Chayefsky Paddy Sidney Aaron (3 results)

First edition, first printing (with publisher's requisite statement for former and latter indicated by descending number line both upon copyright page). [8], 184 pages. Hardcover: H 21.5cm x L 14.5cm. Dust jacket rubbed with surface abrasions; 4cm closed tear at front panel's lower right; scuffs, nicks, and bumping at edges; front flap retains publisher's printed price at top right and date code at bottom right. Black cloth spine bumped at ends; spine's gilt lettering remains bright; pale mustard boards. Marker swath to text block's top and bottom edges adjacent to spine presumably as publisher's remainder mark; additional soiling and light staining to top edge. Interior pages are clean. Binding remains fairly crisp. Paddy Chayefsky's novel was the basis for his screenplay adapted into the 1980 American science fiction horror film directed by Ken Russell, and starring William Hurt, Blair Brown, Bob Balaban, and Charles Haid. ISBN 0060107278. …

Collection of ten vintage black and white borderless studio still photographs from the 1980 film. Based on screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky's 1978 novel. Director Ken Russell's first American film, itself an "altered state" during production. Russell was constantly inebriated on the set, and had the actors mumble their lines in protest against Chayefsky's script. Chayefsky was subsequently banned from the set, and denounced the film even before production began. Edward Jessup (William Hurt, in his film debut) is a Harvard professor whose studies of the limits of human consciousness inevitably lead him down a strange and horrible path, from early experiments with a sensory deprivation tank to participation in Mexican Ayahuasca ceremonies. Set in Boston, shot on location in New York, California, Massachusetts, and Mexico. 9.5 x 7.5 inches. Near Fine.…

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Chayefsky, Paddy (Sidney Aaron) 1923-81. PASSION OF JOSEF D. Pre-production prompt/mimeograph script and Ethel Barrymore Theatre Playbill, The. New York: Arthur Cantor and E. E. Fogelson (Studio Duplicating Service), Revised 11/11/63; 1964 Playbill. Illustrated by photos and b&w and colored period ads in the Playbill. LO 3-4370. 2 volumes. Play text is a red napped limp cloth folder with brass screw fasteners backed with new red spine and internally reinforced by our in-house binder KTB. 4to (8.5x11 inches); pp. 1-5-41, 2-4-36, 3-2-21. Very Good, Play cover has rear edge chip and light surface cracking, text is fine. The 8vo 60 page Playbill is Near Fine. Written and directed by Paddy Chayefsky, the three act play follows the life of Josef Stalin [played by Peter Falk], the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, and ends with Vladimir Lenin's death in 1924. It opened on February 11, 1964, at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre in New York City and closed after only 15 performances on February 22, 1964. Otherwise, He is the only person to have won three solo Academy Awards for writing both Adapted and Original screenplays. $200.00. PAS118603.…