London: Chatto & Windus, 1960. Hardcover. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with some tiny, insignificant tears at the crown. Author's first novel. Bryan Forbes wrote and directed the 1962 film featuring Leslie Caron as a young and pregnant French woman in a London boarding house, also with Anthony Booth..... More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1960. Unbound. Uncorrected proof. A bit cocked, splits at the edges of the spine, else a very good copy in printed wrappers. Author's first novel. Bryan Forbes wrote and directed the 1962 film featuring Leslie Caron as a young and pregnant French woman in a London..... More
London: Hamish hamilton, (1961). Hardcover. First edition. Near fine with bumping to crown of spine in very good plus dustwrapper with very light edgewear and soiling. Basis for 1962 film directed by Peter Glenville starring Laurence Olivier. More
Chicago: Reilly & Britton Co., (1915). Hardcover. First edition. Cloth with applied illustration. Illustrated with photos from the play. Owner name front fly, some letters in red pencil on the illustration on the front board, else a near fine copy. Apparently novelized from the author's own play, which itself was..... More
New York: St. Martins, (1980). Hardcover. First American edition. Fine in fine, unrubbed black dustwrapper with a touch of the usual flaking to the silver lettering. The author's first book, winner of the Somerset Maugham Award and basis for the film with Emily Watson. The American edition is surprisingly scarce..... More
Encino, California: Dickenson Publishing Company, (1972). Softcover. Later printing. Trade paperback. 193pp. Some pen underlining and marginalia, dampstain on foredges, good only. More
London: Heinemann, (1969). Hardcover. First English edition. Very faint dampstain on rear board, light sunning on edges, very good in a good only dustwrapper with internal dampstain and a few small tears. Basis for the movie *Pieces of Dreams* starring Robert Forster and Lauren Hutton. More
London: Heinemann, (1969). Hardcover. First English edition. Faint offsetting to the endpapers, lightly soiled page edges, very good in a fine dustwrapper with modest edgewear. Basis for the movie *Pieces of Dreams* starring Robert Forster and Lauren Hutton. More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1924). Hardcover. First edition. Photoplay edition. Brief gift inscription on the first white page, else fine in near fine dustwrapper that has been internally reinforced with brown paper at the extremities. Novelized from the original 1890s play by the same author, who apparently borrowed much..... More
New York: John Day Company, 1929. Hardcover. First edition. Top edge a little soiled, about fine in attractive, very near fine dustwrapper with a small chip on the front flap. Novel of four young American men in World War One. Scarce in jacket. More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1918. Hardcover. First American edition. A little offsetting on the endpapers, near fine in attractive very good or better dust jacket wrapper with some staining on the front panel near the flap fold. Basis for the 1937 film. Scarce in jacket. More
New York: St. Martin's Press, (1984). Hardcover. First edition. Slightest toning to front endpapers else fine in fine dustwrapper. Barris's wacky autobiography made into an interesting film directed by George Clooney with a Charlie Kaufman screenplay, and featuring Clooney, Sam Rockwell, Julia Roberts, and Drew Barrymore, and with cameos by..... More
New York: Samuel French, (1931). Hardcover. First edition. Fine in an attractive, near very good dustwrapper with a horizontal tear near the bottom of the spine, and some shallow chipping. Basis for the 1932 film directed by Richard Wallace and featuring Ruth Chatterton, Robert Ames, and Paul Lukas. More
New York: French, 1929. Hardcover. First edition thus, heavily revised from the 1923 Brentanos publication. Top of the spine worn down to the pages and the spine lettering faded but readable, good plus lacking the dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author: "To Hope and Edgar with love from Phil, 18 March..... More
New York: Macmillan, 1950. Unbound. Uncorrected proof of the first American edition, in the form of unbound signatures laid into an example of the finished dust jacket. Translated by C.J. Richards. Fine, the jacket has a stain at the bottom of the front panel and is price-clipped - presumably the..... More
New York: Boni & Liveright, (1927). Hardcover. Reprint. xxiii, 455pp. Translation by Sir Richard Burton. Pictorial endpapers by Witold Gordon. Black cloth, gilt spine. Some unopened pages, light rubbing at board edges, near fine in a price-clipped, about very good dust jacket with a small stain on the cover, splitting..... More
London: Hamish Hamilton, (1950). Hardcover. First English edition. Faint offsetting to the endpapers from the jacket flaps, else fine in a very good plus dustwrapper with light rubbing to the spine, one old internal repair, and tiny nicks at the crown. A Czech circus novel, basis for the 1966 Martin..... More
New York: Atheneum, 1965. Hardcover. First American edition. Translated from the Italian by Isabel Quigly. Light sunning on endpapers and cloth edges, spine cocked, very good in a very good age-toned dust jacket with short tears on edges with neat internal tape repair. Basis for an excellent film that won..... More
New York: Doubleday, 1954. Hardcover. Book club edition. Edges lightly worn, very good in a good only edgeworn dustwrapper with spine tanned, loss on spine head. A novel adapted into the 1955 film written and directed by Philip Dunne. More
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1954. Hardcover. First edition. Pages lightly age-toned with small stains on edges, front hinge cracked, small bookstore label on front pastedown, cocked spine with ends rubbed, good in a good only edgeworn and torn dustwrapper, spine sunned, rear joint split. A novel adapted into the..... More
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1954. Hardcover. First edition. Pages lightly age-toned with small stains on edges, front hinge cracked, modestly rubbed edges, very good in a good only price-clipped dustwrapper with extremities worn and torn with internal tape repair, spine ends chipped. A novel adapted into the 1955 film..... More
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1954. Hardcover. First edition. Cover slightly bowed, splitting along the front joint with fraying at the spine ends, very good, lacking a dust jacket. A novel adapted into the 1955 film written and directed by Philip Dunne. More
New York: Vintage Books, 1995. Softcover. Uncorrected proof. Printed yellow wrappers. Scrapes on front panel from removed sticker, else near fine. Issued to coincide with the release of a film. More
Kinderhook, Illinois: The International Wizard of Oz Club, 1974. Softcover. First edition. Quarto. 26pp. Stapled wrappers. Light foxing on edges, faint quarter-sized stain on bottom edge on rear wrapper, near fine. "How the Ozites Met a Beauty Doctor" by L. Frank Baum. More
Kinderhook, Illinois: The International Wizard of Oz Club, 1975. Softcover. First edition. Quarto. 26pp. Stapled wrappers. Light foxing on edges, near fine. "Who Called 'Perry'?" by L. Frank Baum. More