(no dust jacket) [a nice-looking copy, minor wear to extremities, a bit of soiling to bottom of text block]. Novel set in the African-American community of Texas City, Texas, centering around an establishment that's a combination beer joint, restaurant, dance hall and gambling den. Despite (or maybe because of?) having been written by a white lady, it was lauded by The New York Times as "a richly authentic and very readable slice of life." (Although the reviewer, Herschel Brickell -- a native of Yazoo City, Mississippi -- also tipped his hand a bit by praising the author for not being "affl... View More...
[slight bumping to all corners, faint soiling to top of text block, shelfwear and light soiling to lower extremities; the jacket is lightly soiled, with a few tiny nicks and tears along the top edge, a bit of wear and minor curling/creasing along bottom edge]. "Set primarily in England in the nineteen-fifties, [this novel] concerns a very young woman who is willing to go to any lengths to cross from childhood to the world of adults and to explore the heights and depths once she gets there. The young woman is Alexandra Bratbe, precocious, arrogant, enigmatic, rebellious, immensely self-willed... View More...
(no dust jacket) [nice solid book, minimal shelfwear, would rate Near Fine but for some uneven dust-soiling to the top of the text block; two rubber-stamps inside, of Bertrand Smith's Acres of Books, Long Beach, Calf. (on front pastedown) and Monroe Gift Shop (on front endpaper)]. Novel about a single day's happenings among three couples vacationing at the same New Hampshire lake: a talented but struggling writer and his hard-drinking wife; a wealthy philanderer of good old New England stock, and his childless wife; and a happy young couple and their 7-year-old son. Things get interesting (and... View More...
[light shelfwear, some fading to cloth in upper part of covers, some discoloration to endpapers (in gutters); jacket is edgeworn and rubbes, with some creasing and light soiling, various small chips and tears, a bit of paper loss to both ends of spine]. The author's second novel, "a searching and understanding story of a girl's childhood that will pull at the heartstrings of any person who remembers something of his or her own little tortures and triumphs in the complicated business of growing up." The book follows her from childhood, through the trauma of her parents' divorce, until "she emer... View More...
[good sound book, slight fading to cloth at top of spine, minor shelfwear and light soiling to bottom edges; jacket modestly edgeworn, age-toned and lightly soiled, a bit of chipping at top of spine, short diagonal creases at bottom corners of both flaps, some shallow insect-nibbling at bottom of front flap]. Described in the jacket blurb as "the most mature book [the author] has yet written," this is a novel about a couple whose "unorthodox marital arrangements exactly suited their strange love for each other, which found expression in continuous violence." Yikes. The husband, James, had "... View More...
(oatmeal cloth; no dust jacket) [nice copy, minor shelfwear to bottom edge, just a touch of soiling to spine; clipped text from jacket glued to front pastedown and rear endpaper, one-time owner's name on verso of front endpaper]. This novel, set in a small city in the fictional midwestern state of "Oklarada," is "a colloquial, rapid story of a man skyrocketed by ambitions beyond his control. But it is more than that: it is a back-stage view into the politics, industry, society, philosophy of the people who voice the public opinion of a nation." (I'm so very tempted right now to quote Gene Wi... View More...
[moderate external edge- and surface-wear]. (B&W photographs) Program book for a series of screenings at the Museum of Broadcasting, highlighting the work of Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Wolfgang Petersen, among others. There are several essays and articles devoted to the then-recently-deceased Fassbinder, including a piece on his TV work by Andrew Sarris; the Petersen section of the book includes an interview with the director. Includes credits and brief notes for all the programs screened. Other articles: "The Structure of German Television"; and "The Avant-Garde on German Television," by ... View More...
[nice clean copy, very slight fading to cloth at spine ends, one-time owners' (the inscribees) name and address stamp at top of ffeep, slight discoloration to ffep; jacket is lightly surface-rubbed, with tiny tears at spine extremities, a couple of tiny chips and some minor creasing along bottom edge of front panel]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the ffep: "For _______ and ___, co-owners / of the Chatelaine[?], formerly the / Lady Hazel. Perhaps they will find / in it a feast of freedom different / from the topic of this novel. / Sincerely / Leonard Wibberley / Hermosa Beach, / Califo... View More...
[worn but intact copy, apparently an ex-rental library book (although marked as such only by the rubber-stamped name "James Pharmacy" on both endpapers); the jacket shows quite a bit of wear (creasing, soiling, etc.), and has a chip at the top of the front panel and another (patched crudely with white paper) at the lower right corner; in addition, the jacket has been reinforced with tape along the top and bottom edges; oh, and the front flap is also firmly affixed to the front pastedown, which unfortunately makes it impossible to put a mylar protector on the jacket]. This "up-to-the-minute rom... View More...
(no dust jacket) [FAIR condition only, although solidly bound and internally clean except for the initials of (I guess) a one-time owner on the front pastedown; externally, though, it's kind of a mess, with a number of small paper bits stuck to the front cover (which is also quite soiled), and a large ugly stain on the rear cover (I suspect the paper bits are remnants of the no-longer-present dust jacket, which was probably moisture-adhered to the book at some point)]. Novel about a sophisticated New York marriage that turns sour. The first of only two published novels by Ms. Wilde, a prolif... View More...
(price-clipped) [moderate wear to book at extremities; jacket a little faded and soiled along spine and adjacet edges of both panels, a bit of wear along top edge, including a couple of small closed tears and very shallow paper loss at top of spine]. (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the colophon page: "For Ann and Del, / My special 'Dear Hearts' / whose friendship I / treasure. / Blessings and love, / Meta Wilde / March 1, 1980." The author's "full story of her romance with [William] Faulkner, [which] began when she was a script girl for Howard Hawks and Faulkner came ... View More...
(price-clipped) [light shelfwear, tiny nick in top edge of front board; jacket has a few small chips along top edge (including paper loss at top of spine, removing most of the title from the spine panel), tiny square of paper loss at lower right corner of front panel, split along front foldover (i.e. front flap separated, held in place by new mylar cover)]. INSCRIBED ("Faithfully Yours") and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper. A long short story about a troubled father-son relationship, first published in the November 17, 1923 issue of The Saturday Evening Post; this small hardcover e... View More...
(decorated dark green cloth; no dust jacket) [sharp-looking copy, very slight wear at a couple of corners, gilt lettering and decoration on front cover and spine quite bright and attractive; vintage bookplate on front pastedown, with one-time owner's name scraped away; rear hinge is starting, and the rear endpaper has a former owner's name scrawled in pencil, plus (apparently) the same person's nickname, "Woodie," written on the rear pastedown]. (B&W illustrated plates) Eight short stories of college life -- based, no doubt, on the author's experiences at Princeton, although no particular sch... View More...
[minimal shelfwear, light foxing to fore-edge, one-time owner's signature-stamp on front pastedown; jacket lightly foxed along inner edges of flaps, slight wear along top edge of front panel]. (B&W plates, drawings) "This is a history of the Englishwoman's toilet from the earliest recorded mention in the middle of the sixteenth century up to the present day. The author describes the extraordinary changes in fashion, swinging like a pendulum from the extremes of artificiality to the utmost simplicity, according to the tastes and moral attitude of society." View More...
(no dust jacket) [lightly worn copy, modest bumping to spine end and lower corners, a handful of tiny black marks on bottom edges of covers]. Willson's second book of reminiscences (and unaccountably the hardest to find of the three), published two years before "The Music Man" debuted on Broadway. This book "moves swiftly from the radio and television world of Hollywood, to New York, London, Paris, and back again with Tallulah [Bankhead], Fred Allen, [Ezio] Pinza, and other world-famous people. Yet Mason City, Iowa, is never forgotten, and it all adds up to delightful entertainment." (Quoted... View More...
(price-clipped) [nice tight copy, very slight bump to bottom front corner, no other discernible wear; jacket has a bit of extremely shallow insect-nibbling along bottom edge (virtually disappears inside new mylar jacket protector), faint semi-circular scuff mark on front panel, light handling wear]. Love story set in Jerusalem at the time of Jesus Christ. "Dumachas -- a fearless, passionate spokesman for independence -- had become a kind of king in the underworld of Jerusalem. Young, handsome, fiercely intelligent, he defended and challenged and inspired the oppressed of the city, daring the... View More...
[light shelfwear, slight fading to boards along top edges, minor wear to cloth at spine ends; jacket spine tanned with a few little scrap marks, also browned along flap-folds, with a few additional scrape marks on front panel]. INSCRIBED ("for ______ -- from their / faithful admirer -- " and SIGNED by the author on the ffep. "A political action novel with a difference: it looks at the political world from below, through the cracks in the floor, examining the intensely public from the point of view of the intensely personal." The plot concerns a "non-political man" seeking revenge for the ki... View More...
(price-clipped) [book is tight and clean, with no discernible wear; jacket also very nice, with just a bit of wear along the top of the front panel and a short closed tear at the bottom front hinge; see NOTE about stamp on front jacket flap]. The third novel by this underappreciated author, who will probably always be best-known for her first book, "Whistle Stop" (1941), but who achieved a little posthumous boost in her reputation when, following her death in 2002, the manuscript for an unpublished novel was discovered in her refrigerator, where she'd kept it for thirty years. (This book, "Su... View More...
[a good sound copy, with moderate shelfwear to the lower extremities and at the top of the spine; the jacket is lightly edgeworn, with some crinkling at the spine ends and minimal paper loss at several corners, and a few tiny and unobtrusive closed edge-tears]. A hard-boiled yarn about a family of shiftless lowlifes in an economically and culturally depressed small town on the outskirts of Detroit, this novel put its young author (just 22 when the book was published) on the literary map, earning special notoriety for its rather raw language as well as its thematic elements (including incest an... View More...
[a bit of wear at both ends of spine, moderate age-toning to top of text block, a little offsetting/minor discoloration to both endpapers and pastedowns; jacket lightly edgeworn, minor paper loss at base of spine, ragged tear across top of spine (with old internal tape-repair, small paper loss at upper front hinge), small tears at a couple of corners, short closed tear and associated diagonal crease at lower left corner of front panel]. Novel about an American high school and its principal (the title character); designated "the Big School," its culture is described as "brutish, throbbing, mal... View More...
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