New York: Boni & Liveright, 1925. First edition. Two volumes. The trade edition, preceding the limited. One of Dreiser's most acclaimed books: a Haycraft-Queen title; on the Time 100 list; and made into a film in 1931 under this title and again in 1951 as "A Place in the Sun"..... Item #56145 More
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, (1951). First edition. A REVIEW COPY with slip laid in. Helvick was the pseudonym of Claud Cockburn, a noted British radical journalist. Born in Peking, China, in 1904, he was the scion of an aristocratic family--one of his ancestors was the British commander who ordered..... Item #51502 More
New York: Harper & Brothers, (1923). First edition. Six short stories, two of which ("Big Brother" and "Recoil") were each the basis for both a 1920s silent film and 1930s pre-code "talkie." 8vo red cloth boards stamped in black on front and spine; 367 pages. Very good in about very..... Item #71730 More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1926). First edition. A "Photoplay" edition, illustrated with colored plates after the scenes in the movie starring Douglas Fairbanks and with a montage of black-and-white movie stills on rear panel of the dust jacket. Red cloth boards stamped in black; 12 pages of ads at..... Item #54733 More
New York: Mysterious Press, (1984). First edition. A serial-killer thriller set in L.A.; the first installment in the "Lloyd Hopkins" trilogy. His third novel but first to be published in hardcover in the U.S. (the rest were issued here in paperback). Also, his first book to be adapted for film--made..... Item #54759 More
[New York]: Viking, (1997). First U.S. edition of AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. Advance uncorrected proofs. Small spot on title page near hinge, otherwise fine in glossy pictorial paperwraps. Basis for the successful film starring Renee Zellweger, Colin Firth and Hugh Grant. Item #34853 More
New York: Harcourt Brace & Co., (1935). First edition. O'Hara's second novel set in New York, this one loosely based on the life of socialite and flapper Starr Faithfull, whose unsolved death in 1931 became a tabloid sensation (Wikipedia). Adapted for the 1960 movie of the same name starring Elizabeth..... Item #56001 More
New York: Random House, (1969). First edition. Basis for the film starring Goldie Hawn, Edward Albert and Eileen Heckart. Eillen Heckart won an Academy Award for her supporting role in the film. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper. Near fine with a small bookstore stamp on..... Item #29091 More
New York: A. L. Burt, (1932). First edition. Photoplay novelization by Drago from the Frances Marion screenplay for the 1931 King Vidor-directed film featuring Wallace Beery and Jackie Cooper. Frontispiece and dust jacket illustrations from the movie stills. Bright and near fine in very good to near fine dust jacket..... Item #53646 More
New York: Harcourt and Brace, (1938). First U.S. edition. Memoir of the British-American actress whose break-out role was the title character in the 1935 film "Bride of Frankenstein." Or, more specifically, a memoir of her life with the husband whose stardom eclipsed her own, Charles Laughton, who says of her..... Item #72025 More
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1930. First edition. Her fictional story of the Oklahoma land rushes of the 1880s and 1890s which was made into a 1931 Oscar-winning movie of the same name with Richard Dix and Irene Dunne. Very good to near fine in like dust jacket with several nicks..... Item #52022 More
Santa Barbara: Neville, 1989. First edition. Slender 8vo gilt-stamped FULL BLACK LEATHER. An out-of-series copy from the LETTERED EDITION which was limited to 26 copies. SIGNED BY BURKE who provided the foreword to Willeford's posthumously published account of the filming of the 1974 film adaptation of his 1962 novel, COCKFIGHTER..... Item #71675 More
New York: Random House, (1950). First edition of the AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. A very nice copy of this Pulitzer Prize-winning play. Shirley Booth won both the Tony and an Oscar for her performances in the play and the film. Fine in dust jacket with a few closed tears and a...... Item #42921 More
New York: Doubleday, (2003). First edition. This run-away best seller was the second novel to feature Robert Langdon. Filmed with Tom Hanks in the starring role. Fine in fine dust jacket. Item #50614 More
New York: Doubleday, (2004). First illustrated edition. The popular novel, turned into a popular movie. A tall book, fine in pictorial dust jacket. Item #47146 More
(New York): HarperCollins Publishers, (1996). First edition. Her second book which was made into a good little film. Fine in fine dust jacket. Item #34163 More
(London): Duckworth, (1973). First edition. SIGNED BY BAINBRIDGE, "Best wishes, Beryl Bainbridge" (not to anyone in particular). A pyschological novel about the struggles of a repressed dressmaker and her sister to look after their 17-year-old niece, who is having a delusional affair with an American soldier during WWII (inspired by..... Item #51994 More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., (1927). First edition. Basis for the film of the same name. Second-state binding with clear "G" in "GANTRY." Bookplate with Keats quote, "The poetry of earth is never dead," on front endpaper. Light marks on pastedowns where items previously removed, corner creases to few..... Item #48166 More
circa 1947. First edition. "Peck...Bennett...Hemingway...only all three together could create this electric love story...with a vengeance!" Original color print ad for the Zoltan Korda-directed movie based on Hemingway's 1936 short story "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber." Approximately 10.25 x 14". Fine. Item #71616 More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1976. First edition. SIGNED BY ROBBINS on the half-title page. Subtle evidence of erasure to front endpaper otherwise fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket with touch of light wear. Housed in custom, molded clamshell case lettered in gilt on spine and with partial image from..... Item #55105 More
Westfield, New South Wales: The Writer's Coffee Shop, (2011). First edition, second state or printing, with numeral "I" on spine. (The first state, without the "I," was produced before it was to be a trilogy.) This copy with the lulu bar code number 90000 on the back cover. Front cover..... Item #53783 More
London: Faber and Faber, (1952). First edition in second state binding. Cloth just a bit rubbed otherwise fine in price-clipped dust jacket. Item #47257 More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1929. First edition. INSCRIBED BY HURST beneath the printed dedication ("To/ New York/ City of Cities"), "To David Kirschenbaum, with every good wish for success plus! Fannie Hurst. 1929." During her lifetime Hurst's books were extremely popular, making her somewhat of a celebrity--a platform she..... Item #56038 More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, (1957). First edition. Upper tips rubbed, otherwise near fine in very good dust jacket with a few closed edge tears, light edge rubbing, lightly soiled rear panel and slightly tanned spine. A bright, attractive copy of the book about San Francisco's Chinatown that later..... Item #30873 More