(London): Nelson, (1969). Hardcover. Reprint. 16mo. Owner name on front fly, spine slightly cocked, very good in a very good dust jacket with small stain on front panel, light edgewear. The first book featuring adventurer Richard Hannay, and a *Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone*. Basis for Alfred Hitchcock’s early masterpiece with Robert Donat..... More
Cambridge: Granta Publications, 1987. Softcover. No. 22, Autumn 1987. Fine in wrappers. This issue features fiction by Hanif Kureishi, as well as his film diary from the production of the 1987 film *Sammy and Rosie Get Laid*, written by him and directed by Stephen Frears. More
New York: Viking, (1977). Hardcover. First edition. Fine in a fine dustwrapper. Prison novel by an ex-con. Bunker has appeared often as an actor in small, hip roles (most notably in *Reservoir Dogs* as Mr. Blue). Bunker also co-wrote the screenplay for another hit cult film, *Runaway Train*. This novel..... More
New York: Norton, (1973). Hardcover. First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with three modest tears. Advance Review Copy with slip and two promotional photos of the author from the book (one a pair of mug shots; the other a montage of photos of Bunker in prison). A brutal, hardboiled..... More
London: Constable & Company, (1938). Softcover. First edition. Small octavo. 80pp. Card wrappers with printed applied green dustwrapper. Theatre-themed bookplate of Theodore Johnson, else fine. Uncommon play. More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, (1988). Hardcover. First edition. Fine in modestly rubbed near fine dustwrapper. Second Robicheaux mystery, made into the 1996 film starring Alec Baldwin and Terri Hatcher. More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, (1988). Hardcover. First edition. Slight foxing on the foredge else near fine in near fine modestly rubbed dustwrapper with a short tear at the bottom of the rear flap fold. Second Robicheaux mystery, made into the 1996 film starring Alec Baldwin and Terri Hatcher..... More
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, (1933). Hardcover. First edition. Fine in a very good plus, spine-tanned dustwrapper. The basis for a John Ford film that featured Will Rogers in his final film role as the captain of a floating waxworks museum out to save an innocent man from hanging. A...... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1946. Hardcover. Early reprint. Octavo. 246pp. Black cloth with pictorial laid on front board. Newly illustrated by Reginald Birch with full page color and black and white sketches. Good only with some page corners torn off, pages and cloth modestly soiled, lacking the dustwrapper. Filmed..... More
New York: Center Books / Sun Dial Press, (1943). Hardcover. Reprint. Offsetting on endpapers with a bit of foxing, pages toned with faint foxing and soiling on edgestain, very good in a soiled, about very good dust jacket with interior thick brown tape reinforcements along the top and bottom of..... More
New York: Dial Press, 1930. Hardcover. First edition. Lower corners bumped and the spine lettering faded, thus near fine, lacking the dustwrapper. A novel about a prize-fighter that was the basis for two films, the first directed by Tod Browning in 1931 and featuring Lew Ayres and Jean Harlow; the..... More
New York: The Dial Press, 1958. Hardcover. New edition by W.R. Burnett. Foreword by Gilbert Seldes and a new introduction by W.R. Burnett. Bumped spine ends, near fine in a very good dustwrapper with chips, scrapes, and tears. Basis for the Mervyn LeRoy-directed film of the following year which provided..... More
New York: Dial, 1929. Hardcover. First edition. Bottom of the boards rubbed thus very good in very good or better dustwrapper with a couple of modest and professional internal mends (but no restoration), tiny nicks at the crown, and a creased tear at the top of the front panel near..... More
(New York): Grove Press, (1959). Hardcover. First American edition. Fine in very good or better first issue dustwrapper with a chip and small tears, mostly on the front panel. Basis for the David Cronenberg film featuring Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm, Julian Sands, and Roy Scheider. A beautiful copy..... More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1925). Hardcover. First edition. Light wear to the edges, easily near fine in a good only dustwrapper with spine tail torn off and laid in and short tears to the extremities. Young American working girl with a taste for luxury can capture no millionaire so..... More
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., (1946). Hardcover. First American edition. Light sunning, near fine in very good dustwrapper with a little rubbing and light wear on the spine. Inscribed by screenwriter Mel Dinelli to columnist Louella Parsons. Butler's first novel (first published in England in 1940), a reduced-size wartime..... More
1916-1973. Unbound. An archive of mystery writer James M. Cain’s personal contracts for nine of his novels and four motion picture adaptations. Overall near fine, with folds from being mailed or stored and light edge wear. This group of material come from the personal files of hard-boiled mystery writer James M...... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1947. Hardcover. First edition. Very slightly bowed else about fine in an about near fine dustwrapper with creasing and tiny tears. Basis for the 1982 film starring Stacy Keach, Pia Zadora and Orson Welles. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1934. Hardcover. First edition. Boards are slightly soiled and near fine, with a supplied proof dustwrapper which came directly from the estate of the artist Arthur Hawkins, Jr. The jacket has been folded with a crease at the spine, Knopf's small Borzoi logo has been..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1895. Hardcover. Ninth edition. Gilt decorated burgundy cloth. Modest edgewear, near fine. Basis for the 1929 movie by Alfred Hitchcock. More
New York: The American News Company, 1899. Hardcover. Later printing. 529pp. Decorative beige cloth stamped with green and black. Very good with a cocked spine, cracked gutters, and rubbing. Basis for the 1929 movie by Alfred Hitchcock. More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1923. Hardcover. First American edition. Edges of the pages lightly soiled, else near fine in very good dustwrapper with moderate soiling and a few nicks and tears. A story of the romance between a French farm girl and a German P.O.W. during WWI. Basis..... More
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[No place]: United Artists Corporation, 1958. Unbound. Approximately 14" x 36". Neat old folds as issued and a couple of small smudges, else very near fine. Poster for the 1958 film based on the Erskine Caldwell novel. The well-regarded film was directed by Anthony Mann and featured Robert Ryan, Aldo..... More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1932). Hardcover. Later printing. Lightly soiled pages with pen mark on rear pastedown, penned name on front board, corners frayed and spine cocked, a good only copy lacking the dustwrapper. Southern gothic novel. More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1932). Hardcover. Reprint. Light dampstain on top page edges, owner's name penned on front pastedown, spine ends bumped and cocked, about very good in a good only dampstained dustwrapper with spine ends and corners chipped. More