[minor shelfwear, spine cloth faded, some fading to cloth around edges of covers; jacket a little darkened at spine, minor wear to bottom corners]. An early work by Boyle (her fourth published novel), "the story of an American girl who drifts from the middle west to New York, and finally to Paris, in her search for life as well as for a living. It is the story of her first experiences in love and what they bring her to. . . . Unlike other books about American exiles, this story is filled with a nostalgia and longing for American voices and words and substances as well as for the American scen... View More...
[very nice copy, no significant wear but with a generic bookplate on the ffep; jacket similarly nice, very clean with just a couple of traces of minor wear]. Memoir by the author of "It's Cold Out There" and "On the Yard," detailing his relentless pursuit, during the many years he spent in prison (eighteen of his first forty), of "the flaw in his character that made a hard-bitten five-time loser out of a sensitive, eloquent human being" -- and his self-transformation from criminal/convict to successful novelist. View More...
(printed wrappers) [nice clean copy with no discernible wear]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the great Southern California printer (and in this case the publisher): "To ____ / that wide-ranging / bibliophile -- / Grant Dahlstrom." "First printed in 1935 (bound and distributed in 1937) from a translation by Ruth Frye Axe. Second edition, with added footnotes and bibliographical and biographical material by the translator. Printed in Pasadena, California, in 1970." The text of a talk originally delivered in German, at a dinner for the author's friend Paul Hirsch, on February 24, 1931. Breslauer ... View More...
(no dust jacket) [a somewhat worn copy, with slight fraying/exposure of boards at several corners, moderate soiling to bottom of text block, spine cloth a bit faded, gilt spine lettering rubbed but still readable; binding solid, text clean]. The second of the author's "Butte novels," set in that Montana City (re-christened "Silver Bow"). (The first was "Singermann," published in 1929.) Born in Minneapolis in 1896 to Romanian/Jewish immigrant parents, Brinig moved with his family to Butte at the age of three and grew up there. Although he got out of town as a young man (he lived primarily in... View More...
[nice tight copy, very faint soiling to fore-edge, miniscule fading to cloth along bottom edge of front cover; jacket shows just a touch of edgewear here and there, and the spine exhibits the typical fading/color-shifting often seen with this book]. Semi-classic novel of modern Hollywood -- "modern," yeah, a mere half-century ago now! -- made into a creditable but (in my opinion) overrated 1979 film starring Peter O'Toole. View More...
[spine very slightly turned, but no significant wear, minor discoloration to front endpaper; jacket age-toned, some paper loss at both ends of spine, small chip at top of front panel, small puncture-tear in rear panel, shallow chipping along bottom edge of rear panel]. (Valentine's Manual of Old New York, No. 11) Series (B&W and color illustrations) One of a series of books containing "rare old views of our city [and] delightful, reminiscent articles on Old New York." View More...
(price-clipped) [good solid copy, some darkening/spotting to top edge of text block, very slight rippling of cloth on rear cover, old gift inscription rather messily crossed-out/erased on front pastedown, rear endpaper removed; jacket is moderately soiled and heavily edgeworn, with paper loss at spine extremities, various small nicks and tears]. European-set mystery novel, involving "the formation of an international cordon of detectives," with the greatest sleuths from London, Paris, Berlin, Leningrad, and "even Warsaw" coordinating their pursuit of a cunning and murderous jewel thief known a... View More...
[good solid copy, minor shelfwear and light soiling to bottom edge; jacket has a few small nicks and some consequent dog-earing at top of spine, very short diagonal crease at top corner of front flap]. (B&W photographs) The story, much of it in their own words, of the pioneer filmmakers "who as early as 1905 traveled beyond the studio stages to make feature films on location -- and in so doing recorded the real history and real life of their time." An indispensible work of early film history, by one of the greatest chroniclers of the silent film era. **** NOTE that additional shipping charge... View More...
[minor damage to cloth at lower left edge of front cover, otherwise a good solid book; jacket lightly edgeworn, minor paper loss at several corners and spine ends, one small internal tape repair]. (B&W photographs) "The epitome of adventure, [this is] the unvarnished account of the actual experiences of one amazing individual, an indefatigable and absolutely fearless man who has crossed the Pacific forty times, walked nearly the entire width of the island of Borneo, and furthermore, whether Arthur Brisbane believes it or not, has knocked out an orang-outang in fair fight!" Do kids still dream... View More...
[very nice, as-new copy, with no discernible wear to either book or jacket; apparently a review copy, with the publisher's press release laid in]. (B&W photographs) In this, "the first comprehensive book about the Hollywood Left, [the authors] describe the vibrant community in Hollywood that helped create the classics of American film, from the dawn of sound movies to the early 1950s. The authors trace the political and personal lives of the screenwriters, actors, directors, and producers on the Left, along with the often decisive impact of their work upon American film's Golden Age. Full o... View More...
(price-clipped) [good solid book, minor shelfwear; jacket spine very faded, otherwise jacket is just modestly worn at extremities]. (B&W photographs, diagrams) A wonderful throwback to the analog era of filmmaking (you know, when film was still involved), this is a very hands-on guide to "the production of practically every special effect which it is possible for the amateur to produce. Although the range covered in this compendium is so, no part of it is beyond amateur resources. Many of the effects need no special equipment at all and much of the apparatus described and illustrated is easi... View More...
(price-clipped) [nice tight clean book with no discernible wear; jacket is equally nice, virtually flawless except for the price-clipping]. INSCRIBED briefly and SIGNED by the author on the title page. Novel set in the early 1960s, about a country musician (who is also a Korean War vet) who is paroled from prison in Louisiana after serving a term for manslaughter, and heads west to work out his parole on a Montana ranch. Signed by Author View More...
[nice clean book with no discernible wear; jacket shows just the tiniest bit of wear along the top edge]. (B&W photo frontispiece) Burroughs's long-unpublished novel of drug addiction and romantic agony, set in "the corrupt and spectral Mexico City of the nineteen-forties," finally in print more than thirty years after it was originally written. View More...
[good solid copy, clean inside and out, very light bumping to corners; jacket shows a bit of wear and minor chipping at spine extremities, vertical crease in lower half of spine, one tiny hole in spne]. (Notable American Trials) Series "Nontechnical but factually accurate account[s] of four significant American criminal trials, the third book in this series. Covered are: The Trials of Caleb Powers and Others for Complicity in the Murder of Governor Goebel of Kentucky (1900-1907); The Trial of Albert T. Patrick for the Murder of William Marsh Rice (1902); The Trial of Frances S. Hall and Her T... View More...
(price-clipped) [moderately worn book, some dust-soiling to top of text block; jacket is edgeworn, minor paper loss at spine ends and most corners]. "This book deals with the West of the silver boom," per the author's note in the front of the book, which represented Cain's first serious effort in the realm of historical fiction. View More...
(no dust jacket) [light shelfwear only, faint bookseller's stamp on front pastedown (Bertrand Smith Acres of Books, Long Beach, California); gilt lettering on spine and front cover slightly dulled but still quite distinct]. (A Selection of The Discoverers) Series SIGNED by the author on the limitation page, preceding the half-title page. ("This first edition of When Night Descends is limited to 1250 copies, printed from plates, signed by the author. No. 307.") Novel about the separate adventures in Manhattan, in a single night, of four members of the same family. The author was a Paris-base... View More...
[minor exterior wear, slight curling of front cover, a couple of tiny laminate-lift spots on front cover]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) A selection of articles from the British film journal "Movie," which in its day was the primary U.K. publication following the auteurist line (and in that sense was sort of the anti-Sight and Sound). Not surprisingly, the articles focus on those directors who had been anointed as worthy during the 1960s, first by the French and later by American critics such as Andrew Sarris. Articles (sometimes single pieces, other times groups) are devoted to the following ... View More...
(price-clipped) [no significant wear to book, but there is a Christmas gift inscription on the ffep; the jacket is very nice, with just a touch of surface handling wear, downgraded from Near Fine only because of the price-clipping]. (B&W and color photographs and artwork) A history of Disney animation, as seen through the careers of the studio's legendary Nine Old Men -- "nine unique personalities [who] explored, expanded, and influenced character animation and moviemaking over the course of fifty years, consistently raising the bar by which the art form continues to be judged. [This book] e... View More...
(no dust jacket) [moderate wear and slight bumping to extremities, one-time owner's signature on front pastedown]. Novel about a sickly, timid and anti-social boy who takes refuge in books, not just as a child but throughout his life, right up until he's an an elderly Oxford don -- at which point the war (you know, The War) opens his eyes to the limitations of book-larnin'. I've seen this described as "a satirical book about Oxford University," which is perhaps what occasioned its reissue in the 1980s by Oxford University Press in their "20th Century Classics" series. One online commenter ca... View More...
[nice copy, minimal shelfwear to book; jacket lightly soiled on rear panel, with a touch of wear to the spine extremities]. (B&W photographs) Eddie Cantor's autobiography, in which "he retraces the steps that have carried him from a dingy one-room apartment on New York's lower East Side through a thousand stage doors and out into the glow of the footlights and the applause and laughter that have so long been his due. [The book] is filled with anecdotes and stories about Eddie, his wonderful wife Ida, and their five-girl family, as well as Eddie's friends, the now fabled names of show busines... View More...
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