New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1954. Reprint with "Harper Crest Library Edition" stamped to rear. Octavo. 272 pages. Yellow boards stamped in brown, blue, green, and red. Bright red endpapers. Lacks dust jacket. Basis for the 1956 John Ford film of the same name. Boards show..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1954. First Edition (stated). Octavo; publisher's two-toned cloth in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($3.00); [10],272pp. Light chipping along jacket extremities, spine a shade toned, boards bumped at corners with a few small blemishes to margins, small soil spot to top edge of textblock..... More
New York: Roy Publishers, 1954. First U.S. Edition. Octavo. 140 pages. Black and white photographs including La Belle et la Bete frontis. Price-clipped photographic dust jacket. Green boards with spine stamped in gilt. Dust jacket is chipped along edges with soiling and rubbing throughout, predominantly to edges. Spine..... More
![The Curious Room: Plays, Film Scripts and an Opera [The Collected Angela Carter]. Angela Carter,...](/pictures/thumb/8086.jpg?v=1607371509)
London: Chatto & Windus, 1996. First Edition. Octavo. 510 pages. Illustrated dust jacket. Navy boards stamped in gilt. Posthumously-published collection which displays the range of Carter's work, including radio and screen plays, a libretto, and a stage play. Unclipped dust jacket lightly creased along edges. Sturdy and square..... More
Paris: Hachette, 1962. First Edition. Small octavo; publisher's cloth in photo-illustrated dust jacket; 457pp. Some wear to jacket extremities, chiefly at spine ends, corners a bit bumped, else Very Good overall. Prospectus postcard laid in. French film-maker Jean Renoir's memoirs of his father, the painter Auguste Renoir. More
New York: Delacorte Press, 1972. Stated First Printing. Octavo; 224 pp. Photographs from the film throughout. Illustrated dust jacket with $7.95 price intact; book in plum cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket rubbed along edges with light creasing to inner flaps, but with no chips or tears. Boards are..... More
Lakewood, CO: Centipede Press, 2016. Glossy wraps. Octavo. 415 pages. Illustrations and photographs. Unread. Binding is sound. Inoffensive smudge to top of text block. Pages unmarked. More
![Winter's Bone [Signed]. Daniel Woodrell](/pictures/thumb/8106.jpg?v=1607542576)
New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2006. First Edition. Signed by Woodrell on title page without inscription. Octavo. 193 pages. Photographic dust jacket. White and gray boards stamped in silver. Basis for the 2010 Debra Ganick film. Unclipped dust jacket is lightly edgeworn. Spine ends of..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2020. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo; publisher's boards in white photo-illustrated dust jacket; [12],157pp.; eight leaves of photographic illus. printed on rectos and versos, some in color. A hint of wear from handling, rear jacket panel slightly dust-soiled, else Near Fine. Signed by the author..... More
[New York]: Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence, 1974. Stated First Printing. Octavo; 296pp. Printed photographic dust jacket with original $7.95 price intact; book in black cloth-covered boards with silver and fuchsia lettering. Jacket split in two parts with much of the spine section missing, large tears and chips..... More
![The Seven Lively Arts [Cover title: The 7 Lively Arts]. Gilbert Seldes](/pictures/thumb/7727.jpg?v=1604470161)
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1924. First Edition. Large octavo (24cm.); publisher's cloth-backed decorative paper-covered boards, yellow printed element mounted to upper cover, spine lettered in green; x,[2],398pp.; frontispiece, twenty-one leaves of plates, including seven tipped in photographic portraits and one double-paged cartoon reproduction. Boards quite rubbed with rather..... More
Advance Reading Copy. Softcover. New York: Bloomsbury, 2013. Advance Reading Copy. Signed by author without inscription on full title. Octavo; 390pp. Pictorial paper wraps with publisher's info on back. Cover has only minor edgewear and rubbing, no tears or chips. Back lower left corner has been slightly bumped and there..... More
Metuchen: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1995. Second Edition. Octavo. 735 pages. No dust jacket, as issued. Black boards with spine stamped in white and front stamped in white with red label. Light wear to corners, with a slight roll to spine. Sticker to rear board. Binding is sound and pages..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1967. Second Edition, First Printing. Octavo (22.5cm.); publisher's cloth in orange and black decorative dust jacket retaining original $6.00 price, orange topstain; 423pp.; illus., folding map tipped to rear free endpaper. Some general shelf wear to jacket extremities and spine folds, orange portion of spine panel..... More
![The Film Daily Presents the Product Guide and Directors' Annual [for] 1937. Jack Alicoate, publisher](/pictures/thumb/7406.jpeg?v=1602599113)
[New York]: Film Daily, 1937. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's black decorative cloth embossed in red; 495pp.; illus. throughout, including pictorial ads. Light wear, minor soil to early leaves, else Very Good or better. Includes a "Who's Who in Hollywood," lead by Cecil B. De Mille and Louis B...... More
![Protect and Defend [Signed by Nancy Pelosi and 117 Other Washington VIPs]. Jack Valenti](/pictures/thumb/7574.jpg?v=1602689521)
New York: Doubleday, 1992. Stated First Edition. Octavo; [iii] + 299pp. Pictorial dust jacket. Gray boards with blue cloth spine, lettered in gold. Unclipped jacket is pristine, as new. Binding as new; textblock unmarked, seemingly never read. Jack Valenti, special assistant to Lyndon Johnson in the mid-60s, and..... More
New York: Simon & Schuster, [2005]. First Edition, First Printing. Thick octavo (24cm.); publisher's simulated cloth-backed boards in photo-illustrated dust jacket; xi,[3],769pp.; 12 leaves of photographs printed on rectos and versos. Light shelf wear to jacket and board extremities, shallow crease to rear flap, else a Very Good, internally fresh..... More
New York: The Noonday Press, 1992. Stated First Edition. Signed by author John Kisch, Introduction author Donald Bogle (both with inscription), and without inscription by Preface author Spike Lee. Quarto (11" x 8.5"); xxxiii, 168p. Illustrated paper covers with full-color illustrations throughout. Covers very lightly bumped at bottom..... More
![A Separate Cinema: Fifty Years of Black Cast Posters [Signed by Bogle]. John Kisch, Edward Mapp,...](/pictures/thumb/003095.jpg?v=1602517381)
New York: The Noonday Press, 1992. Stated First Edition. Signed by introduction author Donald Bogle with inscription "Dear Joie - Thanks for so many wonderful moments on screen. And thanks for being the really remarkable woman you are. You're just the best! Kind regards always, Donald Bogle." Quarto..... More
London / New York: Crosby Lockwood & Son / The Industrial Book Co., 1931. Later Printing of the 1930 First Edition. Octavo; 194pp +1 ads. 36 photo plates including frontis, all present. Black patterned cloth with white lettering. Missing dust jacket. Covers a bit scuffed and smudged, with shallow chips..... More
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1980. Stated First American Edition with full numberline. Quarto; 236 pp. Color and black and white photos throughout. Photo-portrait dust jacket with original $25.00 price intact; book in black boards with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket crisp with very light bumping to top..... More
London: Dead Language and Matrix Presses, [1959]. Long, narrow quarto (27.5cm.); publisher's white pictorial staple bound card wrappers, yapp edges; [20]pp.; text printed on white and lavender stock. Extremities a bit rubbed and toned, light soiling to wrappers, else Very Good, internally fine. One of the English-Italian underground filmmaker's..... More
![Green Shadows, White Whale [Signed Bookplate Laid in]. Ray Bradbury](/pictures/thumb/8214.jpg?v=1608664456)
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. First Edition. Bookplate signed by Bradbury loosely laid in at front. Octavo. 271 pages. Illustrated dust jacket. Beige and green boards stamped in gilt. A novelization of Bradbury's experiences in Ireland writing the screenplay for John Huston's film adaptation of Moby Dick. Bradbury..... More
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1945. Later Printing. Signed by Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America head Will H. Hays on front free endpaper with inscription "To Bill Saffire [sic], with best wishes always. Sincerely yours, Bill Hays. 1/25/50." Octavo; 266pp. Photo frontis + 8 photo illustrations, all present..... More
Boston: Henry Hoyt, ca. 1869. First American Edition. 12mo (17.5cm.); publisher's green decorative blind-ruled cloth, upper cover and spine stamped in gilt, yellow endpapers; 168pp.; frontispiece and engraved series title page printed in purple and black. Extremities a bit worn, corners bumped with some brief exposure, front free endpaper rather..... More