Search Results: BOOKS-INTO-FILM from Champ & Mabel Collectibles

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1971. First Edition. Cloth. Very good/very good. 313p. 1st printing. Book plate and name on front endpaper, jacket corners and top and bottom of spine worn. Basis for the film Paper Moon directed by Peter Bogdanovich and starring Ryan O'Neal, Tatum O'Neal, and Madeline Kahn. Jacket design by Robert Hane. (8-3/8"x5-3/4")

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1961. First Edition, Stated. Cloth. Very good/good. [x], [335p.] Top cover edges sunned, jacket rubbed with chip to top of spine that has been reinforced with clear tape. Basis of 1963 motion picture directed by David Miller, starring Gregory Peck, Tony Curtis, Angie Dickinson, Eddie Albert, and Bobby Darin, nominated as 1963 Best Actor in a Supporting Supporting Role by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. (8-1/4"x5-7/8")

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1947. Cloth. Very good/good. viii, 280p. 3rd printing. Signed by author to motion picture story editor Julian Johnson on front endpaper. Page edges toned, bottom front cover edge sunned, jacket has chips to edges and spine sunned. Set in the 1890s, this is a "tempestuous tale of gas-lit, gilt-edges New Orleans." Basis of the 1951 film My Forbidden Past, directed by Robert Stevenson and starring Robert Mitchum, Ava Gardner, and Melvyn Douglas. Jacket design by Robert Haberstock. (8-3/8"x5-3/4")

New York: Hodder & Stoughton, George H. Doran, 1912. Embossed cloth. Very good/No Jacket. 454p. Basis for the silent film Cameron of the Royal Mounted, "about a young Scottish immigrant who joins the Mounties." The film was directed by Henry MacRae and starred Gaston Glass, Irving Cummings, and Vivienne Osborne. [Wikipedia] (7-1/2"x5-1/4")

New York: Macmillan Co., 1961. First Edition. Cloth. Good+/Good+. 79p. 1st printing. Bottom of front cover has white spots, cover corners lightly worn, jacket has 1" creased tear on bottom front edge and additional smaller tears and chips with back corner near flap fold moisture stained and scrape on front. Basis of 1962 movie "David and Lisa" starring Keir Dullea and Janet Margolin, directed by Frank Perry. Jacket design by Leo Manso. (8-1/2"x5-3/4")

New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1963. Cloth. Very good/good. Shepard, Mary. [viii], 350p. Cover edges lightly faded, price clipped jacket stained on front with 1" creased tear on bottom front edges and scraped to edges. From the jacket: "The original Mary Poppins stories on which the Walt Disney motion picture is based." B&w illustrations and 8 leaves and frontispiece by Mary Shepard. (9-1/2"x7")

Tokyo: Kenkyusha, 1939. Wraps. Good +/good. [iv], 160p. Glassine jacket has been taped to french folds with the tape staining the endpapers, top of page edges have brown spots, jacket soiled with tears to edges. Basis of 1939 Japanese film directed by Tomotaka Tasaka. (7-3/8"x5-1/8")

New York: Happy Hour Library, [1900?]. Stiff wraps. Good. 92p. Wraps chipped, torn, and creased on edges, wraps beginning to separate from stab stapled text block. Includes My Double; and How He Undid Me, The Man without a Country, both by Hale, and Philosophy of Furniture by Poe. My Double developed into a 1912 short film and a 1951 (or 1953) television play of a pastor, in order to get out of boring meetings, recruits a man to stand in for him. Hijinks ensue. (6-1/2"x4-3/4")

New York: Macmillan, 1942. First Edition. Cloth. Very good/fair +. 350p. 1st printing. Endpapers lightly toned, jacket has chips and tears to edges with a large tear on front flap fold. Basis of a motion picture of the same name directed by Irving Pichel, starring Alan Ladd and Loretta Young with a screenplay by Frank Partos and Raymond Chandler. (8-5/8"x5-7/8")

New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1961. Cloth. Good +/good. 279p. Name and date on front endpaper, blind stamp on title page, endpapers toned, bottom front cover corner bumped, jacket foxed and corners worn with holes on back flap fold. Basis for the film about a Holocaust survivor who operates a pawnshop in East Harlem, New York, directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Rod Steiger, Geraldine Fitzgerald, and Brock Peters. Jacket design by Ellen Raskin. (8-1/4"x5-3/4")

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1973. Cloth. Good/good. 180p. Signed by authors & That Darn Cat on front endpaper. Brown spots on top and fore edges of pages, toned jacket rubbed and stained with chips to edges. Tie-in with the Walt Disney motion picture directed by Robert Stevenson starring Hayley Mills, Dean Jones, Dorothy Provine, and Roddy McDowell. Jacket illustrations by Jane Walworth. B&w photographs from the Walt Disney motion picture.