New York: Julian Messner, Inc., [1947]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The author's third novel, a hard-boiled mystery story. Source for the film noir "Nightfall," directed by Jacques Tourneur, screenplay by Sterling Silliphant, starring Aldo Rey, Brian Keith and Anne Bancroft. "Goodis is a powerful but endlessly depressing writer..." - Francis M. Nevins, Jr. Hubin, p. 335.

London: Michael Joseph Ltd., [1945]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Novel of a wounded IRA man. Filmed in 1947 with James Mason, also released as Gang War. Filmed again in 1969 as The Lost Man with Sidney Poitier.

New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, [1947]. Octavo, cloth. First U. S. edition. Novel of a wounded IRA man. Filmed in 1947 with James Mason, also released as Gang War. Filmed again in 1969 as The Lost Man with Sidney Poitier. Hubin, p. 348.

Melbourne, London, Toronto: William Heinemann Ltd, [1955]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. An engaged couple goes to Monte Carlo where the husband to be starts gambling to pay the hotel bill. Filmed twice, in 1956 and again in 1990 as Strike It Rich. Hubin, p. 349.

New York: The Viking Press, 1950. Octavo, cloth. First U. S. edition. Source for the film noir directed by Carol Reed starring Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles. Greene wrote the story specifically to frame the film and had originally not intended it to be published. Hubin, p. 349.

New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., [1952]. Octavo, illustration by Leo Manso, boards. First edition. Filmed in 1984 by Sergio Leone as One Upon A Time in America with Robert De Niro, James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern, Treat Williams and others.

New York: Harcourt Brace & Co., 1994. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Author's well received first novel. Source for film.

London: Constable and Company Ltd., [1939]. Small octavo, printed wrappers. First edition. Text of the play which was later produced as feature films, the first in 1940, then again in 1944 which was directed by George Cukor starring Charles Boyer and Ingrid Bergman.

New York, London: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929. Octavo, pp. [1-10] [1-3] 4-272 [273: colophon] [274-278: blank] [note: the first and last two leaves are blanks], title page printed in brown and black, original decorated tan cloth, front and spine panels stamped in red and brown, running Borzoi stamped in brown on rear panel,top edge stained brown, fore and bottom edges rough trimmed. First edition. The author's second book. Hard-boiled detective novel first published in BLACK MASK. Filmed in 1978 as a television mini-series with James Coburn. Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, pp. 334-5. Layman A.2.1.a.

London and New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Correct first edition, first issue, of this novel, published January, 1931; the American edition was not published until April of 1931. A Haycraft-Queen cornerstone volume. Filmed several times.

[New York]: Joseph W. Ferman, Publisher [Mercury Press, Inc., 1962]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Mercury Mystery No. 233. Digest size magazine format, paperback original. Collects the following stories; "A Man Named Thin," "Wages of Crime," "The Gatewood Caper," "The Barber and His Wife," "Itchy the Debonair," "The Second-Story Angel," "In the Morgue and When Luck's Running Good." First book publication for all stories except the first. Introduction and critical notes by Ellery Queen. Layman A19.

Berlin: August Scherl G.m.b.H., [1926]. Octavo, 3 volumes, each volume containing four inserted plates with eight film stills (all the same), original pictorial wrappers. First, second and third printings of the German photoplay edition. The first three printings of the German photoplay edition. The first printing has the Willy Reimann illustration of Metropolis (depicting a futuristic megalopolis). The second and third printings use the now iconic Werner Graul illustration. The books are accompanied by a card inscribed and signed by director Fritz Lang: "Greetings / from / METROPOLIS / Fritz Lang" and the rare German advertising herald for the film (we have seen only one other copy offered for sale). METROPOLIS is a novelization of the screenplay written by Fritz Lang and Thea von Harbou of the 1926 UFA film. "Though often described as the first SF epic of the cinema, this famous German film -- of which no complete version now exists -- has just as much in common with the cinema of the Gothic. Though set in a future visually emphasized by towering buildings and vast brooding machines, the city of Metropolis has an underworld dark and medieval in atmosphere ... The story of METROPOLIS is trite and its politics ludicrously simplistic; but these flaws cannot detract from the sheer visual power of the film -- a combination of the high Expressionistic sets (the work of art directors Otto Hunte, Erich Kettelhut and Karl Vollbrecht) and Lang's direction ... METROPOLIS, which was extremely expensive and not a financial success, almost bankrupted the studio that made it (UFA). The film was cut almost as soon as it was released, and -- still in the 1920s -- shortened yet more radically in the UK and USA. Even recently restored archival versions are half an hour shorter than the original." - Clute and Nicholls (eds), The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1993), p. 804-5. The dark dystopian vision of the future city continues influence film today in such examples as BLADE RUNNER and DARK CITY. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 3-23; (1981) 2-112; (1987) 2-123 and (1995) 2-132. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1040. Fisher, Fantasy and Politics: Visions of the Future in the Weimar Republic, pp. 126-37; 139-42. Lewis, Utopian Literature, p. 198. Survey of Science Fiction Literature III, pp. 1383-86. Bloch (2002) 1370. Nagl, p. 256.

Berlin: August Scherl G.m.b.H., [1926]. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 9-273 [274] [275: blank] [276-280: ads], three-quarter brick red leather and patterned boards, gilt decorated spine with gilt lettered and ruled tan leather spine label. First edition. Rare publishers deluxe binding. Anti-utopia set in a gigantic city in the year 2000 "where capitalists oppress a mass of proletarian helots." - Fisher, p. 128. A restitution fantasy in which a patriarchal order is ultimately reestablished. The Fritz Lang movie adaptation had a mythic scale that would not be challenged -- "The Shape of Things to Come" aside -- for decades to come. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 3-23; (1981) 2-112; (1987) 2-123; (1995) 2-132; and (2004) II-1197. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1040. Fisher, Fantasy and Politics: Visions of the Future in the Weimar Republic, pp. 126-37; 139-42. Lewis, Utopian Literature, p. 198. Survey of Science Fiction Literature III, pp. 1383-86. Lexikon 2, pp. 134-6. Bloch (2002) 1370. Nagl, p. 256.