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May 28, 2015 10:00 AM - June 8, 2015 04:00 PMCalender
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Modern Novels Adapted to Film Thrillers, Six Volumes.

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$215$175
Auction: Fine Wines - 2809TLocation: BostonDate / Time: May 28, 2015 10:00AM

Description:

Modern Novels Adapted to Film Thrillers, Six Volumes.
Including: Vincent Bugliosi and Curtis Gentry's Helter Skelter, New York: Norton, 1974, stated first edition; Thomas Harris's The Silence of the Lambs, New York: St. Martin's, 1988, stated first edition; Stephen King's The Shining, New York: Doubleday, 1977, stated first edition, with "R49" printed in the gutter of page 447; Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, New York: Random House, 1965, stated first printing, Book of the Month Club; Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange, New York: Norton, [1963], early edition, not the first; and James Ellroy's The Black Dahlia, New York: The Mysterious Press, 1987, first edition, signed on title and inscribed and signed on ffep; all volumes in very good condition, in original sound publisher's bindings, with very good dust jackets. (6)

Provenance: the Estate of Stratford W. Carter, Boston, Massachusetts.
Estimate $200-400


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Keywords

Norton, Curtis Gentry, Vincent Bugliosi, Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs, Stephen King, In Cold Blood, Month Club, Anthony Burgess, printing, A Clockwork Orange, James Ellroy, The Black Dahlia, Massachusetts