Search Results: Film from Dale Steffey Books, ABAA

New York: Tams-Witmark Music Library, Inc., 1968. 92 pages, in red staple-bound flexible leather binding, mimeograph duplication, printed rectos only. The original 1965 Broadway production ran for 2,328 performances and won five Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical, Best Direction of a Musical and Best Original Score and Scenic Design. It has been revived 4 times on Broadway, and its song "The Impossible Dream" has become a standard. Near Fine, slight creasing at edges of covers. . Revised Edition. Flexible Leather. Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. SIGNED BY AUTHOR at title page. First Edition stated, Fine in Fine dust jacket with Ann Beattie blurb top of rear panel, bookstore "Autographed Copy" sticker front panel. Basis for the 2005 film directed by Rob Marshall and nominated for six Academy Awards and winner of 3 Oscars (for Art Direction, Costume Design, and Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score). . SIGNED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Random House, 1950. First Edition, First Printing stated. Very Good, fading to cloth at spine ends, small faint spot of soiling fore edge, prior owner name and inscription front end pagein Very Good dust jacket, 1" triangular chip at head of spine, small chips at base of spine and flap cornerssmall tear top edge front flap. Basis for the 1952 film starring Jose Ferrer and Zsa Zsa Gabor, Nominated for 7 Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor, and winner of two, for Best Art Direction and Best Costume Design. SCARCE in dust jacket. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Franklin Watts, 1985. SCARCE publisher's promotional poster,14 3/4'w x 18 1/2'h, featuring a sultry Jane Russell holding a six-shooter and posed on bales of hay. Near Fine, faint small creases.Published in limited numbers for the ABA trade show in 1985. A poster well suited for framing, will be shipped loosely rolled in a mailing tube. . First Printing. Poster. Near Fine. 14 3/4'w x 18 1/2'h.

New York: New Directions, 1962. Near Fine, prior owner bookplate and name in ink, in a Near Fine dust jacket, toning to the white areas. Dust jacket designed by Nicola Wood. Basis for the 1964 film directed by John Huston and starring Richard Burton, Ava Gardner, Deborah Kerr, and Grayson Hall, who won the Oscar for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. . First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1937. Copy #469 of 1050 copies in the First Edition SIGNED BY AUTHOR at Limitation Page, Two volume set in original red cloth, top edge gilt, map end pages Vol. I, tissue-guarded lithograph of Major Robert Rogers Vol. II, Both volumes Near Fine, spines sunned, lacking the dust jackets and slipcase, toning at title and verso of half title from an old clipping , which also left impression from clip top edge 1st 4 pages. Binding tight and unmarked, set appears unread. Basis of the 1940 film starring Spencer Tracy, Robert Young, and Walter Brennan. . SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Limited and Numbered, Signed 1st Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Limited Edition.

Camden, NJ: Audio-Visual Products/ Radio Corporation of America RARE advertising poster, circa late 1940s, for the RCA model 400 movie projector. 36"h x 24"w. Near Fine, 1" closed tear bottom edge, small corner crease. Black and white poster with strong visual imagery of this iconic mid-century movie projector. Not found online anywhere. Well suited for framing. Has been stored rolled, will be shipped loosely rolled in sturdy mailing tube. . First Printing. Poster. Near Fine. 36"h x 24"w.

Camden, NJ: Audio-Visual Products/ Radio Corporation of America RARE advertising poster, circa late 1940s, for the RCA model 400 movie projector. 36"h x 24"w. Near Fine, slight toning along right edge. Black and white poster with strong visual imagery of this iconic mid-century movie projector. Not found online anywhere. Well suited for framing. Has been stored rolled, will be shipped loosely rolled in sturdy mailing tube. . First Printing. Poster. Near Fine. 36"h x 24"w.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1948. First Printing, 1948, with same date 1948 title and copyright pages, original price $3.95 present and uncommon thus. Very Good, hinges just barely starting, light edge wear to boards, separation at head of spine as usual with this bulky 1066 pp. book. In a Very Good dust jacket,chips at spine ends and along edges, rubbing at folds. Basis for the 1957 Oscar-nominated film starring Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor. . First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1968. SCARCE SIGNED Advanced Reading Copy (ARC). Very Good Plus, small tear top edge at spine fold, small edge creases and light soiling to wrappers. Basis for the 1971 film starring Richard Thomas and Claire Bloom. . SIGNED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. Printed Wrappers. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Advanced Reading Copy (ARC).

New York: DBS Publications, Inc., 1970. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR at half-title page - "To Paul Gebhard, whom I would like to please with this book. With best wishes, Herman Weinberg.". Dr. Paul Gebhard ( 1917-2015) was a researcher at the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction and was co-author with Dr. Kinsey of the 1953 best-seller "Sexual Behavior in the Human Female". He was played by Timothy Hutton in the 2004 film "Kinsey". Herman G. Weinberg was one of the foremost film critics and historians of the 20th century and the major translator of foreign films of that era. Book is Near Fine, Gebhard's small name stamp front end page, along with a small inked x, top edge dusty, in a Very Good dust jacket, small tears and rubs at head of spine and fold edges. Preface by Fritz Lang. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux/ The Noonday Press, 1992. SCARCE publisher's promotional poster,18" w x 27"h, featuring an image of the original poster for Bill Pickett, World's Colored Champion in "The Bull-Dogger". Near Fine, faint creases, small rub upper right in margin, published in limited numbers for the ABA trade show in 1992. A poster well suited for framing, will be shipped loosely rolled in a mailing tube. . First Printing. Poster. Near Fine. 18" w x 27"h.

New York: Atheneum, 1972. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR at front end page. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and New York Drama Critics' Award for Best Play of 1972. Illustrated with photographs of the stage production starring Walter McGinn, Charles Durning, Michael McGuire, Paul Sorvino and Richard Dysart. Stated 1st edition, Very Good, foxing to fore edge and spotting to cloth, evidence of damping at bottom edge, in Near Fine dust jacket. tiny creases at top edge spine ends. SCARCE SIGNED. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Philadelphia: Poor Richard Club, 1938. Original plastic (Plastacele) comb binder with stiff gold wraps. "Lights, Camera, Action" and "Advance with Advertising" stamped front wrapper, along with the image of a Hollywood cameraman. Near Fine, light soil to gold wrappers, corner curl bottom corner of rear plastic wrapper, Personal copy of Will H. Hays, with his name stamped front wrapper. Hays was the honoree of that year's banquet, awarded the 1938 Gold Medal Award of Achievement for " .. a spirit inseparably connected with the development of the industry to the high position it enjoys today", and "as the representative of this great industry"(motion picture industry). Hays was most famously known as the first President of Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA), which under his guidance published a blacklist of actors and workers studios should not hire, inserted moral clauses into actors' contracts, and published an informal list… Read More

New York: Harper & Row, 1984. First Printing, with complete number line 10-1. Near Fine, tiny corner bump, in a Near Fine dust jacket, tiny chips at spine ends. Basis for the award-winning 1988 film starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Juliette Binoche, and Lena Olin. . First American Edition. Quarter Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co. Publisher's promotional poster, 24" h x 18"w, no date, circa 1980s. Featuring 12 Ungar published film books. Near Fine, slight creasing. Well suited for framing, will be shipped loosely rolled in sturdy mailing tube. . First Printing. Poster. Near Fine. 24" h x 18"w.

No Place: No Publisher Publisher's promotional poster, 25" h x 17"w, featuring photographic portrait of Vivien Leigh from the jacket design by Robert Anthony, Inc. No publisher, no place, no date, printed for the 1987 Grove Press, New York book publication. Near Fine, faint creases. Well suited for framing, will be shipped loosely rolled in sturdy mailing tube. . First Printing. Poster. Near Fine. 25" h x 17"w.