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The Bishop's Wife by Nathan, Robert - 1928

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The Bishop's Wife by Nathan, Robert - 1928

The Bishop's Wife

by Nathan, Robert

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Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill, 1928. Book. NF. Hardcover. First Edition. First edition stated on the copyright page. Pale yellow boards stamped in black with patterned endpapers. A clean and bright NF copy in a VG dust jacket wth the price of $2.00 intact on the front flap. Basis for the 1947 film directed by Henry Koster and starring Cary Grant, Loretta Young and David Niven. A scarce title, especially in dust jacket..
  • Bookseller AcornBooksNH US (US)
  • Format/Binding Hardcover
  • Book Condition Used - NF
  • Jacket Condition Very Good
  • Edition First Edition
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Publisher Bobbs-Merrill
  • Place of Publication Indianapolis, IN
  • Date Published 1928

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The Bishop's Wife

The Bishop's Wife

by Nathan, Robert

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Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill, 1928. Book. VG+. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. First edition stated on copyright page. Pale yellow boards stamped in black with patterned endpapers. A clean and bright VG+ copy in a VG+ dust jacket wth the price of $2.00 intact on the front flap. Inscribed, dated and signed by the author on the half-title page. Basis for the 1947 film directed by Henry Koster and starring Cary Grant, Loretta Young and David Niven. A scarce title, especially signed and in dust jacket..
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Thanks God! I'll Take it from Here

Thanks God! I'll Take it from Here

by Allen, Jane & Livingstone, Mary

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London: Faber & Faber, 1946. Book. NF/F. Hardcover. First Edition. First printing. A clean and bright NF/F copy in a VG+ dust jacket with the price intact on the front flap. Basis for the 1946 film "Without Reservations" directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Claudette Colbert, John Wayne and Don DeFore. Scarce and collectible..
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The Fly ( Playboy June 1957 )
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The Fly ( Playboy June 1957 )

by Langelaan, George

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First appearance first printing of this short horror story the has been made into two movies. The first starring Vincent Price in 1958. The second in 1986 starring Jeff Goldblum. SIGNED by Jeff Goldblum on the first page of text. SIGNED at the 2019 Fan Expo in Toronto where Jeff was one of the Celebrity Guests. I will include a copy of my e ticket for admission. Light edge wear. Light rubbing to the surface of the cover. There is 1 1/2 inch pen mark on the front cover. In very good condition.
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The Mysterious Affair At Styles
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The Mysterious Affair At Styles

by Christie, Agatha

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Half-Crown Edition
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The Mysterious Affair At Styles (1935 Bodley Head Half-Crown Edition) Made and printed in Great Britain by Butler & Tanner, Ltd., Frome and London. THE FIRST HERCULE POIROT TITLE EVER WRITTEN BY CHRISTIE. Used. Good / New fax candlestick motif dust jacket. Hardcover. BOARDS ARE VERY CLEAN. NO CORNER BUMPS. Mandarin Orange cloth boards with black and green stripes on front cover. Black Titling. States Bodley Head on spine. Spine may be slightly sunned. Pages fairly bright. Foxing noted. chiefly at title page and verso. Please see our photos. Apparently quite rare in this edition. Will ship from Oregon. We consider offers.
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The Night of the Hunter
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The Night of the Hunter

by Davis Alexander Grubb (1919-1980) signed with signed cards Robert Mitchum , Shelly Winters and Lillian Gish

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273 pages. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's quarter black cloth with white lettering to spine over blue boards in original jacket. Signed with a reduced reproduction of the movie poster and Signature cards of three of the movie actors: Robert Mitchum, Shelly Winters and Lillian Gish. First edition.One of 1000 copies only specially autographed by the author for presentation to friends of the author and publisher. Issued without a dust jacket this one has the addition of a special dust jacket with advance reviews from booksellers and publisher on the back of the jacket.The Night of the Hunter is a 1953 thriller novel by American author Davis Grubb. The book was a national bestseller and was voted a finalist for the 1955 National Book Award. Murderous ex-convict Harry Powell misrepresents himself as a prison chaplain upon his release from prison. Acting on a story told to him by his now-dead cellmate, "Reverend" Powell cons the cellmate's widow into marrying him in hopes that her… Read More
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The Kite Runner  - Signed
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The Kite Runner - Signed

by Hosseini, Khaled

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Fine
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Hardcover
ISBN 13
9781573222457
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1573222453
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Riverhead Books. Hardback. Fine/Fine. 1. 2003. Hardback. Fine. First Edition. First Print. Signature only by author on the title page in both Farsi and English. Authors first book. Basis for the movie with the same name. Very collectible copy, excellent addition to your collection. Dust jacket is protected with a Mylar cover. Books are packed and shipped in boxes.
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Brideshead Revisited

Brideshead Revisited

by Waugh Evelyn:

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Belper, Derbyshire, United Kingdom
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1945, 1st edition year, 4th edition . Tight bright red boards. Original (chipped) DJ in protective foil. Original owner inscription dated 1946.
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The Bishop's Wife

The Bishop's Wife

by Nathan, Robert

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First Edition
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Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill, 1928. Book. VG+. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. First edition stated on copyright page. Pale yellow boards stamped in black with patterned endpapers. A clean and bright VG+ copy in a VG+ dust jacket wth the price of $2.00 intact on the front flap. Inscribed, dated and signed by the author on the half-title page. Basis for the 1947 film directed by Henry Koster and starring Cary Grant, Loretta Young and David Niven. A scarce title, especially signed and in dust jacket..
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Thanks God! I'll Take it from Here

Thanks God! I'll Take it from Here

by Allen, Jane & Livingstone, Mary

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Used - NF/F
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London: Faber & Faber, 1946. Book. NF/F. Hardcover. First Edition. First printing. A clean and bright NF/F copy in a VG+ dust jacket with the price intact on the front flap. Basis for the 1946 film "Without Reservations" directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Claudette Colbert, John Wayne and Don DeFore. Scarce and collectible..
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You Only Live Twice
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You Only Live Twice: With Rare Movie Tie-In Wrap

by Fleming, Ian

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The first edition PAN X434 was published in the UK in 1965 with a cover by Raymond Hawkey and "Not for sale in the in the UK", 250,000 copies were printed in July 1965.
The second edition of PAN X434 were printed in 1966 and shipped with a movie tie-in cover replacing the Hawkey scorpion and pearl cover. PAN Books had remaining stock of the first printing of 1965 with the Hawkey cover and applied a wrap of the movie tie-in edition to the remaining 1965 copies.
There is no record as to how many of these variants were shipped by PAN, the majority of the authentic variants discovered over the years have been found in Australia.
This a good unread copy, has tanned pages and foxing. The foxing is on the inside of the cover and first page, first page has a vertical tanning section where the wrap faces, this tanning supports the authenticity of this being the actual book shipped with the wrapper and not swapped out for another copy, there is a remains clipping to the front cover. The back cover has foxing… Read More
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The Bishop's Wife
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The Bishop's Wife

by Nathan, Robert

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Very Good
Edition
First Edition
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Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1928. First Edition stated. Near Fine, slight toning at gutters white end pages, in a Very Good Art Deco dust jacket, 2" tear at top edge rear spine fold with horizontal 1" tear across spine, small chips at spine ends, old internal tape mends. Basis for the 1947 film of the same name starring Cary Grant, David Niven and Loretta Young, and the 1996 Penny Marshall film The Preacher's Wife, starring Denzel Washington, Whitney Houston, and Gregory Hines. . First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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The Bishop's Wife

The Bishop's Wife

by Nathan, Robert

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Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill, 1928. Book. VG+. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. First edition stated on copyright page. Pale yellow boards stamped in black with patterned endpapers. A clean and bright VG+ copy in a VG+ dust jacket wth the price of $2.00 intact on the front flap. Inscribed, dated and signed by the author on the half-title page. Basis for the 1947 film directed by Henry Koster and starring Cary Grant, Loretta Young and David Niven. A scarce title, especially signed and in dust jacket..
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The Midnight Sky
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The Midnight Sky

by George Clooney

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1st edition, 1st printing
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Hardcover
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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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HAMLET, PRINCE OF DENMARK

by SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM

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No Jacket, As Issued
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Reprint
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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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The Sky and the Forest
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The Sky and the Forest

by Forester, C.S

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Very Good
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First Edition
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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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The Silence Of The North

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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Drugstore Cowboy
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Drugstore Cowboy

by Fogle, James

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Used
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1st Original paper Edition
ISBN 13
9780385302241
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038530224X
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New York: Delta/Dell, 1990. 1st Original paper Edition . Paper. REVIEW COPY WITH PHOTOGRAPH OF THE AUTHOR LAID IN. Very uncommon in this edition. A novel that was published only in paper format about bad boy and girl junkies and the terrible things they do. Made into a memorable film by Gus Van Sant with Matt Dillon and Kelly Lynch giving terrific performances. Fine.
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The Human Comedy
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The Human Comedy

by William Saroyan

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none
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First
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Harcourt & Brace 1943, First. VG/none. Rust orange boards with black titles to spine and illustration of young man on bike with dog chasing (delivering telegrams) . Also an illustration of a young boy on the spine. PO's signature on first fly leaf. Otherwise, a clean tight copy - no other marks. No DJ. The Human Comedya loving novel about a family during WWII. It was made into a movie starring Mickey Rooney , Fay Bainter and Frank Morgan. The book won a Pulitzer Prize, and the movie won an Academy Award for Best Picture. Rooney received an Oscar Nomination for Best Actor.
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House Of Sand And Fog
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House Of Sand And Fog

by Dubus, Andre III

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1st Edition. 1st Printing.
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Hardcover
ISBN 13
9780393046977
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0393046974
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New York: W.W. Norton, 1999. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. . Boards & Cloth with Dustjacket. SIGNED BY ANDRE DUBUS III ON THE TITLE PAGE. IN ADDITION THERE IS A LONG INSCRIPTION FROM DUBUS TO THE FORMER OWNER OF THE BOOK THANKING HER FOR INVITING HIM TO READ HIS WORK AT THE NATIONAL ARTS CLUB IN NEW YORK CITY. Well received novel that was filmed last year with Ben Kingsley & Jennifer Connelly. Laid in is a movie tie in bookmark for the film. Very tiny almost invisible nick to the bottom edge of the dustjacket, and a few reading corner folds. Vg+/vg+
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Poirot's Early Cases

Poirot's Early Cases

by Christie, Agatha

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Large-Print Edition
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Hardcover
ISBN 13
9780708923269
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0708923267
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Poirot's Early Cases. By Agatha Christie. Ulverscroft December 1990 First Large-Print Edition. Short story Anthology. Complete and unabridged. EXLIB. Good Condition/ No DJ Included. 5 ½ X 8 ¾. 470 pages. Summary: In this collection of eighteen stories Hercule Poirot begins his celebrated career in crime. Includes The Double Clue, The Adventure of Johnnie Waverley, and How Does Your Garden Grow, 15 others. A HARD TO FIND ITEM IN THE UNITED STATES.
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Grand Hotel
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Grand Hotel

by Baum, Vicki

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First Edition
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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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