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By: Rushdie, Salman
Price: $75.00
Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1981
Edition: 2nd printing
Seller ID: 24857
ISBN: 0-394-51470-X
Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj
(price-clipped) [light shelfwear to bottom of book, slight fading at edges of boards, otherwise a solid clean book; jacket lightly soiled at rear panel, lower left corner of front panel has a little array of pen-point indentation lines (no ink marks, however), a little vertical creasing to front flap; there is some faint uneven fading to the front panel, which is less noticeable to the naked eye than in the accompanying scanned image]. Rushdie's second novel and his breakthrough book, which not only won the Booker Prize winner in 1981 but has been subsequently twice voted the "Best of the ... View more info
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Portland ME, King Philip Publishing Co.: (c.1993)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 24090
ISBN: 0-9614811-5-3
Condition: Fine in Fine dj
[lovely copy, as-new, with no discernible wear to either book or jacket]. Addresses and papers presented at a three-day conference about the Lizzie Borden case held at Bristol Community College in (of course) Fall River, Massachusetts, August 3-5, 1992; the book represents "the culmination of the 100th Anniversary Observance of the Borden Murders." The contributions are divided into five thematic sections: Psychological and Women's Issues; Literary; Historical; Legal and Forensic; Bibliographical (the latter section including a lengthy annotated bibliography of books and articles abou... View more info
![Image for The King: A Biography of Clark Gable [*SIGNED*]](/assets/images/product/23676.jpg)
By: Samuels, Charles
Price: $25.00
Publisher: New York, Coward-McCann, Inc.: (c.1962)
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 23676
Condition: Very Good in Very Good dj
[bottom corners bumped and a bit worn, very slight bumping to top corner, light age-toning to edges of text block; jacket shows a little edgewear, tiny tears at a couple of corners of the front panel]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the ffep. The first biography of Gable to appear after his death in 1960 at the age of 59. Signed by Author View more info
By: Sanford, John
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Santa Barbara CA, Black Sparrow Press: 1984
Edition: 1st printing
Seller ID: 24375
ISBN: 0-87685-614-8
Condition: Near Fine
[a touch of soiling to bottom edge, spine lettering a little faded]. Trade PB Another in the author's series of "interpretations of American history," with literary meditations (in both prose and verse) on more than one hundred events, ranging from the pre-Columbian era (870-994 A.D.) through the Vietnam War. View more info
By: Sanford, John
Price: $40.00
Publisher: New York/London, Alfred A. Knopf: 1939
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 24721
Condition: Very Good
(no dust jacket) [lightly shelfworn, spine very slightly turned, a couple of tiny rips and a touch of fraying at top of spine, a bit of dust-soiling to top of text block; old inscription (probably non-authorial) blotted out on ffep (somebody went to a lot of trouble)]. Sanford's third novel (the second under this, his permanent pseudonym). Set in rural New York, it's a dramatic tale (with several interspersed passages of blank verse) about the mortal conflict between two men. Kirkus Reviews called it "an unusual book, with some pieces of brilliant writing, but also with some of the most... View more info
By: Sarris, Andrew
Price: $25.00
Publisher: New York, Columbia University Press: (c.1978)
Edition: 2nd printing
Seller ID: 23670
ISBN: 0-231-04034-2
Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj
(price-clipped) [nice clean book, minor browning to cloth at top of spine, no other discernible wear; jacket has a couple of internal tape-repairs, minor wear to extremities]. This selection of Sarris's reviews and essays, mostly dealing with politically-themed films from 1971 through 1978, "explores the often adversary relationship between political reality and film illusion in the recent cinema [and] in the vital social issues surrounding Watergate, the Hollywood blacklist, and the renewed interest in Nazi Germany. Sarris dismantles many of the film industry's questionable attempts at ... View more info
By: Sarris, Andrew
Price: $35.00
Publisher: New York, E.P. Dutton & Co.: 1968
Edition: 1st Edition (see notes)
Seller ID: 24460
Condition: Near Fine
[nice copy, with minor external handling wear, brief gift inscription (non-authorial) on title page, very light soiling to bottom edges, a bit of fading to the spine lettering]. Trade PB One of the most influential and frequently-referenced (by both devotees and detractors) of all critical/historical film texts -- nothing less, in fact, than the Bible of the American branch of the Church of the Auteur. No matter what direction the later critical assessment of any given director might haven taken, for those who first encountered this book within the first decade or so after its publication it'... View more info
![Image for The Lion and the Sun [*SIGNED*]](/assets/images/product/24103.jpg)
Price: $75.00
Publisher: New York, Manyland Books: (c.1978)
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 24103
Condition: Very Good in Very Good dj
[small nick in cloth at top of front cover, light soiling to edges of text block, minor wear to extremities; jacket has some shallow chipping along right side of top edge of front panel, otherwise just minimally worn]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the ffep: "To / ___ _____ / Regards / Maurice / 6/9/82." A fictional treatment of "the struggle for freedom of Burma under the yoke of British colonialism" during World War II, more specifically focusing on the country's fate under Japanese occupation, in the run-up to which Burma's intellectuals and young radicals were take... View more info
By: Scalzo, Joe
Price: $40.00
Publisher: St. Paul MN, MBI Publishing Company: 2001
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 24023
ISBN: 0-7603-1017-3
Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj
[a teeny bit of wear at spine ends, Christmas gift inscription (non-authorial) on second front endpaper; jacket shows just a trace of surface wear, minor wrinkling surrounding top of spine]. (B&W and color photographs) "For 20 glorious years, from 1951 to 1971, dirt track racing lured some of the best racers and biggest characters to unpaved tracks scattered across the country. Rodger Ward, A.J. Foyt, Mario Andretti, Tony Bettenhausen, and Parnelli Jones are just some of the great drivers who accepted the dirt track challenge, piloting Kuzmas, Meskowskis, Watsons, and Kurtis-Krafts faste... View more info
By: Schapiro, Steve (photographs); edited by Paul Duncan
Price: $85.00
Publisher: Cologne (Germany), Taschen: (c.2013)
Edition: Later Printing
Seller ID: 24433
ISBN: 383654198X
Condition: Near Fine
(pictorial boards; no dust jacket, as issued) [minor wear evident at a couple of corner-tips, otherwise an as-new book]. (B&W and color photographs) Lavish, oversize, HEAVY (as is the Taschen Way), extended photo-essay on the great 1976 Martin Scorsese film, centered around the on-location/on-set photographic work of Steve Schapiro. Approximately the last one-third of the book is devoted to a section of "Interviews," including a profile of Jodie Foster, an article about and a separate interview with Robert De Niro, and two interviews with Scorsese himself (one conducted by the film's... View more info
![Image for Matinee Idylls: Reflections on the Movies [*SIGNED*]](/assets/images/product/24383.jpg)
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Chicago, Ivan R. Dee: 1999
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 24383
ISBN: 1-56663-260-9
Condition: Fine in Fine dj
[a lovely, as-new copy, with no discernible wear to either book or jacket]. INSCRIBED generically ("Best Regards") and SIGNED by the author on the title page. A "masterful and richly rewarding collection of writings on the movies, [in which] one of our most influential critics reflects on some of the medium's greatest figures and most important issues. A wonderfully intelligent and entertaining collection, with subjects ranging from Garbo to Fellini, and stops in between for Bette Davis, Frank Capra, Charles Laughton, Sam Fuller, and many others." Signed by Author View more info
By: Schneider, Peter (translated by Leigh Hafrey)
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, Pantheon Books: (c.1983)
Edition: First American Edition
Seller ID: 24783
ISBN: 0-394-52928-6
Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj
[nice-looking copy, minor shelfwear to book; jacket a little bit surface-rubbed, slight vertical wrinkling near bottom of rear panel]. Novel about life near the Berlin Wall, in the once-divided city, juxtaposing "anecodtes and images, fantastic humor and intense feeling, in an intricate, beautifully crafted mosaic in which every detail becomes charged with significance." View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Boston/London, Faber and Faber: (c.1987)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 24035
ISBN: 0-572-12993-5
Condition: Fine
[a lovely, as-new copy]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) The screenplay for the acclaimed 1985 film, based on the novel by Manuel Puig, about "two men -- one a political prisoner, the other a homosexual window dresser -- [who] share a Latin American jail cell" and despite seemingly having nothing in common, find a way "to help each other survive the abuse and terror of prison." The book also includes an essay on independent filmmaking by David Weisman, producer of the movie, which received four Academy Award nominations. (William Hurt won the Best Actor Oscar for his performance.) View more info
![Image for Golf with the Experts [*SIGNED* by "The Hogans" (see note)]](/assets/images/product/24061.jpg)
Price: $100.00
Publisher: New York, A.S. Barnes and Company: 1963 (c.1959)
Edition: 2nd printing
Seller ID: 24061
Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj
(price-clipped) [very light wear to the extremities, a nice solid copy; jacket has an itsy-bitsy chip at bottom of front panel, small tear at lower rear hinge, another small closed tear and associated creasing at bottom of rear panel]. (B&W photographs) "A complete course of instruction by the greatest names in golf," an anthology of previously-published pieces on all aspects of the game. The greatest of the great names, of course, was Ben Hogan, represented here by an excerpt on "Clubs--Selection and Use" from his book "Power Golf." What makes this particular copy o... View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, L.B. Fischer: (c.1945)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 24368
Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj
[nice clean book, just a touch of wear to the extremities; jacket shows age-toning (most noticeably along spine), some shallow chipping along top edge]. Stories, novelettes, and poems. Includes contributions by: Sanora Babb (story, "The Refugee"); Jane Bowles (story, "A Day in the Open"); Gwendolyn Brooks ("Three Poems"); Norman Rosten (excerpt from narrative poem, "The Big Road"); Jesse Stuart (story, "Seth Winters"); Richard Wright (remembrance, "Early Days in Chicago"); and Len Zinberg (story, "Immigrant"). Includes brief biographic... View more info
![Image for Stirling Silliphant: The Fingers of God [*SIGNED*]](/assets/images/product/24490.jpg)
By: Segaloff, Nat
Price: $35.00
Publisher: (n.p.), BearManor Media: (c.2014)
Edition: Unstated edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 24490
ISBN: 159393758X
Condition: Fine
[nice as-new book, with no discernible wear]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the title page. "The Story of Hollywood's Hottest Writer Who Rode Route 66, Mastered Disaster Films, and Lived His Life Like It Was a Movie." Signed by Author View more info
By: Seldes, George
Price: $35.00
Publisher: New York/London, Harper & Brothers: 1935
Edition: 1st Edition (K-K)
Seller ID: 23855
Condition: Very Good
(no dust jacket) [good sound copy, spine cloth faded, light soiling to covers, light age-toning to edges of text block, tiny rip in cloth at top of spine]. Political biography of Benito Mussolini's life and rise to power. Seldes, an investigative reporter in a day before that term existed, had some considerably history with Il Duce: in the early 1920s Seldes had been sent to Italy by the Chicago Tribune, and "first knew Mussolini as a fellow but rather violent journalist," as he writes in his foreword. He reported extensively on the political scene in Italy, and one particular piece... View more info
![Image for Bloodline [*SIGNED*]](/assets/images/product/23826.jpg)
By: Sheldon, Sidney
Price: $50.00
Publisher: New York, William Morrow and Company: 1978
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 23826
ISBN: 0-688-03196-X
Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj
(price-clipped) [good sound copy, minor wear to bottom edge, a couple of tiny faint stains on bottom of text block; jacket shows just a bit of wear along top and bottom edges, a tiny bit of what might be insect-nibbling at bottom right corner of front panel, light soiling; includes original wrap-around band from Brentano's, bearing the legend "autographed for you by the author"]. SIGNED by the author on the ffep (signature only, no inscription). A "stunning tale [in which] an irresistible heroine and a multi-billion-dollar business together face a deadly struggle for survival.... View more info
By: Shepard, Sam
Price: $100.00
Publisher: New York, Urizen Books: (c.1979)
Edition: Book Club Edition
Seller ID: 23977
Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj
[nice tight clean copy, no wear at all to book; jacket shows just a trace of edgewear here and there]. Shepard's breakthrough play about an epically dysfunctional Illinois farm family. Recipient of the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. View more info
By: Sherman, Cindy
Price: $45.00
Publisher: Munchen [Munich], Schirmer Art Books: (c.1998)
Edition: Later Printing
Seller ID: 24636
ISBN: 3-88814-620-8
Condition: Near Fine
[light surface wear and minor edgewear to front cover, very slight dog-earing at corners of front cover]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) "In [Sherman's] photographic works, in which she is both actress and director, she offers convincing, often harrowing, answers to the psychic situation of human beings caught in the modern media jungle. In so doing, she employs the medium of photography, taking her motifs from the store of well-known images from film and television, advertising, the mass media and art." Introductory essay by Arthur C. Danto. View more info
