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By: The Editors of Harper's Bazaar
Price: $300.00
Publisher: New York, Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc.: (c.1959)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 23639
Condition: Very Good+ in Good dj
[light wear to book at extremities, spine very slightly turned; jacket has various small tears, heavy wear along right edge of front panel, some shallow chipping along top edge, a bit of creasing, paper loss to top of spine, and over time has "stretched" a little bit and hence fits somewhat loosely on book]. "Every woman has at least one acquaintance who seems to ride the years with grace, acquire admirers effortlessly and even teach her children to have a well-groomed look from cradlehood up. How does she manage to do it? What is the secret which makes her unique among her frie... View more info
By: Thomas, Brendon
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Edinburgh, Moorfoot Publishing: 1984
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 23928
ISBN: 0-906606-09-8
Condition: Near Fine
[nice clean book with no significant wear]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) "An alphabetically-listed description of Edinburgh [and Leith] cinemas past and present." View more info
By: Thomas, Irv, ed. ("Chief Outlaw")
Price: $40.00
Publisher: Canyon CA, The Black Bart Brigade: 1971
Edition: (No. 1)
Seller ID: 24838
Condition: Near Fine
[light handling wear, old address label (mostly peeled off) on rear cover]. (B&W graphics) Not exactly "countercultural," rather a sort of personal-liberationist periodical from the late-hippie (or early-New Age) era. As befitting an inaugural issue, there's quite a bit of space given over to statements of aims and philosophies, etc., e.g.: "Black Bart Brigade is primarily directed toward middle-age, middle-class, middle-income America, the kind of people who seldom go out of their way to find liberating publications." Contents include: "Alternative: The New Vocations Pro... View more info
By: Thomas, Tony
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Secacus NJ, Citadel Press: (c.1985)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 23854
ISBN: 0-8065-0976-7
Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj
[minimal shelfwear, a tiny trace of foxing to top of text block; jacket lightly rubbed, minor edgewear, soft vertical crease at bottom of front panel]. (B&W photographs) "A complete account of Howard Hughes's career as a film mogul," a spotty track record that includes such classics as HELL'S ANGELS, SCARFACE and THE OUTLAW (all of which are discussed at some length) and such turkeys as MAD WEDNESDAY (aka THE SIN OF HAROLD DIDDLEBOCK), VENDETTA and THE CONQUEROR. (Come to think of it, I should have included THE OUTLAW with the turkeys, too.) About a third of the book is devoted to Hu... View more info
By: Thompson, Edward
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, Farrar & Rinehart: (c.1930)
Edition: First American Edition
Seller ID: 24356
Condition: Very Good
(no dust jacket) [good solid book, spine lettering heavily rubbed, a little fading to black cloth at and adjacent to spine, some dust-soiling to top of text block; ownership signature of American poet-novelist Sanora Babb on half-title page; vintage bookseller's label from the famous Hollywood bookseller Stanley Rose Ltd. Fine Books on rear pastedown]. (pen and ink drawings) Anti-war novella, derived from Thompson's service in Palestine with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force during World War I. "The whole humor, passion and tenderness of war is captured here in little, in a delicate and sha... View more info
By: Thompson, Jim
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Berkeley, Black Lizard Books: 1987
Edition: 1st printing
Seller ID: 24329
Condition: Near Fine
[nice clean tight book, with just a touch of edgewear to covers here and there]. "Tommy was just a country boy but he thought he knew the difference between right and wrong -- it was touch to be sure about things, though, when either Mary or Donna were around. If it hadn't been for them, well, maybe nobody would have gotten killed." (Yeah, that's right -- blame it on the women.) Introduction (exclusive to this series) by Barry Gifford, who states quite rightly: "Nobody else ever wrote books like these." View more info
![Image for Rosebud: The Story of Orson Welles [*SIGNED*]](/assets/images/product/24483.jpg)
By: Thomson, David
Price: $50.00
Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1996
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 24483
ISBN: 0-679-41834-2
Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj
[nice attractive copy, just the teensiest bit of shelfwear to book; jacket similarly nice, soft vertical crease and short corner crease in front flap, minor external handling wear]. (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED simply ("To ________") and SIGNED by the author on the title page. The "story" in the subtitle was quite deliberately chosen by the author, one of our finest writers on film, who has taken a novelistic approach to Welles's life and who has the writing chops to pull it off, producing a biography that "summons up the man and the artist and does justice to the genius a... View more info
![Image for Beneath Mulholland: Thoughts on Hollywood and Its Ghosts [*SIGNED*]](/assets/images/product/24573.jpg)
By: Thomson, David
Price: $25.00
Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1997
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 24573
ISBN: 0-679-45115-3
Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj
[nice tight clean copy, with no discernible wear to book; the jacket has some minor surface wear and some very slight wrinkling along the top of the rear panel]. INSCRIBED briefly ("To ________") and SIGNED by the author on the title page. The author "is at his incomparable best in this stunning collection of essays on Hollywood films -- their stars and the illusions they create. He explorres a sort of twilight zone where film actors and the characters they play become part of our reality, as living beings and as ghosts, residing on or buried beneath Mulholland Drive, or wanderin... View more info
By: Thrasher, Frederic M., ed.
Price: $30.00
Publisher: New York, Duell, Sloan and Pearce: (c.1946)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 24578
Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj
[virtually no wear at all to the book; the jacket is lightly soiled, scuffed along the spine, with some paper loss surrounding the base of the spine and a short closed tear and associated creasing at the bottom right corner of the front panel]. (B&W photographs) A history of how sound recording was introduced to the movies, with heavy emphasis (and credit) given to the contributions of Warner Bros. -- not too surprisingly, since Warners was also the primary mover behind the movie industry's "20th Anniversary of Talking Pictures" campaign in 1946. Although there's no overt sponsorship... View more info
By: Thrower, Stephen
Price: $40.00
Publisher: Guildford, England, FAB Press: 1999
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 23969
ISBN: 0-9529260-6-7
Condition: Near Fine
[nice clean copy, vertical rubbed line on front cover, no other significant wear]. (B&W and color photos, graphics) A comprehensive survey of the career of Italian horrormeister Fulci (1927-1996), sometimes known as the "Godfather of Gore": "a journey through the wilder reaches of Italy's fertile film culture, taking a close-up look at the cinema's most daring and anarchic horror specialist -- a man willing to go ever further in search of the ultimate horrific set-piece." Includes plot synopses, analysis, production details and full credits for all of his 52 films, as well as... View more info
By: Tilton, Alice (pseud. for Phoebe Atwood Taylor)
Price: $65.00
Publisher: New York, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.: (c.1939)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 22791
Condition: Good in Poor dj
[book is moderately shelfworn, spine somewhat turned, dust-soiling to top edge, internally quite clean; jacket soiled and dampstained along spine and extending onto both panels and flaps, with some chipping (or insect-nibbling) at top of spine]. Taylor's second book under the Tilton pseudonym, also the second in her series featuring Leonidas Witherall, "the man who looks like Shakespeare but sleuths like Sherlock Holmes," whose persona as a retired professor who procures rare books for wealthy but lazy Boston collectors masks his own secret life as an author of pulpish detective thril... View more info
By: Trell, Max
Price: $400.00
Publisher: New York, The Macaulay Company: (c.1932)
Edition: Later Printing
Seller ID: 23464
Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj
[good solid copy, slight deterioration to cloth at top of spine, small bookseller's rubber stamp on front pastedown (Bertrand Smith's Acres of Books, Cincinnati); jacket has a few small closed tears, shallow chip at top of spine, much shallower chipping elsewhere along top edge, minor paper loss at several corners and at base of spine]. Very scarce novel about a lawyer who was "much more than honest -- shrewd, brilliant, fearless [with] an accurate sense of humor, a trip-hammer wit, capacity for fact and logic, and especially a broad sympathy and understanding for all things human. To the... View more info
![Image for A Rose for Mrs. Miniver: The Life of Greer Garson [*SIGNED*]](/assets/images/product/24135.jpg)
By: Troyan, Michael
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Lexington, The University Press of Kentucky: 2005 (c.1999)
Edition: First Paperback Edition
Seller ID: 24135
ISBN: 0-8131-9150-5
Condition: Fine
[lovely as-new book, with no discernible wear]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the title page; the inscription is to legendary M-G-M makeup artist William Tuttle, and expresses the author's gratitude for his contributions to the book. (There are nine index references to Tuttle, whose work with Garson dated back to the 1940s. He had devised the effects that allowed her to "age" from 18 to 84 in MRS. PARKINGTON (1944), and did her makeup for her very last acting role, in a 1982 episode of "The Love Boat.") The only full-length biography, I bel... View more info
By: Tunberg, Karl
Price: $125.00
Publisher: New York, The Macaulay Company: (c.1935)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 23702
Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj
[solid clean book, with just a touch of wear at spine ends; jacket shows some wear along bottom edge, fading to spine, soiling to rear panel]. Novel about a "smashing, handsome, blond All-American football giant whose name was in every headline," who married a "smart, sophisticated, gorgeous, hero-worshipping, and ambitious" girl -- and "what happened to them after the roar of the crowd settled down to an unrecognizable whisper." Purporting to be "the first and only authentic revelation of what happens to the boys who are the scapegoats of the modern football racke... View more info
Price: $125.00
Publisher: New York, Robert M. McBride & Company: 1931
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 23600
Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj
[minor shelfwear, light soiling to top of text block; jacket somewhat soiled and spotted, mild edgewear, a couple of tiny nicks at bottom of rear panel]. Novel about "white folks of the wide-awake modern South . . . dealing with fortune's universal seesaw, as experienced by two Southern families." The author, a native of Atlanta, presumably knew wherefrom he wrote; he published only two novels, both quite scarce, of which this was the first. View more info
Price: $100.00
Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: (c.1949)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 24665
Condition: Very Good+
(no dust jacket) [lightly shelfworn, spine lettering a little rubbed, tiny nick in spine cloth; bookplate of Hollywood writer-producer Carey Wilson on front pastedown]. Very hard-to-find, hard-boiled memoir by the legendary crime reporter for the Los Angeles Herald-Express -- she was the first reporter to reach the scene of the "Black Dahlia" murder -- who in 1947 became city editor of the paper, one of the first women in the country to hold an editorial position at that level. Time magazine, reporting on her ascension to the post, observed that "Aggie can keep up with the boys a... View more info
By: Usai, Paolo Cherchi, and Lorenzo Codelli, eds.
Price: $125.00
Publisher: Pordenone (Italy), Edizioni Biblioteca dell'Immagine: 1990
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 24432
Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj
[slight scrunching to a few pages along fore-edge, no other significant wear; jacket slightly wrinkled along the top edge (the result of its being just a tad taller than the book itself), and with some careless pen-tip indentations in the front panel (virtually invisible against the black background)]. (B&W photographs, facsimiles) A wide-ranging collection of articles and essays on the German cinema prior to THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI; published in conjunction with a retrospective at that year's Pordenone Silent Film Festival (Le Giornate del Cinema Muto). Although the cover title and jacke... View more info
Price: $40.00
Publisher: New York, The John Day Company: (c.1939)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 23033
Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj
(price-clipped) [light shelfwear, mild bumping to top corners, one-time owner's signature and date at top of ffep; jacket a little worn along top and bottom edges, one tiny chip at bottom of front panel]. The author, "a father of twenty years experience" offers his "genial but rueful report on a job which he says is a 'combination of adventure, blindman's buff, guerrilla warfare and crossword puzzle.' ... He traces the ordeals and mystifications of a father from that first small cry in the maternity ward down through the myriad knotty problems of table manners, religion, swing mu... View more info
By: Van Sickle, V.A.
Price: $100.00
Publisher: New York/London, Alfred A. Knopf: 1937
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 23708
Condition: Very Good in Very Good dj
(in Grosset & Dunlap reissue dust jacket) [moderate shelfwear to bottom edge, very slight fraying to cloth at top of spine, top front corner bumped; jacket shows a little wear at edges and corners, faint staining at bottom corner of rear panel]. Mystery novel with a resurrectionist angle, involving a racketeer who's died in prison -- well, actually, he's basically volunteered to be executed by carbon monoxide gas, as part of his agreement to be the subject of an experimental technique designed to bring victims of such poisoning back to life -- the condition for his cooperation being that if it... View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1925
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 24675
Condition: Very Good
(no dust jacket) [spine slightly turned spine cloth a bit darkened, lower corners a teensy bit bumped, minor surface wear to covers; bookplate of Hollywood producer/writer Carey Wilson on front pastedown]. Now considered one of the emblematic books of the so-called Jazz Age, Van Vechten's "realistic novel" appeared just a few months after "The Great Gatsby," and shares with Fitzgerald's book an enigmatic figure (here named Gunnar O'Grady) whose actions affect many lives, and who the primary protagonist, the not-very-subtly-named Paul Moody, spends much of the book trying to fi... View more info
