[minor shelfwear, short tape stain at bottom of front pastedown; jacket edgeworn, with some shallow chipping along top and bottom edges, small surface-peel scar on front panel (probably from old price-sticker removal), a somewhat larger surface-peel scar on rear panel, general soiling and scuffing, old tape reinforcement across base of spine "One of the dangers of a stage career -- of how an actress confused her 'role life' with her real life and imperilled both, is the theme of this uncompromising novel." The author (1884-1966) began her writing career as a playwright, living and wo... View More...
[book is lightly shelfworn, very slight bump to top front corner, vintage price label (from The White House, San Francisco) on rear pastedown; jacket lightly soiled, minor scuffing to front panel]. A satirical romance "in the classic French tradition immortalized by Voltaire's Candide" (it sez here), in which a retired Parisian department store owner visits Italy with his daughter, to view "Authority in person" (Mussolini, that is) -- and "when pretty Philippine appears in Italy, Fascist hearts blaze with a new emotion." The author had been awarded the Prix Goncourt for his 1927 novel "Jerom... View More...
[spine slightly turned, a little wear to top and bottom edges of covers, age-toning and minor soiling to edges of text block; jacket slightly chipped (with old small internal tape repairs) at spine ends (no impact on text), faint (almost invisible) vertical crease in spine, light soiling to rear panel, a couple of tiny nicks in bottom edge of rear panel]. Yep, it's the book from which Alfred Hitchcock's VERTIGO -- anointed The Greatest Film of All Time by the British Film Institute's "Sight and Sound" panelists' poll -- was (rather freely) adapted. It's a must-have if you're a "books into fi... View More...
[nice clean copy with minimal wear, vintage bookseller's label on rear pastedown (Larry Edmund's [sic] Book Shop, Hollywood), small ownership signature of film director Vincent Sherman on ffep; jacket is edgeworn (especially along front hinge), with various nicks and tears and minor creasing, some paper loss at top of spine]. "China's Great War Novel," screams the cover blurb, with the book given the additional imprimatur of an introduction by Edgar Snow, probably the most widely-known "China expert" of his day. Snow states that the book was "the first contemporary Chinese novel to be transla... View More...
[very nice book with just a touch of shelfwear, remnant of removed price-sticker on rear pastedown; jacket shows just a little wear and minor wrinkling at spine ends]. (drawings) The second of Colette's novels to be published in the U.S. (following "Cheri" the year before), this story of "a Parisian dancing girl and her Lieutenant in Blue" intensified the vogue for her works in America, which lasted until about halfway through the Depression. Filmed in 1956, in France, by director Jacqueline Audrey, starring Danièle Delorme, Fernand Gravey, and François Guérin. View More...
(price-clipped) [minimal shelfwear, light dust-soiling/spotting to top edge; jacket browned/discolored/faded at spine, otherwise just lightly worn and quite attractive] Novel about "the darling of the Paris music halls," miserable in her marriage to an unfaithful fop of a husband, and her passionate love for "a big, simple, straightforward landholder from the provinces." (Ah, it's always the big, simple, straightforward ones, isn't it? Especially if they're landholders.) The novel, based on Colette's own experiences, was originally published as "La Vagabonde" in France in 1910, and was ada... View More...
[a little fading to spine and along left edge of front cover, no other significant wear]. Trade PB INSCRIBED ("For _____, With very best wishes") and SIGNED by the author on the ffep, additionally dated "Prague, 16.4.'99." Novel about a one-armed American novelist (he lost the other one running with the bulls in Pamplona in his youth), divorced, childless, and past his prime, living on an island off the Mallorcan coast. His fascination with a young photographer leads him to Madrid and "an exotic misadventure involving jazz, luxury hotels, the Prado Museum, virulent criti... View More...
[very slight wear at ends of spine, otherwise tight and clean; ditto the jacket, with just some light surface-scratching to the rear panel]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the ffep: "To ________ & ______ / with affection / Jac"; also dated in the year of publication. Two novellas set in Sophiatown, a Johannesburg suburb which was once a vibrant center of black culture, but which under apartheid (still the law of the land in South Africa at the time of this volume's publication) had "been bulldozed into the ground to make way for the soulless symmetry of a new white suburb, ... View More...
[solid copy, with some wear at the extremities; jacket is edgeworn and rubbed, with small tears and teensy bits of paper loss at corners, shallow chipping at spine ends]. The final volume of a trilogy (previous installments were "The Minister's Daughter" and "The Son"), a "saga of austere Northern parishes [and] its people's hard, intense, and lovely lives." View More...
[nice solid copy, light soiling to bottom edge, internally clean; jacket is edgeworn, small piece missing at bottom right-hand corner of front panel, faint dampstain near top of front panel, nearly split along rear foldover, still quite attractive]. Futurist fantasy in which a young Greek war refugee, introduced to the wonders of modern machinery, works his way up from garage mechanic to member of an airline crew. This gets him mixed up with a mysterious American arms merchant, and he eventually finds himself a stowaway on a gigantic Russian airship (the "Zodiak") operated by the Militant An... View More...
(no dust jacket) [a good sound copy with perhaps a touch of weakness to the front hinge, light wear to corners, very slight fraying to cloth at top front joint]. The Welsh author's third book, somewhat in the vein of his first, "My People" (1915), which is now regarded by some critics as "perhaps the first genuinely modern work of Anglo-Welsh literature" (Wikipedia), and has been cited as a direct influence on the early work of Dylan Thomas. Evans was a controversial figure, widely reviled in Wales for his brutally satiric portrayals of his countrymen and of the Welsh establi... View More...
[beautiful copy, the slightest trace of dust-soiling to top edge, otherwise appears unread; jacket bright and attractive, with only very slight wrinkling at spine ends]. "Oriana Fallaci's great achievement, a twentieth-century epic about the catastrophic civil war in Lebanon." Jacket blurb quotes critical comparisons with Hemingway and Malraux. (Originally published in Italy in 1990; the translation is by Fallaci herself, "from a translation by James Marcus.") View More...
[a nice tight clean copy, with minor shelfwear only; the jacket is a little edgeworn, with some browning and fading to the spine panel, tiny nicks at both ends of spine]. Novel, published in Germany in the waning days of the Weimar Republic, about a young couple whose love and faith are tested by an inexorable series of economic setbacks. The book was adapted for the 1934 film of the same name, directed by Frank Borzage (in which the protagonists were portrayed by Margaret Sullavan and Douglass Montgomery); while the film retained the German setting, a lot had happened in Germany since the b... View More...
[a nearly flawless book, but for some foxing/spotting on the top edge of the text block; jacket is lightly edgeworn, with some tiny nicks at a few corners (minimal paper loss) and one itty-bitty closed tear at the bottom of the front panel]. A mid-career novel by this German Expressionist writer (originally published in Germany in 1927 under the title "Das Ochsenfurter Männerquartett"), about "five unemployed men with a desperate and fantastic scheme for earning a living." (This involves forming a singing group!) 1933, the year this book appeared in translation in America, was not a good on... View More...
[nice clean copy, minor shelfwear only; jacket shows just a touch of wear to extremities]. "The story of two well-to-do Italian families, who are engulfed by the impersonal forces of world events. From the late thirties when the teenage youngsters are growing up -- the boys to become involved in anti-Fascist politics, the girls to seek marriage -- to the close of the war when the scattered group is reunited in their little town in northern Italy, this vivid story carries the stamp of living truth." Ginzburg (1916-1991) has been called "arguably the most important woman writer of post-World Wa... View More...
[very nice copy, minimal shelfwear, slight age-toning to pages but much less than usually seen in Rinehart books from this period; jacket shows a bit of wear at edges and corners]. Blurbed as "perhaps the most remarkable novel ever written by a child," this "astounding revelation of one child's nightmare world" was the creation of one of those youthful-literary-prodigy-sensations of the time, a barely-literate 14-year-old French farm girl who was able to get it down on paper with the help of a neighbor, Eliézer Fournier, who explains his contributions in an explanatory note at... View More...
[good solid book with minimal shelfwear to bottom edge, vintage bookseller's label (Paul Elder & Co., San Francisco) on rear pastedown; jacket a bit edgeworn and lightly soiled, with a handful of tiny nicks and edge-tears]. First American edition of this late work by the great Norwegian writer, recipient of the 1920 Nobel Prize for Literature. It's a continuation of the saga of the title character, introduced in Hamsun's 1927 novel "Wayfarers" (published in America as "Vagabonds"); his next book, "The Road Leads On" (1933), completed what's known as "the Wayfarers... View More...
(price-clipped) [solid book with very slight fraying to cloth along bottom edge of rear cover, minor fading to cloth at spine ends; jacket edgeworn and moderately faded, with a small chip at upper right-hand corner of front panel, another skinny chip at bottom of front panel (about 1/4" wide and 3/4" tall), slight paper loss at spine ends, various other tiny nicks and creases]. Although the last (of just four) of this major German writer's books to appear in English translation, it was actually her first novel, originally published in 1893 as "Erinnerungen von Ludolf Ursleu dem Jün... View More...
(no dust jacket) [worn copy, some fraying to cloth at spine ends and bottom corners, spine a little turned, dust-soiling to top of text block, old bookseller's rubber-stamp on front pastedown (Bertrand Smith Acres of Books, Long Beach, California), vintage bookseller's label from Dean Markham's Book Store, Los Angeles, on rear pastedown]. (The Borgias Trilogy, Vol. 1) Series First book in the author's trilogy about the Borgias. The original German title was "Die Stiere von Rom." View More...
[light shelfwear, faint staining to fore-edge, age-toning to top of text block; jacket a bit edgeworn (a few tiny nicks along top edge), light dampstaining at bottom right corner of front panel and bottom left corner of rear panel]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the ffep: "For Tess Sobol with / my best regards, / Charles / December, 1956"; beneath the author's inscription is an additional Christmas gift inscription in another hand. A novel, the author's first, dealing "with the small Sudeten German community in Czechoslovakia after the Allied victory, and war's aftermath in the life ... View More...
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