New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1941. First edition. Posthumously published. Edited and with an introduction by Edmund Wilson, who proposes in his foreword that it is worthwhile to read GREAT GATSBY in connection with THE TYCOON because the former shows what Fitzgerald was aiming to do in the latter. Made..... Item #55987 More
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (1997). First edition. SIGNED by Frazier on title page. His first book, a National Book Award winner and basis for the 2003 movie starring Nicole Kidman, Jude Law, and Renee Zellweger. First issue with "man-woman" for "mad-woman" p. 25. Fine in fine dust jacket with..... Item #56124 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: 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: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. First edition. Scarce uncorrected proof; in blue, printed paperwraps. AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, one of the surprise hits at the time. Made into a film in 2005. Crease to back cover extending to last several pages otherwise near fine. Item #50511 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
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
New York: Penguin Press, 2005. First edition. AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, a book of short stories. The first story, "The Minor Wars," was expanded into the novel, THE DESCENDENTS, which was the basis for the Academy Award-winning movie of the same name starring George Clooney. Fine in dust jacket. Both this..... Item #50225 More
New York: Simon and Schuster, (1965). First edition. A novel of the underbelly of New York City life in the sixties. Basis for the movie starring Dustin Hoffman and John Voight. Very good or better with edges rubbed, spine ends sunned and page edges lightly foxed. In fine dust jacket..... Item #54191 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: Cresset Press, 1950. First UK edition. Her first book. She is known for her psychological thrillers, which led to more than two dozen film adaptations. This title has been adapted for stage and screen numerous times, notably by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951. The book is fine but for the..... Item #53190 More
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, (1945). First edition. Basis for the 1948 film starring Edward G. Robinson. Cornell George Hopley-Woolrich, better known as Cornell Woolrich, also wrote under the name "William Irish." Very nearly fine in dust jacket with few tiny tears to head of spine, spine ends and corners..... Item #49180 More
(London: Curwen and Sons, 1929). First appearance in print, a slightly abridged version preceding the first edition of the book. Being the whole issue of the monthly journal "Life and Letters" edited by Desmond McCarthy (Volume III, Number 15, August 1929). Basis for the 1965 motion picture starring Anthony Quinn..... Item #54881 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: 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: 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
(London): Bloomsbury, (1998). True first edition, preceding all others. Uncorrected proof, the earliest noted, in gold-colored, printed paperwraps, versus pictorial. Basis for the movie "The Door in the Floor" starring Jeff Bridges and Kim Basinger, which Irving co-wrote. Near fine, with just a touch of minor rubbing to tips. Item #50809 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
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1982). First American edition of this monumental tale that reminded us all how base we humans can be, and how heroic. Booker Award winner, published in London as SCHINDLER'S ARK. Basis for the movie of the same name. Fine in dust jacket with tiny chip..... Item #46503 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
New York: The Viking Press, (1963). First U.S. edition. Fine in dust jacket with some rubbing, light soiling to rear panel and some fading to pink background on spine and front flap fold. The basis for the movie which starred Natalie Wood. Item #35911 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
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
London: Michael Joseph, (1939). First edition. Author's first book. Basis for the Academy Award-winning film of the same name directed by John Ford and starring Maureen O’Hara, Walter Pidgeon, and Roddy McDowall. Near fine in slightly spine toned dust jacket with professional repair. Scarce, especially in dust jacket. SCARCE IN..... Item #54192 More