(no dust jacket) [good solid copy, light fading to cloth at edges of covers and along spine, faint dampstain on top edge of text block adjacent to spine, with related faint staining to upper corners of pages (mostly in the latter half of the book)]. Sequel to the author's 1920 novel "Chri," picking up the lives of Chri and his lover La after a six-year break during which World War I has happened. Originally published in France in 1926, as "La Fin de Chri." View More...
[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... View More...
(no dust jacket, probably as issued) [light wear to extremities]. (B&W photographs, facsimiles) INSCRIBED ("To Dottie Furman") and SIGNED by Will Rogers Jr. on the front endpaper. A kind of documentary casebook on the death and legacy of Will Rogers, centered around the plane crash that took his life and that of famed pilot Wiley Post on August 15, 1935. Drawn from the extensive archival holdings of the Will Rogers Memorial, it presents facsimiles of news stories of the time (including coverage from immediately preceding the flight), reproductions or transcriptions of letters and telegrams,... View More...
(no dust jacket) [moderate wear to extremities (including slight exposure of boards at bottom corners), shallow dents in top and bottom edges of covers, a couple of tiny light spots on both covers, gilt spine lettering quite rubbed and only partially readable, small piece torn out of edge of pp.267/268 (no loss of text)]. (B&W plates, pen and ink drawings) The story of the 1906 murder of architect Stanford White by Harry Thaw, in a romantic dispute over the lovely Mrs. Thaw (better known as Evelyn Nesbit), and its aftermath -- which, given the social prominence of all parties, certainly earne... View More...
[very nice, as-new copy, with no discernible wear to either book or jacket]. (color and B&W illustrations, facsimiles) An extensively-illustrated history of American men's adventure magazines. Supplementing the narrative history (with text in English, French and German) are color reproductions of hundreds of lurid magazine covers and artwork from scores of magazines, with titles like "Man to Man," "Man's Action," and "Real Men." **** NOTE that additional shipping costs will apply for international shipping of this heavy book; if this concerns you, please contact us for a shipping quote befor... View More...
[a nice clean book, with minor handling wear only]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) All the cinematic and televisual manifestations of Spillane's oueuvre "are examined in a lively, knowledgeable fashion by Spillane experts. Included are cast and crew listings, brief biographical entries on key persons, and a lengthy interview with Spillane." View More...
[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 ham... View More...
[minor bumping to lower extremities; light surface wear to jacket]. (B&W photographs, color reproductions) Spanish-language encyclopedia of the American film noir, with entries for both individual figures and notable films. Even if you don't read Spanish, there's a great deal of pleasure to be derived from the illustrations in this volume -- many of which are black-and-white stills (as you might expect), but also included are numerous reproductions, mostly in color, of vintage posters and lobby cards. The author works from a slightly more expansive definition of the genre (if it is a genre)... View More...
(gilt-stamped leather; no dust jacket, as issued) [lovely, as-new copy]. (B&W photographs, facsimiles) SIGNED by the author on the limitation page (this copy being "Number 123 of 500 Deluxe, Hardbound copies"), with an additional personal inscription by the author on the preceding blank page. An illustrated history of the Crown Hill area of Los Angeles, on the western edge of what is today considered downtown L.A. Less written-about (and, I would contend, generally less known-about) than either Bunker Hill (closer into today's downtown, and generally more the focus of urban-loss lamentations)... View More...
[both volumes modestly edge-worn with light age-toning to edge of text block (cheap paper); Volume I had small check-marks next to nine titles in the contents list; Volume II has a couple of small scrape marks on the front cover, and a short diagonal crease at the top right corner of the front cover]. An incredible compilation of music, lyrics and guitar chords for about 200 songs, selected to highlight "the major trends in the Rock movement, from its beginnings in the mid fifties to the current progressive sound. Volume I traces early Rock 'n' Roll from the songs of Elvis Presley and Little... View More...
[minor shelfwear to bottom edge, moderate foxing to edges of text block; jacket is bright and clean, with just a bit of edgewear along the top and bottom edges, one tiny closed tear at top of front panel, short diagonal crease at bottom corner of front flap]. (B&W photographs) SIGNED and INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper. "A biography of the Oscar-winning screenwriter who broke the Hollywood blacklist," portrayed by Bryan Cranston in the 2015 biofilm TRUMBO. Remarkably, this book, which appeared just a year after its subject's death, remained the only full biography of Trumbo un... View More...
[good solid book, with light wear mostly at the spine extremities; the jacket, however, is s bit on the tattered side, with paper loss at and adjacent to the top of the spine, at the base of the spine and at several corners, considerable age-browning (especially the spine), a long split along the front flap-fold, and various other depredations (it will, of course, be enclosed in a new mylar jacket protector, which will help it maintain whatever structural integrity it still has)]. Western adventure novel set largely in California's Death Valley, domain of the title character, a veteran prospe... View More...
(no dust jacket) [much general wear to covers at edges and extremities, slight exposure of boards at lower corners, faint beverage ring on front cover, front endpaper removed with consequent weakening of front hinge, bookplate on front pastedown (see notes)]. (color frontispiece, B&W photographic plates) INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the half-title page: "Sewell[?] / Love / G / 1965[?]." An early-mid-career (as it turned out) memoir by the actress who was once thought (per a laid-in newspaper clipping) to have been "Britain's most beautiful woman." Her career on stage and screen would eventually s... View More...
(no dust jacket; as issued?) [upper corners bumped, no other significant wear]. (B&W photographs, frame blow-ups) A critical examination of the film and photographic work of this important Canadian artist (who's also a sculptor, painter, and musician), which was, I believe, the first book-length treatment of these aspects of his creative output -- in a career which, as it turns out, wasn't even half over at the time, given that he's still with us today at age 91! Includes: Filmography; List of Rental Agents; List of Photographic Works; Bibliography; Index. View More...
(price-clipped) [modest wear to spine ends and bottom edge; jacket chipped along top edge (both front and rear panels), small chip at bottom of front panel (somewhat disguised by paper backing of mylar jacket protector), tiny hole mid-spine, one-time sales price scrawled in light blue ink at upper right corner of front panel] INSCRIBED and SIGNED (in 1985) by the author on the front endpaper. Corwin's "first experiment with the translation of a radio work into a form expressly intended for the eye. As an innovation in book-making, it is much easier to describe by telling what it isn't that wh... View More...
[good solid copy, slight bumping to several corners, unsightly stain on inside front cover but no other blemishes; jacket has some diagonal creasing in the front flap and a horizontal wrinkle near the top of the front panel, but is still quite nice]. (B&W and color photographs) Massive tribute volume to the venerable western series, which ran for twenty years (1955-1975). Includes: a complete episode guide; biographies of all the principal actors; discussions of the show's producers, writers, and directors; interviews with Dennis Weaver, Buck Taylor, and Burt Reynolds; reminiscences from man... View More...
[tiny surface-scrape mark on rear cover (not affecting photograph), otherwise a nice tight copy with just a touch of wear to the extremities]. Mass Market PB (rear cover photo) "An Original Gold Medal Novel," a tie-in with the TV cop series of the same name, starring Leslie Nielsen and John Beradino, which had a single-season run on ABC (1961/62). View More...
[light handling wear, slight bump to base of spine, gift inscription (non-authorial) on inside front cover]. Trade PB (B&W photographs, facsimiles) INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the ffep. Self-published chronicle by the daughter of the titular character, presenting a detailed account of the time, primarily from June 1956 to October 1958, when Captain Cother was the master/captain of Errol Flynn's yacht, sailing hither and yon during the actor's later years. (Flynn died in October 1959.) The book reproduces log entries, letters and telegrams sent and received by the Captain (some fro... View More...
[good solid copy, light age-toning to edges of text block, faint staining to rear cover; jacket has a short closed tear and some associated creasing at top of front panel, long vertical crease in front panel]. A psychological murder mystery with a lengthy courtroom scene (taking up most of the second half of the book), this was the last published work of this noted playwright and silent-film scenarist, appearing just a few months before her death in July 1943. Best-known for her work with Cecil B. DeMille and several other prominent directors, she had a couple of dozen screen credits between... View More...
[some minor short creasing near bottom of front cover, otherwise tight and clean inside and out]. (Language, Discourse, Society) Series Trade PB (B&W photographs) In this book, the author "examines the theory and politics of representation in narrative film and the questions and problems posed by demands for a new imaging of women and men and for new relations of masculinity and feminity [sic]. Drawing on the psychoanalytic theory of Freud and Lacan, the book proposes a new understanding of the relation of fantasy and the drives, and of voyeurism, fetishism and disavowal, to the pleasures of ... View More...
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