New York: Rinehart, (1954). Hardcover. First American edition. Page edges browned, else fine in just about fine dustwrapper with a bit of rubbing and one small, internal tape repair. An exceptionally uncommon title, the first book by this French team to be published in the U.S. Basis for the classic..... More
New York: Rinehart and Company, (1954). Hardcover. First American edition. Page edges very slightly browned, still fine in fine dustwrapper. An exceptionally uncommon title, the first book by this French team to be published in the U.S. Basis for the classic Henri-Georges Clouzot film *Les Diaboliques*, with Simone Signoret and..... More
New York: Dutton, 1966. Hardcover. First American edition. Page edges lightly foxed and a little mottling to the boards, very good plus in near fine dustwrapper with some rubbing to the spinal extremities. French novel that has become something of an underground horror classic, basis for the 1991 film *Body..... More
Paris: Denoel, (1952). Softcover. First edition. 12mo. Near fine in wrappers and lightly rubbed near fine dustwrapper. The true first edition of the thriller by French authors Thomas Narcejac and Pierre Boileau that was the basis for the classic film *Les Diaboliques* directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot in 1955 and starring..... More
New York: McGraw-Hill, (1968). Hardcover. First American edition. Offsetting from clippings to front and back preliminaries, else near fine in fine dustwrapper. More
New York: McGraw-Hill, (1968). Hardcover. First American edition. Very good ex-library copy with tape shadows, pocket remnant, etc. in near fine dustwrapper with a label on the spine. More
London: Samuel French, (1960). Softcover. Acting edition. Printed wrappers. Modest soiling on the wrappers, very good or better. Signed by Robert Bolt. The film adaptation based on this play won Bolt an Academy Award for Best Screenplay, as well as five other Oscars including Best Picture, and Best Actor for..... More
London: Samuel French, (1960). Softcover. Acting edition. Printed wrappers. About fine with slightest toning. The film adaptation based on this play won Bolt an Academy Award for Best Screenplay, as well as five other Oscars including Best Picture, and Best Actor for Paul Scofield (reprising his stage performance). More
New York: Bantam Books, (1990). Softcover. First edition. Quarto. 112pp. Fully illustrated in both color and black-and-white photographs and drawings. Corners creased, near fine in pictorial wrappers. More
New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1938. Hardcover. First edition. Foxing on the foredge, about fine in a very good dustwrapper with several short tears and a modest scrape on the spine. A scathing indictment of Nazism, written when many in America preferred the safety of isolation and non-involvement. MGM..... More
(New York): Penguin Books, (2000). Softcover. Later printing. Trade paperback. 391pp. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Spine ends with small nick, near fine. More
London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1925]. Hardcover. First edition. Headpieces by Charles Robinson. Small conteporary owner's name front fly, a bit of foxing to the foredge, a near fine copy without dustwrapper. Basis for the 1926 film *Nell Gwynne* directed by Herbert Wilcox and featuring Dorothy Gish in the title role..... More
(New York): New Directions, (1949). Hardcover. First American edition. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with a very short tear on the front panel. Housed in a custom quarter morocco gilt and cloth clamshell case. The author's first and best known book, in which a disaffected American couple meet..... More
London: John Lehmann, 1949. Hardcover. First edition. Some foxing on the page edges, else near fine in a very good, first issue dustwrapper with some toning at the spine and some rubbing at the edges of the front panel. Housed in a custom quarter morocco gilt and cloth clamshell case..... More
London: Secker & Warburg, (2000). Softcover. First English edition. Fine in wrappers. Signed by Boyd, as F.X. Toole, on the title page. A collection of short stories that were adapted into the Oscar-Winning film *Million Dollar Baby*. Boyd died in 2002, two years before the film was made. More
New York: William Morrow and Company, (1985). Softcover. Uncorrected proof. Yellow wrappers. Slight waviness and some fading else near fine. Basis for the 1988 film directed by Pat O'Connor and starring Daniel Day-Lewis. More
(New York): Viking, (1993). Softcover. Advance Reading Copy. Fine in glossy wrappers. Basis for the 1994 Alan Parker film starring Anthony Hopkins, John Cusack and Matthew Broderick. More
(New York): Viking, (1993). Hardcover. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Signed by the author. Basis for an amusing film. More
(New York): Viking, (1993). Softcover. Advance reading copy. Fine in glossy wrappers with some lightly rubbing. Basis for the 1994 Alan Parker film starring Anthony Hopkins, John Cusack and Matthew Broderick. More
(New York): Viking, (1993). Softcover. Uncorrected proof. Glossy illustrated wrappers. Slight curling on the wrappers thus near fine. Basis for the 1994 directed by Alan Parker and starring Anthony Hopkins, Bridget Fonda, Matthew Broderick, John Cusack, Michael Lerner, and Dana Carvey, among others. More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1975). Hardcover. First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with a couple of tiny creased tears and internal tape repair. Non-fiction biography of the last Emperor of China, P'u Yi, who gained the throne at age two, and was later duped into collaborating with Manchuria's..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1957. Hardcover. First American edition. Contemporary owner name else fine in a very near fine dustwrapper with very slight toning to the white portions of the spine. A nice copy of the author's first novel, about a young, ambitious, and socially conscious working class lad. Basis for..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1957. Hardcover. First American edition. Fine in a just about fine dustwrapper with very slight overall age-toning. A nice copy of the author's first novel, about a young, ambitious and socially conscious working class lad. Basis for the film featuring Laurence Harvey and Simone Signoret, who..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1957. Hardcover. First American edition. A bit of rubbing at the spine ends, else near fine in price-clipped good or better dustwrapper with age-toning, modest stains, and a chip at the crown. The author's first novel, about a young, ambitious and socially conscious working class lad..... More
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1957. Hardcover. Second printing. Octavo. 256pp. Binding a bit cocked, a bit of light offsetting on the endpapers, and one pair of conjugate leaves neatly tipped back in, about near fine in a near fine "2nd impression" dust jacket with a bit of soiling on the..... More