Search Results: Film History from Mary Riversong Books

Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade. By Patrick Dennis. Vanguard Press 1959 First Edition, Stated Third Printing Thus. "Life is a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death!" Used. VG/VG Unclipped $3.50 ORIGINAL DJ is now protected in a mylar wrap. Former owner names on front free endpaper. One of the funniest books ever written, this story was also a made into a play, a film, and a musical with the incomparable Rosalind Russell and Lucille Ball. Rare/quite scarce in a nice dj. Please see our photos. 280 pages. 5 5/8 X 8 3/8.

Bad Seed, Dodd, Mead Fireside Theatre Book Club Edition. A play by Maxwell Anderson. Adapted from the original novel "The Bad Seed" by William March. 1955. Used. Good Condition/ Fair Child Actress Patty McCormack scene from the play on the front cover. "Summary: "Can a child be born evil? This disturbing question underlies the startling events of a new play, based on the best-selling novel by William March."Green boards. 96 pages.

Donald Richie. The Films of Akira Kurosawa, Third Edition, Expanded and Updated. ISBN0520200268. 271 pages. 10 X 10. Very Good Condition. Used. Oblong binding. Softcover.

Kim "Howard" Johnson.The First 20 years of Monty Python. Illustrated with photographs. St. Martins Press, NY, Used. Softcover. VG Condition. 269 pages. 8 ½ X11.

TWO SHEPHERD MEAD VOLUMES are included here: How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, A Dastard's Guide To Fame and Fortune (unsigned) USED Good Condition/ Good Condition yellow publisher's dust jacket. 1952 Simon & schuster third Impression thus. 148 pages, 5 3/4 X 8 1/4 PLUS a 1965 Simon & Schuster Stated First Printing copy of "The Carefully Considered Rape of the World, a Novel about the Unspeakable" SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. USED. Good/Good- original $4.95 unclipped green dust jacket with photo of author on back panel. 245 pages 5 3/4 X 8 3/8.

Hugo, Victor. Please excuse our group photo, but please see this item (in beige and red dust jacket) at bottom right. The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Undated. Circa 1940. Books, Inc. VG/VG original Publishers price-clipped DJ. QUITE RARE THUS. Green leatherette boards. Beige dust jacket with red and yellow titling and ornamentation. Protected in a mylar wrap. 360 pages. Summary: Classic title by French Author Victor Hugo about cruelty, courage, and love.

Charlotte Chandler. >It's Only a Movie: Alfred Hitchcock: A Personal Biography (Applause Books) Copyright 2005 Applause Theatre and Cinema Books. Stated First Applause Printing, 2006.Illustrated with photographs. Softcover. USED. VG CONDITION. 349 pages, 6 X 9. ISBN1557836922.

THE KING OF KINGS, Copyright 1927, Grosset & Dunlap. Written by Jeanie Macpherson and Henry Macmahon. USED. 257 pages plus adverts. 5 ¼ X 7 5/8. Light brown boards with delft blue titling and ornamentation. VG Condition/Acceptable RARE original H.B. Warner dust jacket. The jacket is in acceptable condition with wear and loss to back panel and spine. Now protected in a mylar wrap. Sorry about the stack of books photos. King of King is the only title available here. Summary: "The King of Kings is a 1927 American silent epic film produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille. It depicts the lasts weeks of Jesus of Nazareth before his crucifixion, and stars H.B. Warner in the lead role.

816BiggersReckless Biggers, Earl Derr. Love Insurance (The Reckless Age) Grosset & Dunlap Photoplay edition), Copyright 1914, Bobbs-Merrill. Illustrated wih scenes from the 1924 Universal-Jewel Production starring Reginald Denny. In very rare original dust jacket. By Earl Derr, author of the Charlie Chan Detective Series. Used. Very Good/ Good- Original dust jacket. The jacket is missing 1/2 of its spine. 402 pages plus adverts. 5 1/4 X 7 3/4.

McTeague by Frank Norris. Copyright 1899 by Doubleday, Page and Co. First Boni & Liveright Modern Library Edition Thus. IDate unstated. Used. Good Condition. Introduction by Henry S. Pancost. A nice copy bound in brown, flexible faux leather. Brown endpapers. Hinges split. Summary: "McTeague is a novel by Frank Norris, first published in 1899. It tells the story of a couple's courtship and marriage, and their subsequent descent into poverty and violence as the result of jealousy and greed. The book was the basis for the films McTeague (1916) and Erich von Stroheim's Greed (1924)."

Verne, Jules MICHAEL STROGOFF, THE COURIER OF THE CZAR. No info on copyright page. Grosset & Dunlap 1926 Universal-Film de France Photoplay Edition. USED. VG/Acceptable Original charging charioteer dust jacket. Front panel and spine of jacket have some loss. Please see our photos. Apple green boards with orange titles box. Film directed by Jacques de Baroncelli. Now protected by a mylar wrap. 315 pages 5 ¼ X 7 5/8.Please excuse our stack of books photos. Michael Strogoff is the only title available here.

Prouty, Olive Higgins. NOW, VOYAGER, Hodder and Stoughton Limited, London. THE FILM EDITION. Copyright page states: First Printing in this form February, 1943. USED. VG/G UNCLIPPED ORIGINAL 3'-net Yellow Bette Davis Dust jacket. VERY RARE THUS. Bette Davis Front panel with a still from the Warner Bros movie of the same name is in nice shape. Shows B.D. On the telephone. This jacket is not sunned. Bottom of the dj spine is chipped at publisher name. Back panel has a couple of chips at top edge. Protected in a mylar wrap. Orange boards are un-sunned and in nice shape. By the author of Lisa Vale and Stella Dallas, Olive Higgins Prouty. SUMMARY: Now, Voyager is the story of a woman who, through force of circumstances, escapes from a lonely, drab, fear-ridden existence to a rich, full life of her own." 222 pages. 4 ½ X 7 ¼. Not an easy find, this one will ship from United States.

Slawson, Judith. Robert Duvall: Hollywood Maverick. BIOGRAPHY. ISBN 0312687087. 1985 First Edition 1st impression thus. St. Martin's Press, New York. Illustrated with photographs. 198 pages, indexed. EXLIB. Good/Good price-clipped mauve dust jacket. Biography of Robert Duvall, who has appeared in The Godfather; THX-1138, True Grit, Lonesome Dove, and many other memorable films.

Williams, Tennessee. SUMMER AND SMOKE. PLAY. DRAMA. New American Library Signet Books Movie Tie-In Edition, First Printing Thus, October, 1961. Movie Tie-In. Laurence Harvey, Geraldine Page front cover. Very Good Condition. 127 pages. 7 1/8 X 4 ¼. RARE. Summary: Tragic drama of two-ill starred lovers.

Anatole France. Grosset & Dunlap Universal Library Edition. No date or statement on copyright page. Circa 1929. USED. VERY GOOD/GOOD ORIGINAL UNIVERSAL LIBRARY DUST JACKET. QUITE RARE THUS. Dust jacket has a bit of loss at top of spine. Glossy black boards with silver, green and black titling and ornamentation. Lime green endpapers. No frontispiece or any other photos appear in this edition. 5 7/8 X 8 ½. 154 pages. "Thais is a 1917 American silent drama film produced by Samuel Goldwyn, and based on the 1890 novel "Thais" by Anatole France, a story of forbidden love. Cinema, Film History. Silent Film Era.

Sinclair, Upton. Upton Sinclair Presents William Fox. Published by the Author, Los Angeles, CA., 1933. First Edition. Used. Very Good Condition/ No DJ Included. Includes Ephemera: Original pamphlet "A letter from Mary Craig Sinclair to Eve Fox" originally issued with this title.

Edward Albee. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Penguin plays – PL61). Penguin, London 1970. Scarce. 140 pages 4 ½ X 7 ¼. USED. SOFTCOVER VG CONDITION. Stock photo. Our front cover is not creased.

O'Brien, P.J. Will Rogers Ambassador of Good Will Prince of Wit and Wisdom. With an appreciation by Lowell Thomas. Copyright 1935, P.J. O'Brien. Published by George A. Parker Company, Philadelphia. Illustrated. RARE SALESMAN'S DUMMY WITH SUBSCRIPTION BLANKS. Includes excerpts from 296 page complete book. 5 5/8 X 8 3/8. BIOGRAPHY OF WILL ROGERS. USED. GOOD CONDITION/ NO DJ AS ISSUED.