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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
By: Sherwin, David
Price: $25.00
Publisher: London, Andre Deutsch: 1996
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 24384
ISBN: 0-233-98966-8
Condition: Very Good+ in Near Fine dj
[small stains on front pastedown and ffep, light foxing/spotting to top edge of text block; jacket lightly rubbed]. A memoir in diary format by the writer of the source material for Lindsay Anderson's 1968 film IF..., which began a lifelong friendship and collaboration between the two, and takes Sherwin from being a "movie-mad Oxford drop-out" to a career in Hollywood -- "into a comic but crazed world where he loses his sanity." View more info
![Image for Hiding in a Cave of Trunks: A Prominent Jewish Family's Century in Shanghai and Internment in a WWII POW Camp [*SIGNED*]](/assets/images/product/24411.jpg)
Price: $20.00
Publisher: (n.p.), (published by the author): (c.2012)
Edition: Unstated edition
Seller ID: 24411
ISBN: 1479165387
Condition: Near Fine
[teensy-weensy dog-earing to corners of front cover, otherwise as new]. Trade PB INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the half-title page: "To _____ / with / Best wishes / Ester Shifren / 2013." The author traces the history of her family, who came to Shanghai from India in the 1840s and remained there until they were interned in a Japanese POW camp in 1943; following the war, they relocated to Hong Kong and subsequently to Israel. The author herself spent 36 years living in South Africa after her marriage, then settled in Los Angeles. View more info
By: Sillitoe, Alan
Price: $100.00
Publisher: London, W.H. Allen: 1959 (c.1958)
Edition: 4th printing
Seller ID: 23480
Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj
(price-clipped) [light shelfwear, a couple of tiny spots on fore-edge, one-time owner's signature on ffep (see notes); jacket a little edgeworn and slightly soiled, downgraded from NF to VG only because of the price-clipping]. Sillitoe's debut novel, capturing "all the hearty, boozy, earthy gaiety of English provincial life." Basis for the 1960 Karel Reisz film, starring Albert Finney in his breakthrough role. This copy was apparently the property of the English playwright/novelist/screenwriter/painter Derek Marlowe, and bears his purported ownership signature on the ffep -- signed ... View more info
By: Sillman, Leonard
Price: $30.00
Publisher: New York, The Citadel Press: (c.1959)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 24611
Condition: Very Good in Very Good dj
[a bit of wear to lower extremities, ffep possibly removed (although if so, very neatly and without a trace); jacket moderately soiled, a few closed tears, shallow chipping at top of spine]. (B&W photographs) "The witty autobiography of one of the most colorful personalities in show business, producer of 'New Faces.' An exciting, fast-moving behind-the-scenes story of Broadway and Hollywood from the 1920's to the present." Per Wikipedia, he "is perhaps best known for his series of musical revues, Leonard Sillman's New Faces, which introduced many major stars to Broadway audience... View more info
![Image for Maigret Abroad [containing: "A Crime in Holland" and "At the 'Gai-Moulin'"]](/assets/images/product/24406.jpg)
By: Simenon, Georges (translated by Geoffrey Sainsbury)
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York, The Avon Book Company: (c.1943)
Edition: First Edition Thus
Seller ID: 24406
Condition: Good+
[covers are edgeworn, horizontal crease in front cover near top edge, tiny tears in top edges of first couple of pages; binding intact, covers attached]. (Murder Mystery Monthly, No. 8) Series "In this new Simenon double-header Inspector Maigret steps out of his own country to go sleuthing." View more info
By: Simon, Neil
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York, Random House: (c.1966)
Edition: Book Club Edition
Seller ID: 23996
Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj
[just a touch of wear at base of spine, otherwise a nice tight clean book; jacket has a touch of wear along the spine, tiny tear and some associated creasing at bottom left corner of rear panel]. (B&W photographs) Simon's comedy classic. First presented on Broadway in 1965, it ran for over two years. The stars of the original production, directed by Mike Nichols, were Walter Matthau (who repeated his role in the 1968 movie adaptation) and Art Carney (who didn't). View more info
By: Simon, Neil (book); music by Cy Coleman, lyrics by Dorothy Fields
Price: $300.00
Publisher: New York, Random House: (c.1966)
Edition: 1st Edition (see note)
Seller ID: 23893
Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj
[a very nice copy, tight and clean with just a touch of wear at the spine ends; jacket a little rubbed on the front panel, very light wear to extremities, tiny closed tear at upper left of front panel]. (B&W photographs) One of the great musicals of the 1960s, adapted from Federico Fellini's film "Nights of Cabiria." It was a triumph for choreographer Bob Fosse on the stage, but a little less so in his 1969 screen adaptation (which substituted Shirley MacLaine for Gwen Verdon). [NOTE: Although there is no "first printing" or "first edition" statement in this copy of ... View more info
By: Sinclair, Harold
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York/Toronto, Rinehart & Co., Inc.: (c.1952)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 24348
Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj
[a bit of wear to extremities, otherwise a solid clean book; jacket is edgeworn (especially along right edge of front panel), with some minor chipping at spine ends, a few small scrape marks on spine]. "A novel about a boy, a city and an art, and how the three grew into and out of each other; how each was sometimes the victim, sometimes the victor in a passionate struggle for expression. The city is New Orleans during the second decade of our [20th] century; the boy is a young Negro; the art is jazz." Reviewing the book for The New York Times, novelist Harnett T. Kane wrote that ... View more info
By: Sinclair, Upton
Price: $200.00
Publisher: Los Angeles, Published By the Author: (c.1933)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 23732
Condition: Very Good+ in Fair dj
(price-clipped) [light shelfwear, one tiny dent in top edge of each cover; jacket is in pretty rough shape, with about 40% of the lower spine missing (and related paper loss extending a bit into the lower left corner of the front panel), heavy edgewear at flap-folds, various small tears and nicks]. (B&W photo frontispiece) For what he called "A Feature Picture of Wall Street and High Finance," the ever-crusading author co-opted the rise-and-fall tale of cinema pioneer Fox (then recently ousted from the company he founded and that still bore his name) in order to deliver one of his trad... View more info
By: Sinclair, Upton
Price: $100.00
Publisher: New York, Grosset & Dunlap: 1927
Edition: Reprint (stated 8th printing)
Seller ID: 24739
Condition: Very Good+
(pictorial cloth; no dust jacket) [good sound book, firmly bound with light shelfwear; some soiling to edges of text block, previous owner's name faintly stamped on top and bottom edges of text block and again on ffep, with an additional one-time owner's signature also on the ffep; vintage bookseller's rubber-stamp (Bertrand Smith Acres of Books, Long Beach, Calif.) at bottom corner of front pastedown]. Sinclair's classic socio-political satire on oil-fortune-making in Southern California, centering around a father and son; loosely based on the real-life saga of the Doheny family, whose pater... View more info
By: Singer, Sally M.
Price: $25.00
Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons: (c.1971)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 24355
Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj
[very slight turn to spine, but a nice clean book with no significant wear; jacket similarly nice, with some very fainting soiling and a touch of edgewear]. "A charming mystery-adventure story in which a likable young schoolteacher from the Bronx becomes fair game for both sides in the colorful, exotic powder-keg world that is present-day Israel." Kirkus Reviews' verdict: "For this you should make time -- a sassy schlepp that really sprints." An unaccountably scarce book. View more info
