The Naked Kiss

N.p.: N.p., 1964. Vintage reference photograph from the 1964 film, showing actress Constance Towers consulting a newspaper with a salacious headline. Director Samuel Fuller's bizarre, outrageous, and perverse pulp masterwork. Kelly (Constance Towers), a former call girl who tries to make good in a new town nursing handicapped children, falls in love with the saintly businessman J.L. Grant… Read more about this item

Glendale, CA: Allied Artists, 1964. Vintage reference photograph of actress Patsy Kelly from the 1964 film. Basis for the late film noir by Samuel Fuller, released in 1964, starring Constance Towers as a former call girl trying to make good in a new town. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus, with one large seam down… Read more about this item

New York: Belmont Books, [1964]., 1964. First edition. First edition. A paperback original novel. Belmont L92-596. A fine, bright, unread copy. Fuller's novelization of his one-hundred page script, providing generous back stories about the three central characters. The novel is centered around a former call girl who relocates to a buttoned-down suburb, determined to fit in with mainstream society.… Read more about this item

New York: Belmont, 1964. Softcover. Good. First edition. Paperback original. A worn, good only copy with a bit of dampstaining on the edges and first few leaves, a short creased tear on the cover and four ink lines on the first page (possibly in the hand of the author). Inscribed by the author on the title page: "8.28.64… Read more about this item

New York: Belmont Books, 1964. First Edition. First Edition, a paperback original. Scarce. Basis for the late film noir by Samuel Fuller, released in 1964, starring Constance Towers as a former call girl trying to make good in a new town. Intriguingly, the book makes specific mention of a key meta-moment in the film, where Towers walks past… Read more about this item

New York: Belmont Books, 1964. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 157pp. FIRST EDITION published July 1964. Light wear and bit of text loss to cover, iinterior is sound, slight age-toning. Former prostitute moves to new location for change of lifestyle.