BOOKS-INTO-FILM from Champ & Mabel Collectibles

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1973. Cloth. Good/good. 180p. Signed by authors & That Darn Cat on front endpaper. Brown spots on top and fore edges of pages, toned jacket rubbed and stained with chips to edges. Tie-in with the Walt Disney motion picture directed by Robert Stevenson starring Hayley Mills, Dean Jones, Dorothy Provine, and Roddy McDowell.… Read more about this item

New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1963. Cloth. Very good/good. Shepard, Mary. [viii], 350p. Cover edges lightly faded, price clipped jacket stained on front with 1" creased tear on bottom front edges and scraped to edges. From the jacket: "The original Mary Poppins stories on which the Walt Disney motion picture is based." B&w illustrations and 8 leaves… Read more about this item

New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1961. Cloth. Good +/good. 279p. Name and date on front endpaper, blind stamp on title page, endpapers toned, bottom front cover corner bumped, jacket foxed and corners worn with holes on back flap fold. Basis for the film about a Holocaust survivor who operates a pawnshop in East Harlem, New York, directed… Read more about this item

New York: Hodder & Stoughton, George H. Doran, 1912. Embossed cloth. Very good/No Jacket. 454p. Basis for the silent film Cameron of the Royal Mounted, "about a young Scottish immigrant who joins the Mounties." The film was directed by Henry MacRae and starred Gaston Glass, Irving Cummings, and Vivienne Osborne. [Wikipedia] (7-1/2"x5-1/4")

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1971. First Edition. Cloth. Very good/very good. 313p. 1st printing. Book plate and name on front endpaper, jacket corners and top and bottom of sunned spine worn. A "12-year old orphan and her presumptive father" travel around the South during the 1930s Depression, "bilking widows, Alabama peanut farmers and even used-car dealers." The… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1961. First Edition, Stated. Cloth. Very good/good. [x], [335p.] Top cover edges sunned, jacket rubbed with chip to top of spine that has been reinforced with clear tape. Basis of 1963 motion picture directed by David Miller, starring Gregory Peck, Tony Curtis, Angie Dickinson, Eddie Albert, and Bobby Darin, nominated as 1963 Best… Read more about this item

New York: Happy Hour Library, [1900?]. Stiff wraps. Good. 92p. Wraps chipped, torn, and creased on edges, wraps beginning to separate from stab stapled text block. Includes My Double; and How He Undid Me, The Man without a Country, both by Hale, and Philosophy of Furniture by Poe. My Double developed into a 1912 short film and a… Read more about this item

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1947. Cloth. Very good/good. viii, 280p. 3rd printing. Signed by author to motion picture story editor Julian Johnson on front endpaper. Page edges toned, bottom front cover edge sunned, jacket has chips to edges and spine sunned. Set in the 1890s, this is a "tempestuous tale of gas-lit, gilt-edges New Orleans." Basis of… Read more about this item

New York: Macmillan, 1942. First Edition. Cloth. Very good/fair +. 350p. 1st printing. Endpapers lightly toned, clipped jacket has chips and tears to edges with a large tear on front flap fold. Basis of a motion picture of the same name directed by Irving Pichel, starring Alan Ladd and Loretta Young with a screenplay by Frank Partos and… Read more about this item

Tokyo: Kenkyusha, 1939. Wraps. Good +/good. [iv], 160p. Glassine jacket has been taped to french folds with the tape staining the endpapers, top of page edges have brown spots, jacket soiled with tears to edges. Basis of 1939 Japanese film directed by Tomotaka Tasaka. (7-3/8"x5-1/8")

New York: Macmillan Co., 1961. First Edition. Cloth. Good+/Good+. 79p. 1st printing. Bottom of front cover has white spots, cover corners lightly worn, jacket has 1" creased tear on bottom front edge and additional smaller tears and chips with back corner near flap fold moisture stained and scrape on front. Basis of 1962 movie "David and Lisa" starring… Read more about this item