Edward Wolfe. London: William Jackson (Joiner & Steele), 1932. First edition, limited issue. Frontispiece by Edward Wolfe, foreword by Osbert Sitwell. Number 24 of 550 copies SIGNED BY COLLIER. The story of a man-eating orchid surmised by some to be the basis for the 1960 film of THE LITTLE SHOP..... Item #55011 More
New York: George H. Doran Company, (1925). First edition. Full-page illustrations preceding each chapter and dust jacket illustration by Theodore Nadejen. Adapted by Heyward with wife Dorothy, a playwright, in 1927 for the play of the same name. They later worked with composer George Gershwin on the 1935 light opera..... Item #53824 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
No-place: No-publisher, 1985. First edition, "Second draft, March 1985." An unproduced screenplay by Papas based on Nabokov's 1938 novel; a remake of the 1969 French-British film which changed the story's setting from 1930's Berlin to 1960's London. According to John Colapinto in The New Yorker, this planned 1986 remake was..... Item #53842 More
New York: Doubleday & McClure Co., 1899. First edition, first issue with last word p.106, "moment." A story of jealousy and greed. Basis for the 1916 silent film of the same name and one in 1924 called "Greed." Also the basis for the more current but very loose adaptation "Slow..... Item #54004 More
London: W. H. Allen, 1959. First edition of his first book. Nine related stories including the title one which was the basis for the 1962 film of the same name with screenplay by Sillitoe. A poor Nottingham teenager with bleak prospects turns to long-distance running for emotional and physical escape..... Item #54092 More
Zurich: Buchergilde Gutenberg, 1950. First edition of his last book. Second issue with translator's name on verso of title page [Treverton 927(2)]. German text. Made into a 1960 supernatural drama film directed by Roberto Gavaldon -- the first Mexican film to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign..... Item #54053 More
Boston: James R. Osgood and Co., 1873. First U. S. edition and first edition in English. Presumed first issue without the translator's name on title page. Basis for the 1956 movie "Around the World in Eighty Days" starring David Niven, Noel Coward, Jon Gielgud, et al. 16mo blue cloth boards..... Item #53945 More
(New York): New Directions Book, (1950). First edition in first issue rose-colored cloth. In Alvin Lustig dust jacket. The Tony Award-winning Broadway and basis for the Oscar Award-winning 1955 movie starring Anna Magnani and Burt Lancaster for which Williams wrote the screenplay. Near fine in like dust jacket with just..... Item #54333 More
(New York): New Directions Book, (1947). First edition. Pulitzer Prize-winning play made into the Elia Kazan Academy Award-winning film. Light bumping along lower edges otherwise near fine with the lavender pictorial boards showing very little of the fading which is endemic with this book; in very good or better dust..... Item #53823 More