Lamkin Speed (10 results)

Paperback. Condition: New. /NEW/I HAVE THOUSANDS OF PLAYS AND MUSICALS IN MY LISTINGS/.

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. 15 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Supplied without title page or cover. Size: 14 x 22 cms. Category: London Magazine; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Uk Edition. Hardback. Dst Jacket. 8vo. pp 312. Original publisherĠs black boards lettered gilt at spine. Publisher's retained copy with their stamp to front endpaper 'Weidenfeld Linbrary.' Very good indeed inpink and yellow near very good John Banting d/w showing homes on a hillside (Beverley Hills) with slight wear at head and tail of spine and very slight creasing at top edge. and slight abrasion to front of d/w.

Paperback. first PB. 663, near fine, hardboiled crime novel, paperback,

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1950. Hardcover, 278 pp. 1st edition. The surprise bestselling first novel by Louisiana-born author Speed Lamkin (1927-2011). Good condition only with finger marks & soiling to the yellow boards, fading at spine, a rusty paper clip impression affecting the title page and a few more early pages, very slight looseness to the front board, but no cracks. The binding feels solid. The dust jacket is included; in poor condition (chipped, taped, and in two pieces). Signed by the author with an inscription to 'Malcolm'. See photos. Rare. Inscribed by Author(s).

Stapled wraps. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. [very light fading to edges of covers, otherwise a nice clean copy with no significant wear]. (stage diagram) A family drama about a marriage gone horribly wrong, by this Monroe, Louisiana, native, who had earlier established himself as something of a literary prodigy after graduating from Harvard at age 20. His first novel, "Tiger in the Garden" (1950), published when he was just 22, was about the dessicated Louisiana aristocracy (from which he himself had emerged); because of its Southern Gothic subject matter and his own reportedly effeminate manner, he found himself often compared to Truman Capote. (Tennessee Williams said of him, "He doesn't write as well [as Capote] but is more agreeable.") He spent much of the Fifties on the fringes of Hollywood society (his sister was a voice coach and was married to a screenwriter), and drew on that experience for his second novel, "The Easter Egg Hunt" (1954). "Comes a Day" was adapted from his own 1950 short story, for which he had received an O. Henry Award. The stage version, which opened on Broadway in early November 1958, had a ton of top-flight talent involved: production by Cheryl Crawford and Alan Pakula, direction by Robert Mulligan, and with a cast that included Judith Anderson, Brandon de Wilde, George C. Scott and Eileen Ryan (with young Larry Hagman and Michael J. Pollard in support). The reviews were generally positive, with Scott in particularly singled out for his portrayal of a psychopath (it was his Broadway debut, and one critic called him "the actor of the season, thus far"), but the play was a box-office flop, and closed at the end of the month. The playwright took it hard: he returned to Monroe, never published anything else (as far as I can determine), and lived there until his death in 2011.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Scarce title. Romance in the Deep South. Beautiful Good Girl Art cover by Mitchell Hooks Book is in Very Good Plus to Near Fine condition. Stated First Signet Printing 1951. Copy has an extremely faint reading crease and light edgewear. The spine is slightly slanted. Page 121 is ruffled at the top. Pages are lightly toned but clean and unmarked.

Paperback. first edition. 845 very good -fine, reading crease Cover art by Mitchell Hooks. paperback,

Paperback. first edition. 845 almost near fine Cover art by Mitchell Hooks. paperback,

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Quarto. Leaves printed rectos only, screw-bound in printed red Studio Duplicating Service wrappers. Very near fine. Screenplay based on Lamkin's story, apparently unproduced. Lamkin was a Louisiana-born novelist and playwright best known for his first novel *Tiger in the Garden* (1950) and was called "the poor man's Truman Capote" by the composer Ned Rorem. *OCLC* locates no copies of the script.