[ex-library with typical markings (including pocket on ffep), spine turned, tape marks at top and bottom of front cover; the jacket is only lightly worn, but has two small library labels affixed to the lower spine]. An anthology of some of the best of Woolrich/Irish's short stories and novelettes, with an introduction by Ellery Queen. Contents: "One Drop of Blood"; "Somebody on the Phone"; "Debt of Honor"; "The Man Upstairs"; "The Most Exciting Show in Town"; "The Night Reveals"; "Steps Going Up"; "The Hummingbird Comes Home"; "Adventures of a Fountain Pen"; and "I Won't Take a Minute." Thi... View More...
(gray cloth; no dust jacket) [good sound copy, minor shelfwear, one-time owner's name at top of ffep, a list of 18 notable Bay Area names written in ink on a rear endpaper; there is also a thin line of some kind of schmutz stuck to the rear cover, apparently the residue of something that was once stuck to the book]. (American Guide Series) Series (B&W photographs, maps) A thoroughgoing historical/cultural/geographical/architectural portrait of the San Francisco Bay Area, including not just the city itself but also the harbor and its islands, the East Bay (Oakland, Berkeley, Alameda), the Nort... View More...
[ex-library book with considerable wear, typical markings (incl. card pocket on front endpaper, tape marks/residue on both covers, "discarded" stamp on title page); jacket is edgeworn, spine lightly faded, narrow call number label on spine]. Marjorie Worthington, herself a novelist of some note, tells the story of her relationship to fellow author (and noted schizo-dipso) William Seabrook (1884-1945) -- described in his Wikipedia entry as an "occultist, explorer, traveler, cannibal, and journalist" -- who she met in Paris in 1926 and to whom she was married from 1935 to 1941. She provides a ... View More...
[nice clean copy, no significant wear, just a touch of foxing to the fore-edge; jacket a bit darkened along spine, with a few tiny edge-nicks]. Pseudonymous memoir, based on the diary of a woman who purportedly served a five-year hitch in the French Foreign Legion (after having been an ambulance driver during World War I), as "edited and retold" by a guy who did as much to romanticize the F.F.L. as anyone, primarily through his popular "Beau" novels ("Beau Geste," "Beau Sabreur" and "Beau Ideal"), all of which were also filmed. Wren's claims to have served in the Legion himself, however, have... View More...
(price-clipped) [the book is only moderately worn, would rate VG or better overall but should be considered a reading/reference copy only due to some red-pencil underlining in a few of the later chapters; one-time owner's name (an architect) rubber-stamped on front endpaper; the jacket is in pretty rough shape, with various tears, fading at spine, laminate-peeling here and there, front flap-fold split about halfway up, old internal tape repair to a ragged tear at the bottom of the front panel, etc.]. "To the growing number of readers and students throughout the world now eagerly becoming acqua... View More...
[good solid book, minor shelfwear to bottom edges, light soiling to top of text block, one-time owner's address stamp on front endpaper; jacket has been insect-nibbled along both flap-folds and a bit on the spine and front panel, but is otherwise intact (and now in new mylar to prevent further degradation)]. "This novel tells of four days in the communal life of a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp on and island near Singapore. Here are gathered together British, Americans, Dutch, Javanese, half-castes. Here are also the camp's Japanese overlords and their underlings, the Korean camp guards." T... View More...
[very nice copy, essentially as-new with no discernible wear]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the half-title page, just above a photo of Mister Ed: "To _____ - Thank / you for the all the pictures / and the kelp! / Alan Young." "Mister Ed's best friend, Willlburrr, takes America on a ride through his years of horsing around on one of TV's best-loved shows." Signed by Author View More...
[a couple of tiny spots on top edge of text block, no other significant wear; jacket just lightly rubbed]. Novel about a young man in the Baltics who is caught up in the passions and events of the Russian Civil War between the White Russians and the Bolsheviks that broke out following the October Revolution of 1918. Originally published in French in 1939, it was filmed by German director Volker Schlndorff in 1976 (the film's title was "Der Fangschu"). View More...
[no discernible wear to book, but SEE NOTE about slightly "clingy" pages; jacket has a couple of tiny scuff marks on front panel]. (B&W and color photographs) Nicely-produced album/anthology devoted to the life and work of the great American cinematographer, "published in a series on Lifetime Achievement Award Laureates," as selected annually by the staff of the Camerimage Festival; Deschanel was the 21st recipient of this honor. Includes: a brief biography and filmography; an introduction by Deschanel; a rundown of his work in student films, shorts, and documentaries; the cinematographer's i... View More...
[no discernible wear to book, but SEE NOTE about "clingy" pages; the jacket shows some light surface wear]. (B&W and color photographs) Nicely-produced album/anthology devoted to the life and work of the Australian cinematographer, an Academy Award winner for THE ENGLISH PATIENT. He was the 17th recipient of the Camerimage Festival's annual Lifetime Achievement Award. Includes: a brief biography and filmography; an introduction by Seale himself; his film-by-film commentary on his work, heavily photo-illustrated; comments from his professional colleagues; and a personal photo album. Among h... View More...
[very slight curling to corners of front cover, otherwise as new, but with a brief (non-authorial) gift inscription on the half-title page]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) Authoritative history of the Pacific Coast League, which for six decades "reigned supreme for West Coast baseball fans, launching the careers of future luminaries such as Ted Williams, Ernie Lombardi, Minnie Minoso, and Joe DiMaggio. Until the Dodgers and Giants moved west in 1958, the PCL was 'the only game in town' for fans from Seattle to San Diego." View More...
[the teensiest bit of edgewear to covers, otherwise clean and as-new]. (Occasional Papers, one) Series Trade PB An essay on David Lynch's 1997 film LOST HIGHWAY by the Slovenian academic who's described in this book's introduction as "one of the great minds of our time," lauded for "his extraordinary fusion of Lacanian psychoanalytic theory, continental philosophy (in particular his anti-essentialist reading of Hegel), and Marxist political theory." His essay here "offers a flamboyant parade of topics that reaches far beyond the scope of Lynch's movie, delving into film theory, ethics, politi... View More...
[nice clean book with no discernible wear; jacket is very slightly wrinkled from some moisture absorption at the bottom left corner of the front panel, some scrunching/wrinkling at base of spine, a couple of tiny closed tears at top of rear panel, a few tiny scuff marks on front panel]. (B&W photographs) The typical "Films of" treatment: a brief biography, followed by basic cast/credits/synopsis and review excerpts for each of the Duke's 152 feature films. This is a revised edition of the original 1970 book, adding his late-career films, hence "Complete." **** NOTE that additional shipping c... View More...
[minimal wear to book, but SEE NOTE about slightly "clingy" pages; jacket just a little bit rubbed/scuffed, very slight wear along bottom edge]. (B&W photographs) Nicely-produced album/anthology devoted to the life and work of the great Polish director, "published on the occasion of an Academy [of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences] Tribute to Krzysztof Kieslowski co-organised with the International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography Camerimage in association with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art." Includes: a foreword by Stanley Kubrick; three interviews with Kieslowski; four artic... View More...
(no dust jacket) [bumped and worn at corners, but still quite a decent copy; one-time owner's name and date (1867) written lightly on the ffep, and a short column of figures (added up) in pencil on the second ffep]. (Library of Sam Slick's Works) Series Corny 19th-century humor, the first-person narrative of a Yankee yokel abroad in the land, lookin' fer a women he kin marry and settle down with. The "anonymous" author, Thomas Chandler Halilburton, was a Nova Scotian judge who became a best-selling author on the basis of his "Sam Slick" stories, which became very popular light... View More...
(no dust jacket, as issued) [heavily worn, including exposure of boards at all corners, but binding is intact; foxing/discoloration to endpapers and early pages; ex-private library, with label of W.H. Edwards, Downers Grove, Illinois on front pastedown]. The official Congressional report on one of the major debacles of the Civil War, known historically as the Battle of the Crater. An early engagement in the Union Army's siege of Petersburg, Virginia, this event involved the detonation of 8,000 pounds of gunpowder packed into a mine shaft that had been dug by Union troops underneath a Confede... View More...
[light edgewear to covers, quite a bit of light surface-scratching to front cover]. (B&W photographs, advertisements) Tribute/program book issued in connection with the 1985 event cited in the title. The content consists almost entirely of "congratulations" and "best wishes" sorts of ads, about a dozen of which feature black & white photos of Ms. Fitzgerald; regrettably, the compilers of this book didn't see fit to include even the slightest bit of biographical information about her (although there are a couple of pages devoted to the "background, services and goals" o... View More...
[nice clean copy, virtually as-new with only minor handling wear]. (photographs, drawings) Per its usual format, this issue presents four complete screenplays. Three are contemporary works, and also feature interviews with their writers: DONNIE BRASCO (Paul Attanasio); I CAN'T SLEEP (Claire Denis); ADDICTED TO LOVE (Robert Gordon). Most notable, however -- and what makes this one of the most sought-after issues of this now-defunct magazine -- is the first publication of the screenplay to the great 1946 B-picture DETOUR, adapted by Martin Goldsmith from his own 1939 novel. Both the evidence ... View More...
[nice clean copy, minor surface-scuffing to covers, a few tiny pit-marks along bottom edge of front cover, faint paper-clip indentation at top of front cover]. (B&W photographs) Original program from the AFI Life Achievement Award dinner honoring director Alfred Hitchcock. Includes a short introduction, "The Achievement of Alfred Hitchcock"; a rundown of the evening's program; a one-page filmography (no credit details on individual films); the usual bunch of full-page sponsored ads, each illustrated with a still from one of Hitchcock's films; and a mercifully brief amount of propaganda about ... View More...
[lovely, as-new copies, the only discernible flaws being a slight bump and wrinkle to the bottom right corner of the September 1995 issue, and a couple of VERY light stress lines along the spine; NOTE that these are graded to book standards, *not* on the comic-book grading scale]. (color graphics) Both issues are SIGNED by Mickey Spillane on the front covers, with an added brief inscription on the Sept. 1995 issue: "Hi _____ / Enjoy the action!" Mike Hammer not tough enough for ya? Meet Mike Danger! "Based on a concept created by Mickey Spillane & Max Allan Collins." Covers by Frank Miller (... View More...
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