Screen & Stage
A selection of scripts and books that inspired iconic films and stage performances, including Oscar-winning adapted novels, and the original titles that went on to become sell-out shows.
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First edition, first impression; 8vo; unmarked internally; publisher's black cloth, gilt lettering to spine, with the unclipped pictorial dust jacket by Linnet Gotch, very slight toning to jacket, minor shelf-wear to extremities; an excellent copy.
£65 -
First edition, first issue; 8vo; publisher's grey-black cloth with blindstamped skeletal hand on upper cover, spine lettered in gilt; dust-jacket by Richard Chopping, price-clipped, small clear tape marks to verso, a little rubbed at extremities, otherwise very good and internally fine.
£575 -
First edition, first impression, first issue dust-jacket without the Sunday Times review on the upper flap; 8vo. Publisher's black boards, heart device to upper board and titles to spine in red. With the dust jacket. Contemporary gift inscription to front free endpaper, spine just a touch rolled but a particularly bright copy in the internally repaired dust jacket, nicked at the edges and with some minor restoration at the top of the spine panel and a couple of corners.
£22,500 -
Single sheet, toned, slight soiling, short split to upper margin.
£1,400 -
First combined edition, first printing, SiGNed by the author, 8vo. Publisher's grey cloth, title to spine in black on a brown ground. With the photomontage dust jacket. An excellent copy in the somewhat browned dust jacket with a couple of minor scuffs.
£1,750 -
First edition, first impression, inscribed to Paul Gallico, 8vo; publisher's dark grey cloth, spine lettered in silver, front cover with knife motif stamped in blind and silver, dust-jacket by Richard Chopping; red endpapers, top edge severely browned (as with several of Gallico's Bond books) and with some leed to upper margin of some leaves, but otherwise a very decent copy in the little worn dust jacket.
£25,000 -
First edition, first impression, 8vo., 255, [1] pp., publisher's black cloth, oriental characters stamped in gilt on upper cover, dust-jacket designed by Richard Chopping, the slightest darkening to spine and rubbing to upper corners, offsetting from flaps to free-endpapers and a few spots to edges (text block), otherwise a fine copy.
£1,000 -
Film edition, sole impression, one of 25 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the key members of the cast and production; 8vo; publisher's burgundy morocco, single rule to boards gilt, titles to spine gilt, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, slipcase.
£5,750 -
First edition, first impression; 8vo; publisher's second state binding as usual with silhouette to upper board, with the dust-jacket with artwork by Pat Marriott. Couple of spots to the front free endpaper, an excellent copy in the rather marked dust jacket with a few short tears and a single small chip to the rear panel.
£1,750 -
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Publisher's red cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the photographic dust jacket. A superb copy in the little rubbed, internally repaired dust jacket missing small pieces at the corners and base of the spine panel.
£750