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Garden City NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.. Very Good in Good dj. 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [ex-lending library book (label on front pastedown, large neatly-applied stamp on ffep), small unrelated bookstore stamp at bottom corner of front pastedown, very slight fraying to cloth at one bottom corner, otherwise just lightly worn; jacket has minor paper loss at several corners, a few small tears and associated creasing, internal tape repair to a rather jagged tear at bottom of rear panel (fairly neatly done, with minimal paper loss)]. "A brilliant and modern view of American married life as [the author] has seen it in smart suburbia." The plot centers around Joan, "a passionate, brilliant, dissatisfied woman with relative indifference to the idea of virtue and an insatiable desire to get something more from life than flavorless security," who leaves her husband and children to run off to Europe with an artist, only to discover that… Read More

New York: Grosset & Dunlap. Near Fine in Very Good dj. [1928] (c.1927). First Edition Thus. Hardcover. [nice copy with minimal wear, one-time owner's name and address in ink on front endpaper; the jacket is moderately edgeworn, with small tears and minor paper loss at several corners, one-inch closed tear at bottom front hinge]. (8 sepia-toned film stills) A tie-in with the 1929 Paramount film adaptation of the popular ethnic-conflict domestic comedy, which ran for over five years (1922-1927) in its initial Broadway run. This movie, the first of two screen adaptations, starred Charles "Buddy" Rogers as American-Jewish soldier Abie Levy, who, while serving in Europe during the War, meets lovely Irish colleen Rose-Mary Murphy (Nancy Carroll), brings her back to the States, and marries her, and everybody else in both families just has to DEAL WITH IT! Oy! "Why, look at her name, kid -- look at her name! She's Irish, y' fool, she's Irish!" There were… Read More

New York: Random House. Fine in Very Good+ dj. (c.1947). First Edition. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [book is tight and clean, with no discernible wear; jacket also very nice, with just a bit of wear along the top of the front panel and a short closed tear at the bottom front hinge; see NOTE about stamp on front jacket flap]. The third novel by this underappreciated author, who will probably always be best-known for her first book, "Whistle Stop" (1941), but who achieved a little posthumous boost in her reputation when, following her death in 2002, the manuscript for an unpublished novel was discovered in her refrigerator, where she'd kept it for thirty years. (This book, "Sudden Rain," was published in 2005.) The title character here is a woman trapped in an abusive marriage to an ex-GI, with the plot described in the jacket blurb as involving "a set of dramatic situations which are inevitable in that they spring from the very stuff of life itself." A… Read More

New York: Henry Holt and Company. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj. [1930]. First American Edition. Hardcover. NOISBN . [good solid clean book, light shelfwear to bottom edge, vintage price sticker (from San Francisco department store The White House) on rear pastedown; jacket lightly worn along top edge, spine a teensy bit darkened]. "The time encompassed in the action [of this novel] is only a few hours in the lives of several Londoners, but by looking into the minds of the characters much of their past lives and significance is reconstructions. [This is] a novel of mental and spiritual relations and conflicts, rather than of physical action, although the reader is brought up with a start by the final climactic drama. The author has remarkable human insight and the characters are handled so competently that there has been much speculation regarding the sex of R.D. Dorthy." (Um, excuse me?) ["Printed in Great Britain."] .

Atglen PA: Schiffer Publishing Ltd.. Near Fine. (c.2008). First Edition. Softcover. [nice clean book, virtually as-new with just the teensiest bump at the lower right corner of the front cover]. Trade PB (B&W and color facsimiles) This book employs reproductions of more than 250 postcards to tell the life story of the 16th President. (It also functions as a price guide, with values stated for each card, although that aspect is somewhat out of date by now.) ****NOTE that additional postage charges will be assessed for international shipping of this moderately heavy book; if this concerns you, please contact us for a shipping quote before placing your order.**** .

New York: Simon & Schuster. Fine in Fine dj. (c.1991). First Edition. Hardcover. [a beautiful, as-new copy, with no discernible wear to either book or jacket]. (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED "For ____ / with thanks for the / great photographs + / my best wishes" and SIGNED by the author on the title page. Memoir by the star of CABARET, THE THREE MUSKETEERS, ACCIDENT, and many other films. Signed by Author .

New York: W.W. Norton & Company. Very Good in Good dj. (c.1942). First Edition. Hardcover. [a good sound copy, with just a bit of soiling at the top edge of the front cover and some spotting/tanning to the top of the text block; the jacket is somewhat soiled and foxed, faded along the spine, and has several nicks and some shallow paper loss along the top edge]. (cartoon drawings) A "hilarious report from the lecture front [by] one of America's most popular lecturers [who] makes revelations on the perils of the platform that will delight everyone who ever made a speech, introduced a speaker or simply been part of the great listening public. For here the brave survivor of a hundred club programs tells all, in a riotously funny symposium of his adventures." The thirteen full-page Hirschfeld illustrations are highly amusin', as well, as is the drawing on the (uncommon) jacket. The author (1900-1969) was best known as a theatre critic and newspaper columnist. .

New York: Simon and Schuster. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. (c.1948). 3rd printing. Hardcover. [some wear to bottom edge and top of spine, but a solid, clean copy nonetheless; number stamped on rear fep; jacket rubbed, several small tears and general wear along top edge, chipping with a bit of paper loss at top of spine, small tear w/slight paper loss at bottom front corner]. The author's second novel, about a young U.S. Navy pilot who is shot down and washes ashore on a South Pacific island. Republished in 1954 in a "completely retold version"; the original edition seems to be rather scarce. .

Hollywood CA: Directors Guild of America. Near Fine. 1971. (Vol. 6, No. 5). Magazine. [nice clean copy, faint handling wear only]. (B&W photographs) A special issue of the DGA magazine, devoted exclusively to John Ford's classic 1939 western STAGECOACH. Includes: appreciations of the film by critics Arthur Knight and Andrew Sarris; Ford's own account of the film's conception and production; a kind of highlights-reel summary of the film, with frame blow-ups and dialogue excerpts; "The Company Remembers Stagecoach," featuring reminiscences by John Wayne, Claire Trevor, Yakima Canutt, Wingate Smith, Walter Reynolds, Dorothy Spencer, Andy Devine, Walter Plunkett, and John Carradine; and "an intimate view of John Ford today" by his grandson, Dan Ford. .

Seattle: Fantagraphics Books. Near Fine. 2011. First Edition. Softcover. [very very VERY slight bumping to corners of front cover, otherwise as new]. Trade PB (color reproductions) This book "presents 176 fully restored full-sized classics, arranged chronologically to follow the evolutionary trends resulting from the industry's monthly battle for newsstand attention. [The book] also includes extensive historical commentary [on each individual cover] by editor/designer Greg Sadowski." ("Fully restored," in this context, translates to being digitally cleaned up and color-enhanced to look far better than they did on the original comics. Don't get me wrong, they look gorgeous -- but also, in a weird way, a little TOO gorgeous.) ****NOTE that additional postage charges will be assessed for international shipping of this moderately heavy book; if this concerns you, please contact us for a shipping quote before placing your order.**** .

New York: Vantage Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. (c.1992). First Edition. Hardcover. [very slight bumping to bottom corners, affecting both book and jacket]. Vanity-press novel set in "the post-Korean War world of Hollywood intrigue," this is "the searing odyssey of a man who was born to be a sex god -- a perfect specimen in face and body. Women desired him, men envied him; but Mark Thor, the actor, had a desperate secret." (Spoiler alert: he's an alcoholic.) According to the jacket blurb, this book was "written on an epic scale"; well, you can do that sort of thing when you're footing the bill for the printing. Laid in is a brief TLS from the author to the book's original owner. .

New York: Theatre Arts Books. Good+. 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [light bumping and a bit of wear at all corners, slight fading to spine cloth, some uneven fading to front cover, small puckered area at top right corner of front cover]. (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Redgrave on the title page: "With all good wishes / to George Quick -- / Michael Redgrave." In addition to this inscription, there are two note cards from Redgrave, both addressed to "George": (1) a typed note with "Dear George" handwritten above the typed message, which reads "Thank you so very much for your wire on opening night", and with an additional handwritten text reading "Hope all goes well / with your piece / Lots of good luck / Mike." (2) a handwritten note, affixed to the title page with yellowing tape, reading: "For George / with gratitude / from Michael. A Summer Tie[?] for / A Month in the Country / 4 April… Read More

New York: M. Evans and Company, Inc.. Near Fine in Very Good dj. (c.1970). First Edition. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [some discoloration to front endpapers from laid-in newspaper clippings, minor soiling to bottom of text block, slight fading to cloth at top of spine; jacket shows some modest surface- and edgewear, a little dog-earing at base of spine, short closed tear at bottom of rear panel, one teensy-tiny nick at top right corner of front panel, spine a bit color-shifted]. SIGNED boldly by Trumbo (no inscription) on the half-title page. Twenty years' worth of letters from the most famous of the blacklisted Hollywood writers to his family, fellow writers, business associates, friends and enemies. Whatever one's estimation of Trumbo -- politically, or as a screenwriter, or as a human being -- it's an undeniable fact that he was a terrific letter-writer, as this volume amply demonstrates. (And they are all his letters: no replies or exchanges of correspondence. It's… Read More

New York: Vantage Press. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. (c.1962). First Edition. Hardcover. NOISBN . [light wear to extremities, a little browning to page edges; jacket shows a little wear along top and bottom edges, a few tiny nicks and tears, one itty-bitty chip at top of front panel, fading to spine]. "A challenging social critique of our times," couched as a tale of an American newspaperman who is sent to a small (fictional) Pacific island ruled by the eponymous dictator. Hitro, an "inspiring orator with the eyes of a saint," promises his people that their island nation will become "a model of kindness in action" -- but at the same time, he uses the threat of "Redheadism" to throw all the red-haired people into internment camps, while secretly developing a bio-weapon (caused by laser beams) called "Rabid Amnesia," with which he plots to -- wait for it -- conquer the world! Nothing about the author's jacket bio or his photo suggests… Read More

Boston: The Stratford Company. Very Good+ in Good dj. 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. [nice-looking book, gilt lettering on spine and front cover bright as new, slight bumping to bottom corners, shallow dent at edge of rear cover, light soiling to fore-edge; jacket a bit tattered, tears/chips at all corners, about one inch paper loss to base of spine]. The author undertakes in this book to address the "most serious maladjustment between life and religion" that he feels to be manifest in American Judaism. As the jacket blurb states: "Even the professing Orthodox Jew must admit that between the demands of religion and the call of modern American life the chasm is widening daily." However, by "following a proper historical perspective," he explains how to discover "the vital seed of self-preservation and ideal self-adjustment to prevailing conditions of life" that lies within Judaism itself. (This is a review copy, with the original publisher's… Read More

Boulder CO: The Aspen Press. Near Fine in Fine dj. 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. [nice clean book with no discernible wear, but with a previous owner's name plus date & place of purchase written in ink at the top of the front endpaper; the jacket is flawless]. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson meet Tarzan in this imaginative pastiche, set during World War I. When the duo undertake a perilous mission to British East Africa to recover a deadly secret formula that's been stolen from the Allies, and are captured by and then escape from the Germans, and then get lost, it's Lord Greystoke who comes to their rescue. .

New York: E.P. Dutton & Company. Very Good- in Fair dj. 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. [moderate shelfwear, some soiling to covers, discoloration to gutters/endpapers, original owner's name/address on front pastedown; jacket heavily worn, separated at rear hinge, tears at most corners with occasional paper loss (including part of title at top of spine), horizontal tear in mid-spine, etc., none of this helped by a previous owner's sloppy attempts at internal tape repair (now mostly removed)] .

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company. Fair in Very Good dj. 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. [ex-school library book, heavy wear to bottom edge, front hinge cracked and crudely repaired, labels and pockets on front endpapers, etc.; the jacket, however, is fairly presentable, with just a bit of paper loss at the extremities, and a corner torn away at the bottom of the rear flap (taking a little bit of text with it)]. (pen and ink drawings) Juvenile adventure set in the jungles of the Amazon headwaters. One of a series of "boys in exotic locales" tales by this author ("Wu Han of Korea," "Pancho of Peru," etc.). The book's a bit of a mess, as noted, but the jacket would transfer well to a better copy, if you happen to have one and aren't opposed to remarriage. .

Philadelphia: Oswald Train: Publisher. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. 1972. 2nd printing. Hardcover. NOISBN . (price-clipped) [nice clean book, minor wear to extremities; jacket a little browned along edges and spine Reprint edition of this renowed collection of Victorian-era detective stories, originally published in book form in 1903. The earliest fiction by R. Austin Freeman, "soon to be acknowledged as one of the great masters of the field, in collaboration with his close friend, Dr. John James Pitcairn." The First American Edition of this reprint (got that?) appeared in 1968; this is the second printing, from 1972. .

Madison WI: The University of Wisconsin Press. Fine. 1979. 1st Edition (softcover issue). Softcover. [nice bright copy, as-new book, without even a hint of wear]. (Wisconsin/Warner Bros. Screenplay Series) Series Trade PB (B&W photographs) Typically excellent entry in this screenplay series, with an erudite introduction by noted scholar Rudy Behlmer, containing not only copious details about this production, but background on the Robin Hood legend and a brief discussion of other film treatments of same -- a topic about which, it should be noted, Mr. Behlmer was extremely knowledgeable. This, of course, is (as far as I'm concerned) the definitive Robin Hood movie, with Errol Flynn and a perfect supporting cast, one of the great movie scores (by Erich Wolfgang Korngold), and enough terrific moments, visual and verbal, for half-a-dozen movies. "Why -- you speak treason!" "Fluently." [The only problem with this series is its failure to give the names of the… Read More