Books Into Stage, Screen, Video from Peter Austern & Co. Books & Ephemera / Brooklyn Books

Boston: Lothrop Company, 1889. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Five Little Peppers and How they Grew- Lovely example. Very light wear to boards. Vivid colors throughout. Superb. Lothrop Company Boston 1880.

Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, 1946. Book. Illus. by Illustrated with Film Stills. About Very Good. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 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… Read more about this item

New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1932. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 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,… Read more about this item

London: Faber and Faber, 1936. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 2nd Edition. 8vo - over 7¾. 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,… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 1967. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 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.… Read more about this item

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 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… Read more about this item

New York: Signet Books # D2019, 1948. Book. Very Good. Mass Market Paperback. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. 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… Read more about this item

New York: Charles Scribnber's Sons, 1927. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed Robert E. Sherwood. 1st Edition. 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… Read more about this item