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New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company. Very Good+ in Good dj. (c.1935). First American Edition. Hardcover. [spine moderately turned, tiny chunk out of cloth of front hinge near base of spine, light soiling to page edges, internally very clean; jacket well-worn with various small tears/creases, minor paper loss at several corners, large chunk missing at base of spine, soiling to rear panel]. Very uncommon novel by a somewhat enigmatic author (who may or may not have died in World War II). Set in London, it tells the story of Julian, a tormented young composer who discovers that his late mother had for years been keeping his monstrously deformed brother (apparently the result of some kind of artificial-insemination experiment gone awry) confined in the attic of their house, feeding him raw meat and reading him fairy stories. After Mom gets hit by a bus, the responsibility for Brother now falls on Julian, who (being of delicate and artistic temperament) is already not exactly the most… Leer más

Garden City NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc.. Fine in Near Fine dj. 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. [nice tight copy with no discernible wear; jacket very clean and attractive, with a short closed tear and associated creasing at top of spine]. (line drawings) "A wildly amusing first-person narrative (from tapes) by a phantom William Shakespeare, in which the Bard of Avon's ghost discusses many things -- particularly the charges that he didn't write the plays. He demolishes Marlowe, the Baconian Society, Ben Jonson, and others. He also proves, for some readers, that Queen Elizabeth was the real playwright." Blatty's third (and scarcest) book. .

New York: E.P. Dutton and Company. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj. (c.1932). First Edition. Hardcover. [light spotting to edges of text block, minor shelfwear only, tiny tear and paper-clip indentation at top edge of ffep; jacket spine lightly browned, shallow chipping at top of spine, very slight paper loss at a couple of corners, all in all much nicer than often seen on this book]. The first book by this newspaper columnist/reporter whose beat for a number of years was the San Diego waterfront. The success of the book (including its adaptation into the 1933 movie of the same name, starring Claudette Colbert and Ben Lyon) led Miller to quit the newspaper game and concentrate on writing books, which he did prolifically for the next twenty years; many were concerned with Southern California or Baja Mexico, and he also wrote on military-related topics. (He served as a writer for the U.S. Navy's Office of Public Information during World War II and the Korean War.) The book was filmed… Leer más

Garden City NY: Double & Company, Inc.. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. 0385156324 . [nice clean copy, tiny dent in bottom edge of front cover, no other discernible wear; jacket similarly nice, with just a bit of crinkling along top edge]. Memoir by a Bozeman, Montana, housewife who had some big-time psychiatric and drug-and-alcohol-related troubles, and finally found help at Dr. Lechler's psychosomatic clinic in Bad Herrenalb, West Germany. Her story is presented in alternate chapters by Mrs. Lair and Dr. Lechler. .

New York: A.L. Burt Company. Very Good. (c.1931). Reprint. Hardcover. NOISBN . (no dust jacket) [moderate wear at extremities, light surface deterioration of binding at front hinge, a little spotting on top edge; original jacket blurb trimmed and affixed to front pastedown, one-time owner's pencil signature on ffep]. "This story of JERRY and JOAN, their marriage and their poignant attempts at adjustment to life and to each other in the hurly-burly of the Chicago newspaper world, is the winner of the $3,000 College Novel Prize offered by Doubleday, Doran and College Humor. It is ultra-modern and terribly sincere. Without being at all sentimental, it gives one a catch in the throat in compassion for these two young people who know so little about life and abuse it so recklessly." The author, only 24 when her novel was published, was an Iowa native who later lived in Chicago, and had graduated from the University of Alabama in 1929. She soon decamped for Hollywood, where… Leer más

New York: Signet Books (D2058). Very Good. 1962 (c.1961). 1st printing. Softcover. [moderate soft creasing in front cover, a little wear to extremities, spine tight and uncreased]. Mass Market PB First-person narrative by a lovestruck adolescent, one Clarence Bascomb, likened in the cover blurbs to Holden Caulfield and Booth Tarkington's Penrod. There's something about this book that I can't quite put my finger on, e.g.: although the narrator and all the primary characters are white, the cover illustrator seems to have somehow had the idea that Clarence was African-American. There's also an odd scene, about halfway through the book, in which our hero, telling his mother about his supposed girlfriend, invents a fake name for her on the spot, "Reeola Bones," which in turn prompts his mother to ask, slightly insistently: "She's not a Negro by any chance?" That brief and weird little episode seems to just come out of nowhere, and as far as I can see… Leer más

New York/Los Angeles/London: Samuel French. Good. (c.1932). French's Standard Library Edition. Softcover. (printed wraps) [about one inch of spine covering missing at top of spine, otherwise just lightly worn; internally clean]. (stage diagrams) Translation/adaptation of a Hungarian play (original title "Szereten Egy Szinesznot"), about a famous actress who is pursued and wooed by a civil engineer. It ran for an anemic 20 performances in New York in the Fall of 1931, Variety judging it "a class production, but [which] does not afford enough fun" (which was no doubt true in comparison to another play that opened the same week and was reviewed in the next column: Mae West's "The Constant Sinner"). It was somewhat better received (or at least better reviewed) when staged at the Pasadena Playhouse the following Spring, and (here's some useless trivia if there ever was) a Los Angeles radio presentation of it in July 1936 marked the first public… Leer más

Indianapolis/New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. (c.1937). First Edition. Hardcover. [good solid copy, light shelfwear, date and place of an earlier purchase in ink on ffep; jacket has a small chip at upper left corner of front panel, minor paper loss at several other corners]. First novel by the later-blacklisted screenwriter, set during World War I and telling the story of the friendship that develops between a German officer and an American spying for the British (in the guise of a German officer). .

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company. Very Good in Very Good dj. (c.1966). First Edition. Hardcover. [moderate wear to extremities, spine very slightly turned, extremely light bumping and a teensy bit of fraying to bottom corners, bookplate affixed to ffep; jacket a little edgeworn, a couple of tiny chips at top edge of rear panel, tiny closed tear at bottom front hinge, small surface-damaged area and slight paper loss at bottom right corner of front panel]. (B&W illustrations) INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the ffep: "All good wishes for / one who understands -- / Lorenz Graham / May 17, 1973." (The inscribee is probably the individual whose bookplate is on the same page, television director Anton M. Leader.) Juvenile fiction set in Liberia, about a 14-year-old boy and his father who make a river voyage from their remote village to the coast city of Cape Roberts. The author's "years as a teacher in Liberia and his knowledge of a boy's mind have combined… Leer más

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj. 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. [mild shelfwear, light bumping to bottom corners, faint soiling to bottom edge, spine slightly turned, faint tape marks on endpapers; jacket has itsy-bitsy tears at several corners, a couple of small internal tape repairs, generally clean and attractive]. "While most of the closely interwoven episodes in [this book] took place during the war, they are really chapters of the present and of the next decades. In 1945 Tripoli, their setting, was removed in space from the war, as today is removed in time. It was an excellent radar statino to the world of the future, and Mark Dickson's eyes and ears were sensitive antennae." The stories and incidents related in this book "are the clues to the complexity of the Near East, to the very heart of the Jewish-Arab conflict for which Tripoli remains a major battleground. [The author], following the clues through Mark Dickson, combines… Leer más

Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj. First Edition. Hardcover. [a nice tight copy with no significant wear, downgraded a bit due only to some ink notes on the rear endpaper (a review copy, with original publisher's slip laid in); jacket has a few small closed edge-tears]. (B&W photographs) Drama about a widowed college professor and his troubled relationship with his aging father. The 1970 movie version, directed by Gilbert Cates, starred Gene Hackman and Melvyn Douglas. [NOTE: Although the book doesn't bear the typical Random House "First Printing" statement, it was (as noted) a review copy, so I assume the omission of the printing statement is just an anomaly; the jacket is unclipped, and priced.] .

Nashville TN: Cumberland House. Near Fine in Fine dj. (c.2000). Second Edition. Hardcover. 158182078X . [beautiful copy, essentially brand-new with just a very slight bump to the base of the spine; NO remainder or other marks]. "In [this book], dozens of Hogan's confidants, fellow golf pros, business associates, and acquaintances candidly reveal their memories of and insights into 'the Hawk.' Included are more than a hundred original stories and observations offered especially for this book." .

New York: Arbor House. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. (c.1974). First Edition. Hardcover. [light shelfwear, slight fading to cloth at base of spine, a little age-toning to top edge of text block; jacket has a few tiny tears and minor paper loss at spine ends, some discoloration to rear panel]. (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED ("and I do!") and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper. Memoir by the great American songwriter, "who teamed with such as Jule Styne and Jimmy Van Heusen to write the songs that have made him legendary and framed the lives of two generations of Americans." Signed by Author .

New York: Bernard Geis Associates. Good in Good dj. 1959. 2nd printing. Hardcover. [moderately shelfworn, light soiling/foxing to page edges; jacket also a bit soiled, a few tiny edge-tears, faint traces of mostly-erased ink scribble on front panel Further adventures of Dobie Gillis. Interestingly, this edition was not pitched as a tie-in with the TV series ("The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis"), even though it was then in the middle of its network run. (It's not even mentioned, on the cover or anywhere else.) .

New York: St. Martin's Press. Near Fine. (c.1986). First Edition. Softcover. [a bit of wear along spine, no other significant wear]. Trade PB (B&W photographs, facsimiles) Sort of a "films of" approach to the topic, with an introductory historical-background section (covering silent precursors, censorship by the Hays Office, and the career of Kroger Babb, the "Master of Exploitation"), followed by a chronological survey of the specifically teenage-oriented films of the 50s and 60s, divided into four periods: "I Was a Teenage Moneymaker" (1954-1958); "The Lost Years" (1959-1962); "Beach Blanket Boffo" (1963-1966); and "The Protest Trip" (1967-1969). Each of these sections includes a filmography, giving basic credits and some descriptive matter about each film. The majority of the book's illustrations are reproductions of posters and other advertising art for the movies. .

New York: Simon and Schuster. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. [very nice copy, the book itself just lightly worn at the spine ends and bottom corners (actually a review copy, with the original publisher's reply postcard laid in); jacket has just one tiny chip and a couple of itsy-bitsy tears at the bottom of the front panel, light soiling on the rear panel]. The first book by this veteran journalist and photographer, who went on assignment from the New York Herald Tribune (for whom she had been reporting since 1932) to investigate "the status of women in the Soviet Union." In the course of her travels she covered 6,000 miles by plane and boat, making observations and conducting "countless interviews with all classes and types from high government officials to Trotskyists and exiled kulaks." Ms. Gruber, who lived to the grand old age of 105 (she died in 2016), was deeply involved during and immediately after World War II with the… Leer más

[Tokyo?]: Toshiba Corporation Project Team. Near Fine. [1989]. Softcover. NOISBN . [light surface wear and mild rubbing to covers]. (B&W and color photographs, advertisements) Elaborate program for a special presentation in Japan of D.W. Griffith's 1916 masterpiece INTOLERANCE, with musical accompaniment provided by the New Japan Philharmonic and a "Chorus/Special Choir for INTOLERANCE." The screening of the film was accompanied by "An Homage to D.W. Griffith," a 70mm Super Panavision production (projected at 30 frames per second) that was directed by American special effects cinematography wizard Richard Edlund, A.S.C. and featured a narration by the then 95-year-old Lillian Gish. Although much of the text of this accompanying program is in Japanese, there are bits of English here and there, such as the comments from various filmmakers (including Francis Ford Coppola, Fred Zinnemann and Martin Scorsese) about the importance of Griffith's film and/or its… Leer más

London: Geoffrey Bles. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. (c.1958). First Edition. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [ex-rental library book (W.H. Smith & Son; marked as such only by a bookplate on the front pastedown), minor shelfwear, faint foxing and very light soiling to edges of text block, one-time owner's initials plus date & place of purchase in ink along edge of rear pastedown (concealed beneath jacket flap); jacket has tiny bits of paper loss at several spine corners, otherwise quite nice]. A mountain-set murder mystery with a filmmaking angle. The plot involves a movie being shot against the background of Mont Blanc, and features "Sir Abercrombie Lewker, that well-known actor-manager and amateur detective." The was one of the author's seventeen Lewker adventures; most are set in mountainous regions, reflecting the author's self-described lifelong recreation of mountaineering and rock-climbing. (He also wrote numerous book on those topics, usually under the… Leer más

Palm Springs CA: Palm Springs Desert Museum. Very Good+. 2003. First Edition. Softcover. [slight wear to edges and extremities, minor dog-earing to bottom right corner of front cover]. (B&W and color photographs) Catalogue issued to accompany an exhibition of Childers's photos presented by the Palm Springs Desert Museum from December 2003 through February 2004. Childers was the longtime companion of film director John Schlesinger; among his subjects represented in this catalogue are: Natalie Wood and Robert Wagner; Groucho Marx; Bette Midler; Arnold Schwarzenegger; Catherine Deneuve; Ben Kingsley; Sir Laurence Olivier; Anjelica Huston; Robert Graham; Andy Warhol; David Hockney (who contributed the Introduction to the catalogue); Tennessee Williams; Lily Tomlin; and Andy Warhol. .

New York: Vantage Press. Fine in Near Fine dj. (c.1996). First Edition. Hardcover. [jacket a little wrinkled across top edge]. A mouse's-eye view of the world. "Meet Pomfret Mouseglib, your narrator and all 'round amiable guide to the rodent haut monde he chronicles so lovingly... A renowned epicure, Mr. Mouseglib (who is, in fact, a mouse, as well as the faithful correspondent of his typist, Kathryn Pulver) exhibits his scrupulously refined taste and scintillating wit in this brilliant series of essays, poems, and vignettes, a chef d'oeuvre that is also his initial foray into the publishing realm. Aside from being a keen observer of the social mores and foibles of the mousy set, Mouseglib here extends his purview both to cultural matters -- the modern ballet mouse and the role of mice in modern opera -- and to the affairs of the heart he treats with such nobility and grace." .