Lipton Lew (11 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Small octavo in dark blue cloth binding. Very good condition. 344 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Vg+. Probable first edition. 12mo. viii(2)11-344p. Blue cloth decorated in silver. Very minor wear to extremities, silver bright, else Vg+/ None.

12 orginal stories ready for Screen adaptation pages browning good to very good in worn dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. No Statement of Printing. Book has a few dog-eared pages and lower corners are bumped, else good+ with expected age-toning of paper.Tight and clean, no markings or bookplates. Dj is good+ with some mild rubbing,and some tears and wear along edges, but no chips, and dj flap is NOT price-clipped. No statement of printing. Unusual publication providing twelve stories for the student to adapt into screenplays. All you get are the stories; there is no instruction on how to adapt them.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 2020 surface wear/badly stained due to water damage, interior of book generally ok, bookplate inside front cover Note: signed by author on front leaf. "To Jack.who is my idea of a grand personality. sincerely, Lew Feb 15th'38.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Inscribed & signed by the author on the 1st free endpaper. Small octavo. Condition: DJ nicked & chipped with 2" tear to front panel; minor soiling to cloth binding; else very good in fair DJ. Pages: 344. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 344pp. Very good with stain on the lower front board in about very good dust jacket with corresponding stain to inside of the jacket along with light rubbing and moderate edgewear including chips, tears and creases.

First Edition. 8vo, pp. 344. Author's presentation on flyleaf. VG in dj. Twelve original stories, intended for screen adaptation.

Cl.w.dj. 1st Edition. Collection of 12 original stories all ready for big screen adaption. Blurbs on dj. by several well known personalities of the day incld. Jed Harris, Louis Sobel & Louella Parsons along with small drawings of them. The nice black & red dj. has mends, wear to edges, chipping & a few small pieces missing, the insides are vg+. Book.

First Edition. Collection of twelve original stories ready for screen adaptation written perhaps ironically after Lipton's long career as a screenwriter ended. From the Sydney Kingsley blurb at front jacket panel: "Sooner or later literature not only lends but borrows from all other art forms. Here we have an indication of how films may effect literary technique. Mr. Lipton has provided a volume of picture stories which is at once text for the student, substance for the film producers and interesting reading for the laiety". This copy inscribed to Hollywood gossip columnist and reporter Jimmy Starr, "To My pal Jimmy: - / With best wishes / Lew". Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket with nicking to spine ends.

Vintage reference photograph from the 1936 film, showing Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. The fifth film collaboration between Fred and Ginger, based on Hubert Osborne's 1922 play "Shore Leave," about a sailor's attempts to rekindle his relationship with his former dance partner while on leave in San Francisco. 8 x 10 inches. Faint age toning, else about Fine. Hirschhorn, "The Hollywood Musical.".