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Never Let Me Go

By: Wilhelm, Gale

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, William Morrow and Company: 1945

Seller ID: 16302

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

[nice tight clean book, minor wear to spine ends; jacket shows jsut a bit of wear and very slight paper loss at spine extremities]. San Francisco-set novel about an "exquisite heiress, seeking in work an escape from her depressing home. She was rapidly becoming a martyr to her neurotic mother's whims -- until she became the cool. efficient secretary of Mason McGowan: dynamic president of a booming war-plant, a casual, handsome Prince Charming, well-versed in getting his own way -- until he met [her]." The author's reputation, such as it is, was pretty well established by her two earl...
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My Tour in Viet Nam: A Burlesque Shocker

By: Williams, Marion L.

Price: $60.00

Publisher: New York, Vantage Press: (c.1970)

Seller ID: 24022

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dj

[worn at spine ends and corners, light spotting/foxing to top edge of text block; jacket moderately soiled, browned and lightly stained along spine, a couple of tiny stains on front panel, bits of paper loss at spine ends]. Very scarce vanity press-issued account of the Vietnam War, by "one of the few female foreign correspondents allowed into this embattled country" -- and quite possibly the only one of that group who was African-American. A native of Kansas City, the author had been a nurse, a teacher, a real estate broker, and "the first and only black bondswoman in the State o...
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Powder and Paint: A History of the Englishwoman's Toilet: Elizabeth I - Elizabeth II

By: Williams, Neville

Price: $75.00

Publisher: London/New York/Toronto, Longmans, Green and Co.: 1957

Seller ID: 25046

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj

[minimal shelfwear, light foxing to fore-edge, one-time owner's signature-stamp on front pastedown; jacket lightly foxed along inner edges of flaps, slight wear along top edge of front panel]. (B&W plates, drawings) "This is a history of the Englishwoman's toilet from the earliest recorded mention in the middle of the sixteenth century up to the present day. The author describes the extraordinary changes in fashion, swinging like a pendulum from the extremes of artificiality to the utmost simplicity, according to the tastes and moral attitude of society."
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Summer and Smoke

By: Williams, Tennessee

Price: $100.00

Publisher: (n.p.), New Directions: (c.1948)

Seller ID: 25288

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj

(price-clipped) [good solid copy, slight discoloration to cloth at top of spine, age-browning and light spotting to top of text block; jacket spine a little faded, some uneven fading to front panel, browning around perimeter of rear panel, minor wear to extremities, a couple of light scuff marks on front panel]. (B&W photographs) The text of this edition is illustrated by four photographs from what I presume is the original 1948 Broadway production, starring Margaret Phillips and Tod Andrews -- although I have seen at least one of these photos (credited to Eileen Darby) identified as having b...
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A Streetcar Named Desire

By: Williams, Tennessee

Price: $400.00

Publisher: New York, New Directions Books: (c.1947)

Seller ID: 25573

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dj

(lavender decorated boards, in dust jacket) [book is a bit shelfworn on bottom edge (slight exposure of boards at lower tips), with a little fading at spine ends (matching jacket paper loss); jacket edgeworn especially along flap-folds, spine moderately faded ("tennessee williams" in gold lettering still readable), paper loss at both ends of spine (about 1-1/4" at top, 1/2" at bottom, the former also extending diagonally into the upper right corner of the rear panel), small tears and minor paper loss at a couple of corners, tiny chip at bottom of front panel; the front panel, u...
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Fable in Gothic

By: Winter, Lois F.

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Caldwell ID, The Caxton Printers, Ltd.: 1940

Seller ID: 17478

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dj

[moderate shelfwear, some foxing/spotting to top of text block, one-time owner's signature on front pastedown; jacket torn at spine corners, a bit of paper loss at top of spine, small strip of old cellotape affixed to rear panel]. "The scathing and outspoken story of a minister who believed his wife's happiness was not too much to pay for his own advancement. Here is the needless tragedy of thousands of women who can neither love nor desert their husbands because they recognize their place as necessary social fixtures." The author, per the jacket blurb, was the daughter of an Episcop...
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For Love of Martha

By: Winter, Marjorie (pseud. for Florette Henri; see notes)

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Julian Messner, Inc.: (c.1956)

Seller ID: 22122

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

[nice clean book with minimal shelfwear; jacket has a handful of teeny-tiny chips along top and bottom edges, still quite presentable]. A "true story of one family's struggle to adopt a child." The author, per the jacket blurb, had an "established reputation as novelist and playwright who has won critical acclaim in both fields of writing," but was "forced to write" this book under a pseudonym "to insure the safety of her family." (It also mentions that she was a "graduate of a major women's college [and] has been awarded distinguished prizes, has seen her...
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Dumachas and Sheba: The Greatest Love Story Ever Told

By: Wise, Leonard

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday & Company, Inc.: 1979

Seller ID: 25552

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

(price-clipped) [nice tight copy, very slight bump to bottom front corner, no other discernible wear; jacket has a bit of extremely shallow insect-nibbling along bottom edge (virtually disappears inside new mylar jacket protector), faint semi-circular scuff mark on front panel, light handling wear]. Love story set in Jerusalem at the time of Jesus Christ. "Dumachas -- a fearless, passionate spokesman for independence -- had become a kind of king in the underworld of Jerusalem. Young, handsome, fiercely intelligent, he defended and challenged and inspired the oppressed of the city, daring...
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In Deep [SIGNED]

By: Wolfe, Bernard

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1957

Seller ID: 25590

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

[light shelfwear, slight fading to boards along top edges, minor wear to cloth at spine ends; jacket spine tanned with a few little scrap marks, also browned along flap-folds, with a few additional scrape marks on front panel]. INSCRIBED ("for ______ -- from their / faithful admirer -- " and SIGNED by the author on the ffep. "A political action novel with a difference: it looks at the political world from below, through the cracks in the floor, examining the intensely public from the point of view of the intensely personal." The plot concerns a "non-political man" se...
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About Lyddy Thomas

By: Wolff, Maritta

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: (c.1947)

Seller ID: 25535

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Very Good+ dj

(price-clipped) [book is tight and clean, with no discernible wear; jacket also very nice, with just a bit of wear along the top of the front panel and a short closed tear at the bottom front hinge; see NOTE about stamp on front jacket flap]. The third novel by this underappreciated author, who will probably always be best-known for her first book, "Whistle Stop" (1941), but who achieved a little posthumous boost in her reputation when, following her death in 2002, the manuscript for an unpublished novel was discovered in her refrigerator, where she'd kept it for thirty years. (This b...
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Claude Chabrol

By: Wood, Robin, and Michael Walker

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Praeger Publishers, Inc.: 1970

Seller ID: 25111

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

[very light shelfwear to book, bookplate on front pastedown; jacket shows a little wear along top and bottom edges, and at top corners]. (B&W photographs) A film-by-film analysis of Chabrol's early work, through LE BOUCHER (1969).
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Classic Homes of Los Angeles

By: Woods, Douglas

Price: $150.00

Publisher: New York, Rizzoli International Publications: 2010

Seller ID: 24825

ISBN: 0847833844

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice clean copy, almost as-new, with just a couple of teensy bumps to a couple of corners; ditto the jacket, with one tiny closed tear at the bottom of the front panel]. (color photographs) "This deluxe volume offers an exclusive look into the classic homes and gardens in the legendary neighborhoods in and around Los Angeles, such as Hancock Park, Windsor Square, Beverly Hills, Pasadena, and Malibu." **** NOTE that additional shipping charges will be requested for international shipping of this heavy book, or for Priority Mail service to U.S. destinations; if this concerns you, plea...
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"Scarlet Josephine"

By: Worthington, Marjorie

Price: $150.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1933

Seller ID: 22292

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

[nice tight clean book, just a trace of shelfwear; jacket has tiny chips at spine ends, minor wear to edges and extremities, light soiling to rear panel]. Very uncommon novel about a "sensitive, cultivated woman of thirty" who lives an unobtrusive life in a small Connecticut village, appearing "outwardly sedate, spinsterish, almost forbidding" to others -- but she reads Joyce and Lawrence and Hemingway, and "in her private thoughts and dreams [is] singularly uninhibited and modern." Her quiet life is upended, however, when she writes a scandalous best-seller about an ...
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Stepsons of France

By: Wren, Percival Christopher

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, Frederick A. Stokes Company: [1927]

Seller ID: 19737

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice tight copy, minimal shelfwear, just a touch of soiling/age-toning to edges of text block, vintage price sticker (from the San Francisco department store The White House) on rear pastedown; jacket has a light diagonal smudge line (about 2 inches long) at bottom of front panel, minor surface wear here and there]. "True tales of the French Foreign Legion with all the quick-moving action, breathless adventure and desert lure that marks 'Beau Geste,'" this author's best-known work. Seventeen stories, all pre-dating the "Beau" trilogy (all of which were published in the 1920s...
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Sowing Glory: The Memoirs of "Mary Ambree," the English Woman-Legionary

By: Wren, Percival Christopher, ed.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, Frederick A. Stokes Company: 1931

Seller ID: 24903

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

[nice clean copy, no significant wear, just a touch of foxing to the fore-edge; jacket a bit darkened along spine, with a few tiny edge-nicks]. Pseudonymous memoir, based on the diary of a woman who purportedly served a five-year hitch in the French Foreign Legion (after having been an ambulance driver during World War I), as "edited and retold" by a guy who did as much to romanticize the F.F.L. as anyone, primarily through his popular "Beau" novels ("Beau Geste," "Beau Sabreur" and "Beau Ideal"), all of which were also filmed. Wren's claims to have ser...
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The Wig; a mirror image

By: Wright, Charles

Price: $60.00

Publisher: New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 1966

Seller ID: 25538

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

(price-clipped) [nice tight clean book, with just a trace of wear to the spine ends and some extremely light spotting on the top of the text block; the jacket is bright and clean with just a touch of wear along the bottom edge, downgraded from Near Fine only because of the price-clipping]. Wright's second novel, "a kind of Candide in Harlem," about a black man who feels alienated from the Great Society and "conducts his search for happiness in a series of misadventures that begin with the transformation of the hair on his head into burnished silken curls." (It's helpfully expl...
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Silver Collar Boy

By: Wright, Constance

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc.: (c.1935)

Seller ID: 17677

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Near Fine dj

[spine a little turned, light shelfwear, tiny stain on bottom of text block; jacket shows just a touch of soiling to rear panel]. (frontispiece, 4 full-page chapter-title drawings) Set in eighteenth-century London, this quasi-fantasy tale "is part fact, part legend, and part imagination," and its title notwithstanding, is really about the woman depicted in the beautiful Rex Whistler dust jacket illustration. "We are told of a lady of fashion whose portrait is painted by a young unknown artist, with her little negro slave at her knee. . . . [It is] a tale of love and jealousy, of p...
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The Mine with the Iron Door [Photoplay Edition]

By: Wright, Harold Bell

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, A.L. Burt Company: [1924] (c. 1923)

Seller ID: 25331

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Good dj

[a good solid book, just lightly shelfworn, one-time owner's signature and date at top of ffep; jacket has a mid-size chip at base of spine + a smaller one at top right corner of front panel, various other small tears and nicks and general wear]. (4 B&W film stills) "The scene of this intensely interesting story is laid in the Arizona mountains, near the Mexican border. Marta, the heroine, is the adopted daughter of two prospectors, who had rescued her as a child from Mexican outlaws." The story also involves a gold-hunter who's on the lam from the law, a tubercular do-gooder doctor...
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Red Sun of Nippon

By: Yardley, Herbert O.

Price: $85.00

Publisher: New York/Toronto, Longmans, Green and Co.: 1934

Seller ID: 18399

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj

(price-clipped) [nice tight book with minor bumping to spine ends and top corners, faint dust-soiling to top edge; jacket shows some wear along top and bottom edges, a few small nicks and tears, some internal brown paper tape repair/reinforcement along top edge]. Scarce novel of international "diplomatic intrigue during anxious times," set mostly in Washington, D.C., involving the tentacles of the "yellow peril" reaching even into the chambers of the U.S. State Department. The author's background knowledge served him well: he was the founder of one of the first American crypt...
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Black Roses

By: Young, Francis Brett

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York/London, Harper & Brothers: 1929

Seller ID: 19447

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Good dj

[solid, clean copy, light shelfwear, modest bumping to lower corners; jacket is edgeworn, especially along spine, with small tears and minor paper loss at several corners, and a somewhat ragged tear along the left edge of the front panel]. Hard to top this jacket blurb: "The hot blood of a Neapolitan peasant coursed in his veins, and from his father, eccentric expatriate Englishman, he inherited the cold idealism that tempered his artistic nature. He was a curious paradox, this man -- brought up on English classics and French pornography, and thrashed with a dried cow's tail when he trie...
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