Hal Ellson Novel (3 results)

Collection of 30 vintage press photographs and contact sheets from promotional events for the 1960 French-Italian film, here under the original French title, "Terrain vague." All photographs housed in a large brown folder with the French title in manuscript ink on the flap. Based on Hal Ellson's groundbreaking 1950 cult novel "Tomboy." Dan (Gaubert) is a tough gang leader who dresses and fights like a man. She and two others, including Babar (Bras) are ostracized due to their behavior, and she falls in love with Lucky (Cafarelli) while Babar commits suicide. A late entry for film noir regular and poetic realist Carné, whose notable credits include "Port of Shadows" (1938), "The Devil's Envoys" (1942), and "Children of Paradise" (1945). Set in Paris. Photos range in size from 4.75 x 6.75 inches to 9 x 11.25 inches. Very Good plus overall, foxing to versos, light curling and rubbing.…

Six vintage press photographs for the 1960 film. Housed in a brown paper envelope, presumably as issued. Envelope with manuscript ink annotation. Loosely based on the 1950 novel, "Tomboy" by Hal Ellson. A teenage girl tomboy is the leader of a gang of other young people. The crimes they commit become more serious, leading her and two other members to be ostracized and on the run. Set in the Paris suburbs. 7.25 x 5 inches. Good with foxing at the right and left side of the photographs and some wear to the finish.…

Ellson, Hal. Tomboy. New York: Bantam Books 1950. Cover art by Robert Maguire of a young woman smoking a cigarette, watching as a couple embraces in a dark alleyway. A dark city skyline looms overhead. Tagline reads: "A shocking novel of teen-age gang life in the slums of Manhattan." 198 pages, 4" x 6.5." Harold "Hal" Ellson's work focused primarily on juvenile delinquency. Ellson was a social worker, recreational therapist, and nurse's aide at Bellevue Hospital, where he encountered the adolescent psychiatric patients on whom he based much of his fiction. Binding is fragile but holding. There is a loss of illustration the size of 2 quarters above the title, likely from pulling off a sticker label and does not affect the main image of the cover, since it is at the top. Otherwise good to fair condition.…