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
Greenwich, Connecticut: Fawcett Crest, (1976). Softcover. Later printing. Mass market paperback. Curling and some creasing else very good with previous owner name on the first page. Basis for the 1976 Mini series starring Richard Jordan, Harvey Jason and Patty Duke. More
New York: Richard R. Smith, 1930. Hardcover. First American edition. Owner name on the title page else near fine in an attractive, about very good dustwrapper with small chips at the spine ends, and some longer tears. A presentable copy of this uncommon novel about a notorious rogue elephant in..... More
New York: Vintage Books, (1972). Softcover. First Vintage Books edition. Mass market paperback. Lightly age-toned pages, spine creased, very good. The classic novel of dignity and camaraderie in the face of a devastating epidemic. Basis for the 1992 film *La Peste* with William Hurt, Robert Duvall, and Raul Julia. Camus'..... More
(New York): Warner Books, (1992). Softcover. First Warner Books edition. Trade paperback. Pages lightly age-toned, front edge of spine lightly worn, near fine. A novel and the basis for the 1995 made-for-tv movie titled by the same name starring Sam Elliott and Jerry O'Connell. More
New York: Random House, (1965). Softcover. First edition. Advance Reading Copy in self wrappers. Near fine with a small scrape on the front panel. Pulitzer Prize-winner for non-fiction. Capote's friend Harper Lee acted as his secretary during his investigations into the tragic Kansas murders and their aftermath. Basis for the..... More
New York: Random House, (1965). Softcover. Advance Reading Copy of the first edition. Soiling to the wrappers and a dampstain at the top of the spine, thus very good in self wrappers. Pulitzer Prize-winner for non-fiction. Capote's neighbor Harper Lee acted as his secretary during his investigations into the tragic..... More
New York: Random House, (1965). Hardcover. First edition. Very slightly cocked, else fine in a just about fine dustwrapper with a Kroch and Brentano's sticker on the rear panel. Signed by the author on a tipped-in leaf for the Kroch and Brentano's First Edition Circle. Pulitzer Prize-winner for non-fiction. Capote's..... More
New York: Random House, (1965). Hardcover. First edition. Very small stain on page edges, spine ends lightly sunned, near fine in a fair to good only age-toned dustwrapper completely split at the front joint, extremities chipped and torn. NOT the book club edition which often is offered as a first..... More
(New York): Macmillan, (1969). Hardcover. First edition. Introduction by John M. Culkin. Slight toning to the crown, else fine in fine dustwrapper with a little crease on the front flap. The story of the making of a film and the original Capote stories ("A Christmas Memory," "Miriam," "Among the Paths..... More
New York: Harper & Row, (1988). Hardcover. First American edition. Fine in slightly rubbed else fine dustwrapper. The basis for the film starring Ralph Fiennes and Cate Blanchett as two young Australians in the mid-nineteenth century obsessed by gambling. More
London: Heinemann, 1928. Hardcover. First English edition. Tiny tear at the crown, else near fine in a slightly spine faded, about fine dustwrapper with a tiny nick at the edge of the crown. First novel, set in Long Island, by an eighteen year-old American indicting the Jazz Age youth culture..... More
New York: Macmillan, 1933. Hardcover. First edition. Bookplate, and pastedowns slightly darkened as usual, about fine in moderately chipped good plus dustwrapper designed by Vera Bock. Signed by the author. Bestselling novel about a Yankee family that makes its living from the soil. Basis for the 1934 film directed by..... More
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, (1976). Softcover. Reprint. Trade paperback. Foreword by Rennard Strickland. Small nick in front wrapper, else fine. Purported autobiography of a Cherokee orphan that became a much beloved book before it was revealed that the author was not of Indian ancestry. Basis for a 1997..... More
(New York): Delacorte, (1980). Hardcover. Fourth printing. Foxed on the page edges else near fine in fine price-clipped dustwrapper. Purported autobiography of a Cherokee orphan that became a much beloved book before it was revealed that the author was not of Indian ancestry. Basis for a 1997 film, co-scripted by..... More
Garden City: Doubleday Doran, 1933. Hardcover. First edition. Small book label of novelist and television screenwriter Derek Marlowe on the front fly, slight soiling to the edges of the boards, near fine in very good dustwrapper with a modest chip on the front panel, a couple of tiny nicks and..... More
Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan, (1975). Hardcover. First edition. Fine in a lightly rubbed, else near fine dustwrapper. The 2005 James Mangold film *Walk the Line* starring Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon is primarily based on this, the first of two autobiographies by the country music legend. More
New York: Popular Library, (1945). Softcover. Reprint. Mass market paperback. Very good or better in wrappers, with spine slightly cocked and light general wear. By the author of *Laura*, this novel was the basis for the 1946 Lance Comfort film with Margaret Lockwood as a serial-killing widow, and Ian Hunter..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1943. Hardcover. First edition. A bit cocked, small tears and light fraying at the crown, a good copy in a price-clipped good later issue dustwrapper which is sunned at the spine and has some chipping on the front panel. An exceptional association copy of this title..... More
New York: Crown Publishers, (1984). Hardcover. First edition. Spine cocked, bowed boards else near fine in a fine dustwrapper. Signed by the author on the front fly. More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1959). Hardcover. First edition. A bit of foxing to the first and last couple of pages, else near fine in very good or better dustwrapper, with foxing on the flaps, and a few small tears, the worst of which is on the front panel. Second..... More
Indianapolis / New York: Bobbs-Merrill, (1946). Hardcover. First edition. Name on the front pastedown, some lightening to the cloth at the crown, a very good copy in near very good dustwrapper with shallow loss at the crown, and a couple of tears on the front panel. A comic novel revolving..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940. Hardcover. First edition. Lightly rubbed, near fine in very good dustwrapper with a chip on the front panel, some rubbing and short tears, and a faint, barely visible stain, but which is completely devoid of the restoration, repair, and sophistications usually visited upon copies..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940. Hardcover. First edition. Slightest bit cocked, still a lovely, fine copy lacking the dustwrapper. The author's second book, basis for the 1944 film *Murder, My Sweet* directed by Edward Dmytryk, with Dick Powell as Philip Marlowe. Remade in 1975 by Dick Richards with Robert..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1942. Hardcover. First edition. Date stamps on front pastedown and a small, faint stationers stamp on rear pastedown, presumably a private lending library copy, a bit cocked, smdging on one page, and a couple of pages dog-eared, a presentable, good copy without dustwrapper. More