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George Washington Smith: An Architect's Scrapbook

By: Appleton, Marc, ed.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, Tailwater Press, LLC: 2001

Seller ID: 25605

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[modest bumping to corners of front cover, otherwise as-new; jacket shows only light surface wear, slight wrinkling along top and bottom edges]. (B&W photographs, facsimiles) "Culled from the remains of an original scrapbook comes a long overdue publication of the work of an architect who all but defined the Spanish Colonial Revival of the early twentieth century. George Washington Smith (1876-1930) was arguably the finest architect of his time practicing in the Spanish Colonial Revival style. Although acclaimed in Southern California and beyond during his lifetime, and still revered loca...
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Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph

By: Arbus, Doon, and Marvin Israel, eds.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Millerton NY, Aperture: (c.1972)

Seller ID: 24914

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dj

[moderat shelfwear to book, a handful of tiny dents in bottom edges of covers, light staining (foxing?) along bottom edge of front cover; jacket lightly soiled (mostly on rear panel), a bit of wear along top and bottom edges]. (B&W photographs) Kind of an Arbus Greatest Hits volume, containing many of her most famous and haunting photographs. It was issued in conjunction with the first major retrospective of her work, mounted by the Museum of Modern Art in 1972, just a year after her death by suicide. ***PLEASE NOTE that additional shipping charges for this moderately heavy book will be req...
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Modern Fine Printing: Papers Read at a Clark Library Seminar, March 11, 1967 [SIGNED by Ward Ritchie]

By: Archer, H. Richard, and Ward Ritchie

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library/University of California: 1968

Seller ID: 25579

Condition: Very Good+

(printed wraps) [some uneven fading to the front cover, a couple of tiny stains along left edge of front cover, a bit of rust on the staples]. SIGNED by Ritchie on the title page. The Archer paper is entitled "The Private Press: Its Essence and Recrudescence"; The Ritchie paper is "Tradition and the Printers of Southern California." A small card, folded and inserted over the top of the title page, reads: "A Roxburghe-Zamorano Keepsake 1968 from the UCLA Library." Signed by One Author
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The Case of the Vanishing Women

By: Archer, Robert (pseud. for Robert Vern DeWard)

Price: $65.00

Publisher: New York, Howell, Soskin, Publishers: (c.1942)

Seller ID: 24863

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

[book is only mildly shelfworn, but different sections of text block are differently-age toned (two different types of paper used, apparently, probably due to wartime conditions); jacket is just a bit edgeworn, but has a large surface-peeled scar in lower section of spine]. New York-set mystery novel in which a newspaperman (the book's narrator) and a p.i. work together to solve the murder of a famous inventory. The dead guy had both a wife and an adopted daughter, and as one writer summarized it, "both the girl and the man’s wife seem to go missing every so often again, hence the titl...
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The Forest Pool

By: Armer, Laura Adams

Price: $125.00

Publisher: New York/Toronto, Longmans, Green and Co.: (c.1938)

Seller ID: 24145

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

(price-clipped) [minimal wear to book; jacket moderately edgeworn, with slight paper loss at seveal corners]. (tempera illustrations) Charming children's tale (a Caldecott Honor book for its beautiful full-page illustrations) of "two little Mexican boys, Diego and Popo [who] seek the ancient tree-lizard, called the iguana, that lives in a pool deep in the forest." Despite the fact that the illustrations are stylistically very much in a Diego Rivera-ish vein (and is Little Mexican Boy #1's name truly a concidence?), the jacket-blurb writers felt compelled to chauvinistically emphasize...
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Soviet Cinema

By: Arossev, A., ed.

Price: $350.00

Publisher: Moscow, Voks: 1935

Seller ID: 25510

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

(pictorial paste-on cover illustratoins; no dust jacket) [a well-worn ex-library copy, with remnants of removed labels on front pastedown and ffep, bumping and edgewear all around; also note that the celluloid silhouette of Stalin is missing from this copy]. (B&W photographs) The Soviets' own assessment (in English) of their national cinema during the Stalin era, profusely illustrated. Includes: numerous articles on the Soviet film industry and its importance in the life of the nation and its people, the high political and artistic qualities of the country's cinematic art, etc.; biographical...
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Shackles of the Free

By: Ashton, Mary Grace

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Frederick A. Stokes Company: 1929 (c.1928)

Seller ID: 19452

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

[bright and clean, very slight deterioration to cloth at base of spine, spine just a teensy bit turned, small piece torn out of edge of last text page (no loss of text), vintage price label (from The White House, San Francisco) on rear pastedown; jacket lightly edgeworn, small chip at top left corner of front panel]. "When a beautiful woman, in the prime of youth, finds herself married to a lifelong invalid and at the same time knows that love has come to her for the first time through another man, what is she to do? What of her vow, 'for better or for worse'?" Apparently the author,...
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Air Spy: The Story of Photo Intelligence in World War II

By: Babington-Smith, Constance

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: (c.1957)

Seller ID: 25048

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

(price-clipped) [nice solid copy with minimal shelfwear, faint staining to top of text block; jacket shows light wear at extremities, a couple of tiny nicks]. (B&W photographs) "The full story -- told for the first time -- of Photographic Intelligence: what it means, how it works and what it actually achieved in World War II." Not just a historian of these matters, the author was also a significant participant in them: "Miss Babington-Smith was a member of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force for six years, attaining the rank of Flight Officer. She started the Aircraft Section of the...
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Hollywood, with "Bugs" Baer and Henry Major [SIGNED]

By: Baer, "Bugs," and Henry Major

Price: $300.00

Publisher: (n.p.), Henry Major: (c.1938)

Seller ID: 20363

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

(no dust jacket, as issued) [light shelfwear, a touch of fraying to cloth at upper right corner of front cover]. (caricature sketches) Over 200 full-page caricature sketches of movie people (mostly actors, with an occasional director, writer or local Hollywood character tossed in) by Henry Major, with "Bugs" Baer contributing the captions, which range from moderately clever (Bette Davis: "The discoverer of perpetual emotion.") to corny (Walt Disney: "He gave them all a Mickey.") to just plain weird (Dolores Del Rio: "Only a great artiste can freeze in a blizzard of...
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Practical Handbook of the Polish Language

By: Baluta, Jos. F.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Polish Book Importing Co., Inc.: 1915

Seller ID: 25514

Condition: Good

(no dust jacket, probably as issued) [some wear to extremities, some wrinkling to cloth on front cover]. "Containing: the alphabet - pronunciation - fluency exercises - rules of grammar - various conversations - comprehensive vocabulary of words in daily use."
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Indian Film

By: Barnouw, Erik, and S. Krishnaswamy

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York/London, Columbia University Press: 1963

Seller ID: 25131

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice tight copy, minimal shelfwear, faint musty odor from long storage, tiny inked date on ffep; jacket very slightly rubbed, faint foxing on flaps, some insignificant wrinkling in the rear panel]. (B&W photographs) A full-scale history of the first fifty years of Indian cinema and the Indian film industry, which during the 1920s "was already outproducing Great Britain."
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Image for "His Master's Voice" in America: Ninety Years of Communications Pioneering and Progress: Victor Talking Machine Company, Radio Corporation of America, General Electric Company

"His Master's Voice" in America: Ninety Years of Communications Pioneering and Progress: Victor Talking Machine Company, Radio Corporation of America, General Electric Company

By: Barnum, Frederick O. III

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Camden NJ, General Electric Company: 1991

Seller ID: 25074

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

(no dust jacket, as issued) [no significant wear to book, just a bit of scuffing to the paste-on front-cover illustration]. (B&W and color photographs, facsimiles) Quoting from a mimeographed letter that accompanied this book: "This fascinating collection of rare and interesting photographs, accompanied by thousands of interesting facts and figures, represents the first documented account of three twentieth century communications pioneering companies in a single volume. ... This book was created as a tribute to all who were part of this history." ****NOTE: This heavy volume will requi...
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Madam

By: Barrett, Richmond

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, Liveright, Inc.: (c.1932)

Seller ID: 19290

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

[a tight clean book, minor wear to cloth at spine ends, vintage price sticker (from The White House, San Francisco deparment store) on rear pastedown; jacket moderately edgeworn, a couple of tiny chips at bottom of front panel, light soiling to rear panel]. "Madam is Daisy Park-Newbold Wendell, a woman who is one-third grande dame, one-third eccentric and one-third child. Heiress to millions, twice unhappily married, this woman of tremendous energy spends most of her time playing the invalid. Either at her mother's Long Island place or in a huge suite of hotel rooms, Madam spends her da...
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The Irish Beauties

By: Barrington, E. (L. Adams Beck)

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.: 1931

Seller ID: 19832

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Very Good+ dj

[book is tight and fresh, with no discernible wear; jacket shows a touch of wear along top and bottom edges, some minor soiling around the edges of the rear panel] Romantic period piece about two penniless "young Irish beauties who believed in a dream and saw it changed into truth" -- the dream in question being an old woman's prophecy that they would "marry in England a little below the King and that their luck would begin with the Golden Vanity and a woman with a man's name." Both names appearing on the title page of this book were pseudonyms used by British-born Canadian a...
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Glinda of Oz

By: Baum, L. Frank

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Chicago, The Reilly & Lee Co.: (c.1920)

Seller ID: 12347

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

(no dust jacket) [well-worn book, fraying of cloth and/or exposure of boards at all extremities, rubbing/scuffing to front-cover illustration, staining to rear cover; binding is solid, but NOTE that one of the color plates is missing]. (B&W drawings, color plates) The last of the Oz books to be written by L. Frank Baum himself. This meets all points for the first edition, per Greene & Hanff (Bibliographia Oziana, revised & enlarged ed., 1988) -- BUT is missing the last color plate in the book, that should be facing page 276. Hence, an imperfect and appropriately bargain-priced copy.
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Philippine

By: Bedel, Maurice (translated from the French by Samuel Middlebrook)

Price: $60.00

Publisher: New York, E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc.: (c.1932)

Seller ID: 19449

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj

[book is lightly shelfworn, very slight bump to top front corner, vintage price label (from The White House, San Francisco) on rear pastedown; jacket lightly soiled, minor scuffing to front panel]. A satirical romance "in the classic French tradition immortalized by Voltaire's Candide" (it sez here), in which a retired Parisian department store owner visits Italy with his daughter, to view "Authority in person" (Mussolini, that is) -- and "when pretty Philippine appears in Italy, Fascist hearts blaze with a new emotion." The author had been awarded the Prix Goncourt f...
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A Business Primer for Negroes

By: Bell, William K.

Price: $250.00

Publisher: New York, William K. Bell Publications: (c.1948)

Seller ID: 24206

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dj

(price-clipped) [moderate shelfwear to top and bottom edges of covers, otherwise a clean and solid book; jacket has a little paper loss at upper extremities, small ragged chip at top right corner of rear panel]. Touted as "the first book of its kind," the jacket blurb declares it a must-read for "any Negro who is in business, who is going into business, who has something to sell, whether merchandise or personal services." Clearly written to serve as a textbook -- every chapter concludes with a set of discussion questions -- there's also a lot of information here about the sta...
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The Visitors

By: Benchley, Nathaniel

Price: $150.00

Publisher: New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company: (c.1965)

Seller ID: 24741

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

[minor shelfwear, spine very slightly turned, one-time owner's signature at top of ffep; jacket a bit rubbed and scuffed on both front panel and spine, but otherwise clean and attractive]. Unaccountably scarce comic novel, "a salty New England ghost story [that] is Nathaniel Benchley at his best, a combination of unique material, high comedy, and excitement." Basis for the 1967 movie THE SPIRIT IS WILLING, produced and directed by William Castle. The dust jacket art is by Charles Addams.
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Jaws

By: Benchley, Peter

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday & Company, Inc.: 1974

Seller ID: 25441

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Very Good dj

[book is well-worn along top edge (more so than the bottom edge, which makes me think it must have spent a lot of its life shelved upside-down), small rip in cloth at top rear hinge, minor soiling to top of text block but internally quite OK; jacket (separately sourced and married to this copy) is somewhat scuffed on the front panel, soft vertical creasing in front flap, a bit of wear to extremities and edges, but with an entirely unfaded spine (title in bright red lettering)]. BUM-bump-BUM-bump-BUM-bump-BUM-bump....chomp! A halfway-decent copy of the novel that spawned the movie that ruined ...
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Cartoons: One Hundred Years of Cinema Animation

By: Bendazzi, Giannalberto (translated by Anna Taraboletti-Segre)

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Bloomington/Indianapolis, Indiana University Press: (c.1994)

Seller ID: 25490

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Fine

[a nice, as-new copy, with no discernible wear]. Trade PB (B&W and color photographs) This book, blurbed as "the first comprehensively detailed history and critique of cinema animation produced around the world," is the English-language edition of "a reference book which has already been acclaimed as a classic work of scholarship, in its Italian and French editions, on the marvellous and exciting subject of animated cinema." It offers "a historical account of all aspects of animation -- short and full length films, directors, show business, cultural influences, trends, in...
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