otherwise a fine copy.
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£16.19£12.95
![[Playscript]: Ernest Hemingway's Scenes of "Love and Death" Arranged for the Stage by A.E. Hotchner](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/245/474/949474245.0.b.jpg)
[Playscript]: Ernest Hemingway's Scenes of "Love and Death" Arranged for the Stage by A.E. Hotchner
by (HEMINGWAY, Ernest) HOTCHNER, A.E
Westport, Conn [and] New York: A.E. Hotchner and Ernest Hemingway [and] Anne Meyerson Typing & Mimeographing, 1955. Softcover. Near Fine. Quarto. P.[3], 22, [1], 19, [1], 4, [2], 34, [1], 27. Typed leaves on rectos only bradbound into black leatherette wrappers stamped in gilt with Meyerson's information. The gilt title on the front wrap is covered with a typed label that reads "Ernest Hemingway's 'Love and Death' "; a title label on title page also covers a previous typed title; Ink number "16" on...
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£3,723.70
(Screenplay): Silo 3 Jane
by PECKHAM, Anthony
Santa Monica: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc, 1995. Softcover. Near Fine. Second revised script. Quarto. 129 photo-mechanically reproduced leaves printed rectos only. Bradbound white die-cut M-G-M card wrappers. Brads a little rusted, a bit of soiling on the wrappers, else near fine. Producers travel memo laid in. Script for an unproduced film that was reportedly to be directed by John Frankenheimer.
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£283.32
The Marriage Scenarios: Scenes from a Marriage, Face to Face, Autumn Sonata
by BERGMAN, Ingmar
New York: Pantheon Books, 1974. Softcover. Very Good. First American edition. Translated by Alan Blair. Illustrated. Pictorial wrappers. Covers slightly flared and rubbed, very good. Three of the acclaimed director's film scripts presented in a single volume.
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£24.28
![[Playscript]: An Untitled Play (Handwritten in is the eventual title "Winterset")](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/554/314/187314554.0.b.1.jpg)
[Playscript]: An Untitled Play (Handwritten in is the eventual title "Winterset")
by ANDERSON, Maxwell
New York: Brandt and Brandt Dramatic Dept, 1935. Softcover. Fine. Bradbound in Brandt and Brandt (a New York agency) stiff paper wrappers. Ownership name of Gertrude Macy, a theatre producer and stage manager, modest wear, internally about fine. A ribbon copy, typed in black and red, of this important play, which ran for 195 performances at the Martin Beck theatre in 1935. Anderson won the New York Drama Critics Award for this show. Rare. Ex-Carter Burden.
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£1,214.25
(Screenplay): The Golden Jungle
by NEWHAFER, Richard L
[No place]: Rodlor Productions, Inc, 1969. Softcover. Near Fine. First draft script. Quarto. 117, [1] mimeographed leaves printed rectos only. Bradbound in printed green Rodlor Productions card wrappers. Very near fine. Photocopy of a memo from Warner Brothers laid in, both summarizing the script based upon the novel of the same name, about two Americans held in a prison in Cuba awaiting execution, and accessing the chances of success of a potential film. We've yet to find out if he was right - the...
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£242.85
![[Film script]:Törvényen Bel l [Another Way]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/979/572/923572979.0.b.1.jpg)
[Film script]:Törvényen Bel l [Another Way]
by GALGÓCZI, Erzs bet and Károly Makk
(Budapest): Mafilm Dialóg Studió, 1981. Hardcover. Very Good. Technikai Forgatókönyv [technical script]. (2), (1)-2, (1)-2, (1)-3, (1), (1)-7, 11-24, 27-54, 54-176, 178-192, leaves and (8) blank. With additional three leaves, an alteration for "scene 69" (135-137 leaves). Bound in cloth and titled in gilt. Copy used by Second Assistant Director, Árpád Sopsits, with his notes, corrections and a few doodles throughout. Some pages torn out and folded as those pages were omitted from the filming....
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£2,023.75
Bright Angel
by FORD, Richard
(n.p.): (n.p.). 1988. A 120-page screenplay by Ford for a 1991 film adaptation he did from stories in his collection Rock Springs. Signed by Ford. An unknown number of copies were produced; Ford signed seven of them at a reading in 1990. Photo-reproduced sheets on 3-hole paper. In this copy, page 120 was typed on a different typewriter than the first 119 pages. A fine copy, bound in a flexible blue binder. The film was directed by Michael Fields and starred Dermot Mulroney, Lili Taylor, Sam Shepard and...
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£809.50
I'm Not Bobby
by FEIFFER, Jules
New York: Michael di Capua Books/Hyperion Books for Children, 2001. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Thin quarto. Fine in fine dustwrapper.
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£16.19
We're No Angels
by MAMET, David
New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1990. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Paperback original fine in illustrated wraps. The screenplay of the 1989 movie starring Robert De Niro and Sean Penn.
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£16.19
Adaptation: The Shooting Script
by KAUFMAN, Charlie and Donald Kaufman
New York: Newmarket Press, 2002. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition, hardcover issue. Fine in fine dustwrapper.
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£28.33
(Screenplay): The Moneychangers
by RIESNER, Dean
Hollywood: A Ross Hunter Production, Inc.. Ross Hunter / Jacque Mapes Paramount Television, 1976. Softcover. Fine. First draft script. Quarto. 276, [1] mimeographed leaves printed rectos only. Bradbound blue-green die-cut Paramount card wrappers. About fine.
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£364.28
Stallion Road: A Screenplay
by FAULKNER, William
Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 1989. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Edited by Louis Daniel Brodsky and Robert W. Hamblin. Fine in fine dustwrapper.
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£16.19
