Film History from Mary Riversong Books

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.

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.

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.

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… Read more about this item

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.

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… Read more about this item

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.

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.

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… Read more about this item

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.… Read more about this item

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:… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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.

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,… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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.