BOOK ONE. Poems by ANN LAUTERBACH. Published by Spring Street Press, New York, February 1975. Limited First Edition, this being copy #62 of only 100 copies. (A second edition was printed later the same year, in a different format.)

SIGNED, DATED and NUMBERED on the inside front cover. Additionally LOVINGLY INSCRIBED, Signed and Dated on the title page:

"To the one lady who spans the ocean / with both grace and endurance - my / 'presentation piece' for her, with / continuing admiration and love / Ann / 30 March 1975."

Gray paper wrappers, side-stapled, title ink-stamped on front cover, 8.5x11 inches oblong, 12 unnumbered leaves printed on one side only.

GOOD condition, a light vertical crease at the cover's spine from being opened, age toning as normal (not acid free paper), else tight, bright, clean and clear. A nice, presentable copy.

LIMITED, SIGNED, FIRST EDITION - SCARCE with the WARM INSCRIPTION.

About ANN LAUTERBACH (from Wikipedia):

******Ann Lauterbach, b.1942, is an American professor and poet. Her most recent book of poetry is SPELL (Penguin Books, 2018). Her book OR TO BEGIN AGAIN (Penguin, 2009) was nominated for the National Book Award. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the New York State Foundation for the Arts, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, and in 1995, was awarded the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship (the Genius Award).

Lauterbach has taught at Brooklyn College, Columbia University, the Iowa Writers Workshop, Princeton University, the City College of New York, and is currently Schwab Professor of Languages and Literature at Bard College, where she is also co-chair of writing in the Milton Avery School of the Arts.

Ann Lauterbach lives in Germantown, New York.******

GRAHAM GREENE - EARLY DRAFT SCREENPLAY of his NOVEL "HONORARY CONSUL". Screenplay by John Melson. This draft is dated February 1, 1976, years before the film finally went into production and seven years before the film was released.

It appears that this 1976 draft was being produced by Capricorn Productions of Venice, California. The company name / address / phone stamp is on the title page. It also appears that this project was being shopped by PAUL KOHNER, a Hollywood Super Agent. Laid in is his handwritten note on his letterhead that states: "NO / (Returned?) by (??) / Not very high on it. / Do you still want / discuss with him?" Also in the hand of Paul Kohner is a note on the title page: "Return to Pamela" which is then circled along with the company stamp of Capricorn Productions.

This 1976 John Melson draft was apparently NEVER used. Capricorn Productions abandoned the movie project. Norma Heyman later took on the task of producing a film version of the book and another writer, Christopher Hampton, was brought in to write the screenplay. The title of the film was CHANGED to BEYOND THE LIMIT for its U.S. release, but retained the title HONORARY CONSUL for the U.K.

(Interesting Note: By producing the film The Honorary Consul, Norma Heyman, born 1940, became the first British woman to produce an independent feature film by herself.)

Photocopied on plain white paper (copy machine copies were, and still are, common among production and working scripts; drafts could be quickly made and sent to the film's writers, producers, directors, etc.), 8.5x11 inches, 132 pages printed on one side only, pages are 3-hole punched and bound in plain orange paper covers with 2 brass brads.

VERY GOOD condition, the covers have some light soiling and a couple marks, the top of the front cover has several paperclip indents and a small associated tear, otherwise the script is tight, bright, clean and unmarked.

RARE and UNUSUAL Early Draft of GRAHAM GREENE Novel HONORARY CONSUL, with Manuscript Note by PAUL KOHNER.

PUBLIC OUTCRY - Broadside Poem by JOYCE CAROL OATES. SIGNED beneath her printed name.

An unusual broadside poem by Oates published in 1976 the year of America's Bicentennial. The work focuses on the triviality of what the press defines as "Outrageous" and the trivial ways in which the press advises its followers to take action. The poem is surrounded by images of newspaper articles, including one that notes the Bicentennial "Color Your Yard Red, White and Blue".

Published by the SLOW LORIS PRESS, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1976. Printed in an edition of only 65 signed and numbered copies, this being copy 60.

The broadside poem is 11x17 inches (28x42.5 cm), and is professionally dry mounted on a 16x22 inch (40x55.5 cm) stiff mounting board. It is thus ready for framing.

VERY GOOD condition, a bit of edgewear to the mounting board, overall solid and nice.

Something about this poem shakes me, it is so relevant to today's world. Please keep at it Joyce.

DE PEÑA POBRE : Memoria y Novela, by CINTIO VITIER. SIGNED by CINTIO VITIER on the title page. Published in MEXICO by Siglo XXI Editores, 1978. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, LIMITED EDITION of only 3000 copies. The statement "Primera Edicion, 1978" is on the copyright page, and the statement "tres mil ejemplares y sobrantes para reposición 15 de Julio de 1978" is on the Colophon page (the last page). A later edition was published in Cuba in 1980. LIMITED EDITION of only 3000 copies, with the statement: "tres mil ejemplares y sobrantes para reposición 15 de Julio de 1978" on the Colophon page (the last page). The inside rear cover has the number stamp "855", which probably indicates this is copy #855. Great ASSOCIATION COPY. The previous owner was the actor JACK PALANCE, with a "JACK PALANCE COLLECTION" BOOKPLATE from the 2006 auction of his personal property that took place just months before his death. What makes the PALANCE association most interesting is that JACK PALANCE STARRED AS FIDEL CASTRO in the 1969 film CHE!, about Latin American revolutionary Ernesto Che Guevara. Softcovers / Wrappers, pocketbook size 4x7", 165 pages. Condition: The title page has been trimmed for 1/4" at its front (or perhaps gutter)edge, leaving it 1/4" shorter at the front than the other pages.

It is possible that the title page was excised and sent to Cintio Vitier for his signature and then reattached upon its return with signature, because the page looks a bit like it was tipped in, though very well done. Perhaps this was done by Palance himself, wanting a memento of his role as Fidel Castro. Otherwise the book, including the title page, is in FINE condition, tight, bright, sharp and clean. The spine is not creased, the book looks and feels unread. 1978 FIRST EDITION, LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED by AUTHOR, with JACK PALANCE ASSOCIATION. Rare as such. About CINTIO VITIER (from Wikipedia): ******Cintio Vitier (1921-2009) was a Cuban poet, essayist, and novelist. Vitier won the Cuban National Prize for Literature (1988), the Juan Rulfo Prize (2002), and the medal of the Cuban Academy of Sciences. He also received the title of Official of Arts and Letters of France. Upon winning the Juan Rulfo Prize, the award jury called him "one of the most important writers of his generation".****** About the Jack Palance 2006 Auction (from a 2006 article found on the Internet): ******Movie cowboy empties his saddlebags. Jack Palance's collection up for auction at his farm. October 10, 2006|By Diana Morse Of The Morning Call. Auctioneers will put more than 3,000 items collected over a five-decade career by veteran actor Jack Palance on the block Thursday. The auction will be held at Palance's Holly-Brooke farm near Hazleton. Palance, 87, is perhaps best known for his Oscar winning role as Curly in 1991's CITY SLICKERS and his chilling portrayal of the hired gunslinger Wilson in the 1953 western SHANE. The retired Palance is now living in California. Jim Chamberlin of Keystone State Auctioneers reports a lot of interest in the three-day auction.******

AUTHOR'S PROOF SHEETS filled with MANUSCRIPT CORRECTIONS, CHANGES, DELETIONS, ADDITIONS, INSTRUCTIONS and COMMENTS by the AUTHOR, MARY MORRIS. This is AN ORIGINAL WORKING COPY of the AUTHOR'S TYPESCRIPT PROOF SHEETS with MANUSCRIPT CHANGES also COPIED. This set of machine-copied proof sheets with Hand Changes was likely made by Mary Morris to send to HER EDITOR / PUBLISHER, keeping the original set for herself (as normal in the publishing world).. The publisher was DAVID R. GODINE. I found at least one page with instructions from the Author directly to the Publisher: "David: please make sure copyeditor changes all "Joffee" to "Berger" and all "Davis" to "Jensen" I can't believe I used real people's names. That is, what happens..." Approximately 225 loose 8.5x11" sheets, printing and corrections on one side only. This is not every page in the book, it appears that some pages with no changes may have been left out. The pages are arranged by story (this is a book of stories). The sheets are in generally GOOD condition, creasing and toning to the first few sheets, signs of handling to all sheets, copy-machine type smudges and marks, overall the pages remain bright and clear. A wonderful set of author corrected proofs. VANISHING ANIMALS was MARY MORRIS'S FIRST BOOK. This set of AUTHOR'S PROOFS with her PERSONAL CHANGES is certainly one of the most interesting and hard-to-find Mary Morris items. About MARY MORRIS (from Wikipedia): ******Mary Morris (born May 14, 1947 in Chicago) is an American author. Morris published her first book, a collection of short stories, entitled Vanishing Animals & Other Stories, in 1979 at the age of thirty-two and was awarded the Rome Prize in Literature by the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. She has gone on to publish numerous collections of short stories, novels, and travel memoirs. She has also edited with her husband, the author Larry O'Connor, an anthology of women's travel literature, entitled Maiden Voyages, subsequently published as The Virago Book of Women Travellers. Many of her short stories and her early novels have been set in an imaginary town called Winona along the banks of Lake Michigan. While Morris is known for her numerous travel articles and memoirs set in far-off places, her roots remain in the Midwest. She feels drawn there and has an affinity for Midwestern writers such as Willa Cather who wrote her stories of the Middle West from afar. She now lives in Brooklyn, New York with her husband and daughter, and teaches writing at Sarah Lawrence College. In her FIRST COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES, VANISHING ANIMALS & OTHER STORIES (published by David Godine, 1979), Morris writes about childhood and adolescent memories. The Chicago Tribune called Morris "a marvelous storyteller-a budding Isaac Bashevis Singer, a young Doris Lessing, a talent to be watched and read". In 1980 Morris received the George W. Perkins fellowship from the Council of the Humanities at Princeton University. After her year as a fellow, she taught in the creative writing program until 1993 where she was colleagues with such writers as Joyce Carol Oates (who has remained a close friend), Russell Banks, Paul Auster, and Haruki Murakami (who mentions Morris in his memoir about running).******

LOVER OF ROBER GRAVES ATTEMPTED SUICIDE IN 1927 SAID SHE WOULD NEVER WRITE ANOTHER POEM

A POEM : HOW A POEM CAME TO BE. A Lovely BROADSIDE POEM by LAURA RIDING JACKSON.

SIGNED by LAURA RIDING JACKSON at the end of her poem, beneath her printed name.

Published by [Lord John Press, 1980]. Presentation Copy - Presentation Copies are normally printed prior to numbered copies, making them quite hard to find. Subsequently printed in a limited edition of only 150 numbered copies.

Broadside, printed on fine heavy stock paper, deckled top and bottom edges, 15x22 inches.

NEAR FINE condition, a bright and beautiful copy. Would look great mounted and/or framed.

From the Broadside: "Within a very few years of the publication of my Collected Poems (1938)... I renounced further trying the way of poetry... saying: I would write no more poems - and I wrote no more poems... (however) I wrote for (a close friend), in the 1978 Christmastime, a poem, marked as a poem for him only, giving it the title HOW A POEM CAME TO BE. I kept no copy of this privately written and given poem, and forgot the writing and the giving of it... I chanced, recently, to tell my friend of receiving a request for a poem to publish in broadside form from the Lord John Press, indicating my feeling some surprise that Mr. Yellin, the Press's director, should not have been aware that FOR FORTY YEARS there had been NO NEW POEMS of mine. But my friend reminded me that about a year ago there HAD been a new poem - the one I wrote for him; and he urged me to let him release it to me from its private status of being a poem for him only... I give here the poem, given him, to be out in the world..."

LAURA RIDING JACKSON, 1901-1991, was an iconoclastic American Poet. She left New England at the age of 25 to live with ROBERT GRAVES and his wife, Nancy Nicholson. The triangle did not suit her, and Laura Riding tried to commit suicide in 1927. Thereafter Robert Graves divorced his wife and lived together with Laura Riding in Majorca, France, England and Switzerland, and even went with her when she returned to the United States. They bitterly broke up in 1939. In 1941 Laura Riding Jackson renounced poetry, married Schuyler B. Jackson, and lived quietly with him in Wabasso, Florida, until her death in 1991. In the 60s, 70s and 80s she wrote a number of pieces explaining her reasons for renouncing poetry, but no poetry. This is apparently THE ONLY POEM written by Laura Riding Jackson since 1941.

You can read much more about LAURA RIDING on Wikipedia and elsewhere on the Internet.

This Large and Lovely BROADSIDE will be shipped carefully rolled in a sturdy mailing tube.

A POEM : HOW A POEM CAME TO BE. A Lovely BROADSIDE POEM by LAURA RIDING JACKSON.

"Presentation Copy" SIGNED and INSCRIBED by LAURA RIDING JACKSON to HERB YELLIN, late owner of LORD JOHN PRESS, who published this broadside and also a Fine Printing edition of one of Laura Riding Jackon's books.

HAND INSCRIBED: "For Herb Yellin, gratefully / L. J.". The inscription is below the printed statement "Presentation Copy".

Also SIGNED at the end of her poem, beneath her printed name.

Published by [Lord John Press, 1980]. Presentation Copy. (Presentation Copies are normally printed prior to numbered copies, making them quite hard to find.) Subsequently printed in a limited edition of only 150 numbered copies.

Broadside, printed on fine heavy stock paper, deckled top and bottom edges, 15x22 inches.

NEAR FINE condition, some light creases from handling, bright and beautiful.

From the Broadside: "Within a very few years of the publication of my Collected Poems (1938)... I renounced further trying the way of poetry... saying: I would write no more poems - and I wrote no more poems... (however) I wrote for (a close friend), in the 1978 Christmastime, a poem, marked as a poem for him only, giving it the title HOW A POEM CAME TO BE. I kept no copy of this privately written and given poem, and forgot the writing and the giving of it... I chanced, recently, to tell my friend of receiving a request for a poem to publish in broadside form from the Lord John Press, indicating my feeling some surprise that Mr. Yellin, the Press's director, should not have been aware that FOR FORTY YEARS there had been NO NEW POEMS of mine. But my friend reminded me that about a year ago there HAD been a new poem - the one I wrote for him; and he urged me to let him release it to me from its private status of being a poem for him only... I give here the poem, given him, to be out in the world..."

LAURA RIDING JACKSON, b.1901 d.1991, was an iconoclastic American Poet. She left New England at the age of 25 to live with ROBERT GRAVES and his wife, Nancy Nicholson. The triangle did not suit her, and Laura Riding tried to commit suicide in 1927. Thereafter Robert Graves divorced his wife and lived together with Laura Riding in Majorca, France, England and Switzerland, and even went with her when she returned to the United States. They bitterly broke up in 1939. In 1941 Laura Riding Jackson renounced poetry, married Schuyler B. Jackson, and lived quietly with him in Wabasso, Florida, until her death in 1991. In the 60s, 70s and 80s she wrote a number of pieces explaining her reasons for renouncing poetry, but no poetry. This is apparently THE ONLY POEM written by Laura Riding Jackson since 1941.

You can read much more about LAURA RIDING on Wikipedia and elsewhere on the Internet.

This Large and Lovely BROADSIDE will be shipped carefully rolled in a sturdy mailing tube.

RAGGEDY MAN. SECOND DRAFT SCREENPLAY by William D. Wittliff. The Draft is dated April 30, 1980. Working Copy of Jack Rush, with his signed initials "J. Rush" on the front cover. Jack Rush was a crew member involved in supervising special effects and props, though uncredited on this film. He has highlighted various text in yellow and has made relevant pencil notes and marks here and there throughout. Printed Universal Studio Covers, printed on gray, heavy stock paper, 8.5x11", bound with 3 brass brads, inner pages photocopied on light green paper, (photocopying was, and still is, how original copies of a draft script were quickly produced and distributed to film producers, agents, directors, and others involved in a motion picture production), pages printed on one side only, 103 pages plus a title page. Title written on spine with black marker. VERY GOOD condition, some edge wear, corner tip creases and other light signs of handling. RAGGEDY MAN was Directed by Jack Fisk, based on the novel by William Wittliff and Sara Clark. It stars SISSY SPACEK, ERIC ROBERTS, and SAM SHEPARD. It was released by UNIVERSAL PICTURES on September 18, 1981, almost 1 1/2 years after the date of this Second Draft Screenplay.

THE DEAD ZONE. A SCREENPLAY by JEFFREY BOAM, Based on the Novel by STEPHEN KING.

This is an EARLY DRAFT SCREENPLAY. The early drafts were written by JEFFREY BOAM for LORIMAR STUDIOS in late 1980 and early 1981. In mid 1981 Dino DeLaurentiis bought the film rights from Lorimar, fired Jeffrey Boam and Hired STEPHEN KING to write the screenplay. Stephen King's draft screenplays for the film were written in late 1981 and early 1982. However, DeLaurentiis HATED King's scripts, so King was fired. Another writer was brought in who was also fired, then in late 1982 JEFFREY BOAM was rehired, and finally wrote the final script. So, this EARLY DRAFT is before ALL the CHANGES brought on by various screenplay writers (including King), film studios, etc. Rare as such.

An ORIGINAL, UNPUBLISHED, REJECTED, EARLY DRAFT SCREENPLAY by JEFFREY BOAM, before he was later rehired to rewrite the screenplay.

The screenplay is dated "February 17, 1981", as shown on the title page. The later, very different screenplay that Boam was rehired to write (after King's screenplay was rejected), was finished on November 8, 1982, a year and nine months after this draft. The film itself was released on October 8, 1983.

Pages are photocopied on 8.5x11 inch paper (photocopying was, and still is, how original copies of a draft script were quickly produced and distributed to film producers, agents, directors, and others involved in a motion picture production), pages printed on one side only 124 pages plus a title page.

VERY GOOD condition, just some light signs of handling, overall a great original copy of this early draft screenplay.

About the Film THE DEAD ZONE and its Various SCREENPLAY ITERATIONS including the KING SCREENPLAY DRAFT (from Wikipedia):

******The Dead Zone is a 1983 American horror thriller film Directed by David Cronenberg. The Screenplay by Jeffrey Boam was based on the 1979 novel of the same name by Stephen King. The film stars Christopher Walken,, Brooke Adams, Tom Skerritt, Herbert Lom, Anthony Zerbe, Colleen Dewhurst and Martin Sheen.

The plot revolves around a schoolteacher, Johnny Smith (Walken), who awakens from a coma to find he has psychic powers.

Lorimar Film Entertainment began developing The Dead Zone film adaptation. Producer Carol Baum gave the book to screenwriter Jeffrey Boam and asked him to write a screenplay. "I saw it had great possibilities and agreed to do it," Boam said. He developed a script for director Stanley Donen, who left the project before the film reached production at Lorimar.

Lorimar eventually closed its film division, after a series of box-office failures, to concentrate on Television (Lorimar later tentatively reopened its film production). Soon after, producer Dino De Laurentiis bought the rights to The Dead Zone.

Dino De Laurentiis disliked Boam's screenplay and asked STEPHEN KING to ADAPT HIS OWN NOVEL into a screenplay. However, after receiving STEPHEN KING'S DRAFT SCREENPLAY, De Laurentiis reportedly rejected King's script as "involved and convoluted". David Cronenberg, who ultimately directed the film, said that he also decided not to the use Stephen King's script, finding it "needlessly brutal".

After rejecting Stephen King's Draft De Laurentiis later rejected another script, one written by Andrei Konchalovsky, before eventually returning to Jeffrey Boam to write yet another script. De Laurentiis hired producer Debra Hill to work with Cronenberg and Boam.

Boam submitted the final draft of the screenplay on November 8, 1982.******

CHILDREN ON THEIR BIRTHDAYS. An UNPRODUCED SCREENPLAY Adapted for the Screen by DONNA KANTER and SUSAN BEST, from the Short Story by TRUMAN CAPOTE. This screenplay was DONNA KANTER'S 1983 DIRECTOR'S PROJECT while in the AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE (AFI) DIRECTING WORKSHOP FOR WOMEN. She was in the class of 1982-1984. The screenplay is a First Draft dated July 23, 1983. Photocopied on plain 8.5x11 inch paper, stapled at the upper corner, 34 pages plus a title page, printed on one side only. GOOD MINUS condition, the first and last pages have creases and soiling, there are numerous staple holes at the upper left corner (though only one staple currently holds the pages together), some pages are dog eared at their top or bottom corner, and their are general signs of handling and use; still a complete copy of an interesting screenplay resulting from the AFI's attempts to get more women into film directing. Though this early, student screenplay was never filmed, its creation at the AFI Directing Workshop for Women certainly had an impact on Donna Kanter. She later established a successful Television and Film Production Company, The Donna Kanter Company. About the AFI DIRECTING WORKSHOP FOR WOMEN (from the AFI site): ******Since 1974, the AFI Directing Workshop for Women has trained hundreds of women in the art of screen directing. Below are the alumnae from each cycle since the start of the program... (CLASS OF 1982-1984 includes Donna Kanter)... Distinguished DWW alumnae include Maya Angelou, Anne Bancroft, Neema Barnette, Tricia Brock, Ellen Burstyn, Rebecca Cammisa, Dyan Cannon, Hanelle Culpepper, Jan Eliasberg, Naomi Foner, Jennifer Getzinger, Lyn Goldfarb, Randa Haines, Victoria Hochberg, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Lesli Linka Glatter, Lynne Littman, Matia Karrell, Nancy Malone, Becky Smith, Cicely Tyson and Joanne Woodward.******

THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 1984, edited by JOHN UPDIKE. SPECIAL, SIGNED, FINE-BINDING EDITION. Bound in Faux Leather with gilt embossed designs on the covers, gilt titling and gilt designs on the spine, three raised spine bands, all gilt page edges, patterned endpapers, 7x9", 295 pages, no dustjacket as issued (the trade hardcover edition is bound in normal cloth covered boards with a paper dustjacket.) SIGNED BY MADISON SMARTT BELL, JOYCE CAROL OATES, and CYNTHIA OZICK at the beginning of each of their respective short stories. Published by Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1984. First Edition, First Printing, with the number line starting at 1. Contains stories by: Andre Dubus, Paul Bowles, Madison Smartt Bell, Mavis Gallant, Susan Minot, Joyce Carol Oates, Cynthia Ozick, Lowry Pei, Jonathan Penner, Norman Rush, James Salter, Wright Morris and others. NEAR FINE condition, superficial scratch and rub to the gilt page edges (edges of the closed book), otherwise tight, bright, clean and unmarked. A solid, lovely copy. SCARCE in the Gilt Embossed Fine Binding, especially so SIGNED by BELL, OATES and OZICK.

SAID AND DONE, A Bio-Bibliography of ROBERT BARTLETT HAAS. SIGNED and Warmly INSCRIBED by HAAS to DONALD GALLUP, noted T. S. Eliot and Pound bibliographer: "For Donald Gallup / with whom I am glad to have been (immortalized?) by the first G. S. Catalogue - and by his friendship ever after. / Bob". Published by the Marburg and Walldurn, 1986. First Edition. Softcovers (a softcover original), 6.5x9", 88 pages. Illustrated. A "Festschrift" - a volume of tributes and remembrances written by colleagues and friends of Robert Bartlett Haas - presented to him on the occasion of his 70th birthday. Bound together with a "Bio-Bibliography" by Haas himself, that includes a complete bibliography of his printed works - Books and Monographs, Articles and Prefaces, Editorships, Translations, Professional Writings, Lectures, etc. VERY GOOD condition, a bit of wear to the covers' spine ends and corner tips, overall tight, bright and clean. A lovely copy. Comes with the original mailing envelope, with the handwritten address of Donald Gallup and the Rubber Stamped Return Address of Robert Haas. The envelope was sent from Germany, where Haas resided at the time. The envelope is stamped. The envelope is well worn, but a great addition to the history of this particular copy. About DONALD GALLUP (to whom the book is Inscribed) - from his NY Times Obituary: ******Donald Gallup, the Yale literary bibliographer who in 1968 confirmed the discovery of the long-lost manuscript of T. S. Eliot's Waste Land, died in Branford, Conn., on Wednesday. He was 87. Mr. Gallup spent more than 30 years as a curator in the Yale Collection of American Literature. Patricia C. Willis, the current curator of the Yale Collection of American Literature, said she considered Mr. Gallup, who retired in 1980, "the premier bibliographer for both Eliot and Ezra Pound, specializing in finding the first appearances of their work and documenting their creativity."******

BOB, A DOG, by LEE SMITH. SIGNED, LIMITED , FIRST EDITION. SIGNED and HAND NUMBERED on the Colophon Page (the last page). This is copy number 33 of only 374 copies (a deluxe edition of 26 copies lettered and signed also was issued concurrently). Published by The Mud Puppy Press, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 1988. Hardcover Book, cloth covered spine and paper covered boards, front cover and spine lettered in silver, no dustjacket as issued, 4.5x7 inches, 37 pages plus the Colophon / Signature / Limitation page. Condition: NEAR FINE, tight, bright, clean and unmarked. A lovely copy. A Rare and Unusual wonderful little book by Lee Smith. About Lee Smith (from Wikipedia): ****** Lee Smith (born November 1, 1944) is an American fiction author who typically incorporates much of her background from the Southeastern United States in her works. She has received writing awards, such as the O. Henry Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Fiction, the North Carolina Award for Literature, and, in April 2013, was the first recipient of Mercer University's Sidney Lanier Prize for Southern Literature. Her novel The Last Girls was listed on the New York Times bestseller's list and won the Southern Book Critics Circle Award. Mrs Darcy and the Blue-Eyed Stranger, a collection of new and selected stories was published in 2010.******

AS I LAY DYING. An UNPUBLISHED, UNFILMED ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY by ROBERT CLEM. Based on the novel by WILLIAM FAULKNER. Bound in INTERNATIONAL CREATIVE MANAGEMENT "ICM" silver paper covers, bound with two brass brackets at the left margin, inner pages copy-machined or mimeographed, pages printed on one side only, 8.5" x 11" plain paper, 132 pages. Dated on the first page: "March 9, 1988". Condition: The silver colored paper ICM covers are worn and creased along the edges and corners, they have a lot of scratches and scrapes, nonetheless they are doing their job well and the ICM titling is bright. The page edges of the spine have "AS I LAY DYING" written on them with a black marker. Internally the pages are very nice, the first page has a couple edge creases, otherwise the pages are bright, clean and unmarked. SCARCE - the only copy of this unproduced screenplay that I have ever seen. OCLC does not list any copies.

A COLLECTION OF PRESSMARKS: Gathered From America's Private Presses and From Others Not So Private.

COMPLETE SET OF ALL THREE VOLUMES. Hardcover Books, bound in gold, burgundy and blue cloth covered boards, 5x8 inches, 94, 102 and 100 pages respectively. Volume Three also has an Index to the Pressmarks in all Three Volumes. Each volume is fully ILLUSTRATED with PRESSMARKS from many American Private Presses. There are also two pieces of related ephemera laid-in.

Compiled, Written and Published by James Lamar Weygand aka "The Private Press of the Indiana Kid", Nappanee, Indiana, 1956, 1959 & 1962. First Editions, Limited to 165, 250 and 250 copies. James Lamar Weygand was a noted Indiana private press printer and publisher.

All three volumes are in NEAR FINE condition, just lightly used, tight, bright, clean, clear and unmarked. Lovely copies.

For some reason Volume One (1956) shows up from time to time, but Volumes Two (1959) and Three (1962) rarely appear.