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London: Pan Books, 1960. Please email for further details. Signed By a "K Pascoe" on Cover. 4th Printing 1965. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good ( AVERAGE)/No Jacket. Illus. by Not Illustrated. Mass Market Paperback. Mass Market Paperback.

bordi della sopracopertina stanchi, piccoli segni di fioritura in prima pagina . All'interno in buone condizioni. Il nostro libro à impreziosito dalla dedica autografa di uno dei due autori ( Giorgio Capuano ) . B006GE9R76 Buono (Good) .

Revised Shooting Final script for the 1957 film. Presentation copy belonging to producer Jerry Wald, with his name in gilt on the spine. 16 reference photographs bound in variously among the script pages. Jerry Wald is best remembered for his long and successful association with Warner Brothers as both a screenwriter and producer of a number of notable films, including "Mildred Pierce" (1945), "Humoresque" (1946), "Key Largo" (1948), and "Flamingo Road" (1949). In the 1950s he moved to Twentieth Century-Fox, and was the producer there for "An Affair to Remember" (1957), "Peyton Place" (1957), and "Sons and Lovers" (1960). Based on the successful 1956 novel by Grace Metalious, about the various hypocrisies hidden in a small New England town in the years surrounding World War II. Nominated for nine Academy Awards. Set in the fictional town of Peyton Place, shot on location in Maine and New York. Bound in light blue cloth with navy quarter leather binding, with five raised bands and gilt titles on the spine. Title page present, dated May 22, 1957, noted as Revised Shooting Final, with credits for screenwriter John Michael Hayes and novelist Grace Metalious. 188 leaves, with last page of text numbered 164. Mimeograph duplication on eye-rest green stock, rectos only, with blue revision pages throughout, dated variously between X and X. Pages Near Fine, binding Very Good plus, lightly toned on the front board.

First edition of this landmark in twentieth-century American popular culture, which spawned a successful feature film and a long-running prime time television series soap opera. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author shortly after publication, "To Jay Dupuis with best wishes, Grace Metalious. Oct. 10, 1956." The initial first edition was released on September 24, 1956 and the print run was minimal, as it was Metalius' first book. It sold 60,000 copies within the first ten days of its release and remained on the New York Times best seller list for 59 weeks. The recipient was a relative of Metalious' son-in-law Edward Dupuis. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Signed and inscribed first editions are rare. Metalious' Peyton Place describes how three women are forced to come to terms with their identity, both as women and as sexual beings, in a small, conservative, gossipy New England town, with recurring themes of hypocrisy, social inequities and class privilege in a tale that includes incest, abortion, adultery, lust and murder. It sold 60†000 copies within the first ten days of its release and remained on the New York Times best seller list for 59 weeks. The novel spawned a franchise that would run through four decades. Twentieth Century-Fox adapted it as a major motion picture in 1957, and Metalious wrote a follow-up novel that was published in 1959, called Return to Peyton Place, which was also filmed in 1961 using the same title. The original 1956 novel was adapted again in 1964, in what became a wildly successful prime time television series for 20th Century Fox Television that ran until 1969, and the term "Peyton Place" an allusion to any small town or group that holds scandalous secrets entered into the American lexicon. An NBC daytime soap opera, titled Return to Peyton Place, ran from 1972 to 1974, and the franchise was rounded out with two made-for-television movies, which aired in 1977 and 1985.