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By: Zugsmith, Leane
Price: $75.00
Publisher: New York, Random House: (c.1938)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 24008
(no dust jacket) [moderate shelfwear, very light bumping to several corners, a bit of soiling to edges of text block, one-time owner's signature at top of ffep]. Novel about a group of seven people who are sent down South by a New York-based civil rights organization to investigate the violent repression (including lynchings) of mill workers and sharecroppers, and are met with open hostility and worse. Zugsmith was a Kentucky-born journalist and activist who turned out... View more info
By: {B. Traven} (Hinckle, Warren III, ed.)
Price: $20.00
Publisher: San Francisco, Ramparts Magazine, Inc.: 1967
Edition: (Vol. 6, No. 3)
Seller ID: 24414
[light rubbing to covers only]. (B&W & color photos, ads, graphics) There are two items of primary interest in this issue of this erstwhile lefty publication. The first is a "Literary Supplement" featuring journalist and film critic Judy Stone's account of her meetings with the elusive and mysterious writer B. Traven in Mexico (which formed much of the basis for her book "The Mystery of B. Traven," published ten years later); also included is "A Rea... View more info
By: {Grierson, John} Hardy, Forsyth, ed., with American notes by Richard Griffith and Mary Losey
Price: $35.00
Publisher: New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company: (c.1947)
Edition: First American Edition
Seller ID: 23677
[very slight bumping to a couple of corners, light age-toning to top edge of text block; jacket moderately worn at edges and extremities, front panel a little rubbed]. A collection of the film writings of the pioneer British documentarian John Grierson. View more info
By: {Hammett, Dashiell} Layman, Richard, ed., with Julie M. Rivett
Price: $12.00
Publisher: Washington DC, Counterpoint: (c.2001)
Edition: 1st printing
Seller ID: 24403
[nice as-new copy, but for slight fading along spine; no discernible wear, appears unread]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) "Here, in his own words, is Hammett the family man, distant but devoted, late with the check but never too late; Hammett the student of political affairs, scanning the headlines from a Marxist perspective; Hammett the lover of Lillian Hellman, delighting in her style, her humor, and her accomplishments, yet always maintaining his life apart from hers... View more info
By: {Pasolini, Pier Paolo} Naldini, Nico, ed. (translated by Stuart Hood)
Price: $25.00
Publisher: London, Quartet Books: 1992
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 24533
[very nice copy, just the slight bit of abrasion here and there to edges of text block; minor wrinkling to jacket along top edge]. "Published for the first time in English, [these letters] provide an invaluable insight into the literary and psychological development of a major writer who was also an innovative and influential film-maker." Includes are long extracts from his early diaries and some of his first poems. View more info