Binding: Hardcover First Printing

Lindbergh [SIGNED]

By: Berg, A. Scott

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons : (c.1998)

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 23230

ISBN-13: 9780399144493

Binding: Hardcover First Printing

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice clean copy with no discernible wear; jacket shows a teensy bit of handling wear, effectively rendered invisible by new mylar jacket protector (included)]. (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the title page: "For _________ / A. Scott Berg / 1999." Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of "The Lone Eagle," "one of the most legendary, controversial, and enigmatic figures in American history." Signed by Author
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Dark Waters; a mystery novel

By: Cockrell, Frank and Marian

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Cleveland/New York, The World Publishing Company : 1944

Edition: Tower Books edition

Seller ID: 25658

Binding: Hardcover First Printing

Condition: Very Good+

(no dust jacket) [good solid copy with only light wear, a slight bump to the bottom corner of the front cover, and the usual age-toning to the cheap pulpwood paper]. (4 B&W film stills) First book publication of this mystery, originally published serially in The Saturday Evening Post, which was the basis for the 1944 film starring Merle Oberon and Franchot Tone, for which this was a tie-in edition (illustrated by four stills from the film). Frank (usually billed as Francis) and Marian Cockrell were a husband-and-wife writing team (who sometimes worked individually) who transitioned nicely fr...
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The Complete Wandering Ghosts

By: Crawford, F. Marion

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Holicong PA, Wildside Press : 2002

Edition: Expanded edition

Seller ID: 27532

Binding: Hardcover First Printing

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[book shows no discernible wear, blemished only by former owner's initials plus date & place of purchase written in ink along edge of rear pastedown (concealed by rear jacket flap); the jacket itself is flawless apart from a small wrinkle in the rear panel]. "Expanded edition" of this collection of the author's ghost stories, seven of which were first collected and published (posthumously) in 1911 under the title "Wandering Ghosts." This edition adds one story which had not been included in that original volume, and features an Introduction by Lee Weinstein. (According to Weinstein, one of ...
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The Bookman's Wake

By: Dunning, John

Price: $18.00

Publisher: New York, Scribner : (c.1995)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 26918

Binding: Hardcover First Printing

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[a nice-looking copy with extremely light shelfwear, spine very slightly turned; jacket a teensy bit crinkled at spine ends, no other discernible wear]. "The rare-book angle gets to Janeway every time." Nuff said.
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Methinks the Lady . . . [SIGNED]

By: Endore, Guy

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, Duell, Sloan and Pearce : (c.1945)

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 23553

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover First Printing

Condition: Very Good+

(no dust jacket) [light shelfwear, moderate bumping to top rear corner, spine very slightly turned, some old tape shadows on front endpapers, a few small scuff marks on front cover]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author at the top of the ffep: "Sycamore House, Los Angeles, Dec. 8, 1945 / To _____ & _____ / affectionately / Guy Endore." Psychological mystery/suspense novel about "a lost soul, a woman bedevilled by her other, evil, self" (i.e. a distaff Jekyll & Hyde yarn). Basis for the 1949 Otto Preminger film noir WHIRLPOOL, starring Gene Tierney and Richard Conte. Signed by...
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The Stones of Summer

By: Mossman, Dow

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, Barnes & Noble Books : 2003 (c.1972)

Edition: Reprint

Seller ID: 13132

ISBN-13: 9780760748848

Binding: Hardcover First Printing

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

[very nice copy, as-new, no discernible wear to book; jacket shows very light surface wear to rear panel, slight wear at bottom edge of rear panel]. Reissue of the once-obscure 1972 novel that had effectively vanished into cult-status before being rejuvenated by Mark Moskowitz's 2002 documentary film "Stone Reader," about his own discovery of the novel and his subsequent obsessive search for its author.
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Bauhaus and Bauhaus People

By: Neumann, Eckhard, ed. (translated by Eva Richter and Alba Lorman)

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, Van Nostrand Reinhold : (c.1993)

Edition: Revised Edition

Seller ID: 26914

Binding: Hardcover First Printing

Condition: Fine in Fine dj

[nice, as-new copy, with no discernible wear to either book or jacket]. (B&W photographs, facsimiles) "Bauhaus! More than seventy years after its founding by the legendary Gropius, the name still has magic. The influence of this small German school on architecture, industrial design, graphic design, and art education has been incalculable." To explore the school's character and influence, the author "went to the Bauhaus people and asked them for their reminiscences, their opinions, their analyses of the Bauhaus experience in the twenties and thirties and the postwar years. This book is a co...
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Candy

By: Southern, Terry, and Mason Hoffenberg

Price: $125.00

Publisher: New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons : (c.1964)

Edition: First American Edition

Seller ID: 19936

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover First Printing

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

[nice tight copy, very light shelfwear, one-time owner's address label on ffep; jacket slightly age-toned, a trace of wear along top edge, two-inch wrinkle/pucker along top rear hinge, minor soiling to rear panel]. Erotic take-off on Voltaire's Candide -- generally thought of as an artifact of the 1960s, although it was first published in France (as by "Maxwell Kenton") in 1958 -- here making its first legit (i.e., non-smuggled) appearance in the U.S., this also being the first hardcover issue, ditto the first with the authors' real names acknowledged. The book has (thankfully) outli...
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Manhattan Love Song

By: Woolrich, Cornell

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Boston, Gregg Press : 1980

Edition: Reprint

Seller ID: 24079

ISBN-13: 9780839826590

Binding: Hardcover First Printing

Condition: Fine in Fine dj

[very nice copy, no discernible wear to either book or jacket]. (The Gregg Press Mystery Series) Series Reprint of Woolrich's early novel, originally published by William Godwin in 1932. This was the last of Woolrich's six "straight" novels, published before he turned to the suspense-with-a-twist genre that ultimately made his reputation. In a new introduction to this edition, his biographer Francis M. Nevins Jr. discusses these early works, and points out the various indicators throughout this book that show the direction in which Woolrich's writing was already trending.
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Binding: Hardcover First Printing