First Edition. A horror novel about criminal circus freaks. The book was filmed in 1925 as a silent film and in 1930 with sound, both starring Lon Chaney as the villain Professor Echo, a ventriloquist. 310, [2:blank] pages, including the preliminaries. Bound in tan cloth with a navy blue and.....

First Edition. One of Highsmith's creepy novels, about a peeping Tom. The book was filmed in 2009, starring Julia Stiles and Paddy Considine. [8], 272, [2:blank], [1], [1:blank], [1], [1:blank] pages. First edition (stated). A near fine copy in a very good dust jacket with light scuffing to the covers;.....

First Edition. One of three issues of the first edition of one of the most significant graphic novels of the 1980s. This is the bookstore issue (this and the comic book store issues were trade paperbacks; there was also a hardcover book club edition). V for Vendetta was written beginning.....

First hardcover edition. This is the first hardcover issue of Moore and Lloyd's influential graphic novel, published by the Book of the Month Club (the commercially published version was a paperback). This is one of the most significant graphic novels of the 1980s, written beginning in 1981 as a response.....

First Edition. The first separate edition of Stephen King's novella, The Mist. The story first appeared in the Dark Forces anthology and then it was collected in Skeleton Crew. Limited to 500 numbered copies, signed on the title page by the illustrator, Herbert Brandmeier (there were also 30 copies with.....

First Edition. One of 500 numbered copies of this book which pairs King's novella with Garris's screenplay. The book is signed by Mick Garris and the illustrator Alan Clark. Lonely Road Books adopted the classic dos-à-dos format—where two works meet back-to-back, each with its own front cover—to showcase both versions.....

First Edition. A collaboration between two masters of the horror genre, Stephen King the writer and George Romero the filmmaker. The film is a five-story anthology inspired by the B-movies and the EC comics of the 1950s. While this is an original King work, it isn't listed in Beahm's Stephen.....

First Edition. A novel set in 1957 during civil rights protests in Memphis, Tennessee, in which a trio of white ne-'er-do-wells—a gambler, a criminal, and a girlfriend—kidnap the young son of black entrepreneur. The book was filmed as Memphis, a made-for-TV movie co-written by Larry McMurtry and Cybill Shepherd, who.....

First Edition. A suspense novel about a writer who becomes obsessed with an unsolved murder. It was adapted for an episode of the television series Alfred Hitchcock Presents titled Captive Audience, starring James Mason and Angie Dickinson. Published in the UK as Marion. 211 pages. First American edition (first printing.....

First US edition. A scarce 1950s novel, first published in the United Kingdom as Five Roundabouts to Heaven, that became the basis of an Alfred Hitchcock Hour episode in 1962 and the 2007 film Married Life, starring Pierce Brosnan, Chris Cooper, and Patricia Clarkson. Avis DeVoto, the editor who saw.....

Uncorrected Proof. The very scarce uncorrected proof in red printed wrappers with a second wrapper with the dust jacket design below. This probably precedes the much more common advance reading copy (ARC), which has a black glossy cover. This book was the basis of the Coen brothers movie starring Tommy.....

First Edition. Four film treatments by Bradbury of his story, It Came from Outer Space, the basis of the 1953 3-D movie. The collection is edited by Donn Albright. (In the end, Harry Essex wrote the screenplay that was filmed). One of 750 signed and numbered copies. 448 pages. 8-3/4.....

First Edition. The first edition of the third Hap and Leonard novel, bound from the sheets of the Mysterious Press edition, but bound in quarter-leather in paper-covered boards. This is one of 100 numbered copies, signed by Lansdale. The third and final season of the TV series inspired by the.....