Cool Hand Luke by Pearce Donn (102 results)

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Condition: Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

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Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. CLEAN near fine paperback. Photo cover. Movie tie-in with Paul Newman. paperback 1968 . D-1858.

Paperback. D-1858 good, creases Photo cover. Movie tie-in with Paul Newman. paperback,

paperback. Condition: Very Good. New York, 1986; illustrated paper covers; corners slightly bumped; 8vo - over 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; red notation on half-title page; interior clean and unmarked; 304 pages.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.33.

Softcover. Condition: Good. d1858. Light creasing and wear; pages yellowed; a good vintage paperback. Movie tie in cover. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Vintage Paperbacks; Inventory No: 225953.

softcover. Condition: Very Good. Scribner Signature Edition.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. GOOD softcover, no marks in text, tight binding. Book.

Paper Back. Condition: Near Fine. Lobby card, 11' X 17', captioned 'The man . . . and the motion picture that simply do noat conform.' No blemishes, rubbing or creases.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.3.

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Paperback. D-1858 very good -fine, reading crease Photo cover. Movie tie-in with Paul Newman. paperback,

Paperback. D-1858 almost near fine, unread Photo cover. Movie tie-in with Paul Newman. paperback,

Softcover. 12mo. Photo cover. Movie tie-in with Paul Newman. Very Near Fine with discreet name stamp on inside front cover and some of age-toning. Tight, clean and square.

Condition: Fair. 1967. First Edition Thus. 201 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Binding remains firm. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Water staining to pages throughout, text remains readable. Paper cover has moderate edgewear with small tears and creasing. Slight curling to corners. Light sunning to spine and edges.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Fair. Paperback book in good condition, but has dog eared tear on back cover, and crease in front cover.

Paperback. D-1858 near fine, unread Photo cover. Movie tie-in with Paul Newman. paperback,

Soft cover. Condition: Good. The cover has some very limited signs of wear including sunning to spine. The pages are good, clean and slightly browned on edges with no notes or underlinings.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Good Plus. 1st English Ed. First English edition. Peter Calcott cool jacket design. Not price clipped. Book is clean, square and tight. Pin hole on back spine fold. DJ has wear to spine ends and moderate wear to dj extremes. Large piece of the back bottom flap corner has been trimmed. Now in mylar.

Full Leather. Condition: Fine. 22 x 14.5 cm. Octavo. 304pp. Bound into full brown leather with gilt design, lettering, and foredges. 5 raised bands to spine. Part of the "Signed Modern Classics" series, signed by the author on the signature page. COA, also signed by the author, and "a note about" laid-in.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. OVERALL CONDITION: NEAR FINE/VERY GOOD Published in 1966 by Martin Secker & Warburg in London. First U.K. edition, first printing. In original grey cloth boards with spine gilt lettering and decoration and original dust jacket. Octavo, 304 pages. Cool Hand Luke is a novel by Donn Pearce. The novel is based on Pearce's personal experiences while incarcerated with a Florida prison road gang. The story is told in a first-person narrative from the perspective of a convict in a central Florida prison. He works on a chain gang maintaining the berms of highways. He recounts the story of a "legendary" fellow inmate whose nickname is Cool Hand Luke. According to Pearce, about a third of Cool Hand Luke is his own story, a third is based on the stories he heard while doing time at Raiford, and another third is pure fiction. After writing the first draft, he re-wrote it five times over a six-year period. It was adapted into the 1967 film Cool Hand Luke starring Paul Newman and featuring George Kennedy in an Oscar-winning performance. The most oft-repeated quote from the film, "What we've got here is a failure to communicate", never appeared in the novel. Pearce said the guards were "100% redneck", without multi-syllable vocabularies, who would never have said such an intellectually astute phrase." CONDITION: The book is in NEAR FINE (some would say FINE give its age) collectible condition. Colorful, unfaded, clean boards. Square spine, firm hinges and joints, tight pages. Lightly rubbed spine tips and edges and a former bookstore stamp on rear pastedown else FINE. Interior is clean with no writing or wear - text is bright white. The dust jacket is in VERY GOOD- condition - price clipped and right bottom of right flap deeply clipped with some loss of writing. Colorful cover art and very light soiling (impressive given white jacket). Edge wear creasing, particularly along top of flaps, a few tears on front panel chipping and small tears. Please note: As a collector of rare books for over 35 years, I know what it's like to receive items not matching the seller's descriptions or that were poorly packaged and damaged in transit. That is why I offer a 100% satisfaction, money back guarantee, and go to great lengths to accurately describe my rare, signed and collectible books and post pictures of the "actual book." I carefully package and ship your newly acquired treasure(s) and ship within 1 business day of receiving your order.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First English edition. Octavo. 304pp. Topedge trifle soiled and a bit of light offsetting on the endleaves, very near fine in a lightly toned, modestly rubbed and worn, very good dust jacket with a couple of tiny nicks and tears. A very presentable copy of the author's first novel, the basis for Stuart Rosenberg's classic prison film with Paul Newman and George Kennedy. Pearce, who also wrote the screenplay and has a bit role, was a reformed safecracker who had himself served time in a chain gang camp.

Draft script for the 1967 film. Specially bound copy belonging to producer Gordon Carroll, bound in full blue leather with Carroll's name in gilt on the bottom right corner of the front board. Based on the 1965 novel by Donn Pearce, who co-wrote the screenplay, about the experiences of a hard-nosed Vietnam veteran after he is sentenced to two years on a chain gang in a prison camp. Winner of a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for George Kennedy, and nominated for three others, including Best Adapted Screenplay. Set in Florida. Title page present, dated 9/29/66, with credits for screenwriters Frank R. Pierson and Hal Dresner, and novelist Donn Pearce. 152 leaves, with last page of text numbered 143A. Mimeograph duplication on eye-rest green stock, rectos only, with blue revision pages throughout, dated variously between 10/23/66 and 2/9/67. Pages Near Fine. National Film Registry. Ebert III.

Vintage studio still photograph of director Stuart Rosenberg and actor Paul Newman on the set of the 1967 film. With manuscript ink annotations on the verso. Based on the 1965 novel by Donn Pearce, who co-wrote the screenplay, about a convict who wins a bet to eat 50 hard-boiled eggs in an hour, and later suffers a failure of communication with the warden. Winner of a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for George Kennedy, and nominated for three others, including Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Actor for Newman. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus, with a light horizontal crease affecting the lower portion of the image. National Film Registry. Ebert III.

A first edition of book originally published in the US in 1965. Octavo, pp 304. Bound in cloth covered hard boards and in the original dust jacket, unclipped (21s net). Donn Pearce's debut novel about a Florida Road-Gang, Cool Hand Luke is best known for the 1967 film adaptation starring Paul Newman, for which Pearce received a nomination for Best Screenplay. A very good condition book, marred only by spotting on the top and leading edges of the page block. The dust wrapper is very good, with wear along the top edge and loss to the head of the spine. A rather uncommon UK first edition.

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition, first printing. [iv], 304 pp. Bound in publisher's cobalt blue cloth with spine lettered in chartreuse. Near Fine with light wear and soiling to cloth, and soft crease to upper corner of first 20 pages. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light wear, several scratches to rear panel, and a tiny puncture to upper spine fold. A nice copy of the prison novel that inspired the 1967 film starring Paul Newman.