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London and New York: Charles A. Scribner's Sons. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Pages toned, jacket soiled, tattered and . has loss at head of spine.. 1939. First Printing. Hardcover. Burgundy cloth with titles stamped in gilt on front boards and spine. Foreword by Carl Sandburg. Blurbs by Heywood Broun, Brooks Atkinson and Richard Watts, Jr on rear jacket panel. [xii], 250 pp. Front jacket portrait of actor Richard Massey portraying Lincoln by Norman Rockwell. Includes cast list from the premiere production of this play at the National Theatre in Washington, DC, on October 3rd, 1938. This play gained Sherwood the second of his three Pulitzer Prizes for Drama and was the basis for the 1940 film of the same title. ; 250 pages .

NY: Harper and Row. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Page tops and fore-edges foxed.. 1989. Second Printing. Hardcover. 0060161426 . Signed by the late author on the title page. A novel about a part-time New Hampshire policeman, Wade Whitehouse, who descends into violence and which was made into a 1997 film starring Nick Nolte, Sissy Spacek, Willem Dafoe, and James Coburn. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 355 pages .

NY: Harper and Brothers. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards rubbed, ink stains on pp. 2-3, spine . sunned.. 1906. First Edition. Hardcover. Red cloth with blindstamped design of poppies and gilt-stamped titles on front boards. Color frontispiece and eight black and white plates by Walter Appleton Clark. A novel about Helena, who leaves a wretched life with her drunken husband (who killed their baby son) , to live with another man in another town. She ends up taking in a young boy, but when it is discovered that she is not married, the boy is taken away. The novel was the basis for the stage play and 1916 silent film starring Ethel Barrymore. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 357 pages .

Philadelphia: The Blakiston Company. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Jacket lightly tattered.. 1945. Hardcover. Jacket art by Susanne Suba. A suspenseful novel about "a psychopath as fluffy as eiderdown, a kitten whose claws were steel." This book was the basis for the 1946 British film of the same title starring Margaret Lockwood. Caspary was blacklisted in the 1950s and later struggled mightily to maintain her political, financial, and creative independence. ; Book Club Edition; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 187 pages .

Boston: Little, Brown and Company. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards rubbed, spine slightly cocked.. 1905. First Edition. Hardcover. Novel made into 1920 silent film. Blue boards with Art Nouveau cover design by Amy Sacker with her monogram at lower right corner. Five pages of publisher's ads at rear. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 431 pages .

NY: Harpercollins. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Rear two leaves dogeared, remainder . mark on page bottoms.. 1997. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0060276606 . Picture book about the 1930s New York socialite who raised a gorilla as a child. The basis for the 1997 film starring Renee Russo. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 48 pages .

NY: Laura Geringer Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2006. Second Edition. Hardcover. 0060890983 . Illustrated endpapers, color illustrations. An expanded edition of this story for children featuring wildly futuristic Robinson family. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 37 pages .

NY: W. W. Norton and Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1990. First Printing. Hardcover. 0393028542 . Signed by the Edgar Award winning author on the title page. The author's first book and first mystery in his hardboiled series set in 1940s Los Angeles featuring Easy Rawlins, an African-American World War II veteran, who decides to earn some money after being laid off from his factory job investigating the whereabouts of a blonde bombshell and jazz aficionado. Winner of the 1991 Shamus Award. The book was later made into a 1995 film of the same name featuring Denzel Washington in the title role. ; Easy Rawlins Mysteries; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 219 pages .

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill. Good in Good dust jacket; Boards worn, spine cocked, corners rounded, . pages toned, jacket edgeworn.. 1943. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Early printing of this bestselling novel, later made into the 1949 film starring Gary Cooper as idealistic architect Howard Roark. Red cloth titled in gilt on front boards and spine. . First edition is NOT printed on copyright page, but Rand's disclaimer is. Printing errors on pp 9, 321, 381, 480. Later state jacket with Rand's photo and three review blurbs on rear panel. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 754 pages .

New York and London: Alfred A. Knopf. Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn, endpapers lightly foxed, many . inexpertly opened pages with ragged edges and some missing corners.. 1928. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. xviii, 382pp, glossary, bibliography. Cloth-backed illustrated paper-covered boards. Illustrations, photos. Asbury's classic account of New York City's street gangs, later the basis for Martin Scorsese's 2002 film. Bookseller label on rear pastedown endpaper (American Library Service, NYC). ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

NY: Farrar & Rinehart. Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn and toned, endpapers darkened, pages . toned.. 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Illustrations by John OHara Cosgrave II. Gray illustrated cloth. A humorous allegory for children about a timber tycoon who befriends a forest gnome. The basis for the 1967 Disney film The Gnome-Mobile. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 181 pages .

London: Viking. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket lightly scuffed.. 1994. First British Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0670847933 . Signed and dated by the late J. P. Donleavy on the title page. Black cloth binding with gilt title on spine. Many photos, including front jacket portrait of the artist as a young man and rear jacket photo of an elder Donleavy lakeside with Irish wolfhound. The Ginger Man is Donleavy's first novel and remains his most acclaimed, having been selected by The Modern Library as one of the best 100 Novels of the 20th Century. The present book is an autobiography of his youth in New York City, schooling at Trinity College in Dublin, bohemian doings in Ireland, becoming an Irish citizen, and the machinations behind publication rights for The Ginger Man. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 517 pages .

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2008. First Printing. Hardcover. 054705484X . A sharp copy of Roth's 29th novel, later made into a 2016 film starring Logan Lerman. Signed by Roth on the front flyleaf. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 233 pages .

NY: E. P. Dutton. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Jacket price-clipped and waterstained on . front panel, page tops spotted.. 1964. First American Edition. Hardcover. Illustrations by Brands cousin, Edward Ardizzone. Blue illustrated cloth. The first of the childrens book trilogy, later adapted as the 2005 film Nanny McPhee. Emma Thompson starred in the titular role as the nursemaid who specializes in reforming naughty children. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 128 pages .

NY: Frederick Fell, Inc.. Very Good in Fair dust jacket; Boards rubbed, jacket lightly tattered and . rubbed.. 1956. Hardcover. Adaptation of Tolstoy's classic novel, featuring many stills from the 1956 film version starring Audrey Hepburn, Mel Ferrer, and Henry Fonda. Pictorial boards. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 120 pages .

Buenos Aires: Editorial Claridad. Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn, pages toned, spine cracked, sporadic English vocabulary notations inked to first hundred pages.. 1959. Thirteenth Edition. Hardcover. Later edition of first Spanish language version of Hemingway's novel For Whom the Bell Tolls, translated by Olga Sanz. Volume 5, Biblioteca de Grandes Novelas. Paper-covered boards with image of Ingrid Bergman and Gary Cooper from the 1943 film based on the novel. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 478 pages .

NY: Farrar Straus Giroux. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Page tops and bottoms lightly soiled, . price sticker on front jacket flap.. 1979. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0374250324 . Off-white cloth binding. The classic book about the elite pilots and early astronauts in the NASA space program. Basis for the 1983 film. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 436 pages .

London: Jonathan Cape. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Top corners bumped, page tops spotted, . pages faintly toned.. 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. 022401983X . Harold Pinter's screenplay for the 1981 film starring Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons. Foreword by novelist John Fowles. The screenplay was nominated for an Academy Award. xvi, 104pp. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Co.. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Gift inscription on front free endpaper, . jacket waterstained and tattered. 1949. Reprint. Hardcover. Tan cloth binding. Jacket art by Ilonka Karasz. A nostalgic novel of turn-of-the-century Indiana, and the basis for the 1948 Walt Disney film. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 255 pages .

NY: Simon & Schuster. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2005. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0684824906 . xix, 916pp, index, notes. Inscribed by the author on the front flyleaf. Goodwin's award-winning historical portrait of Abraham Lincoln and his cabinet members, which served as the basis for Steven Spielberg's mesmerizing 2012 film, Lincoln. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .