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New York: W.W. Norton, 1990. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. . Boards & Cloth with Dustjacket. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY WALTER MOSLEY IN 1991. The 1st Easy Rawlins mystery that was made into a film a few years back with Denzel Washington as Rawlins. Nice dustjacket artwork. Fine/fine.
Original Studio Publicity Campaign Presskit for:] TURTLE DIARY by [Hoban, Russell]: Pinter, Harold [screenwriter] - 1985
by [Hoban, Russell]: Pinter, Harold [screenwriter]
Original Studio Publicity Campaign Presskit for:] TURTLE DIARY
by [Hoban, Russell]: Pinter, Harold [screenwriter]
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Devil In A Blue Dress
by Mosley, Walter
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Any Number Can Play
by Heth, Edward Harris
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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1945. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Stated First Edition.. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1945. Stated First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. Stated First Edition. Clean unfaded blue cloth boards with bright silver lettering on cover and spine. Tiny bump to one corner tip; no fraying, no wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or marks. 193 pgs. Clean bright dustjacket is not price clipped, has slight wear at top and bottom spine edges, a few tiny closed edge tears. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. Author's photo on rear panel. Collectable quality. Made into a motion picture by MGM Studios (1949) starring Clark Gable, the intense story of a family and a gambler's love for the cards. 8vo. Fiction..
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A FAREWELL TO ARMS" SCREENPLAY BY ...
by [Hemingway, Ernest (source work)]: Hecht, Ben [screenwriter]
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[Culver City]: The Selznick Studio, 22 October 1956.. [3],191 leaves. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript, printed on rectos only. Bradbound in canary yellow production company wrappers. Some minor spots of red offsetting to lower edge of upper wrapper, otherwise very near fine. An unspecified but substantially preproduction draft of Hecht's adaptation of Hemingway's novel of the Great War. It was the novel's second screen adaptation to reach production. This draft precedes John Huston's coming on board as director (and of course his departure, at which point Charles Vidor took over). This draft is nearly 20 leaves longer than several subsequent drafts. Rock Hudson and Jennifer Jones starred.
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THE LAST PICTURE SHOW
by McMurtry, Larry
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New York: Dial Press, 1966.. Trimmed, loose printed sheets, punched and plastic spiralbound between stiff green card sheets. Fine in near fine, lightly nicked and smudged pictorial dust jacket. Advance reading copy, bound up from printed sheets, of the first edition of the author's third novel, source for the multiple award- winning and nominated 1971 film adaptation, based on McMurtry's collaborative screenplay with director Bogdanovich. Preceded by a minute handful of sets of actual uncorrected page proofs, a wholly different animal than this state, although this format is sometimes confused with the other.
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Mr. Hobbs' Vacation
by Streeter, Edward
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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1954. Book. Illus. by Dorothea Warren Fox, Illustrator. Fine. Hardcover. Stated First Edition.. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1954. Stated First Edition. Fine/Near Fine. Dorothea Warren Fox, Illustrator. Collectible quality First Edition, First Printing in clean unclipped original dust jacket. Very clean sky blue cloth boards with black cloth spine, red lettering, blue decoration on spine. No fading, bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean with clean decorated endpapers. No names, writing or bookplates. 248 pages. Clean dust jacket is unchipped, not price clipped (3.00 on front inside flap), no tears, slightest hint of edge wear. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Things don't always go the they way you expect them to when you take a family vacation! This story is even funnier than the author's previous "Father of the Bride." Made into a rollicking movie (1962)…
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Devil In A Blue Dress
by Mosley, Walter
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New York: W.W. Norton, 1990. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. . Boards & Cloth with Dustjacket. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY WALTER MOSLEY IN 1991. The 1st Easy Rawlins mystery that was made into a film a few years back with Denzel Washington as Rawlins. Nice dustjacket artwork. Fine/fine.
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Any Number Can Play
by Heth, Edward Harris
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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1945. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Stated First Edition.. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1945. Stated First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. Stated First Edition. Clean unfaded blue cloth boards with bright silver lettering on cover and spine. Tiny bump to one corner tip; no fraying, no wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or marks. 193 pgs. Clean bright dustjacket is not price clipped, has slight wear at top and bottom spine edges, a few tiny closed edge tears. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. Author's photo on rear panel. Collectable quality. Made into a motion picture by MGM Studios (1949) starring Clark Gable, the intense story of a family and a gambler's love for the cards. 8vo. Fiction..
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A FAREWELL TO ARMS" SCREENPLAY BY ...
by [Hemingway, Ernest (source work)]: Hecht, Ben [screenwriter]
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[Culver City]: The Selznick Studio, 22 October 1956.. [3],191 leaves. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript, printed on rectos only. Bradbound in canary yellow production company wrappers. Some minor spots of red offsetting to lower edge of upper wrapper, otherwise very near fine. An unspecified but substantially preproduction draft of Hecht's adaptation of Hemingway's novel of the Great War. It was the novel's second screen adaptation to reach production. This draft precedes John Huston's coming on board as director (and of course his departure, at which point Charles Vidor took over). This draft is nearly 20 leaves longer than several subsequent drafts. Rock Hudson and Jennifer Jones starred.
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THE LAST PICTURE SHOW
by McMurtry, Larry
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New York: Dial Press, 1966.. Trimmed, loose printed sheets, punched and plastic spiralbound between stiff green card sheets. Fine in near fine, lightly nicked and smudged pictorial dust jacket. Advance reading copy, bound up from printed sheets, of the first edition of the author's third novel, source for the multiple award- winning and nominated 1971 film adaptation, based on McMurtry's collaborative screenplay with director Bogdanovich. Preceded by a minute handful of sets of actual uncorrected page proofs, a wholly different animal than this state, although this format is sometimes confused with the other.
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Mr. Hobbs' Vacation
by Streeter, Edward
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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1954. Book. Illus. by Dorothea Warren Fox, Illustrator. Fine. Hardcover. Stated First Edition.. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1954. Stated First Edition. Fine/Near Fine. Dorothea Warren Fox, Illustrator. Collectible quality First Edition, First Printing in clean unclipped original dust jacket. Very clean sky blue cloth boards with black cloth spine, red lettering, blue decoration on spine. No fading, bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean with clean decorated endpapers. No names, writing or bookplates. 248 pages. Clean dust jacket is unchipped, not price clipped (3.00 on front inside flap), no tears, slightest hint of edge wear. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Things don't always go the they way you expect them to when you take a family vacation! This story is even funnier than the author's previous "Father of the Bride." Made into a rollicking movie (1962)…
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The Sky and the Forest
by Forester, C.S
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C.S. Forester: The Sky and the Forest. Little, Brown and Company, Boston. Stated First Edition First Printing Thus August, 1948. Cover price $2.75. Used. VG BOOK/VG UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET. A story of a central Africa. By C.S. Forester, author of the Admiral Hornblower series.
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Murder for Christmas (A Midnite Mystery)
by Christie, Agatha
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Murder for Christmas, a Poirot Story by Agatha Christie (1944 Midnite Mystery) COPYRIGHT BY AGATHA CHRISTIE MALLOWAN: "It is Christmas Eve, and elderly Simeon Lee is found violently murdered in his locked office. The police are immediately called, but of course nobody has a clue until Hercule Poirot arrives..." USED. 1944 Books inc. Midnite Mystery. Copyright 1938 - 1939 Agatha Christie Mallowan. Good+/ No DJ. Black boards with gold titling on spine. Titles gilting is still nice Scarce.
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The Midnight Sky
by George Clooney
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Los Angeles: Netflix, 2020. Oversized hardcover with white boards, front cover embossed title and photo, spine black embossed lettering, black endpapers. Very good condition with some shelf wear. Pages are unmarked. Book published in conjunction with the movie. Please see photos for specifics. A portion of all book sales from Babcock & 68th are donated to charity.
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The Silence Of The North
by Olive A. Fredrickson with Ben East
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By Olive A. Frederickson with Ben East. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. RARE. 1972 Crown Publishers Inc., NY. The Silence Of The North, The Incredible story of a woman's fight for survival in a merciless winter of the Canadian Wilderness during the 1940's. Adapted as a film in 1981 and directed by Allan King. VG/GOOD $5.95 unclipped dust jacket. USED. 5 ¾ X 8 ½. 209 pages. Illustrated with b/w photographs.
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HAMLET, PRINCE OF DENMARK
by SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM
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Norwalk, Ct: The Easton Press, 1967. Reprint . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. pp: 138. Bound in full grey leather covered boards elaborately decorated with the letter 'H' stamped in gilt designed by Peter Winfield Johnson. The book includes raised bands to the spine, gilt edges, frontispiece, and satin endpapers. The illustrations by Legrand were originally in the 1939 Limited Editions Club publication. The text of this edition is also from the 1939 publication which was derived from the Second Quarto of 1604 and the First Folio edition of 1623. It contains the old style spelling and punctuation of the earlier printings. The size of the text block is almost exactly the same as that of the First Folio. The paper was made at the Glatfelter Paper Mill in Spring Grove, Pennsylvania. Laid in is a four-page booklet on the historical context of this publication.
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Deliverance
by Dickey, James
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NY Houghton Mifflin 1970.. vg+/vg+/very minute wear to top of sp. panel. Dickey's 1st novel that was filmed in 72 by John Boorman w. a screenplay by Dickey who also had a sm. part in the film. 1st print. edition. Binding is cl.w.dj.
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Selected Works of Ba Jin, Vol 2: Garden of Repose, Bitter Cold Nights
by Ba Jin; Pa Chin; Li Yaotang; Li Fei-Kan; Jock Hoe (trans); Sidney Shapiro (trans)
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Beijing: Foreign Languages Press. 1988. Hardcover. First Edition (stated, actually First English-language Edition). Blue leatherette over boards with gold titles to spine and front board. Sewn binding. Sewn-in yellow silk place-marker. Fine book in a Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and very tight. Light remainder mark to top edge. Very slight edge-wear to jacket. No tears. Not from a library. Not clipped. 502 pages.Garden of Repose (憩园, Qì Yuán, 1944) and Bitter Cold Nights (aka Cold Nights, 寒夜, Hán Yè, 1947) are both critiques of China's traditional Confucian family system focusing on emotionally fragile and weak men struggling and failing to deal with family demands and social pressure. Both are set in Sichuan during the Sino-Japanese War (World War II) and both have been adapted into movies at least twice. Garden of Repose is the story of two decadent and decaying families. It follows the live of two characters: a drug addict from a rich family forced to sell his family…
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Grand Hotel
by Baum, Vicki
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GRAND HOTEL BY VICKI BAUM. ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDITION. Also published in the German language as Menchen Im Hotel. Used. Good Condition. No DJ is included. Bright pages. STATED FIRST EDITION. Copyright page states: "All rights reserved. First published 1930" Geoffrey Bles Publishers, London. Original source material for the famous film of the same name.
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Another Part of the Forest
by Hellman, Lillian
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ANOTHER PART OF THE FOREST. THE VIKING PRESS, FIRST EDITION STATED FIRST PRINTING THUS, APRIL, 1947. Used. Very good condition/Good + condition original unclipped, $2.00 price appears on front flap. Fuscia dust jacket spine is a trace sunned. Mylar wrap. Another Part of the Forest, a play in three acts by Lillian Hellman, author of "The Little Foxes", and "The Searching Wind". Patricia Neal frontispiece.
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Witness for the Prosecution (Dell #855)
by Agatha Christie
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923ChristieWitness Witness for the Prosecution (Dell #855) Dell Publishing, NY. 1948. FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION. Copyright page states MCMXLVIII and states reprinted by arrangement with Dodd, Mead. No other printings are stated. Cover Art by William George. 192 pages. Mystery Anthology 4 ¼ x 6 3/8. USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION. A bit toned.
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