New York: Farrar Straus & Cudahy, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. Basis for the big screen film. Set in New Orleans, the story centers on a naive young man, Dove Linkhorn, who finds himself in a milieu of far more sophisticated women. The novel was most often quoted as the source... More
New York: Dutton, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. The author's first novel, and basis for the successful cable film. Concerns one Ruth Anne Boatwright (nicknamed Bone) from Greenville County, South Carolina. 309 pp. More
New York: Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. Basis for the Belushi/Ackroyd film. More
New York: Harper & Row, (1978). First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed and signed on the half-title page: "For / Mel / With great respect / and appreciation / William Peter Blatty." Basis for the 1980 big screen film directed and written by Blatty, that stars Stacy Keach and Scott Wilson. In... More
New York: The Dial Press, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. Sharp copy of this Haycraft-Queen cornerstone lacking the dust jacket (though now jacketed with a facsimile dj). Stamped to front endpaper: "ADVANCE COPY NOT FOR SALE". With raised illustration to blue cloth on front panel. Basis for the 1931 crime film... More
New York: Villard, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. A novel concerning James Leer, a troubled young "wonder boy" whose obsession with Hollywood suicides leads him to commit a pair of startling crimes. Basis for the big screen film directed by Curtis Hanson. More
New York: Viking Press, 1935. First edition. Hardcover. Basis for the Kubrick film, the story of individual lives, touching, human, and true.of men caught in a military situation of which those who stay at home seldom hear, but which must be common to wars so long as there are armies... More
London: Secker & Warburg, (1999). First edition. Hardcover. Printed by Clays. Winner of the Booker Prize for 1999. Basis for the big screen film (2008) that was directed by Steve Jacobs and stars John Malkovic, Natalie Becker and Jessica Haines. The tale of a South African professor who loses evertyhing... More
New York: McGraw-Hill, (1959). First edition. Hardcover. Author's second book. 8vo. Source for the John Frankenheimer-directed film, a cold-war thriller, that starred Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh, Angela Lansbury, and Henry Silva. Not an easy book to locate in collector's condition. More
New York: Knopf, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. First edition of the author's sixth novel, one of approx 5000 copies. Author photo and publisher's slip tipped in. More
New York: Doubleday, (1992). First edition. Hardcover. The story of a young girl named Tita, who longs her entire life to marry her lover, Pedro, but can never have him because of her mother's upholding of the family tradition of the youngest daughter not marrying but taking care of her... More
New York: Viking Press, (1971). First edition. Paperback. Advance reading copy. A thriller about a professional assassin hired by OAS, a French dissident paramilitary organization, to kill Charles de Gaulle, the President of France. Winner of the Edgar Award and basis for the successful big screen film. From the literary... More
New York: Putnam, (1981). First edition. Paperback. Uncorrected Proof, in the original orange perfect bound printed wrappers (text only, no image). Spine free of type, 354pp. This novel introduced the world to Dr. Hannibal Lector, and was adapted for the film "Manhunter." Thomas Harris wrote a sequel to the novel... More
New York: Knopf, 2010. Fifteenth Printing. Hardcover. The second book of this best selling trilogy that concerns Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist hunting the forces of evil. Basis for the very successful big screen film. More
New York: Knopf, 2010. First United States Edition. Hardcover. The final volume in this internationally best selling trilogy, and basis for the 2009 big screen film. More
New York: Del Rey/Ballantine, (1976). Later printing. Hardcover. If this Science Fiction Book Club edition had the correct code "S27" to the gutter of page 183 (last page of text) it would be the rare first edition. Alas, the code on this copy, in the gutter of page 183 is... More
New York: Del Rey/Ballantine, (1976). Later printing. Hardcover. If this Science Fiction Book Club edition had the correct code "S27" to the gutter of page 183 (last page of text) it would be the rare first edition. Alas, the code on this copy, in the gutter of page 183 is... More
New York: Delacorte, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. Filmed for the big screen with Al Pacino in the lead role. A novel about a bank robbery. More
Boston: Little Brown, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. First edition of the author's second novel. Moody won the Pushcart Press Editor's Book Award for his first novel Garden State. This book was the basis for the 1997 film directed by Ang Lee. More
New York: Dell #24, 1940. First edition thus. Paperback. Dime novel.16mo. Basis for the Frank Sinatra, Kim Novak and Rita Hayworth film released in 1957 directed by George Sidney. Evidence of sticker removal to front cover. A paperback thin dime novel. More
New York: Scribners, 1999. First edition. Paperback. Uncorrected proofs of the first edition of this book of eleven stories. With publisher's promotional sheet laid in. Includes the story "Brokeback Mountain," the source for the award winning film. More
New York: Scribner, 1999. William Mathews. First edition. Hardcover. Eleven stories, including Brokeback Mountain, which was the basis for the very successful big-screen film. With six full-page watercolor illustrations by William Mathews. More
New York: Scribner's, 1996. First edition. Paperback. Proof. In perfect bound printed wrappers, as issued. Publicity material laid in. Contact label to front cover. More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. Two items. A first edition of the book and a set of the long galleys (very good condition), that measure 24 inches long by 7 inches wide, with some hand corrections. Basis for the very successful big screen film that starred... More
Melbourne, London, Toronto: Heinemann, (1957). First British edition. Hardcover. A post-apocalyptic novel that details the experiences of a mixed group of people in Melbourne as they await the arrival of deadly radiation spreading towards them from the Northern Hemisphere following a nuclear war a year previously. As the radiation approaches... More
