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America by Design: Science, Technology, and the Rise of Corporate Capitalism

By: Noble, David F.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1977

Seller ID: 25761

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

[good solid copy, slight bump to lower rear corner, minor shelfwear; jacket lightly rubbed with minor edgewear, tiny bit of wear to lower spine extremities, diagonal crease in front flap]. "In a significant contribution to the history of our technological society, [the author] shows how American science, which experienced a great burst of creativity after the Civil War, gradually was taken over by industrial corporations and became a handmaiden of capitalist expansion. [The book] gives a new perspective on how technology developed into a dominant factor in the social life of this nation....
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Index to the Work of Alfred Hitchcock

By: Noble, Peter

Price: $100.00

Publisher: London, Sight and Sound: 1949

Seller ID: 25324

Binding: Stapled wraps

Condition: Near Fine

[nice clean copy, very light age-toning, no significant wear; some wrinkling, which is much more apparent in the scanned image than it is to the naked eye]. (Index Series, no. 18) Series This little booklet (44 pages, including covers), although issued as a supplement to "Sight and Sound" magazine, qualifies as the first monograph dedicated exclusively to Hitchcock's oeuvre, and as such is something of a landmark. Following a brief biographical note, it presents credits, a story synopsis, review excerpts, critical/historical comments and other notes on Hitchcock's films from the begi...
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The Great Big Doorstep: A Delta Comedy

By: O'Donnell, E.P.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company: 1941

Seller ID: 25608

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

0809308886 (no dust jacket) [bottom edges shelfworn to the point of some exposure of boards, spine somewhat turned; also has newly-mounted new pastedown and ffep, the latter fashioned so as to fold over the original ffep (still present), which bears labels from two literary agencies (Maxim Lieber, New York; and Phil Berg/Bert Allenberg Inc., Beverly Hills)]. The author's second (and last) novel, about a Cajun family in the Louisiana Delta country that salvages an outsized doorstep from the river, then sets about trying to procure a house of sufficient grandeur to match it, despite (or perhaps ...
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There Will Be Fighting [original title: "The Knife"]

By: O'Donnell, Peadar

Price: $150.00

Publisher: New York/London, G.P. Putnam's Sons/The Knickerbocker Press: 1931

Seller ID: 24819

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Fair dj

[book's covers are stained along the bottom edge of the front cover and in the middle of the rear cover, apparently from the jacket having been wet at one point and partially adhered to the book, otherwise the book is is only moderately shelfworn; the jacket shows quite a bit of internal staining (mostly the rear panel and spine), with some bleed-through on the spine, but considerable rubbing elsewhere, a few small nicks and tiny chips, etc.]. "A pulsating, deeply exciting novel of the Irish Rebellion," by an author who had himself been an important participant. A socialist and labor...
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Sam Francis: Monotype Prints

By: Ogawa Art Foundation

Price: $300.00

Publisher: Tokyo, Ogawa Art Foundation: 1990

Seller ID: 25541

Binding: Stiff wraps

Condition: Fine in Fine dj

(glassine-wrapped stiff covers (not a dust jacket per se), in original cardboard case with hinged die-cut cover flap (i.e. not an open-ended slipcase)) [every element in Fine, unworn condition]. (47 numbered color plates) Catalogue issued in conjunction with a 1990 exhibition of Francis's works; reproduces 47 works in full color, six of which are in double fold-out pages. The same organization had mounted a Francis exhibition just three years before, the catalogue for which was issued in an identical format; featuring just 40 works, that catalogue seems to be relatively common, whereas no cop...
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Behold This Dreamer; a play in four acts

By: Oursler, Fulton, and Aubrey Kennedy

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York/Los Angeles/London, Samuel French, Inc.: (c.1930)

Seller ID: 25717

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

[nice clean copy with minimal handling wear, just a bit of age-toning to page edges]. (B&W photographs, stage diagrams) An adaptation of Oursler's 1924 novel of the same name (his first), about a sensitive, beauty-loving young married man who, fed up with the idiocy of the people around him, gets committed to an asylum and discovers that the people inside are saner than the people outside. The original Broadway production starred Glenn Hunter and Patricia O'Hearn, and ran for 56 performances in the Fall of 1927. Oursler liked the title so much that he repurposed it for his 1964 autobiograph...
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Between the Covers

By: Owen, Frank

Price: $200.00

Publisher: New York, The Macaulay Company: (c.1938)

Seller ID: 25839

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dj

[book shows a bit of wear at spine ends and corners, but generally a good solid clean copy; the jacket has a bit of shallow chipping along both the top and bottom edges, with some associated creasing to the upper edge and lower right corner of the front panel; NOTE that the jacket is also split (separated) along the front hinge, but has been provisionally mended with two strips of removable tape, which will not preclude a future professional repair; it is additionally reinforced with a new mylar jacket protector]. A very presentable copy of this scarce bibliotale, which is of great appeal to ...
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Family Reunion

By: Owen, Janet Curren (pseud. for Helen Gould Curren Owen)

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York/London, Harper & Brothers: 1933

Seller ID: 25749

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

[nice clean copy with minimal shelfwear, a bit of dust-soiling to top of text block; jacket shows a bit of wear at ends of spine, one short closed tear and some minor diagonal creasing at bottom right corner of front panel]. Female-centric novel about a 70-year-old woman who hosts a skeleton-rattling family reunion, which very definitely revolves around the multiple generations of womenfolk, primarily: "her daughter-in-law Sylvia, dark and fiercely tender, whose whole life away from them is secret, and sweet to her, however precarious; the flippant, sensuous granddaughter Rosamond, who ca...
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Fight Doctor [SIGNED]

By: Pacheco, Ferdie, M.D.

Price: $65.00

Publisher: New York, Simon and Schuster: (c.1977)

Seller ID: 20089

ISBN: 0671228943

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[a very nice copy, with just minor traces of wear to both book and jacket]. (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED (to "Norman" [Lear]) and SIGNED by the author on the ffep; the inscription makes reference to page 168, where Lear is mentioned in the text. The author tells his "free-swinging, behind-the-ropes story of his fifteen years in boxing," as a corner man for hundreds of fighters, most notably Muhammad Ali, who provided the book's introduction. Signed by Author
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Le cinéma, un art moderne

By: Païni, Dominique

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Paris, Cahiers du Cinéma: 1997

Seller ID: 25792

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

[minor handling wear only, teensy dog-earing to corners of front cover]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) In a series of essays written over a period of ten years, the author grapples with "the question of modernity by questioning cinema as a whole....by discovering new geneaologies that trace the path by which the modern wave of the 1950s-60s came about." (This is an excerpt from my rough partial translation of the cover blurb.) Works discussed include FANTOMAS, VERTIGO, LES DAMES DU BOIS DE BOULOGNE, LA NUIT DE CARREFOUR (NIGHT AT THE CROSSROADS), LE MEPRIS (CONTEMPT), ET LA VIE CONTINUE a...
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Baby, That Was Rock & Roll: The Legendary Leiber & Stoller

By: Palmer, Robert; introduction by John Lahr

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York/London, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (A Harvest/HBJ Book): (c.1978)

Seller ID: 25133

ISBN: 0156101556

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

[minor edgewear to covers only]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) Examination of the career of the greatest songwriting team of the rock era (well, pre-Lennon & McCartney, anyway). Includes discography and chronological listing of recordings produced by L&S, and lyrics of numerous songs. [NOTE: the image accompanying this listing is of the actual book we have for sale, which notably has a different cover than most other copies from other dealers; this copy also has a kind of decal affixed to the lower right-hand corner of the front cover, bearing the name "Urizen Books," and assigning the ...
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People vs. Withers & Malone: Six Inner Sanctum Mystery Novelettes

By: Palmer, Stuart, and Craig Rice

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Simon and Schuster: 1963

Seller ID: 24913

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj

[book only lightly shelfworn, but pages are somewhat browned at edges (typical with S&S's Inner Sanctum mysteries since the 1940s); jacket a little faded at spine, minor soiling to rear panel]. "Craig Rice's irrepressible, bibulous lawyer, John J. Malone, and Stuart Palmer's incomparable spinster schoolteacher, Hildegarde Withers, team up to solve a half dozen hectic, hilarious homicides." Hildegarde had first gone sleuthing in Palmer's 1931 novel "The Penguin Pool Murders," which was followed by about a dozen more novels and several dozen short stories; this "crossover&#...
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Sayonara (Good-bye)

By: Paris, John (pseud. for Frank Trelawny Arthur Ashton-Gwatkin)

Price: $40.00

Publisher: London, W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd.: 1926 (c.1924)

Seller ID: 20715

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

[book has only minor wear to extremities, brief gift inscription ("To 'Mamma'") on ffep; jacket is somewhat age-toned, with small tears and minor paper loss at most corners and base of spine, short closed tear at lower left corner of front panel]. The second of several Japanese-set novels by this author, a British diplomat and Foreign Office official who spent most of the 1920s stationed in Asia, and (per Wikipedia) "was a significant influence on the British foreign policy in the Far East in the early 20th century." Per the jacket blurb, both his first two books (the previou...
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Born Black [SIGNED twice]

By: Parks, Gordon

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Philadelphia/New York, J.B. Lippincott Company: (c.1971)

Seller ID: 24801

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

[nice clean copy with no significant shelfwear, address label of one-time owner (the inscribee) at lower corner of ffep; jacket has a one-inch closed tear at bottom left front panel, small chip at lower left corner of rear panel, a couple of shallow chips at top of rear panel, closed tear and associated crease at top of rear panel]. (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED ("For Betty and Joel") and SIGNED by the author/photographer on the dedication page and again on the contents page. The renowned photographer-writer-filmmaker's "personal account of some of the men and movements from the de...
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Flash Photography

By: Parks, Gordon

Price: $250.00

Publisher: New York, Franklin Watts, Inc.: (c.1947)

Seller ID: 25389

Binding: Stapled wraps

Condition: Very Good

[light soiling along top of front cover, some damage (surface-peeling, partially tape-patched) to rear cover, moderate wear along spine, staples a bit rusty]. (B&W photographs) "A new practical guide for the beginner and the professional," this renowned photographer's first published book. Apart from the dozen or so pages devoted exclusively to techniques, equipment, etc., the book reproduces 75 photographic examples (many full-page), nearly half of which were taken by Parks himself -- which makes this "instructional" book also, de facto, the first published collection of his ...
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Half Past Autumn: A Retrospective [SIGNED]

By: Parks, Gordon; essay by Philip Brookman

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Boston/New York, Bulfinch Press/Little, Brown and Company: (c.1997)

Seller ID: 24812

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

0821222988 [a lovely copy, with no discernible wear, just a small address label (of the one-time owner, the inscribee) on the front pastedown; jacket a teensy bit rubbed, but presents beautifully in a new mylar jacket protector]. (B&W and color photographs) INSCRIBED warmly and SIGNED by the author on the half-title page: "For Betty and Joel -- / with my everlasting appreciation / for your friendship; my admiration, / and indeed much much love! / Gordon / Nov. 13th/97 / Beverly Hills, Calif." Issued in conjunction with a retrospective of the photographer-writer-filmmaker's work organi...
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Mario Avati: Altre lettere a un amico [Mario Avati: Other Letters to a Friend]

By: Parmiggiani, Sandro, ed.

Price: $500.00

Publisher: Reggio Emilia [Italy], Tipolitografio Emiliana: 2003

Seller ID: 24563

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice clean book with minimal handling wear, essentially presents as-new]. (color reproductions) A second collection (six years after the publication of the first) of "letters" mailed by artist Mario Avati to his friend Anselmo Gualdi -- although "letters" is something of a misnomer, as what is actually reproduced in this volume are the envelopes in which the letters were mailed, each of which has been decorated by Avati with colorful, often whimsical drawings, many of which are themed to the locations from which they were mailed. The 322 envelopes reproduced here (two per pag...
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Next Time We Live

By: Parrott, Ursula

Price: $200.00

Publisher: New York/Toronto, Longmans, Green and Co.: 1935

Seller ID: 25028

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj

(price-clipped) [good solid book, lightly shelfworn, slight fading to cloth at edges of covers; jacket shows a bit of wear at extremities, some surface damage to rear panel]. The story of a young couple (she 18, he 21) facing the difficulties of a long-distance marriage. "He was a newspaper man, and at first they were very poor; but that year Cicely, who had a little talent for the stage, fell into a good role; and then Christopher was sent to Rome by his paper, to take charge of the office there. That was the beginning of their separated lives, for Cicely's success was too great for he...
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The Willow and I; a play in three acts

By: Patrick, John

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Dramatists Play Service Inc.: (c.1943, 1941)

Seller ID: 25690

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

[light external soiling, darkened strips along top and right edges of front cover (possibly uneven age-toning)]. Psychological drama that provided a young Gregory Peck with his second starring role in a Broadway play (in a dual role as a father and son). The original New York production, co-starring Martha Scott, ran for just 28 performances in December 1942 and January 1943; it was actually the second of three leading roles that Peck would essay on Broadway during the 1942/1943 season -- none of which were very successful ("The Willow and I" had the longest run of the three, in fact...
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The Stars and Stripes Forever

By: Paul, Elliot

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: (c.1939)

Seller ID: 25770

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

[nice clean copy with minimal shelfwear; jacket lightly edgeworn, spine a little darkened with some dampstaining along the rear hinge, minor paper loss to spine extremities]. Novel of the American industrial scene, "a story of Americans from every walk of life who are forced to fight for their rights, their jobs and their lives. Leaders from the ranks face leaders who were born with silver spoons. Simple citizens touch greatness and those whose power should make them great explore the depths of perfidy and selfishness. [The author] does not distribute the blame but places it squarely wh...
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