SCRIPT OF PSYCHO

Mimeographed Manuscript, 95 pp, legal folio, n.p., May 6, 1960, in two-column visual/audio format, bound at left margin with staples, title page moderately toned, small stain at lower left and center right, some wear to corners. In custom clamshell box.
Provenance: Serendipity Books (receipt laid in); the Richard Manney Collection.

Just as early moviegoers were asked not to spoil the film’s shocking ending for other viewers, those on Paramount’s exhibition end were also warned: a note stamped boldly to the upper left corner reads, “Until the release of ‘Psycho’ in your territory, it is important that release dialogue scripts be withheld from all persons except those who have valid reasons to have access to them before that time.”