Books Into Film from Old Saratoga Books

NY: Simon & Schuster. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2005. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0684824906 . xix, 916pp, index, notes. Inscribed by the author on the front flyleaf. Goodwin's award-winning historical portrait of Abraham Lincoln and his cabinet members, which served as the basis for Steven Spielberg's mesmerizing 2012 film, Lincoln. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall… Read more about this item

New York and London: Alfred A. Knopf. Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn, endpapers lightly foxed, many . inexpertly opened pages with ragged edges and some missing corners.. 1928. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. xviii, 382pp, glossary, bibliography. Cloth-backed illustrated paper-covered boards. Illustrations, photos. Asbury's classic account of New York City's street gangs, later the basis for Martin Scorsese's… Read more about this item

Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Co.. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Gift inscription on front free endpaper, . jacket waterstained and tattered. 1949. Reprint. Hardcover. Tan cloth binding. Jacket art by Ilonka Karasz. A nostalgic novel of turn-of-the-century Indiana, and the basis for the 1948 Walt Disney film. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 255 pages… Read more about this item

NY: Harpercollins. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Rear two leaves dogeared, remainder . mark on page bottoms.. 1997. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0060276606 . Picture book about the 1930s New York socialite who raised a gorilla as a child. The basis for the 1997 film starring Renee Russo. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall;… Read more about this item

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill. Good in Good dust jacket; Boards worn, spine cocked, corners rounded, . pages toned, jacket edgeworn.. 1943. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Early printing of this bestselling novel, later made into the 1949 film starring Gary Cooper as idealistic architect Howard Roark. Red cloth titled in gilt on front boards and spine. . First edition is… Read more about this item

NY: E. P. Dutton. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Jacket price-clipped and waterstained on . front panel, page tops spotted.. 1964. First American Edition. Hardcover. Illustrations by Brands cousin, Edward Ardizzone. Blue illustrated cloth. The first of the childrens book trilogy, later adapted as the 2005 film Nanny McPhee. Emma Thompson starred in the titular role as… Read more about this item

Buenos Aires: Editorial Claridad. Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn, pages toned, spine cracked, sporadic English vocabulary notations inked to first hundred pages.. 1959. Thirteenth Edition. Hardcover. Later edition of first Spanish language version of Hemingway's novel For Whom the Bell Tolls, translated by Olga Sanz. Volume 5, Biblioteca de Grandes Novelas. Paper-covered boards with image of… Read more about this item

NY: Farrar Straus Giroux. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Page tops and bottoms lightly soiled, . price sticker on front jacket flap.. 1979. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0374250324 . Off-white cloth binding. The classic book about the elite pilots and early astronauts in the NASA space program. Basis for the 1983 film. ; 8vo 8"… Read more about this item

NY: W. W. Norton and Company. Good in Good dust jacket; Boards and endpapers lightly dampstained, jacket . price-clipped, lightly edgeworn, and lightly dampstained on interior.. 1966. First American Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Halfbound in green cloth. Introduction by Francis Wyndham. Jacket art by Bill Logan. The Caribbean-born author wrote this prequel about the characters in Charlotte Bronte’s… Read more about this item

NY: Farrar & Rinehart. Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn and toned, endpapers darkened, pages . toned.. 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Illustrations by John OHara Cosgrave II. Gray illustrated cloth. A humorous allegory for children about a timber tycoon who befriends a forest gnome. The basis for the 1967 Disney film The Gnome-Mobile. ; 8vo … Read more about this item

NY: Laura Geringer Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2006. Second Edition. Hardcover. 0060890983 . Illustrated endpapers, color illustrations. An expanded edition of this story for children featuring wildly futuristic Robinson family. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 37 pages .

London: Jonathan Cape. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Top corners bumped, page tops spotted, . pages faintly toned.. 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. 022401983X . Harold Pinter's screenplay for the 1981 film starring Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons. Foreword by novelist John Fowles. The screenplay was nominated for an Academy Award. xvi, 104pp. ; 8vo 8"… Read more about this item

Boston: Little, Brown and Company. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards rubbed, spine slightly cocked.. 1905. First Edition. Hardcover. Novel made into 1920 silent film. Blue boards with Art Nouveau cover design by Amy Sacker with her monogram at lower right corner. Five pages of publisher's ads at rear. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 431… Read more about this item

NY: Harper and Brothers. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards rubbed, ink stains on pp. 2-3, spine . sunned.. 1906. First Edition. Hardcover. Red cloth with blindstamped design of poppies and gilt-stamped titles on front boards. Color frontispiece and eight black and white plates by Walter Appleton Clark. A novel about Helena, who leaves a wretched life… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2008. First Printing. Hardcover. 054705484X . A sharp copy of Roth's 29th novel, later made into a 2016 film starring Logan Lerman. Signed by Roth on the front flyleaf. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 233 pages .

NY: Charles Scribner's Sons. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Boards worn, gift inscription and owner . name on front free endpaper, jacket toned and heavily tattered, glassine . wrapper tattered.. 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. Gray boards with dark brown cloth spine. Printed paper jacket overlaid with printed glassine wrapper. A longish short story by the New York … Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket rubbed at corners, spine and . edges.. 2002. First Printing. Hardcover. 0618253963 . Another imaginative and mind-bending children's picture book by the two-time Caldecott Medal winner. The book was the basis for the 2005 film of the same title. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall .… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: The Blakiston Company. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Jacket lightly tattered.. 1945. Hardcover. Jacket art by Susanne Suba. A suspenseful novel about "a psychopath as fluffy as eiderdown, a kitten whose claws were steel." This book was the basis for the 1946 British film of the same title starring Margaret Lockwood. Caspary was blacklisted in… Read more about this item

London and New York: Charles A. Scribner's Sons. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Pages toned, jacket soiled, tattered and . has loss at head of spine.. 1939. First Printing. Hardcover. Burgundy cloth with titles stamped in gilt on front boards and spine. Foreword by Carl Sandburg. Blurbs by Heywood Broun, Brooks Atkinson and Richard Watts, Jr on… Read more about this item

NY: Harper and Row. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Page tops and fore-edges foxed.. 1989. Second Printing. Hardcover. 0060161426 . Signed by the late author on the title page. A novel about a part-time New Hampshire policeman, Wade Whitehouse, who descends into violence and which was made into a 1997 film starring Nick Nolte, Sissy Spacek,… Read more about this item