Fine Books & Manuscripts

HJORTSBERG, William (1941–2017). Falling Angel, association copy signed by director and film producers with TLS from Robert Evans. [New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978]. 8vo. Publisher’s cloth backed boards, original unclipped dust jacket. Early edition (letters on copyright only). INSCRIBED AND TRIPLE-SIGNED by the noted film producer Robert Evans, co-producer Dick Sylbert, and director John Frankenheimer on front free endpaper. This copy was presented to Scott Ferguson, a Barnes & Noble executive, with an accompanying typed letter addressed to Ferguson from Evans on his Paramount stationery, praising the book and writing that the trio had committed to adapting the book into a film, enthusiastically writing “let’s work together to make FALLING ANGEL the surprise novel of the year. I promise you; you will be giving your readers a great treat and a unique read…” Paramount’s options later expired and the three would not go on to produce or direct the film. In 1985, the film adaption was picked up by Carolco Studios and Alan Parker at Pinewood Studios. The film was released in 1987 under the name of “Angel Heart” that starred Mickey Rourke and Robert De Niro.