Search Results: Movies 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.

209LewisBabbittRed Sinclair Lewis. Babbitt. Copyright 1922. No other info appears on the copyright page. Harcourt Brace, NY. This is an undated Harbrace reissue edition, circa 1936 Printed from First Edition second issue plates with the correction of "Lyte" for "Purdy" on p. 49, line 4. USED. VG/Good-. Dark red boards and original maroon dust. Quite rare thus. 5 ¾ X 8 ¼. 401 pages.

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.

Mulford,Clarence Edward: Bar-20, 1907 First Edition, The Outing Publishing Company, New York. Title page states MCMVII. HOPALONG CASSIDY #1. Illustrated by N.C. Wyeth and F.E. Schoonover. Used. Good Condition/ No Dust Jacket. Red boards with Large gilt titles. Black titling on spine. Hinges cracked. N.C. Wyeth Illustration at center front shows Hopalong "Hoppy" Cassidy sitting on a barn wall. Plot summary: "In Bar-20, the first Hopalong Cassidy novel by Clarence E. Mulford, Cassidy could fan a gun like a Billy the Kid... Six rounds in three seconds was his slowest time. No one in the state of Texas could beat him. Until he met Slim Travennes, head of the Sandy Creek Vigilante Committee. Slim was snake-fast. No man could go up against him and live. No man. Hoppy could stand or die. He had no other choice. None at all".

Norton, Mary: The Borrowers Afloat, 1987 Harcourt, Brace. 3rd book in the story series. Illustrated by Beth and Joe Krush, First Edition, Impression "U". Exlib. Formerly owned by Cornerstone Christian School. VG/VG original floating teapot dustjacket. No price appears on dj front flap. A clean, solid copy. Pages bright. See stock photo.

Koegler,Horst: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Ballet. Copyright 1977. Oxford University Press. Stated First Edition. EXLIB. VG/VG price-clipped DJ. 583 pages, indexed. A straight, clean copy. No exterior stamping appears. 5 ¾ X 8 ¼. Contains more than 5,000 entries covering every aspect of ballet during he past four centuries. HISTORY OF BALLET. PERFORMING ARTS, THEATRES, COMPOSERS. ISBN 0193113147.

Albee, Edward A Delicate Balance. Stated First Pocket Books printing November, 1967. PLAY. PULITZER PRIZE WINNER. DRAMA. Used. Good Condition Softcover. 175 pages. 4 ½ X 7.

Stein, Joseph. Fiddler On The Roof, Based on Sholem Aleichem's Stories.1964 Crown Publishers, NY. Fireside Theatre Book Club Edition. MUSICAL PLAY. DRAMA. Starring Zero Mostel as Tevya, the dairyman. Includes b/w original cast photos. Red paper boards with black titling. VG/G- Original yellow Broadway production dust jacket. 153 pages. 5 ¾ X 8 ½.

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.

Hammett, Dashiell: The Glass Key. Grosset & Dunlap Movie Tie-In Edition, 1931. Detective Mystery. USED. Good condition hardcover in Good- condition Rare Original Madison Square lime green movie cast Dust Jacket features Brian Donleavy, Veronica Lake and Alan Ladd.

MARGARET MITCHELL: Gone With The Wind, published December, 1939 by The Macmillan Company. MOTION PICTURE EDITION. First Printing Thus. Paperback. Used. Good Condition/ No DJ issued. Bound in yellow pictorial stiff card wraps. Clark Cable and Vivien Leigh front cover. 391 pages 7 X 9 1/2. Scarce. Includes 12 pages of color prints from the film. Plot summary: "Epic Civil War drama focuses on the life of petulant Southern belle Scarlett O'Hara. Starting with her idyllic life on a sprawling plantation, the film traces her survival through the tragic history of the South during the Civil War and Reconstruction, and her tangled love affairs with Ashley Wilkes and Rhett Butler."

James Hilton. Good-bye Mr. Chips. For your Holiday reading. Little, Brown 10th Impression Thus, 1934. USED. VG/Good Condition original white, red and green Holiday motif price-clipped dust jacket. 126 pages. 5 ¼ X 7 ¾. Written by James Hilton, author of "Lost Horizon".

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. Undated. Circa 1950. William J. Hill Co., Inc. Chicago, Ill. Not an illustrated edition. USED. VG/No DJ Included. Adventure Fiction Romance/Horror. Sorry about the group photo, but please see stock photo of binding for William J. Hill editions for the item being offered here. Blue Boards, gilt titling and red ornamentation on spine. 380 pages. 5 ½ X 8 ¼. Summary: Classic title by French Author Victor Hugo about cruelty, courage, and love. A clean, square, solid copy.

Du Maurier, Daphne: Jamaica Inn 1936 First Edition. Doubleday Doran & Co. RARE. Title page states 1936. Used. Good-/ New Fax Whistler Dust Jacket. Condition: Front board was cracked in half in shipment and has now been taped from inside. Fabric is intact. Other than this damage the book is in good overall condition. Priced accordingly. 332 pages. 5 ¾ X 8 ¼. Plot summary: "Shadows moved across the moor. Horses' hoofs rang sharply on the stone pathway. They had come again - the mysterious visitors who arrived at Jamaica Inn under cover of darkness...Here is a story of passion, treachery and death. Of a beautiful woman caught in the web of a dangerous intrigue. And of her compelling love for a scoundrel. Daphne de Maurier tells this strange tale of the suspense and excitement which characterizes her internationally famous novels Rebecca and The Scapegoat"

Du Maurier, Daphne: Jamaica Inn Copyright 1936, states 1937 on the title page. Doubleday Doran & Co. QUITE RARE. Used. VERY GOOD CONDITION/ NO DJ INCLUDED. 332 pages. 5 ¾ X 8 ¼. Plot summary: "Shadows moved across the moor. Horses' hoofs rang sharply on the stone pathway. They had come again - the mysterious visitors who arrived at Jamaica Inn under cover of darkness...Here is a story of passion, treachery and death. Of a beautiful woman caught in the web of a dangerous intrigue. And of her compelling love for a scoundrel. Daphne du Maurier tells this strange tale of the suspense and excitement which characterizes her internationally famous novels Rebecca and The Scapegoat"

167MarshTitanic Marsh, Ed W. James Cameron's Titanic. Stated First HarperPerennial Edition, 1st Printing thus, 1997. AS NEW. SOFTCOVER. ILLUSTRATED WITH COLOUR PHOTOGRAPHS. Please see our stock photo. ISBN0060953241. Large format. 4to., 178 pages. An inside look at the making of the blockbuster film starring Leonardo DiCaprio. Scarce. $41.95. Domestic US sales only, please.

Burnett, Frances Hodgson A LADY OF QUALITY. Charles Scribner's copyright 1896. Grosset & Dunlap Universal Jewel Photoplay, Edition, 1924. USED. VG/Good Original RARE Virginia Valli as film character Clorinda Wildairs dust jacket. Protected in a mylar wrap. Green boards, red titling with grey ornamentation. 363 pages plus adverts. 5 X 7 ¾. Please excuse our stack of books photos. A Lady Of Quality is the only title available here.

Goldman, James. The Lion In Winter, A Play by James Goldman. DRAMA. 1981 Random House Book Club Edition. Very Good Condition/ Very Good Condition original dust jacket. Protected in a mylar wrap. 103 pages. 5 3/8 X 8 ½. Summary:"The Lion in Winter is a 1966 play by American playwright and screenwriter James Goldman. Based on the life of King Henry II, who ruled over England and Ireland during the twelfth century, it concerns a number of fictional events that take place during a Christmas feast Henry II throws for the new King of France. The feast is attended by Henry's three sons, each of whom schemes to usurp the throne. Their plots are complicated by those of additional characters, including Henry's wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine, an insidious woman temporarily freed from house arrest for trying to supplant Henry with her own private army."

Patrick Dennis. Little Me: The Intimate Memoirs of that Great Star of Stage, Screen and Television Belle Poitrine, as told to Patrick Dennis. With 150 photographs by Cris Alexander. 1961 E.P. Dutton, NY. STATED FIRST EDITION. USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION/ VERY GOOD $5.95 UNCLIPPED ORIGINAL DUST JACKET. RARE THUS. 272 pages. Large Format: 7 ¼ X 10 ¼. Summary: "Little Me, was the parody "confessional" self-indulgent autobiography of Maybelle Schlumpfert, "Belle Poitrine" (French for "Pretty Bosom"). It was written by Patrick Dennis, who had achieved a great success with Auntie Mame.