The Twilight Zone Scripts of Charles Beaumont by Beaumont Charles (2 results)

Soft cover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Advance readers copy, AS NEW copy, full-color cover galley proof of THE TWILIGHT ZONE SCRIPTS OF CHARLES BEAUMONT VOL. 1. Beaumont, who is credited with writing 22 episodes of the Twilight Zone, is considered one of the major writers for the series, next to Richard Matheson. Beaumont died in 1967 at the age of 38. The volumes will be edited by Roger Anker, who had also edited Charles Beaumont: Selected Stories, which won the 1989 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection. We are only publishing those scripts Beaumont wrote alone (not those co-written or ghost-written). Each volume will contain at least one unproduced script. This is an 8 1/2 x 11 oversized book with the scripts as Beaumont wrote them (not typeset), with an introduction by Richard Matheson and afterword by Earl Hamner. The book will appear ONLY as a signed limited edition. With only a small number of galleys being made available to reviewers this 435 page galley is bound to become a hot collectible. The Table of Contents is as follows: Preface: by Christopher Beaumont Foreword: by Richard Matheson Prologue: by Roger Anker "Perchance to Dream" (Season One) "A Nice Place to Visit" (Season One) "The Howling Man" (Season Two) "The Prime Mover" (Season Two) "The Jungle" (Season Three) "Person or Persons Unknown" (Season Three) "In His Image" (Season Four) "Passage on the Lady Anne" (Season Four) "Gentlemen, Be Seated" (Unproduced teleplay -- Final Draft -- no revisions) Epilogue: by Roger Anker Afterword: by Earl Hamner.

Oversize hardcover. First edition (& 1st printing). Volume One. Preface by Christopher Beaumont, foreword from Richard Matheson, afterword by Earl Hammer, Epilogue by editor Robert Anker. LIMITED EDITION: 52 lettered copies signed by all three contributors in traycase. This is letter ''U''. This lettered edition also contains extra material in the form of GENTLEMEN, BE SEATED, a 30-page ''unproduced teleplay - final draft'' by Beaumont, bound in at the rear of the book. Also included is a separate 12-page booklet (available nowhere else) of a short story, THE CHILD, also by Charles Beaumont. Fine copy in a fine dustjacket and pictorial traycase (as new).