New York: Dodd, Mead, 1930. First Edition. Basis for the 1930 film directed by Alan Crosland, and featuring John Barrymore and Philippe De Lacy. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Attractive bookplate on the front pastedown. Jacket is exceptional for this title, with no chips or tears, only a couple of vertical creases, one at the spine panel...
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1932. First Edition. An exceptionally attractive copy of this uncommon Burnett title, basis for the 1941 film, "Dance Hall," with Cesar Romero and Carole Landis. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Hanna 525.
Altadena, CA: Twelvetrees Press, 1987. First Edition. Presentation copy, one of an undetermined number of copies stamped "BURNS ARCHIVE NO." on the verso of the title page (this copy hand-numbered 59) and INSCRIBED by the author to noted bookseller Joanna Grimes on the verso of the title page, below the limitation statement: "Presented to / Joanna Grimes of the Old...
New York: NAL / World, 1968. First Edition. Filmed in 1972 by Blake Edwards as "The Carey Treatment," with James Coburn and Jennifer O'Neill. Crichton's first hardcover novel, winner of the Edgar Award. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Bookplate on the front pastedown, else a bright, clean copy.
London: MacDonald, 1943. First Edition. Basis for the 1950 British film noir, "Guilt is my Shadow." Rare in jacket. Good to Very Good in a like dust jacket. Binding slightly cocked, front board bumped at the top and bottom edge, light soil to cloth, and a dent to the bottom page edges. Jacket has chipping at the top and bottom...
Yonkers, NY: Alicat Book Shop Press, 1946. First Edition. This copy is INSCRIBED by the publisher Oscar Baradinsky (later Oscar Baron) to his friend the writer D.S. Savage. One of 750 copies, published in the Alicat Bookshop Press' Outcast series. An uncommon and key document in experimental cinema, published the same year Deren released "Ritual in Transfigured Time." The Anthology...
New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1939. First Edition. A comprehensive history of American cinema up to the beginning of World War II, beginning with George Melies, the birth of the Hollywood studios, and D.W. Griffith, and ending with the dawn of the "auteur" era (Vidor, Lang, von Sternberg, Capra, Ford, etc.) A focused, factual look at cinema's first four decades. Profusely...
Boston: Little, Brown, 1942. First Edition. REVIEW COPY, with publisher date-stamped review slip laid in, along with four promotional postcards for the book, each with a different poem by Nash. Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket. A pristine copy.
London: Orion, 1992. First UK Edition, first issue, in correctly priced dust jacket (the hardcover edition of this title was issued both in priced and unpriced jackets). Near Fine in a Fine dust jacket. The fifth Inspector Rebus mystery, and one of the scarcest.
New York: Robert A. Ballou, 1933. First Edition. One of 598 copies printed. Near Fine and unread in a dust jacket that is Fine but for some light chipping at the crown (titling not affected). A minute bit of toning at the top of the backstrip, in the same spot. An exceptionally bright, fresh example. In a custom quarter-leather clamshell...
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Paris: Jolly Film, 1967. Original French grande poster for the 1967 French film. Monsieur Hulot first came to the attention of the world during his beach vacation in "Monsieur Hulot's Holiday" (1953), then reappeared in a modern French neighborhood in "Mon Oncle" (1958). The third feature finds him in the city, whose complexities unfold, revolve, deconstruct, and reconstruct before his eyes...