Books Into Film
Brief Moment: A Comedy in Three Acts
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
No Time for Comedy
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
American Hero
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
American Hero
New York: Pantheon, (1993). Hardcover. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Basis for the film *Wag the Dog.*. More
The Return of Peter Grimm
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1912). Hardcover. Reprint. Very good in pictorial boards, with a slightly cocked spine, very light soiling. More
The Perez Family
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
The Perez Family
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
The Pérez Family
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, (1990). Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. 256pp. Topedge lightly foxed and boards a bit splayed, near fine in trifle worn, near fine dust jacket with a crease on the lower flap fold. Blurbs from Anne Tyler, Gail Godwin and James Dickey on the rear panel..... More
Doctor Sleep
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
Whistle Down the Wind: A Modern Fable
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
Whistle Down the Wind: A Modern Fable
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
Whistle Down the Wind: A Modern Fable
New York: E.P. Dutton and Co., (1959). Hardcover. First American edition. Slight sopiling on rear board, just about fine in modestly rubbed else near fine dustwrapper. A fable for children, basis for the film of the same name, which included one of the earliest performances by the author’s daughter, Hayley..... More
Swamp Water
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1941. Hardcover. First edition. Corners very slightly bumped, and some offsetting to the front fly from a clipping, thus near fine in very good dustwrapper faded at the spine and with several very small nicks and tears. Nicely Inscribed by the author: "For my friends..... More
The Lodger
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1914. Hardcover. First American edition. Red cloth gilt. Modest staining at top of the front and rear boards, else a nice very good or better copy without dust jacket. Haunting mystery tale that revolves around the Jack the Ripper murders. This novel was the basis..... More
The Off-Islanders
New York: McGraw-Hill, (1961). Hardcover. First edition. Tiny new bookstore label at the bottom of the front fly, still fine in fine, price-clipped dustwrapper with a little light wear. Basis for the hilarious Norman Jewison film *The Russians are Coming*, with Carl Reiner, Eva Marie Saint, Theodore Bikel, and Alan..... More
The Off-Islanders
New York: McGraw-Hill, (1961). Hardcover. First edition. A touch of rubbing to the spine ends, still easily fine in fine dustwrapper with much less rubbing than usual. Basis for the hilarious Norman Jewison film *The Russians are Coming*, with Carl Reiner, Eva Marie Saint, Theodore Bikel, and Alan Arkin in..... More
One to Grow On
New York: McGraw-Hill, (1958). Hardcover. First edition. Fine in clipped (but not price-clipped) fine dustwrapper. Every copy we have seen has been clipped in the same way, removing the jacket artist's name. Presumably this was done by the publisher for some reason (Macmillan, for example, frequently did this to allow..... More
The Chicken-Wagon Family
New York: Century Co., (1925). Hardcover. First edition. Fine in very good plus, later state dustwrapper with a couple of tiny nicks and some edgewear. Apparently the first edition jacket was "overprinted" with the words "20th Thousand" to create this state. Basis for the popular 1939 Herbert I. Leeds film..... More
The Chicken-Wagon Family
New York: Century Co., (1925). Hardcover. First edition. Owner name, else a modestly worn, very good copy lacking the dustwrapper. Herbert I. Leeds directed the film adaptation of this story of an itinerant family of chicken traders who take up residence in an abandoned New York City fire station. More
Short Turns
New York: Century Co., (1926). Hardcover. First edition. Spine lettering a bit worn, a faint dampstain on the foredge, a very good plus copy in a very good example of the scarce dustwrapper with some shallow chipping at the spinal extremities, not affecting any lettering. Gloria Swanson's copy, with her..... More
Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
New York: Reynal and Hitchcock, (1935). Hardcover. First edition. Gilt spine lettering a bit rubbed, else fine in a lovely, fine dustwrapper with a couple of tiny tears. Arguably a "dedication copy," Inscribed by the author: "Dear Williams: 'To Friends' the dedication page says. You are one of the best..... More
The Devil and Daniel Webster
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, (1937). Hardcover. Reprint (probably third printing). Illustrated nu Harold Dennison. A bit of wear at the crown near very good, in good third printing dustwrapper with chipping and tears mostly on the spine ends. Bookplate of Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin on front pastedown. Benét's..... More
The Madness of King George III
London: Faber and Faber, (1992). Softcover. Second printing. Trade paperback. Slight age-toning to the pages, small and very faint crease on the front wrap, near fine. Play that was the basis for the excellent film. More
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[Manuscript]: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
New York: The Author, [1993]. Unbound. Unbound photomechanically reproduced manuscript pages. 491 leaves, printed on rectos only. The title page has a modest stain, otherwise the pages are fine. Housed in a worn paper box with a note "J.B.'s Book" on the back. Several small corrections (typos, spelling) in the..... More