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WILLIAMS, Tennessee.. Baby Doll. The Script for the Film.. 1957, 1957.
Price: US$6.63 + shipping
Description: London: Secker & Warburg, 1957. 8vo. Or.cl. In slightly chipped d.w. (140pp.). With owner's inscription on front fly-leaf.
Seller: Berkelouw Rare Books, Berrima, NSW, Australia
Williams, Tennessee. Baby Doll, The Script for the Film. Secker and Warburg, New York, 1957.
Price: US$7.70 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 140pp hardback, playscript, good, ink ownership signature to ffep, red cloth
Seller: Salsus Books (P.B.F.A.), Kidderminster, United Kingdom
Williams, Tennessee. Baby Doll The Script for the Film.. Secker & Warburg, London, 1957., 1957.
Price: US$11.94 + shipping
Description: 8vo (20x13cm), hardback, 140pp. Good condition in good dustwrapper (protective cover, some light foxing, bumped and ceased at upper edges, chipped corners). Bumped, foxed, age-toned. B&w photographs from the film. Pictures available on request.
Seller: City Basement Books, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Tennessee Williams. Baby Doll. Secker & Warburg, London, 1957.
Price: US$12.83 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Baby Doll, the script for the film. Maroon cloth, some fading. Small inscr. to free ep. Jacket is a lttle worn and torn, but complete. Photographs included. Edges spotted.
Seller: Neil Holliday, Dymock, United Kingdom
Tennessee Williams. BABY DOLL.. Secker & Warburg, London, 1957.
Price: US$13.26 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A firm clean book.
Seller: Black Stump Books And Collectables, Skipton, VIC, Australia
Price: US$14.59 + shipping
Description: 1st UK Edition of the script for the film Baby Doll by Tennessee Williams; 4 pages b&w film stills showing Carl Malden, Carroll Baker and Eli Wallach from the Warner Brothers movie; small bookshop label to front pastedown; medium offset to endpapers, lighter to prelims, occasional mild foxing, o.w. Very Good; dustwrapper rubbed and lightly edgeworn, price clipped, and with short closed tear top rh corner. Dustwrapper. 140pp. Sm 8vo. Very Good in Good dustwrapper
Seller: Gotcha By The Books, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Williams, Tennessee. Baby Doll. The Script For The Film;. London, Secker & Warburg, 1957;, 1957.
Price: US$15.39 + shipping
Description: 1st UK Edition; HBk; Very Good/ No Dw; 140pp with 8 Illustrations from the Film starring Karl Malden, Carroll Baker, Eli Wallach & Mildred Dunnock, Directed by Elia Kazan; Red covers with silver title on spine.
Seller: Wheen O' Books, Selkirk, United Kingdom
Williams, Tennessee. Baby doll : the script for the film. London : Secker & Warburg, 1957.
Price: US$16.43 + shipping
Description: Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Bumped corners. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: 140p. ; 20cm. Subjects: American drama -- 20th century. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Williams Tennessee. Baby Doll : The Script for the Film. Secker and Warburg, 1957.
Price: US$19.24 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st UK edition. 140pp, illustrated. VG clean copy im hard covers, dust wrapper stained to front and has tear with loss to the back. Size: Small 8vo
Seller: Martin Bott Bookdealers Ltd, Felixstowe, United Kingdom
Williams, Tennessee. Baby Doll. Secker & Warburg, 1957.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: book is fine and jacket is rubbed with some soiling on rear and jacket has small chips from all four corners, one with short tear with a one inch tear top of rear jacket - tape on inside and a half inch chip at top of spine not affecting text. the spine is lightly faded. the jacket is not price clipped 1st British edition
Seller: Route 3 Books, Sandstone, MN, U.S.A.
Williams, Tennessee. Baby Doll The Script for the Film. Secker & Warburg, London, 1957.
Price: US$21.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: bright copy. Has 8 stills from movie with Malden, Baker and Wallach bound in, plus 2 more stills on rear cover of dj. area of age toning on ffep and rfep. faint dent on ffep and barely noticeable crease across top, front, corner. dj is lightly rubbed and faded along top edge.
Seller: Pare Books, Nashua, NH, U.S.A.
WILLIAMS, TENNESSEE. baby doll. secker & warburg london 1957, 1957.
Price: US$22.08 + shipping
Description: first edition 140pp very good+ (corners sl bruised, spine head sl faded, spine foot v sl bumped, sl rubbing along head edge of boards, sl discoloration to endpapers, v sl foxing to half title/title and first few pages) in very good- d/w (price clipped, rubbing, spine head chipped, corners chipped, numerous tears with some surface loss, spine sl faded, creasing and wear to edges) the script for the film
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
WILLIAMS, Tennessee.. Baby Doll.. Secker & Warburg, London, 1957.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Black and white stills from the film. First British edition. Very good or better in like dust jacket. B0000CJLB7
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB, Springfield, MA, U.S.A.
WILLIAMS, Tennessee.. Baby Doll.. Secker & Warburg, London, 1957.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Black and white stills from the film. First British edition. Very good in a very good (light shelf wear and fading) dust jacket. B0000CJLB7
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB, Springfield, MA, U.S.A.
Williams, Tennessee. Baby Doll. The Script for the Film. Secker & Warburg, London, 1957.
Price: US$25.65 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First UK edition. 8vo. Pp 140. Original cloth, lettered gilt to spine. Light wear to the edges. Front inner hinge cracked but secure. The unclipped pictorial d/w shows wear, with tears and some loss, to the edges as well as light soiling. Price on the inner front flap has been changed in pen. Internally largely clean and sound. No inscriptions.
Seller: Leakey's Bookshop Ltd., Inverness, United Kingdom
Tennessee WILLIAMS. Baby Doll: the script for the film. London: Secker & Warburg, 1957.
Price: US$25.65 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Upper cover faintly marked, fore-edge a little spotted, dustwrapper faded at spine and slightly torn. First UK edition (script first published by New Directions, 1956), from the library of the playwright and screenwriter Hugh Whitemore with, loosely inserted, a news-cutting of a 1957 Sunday Times profile of Williams by Peter Brook (some mild offsetting). The film, directed by Elia Kazan, was first released in 1956 in New York.
Seller: James Fergusson Books & Manuscripts, London, United Kingdom
WILLIAMS, Tennessee. BABY DOLL: The Script For The Film. Secker & Warburg, London, 1957.
Price: US$26.53 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: First US edition hardback with dustwrapper. Red boards with silver lettering on the spine. Boards are lightly faded and a little worn. Head and tail of spine bumped. Also some fading and discoloration of boards at the head and tail of spine. There is some light foxing and staining on endpapers and free endpapers. Previous owner's inscription upon front free endpaper. Page edges are haloed with subsequent discolouration from page edges. Pages show a small patch of foxing here and there, otherwise this book is in fair condition. Dust wrapper is well handled, showing creases at the edges. General discoloration, front and back. Head and tail of spine well worn. Spine sunned. Back cover sustains wear and tear, particularly at the edges, therefore this dust wrapper is described in fair condition. *We always describe the faults of our books meticulously but they usually present better than they sound.
Seller: Uncle Peter's Books, Clunes, NSW, Australia
Williams, Tennessee. Baby doll : the script for the film. London : Secker & Warburg, 1957.
Price: US$27.94 + shipping
Description: Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Bumped corners. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: 140p. ; 20cm. Subjects: American drama -- 20th century. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
WILLIAMS, Tennessee. Baby Doll: The Script for the Film. Secker & Warburg, London, 1957.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First English edition. Illustrated with black and white stills from the movie. Front hinge cracked, light bumping at the spine ends, very good in a very good dust jacket with a small tear on the rear panel, sunned spine, and moderate rubbing.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Williams, Tennessee. Baby Doll. Secker & Warburg, 1957, 1957.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Description: 1st U.K. edition Near fine/near fine (previous owner name on front pastedown, hidden by front flap)
Seller: Reed's Rare Books, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
Williams, Tennessee. Baby Doll, The Script for the Film. Secker & Warburg London 1957, 1957.
Price: US$38.00 + shipping
Description: 1st edition sl. chipped dust jacket Fine small octavo 140pp., b/w pls.,
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Williams, Tennessee. Baby Doll, The Script for the Film. Secker & Warburg London 1957, 1957.
Price: US$38.00 + shipping
Description: 1st edition hardback with dust jacket Near Fine small octavo 140pp., Nice copy in like price-clipped dust jacket
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Tennessee Williams. Baby Doll. Secker & Warburg, London, 1957.
Price: US$38.48 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Good copy of the first UK edition ----the first time a film script has been published in book form.The pages are tight but slightly discoloured at the edges.The red boards are bright and undamaged.The unclipped dustwrapper has small tears andsome creasing to upper and lower edges but is unfaded and has been in a protective cover for sometime.The book and dustwrapper have scenes from the film starring Karl Malden.
Seller: Song of Sixpence, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Tennessee Williams. Baby Doll: The Script for The Film. Secker & Warburg, London, 1957.
Price: US$44.89 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover.Very good in like dustwrapper.Very presentable.No inscriptions or foxing.Not price-clipped.The original film- script tie-in in book form.Film starred Karl Malden,Carroll Baker and Eli Wallach.Some rubbing to top edge of wrapper.
Seller: HADDON'S, hastings, ESUX, United Kingdom
Williams, Tennessee. Baby Doll. Secker & Warburg, London, 1957.
Price: US$44.89 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Red, cloth-covered boards with bright silver lettering on the spine. A little natural ageing only to the book, no inscriptions. The dust jacket has wear at the extremities and small losses to the spine ends, not clipped with the original price crossed through and a manuscript price substituted; now protected by a clear, removable cover. Weysprings Books is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA) and subscribes to the Association's Code of Ethics.
Seller: Weysprings Books, IOBA, PBFA, HINDHEAD, United Kingdom
Price: US$48.74 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition. Publisher's red boards with silver lettering to spine. Clear, removable, archival protective sleeve fitted to dust-jacket. Octavo. pp. 140. Short closed tear and mild creasing to dust wrapper. A book in Fine condition in a Very Good dust-jacket which is not price-clipped.
Seller: OJ-BOOKS ABA / PBFA, SOLIHULL, United Kingdom
Williams, Tennessee. Baby Doll. Secker & Warburg, 1957, 1957.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 1st U.K. edition (back dj panel has photos from the film, with Karl Malden, Carroll Baker, Eli Wallach, and Mildred Dunnock; contemporary English newspaper reviews are laid in) NF/NF (endpapers have yellowed slightly, and there is a small previous owner name and date on the back free endpaper)
Seller: Reed's Rare Books, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
Tennessee Williams. Baby Doll. Secker & Warburg, 1957.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Printing
Seller: Brooklyn Rare Books, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.
Williams, Tennessee. Baby Doll. Secker and Warburg, 1957.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: Front hinge just starting, light offsetting to endpapers, else near fine in near fine, lightly toned dust jacket, in mylar cover.
Seller: THE HERMITAGE BOOKSHOP, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
WILLIAMS, Tennessee. BABY DOLL; The Script for the Film. Secker & Warburg, London, 1957.
Price: US$58.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, pp. 140. Illustrated with photos from the movie. VG in dj torn on corners. $30.00 Another copy, VG in dj. Another copy, VG in scuffed dj.
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.
Tennessee Williams. Baby Doll. Secker & Warburg, London, 1957.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Description: A bright, clean copy of the 1957 1st UK edition. Near Fine in a crisp, price-intact, VG+ dustjacket, with very light creasing at the front panel. Octavo, 140 pgs. Housed in a custom-made, quarter-morocco box.
Seller: APPLEDORE BOOKS, ABAA, WACCABUC, NY, U.S.A.
Williams, Tennessee. Baby Doll. Secker & Warburg, London, 1957.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Burgundy cloth wth silver tiles to the spine. This copy is VG+, in a VG, unclipped ( 12s. 6d. net), DJ. Exterior is pristine; bright and clear with only hints of wear. Inside has PO book plate on FEP, seller's stamp on inside front cover, and modest toning where DJ did not cover. Otherwise, minimal even toning, unmarked, and tightly bound. DJ has three small closed tears(<1") , a small (1/2 a thumbtack) hole on upper right front in the center of a small scuff, and a minimally sunned spine.
Seller: Bailey Bonzo Books, Shelbyville, IN, U.S.A.
Tennessee Williams. Baby Doll, The script for the film. Secker & Warburg, London, 1957.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First British edition of the screen play, with multiple stills from the movie. Except for the rear hinge starting, the book has no flws. The dust-jacket has slight wear with a couple of short tears and small chips.
Seller: Proteus Bound, Chesterton, IN, U.S.A.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS. BABY DOLL. SECKER & WARBURG, London, 1957.
Price: US$87.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: super clean near as new copy',suit collector or usa book shop stock,etc,.BOOK; dark red boards are lovely and clean[no bumps to the corners].binding very firm & tight.looks an unread copy of this title.slightest off set to endsheat otherwise their clean with no insriptions,inside the pages are perfect',.DUSTJACKET; is very bright and clean,& extra nice'.just the very slightess hint of rubb ware to very pin point of the odd corner.hardly any marking to gloss photos of rearpanel.no rips or loss to this cover,& this dustjacket is not price clipped 12s 6d.'extra nice copy of this title'.PRICED TO SELL.a FREE Fast' AIR POSTAGE,worldwide is INCLUED IN PRICE.,plus our QUAILTY PACKAGING. Size: 8.5 By 5.5.2
Seller: Instant Rare and Collectable, North Auckland, AD, New Zealand
Tennessee Williams. Baby Doll. Secker & Warburg, 1957.
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Tennessee Williams - Baby Doll: The Script for the Film. Secker & Warburg (1957). First UK Edition and first movie tie-in edition, Fine in a bright, Near Fine dust jacket. Offsetting to endpapers; dust jacket has tiny tip and a nearly imperceptible small scuff to lower front corner, but otherwise is unfaded and crisp, uncommon thus. Contains black and white movie stills from the 1956 film directed by Elia Kazan and starring Karl Malden, Eli Wallach, and Carroll Baker as Baby Doll Meighan. Enclosed in archival quality mylar cover.
Seller: Savage Lotus Books, ATHENS, GA, U.S.A.
WILLIAMS, Tennessee. Baby Doll. Secker and Warburg, London, 1957.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First English edition. Fine in slightly soiled, very near fine dustwrapper with two tiny tears near the crown and a pencil mark through the price on the front flap.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: Vg+/vg/Ink note on frnt. flap. There are sm. pieces missing along the sp. top & bott. edges of dj. There is a larger but sm. piece missing from back wrap. Williams's only orig. screenplay created tremendous controversy when 1st released. Directe d by Elia Kazan. Illus. w. 8 stills on plts. not in the Am. ed.
Seller: Ira Joel Haber - Cinemage Books, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$101.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Impression of the script for Williams's first original screenplay. Small 8vo: 140pp, with black-and-white stills from the film. Publisher's scarlet V cloth, spine lettered in silver, illustrated dust jacket priced 12s/6d. A Very Fine copy. Crandell A17.I.c. "For a number of years Elia Kazan, the director of several of Tennessee Williams's play on Broadway as well as films, had been urging Mr. Williams to weld into an original film story two of his early one-act plays which were, roughly, concerned with the same characters and situation. And in the summer of 1955, while he was traveling in Europe, Mr. Williams wrote and dispatched to Mr. Kazan a proposed script, quite different from the two short plays. With some changes this was filmed the following winter mainly in the Mississippi rural area which had been the original setting of the two short plays." (from the Publisher's Note). The film, Baby Doll, is the story of a middle-aged man married to a girl of twenty and of his jealousy and hatred of the young Italian immigrant who steals first his business, then his wife. Carroll Baker, Eli Wallach, Mildred Dunnock and Karl Malden filled the principal roles. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed.
Seller: Fine Editions Ltd, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.
WILLIAMS, Tennessee. Baby Doll. The Script for the Film.. Secker & Warburg, London, 1957.
Price: US$109.67 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A lovely near fine copy in similar state dustwrapper with the usual slight fading to the pink colouring of the dustwrapper spine. Fresh red cloth with bright silver lettering to spine. Includes 8 black and white plates, which are stills from the 1956 film.
Seller: MANOR COLLECTABLES, WOODHALL SPA, LINCS, United Kingdom
WILLIAMS, Tennessee. BABY DOLL. Secker & Warburg, London, 1957.
Price: US$112.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, pp. 140. A fine copy in near fine dj. An original film script, published to coincide with the release of the film s:.
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS. BABY DOLL. THE SCRIPT FOR THE FILM. SECKER & WARBURG, LONDON, 1957.
Price: US$115.44 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: HARDBACK IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH BINDING WITH THE ORIGINAL UNPRICE CLIPPED DUST JACKET, HALF TITLE PRESENT, SEVERAL FULL PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS. BOOK MEASURES APPROX 8 x 5 INCHES WITH 140 PAGES. SOME MINOR EDGE WEAR TO DUST JACKET WITH A FEW SMALL CHIPS TO EDGES OF JACKET MOSTLY AT TOP & BOTTOM OF SPINE, ENDPAPERS LIGHTLY BROWNED, VERY OCCASIONAL LIGHT SPOT OF FOXING BUT OVERALL A VERY NICE COPY WITH NO MAJOR FAULTS. PLEASE NOTE: DUST JACKET HAS A CLEAR REMOVABLE COVERING THAT MAY SHOW SOME REFLECTIONS OR WRINKLES IN IMAGES. EXTRA POSTAGE COSTS MAY APPLY TO OVERSEAS ORDERS.
Seller: Elder Books, Ross on Wye, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
Williams, Tennessee. Baby Doll. London: Secker & Warburg, 1957.
Price: US$120.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The script for the 1957 film directed by Elia Kazan. 5 in. x 8 in. Red Cloth, silver titling on the spine. 140 pp. Age-related tanning to the end-papers. Illustrated with stills from the movie. In a mylar-protected DJ showing the price. A damp-stain shows at the lower third of the spine on the inside of the DJ. A few very small chips and some dusting and rubbing to the DJ, and its spine has darkened.
Seller: Peter Keisogloff Rare Books, Inc., Brecksville, OH, U.S.A.
Williams (Tennessee). Baby Doll. The Script for the Film.. Secker & Warburg, 1957.
Price: US$128.27 + shipping
Description: FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, pp. 140, crown 8vo, original red boards, backstrip lettered in silver, edges a little spotted, dustjacket, very shallow chipping at extremities, a touch of rubbing, very good.
Seller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United Kingdom
Price: US$137.37 + shipping
Description: An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new. ; 140 pages; The script of the story, based in Mississippi. Complete with excellent photo illustrations. Subjects: Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
WILLIAMS, Tennessee. Baby Doll. Secker and Warburg, London, 1957.
Price: US$137.50 + shipping
Description: First Impression. Octavo(20cm); red paper covered boards stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; 140pp.; with two inserted leaves reproducing 8 black and white stills from the 1957 film.; Fine copy in an unclipped, slightly rubbed pictorial dustjacket (priced £12. 6d) with two tiny closed tears to top edge; repaired neatly on verso with tape, pink slightly faded on spine, else Near Fine. From the dustjacket: "We believe that the publication of Baby Doll marks the first occasion on which an original film-script has been published in book form to coincide with the showing of the film. This in fact really is 'the book of the film'.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$160.00 + shipping
Description: An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new. ; 140 pages; The script of the story, based in Mississippi. Complete with excellent photo illustrations. Subjects: Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Williams, Tennessee. BABY DOLL. Secker & Warburg, London, 1957.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First UK edition of the script for Tennessee Williams's controversial 1956 film, which the National League of Decency attempted to ban, in beautiful blue goatskin binding by Asprey. The story of BABY DOLL took shape from a pair of Williams's 1946 one-act plays, 27 WAGONS FULL OF COTTON and THE LONG STAY CUT SHORT. Notable for its opposition by the Archbishop of New York despite its Code seal and the popularization of the "babydoll" lingerie item, the film was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Adapted Screenplay for Williams. This copy, in an appropriately blue fine binding by Asprey, is an attractive example. 7.5'' x 4.75''. Blue goatskin boards with gilt spine lettering, five raised bands; gilt Asprey stamp to front dentelle. Gilt edges. Blue marbled endpapers by Douglas Cockerell and Son. 140 pages. Front board with three shallow bumps to front edge. Leaves with scattered faint foxing. Tight.
Seller: Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.