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Santa Barbara: Santa Teresa Press, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. One of 26 lettered copies of director Peter Bogdanovich's account of hearing actress Lillian Gish speak, in 1958, following a showing of D. W. Griffin's 1920 film 'Way Down East' (at the Museum of the City of New York). Bogdanovich directed The Last Picture Show, What's Up Doc?,… Read more about this item

Willimantic, CT: Mark V. Ziesing, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Seventeen short stories that revisit George Romero's Night of the Living Dead. Contributors include Romero, who contributes the foreword, Richard Laymon, Stephen King, Joe R. Lansdale, and Robert R. McCammon. One of 500 numbered copies signed by the contributors, including King, Laymon, and McCammon, but not Romero. … Read more about this item

Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A collection of essays about films and film-making. Yellin bound in blank sheets at the front of the book so that collectors could accumulate film autographs there. In his introduction, he explains the idea, which he first introduced in the book Signatures: "There was also an abundance of… Read more about this item

Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near fine. A collection of essays about films and film-making. Yellin bound in blank sheets at the front of the book so that collectors could accumulate film autographs there. In his introduction, he explains the idea, which he first introduced in the book Signatures: "There was also an abundance… Read more about this item

Baltimore, MD: Cemetery Dance, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. One of 52 lettered copies of this collection of 18 short stories inspired by Hollywood horror films. Contributors include Jack Ketchum, Thomas F. Monteleone, Ray Garton, and Ed Gorman. This lettered version is signed by 20 contributors on three sheets (it's not clear who the 20th signer… Read more about this item

Willimantic, CT: Mark V. Ziesing, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. Seventeen short stories that revisit George Romero's Night of the Living Dead. Contributors include Romero, who contributes the foreword, Richard Laymon, Stephen King, Joe R. Lansdale, and Robert R. McCammon. xiv, 334 pages. First edition (first printing). Small spots on the edge of the page… Read more about this item

Baltimore, MD: Lonely Road Books, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. King's novella published with Garris's screenplay for the film, concept sketches by Bernie Wrightson, and halftone photographs of the actors with and without special effects makeup, among other extras. The book is bound dos-a-dos, meaning that one side of the book has King's novella, and the other side… Read more about this item

Colorado Springs, CO: Gauntlet Press, 2009. Uncorrected Proof. Trade paperback. Fine. An uncorrected proof of this collection of five never-before published teleplays that appeared on TV from 1955 through 1963, including a Twilight Zone episode, and two stories adapted for unproduced Twilight Zone episodes. Edited by Donn Albright. The entire edition was 552 copies so the number… Read more about this item

Willimantic, CT: Mark V. Ziesing, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. Seventeen short stories that revisit George Romero's Night of the Living Dead. Contributors include Romero, who contributes the foreword, Richard Laymon, Stephen King, Joe R. Lansdale, and Robert R. McCammon. xiv, 334 pages. First edition (first printing). Small spots on the edge of the page… Read more about this item

New York: Sarony, 1890. Ephemera. Very good. A mounted photograph of the Spanish dancer Carmencita, who was a popular entertainer in New York from 1889 to 1895. She posed for portraits by John Singer Sargent and WIlliam Merritt Chase. In 1894, Thomas Edison asked her to dance in front of his new motion picture camera. According to the… Read more about this item

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Twenty-one essays plus an introduction, most published in American Film magazine. x, 159 pages. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. This copy is nicely inscribed by the author, "My little film essays, written long ago… Read more about this item

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987. Uncorrected Proof. Trade paperback. Near fine. An advance copy of a collection of essays that first appeared in magazines. 159 pages. Uncorrected proof in yellow printed wrappers. Near fine; glue residue on title page. Signed by McMurtry on the first page.

Colorado Springs, CO: Gauntlet Press, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Introduction by film director Roger Corman, who helmed the production of a cycle of Poe films based on scripts written by Matheson. This volume reprints Matheson's scripts for the film House of User (originally titled The Fall of the House of Usher) and The Pit and the Pendulum.… Read more about this item

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. An exploration of human behavior, based on interviews with more than fifty scientists, including Stephen Jay Gould. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. Corners bumped. This copy is inscribed to the evolutionary… Read more about this item

Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The original edition of a novel about a screenwriter who turns to murder. The lettered edition includes two extra chapters at the end that are not present in the other versions. 541 pages (compared to 506 pages in the numbered issue). First edition (first printing). A… Read more about this item

Baltimore, MD: Cemetery Dance, 2011. Advance Reading Copy. Trade paperback. Near fine. An advance reading copy of the limited edition of this anthology of horror film scripts. The contributors are Stephen King, Richard Matheson, Richard Laymon, Harlan Ellison, Joe R. Lansdale, and Ed Gorman. 545 pages. Just shy of 8-1/2 by 11 inches. Minor wear to the… Read more about this item

[Los Angeles]: Paramount, 1989. Ephemera. Very good. A late version of the screenplay for the first Jack Ryan film, who was played by Alec Baldwin, with Sean Connery playing the Soviet submarine captain Marko Ramius. James Earl Jones as Vice Admiral James Greer, the deputy director of the CIA. I compared the script to the opening scenes… Read more about this item

[Los Angeles?]: Malcolm Stuart Productions, 1968. Ephemera. Very good. A comic Western screenplay by the writer who would give us The Exorcist a few years later. On the title page, Blatty is credited with the story and the screenplay, but the film was released as based on a novel by Frank O'Rourke. The film starred Zero Mostel and… Read more about this item

London: Titan Books, 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very good. Cult movie-themed artwork from a gallery serving the underground/urban art scene. Illustrated in full color, with reproductions of several hundred paintings based on iconic films. Introduction by Seth Rogan. 176 pages. 9 by 12-1/4 inches. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine… Read more about this item

Baltimore, MD: Lonely Road Books, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. An unproduced screenplay based on the life of Edgar Allan Poe; with an introduction by Roger Corman and an illustration by Jill Bauman. This is one of 26 copies signed by O'Nan and Bauman and issued in a traycase (there were also 200 numbered copies). xii,… Read more about this item