Dewitt Beall (3 results)

First Edition. First printing (regular issue). Quarto (33cm). Tan cloth hardcover, with gilt spine title and stamped cover decoration in green; xii,47 numbered pages of text followed by 52 unnumbered leaves of color plates (reproducing 137 artworks). Mild dusting to covers, else a tight, clean, Very Good copy; lacking the presumed dustwrapper (no jacketed example has been seen by us). WW2-era collection of American artworks depicting non-combatant medical forces in wartime service. Features work by John Steuart Curry, Fred Shane, Manuel Tolegian, Ernest Fiene, Franklin Boggs, Robert Benney, Joseph Hirsch, Lawrence Beall-Smith, Howard Baer, Francis Criss, Peter Blume, and Marion Greenwood.

Second Draft script for an unproduced film. From the collection of novelist William Hjortsberg, who worked as a screenwriter in Hollywood between 1977-1985. Hjortsberg is best known for the film adaptation of "Angel Heart" (1987), based on his 1978 novel. An advertising executive is thrown into grief when his fiancée is accidentally murdered in a mugging, but soon finds himself receiving messages from her spirit, pressing him to take revenge against her killer. Blue untitled wrappers. Title page present, dated 28 June 82, noted as SECOND DRAFT, with credit for screenwriter DeWitt Beall. 108 leaves, with last page of text numbered 107. Xerographic duplication, rectos only. Pages Fine, wrapper Near Fine, bound with three gold brads.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Stapled wrappers. 65pp. Edges lightly age-toned and bumped, near fine. Contributions by Robert M. Philmus, Margaret Edwards, Ron Loewinsohn, Priscilla Shames, James Reiss, Eric Felderman, Louise Gluck, Daniel Cassidy, Jr., Douglas L. Eichhorn, Paul W. Roewade, Joseph W. Survant, David Landon, Paul Brinkley-Rogers, Peter Welter, Helen Pringle, Anne Cleaves, David E. Cummings, William Pitt Root, Paul Oppenheimer, Shirley Kaufman, Stan Rice, DeWitt Beall, Jane Yolen, Gay Cothran, Kenneth Fields, Benito Cereno, John Peck, David Ransom, Tim Reynolds, L. Wittgenstein, Rodham Tulloss, McLister, Mary Maxwell Davis, Janis Adams, Roger H. Fogelman, Henry Taylor, Richard L. Pevear, Alexander Theroux, James Scay, Coburn Freer, E.G. Leimbacher, Frances McConnel, Susan Mitchell, David F.R. McGeary, Hunt Hawkins, and Patricia C. Smith.