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
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): Viking, (1987). First edition. Basis for the 2009 movie starring Albert Finney, Jill Clayburgh, Kathryn Erbe, Kyle MacLachlan, and Ethan Hawke. ASSOCIATION COPY INSCRIBED BY HUMPHREYS on title page, "For Walter & Jane/ with great pleasure/ at seeing you again --/ and in hopes of another/ meeting soon!/..... Item #72195 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
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 edition. Basis for the 1965 movie of the same name starring Natalie Wood, Christopher Plummer, Robert Redford, Roddy McDowall, et al. Fine in very good or better dust jacket with pink area of spine toned to cream and rubbed, flattened creasing at spine..... Item #35911 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
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
Indianapolis: Bobbs- Merril Co., (1913). First edition. Color illustrations by Andre Castaigne and black-and-white illustrations by Arthur William Brown. MacGrath's 8th mystery, the basis for the 1921 silent film "Not Guilty." Fine, bright copy with just a hint of soiling on top edge; in bright, good or better, full wrap-around..... Item #54338 More
Los Angeles: Cannon Films, 1986. First edition thus. "[A] horror film in the form of a tough guy murder mystery." Fifth revision of the shooting script dated October 28, 1986. Filming began on the 27th, so assume the final or close to final draft. Printed on pale pink paper, rectos..... Item #55785 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: Harper & Brothers, 1910. First edition. Set in Ireland during the reign of William of Orange and dealing with the attempt of James II to retake his throne. Based on McCarthy's 1910 play of the same name. Frontis photograph Herbert Tree and Evelyn D'Alroy (The O'Flynn and Lady..... Item #55097 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
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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