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(n.p.): Editions for the Armed Services, Inc.. Very Good. [1944] (c.1934). First Edition Thus. Stapled wraps. [moderately worn copy, slght fading along spine, short diagonal crease at bottom corner of front cover; internally quite clean, with typical signs of aging to cheap paper]. An outstanding association copy of Cain's most famous novel, INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the title page -- an amusing inscription to film producer and fellow screenwriter Carey Wilson which reads: "To Cary [sic] Wilson / The best edition / of all / Jim." Wilson was the producer of the long-delayed MGM film version of the book, released in 1946, and in fact had been the first writer assigned to the property when MGM resuscitated it in 1944 (having owned the rights for several years but been put off by the censorship challenges), although the screenplay credit on the finished film was shared by Harry Ruskin and Niven Busch. The inscription is undated, but almost certainly dates from the… Leer más

[Los Angeles]: "A National Excelsior Publication". Poor. 1962 [1963]. First Edition. Softcover. [externally in pretty bad shape (see images and notes), with part of the front cover torn (or eaten) away, and general overall soiling and discoloration; the binding, however, is intact, and the internals are perfectly OK]. (B&W photographs) Here, my friends, we have that most lamentable and problematic of objects: a unique and highly collectable item that we must honestly acknowledge is in distinctly uncollectable condition -- the very sort of thing that the overworked verbal shrug "it is what it is" was coined to describe. And yet -- and yet -- there's no denying that it IS a thing, and quite a thing at that: an INSCRIBED copy of the FIRST printing of renowned artist Ed Ruscha's iconic first book, published under his own imprint in a numbered edition of just 400 copies (this being No. 87). The work itself is not "rare" -- there was a second edition… Leer más

[Norfolk CT]: New Directions. Very Good in Very Good dj. [1950]. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. [a good sound copy, with some shelfwear to the lower edges of the paper-covered boards, and a modest bump to the upper rear corner; the jacket has suffered some very shallow paper loss at and surrounding the top of the spine, and is edgeworn along the spine-folds, with small bit of additional paper loss at the base of the spine and the lower corners; all in all still quite presentable]. (The New Classics Series) Series INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author/poet on the front endpaper: "Norman Lloyd - / - a man with some / good ideas. Here's / hoping / William Carlos Williams / 11/6/50." (It's to be noted that the inscription is written in WCW's flowing, "pre-stroke" hand, executed as it was just a year or so prior to a debilitating stroke which left him partially paralyzed and made his later signatures exceedingly shaky.) As each new installment of Williams's… Leer más

[Washington DC]: United States Army Air Forces. Very Good+. [ca.1947]. First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket, probably as issued) [light external soiling, a little darkening to the spine]. (charts, maps) A massive catalog of all (and I do mean all) the photo-technical data related to the photography (both still and motion picture, both black & white and color) of "Operation Crossroads," the first two post-World War II nuclear bomb tests, conducted at Bikini Atoll in the South Pacific in July 1946. The first test took place on July 1, and was nicknamed "Able Day"; the second, on July 25, was "Baker Day." (The names were directly taken from the first two letters of the Joint Army/Navy Phonetic Alphabet.) The stated purpose of the tests was to assess the level of damage that the massive explosions would inflict on naval vessels of various kinds that were stationed in the vicinity; all humans were evacuated from the ships, although a large number of… Leer más

New York: Simon and Schuster. Fine in Near Fine dj. (c.1990). First Edition. Hardcover. [the book itself is flawless; the jacket shows only the tiniest traces of handling wear]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the title page: "For Kitaj -- / from his struggling / friend -- / P.R. / London / March 1990." Novel about "a married, middle-aged American named Philip living in London and the married Englishwoman who is his mistress." A very nice association copy; the inscribee was artist R.B. Kitaj, who became a close friend after the two met in London in 1985. Kitaj had positioned himself as an explicitly Jewish artist from the 1970s onward, and it's been noted that much of his thinking, particularly on the question of his Jewish identity, was influenced and inspired by Roth's writings. Kitaj executed a portrait of the writer, in charcoal on handmade paper, around the time they met, which was singled out for praise when it was included in the Tate… Leer más

New York: Albert and Charles Boni. Very Good+. 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [good sound copy, with modest wear to spine extremities, spine a little turned, a bit of age-toning to edges of text block; bookplate of noted M-G-M writer-producer Carey Wilson on front pastedown, old department store label/price sticker on rear pastedown ("From the Books of J.W. Robinson Co., Seventh & Grand, Los Angeles")] The rare first book (and only novel) by the radical pacifist and co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement. It follows the protagonist, June Henreddy, through adolescence and college and on to her first job, on the staff of a socialist newspaper. She and the book's other characters are embroiled in the issues of the day (pacifism, birth control, free love, etc.), and at one point her involvement with the women's suffrage movement lands her in jail -- and her involvement with a man results in an unexpected pregnancy, which leads her to seek out an… Leer más

New York: Brentano's. Very Good+. 1928. 2nd printing. Hardcover. (yellow decorated cloth; no dust jacket) [spine very slightly turned, minor shelfwear to bottom edges, a bit of dust-soiling to top edges of covers and text block, a little darkening to spine cloth]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the ffep: "To Harold Swanson -- / You don't have to / read this but / honestly you ought to / have it around if / only to throw at / contributors. / Sincerely / Dawn Powell / March 30, 1928." The great American author's "first" novel. (At least that's what she called it herself, preferring not to mention her ACTUAL first novel, "Whither," published three years earlier. Hey, even the great ones are entitled to a mulligan, right?) Inscribed copies of Powell's novels are uncommon, and this is also a terrific association copy: the inscribee, later to set up shop as "H.N. Swanson" in Hollywood, where he was the most successful… Leer más

Pasadena CA: Spiral Group, Inc.. Fine. 1984-1986. (Nos. 1-9). Softcover. [all issues in as-new condition]. (graphics, photographs) A complete run (9 issues) of this short-lived periodical devoted to avant-garde and experimental filmmaking. Created and edited by Terry Cannon, who had co-founded Pasadena Filmforum (later Los Angeles Filmforum) in 1975 and served as its Executive Director for the organization's first eight years, it was conceived, he said, not as a publication that presented lengthy critical pieces and interviews (in the mold of Millennium Film Journal, for example), but as a type of "creative film journal" which he felt was needed, a place "where filmmakers would be able to have some of their artwork published, some of their drawings, some of their photographs, some of their text pieces and collages." He hoped it would get enough support from the filmmaking community to at least sustain its publication -- "it was going to have to be supported… Leer más

London: International Publishers / Martin Lawrence Ltd. (see notes). Very Good in Very Good- dj. 1934. 1st American Edition(?) [see notes]. Hardcover. [modest wear to extremities, spine slightly turned, top edge a bit dust-soiled; jacket spine darkened, one-inch triangular chip at top of spine (losing part of the title), a bit of paper loss at lower spine extremities]. (pen and ink drawings) The writing of this "Robin Hood for Boys and Girls" was inspired by the author's discovery of a translated Russian children's book which dramatized the Soviets' first Five-Year Plan; this led him to conceive this "left-wing update of Robin Hood that showcased a radical approach to historical literature for young people" (per Wikipedia). The jacket blurb declares that Robin Hood "was not just an outlaw [but also] the leader of the dispossessed and disinherited of Merrie England, the sturdy Anglo-Saxon peasantry who were bounded off their common lands, harried and… Leer más

London: Selwyn & Blount (1928) Ltd.. Very Good in Very Good- dj. 1929 (c.1925). 11th printing. Hardcover. [modest wear to extremities, pages tanned with age, but generally a good sound copy of a cheaply-manufactured book; former owner's initials plus date & place of purchase written along edge of rear pastedown (concealed by rear jacket flap); the jacket is a bit soiled on the rear panel, with a handful of tiny nicks and edge-tears, minor paper loss at a couple of corners, and a vertical crease along the left edge of the front panel]. ("Not at Night" series, No. 1) Series A very presentable copy of the first entry in the long-running "Not at Night" horror-fiction anthology series. The series was a publishing hit, as evidenced not only by the fact that this title had gone through eleven printings by November 1929 (the daet of this printing, four years after the first edition), but also that it had already spawned four more entries in the series, all blurbed… Leer más

New York: Ives Washburn, Inc.. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. 1957. First American Edition. Hardcover. [spine slightly turned, a little wear to top and bottom edges of covers, age-toning and minor soiling to edges of text block; jacket slightly chipped (with old small internal tape repairs) at spine ends (no impact on text), faint (almost invisible) vertical crease in spine, light soiling to rear panel, a couple of tiny nicks in bottom edge of rear panel]. Yep, it's the book from which Alfred Hitchcock's VERTIGO -- anointed The Greatest Film of All Time by the British Film Institute's "Sight and Sound" panelists' poll -- was (rather freely) adapted. It's a must-have if you're a "books into film" collector, and considerably scarcer for some reason in the American edition than in the British, which preceded it by a year -- although if you're into that "true first edition" business, you really ought to be on the lookout for the French… Leer más

New York: Mason Publishing Co.. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj. 1932 (c.1929). Reprint. Hardcover. [spine turned, light wear to base of spine and bottom corners; jacket slighty faded at spine, with tiny tears at several corners, one-inch closed tear and associated creasing at top of front panel]. An early reprint of the prolific Ms. Mitchell's first novel (first published in the U.S. by Dial Press in 1929), in which a famous arctic explorer is found dead in a bathtub at an English country house -- and is discovered to have been a woman! (Much, I suppose, like a purchaser of this book by "G.M. Mitchell," as she is called in the front jacket panel, might have been surprised to have learned the author's gender only upon turning to the title page.) As Michele Slung wrote of Mitchell, she's "a special taste" whose work "has been little published in the United States since the beginning of her career [yet] to mystery readers in England who have followed the… Leer más

San Francisco: The Arion Press. Fine. 1983. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. (quarter-bound black leather over blue-gray cloth-covered boards, with the Falcon in black leather (with silver trim and red eye) on both front and rear covers; silver lettering on spine; in slipcase, with no dust jacket, as issued) [a beautiful copy, with both book and slipcase utterly unblemished]. (B&W photographs, endpaper maps) The best edition of Hammett's hard-boiled classic, issued in a printing of 400 copies, each signed on the limitation page by the director of the Arion Press (whose 11th book this was), Andrew Hoyem. Beautifully printed and bound, with the red-eyed Black Bird in leather on both covers, the book is illustrated throughout with black-and-white photographs (44 in all, a mixture of vintage and contemporary shots) of the many San Francisco locations that were the setting for the novel, plus a tipped-in frontispiece portrait photo of Hammett and a double fold-out panoramic photo,… Leer más

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj. 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. [solid clean copy, some spotting/mottling to spine cloth, extremely light bumping to a couple of corners; jacket moderately edgeworn, some minor chipping and slight paper loss at spine ends (no loss of text), wrinkling/creasing along bottom edge of rear panel]. INSCRIBED ("To Mary / Sincerely") and SIGNED by the author on the ffep. Powell's last great novel, "an exhilarating story of mid-century New York, of many kinds of New Yorkers"; in other words, exactly the sort of thing she did best. (PLEASE NOTE that the dust jacket on this book has been supplied (i.e. transferred) from another copy.) Signed by Author .

Boston: Little, Brown and Company. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. [very nice copy, light shelfwear, a trace of foxing on fore-edge, bookplate on front pastedown; the jacket is remarkably clean and well-preserved, with some minor wear along the top and bottom edges, slight browning to spine, and one tiny nick mid-spine]. A beautiful copy of the author's first book, SIGNED by him directly beneath his printed signature on the title page, and just above one of illustrator Robert Lawson's drawings of the title character. Haines began working as a telephone lineman during summer vacations while in college (University of Pennsylvania), and took on the work full-time upon his graduation in 1931. His experiences on that job provided fodder for his literary efforts, including his first published short stories and two novels, this one and the subsequent "High Tension" in 1937. Time Magazine said of this novel that "in celebrating his craft and the… Leer más

London: Selwyn & Blount (1928) Ltd.. Good in Very Good dj. 1930. 4th printing. Hardcover. [modest wear to extremities, pages tanned with age, but generally a good sound copy of a cheaply-manufactured book; former owner's initials plus date & place of purchase written along edge of rear pastedown (concealed by rear jacket flap); the jacket is a bit soiled on the rear panel, with a handful of tiny nicks and edge-tears, minor paper loss at a couple of corners, and a vertical crease along the left edge of the front panel]. ("Not at Night" series, No. 4) Series An early printing of the fourth entry in the long-running "Not at Night" horror-fiction anthology series. By the time this copy was printed (February 1930, just a year and a half after the first printing in July 1928), a fifth volume ("By Daylight Only") had appeared, and is the last title in the series list opposite the title page; the jacket, however, is from a slightly later date, as the… Leer más

New York: Rizzoli International Publications. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. [a lovely copy, with only minimal wear to both book and jacket]. (B&W photographs) The third (and most uncommon) book by this Colombian-born photographer presents "an extraordinary collection of images of the women of flamenco," shot by Afanador "under the bright sunlight and set against the austere landscape and incandescent walls of Andalusia in Southern Spain. Under improbably and often chaotic circumstances in this remote and rural milieu, Afanador, together with the women and his troop of inspired collaborators, created an intricate choreography of poses and gestures that embodies the passionate song and dance of flamenco and intimates its origins and fusion of cultures that have pervaded the Iberian peninsula for centuries." The photographs are prefaced by a group of short "love letters" from various well-known ladies from the world of fashion:… Leer más

Garden City NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc.. Near Fine in Very Good dj. (c.1960, 1959). First Edition. Hardcover. [lightly shelfworn, a couple of tiny spots on front cover near spine; jacket (supplied) is a bit edgeworn, with a small chip at the upper flap-fold; a previous mis-folding has been somewhat corrected (with a new mylar cover), but the jacket still shows the effects]. (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper: "For Joan / Shalom / Leon Uris." (See note at end about the provenance of this copy.) "Every reader of 'Exodus' will welcome this opportunity to accompany Leon Uris on his return to the scenes of his best-selling novel. Tourist guides in the Holy Land have been besieged by questions about places mentioned in 'Exodus,' and Israeli tourist officials are unanimously agreed that the novel is responsible for a large part of the increasing tourist trade in their country. For those who have visited the land… Leer más

New York: Coward-McCann, Inc.. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. (c.1931). First Edition. Hardcover. [a good sound attractive copy with only light shelfwear, slight uneven fading to cloth; the jacket is lightly soiled, with some wear and a number of tiny chips at spine ends, spine panel slightly faded and browned, a bit of wear to upper right corner of front panel]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the ffep: "To Fred Leonard / My old friend - / and one after my / own heart - - - / with appreciation / Jim Tully / 1931 / Hollywood, Calif." The final installment in what Tully considered his five-volume autobiographical cycle (following "Beggars of Life," "Circus Parade," "Shanty Irish" and "Shadows of Men"), this book essentially picked up where "Shanty Irish" had left off, following the passage of young Jim from a Cincinnati orphanage through his time on the road (and in the boxing ring), to the moment when he resolves to… Leer más

New York: The Vanguard Press. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. (c.1941). First Edition. Hardcover. [lightly shelfworn, with a slightly turned spine; an ex-library book, but not obnoxiously marked as such (just a single stamp on the top edge of the text block, plus a small stamp at the upper right corner of the front pastedown); additionally, a former owner has written his name plus the date & place of purchase on the front endpaper; the jacket is a bit edgeworn, with tiny bits of paper loss at several corners and at the spine ends; there is a vintage bookseller's label (J.W. Robinson Co., Los Angeles) affixed to the upper corner of the rear flap; see also the NOTE about the jacket being from a later printing]. The very scarce first edition of Heard's first "Mr. Mycroft" mystery, one of the most highly-regarded Sherlock Holmes pastiches ever published. "Mycroft" is understood to be Holmes himself, in retirement in a small English village but always available to… Leer más