Category: Books Into Stage, Screen, Video

Duel in the Sun

Price: $175.00

Publisher: Cleveland, The World Publishing Company : 1946

Seller ID: bb38

Duel in the Sun is a 1946 Technicolor epic Western film directed by King Vidor, produced and written by David O. Selznick, which tells the story of a Mestiza (half-Native American) girl who goes to live with her white relatives, becoming involved in prejudice and forbidden love. The film stars Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Gregory Peck, Lillian Gish, and Lionel Barrymore Illustrated with film stills. About very good in a chipped dj. Inscribed by Niven Busch. Even toning throughout book; a result of paper quality.
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I Cover the Waterfront Signed

By: 1932r [SIGNED]

Price: $300.00

Publisher: New York, E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc. : 1932

Seller ID: v29mp

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

I Cover the Waterfront was turned into a 1933 pre-code American romantic drama film directed by James Cruze and starring Claudette Colbert. Based on this book of the same name by Max Miller, the film is about a reporter who investigates a waterfront smuggling operation, and becomes romantically involved with the daughter of the man he is investigating. Nearly invisible front hinge repair, else bright tight and clean. Dust jacket is included.
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Murder in the Cathredal

By: T. S. ELIOT [signed]

Price: $1,500.00

Publisher: London, Faber and Faber : 1936

Seller ID: 102woo

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Murder in the Cathedral, poetic drama in two parts, with a prose sermon interlude, the most successful play by American English poet T.S. Eliot. The play was performed at Canterbury Cathedral in 1935 and published the same year. Set in December 1170, it is a modern miracle play on the martyrdom of St. Thomas Becket, archbishop of Canterbury. The play's most striking feature is the use of a chorus in the Classical Greek manner. The poor women of Canterbury who make up the chorus nervously await Thomas's return from his seven-year exile, fretting over his volatile relationship with King Henry II...
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Seven Keys To Baldpate

By: Biggers, Earl Derr

Price: $1,000.00

Publisher: New York, Grosset & Dunlop : 1913

Seller ID: 128vul

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

A famous author comes to a summer mountain resort in the dead of winter determined to find peace and quiet to write his next book. But before his first night is out, a steady stream of unexpected visitors begin to fill the hotel... men and women with stories of love, loss, and flight... none of them telling the truth. Before the week is out, there will be gunfire, bribery, fights in the snow, and hidden truths unmasked. "Seven Keys to Baldpate" is a mystery that will leave you guessing to the end. Earl Derr Biggers penned "Seven Keys to Baldpate" long before he created his most famous characte...
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Summer and Smoke

By: Williams, Tennessee

Price: $700.00

Publisher: New York, Signet Books # D2019 : 1948

Seller ID: 85hgo

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good

One of Tennessee Williams' most subtle and tender works, Summer and Smoke explores the conflict between the hedonistic body and the lofty spirit. Set in Mississippi, Alma Winemiller, the minister's daughter, has grown up loving the boy who lives next door: John Buchanan, the doctor's son, is a wild, adventurous, mischievous pleasure seeker. He spends the hot Mississippi summers drinking, gambling, and romancing. His only religion is the anatomy chart on his wall, and what it teaches him about man's needs: food, truth, and lovemaking. Alma, on the other hand, is quiet, eccentric, and high-strun...
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The Latent Heterosexual

By: Chayefsky, Paddy

Price: $150.00

Publisher: New York, Random House : 1967

Seller ID: vw39

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Chayefsky's 'The Latent Heterosexual' is about a gay middle aged novelist who has a hit, gets married for tax purposes, and finds himself enjoying the straight life. Chayefsky would not allow the work to be produced on Broadway, opting instead to open it at the Dallas Theater Center. It opened there to critical acclaim, with Zero Mostel and Jules Munshin starring, and Burgess Meredith directing.
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The Road to Rome

By: Sherwood, Robert E.

Price: $150.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribnber's Sons : 1927

Seller ID: 45pum

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

The author's first book. "The Road to Rome" was the first play of Robert E. Sherwood, and a success on Broadway in 1927. It has a comic situation set in a period of history which allows Mr. Sherwood to work in some of his anti-war feelings. Mr. Sherwood has set his play in 216 B.C., at the time when Hannibal was nearing the end of his march on Rome. Hannibal didn't attack Rome when he reached it, Mr. Sherwood explains, because a certain blond, the bored and sex-starved wife of Rome's dictator, got to him first. When Rome seems doomed, she flees the city and breaks through Hannibal's lines, bec...
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The Silver Cord

By: Howard, Sidney

Price: $600.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons : 1927

Seller ID: 160jgf

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

The printed wrappers of this Theatre Guild Library edition are bound into a contemporary custom-made hard cover binding for thespian Otis Skinner, whose bookplate is mounted on the front paste down. The Sidney Howard inscription is written to Mrs. Otis Skinner. An additional inscription in an unknown hand, as well. Staged on Broadway, and was made into a feature film. A domineering matriarch is less than happy when her son brings home his new bride. She immediately sets to work at sabotaging their marriage as well as the engagement of her younger and weaker son.
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