NY/London: Harper & Brothers, (1922). Hardcover. First edition. Green cloth stamped in mustard. Contemporary owner's gift inscription on front fly, spine cocked, corners bumped, very good lacking the dustwrapper. Romance and adventure in the Texas oil fields. Basis for a 1940 Alfred E. Green film featuring John Garfield, Frances Farmer..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, (1922). Hardcover. First edition. Fine in very near fine dustwrapper with a couple of very short tears. Wraparound jacket art by W.H.D. Koerner. Romance and adventure in the Texas oil fields. Basis for a 1940 Alfred E. Green film featuring John Garfield, Frances Farmer, and..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1925. Hardcover. First edition. Finish of the binding is a bit worn, a near very good copy in a near very good, price-clipped dustwrapper with publisher's printed label affixed to the front panel stating: "'The Michigan Kid' Rex Beach's Best Known Story is included in..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1913. Hardcover. Advance copy of the first edition in salmon papercovered boards with printed white label mounted on front board. Illustrated by M. Leone Bracker. Lacking the front fly, front hinge starting, spine faded and chipped, light dampstains on boards, a good only copy. Basis..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, (1913). Hardcover. First edition. 390 [1]pp. Red cloth boards with gilt decorations and an applied color illustration on the front board. Illustrated with black and white plates. Bookseller's ticket, spine crown lightly bumped with a short tear, near fine. Basis for the 1921 film directed..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1926. Hardcover. First edition. Gift inscription else fine in near fine dustwrapper with small chips at the crown. Young girl aspires to become a singer in the big city. Basis for the 1926 film directed by Allan Dwan, and featuring Lois Moran, Noah Beery, and..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1926. Hardcover. First edition. Near fine with a faded spine, lacking a dustwrapper. Young girl aspires to become a singer in the big city. Basis for the 1926 film directed by Allan Dwan, and featuring Lois Moran, Noah Beery, and Louise Dresser, with Richard Arlen..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1929. Hardcover. First edition. Neat owner name on the verso of the front fly, spine lettering dull, small, faint stains on two facing pages of text, an about very good copy lacking the dustwrapper. Signed by the author in the year of publication, in Sebring..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1906 (but probably 1923). Hardcover. Reprint. Some spotting on front board, else near fine in in fine dustwrapper with a small chip on the front panel. Beach's first novel. Basis for several films, most notably the 1942 version with Randolph Scott, Marlene Dietrich, and John..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1906. Hardcover. First edition. Slightly cocked in attractive, though rubbed, illustrated boards with wear the extremities and spot on lower front board very good plus. Beach's first novel. Basis for several films, most notably the 1942 version with Randolph Scott, Marlene Dietrich, and John Wayne..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1906. Hardcover. First edition. Pictorial light blue cloth stamped in black, white, and peach, gilt-stamped spine title. Illustrated by Clarence F. Underwood. Spine cocked, owner's name penned on front pastedown, small stains on pages 2 and 3, else very good. Basis for several films, most..... More
New York: Holt Rinehart Winston, (1964). Hardcover. First edition. Slight offsetting on the front endpapers else fine in slightly wrinkled very good or better dustwrapper with a short tear at the crown. Beaton's diary of the shooting of the film, for which he provided sets and costumes. An attractive copy..... More
New York: Century Company, (1933). Hardcover. First edition. Large octavo. Generously illustrated from photographs. Fine in a very lightly worn, fine dustwrapper. Autobiography of an Ohio runaway who became the world's most famous animal tamer. Filmed in 1933 by director Kurt Neumann with Beatty playing himself, and with a cast..... More
New York: Dial, (1980). Hardcover. First edition. Small owner name and stamp on the front pastedown, slight paper adherence to the front board from the inside of the jacket, still about fine in fine dustwrapper with two tiny tears. Excellent and offbeat private eye novel about a detective who becomes..... More
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, (1931). Hardcover. First edition. A tiny tear at the crown thus near fine in a spine-tanned, near very good dustwrapper (designed by "Jung"). Actor Hume Cronyn's copy with his bookplate and ownership Signature on the front fly, and small owner's stamp on the front panel..... More
New York: Random House, (1939). Hardcover. First edition. A modest stain on the front fly, else fine in an attractive, very good dustwrapper with some slight age-toning and tiny nicks at the spine ends. A play originally written for Katherine Cornell and Laurence Olivier (illustrated on the jacket's front panel..... More
New York: Pantheon, (1993). Softcover. Advance Reading Copy. Fine in wrappers. Author's fourth book, basis for the Barry Levinson film *Wag the Dog* with an excellent ensemble cast including Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro, Anne Heche, Dennis Leary, Willie Nelson, Kirsten Dunst, William H. Macy, and Woody Harrelson. More
New York: Pantheon, (1993). Hardcover. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Basis for the film *Wag the Dog.*. More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1912). Hardcover. Reprint. Very good in pictorial boards, with a slightly cocked spine, very light soiling. More
New York: Norton, (1990). Hardcover. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Author's second novel. Blurbs from Anne Tyler, Gail Godwin and James Dickey. Basis for an interesting but uneven film that featured Marisa Tomei, Angelica Huston, Chazz Palminteri and Alfred Molina. More
New York: Norton, (1990). Hardcover. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Author's second novel. Blurbs from Anne Tyler, Gail Godwin and James Dickey. Basis for an interesting but uneven film that featured Marisa Tomei, Angelica Huston, Chazz Palminteri and Alfred Molina. More
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1991). Hardcover. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. An occult thriller. Basis for the underrated 2002 film starring Goran Visnjic and Shirley Henderson. More
London: T.V. Boardman & Company Limited, (1958). Hardcover. First edition. A little cocked thus very good in a bit soiled, very good dustwrapper with a couple of discreet stains. Inscribed by the author: "Kay darling with my love, Mary." A fable for children, basis for the film of the same..... More
London: T.V. Boardman & Company Limited, (1958). Hardcover. First edition. Very near fine in an about very good dustwrapper with an ink squiggle on the front panel, several small chips and tears, and with clippings for the world premiere of the stage version and for the film laid in. Inscribed..... More
