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Thomas, Dylan.
The Doctor and the Devils.
Publisher: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., London;
Date of Publication: 1953
Stock Code: 7081
FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. [4], 138. Publishers’ scarlet cloth with gilt titles to spine in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Cover cloth faintly toned top edge; small ink-stains to p.14 otherwise contents clean; no annotation or inscriptions. Jacket lightly toned and foxed with soiling to white panels; top edge a little creased with minor loss at head of spine. A Very Good copy in like jacket. Film scenario from the story by Donald Taylor, based on the case of Burke and Hare the Edinburgh body-snatchers, with Taylor’s “The Story of the Film” to rear. The film was finally produced in 1985 and this was the first time a script was published ahead of the film release. £25.00