Category: *NEW ARRIVALS

Fancies and Goodnights

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday & Company, Inc. : (c.1951)

Seller ID: 27533

Condition: Very Good+

(no dust jacket) [light wear to spine extremities, otherwise a good sound copy, former owner's initials plus date & place of purchase written in ink along edge of rear pastedown]. An outstanding collection of short stories by one of the masters of the form. Collier's fiction was frequent source material for the Alfred Hitchcock TV anthology series (and other such programs as well); this volume contains three stories that were adapted for "Alfred Hitchcock Presents": "De Mortuis," "Wet Saturday," and "Back for Christmas." (The author also contributed several original teleplays to the series.)
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Dick Tracy's Fiendish Foes: A 60th Anniversary Celebration

By: Collins, Max Allan, and Dick Locher, eds.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, St. Martin's Press : 1991

Seller ID: 28046

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

[light wear only with a touch of soiling to the bottom edge; the book has long been protected by a clear plastic cover applied by a former owner (removable, but why would you?)]. Trade PB (cartoon strip reproductions) A collection of Dick Tracy comic strips highlighting the intrepid lawman's battles with the likes of Flattop, Pruneface, Molene, Mumbles, etc. "In addition to this great line-up, this delightful collection also includes a special interview with Chester Gould from late in the artist's life." ****NOTE that additional postage charges will be assessed for international shipping of ...
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The Moonstone -and- The Woman in White

By: Collins, [William] Wilkie

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, The Modern Library : (c.1937)

Seller ID: 27437

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Good dj

[a good sound copy with minimal shelfwear, previous owner's initials plus date & place of purchase written in ink along the edge of the rear pastedown (concealed by the rear jacket flap); the jacket is moderately worn and lightly soiled, internally tape-reinforced along all edges and seams, small chip at upper left corner of rear panel]. (Modern Library Giant, G33) Series Wilkie Collins's two most famous novels, collected in a single volume, with a Foreword by Alexander Woollcott, who (according to the jacket blurb) had originally championed their inclusion in the Modern Library series. The v...
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Warren Oates: A Wild Life

By: Compo, Susan

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Lexington, The University Press of Kentucky : (c.2009)

Seller ID: 27186

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dj

[nice clean as-new copy, with no discernible wear to either book or jacket]. (Screen Classics) Series (B&W photographs) A biography of "one of the most memorable and skilled character actors of the 1970s." ****NOTE that additional postage charges will be assessed for international shipping of this moderately heavy book; if this concerns you, please contact us for a shipping quote before placing your order.****
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The Original Illustrated Arthur Conan Doyle

By: Conan Doyle, (Sir) Arthur

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Secacus NJ, Castle Books : 1983 (c.1980)

Seller ID: 28053

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Fine dj

[very nice copy, very minor soiling to top of text block and to lower edge of front cover; no discernible wear to jacket]. (B&W illustrations) Facsimile reproductions of 18 of Conan Doyle's non-Sherlock Holmes stories of mystery, suspense and adventure, reproduced as they appeared in The Strand Magazine, including all 236 original illustrations by Sidney Paget (who also illustrated the original Holmes stories) and other artists. Includes the complete novel "Rodney Stone," plus an 1892 article, "A Day with Dr. Conan Doyle." ****NOTE that additional postage charges will be assessed for internat...
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Crashing Thru: My Life History

By: Connelly, [James Leo] "One Eye"

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Dayton OH, (published by the author) : (c.1934)

Seller ID: 27311

Binding: Stapled wraps

Condition: Fine

[beautiful clean copy with no discernible wear; looks like it's been living in a box in the dark since 1934]. (B&W halftone photos, cartoon illustrations) 16-page (including covers) promotional booklet, measuring 8-1/2" x 11-1/4", touting the amazing life and "career," if you can call it that, of the self-proclaimed-and-promoted "Worlds Champion Gate Crasher." Connolly, who had a bit of a rough young life (death of both parents and his sister by the time he was ten years old, most of his childhood spent in an orphanage, etc.) and lost an eye in some unspecified manner when he was 18, apparen...
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Condition Pink [SIGNED]

By: Cooley, Leland Frederick

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday & Company, Inc. : 1967

Seller ID: 17330

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

[nice tight copy, slight wear at spine ends, minor soiling to top edge; jacket a bit rubbed, a few tiny edge-tears, a couple of itsy-bitsy chips at top of spine, another at top of rear panel]. INSCRIBED (to Los Angeles progressive political activist Frank Wilkinson) and SIGNED by the author on the ffep. A "super-patriotic satire" about a self-styled "General" who "recruits a citizens' militia called COUNTERFORCE to defend Southern California against a rumored sneak attack across the Mexican border by one hundred thousand Red Chinese 'suicide troops.'" Cooley was a radio news broadcaster who...
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Dog in the Sky: The Authentic and Unexpurgated Odyssey of Runyon Jones

By: Corwin, Norman

Price: $60.00

Publisher: New York, Simon and Schuster : 1952

Seller ID: 27673

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj

[nice tight clean copy, bumped at top of spine but no other significant wear; the jacket has very slight paper loss at top of spine, a tiny tear at the bottom front foldover, a couple of little surface-scrapes along the front hinge, and some minor sun-browning at the edges of the rear panel]. (pen and ink drawings) Whimsical fantasy about a 10-year-old boy's quest to learn the ultimate fate of his beloved (deceased) dog.
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The Mistaken Fury, and Other Lapses

By: Couldrey, Oswald

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Oxford, B.H. Blackwell : 1914

Seller ID: 26949

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+

(quarter-bound white cloth, with illlustrated paper over boards; no dust jacket) [a good sound copy, with some unfortunate staining at the lower corners of both the front and rear boards, with some bleed-through onto the endpapers but no impact on the text of the book; the spine cloth is slightly age-toned, with a tiny stain at the left edge of the front cover]. A baker's dozen of short tales, many of a somewhat mystical or spiritual nature (and apparently inspired by Greek mythology), with titles such as "The Lock-keeper and the Water Nymph," "The Tower Gargoyle," and "The Inquisitive Satyr....
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Buster Crabbe: A Self-Portrait

By: Crabbe, Buster, as told to Karl Whitezel

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Tukwilla WA, Karl Whitezel : (c.1997)

Seller ID: 28001

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Fine

[nice clean as-new book, appears unread]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) An "Author's Note" on a laid-in printed slip explains the genesis of this memoir by the erstwhile B-movie and serial star, published more than a dozen years after Crabbe's death in 1983: "Buster never got to see his autobiography go into print. Rejections from big time publishers crushed the author's spirit [I think by "author," Mr. Whitezel is referring to himself], so I hid the manuscript away -- ashamed of my failure, and what I felt was the worst sin of all: disappointing my idol. Working through tape recordings and per...
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The Complete Wandering Ghosts

By: Crawford, F. Marion

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Holicong PA, Wildside Press : 2002

Seller ID: 27532

Binding: Hardcover First Printing

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[book shows no discernible wear, blemished only by former owner's initials plus date & place of purchase written in ink along edge of rear pastedown (concealed by rear jacket flap); the jacket itself is flawless apart from a small wrinkle in the rear panel]. "Expanded edition" of this collection of the author's ghost stories, seven of which were first collected and published (posthumously) in 1911 under the title "Wandering Ghosts." This edition adds one story which had not been included in that original volume, and features an Introduction by Lee Weinstein. (According to Weinstein, one of ...
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They Had to See Paris [Photoplay Edition]

By: Croy, Homer

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Grosset & Dunlap : [1929] (c.1926)

Seller ID: 27031

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Fair dj

[a decent copy, some deterioration to binding along both joints, slight bumping/fraying to several corners; the jacket, though, is heavily worn at edges and corners, with some staining to the rear panel and spine, a sizeable piece missing from the upper left corner of the rear panel, additional paper loss at the upper spine corners (taking part of the title with it), and, rather strangely, the lower couple of inches of the jacket spine seem to have had a piece of a different jacket "spliced" in]. (4 B&W film stills) Another rendition (probably not the first and definitely not the last) of th...
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Redshirts of Destiny: A Novel of the Filibusters

By: Cunningham, Eugene

Price: $125.00

Publisher: New York, Empire Books : (c.1935)

Seller ID: 19495

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Good+ dj

[nice tight clean copy with minor shelfwear only, vintage price sticker (from San Francisco department store The White House) at upper corner of rear pastedown; the jacket has a bit of soiling to the rear panel and along the bottom and right edges of the front panel, small tears at several upper corners, some very shallow chipping at the bottom edge of the rear panel]. "A rapid fire story of action and romance in which a handful of dare-devil Americans pit themselves against the native forces for supremacy in Nicaragua's most exciting revolution." These "Redshirts," of course, were no heroes...
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How to Read a Newspaper [with related ephemera]

By: Dale, Edgar

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Chicago, Scott, Foresman and Company : (c.1941)

Seller ID: 28113

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

(no dust jacket, probably as issued) [moderate wear and light bumping to most corners]. (B&W photographs, facsimiles, comic strips) A "textbook on democracy's textbook," this volume, designed for "student news-readers -- architects of an American future," attempts to show "how the average reader-citizen can understand and use the newspaper, and how eventually he [he!] can bring about in it a growth that will make easier his own and America's growth. Naturally this book presents the mechanics of reading a newspaper, but the principal stress is on interpreting and evaluating newspapers." Ever...
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The Night of Fear

By: Dalton, Moray (pseud. for Katherine Mary Dalton Renoir)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York/Chicago, A.L. Burt Company : (c.1931)

Seller ID: 27464

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Poor in Poor dj

[both the book and the jacket are in pretty rough shape, having gotten wet at some point: the book's covers and endpapers are stained, and the previous owner's name plus the date & place of purchase are written at the top of the half-title page; the jacket, meanwhile, has been rather crudely patched internally and externally (with tape and non-archival paper), including the filling-in of a large chip at the upper left corner of the front panel; with all these depredations (and more I haven't mentioned, such as some touching-up with black ink), this is offered as a reading/placeholder copy only...
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Realms of Darkness

By: Danby, Mary, ed.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: London, Octopus Books Limited : 1985

Seller ID: 27525

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Near Fine dj

[minor shelfwear to book, former owner's name plus date & place of purchase in ink at top of front endpaper, check marks (in ink and pencil) next to most titles in table of contents; jacket shows minor surface wear only]. Anthology of 73 "nightmarish tales of the supernatural and macabre," introduced by Christopher Lee. Includes stories by Martin Amis, Robert Bloch, Anthony Boucher, Agatha Christie, Roald Dahl, August Derleth, Davis Grubb, Patricia Highsmith, Stephen King, Bill Pronzini, Henry Slesar, Bram Stoker, Dennis Wheatley, and many others. ****NOTE that additional postage charges wi...
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Everything and Nothing: The Dorothy Dandridge Tragedy

By: Dandridge, Dorothy, and Earl Conrad

Price: $150.00

Publisher: New York, Abelard-Schuman : (c.1970)

Seller ID: 27141

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj

(price-clipped) [modest shelfwear, light foxing to top of text block; jacket spine badly faded, with moderate rubbing/scuffing to the front and rear panels]. (B&W photographs) Posthumously-published autobiography of the African-American actress-singer, who died in 1965 at the age of 42 from an accidental overdose of an antidepressant, following a career downturn that was further complicated by financial troubles and a nervous breakdown. According to Conrad's introduction, Dandridge "wanted to tell of her friendships and romances that crossed the color line [but] her friends attacked her in fu...
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A Bill of Divorcement; a play in three acts [SIGNED by the entire original cast]

By: Dane, Clemence

Price: $100.00

Publisher: London, William Heinemann : 1921

Seller ID: 28148

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Poor

(printed wraps) [very worn, with most of the spine gone -- but the main problem is that it's been very crudely "repaired" by a previous owner (using 2x4 address labels, of all things): one label applied externally (to hold the detached front cover in place) and THREE more internally to piece back together the half-title page, which had been ripped down the middle both vertically and horizontally; plus general age-toning, dog-earing at corners, etc.]. A much-abused copy of the published version of this venerable drama of divorce and insanity, first staged in London in 1921 and very soon therea...
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The Misted Mirror

By: Daniel-Rops, Henry (pseud. for Henri Petiot); translated from the French by R.H. Mottram

Price: $60.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf : 1931

Seller ID: 26778

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Good dj

[light external soiling and a bit of wear to extremities; jacket has several small chips along top and bottom edges, browned at spine, several tears that are internally tape-repaired]. Novel about a young man and his travails as part of that generation in France who came of age in the decade following World War I -- a generation which, not old enough by a few years to have taken part in the War, suffered all the spiritual, mental and moral strain of that time. The New York Times critic was unimpressed, likening its protagonist to Julien Sorel (of The Red and the Black), deriding him as one o...
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Salvaging of American Girlhood: A Substitution of Normal Psychology for Superstition and Eroticism in the Education of Girls

By: Davenport, Isabel

Price: $250.00

Publisher: New York, E.P. Dutton & Company : (c.1924)

Seller ID: 27282

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Very Good+ dj

[a good sound copy with only modest shelfwear -- but NOT that there is considerable pencil underlining throughout text; it would be erasable, but only with a lot of effort]. "A sane and valuable contribution to our knowledge in a difficult yet vitally important field -- that of sex-education for girls and young woman." As stated in the Preface, the objective of the author's research, carried out under the auspices of the Department of Psychology at Columbia University, was "to discover the actual state of sexual knowledge of young women of more than average education." To this end 160 girls ...
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Category: *NEW ARRIVALS