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Lindbergh [SIGNED]

By: Berg, A. Scott

Price: $50.00

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

Seller ID: 23230

ISBN: 0-399-14449-8

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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Relations: Selected Poems 1950-1985 [SIGNED]

By: Booth, Philip

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Penguin Books: 1986

Seller ID: 23350

ISBN: 0-14-058-5605

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

[nice clean book, very light handling wear only]. Trade PB SIGNED by the author/poet on the title page, beneath which he has also written "Castine / Maine / 1990." "The poems that compose [this book] -- generous selections from six previous books and wonderfully vigorous new poems -- describe and illuminate the still unfinished arc of Philip Booth's work, reflecting inward and outward changes yet sustained by a resilient sense of place." That place was, in fact, Maine itself -- according to Wikipedia, Booth (born in New Hampshire) lived a substantial part of his life in Cast...
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Week-End

By: Brackett, Charles

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, Robert M. McBride & Company: 1925

Seller ID: 23199

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

(no dust jacket) [worn but intact, light staining to covers, diagonal red line of undetermined origin/purpose across bottom right corner of front cover, vintage bookseller's label (Unity Pegues, Hollywood, California) on rear pastedown]. The second novel by the future New Yorker drama critic and even-more future Hollywood screenwriter and producer. It's a satire about a group of people who gather at the country home of a bishop(!) for a weekend getaway from the city; the action begins at 6:10 p.m. Friday and ends at 10:40 a.m. the following Monday. The New York Times praised the book as ...
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Prize Stories of 1951: The O. Henry Awards

By: Brickell, Herschel, ed.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday & Company, Inc.: 1951

Seller ID: 23188

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj

(price-clipped) [slight bumping to all corners, but otherwise a good sound clean book; jacket a little edgeworn, with a few small nicks at both ends of spine, a couple of small closed tears]. The 33rd annual collection of the year's best short stories by American authors, selected from American magazines; in most instances, this volume represents the first hardcover or anthologized appearances of these stories. Each story is prefaced by a brief (half-page) biographical sketch of its author. This year's bumper crop included stories by: Eudora Welty ("The Burning," this year's second-...
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The Brick Foxhole

By: Brooks, Richard

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York/London, Harper & Brothers: (c.1945)

Seller ID: 23086

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

[minor shelfwear, very slight bumping to top corners; jacket has minor paper loss at top of spine (no text affected), small closed tear at bottom rear hinge]. The screenwriter/director's first novel, about a psychotic, anti-Semitic ex-GI; basis for the noted film noir CROSSFIRE, starring Robert Ryan, Robert Mitchum, Robert Young, and Gloria Grahame.
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The Gallery

By: Burns, John Horne

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York/London, Harper & Brothers: (c.1947)

Seller ID: 23097

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj

[good sound copy, very slight bumping to bottom corners; jacket has shallow chips at top of front panel and top of spine, small tears with minor paper loss at front corners]. Novel depicting military life (including its homosexual aspects) in Allied-occupied North Africa and Naples in 1944. The author's first book, it was both critically and commercially successful at the time of its original publication, but its enduring reputation rests mostly on its frank depiction of gay life, particularly the 28-page chapter entitled "Momma," which takes place in a gay hangout for soldiers and c...
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Movie (Spring 1965) [cover: Richard Brooks' LORD JIM]

By: Cameron, Ian, ed.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: London, Ian Cameron: 1965

Seller ID: 23417

Binding: Magazine

Condition: Very Good

[moderate external wear, slight dog-earing to corners, a small amount of ink underlining in first article]. (B&W photographs) About half this issue is devoted to director Richard Brooks, whose film LORD JIM was then in release, including a longish interview in which he discusses his career film-by-film. The additional Brooks-related pieces are: "Conservative Idealist" by Paul Mayersberg; "Two Christian Films" (about THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV and ELMER GANTRY) by Raymond Durgnat; Brooks' own "Foreword to Lord Jim"; and a filmography. Other articles include: "The Univ...
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The Last Prodigy: A Biography of Erich Wolfgang Korngold

By: Carroll, Brendan G.

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Portland OR, Amadeus Press: (c.1997)

Seller ID: 26416

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[a nice clean copy with just minor wear to the extremities; ditto the jacket, with only a touch of surface handling wear]. (B&W photographs, drawings) The first full-length biography of the great film composer, chronicling his life and works "from his days as a celebrated Wunderkind in imperial Vienna, through his spectacular career as a composer of opera and symphonic works, to his escape from the Nazis to America, where he pioneering the symphonic film score and won two Oscars." Includes a comprehensive discography and bibliography, and a complete list of the composer's works. **** NOTE t...
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From One China to the Other

By: Cartier-Bresson, Henri (photographs), and Han Suyin (text)

Price: $125.00

Publisher: New York, Universe Books: (c.1956)

Seller ID: 23359

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Poor dj

[book shows some discoloration (browning) to cloth, moderate shelfwear, gift inscription (non-authorial) on ffep; the jacket is a real mess, primarily due to a large piece missing from the top of the front panel, although there are plenty of other small tears and chips, some laminate puckering/peeling, etc. -- all in all, not a pretty sight, sorry]. (B&W photographs) "The picture diary of one of today's most brilliant roving photographers, Henri Cartier-Bresson, who lived in China from December 1948 to September 1949. In those eventful and often dangerous months he watched from close at ...
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The Spero (Volume 1, Issue 1)

By: Casement, Douglas, ed.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Flint MI, The Fenian Head Centre Press: (c.1965)

Seller ID: 23296

Binding: Stapled wraps

Condition: Very Good

[moderate age-toning and light soiling to covers, bumped at top right corner]. (drawings, graphics, photographs) The first issue of this short-lived literary magazine (near as I can determine there was only one additional issue before it folded), stated in the front as "A Limited Edition of 500 Copies," the present item being No. 157. Contributors included William S. Burroughs, Diane DiPrima, Paul Goodman, LeRoi Jones (before he was Amiri Baraka), John Sinclair, Philip Whalen, and numerous others. There are two tipped-in contributions, both present and in excellent condition: Burroug...
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Indo-Aryan & Hindi: Eight Lectures originally delivered in 1940 before the Gujarat Vernacular Society, Ahmedabad

By: Chatterji, Suniti Kumar

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Calcutta, Firma K. L. Mukhopadhyay: 1960

Seller ID: 23243

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

[nice clean book, top corners very slightly bumped, no other significant wear; jacket has a very tiny tear at top right corner of front panel, plus a small tape mark in the same area]. From the author's introduction to the Second Edition: "The first series of these lectures, on the Evolution of Indo-Aryan, is a development or continuation of my views on the history of the Aryan speech in India as put forward in my 'Origin and Development of the Bengali Language' which was published in 1926. In the second series, I have sought to indicate the importance and significance of the Hindi speec...
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They Still Call Me Junior: autobiography of a child star; with a filmography [SIGNED]

By: Coghlan, Frank "Junior"

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Jefferson NC/London, McFarland & Company: (c.1993)

Seller ID: 23493

ISBN: 0-89950-762-X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

(no dust jacket, as issued) [light rubbing to covers, no other significant wear]. (B&W photographs) SIGNED by the author on the half-title page (no inscription). Coghlan's film career began in 1920; although never quite a star of the highest magnitude, he was quite popular and worked continuously into the 1940s, then went off-screen to serve in the U.S. Navy for about twenty years (often in some kind of liaison or supervisory capacity for motion pictures and TV programs involving the Navy). After retiring from active duty, he picked up his acting career again, appearing on TV (in both commer...
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Remember me [original U.K. title: Honey Out of the Rock]

By: Collard, Barbara

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Funk & Wagnalls Company: (c.1954)

Seller ID: 23567

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Good dj

[light wear to book's extremities, a little age-toning to edges of text block; jacket chipped at top of spine and at lower left corner of front panel, with light staining and a bit of edgewear]. The first book by this British writer, about the intense friendship between two very different women, one of whom is thrust into a deep and devastating introspection after the other meets a violent death. Per the jacket blurb, the author had had a somewhat unsettled childhood, but had wanted to be a writer since the age of twelve, and had "consigned a number of tentative books and plays to the dus...
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One Night with Nancy

By: Collison, Wilson

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, The Macaulay Company: (c.1933)

Seller ID: 23627

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Fair dj

[book itself is in very nice shape, tight and clean with only minimal shelfwear; the jacket, unfortunately, has a large and somewhat jagged piece torn out at the top of the front panel (taking part of the title with it and extending down a bit into the illustration), also a tiny chip at the bottom of the front panel, a one-inch tear at the bottom rear hinge, and some moderate wear to the extremities]. A risqué "sex mystery without a serious moment -- a highly comic boudoir baffler." The plot, as it unfolds, involves "the sad decay of several marital blisses; neck-kissing in a ha...
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Tribute to Mary Pickford

By: Cushman, Robert B. (apprecation, critical notes and filmography)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: [Washington DC], The American Film Institute Theatre: 1970

Seller ID: 23280

Binding: Stapled wraps

Condition: Very Good+

[some age-toning at edges, light soiling to rear cover]. (B&W photographs) 20-page booklet (including covers), issued in conjunction with a Mary Pickford film series -- the first such retrospective of her work, I believe -- presented by the American Film Institute, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the M.H. deYoung Memorial Museum, in conjunction with the Mary Pickford Foundation. In addition to the Appreciation, it also includes a one-page essay on Pickford's Biograph shorts, and notes on nine feature films: THE POOR LITTLE RICH GIRL (1917); REBECCA OF SUNNYBROOK FARM (1917); STELLA ...
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Hugo Friedhofer: The Best Years of His Life: A Hollywood Master of Music for the Movies

By: Danly, Linda, ed.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Latham MD/London, The Scarecrow Press, Inc.: 1999

Seller ID: 23666

ISBN: 0-8108-3582-7

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dj

[nice tight clean book, no discernible wear to either book or jacket]. (Filmmakers, No. 66) Series (B&W photographs) "A comprehensive survey of the career of one of Hollywood's most oustanding composers of film music, [which] provides numerous perspectives, ranging from the personal to the critical, about one of the most important musical figures of the twentieth century. The bulk of the book consists of a transcript of the American Film Institute's oral history interview with Friedhofer himself, conducted by Irene Kahn Atkins in 1974. The book also contains: an introduction by Tony Thom...
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Joaquin de Alba views Violence in America: De Tocqueville's America Revisited

By: de Alba, Joaquin; Foreword by Chester Burger

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Washington DC, Acropolis Books: (c.1969)

Seller ID: 23274

ISBN: 0-87491-120-6

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

[solid copy with minimal shelfwear, tiny stain on bottom edge of text block; jacket has a couple of tiny nicks at top of spine, a couple of small closed tears along top edge of rear panel, very light surface rubbing]. (cartoon drawings) In the wake of the violent events of 1968 (including the RFK and MLK assassinations), a leading Spanish cartoonist took a harsh look at America's culture of violence by juxtaposing quotations from Alexis de Tocqueville's "Democracy in America," orginally published in 1835 and 1840, with politically-themed cartoons depicting conditions and events in the...
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Daniel Pinkham: A Bio-Bibliography

By: DeBoer, Kee, and John B. Ahouse

Price: $45.00

Publisher: New York/Westport CT/London, Greenwood Press: 1988

Seller ID: 23340

ISBN: 0-313-25503-2

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

(no dust jacket, as issued) [minor handling wear, slightly bumped at top front spine corner, tiny stain at edge of ffep]. (Bio-Bibliographies in Music, No. 12) Series (B&W photo frontispiece) "Ever since the mid-1940s when he was a recent graduate from Harvard, Daniel Pinkham has composed music at a remarkably consistent rate. His more than 300 musical compositions cover his entire career as performer and teacher, and are in part a measure of his success at securing commissions from a variety of organizations and individuals. From this it follows that Pinkham is performed widely and ofte...
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Odd Man Out: A Memoir of the Hollywood Ten

By: Dmytryk, Edward

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Carbondale/Edwardsville, Southern Illinois University Press: (c.1996)

Seller ID: 23445

ISBN: 0-8093-1999-3

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

[slight bumping to corners of rear cover, otherwise nice and clean, virtually as-new]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) "In this personal and perceptive book, [the author] vividly chronicles the history of a particularly turbulent era in American political life while examining his own life before and after the events universally called the witch hunts. He details his brief membership in the Communist Party of America, explaining his initial commitment to what he perceived as communist ideals of civil liberties, economic justice, and antifascism, followed by his eventual disillusionment with the...
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The Holocaust in American Film [SIGNED]

By: Doneson, Judith E.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Philadelphia/New York/Jerusalem, The Jewish Publication Society: 1987

Seller ID: 23655

ISBN: 0-8276-0281-2

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dj

[lovely clean copy (except for author inscription), with no discernible wear to either book or jacket]. (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the ffep. "An investigation into the ways in which specific films influenced and reflected the Americanization of the Holocaust, and how film has helped to disseminate the event into the popular consciousness." Among the films discussed in depth are Chaplin's THE GREAT DICTATOR, THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK (to which an entire chapter is devoted), CABARET, JULIA, THE PAWNBROKER and the TV miniseries HOLOCAUST. Notes; bibliography; ...
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