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Berkeley CA: Soft Skull Press. Near Fine. (c.2008). First Edition. Softcover. [nice clean book, minor bumping and light diagonal creasing at lower right corner of front cover]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) The book "has as its center the filmmaking autobiography of a fine director -- the journey through all the major films and how they were made. Cox takes us to varied locations, including the U.S., Mexico, and Nicaragua, where he made WALKER with the cooperation of the Sandinista government. He is full of fresh ideas and rare insights into many films of different genres and the people he has worked with, including such greats as Dennis Potter and Harry Dean Stanton." Cox's other films include REPO MAN, SID AND NANCY and STRAIGHT TO HELL. .

New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce. Very Good+ in Good+ dj. (c.1943). First Edition. Hardcover. [book is moderately worn at the extremities, former owner's name plus date & place of purchase in ink at top of front endpaper, bookplate on front pastedown; the jacket, which has some edgewear and a couple of tiny chips, has been internally tape-reinforced along most edges and folds, and has also been touched up and filled-in along both the top and bottom edges]. (A Bloodhound Mystery) Series An unusual mystery novel, centering around the use of graphology (handwriting analysis) to solve a murder that takes place in a newspaper office. This was the only novel by Ms. Stafford, described in the jacket blurb as "America's best-known and most gifted graphologist," as indeed she was (best-known, anyway, by virtue of having had a regular newpaper column, which debuted in the Chicago Tribune in 1934 and later in papers across the country. (When it began running in the Los… Read More

New York: Marvel Comics. Near Fine. 1993. (Vol. 1, No. 1). Softcover. (spiral-bound) [nice clean copy, tiny bend/crease at top rear corner, no other discernible wear]. A profusely illustrated guide to the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning -- "the home, the training center -- the very foundation -- of the X-Men." The publication information states this to be Vol. 1, No. 1, August 1993; printed in the bar-code box on the rear cover is "Direct Edition." .

New York: Ballantine Books. Near Fine. 1972. First Edition. Softcover. [nice clean copy with minimal wear, spine slightly turned]. (Adult Fantasy) Series Mass Market PB The third (and seemingly most uncommon) of the four paperback collections of Smith's stories edited for Ballantine by Lin Carter, who describes them in his Introduction as "extraplanetary weird fantasies." Most were originally published in various pulp magazines in the early 1930s, and constituted, in Carter's words, "something quite new and different and exciting, something all his own." He lauds the tales for a prose style he calls "rich, bejeweled, exotic kind of writing [of] the sort we most often think of as being natural to the heroic fantasy tale of magic kingdoms and fabulous eras of the mysterious past." .