Beyond Forest by Engstrand Stuart (11 results)

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Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good Plus. James Avati (cover) (illustrator). First Edition. #739. Book has a tight sturdy binding with two miniscule tears along the top edge, and laminate beginning to peel. With "tanned" pages, very faint foxing to the first couple of pages only. Basis for the film melodrama starring Joseph Cotten and Bette Davis where she uttered one of her signature lines, "What a Dump!" An attractive copy with no corner creasing, of a RARE title.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First paperback edition, first printing # 739 of this romantic suspense novel set-in small-town Wisconsin. Made into the 1949 movie "Beyond the Forest" starring Bette Davis and Joseph Cotten. Age toning to the cover and pages. Slight edgewear. Slight rubbing to the cover. In Near Fine Condition.

Paperback. Condition: Good to Very Good. James Avati (cover illustration) (illustrator). 1st paperback edition. Canadian printing of a story featuring a woman "adored by her husband" and "desired by other men," but "who hated her husband, her life, and herself -- and who eventually destroyed all three." Basis for the movie of the same name, which starred Bette Davis and Joseph Cotten. Mildly cocked w/a bit of spine roll, some edge/corner wear, corner creases, moderate handling wear, previous owner's name to top of first end paper, library stamp to title page, tanning. Internally still a fairly tight copy. Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. UK hardback first impression. Scarce. The book is Good overall with some spotting to prelims, in VG jacket, , unclipped with lightest rubbing at foldovers.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Black & blue covers, 8vo, 303 pages. A movie of the same name, starring Joseph Cotten and Bette Davis, was based upon this book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good dust. First Edition. Sharp and clean book except for a short gift inscription on the front endpaper. The nice dustjacket is now protected in a new, removable archival sleeve. Original price intact on the dustjacket. ; Basis for the Bette Davis film of the same name. ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" ; 303 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Fine in a lightly rubbed, very near fine dustwrapper. Woman marries a doctor she doesn't love in order to escape her dreary Wisconsin home. Basis for the 1949 King Vidor-directed film of the same name, featuring Joseph Cotten and Bette Davis, who utters the immortal line, "What a dump!" A very nice copy.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. New York: Creative Age Press, 1948. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth-backed boards in pictorial dust jacket by Christopher Williams retaining original price ($3.00); [10],303pp. Moderate wear to jacket margins including brief tape repair at jacket spine ends, crude but brief color fill-in at jacket spine crown, rear flap creased, textblock a bit toned, else a Very Good, straight and sound example. The story of Rosa Moline who marries young to escape small-time life in Wisconsin only to find herself fatally dissatisfied in her marriage. The novel was adapted a year later into the film noir of the same title starring Bette Davis and directed by King Vidor.