Michael Chabon Novel (2 results)

Wonder Boys (Original screenplay for the 2000 film)
Curtis Hanson (director); Michael Chabon (novel); Steve Kloves (screenwriter); Michael Douglas, Tobey Maguire, Frances McDormand, Robert Downey, Jr. (starring)
Published by Paramount Pictures, Hollywood, 1997
- Softcover
- Manuscript / Paper Collectible
Seller: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.Royal Books, Inc., ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerMaster Draft script for the 2000 film, preceding the film's release by three years. Notations on the front wrapper in manuscript pencil. Based on Chabon's 1995 novel. Professor Grady Tripp (Douglas) teaches creative writing in Pittsburgh, struggles writing his second novel, and smokes marijuana in his free time. His wife has left him, and he is having an affair with the Chancellor of the university (McDormand). Grady's editor (Downey, Jr.) inquires about the novel, but becomes interested in a book by one of Grady's students (Maguire), as well as having other, more intimate intentions. Shot on location throughout Pennsylvania. Bob Dylan won an Academy Award for his original song, "Things Have Changed," and the film was nominated for two more. Blue wrappers, noted as MASTER W/ SCENE NUMBERS on the front wrapper. Title page present, dated December 1997, with credits for novelist Chabon and screenwriter Kloves. 129 leaves, with last page of text numbered 128. Xerographically reproduced. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good plus, bound with two gold brads.…

Published by The Folio Society, London, 2021
- First Edition
Seller: Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA, Stephenson, VA, U.S.A.Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerAssociation member: ABAA
First Folio Society Edition. First Impression, one of 2,500 copies. Octavo (23cm); original pictorial cloth boards; publisher's gray paper-covered slipcase; viii,[2],3-183,[1]pp; illus. Fine in a Fine slipcase, housed in the publisher's lightly worn and gently opened original glassine overlay.Handsome edition of McCarthy's tenth novel, charting the harrowing journey of a father and his young son navigating the postapocalyptic landscape of the southern United States. This edition with illustrations throughout by Gérard DuBois, with an afterword by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2007, and basis for the 2009 John Hillcoat film starring Viggo Mortenson. 9019.…