A conversation between Tom and Ashley:
T: What have you done for me lately?
A: Working on an elist about birds.
T: How about “The Maltese Falcon”?
A: Don’t you have something else to do? [puts up sign “Genius at Work”]
T: I can think of other books with birds in the title…
A: What about this one? [flips the bird]
T: That one isn’t in my bird-watching app!
A: It’s a rare sighting.
T: [walks away]
-end scene-
New York: Burgess and Co., (1851). Softcover. First edition. Wrappers. Owner inscription to the verso of the cover page, else fair, with some wear and closed tears to the cover and rear pages, but complete and without damage to the engravings. A children’s book. More
Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 1994. Softcover. Uncorrected proof. Wrappers. Fine. Signed by the author. Basis for the 2001 film starring Salma Hayek, Lumi Cavazos and Edward James Olmos. More
New York: Random House, (1994). Hardcover. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Splendid non-fiction account of a celebrated crime in Savannah, Georgia in which the author manages to capture the feel and character of the city and its residents. Basis for the 1997 Clint Eastwood-directed film with John Cusack, Kevin..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1924. Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated by Frank Tenney Johnson. A little foxing, just about fine in near fine dustwrapper with very slight wear. Young man must find his grandfather's hidden gold mine. Bower (the pseudonym of Bertha Muzzy Sinclair) was one of the few successful..... More
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[No place]: Borgen / (Gerhard Stalling Verlag), [1970]. Hardcover. First Danish edition, printed in Germany. Oblong thin quarto. Glossy boards. Text in Danish, translated from the German (which was translated from the English). Fine, without dustwrapper, possibly as issued. A beautiful copy of a children's classic. More
Garden City: Doubleday Doran, 1929. Hardcover. First edition. Fine in near fine, price-clipped dustwrapper with a small chip on the front panel. Romantic satire set in the Middle Ages. More
San Francisco: David Haselwood Books, 1967. Softcover. First edition. Wrappers. Fine. More
(London): Faber and Faber, (1993). Softcover. First printing of the 1993 edition. Fine in wrappers. More
New York: Julian Messner, Inc., (1942). Hardcover. First edition. Thin quarto. Fine in pictorial boards, with a very faint, barely noticeable stain on one page, in near fine dustwrapper with some slight soiling, and a light stain visible only on the inside of the jacket. A very nice copy of..... More
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1961. Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated by David Pascal. Fine in age-toned, about very good dustwrapper. Inscribed by illustrator David Pascal to actress Mimi Cozzens with a drawing of a woman putting on stockings: "with love & affection to my chata - David." More
New York: Villard, (1996). Hardcover. First edition. Slightly bumped at one corner, about fine in fine dustwrapper with a tiny crease at the same corner. First book by the author of *Into Thin Air*. Basis for the Sean Penn film starring Emile Hirsch, Marcia Gay Harden, William Hurt, and Hal..... More
New York: Macmillan Company, 1903. Hardcover. First edition. One corner a little bumped and the spine ends a little rubbed, else fine with the painted "snow" on the spine and front board (usually quiet worn) only very slightly rubbed, lacking the dustwrapper. One of the two great novels, along with..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. Softcover. Uncorrected Proof. Fine in light green wrappers, with a small tear on the rear wrap. More
London: Faber and Faber, (1971). Hardcover. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Poetry Book Society promotional material laid in. An immaculate copy. More
New York: Harper and Brothers, (1943). Hardcover. Reprint. Stated "Twenty-Third Edition." Modest wear, a very good plus copy lacking the dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author: "To Muriel Eastlack with regards, Betty Smith." A huge bestseller which went through innumerable printings. Basis for the first film directed by Elia Kazan, which..... More
New York: Albondocani Press, 1974. Softcover. First edition. Photographic self-wrappers. Fine. Copy number 2 of 5 copies marked "out of series" and Signed by the author. The out of series copies were given to personal friends of the publisher. Very attractive little volume illustrated with Welty's depression-era photographs, two of..... More
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Los Angeles: Tristar Pictures, Inc., 1984. Softcover. Screenplay. Spiral bound mimeographed sheets in unprinted red card wrappers. A small stain on the edge of the first few pages, very good or better. Stated "A.P.'s Final Draft March 5, 1984" indicating the director of the film, Alan Parker, who won the..... More
New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, (1922). Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated by William Saphier. Hinges repaired, spine lettering rubbed, and the front cover paper illustration, intended to be affixed to the front board, is laid in; else about very good, without the dustwrapper. Signed by the author on the title..... More
London: Secker and Warburg, (1961). Hardcover. First English edition. Fine in a slightly spine faded, near fine dustwrapper with a couple of tears on the front panel. Williams's powerful, sordid drama, filmed in 1962 with Geraldine Page as the aging actress and Paul Newman as her young gigolo whose past..... More
New York: R.H. Russell, 1902. Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated by J.M. Conde. Illustrated boards (signed "B.S."). Slight fraying to the spine ends, else a very good plus copy. Dialect stories with anthropomorphic birds cast in the traditional black roles. Scarce. More