THE FILM OF MURDER IN THE CATHEDRAL.
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
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;: A. L. Burt, [c. 1923]. PHOTOPLAY EDITION, presumed later printing without date on title page and with copyright page blank. Illustrated with four full-page stills, including the frontis, from the 1923 Universal film directed by Wallace Worsley and starring Lon Chaney as the hunchback, Quasimodo. Spine lettering faded..... Item #54695 More
New York: The Macaulay Co., (1928). First American edition. Basis for the French movie "Nuits De Princes." Translated by Jack Kahane, writer and publisher who founded the Obelisk Press in Paris in 1929 after his publisher, Grant Richards, went bankrupt. Kahane mixed serious work with smut in his list of..... Item #49669 More
New York: Covici Freide, (1933). True first edition of this Pulitzer Prize-winning play. Illustrated with photographs from the stage production. Basis for the 1934 film starring Clark Gable and Myrna Loy. Faint pale-green stain to lower cover edges (not affecting spine) otherwise would be a crisp near fine copy of..... Item #54807 More
London: William Heinemann, (1944). First UK edition, preceded by the U.S. The story of a former American fighter pilot searching for meaning in his life. Basis for the 1946 movie starring Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, and Anne Baxter (who won an Oscar for her role), as well as the 1984..... Item #54201 More
New York: The Dial Press, 1966. First edition. INSCRIBED BY MCMURTRY TO PAUL "DR. Z" ZIMMERMAN and first wife, "For Paul and Katie Zimmerman, How it is in Texas - or, at least, how it was - With my Best wishes, Larry McMurtry." Light foxing to endpapers and page edges..... Item #54150 More
Haag: Zuid-Hollandsche Uitgevers Maatschappij (S. Holland Pub. Co), [1937]. Dutch edition, complete in three volumes: "Vuur Over Land [Land on Fire]"; "Als Een Vlam in de Storm [Like a Flame in a Storm]"; "Het Zaad Ontikiemt [The Seed Sprouts]." Illustrated by renowned Dutch artist Anton Pieck with color frontispieces from..... Item #49736 More
(London): Hodder and Stoughton, (1943). First edition thus: first UK photoplay edition in dust jacket with stylized photo of Bette Davis in the Warner Brothers production on front panel. 12mo flexible orange cloth boards with black lettering to spine and blindstamped rule and design on front cover and spine. Extra-illustrated..... Item #71561 More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1941. First edition. One of the author's best-known works. Basis for the Bette Davis movie featuring Claude Rains and Paul Henreid. Near fine with only light rubbing to edges; in good to very good dust jacket with edges and folds rubbed and showing few chips and..... Item #46630 More
New York: David McKay, (1974). First edition. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and basis for the 1993 film "Gettysburg" starring Tom Berenger, Martin Sheen, Stephen Lang and Jeff Daniels. Considered by many to be one of the best novels on the Civil War, KILLER ANGELS has at times been required..... Item #71785 More
Mexico: Ediciones Estela, 1946. Mexican edition, first edition thus. Published a year before the first U.S. edition. Off-white paperwraps with printed flaps; spine and rear cover printed in black, and front cover printed in black and red with image of a prospector gazing at distant mountains, shovel raised high. Bookplate..... Item #53977 More
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1915. First edition. INSCRIBED, "The spirit of American equality for which their forefathers bled and died on the battlefields of Boston, New York and Vicksburg- To Charles W. Myers, Jr. Greetings from Harry Leon Wilson." A story of an upper class Lord losing his..... Item #41855 More