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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, (1939). Hardcover. First edition. A couple of tiny stains on the spine else fine in near fine dustwrapper with small tears and nicks. Benét's most famous story, one of the most anthologized stories in American literature, a wonderful New England-folktale version of *Faust*. Benét and..... More
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
Port Washington, NY: Kennikat Press, Inc., (1968). Hardcover. Reissue. 136pp. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Adapted from the German by George F. Timpson with a preface by V. Sackville-West. Fine lacking the dustwrapper as issued. Lagerlöf was the first female to win the Nobel Prize in Literature and many..... More
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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
New York: Random House, 1994. Hardcover. Later printing. Octavo. Corners bumped, faint stains along the page edges else about near fine in an about near fine age-toned dustwrapper with edge wear. Basis for the 1997 Clint Eastwood directed film stariing John Cusack, Kevin Spacey, and Jude Law. More
New York: Random House, (1994). Hardcover. Early reprint (doesn't state first edition, has a number string running from 1 through 0). Fine in fine dustwrapper, with wraparound band advertising the film, with photo of Clint Eastwood and Kevin Spacey. Splendid non-fiction account of a celebrated crime in Savannah, Georgia in..... More
New York: Random House, (1994). Softcover. Uncorrected proof. Glossy wrappers. The first two pages lightly toned on the bottom edge else about fine. Based on true events and eventually made into the 1997 Clint Eastwood film. More
New York: Random House, (1994). Hardcover. Later Printing. Fine in an about fine dustwrapper with slight waviness. Basis for the 1997 Clint Eastwood directed film starring, John Cusack, Kevin Spacey, and Jack Thompson. More
New York and Newark: Barse & Co., (1931). Hardcover. First edition. Introduction by Eddie Cantor. Extremities a little bumped and rubbed, a very good copy lacking the dustwrapper. A book that was derived from the classic radio program *The Goldbergs*, which starred the author, Gertrude Berg, who also conceived the..... More
[No place]: Columbia Pictures, 1981. Unbound. One sheet film poster. Measuring 27" x 41". Folded as issued. Slight rubbing at the creases, very near fine. A poster for the 1981 film directed by John G. Avildsen, adapted from Berger's novel by Larry Gelbart and featuring John Belushi, Kathryn Walker, Cathy..... More
New York: Orion Press, (1967). Hardcover. Reprint. Translated from the Swedish by Paul Britten Austin. Scattered foxing on pages, spine ends lightly bumped, very good in a very good rubbed dustwrapper with internal foxing, short tear on top edge. A collection of scripts from three of the author's movies, including..... More
New York: J.H. Sears, (1928). Hardcover. First American edition. Fine in just about fine dustwrapper with some tiny nicks and tears and with a George Bernard Shaw blurb. Biographical novel about Cavell, a World War I British nurse executed by the Germans for helping POWs escape, novelized by Berkeley from..... More
Boston: Little, Brown, 1930. Hardcover. First American edition. Contemporary owner's name and address on the front fly, a couple of pages a little roughly opened, and a little light wear at the crown, a very good plus copy in worn dustwrapper with considerable chipping at the extremities. Advance Review Copy..... More
