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1964 Railroad Photo Calendar

Price: $20.00

Publisher: San Marino CA, Golden West Books : [1963]

Seller ID: 26854

Condition: Near Fine

(card covers) [clean and unused, with minimal wear; would rate Fine but for a small surface-scrape on the rear cover]. (B&W photographs) Small-format datebook/calendar (approx. 6" x 7-1/2"), with great black-and-white vintage photos of trains, streetcars, and other railway-related scenes on facing pages with a single week's calendar entries -- hence, containing 52 photographs. Alas, because 1964 was a leap year, it won't be usable again for its intended purpose until 2048, when February 29 again will fall on a Saturday. (Rats! -- it woulda worked for 2020, but we acquired it too late.)
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Affiches de Cinma [Cinema Posters]

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Paris, Galerie Intemporel / Stanislas Choko : N.D.

Edition: Unstated edition

Seller ID: 26035

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

(laminated boards; no dust jacket, as issued) [nice clean as-new copy]. (color facsimiles) Catalogue, in French, issued by a gallery specializing in film posters. The introductory note, translated from the French, reads in part: "Now a recognized collector's item, the original cinema poster is more and more present in our environment. The evolution of the market has made generalist collections impossible. The choices are made more and more precise, new themes are researched, and the artistic quality is taken into account. We offer in this book a choice of posters classified by genre, as a po...
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American Horror Story: Freak Show

Price: $100.00

Publisher: [Los Angeles], FX : [2008]

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 24417

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

(in Near Fine slipcase) [book itself is unworn, but slightly blemished on rear endpapers from removal of spot of sticky substance; slipcase shows some external surface-rubbing]. (color photographs and graphics) Large-format (approx. 9"x13") promotional book (in slipcase), issued in advance of the premiere of the fourth season of the FX series "American Horror Story," a self-contained 13-episode mini-series set in Jupiter, Florida, in 1952, and telling the story of the struggle fo survival of one of the last remaining freak shows in America. Several pages are devoted to each of the show's maj...
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Baby Peggy's Own Story Book [SIGNED]

Price: $200.00

Publisher: New York, Frederick A. Stokes Company : 1924

Edition: 2nd printing before publication

Seller ID: 27819

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

(no dust jacket) [worn copy, both hinges cracked but holding, front endpaper removed, rubbing/bumping at most corners, surface wear to covers, long-ago child owner's name and address in pencil on front pastedown]. (6 color plates) INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Diana Serra Cary/"Baby Peggy" (signed with both names) on the half-title page; the inscription is undated, but the content places it as no earlier than circa 2003. A collection of two dozen fairy tales other children's fare, including some classic selections (from Hans Christian Andersen, the Brother Grimm, and the like) and more then-contemp...
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Barcelona: El Balneario Casino "San Sebastian"

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Barcelona, L. Roisin, Fotografo : [ca. 1928]

Edition: Unstated

Seller ID: 9453

ISBN: NO

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good+

[oblong folio (9-1/2" x 12") with printed card covers; string-bound, split along spine with about 2/3 of the spine covering missing and some additional paper loss extending into the corners of the front cover, but with the double-hole-punched pages still firmly held together by the binding cord; otherwise, the covers are edgeworn and age-browned, but the interior photographic plates are clean and in excellent condition]. (photographs) A photographic souvenir booklet of this Barcelona resort/casino, which opened in 1928. There is a one-page introduction, in Spanish, and the remainder o...
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Celebrity Yearbook: The World's Largest Collection of High School Yearbook Photos of Hollywood's Greatest Stars

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Arcadia CA, Del Rey Enterprises : (c.1977)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 25518

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

[modest edgewear to covers, diagonal creasing at bottom corner of rear cover, general handling wear]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) More or less set up in yearbook format: the bulk of the book reproduces about 120 high school yearbook photos of the subsequently-famous, with basic data on each (real name, date and place of birth, school, activities), and there are also sections in the back for "Activities" and "Campus Groups," with each of the group or action photos in these sections guaranteed to contain at least one celebrity. Most of those depicted are from the worlds of sports, music, movies...
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Chester Gump in the Pole-to-Pole Flight; based on the famous comic strip "The Gumps"

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Racine WI, Whitman Publishing Company : (c.1937)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 25548

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

(pictorial boards) [wear to edges and corners all around (most pronounced at top of spine), bumping/softening to corners, a couple of shallow dents in top edge of front cover; book is still solidly-bound, with light age-toning to pages, and has a Christmas gift inscription (dated 1971) on the inside front cover]. (The Big Little Book, no. 1402) Series (cartoon illustrations) Chester Gump (son of Andy) accompanies an intrepid explorer on his attempt to circumnavigate the earth via the North and South Poles.
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Contemporary French Drawings in Black and White and Color

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, The Print Club of Philadelphia : 1930

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 23369

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good

[moderately worn, slight loss of paper spine covering at both ends of spine, a bit of soiling to covers, general wear at edges and corners]. (37 full-page B&W facsimiles) Catalogue of an exhibition/sale held at The Print Club of Philadelphia from November 10 to 27, 1930. The artists whose works were featured include Marc Chagall, Raoul Dufy, Juan Gris, Marie Laurencin, Amadeo Modigliani, Jules Pascin, Pablo Picasso, and Jacques Villon. Includes a price list, laid in, of the thirty items in the exhibition that were for sale; oddly, although there were more pieces by Henri Matisse on the for-s...
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Cosmopolitan Magazine (February 1913)

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, International Magazine Company : 1913

Edition: (Vol. LIV, No. 3)

Seller ID: 26475

Binding: Magazine

Condition: Good

[rear cover missing, otherwise a good sound copy with general external wear; front cover has a small ink mark across "m" in title, a few small edge-tears, a small column of mostly-erased numbers at left edge, small surface-peel scar near upper right corner]. (illustrations, photographs, advertisements) As the cover blurb states: "Read this issue and see why Cosmopolitan is America's Greatest Magazine." Based on the content of this issue, you won't get an argument from me. Herein are (a partial list): an article, "Ninety-Nine Per Cent Efficiency," by Elbert Hubbard; an article, "The Battle of...
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Image for Diamond - Ruby - Emerald - Sapphire - Pearls & Other Precious-Stone Jewels [including the] Estate of the Late Mrs. Carl J. Schmidlapp - Public Auction, Thursday, October 3, 1968 (Sale Number 2739)

Diamond - Ruby - Emerald - Sapphire - Pearls & Other Precious-Stone Jewels [including the] Estate of the Late Mrs. Carl J. Schmidlapp - Public Auction, Thursday, October 3, 1968 (Sale Number 2739)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc. : 1968

Seller ID: 23352

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

[a little uneven fading to covers, short diagonal bend at bottom right corner of front cover, minor spotting to rear cover]. (B&W photographs) Jewelry auction catalogue. Highlights noted on the title page include "two magnificent unmounted diamonds, pear and heart shapes; an important ruby and diamond necklace; an exquisite diamond Necklace, Harry Winston." Includes the "prices received" list, laid in.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald at 100: Centenary Tributes by American Writers

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Rockville MD, Quill & Brush : 1996

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 24660

ISBN-13: 9781883060084

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

[nearly perfect condition, nice and clean with just a touch of wear to the spine extremities]. The following writers give their one- or two-page opinions on FSF: Alice Adams, Frederick Busch, Hortense Calisher, Thomas Caplan, Alan Cheuse, Nicholas Delbanco, Don DeLillo, Nelson DeMille, Thomas Flanagan, George Garrett, Herbert Gold, Allan Gurganis, A.R. Gurney, Joe Haldeman, Alfred Kazin, Edmund Keeley, John McPhee, James Alan McPherson, Arthur Miller, Hugh Nissenson, Reynolds Price, E. Annie Proulx, Budd Schulberg, Carolyn See, Anne Rivers Siddons, Elizabeth Spencer, Christopher Tilghman, Joh...
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Federico Cantú: Obra Realizada de 1922 a 1948 [limited edition, with original print]

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Mexico City, Editorial Asbaje : 1948

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 23314

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

[moderate browning to edges of covers and spine, minor creasing along top edge]. (B&W art reproductions) Catalogue of the early work of this Mexican painter, engraver and sculptor (1907-1989). Contains: brief introductions in Spanish (by Salvador Toscano) and English (by Luis Cardoza y Aragon); biographical data and a catalogue of his works (in both Spanish and English); and a section of black-and-white reproductions of 106 paintings and drawings. Limited edition of 1,500, containing a print of an original line engraving of a horse (with the print and the book itself both No. 52); this part...
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Herman Wouk's War & Remembrance

Price: $25.00

Publisher: (n.p.), Capital Cities/ABC, Inc. : (c.1988)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 23287

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

[the faintest trace of handling wear; essentially as-new]. (color photographs) Nicely-produced promotional booklet (9"x12") with fold-out pages, issued in conjunction with the 1988 ABC-TV miniseries adaptation of Wouk's sprawling World War II novel, itself a follow-up to his earlier book "The Winds of War," which had been a big-deal TV event five years before. Both programs were produced and directed by Dan Curtis, and starred Robert Mitchum as Captain Victor "Pug" Henry; the cast of this one also included Jane Seymour, John Gielgud, Polly Bergen, Victoria Tennant, Sharon Stone, Peter Graves...
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Het Lumineuze Beeld / The Luminous Image

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Amsterdam, Gary Schwartz in cooperation with the Stedelijk Museum : 1984

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 26280

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

[some edgewear to covers, otherwise a nice solid copy, internally clean]. (B&W and color photographs, graphics) Catalogue issued in conjunction with an exhibition of video art presented at Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum in September and October of 1984; all text is in Dutch and English. Artists whose work was featured, and is extensively discussed in this catalogue, include: Marina Abramovic, Vito Acconci, Max Almy, Dara Birnbaum, Michel Cardena, Brian Eno, Kees de Groot, Nan Hoover, Michael Klier, Shigeko Kubota, Thierry Kuntzel, Marie-Jo Lafontaine, Mary Lucier, Marcel Odenbach, Tony Oursler,...
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Horace Mann After Fifty Years

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Horace Mann School for Boys : 1937

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 23015

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

(no dust jacket, possibly as issued) [light handling wear, very slight bumping to top corners, one-time owner's name (Epstein) in pencil at top of ffep, a couple of pages diagonally creased at bottom corners; spine lettering heavily rubbed, barely readable]. From the front matter: "It is a pleasure to present to our friends, on the occasion of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the founding of the Horace Mann School, this publication, in which is set forth the history and the educational philosophy of the Horace Mann School for Boys." By 1937, the school's notable alumni already included Val...
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Italian Film Stars

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Roma, Unitalia Film : 1957

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 26844

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

[bumped at lower right corner, small tear in binding at top front hinge, light external soiling]. (B&W photographs) Full-page portrait photographs, accompanied by one-page biographies, for approximately 125 actors and actresses -- primarily Italian-born, although I spotted at least exception: Ingrid Bergman.
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Jerry Lewis; a man in motion

Price: $100.00

Publisher: (n.p.), Pisani Printing Company : [ca.1967]

Seller ID: 25297

Binding: Stapled wraps

Condition: Very Good+

[moderate wear at corners, a few horizontal stress lines adjacent to spine]. (B&W photographs, graphics) A remarkable piece of self-sycophancy, uncredited (except for some of the individual pieces, as noted) but pretty obviously issued with the full cooperation of Lewis himself. Dozens of photographs showcase Jerry "the man," "the comedian," "the clown," "the maestro," "the sportsman," "the director," "the man of many faces!", etc. -- Jerry behind the scenes, on stage, on television, on tour, with his family, and on and on. The interspersed text is equally fawning: the introduction by Bill ...
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John M. Stahl [bilingual Spanish/English edition]

Price: $60.00

Publisher: San Sebastián/Madrid, Festival Internacional de Cine de San Sebastián / Filmoteca Española : 1999

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 23818

ISBN-13: 9788486877248

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

[very slight bumping to lower extremities, about a 1/2" crack in top of spine (integrity of binding unaffected), no other significant wear]. (B&W photographs) Extensive survey of the career of Hollywood director John M. Stahl, best known for what were once called "women's pictures" (such as BACK STREET, IMITATION OF LIFE, MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION, etc.), but who turned out at least one bona fide, undeniable masterpiece, the delirious 1945 Technicolor melodrama LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN. Issued in conjunction with a retrospective of the director's work at the 1999 San Sebastian Internation...
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Le Décor de la Maison

Price: $400.00

Publisher: Paris, Le Décor d'Aujourd'hui : 1949

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 27227

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj

[modest shelfwear to bottom edges of covers, small bookseller label (Jean French) on front pastedown; jacket somewhat edgeworn, crinkling and minor paper loss at top of spine, spine panel a bit faded]. (B&W photographs, tipped-on color plates) A profusely-illustrated visual guide to all parts of the well-appointed postwar French home (although a number of the examples are from American publications, e.g. Better Homes & Gardens), from the salon to the library to the bar, the kitchen, the bathroom -- you name it. Hundreds of black-and-white photographs and drawings, plus 28 tipped-on color pla...
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Men Only (issue of June 1957) [cover: Gina Lollobrigida]

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London, Proprietors, C. Arthur Pearson, Ltd. : 1957

Edition: (Vol. 65, No. 258)

Seller ID: 23050

Binding: Magazine

Condition: Very Good+

[creasing and light wear to edges of covers due to slight overlap of text block; spine slightly turned, light external soiling]. (B&W photographs, cartoons, ads) Digest-sized publication, issued monthly for the amusement and titillation of the British male. Contains a mixture of light feature articles (on topics such as "Canoes Can Go Anywhere" and "Why I Hate Father's Day"), photographs of buxom but wholesome beauties (no nudity, in fact not even decent cheesecake, at least by American standards), and lots of cartoons (some captioned as stand-alone gags, others illustrating ...
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