Search Results: Edgar Award from Royal Books, Inc.

London: Michael Joseph, 1967. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the First UK Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the title page: "Barry / Hi! / Dick Francis." 1969 Edgar Award nominee for Best Novel. Very Good plus in brown wrappers as issued. Very slightly cocked, with vertical wrinkling at the spine and a small splash on the bottom edges of the front wrapper and first two leaves.

New Orleans: B.E. Trice, 1997. Limited Edition, one of 150 numbered copies (this being No. 20) SIGNED by the author. The first novel in James Lee Burke's Billy Bob Holland crime series, winner of the Edgar Award. Fine and unread in an about Fine example of the publisher's slipcase.

New York: Harper and Row, 1966. First Edition. First Edition. The sixth book in the Van der Valk series, winner of the 1966 Edgar Award for Best Novel. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket.

N.p.: N.p., 1985. Fifth Draft Treatment script for an unproduced film. Based on the 1983 novel by Elmore Leonard, who also wrote the screenplay, about a former Secret Service agent who comes to the aid of a famed movie star when she begins receiving threatening messages. The film was slated for production, with Dustin Hoffman signed on to star, until contractual disputes halted the project indefinitely. Set in South Beach. Yellow untitled wrappers. Title page present, dated July 30, 1985, noted as 5th draft, with credit for screenwriter and author Elmore Leonard. 50 leaves, with last page of text numbered 50. Xerographic duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine, bound internally with three gold brads.

New York: Pantheon, 1970. First American Edition (and first edition in English), Winner of the Edgar Award, and basis for the gritty, realistic 1973 police procedural film directed by Stuart Rosenberg and starring Walter Matthau, Bruce Dern and a young Louis Gossett, Jr. Near Fine in a Near Fine, price-clipped dust jacket.

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1977. Original scenario artwork for the 1978 horror film. Depicting the interior of Peggy Ann Snow's Catskills home. Based on the 1976 novel by William Goldman, who also wrote the screenplay for the film. A young Anthony Hopkins plays a mentally disturbed magician who rises to fame when he begins utilizing a ventriloquist dummy. He rekindles a romance with a now-married ex-girlfriend Peggy Ann Snow (Ann-Margret), much to the chagrin of her hotheaded husband, his agent, and his surprisingly violent ventriloquist dummy. Gouache and pencil on illustration board. Artwork 19.5 x 14 inches, housed in an off-white 24.5 x 19.5 inch mat. Light adhesive residue on the top and bottom edges, else the illustration is Near Fine. Mat in Very Good condition, with light bumps and soil.

N.p.: N.p., 1954. Vintage photograph of writer Lawrence Treat awarding writer Roald Dahl an Edgar Award for Best Short Story for Dahl's 1953 story "Someone Like You." Stamp of photographer Alex Wilson on the verso. Dahl would receive a second Edgar in 1960 for his short story "The Landlady." 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine.

N.p.: N.p., 1972. Archive of material for an unproduced film, dated variously between 1971 and 1972, including one First Draft script, one Revised Second Draft script with manuscript ink annotations noting substantive revisions and deletions, one typed letter from screenwriter Frank Conroy, and eighteen handwritten revision pages, with corresponding printed pages addressing the revisions. Based on the 1969 Edgar Award-winning novel "A Time of Predators" by Joe Gores, about a Stanford University professor seeking revenge for the rape and murder of his wife by a street gang. An association between two prolific American authors, one a genre writer and the other a novelist and director of the influential Iowa Writers' Workshop for 18 years. Set in San Francisco. First Draft: Black titled Studio Duplicating Service wrappers. Title page present, dated 3/22, noted as First Draft, with credits for screenwriter Frank Conroy and novelist Joe Gores. 134 leaves, with last page of text numbered 116.… Read More

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1956. First Edition. First Edition. The author's first book, winner of the Edgar Award for Best First Mystery Novel. Very Good plus in a Very Good plus, price-clipped dust jacket. Contemporary gift inscription on the bottom edge of the front endpaper. Jacket lightly rubbed, with brief wear at the spine ends and a short closed tear at the bottom edge of the rear panel.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1974. First Edition. ADVANCE READING COPY [Uncorrected Proof], preceding the First Edition. Winner of the Edgar Award. Very Good plus in perfect bound wrappers, with a small splash on the front wrapper.

New York: SJS Entertainment, 1985. Vintage script for the 1987 play, which premiered at the Cort Theater in New York on May 3, 1987. A man posing as a police officer is drawn into a complicated love triangle with a theatre director. Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Mystery Play. Clear mylar front wrapper, black rear wrapper. Title page present, dated 1985, with credit for playwright John Pielmeier. 80 leaves, with last page of text numbered II-35. Xerographic duplication, rectos only. Pages Very Good plus, wrapper Very Good plus, bound internally with three silver brads.

New York: HarperCollins [Harper Collins], 2007. Limited Edition, one of 1000 hand-numbered copies (this being No. 628) SIGNED by the author. Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket, in an about Fine example of the publisher's wooden slipcase.

New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux [FSG], 1968. First American Edition, preceded by the Greek Edition published in 1966. Basis for the 1969 Academy Award-winning film directed by Costa-Gavras, starring Yves Montand. Near Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Jacket lightly worn at the spine ends and corners.