Ryans Express, Signed (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. (1964). First edition. Octavo tan cloth lettered in green. Made into a well-received 1965 movie starring Frank Sinatra and Trevor Howard. This copy INSCRIBED BY WESTHEIMER on the title page. A fine copy in an about fine dust jacket which has just the slightest rubbing at the spine tips. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Typed letter with penned signature laid into book, addressed to publisher representative. Book formerly owned by aformentioned representative. Binding is still solid. Pages unmarked and slightly aged throughout. Cover has light edgewear and bumped corners, and DJ has some shelf wear including one small stain, a couple creases, tears and one chip near spine. DJ is not price clipped. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 327 pages; Signed by Author.

WESTHEIMER, David. VON RYAN'S EXPRESS. [No place]: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, 1963. Folio: punch-bound pages. Original First Draft Screenplay (dated July 18, 1963) for the 1965 movie, starring Frank Sinatra and Trevor Howard. Based of Westheimer's novel, the screenplay is co-written by Westheimer and Saul David. This particular screenplay belonged to Westheimer with "Property of David Westheimer. Please Return" (apparently in his hand) written on the front cover and additionally signed by Westheimer on the title page. Good (edges worn with short tears & small chips, little chipping spine). A fragile item! Enclosed in a custom-designed, leather and cloth clam-shell box, with a gilt-worked spine and "Von Ryan's Express" in relief on the front cover. A one-of-a-kind item! $1500.00.