Original color studio lobby card for LOLITA by [Nabokov, Vladimir] - 1962

New York: Modern Library. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1969. First Thus. Hardcover. First Modern Library Edition, September 1969 [stated]. SIGNED full page inscription on front end page by film maker Hall Bartlett and dated February 25th 1972. Inscription states "Dear Diane and Mike. This is my next film, the one with Tony Quinn", that it took three years of fighting to get the movie rights and asking Diane and Mike for collaboration on the film. The film was released in 1978 staring Anthony Quinn and titled the same as the book. The movie was nominated for both a Golden Globe and at the Moscow International Film Festival in 1979 [IMDB and Golden Globes]. The late Hall Bartlett (1912-1993) started his film production company in 1952 and made other movies with actors Bob Hope [The Paleface - 1948], Robert Stack, Joan Crawford [The Caretakers - 1963] and Sidney Poitier [All the Young Men -1960]. Oscar Lewis (1914-1970) was an American anthropologist who studied "the culture… Read More

[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.

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.

HERCULE POIROT The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd (1926, Dodd, Mead. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION Stated 7th Printing Thus, December, 1926. WITH NEW FAX JACKET. USED. VG CONDITION. Agatha Christie. HERCULE POIROT. 306 pages. 5 3/8 X 7 5/8. A nice copy. YOUR OFFERS ARE WELCOME HERE!

RARE SIGNED STATED FIRST EDITION: Gaddis, Thomas E.: Birdman Of Alcatraz, The Story of Robert Stroud .1955 Random House 1st. Ed. w/ exlib replacement 1st Ed. DJ is an original HARVEY GABOR White/black jail bars/ bird inset dust jacket protected by a mylar wrap. Unclipped Front flap states 9/55. Used. Good-/Good condition original dust jacket. Front cover states: "The fantastic true story of the prisoner with the longest record of solitary confinement in the United States – who became a leading authority on birds." The original source material for the gripping American film starring Burt Lancaster. YOUR OFFERS ARE WELCOME HERE!

New York: Modern Library. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1969. First Thus. Hardcover. First Modern Library Edition, September 1969 [stated]. SIGNED full page inscription on front end page by film maker Hall Bartlett and dated February 25th 1972. Inscription states "Dear Diane and Mike. This is my next film, the one with Tony Quinn", that it took three years of fighting to get the movie rights and asking Diane and Mike for collaboration on the film. The film was released in 1978 staring Anthony Quinn and titled the same as the book. The movie was nominated for both a Golden Globe and at the Moscow International Film Festival in 1979 [IMDB and Golden Globes]. The late Hall Bartlett (1912-1993) started his film production company in 1952 and made other movies with actors Bob Hope [The Paleface - 1948], Robert Stack, Joan Crawford [The Caretakers - 1963] and Sidney Poitier [All the Young Men -1960]. Oscar Lewis (1914-1970) was an American anthropologist who studied "the culture… Read More

[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.

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.

HERCULE POIROT The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd (1926, Dodd, Mead. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION Stated 7th Printing Thus, December, 1926. WITH NEW FAX JACKET. USED. VG CONDITION. Agatha Christie. HERCULE POIROT. 306 pages. 5 3/8 X 7 5/8. A nice copy. YOUR OFFERS ARE WELCOME HERE!

RARE SIGNED STATED FIRST EDITION: Gaddis, Thomas E.: Birdman Of Alcatraz, The Story of Robert Stroud .1955 Random House 1st. Ed. w/ exlib replacement 1st Ed. DJ is an original HARVEY GABOR White/black jail bars/ bird inset dust jacket protected by a mylar wrap. Unclipped Front flap states 9/55. Used. Good-/Good condition original dust jacket. Front cover states: "The fantastic true story of the prisoner with the longest record of solitary confinement in the United States – who became a leading authority on birds." The original source material for the gripping American film starring Burt Lancaster. YOUR OFFERS ARE WELCOME HERE!