[nice clean copy, essentially as-new]. (sepia-tone photographs) A nicely-produced calendar/datebook illustrated with "a sampling of the many hundreds of photographs from both expositions [in 1915-1916 and 1934-1937] that are contained with the Society's Title Insurance and Trust Collection." Yeah, OK, so it's from 1982 -- but it'll be completely accurate again in 2027! (Plan ahead, I always say.) View More...
[some scuffing/rubbing to covers, moderate wear along spine, very slight damage at very top of spine; still a decent, clean copy]. (B&W photographs, graphics) The second issue of a publication that eventually (after some growing pains and various format changes) would become one of the leading American critical film journals of its day, producing a total of 35 issues before petering out in the mid-1970s. The editorial note on the first page indicates that the magazine was still trying to define the "selective film audience" to which it was purportedly targeted, and (like with the debut issue... View More...
[minor wear at edges and extremities, a small array of light abrasion marks near top of front cover, short diagonal bend at top right corner of front cover and first few pages]. (B&W photographs) A special issue devoted entirely to the work of Orson Welles. Contents: "Orson Welles: An Introduction," by guest editor Willilam G. Simon; "Between Works and Texts: Notes from the Welles Archive," by James Naremore; "Orson Welles and the Hollywood Industry," by Douglas Gomery; "Orson Welles, Beginning to End: Every Film an Epitaph," by Paul Arthur; "Interpreting CITIZEN KANE," by Noel Carroll; "Wel... View More...
[light external handling wear, and a few pages in the middle of the magazine have pulled loose from the lower staple]. (B&W photographs, facsimiles, ads) The cover story pays tribute to Stan Kenton, who died in August 1979, and includes reminiscences from a number of his contemporaries, including Art Pepper and Dave Dexter, plus an analysis of "The Kenton Sound," as exemplified by his orchestra's theme, "Artistry in Rhythm." Also in this issue: "Jazz Surviving Record Slump," an article about how jazz record sales had not been hit as hard by "the record industry's recent troubles" as pop reco... View More...
[virtually as new, with just tiny bumping to t5he upper right corner of the front cover and the lower corner of the rear cover]. (B&W photographs) Special issue devoted entirely to essays examining multiple aspects of the impact of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans and the Gulf region. The essays: "Always the Tragic Jezebel: New Orleans, Katrina, and the Layered Discourse of a Doomed Southern City" (Michael P. Bibler); "Storm Journal: The Story of the Bay Town Inn" (Ellis Anderson); "What Was Found" (Maura Fitzgerald); "Home at the Mouth of the Mississippi" (Judith A. Howard); "Broken Levees,... View More...
[slight bump to upper rear corner, minor dust-soiling to top of text block, one-time owner's name and address (screenwriter Mel Shavelson) neatly printed on front pastedown; jacket typically browned at spine, short tear at lower front foldover with short diagonal crease at lower right corner of front panel]. (two B&W photographs) Based on Bissell's novel "7-1/2 Cents," about a labor dispute in a New England factory; basis for the 1957 film of the same name (co-directed by Abbott and Stanley Donen). [This edition lacks a printing statement, but seems to be one of the earliest Fireside Theatre... View More...
[nice bright copy, slight spine roll, minor edgewear to covers] Mass Market PB "Reed Smith was a hard-boiled Federal Narcotics agent who had tangled with the toughest crooks and crimes, in his time. But when he was assigned to track down a gang of international dope smugglers, he met the most brutal killers of his career. Using respectable contacts and ravishing women, they engineered acts of unbelievable horror and violence in pursuit of their vile trade." Previously published in hardcover by Alfred A. Knopf. View More...
(no dust jacket) [very light wear to extremities, a bit of fraying at base of spine, small horizontal tear in cloth at top of spine; gilt lettering on spine and front cover still nice and bright]. (B&W frontispiece + 5 B&W illus. plates) An early novel by this popular and prolific author, a murder mystery about a wealthy man found dead in a remote location; his death is investigated by a scientist who happens to be vacationing in the area. View More...
[a lovely copy, with only minimal wear to both book and jacket]. (B&W photographs) The third (and most uncommon) book by this Colombian-born photographer presents "an extraordinary collection of images of the women of flamenco," shot by Afanador "under the bright sunlight and set against the austere landscape and incandescent walls of Andalusia in Southern Spain. Under improbably and often chaotic circumstances in this remote and rural milieu, Afanador, together with the women and his troop of inspired collaborators, created an intricate choreography of poses and gestures that embodies the p... View More...
[slight bumping to corners, otherwise a nice clean book with no other significant wear; the jacket has a small ragged tear and a short associated diagonal crease at the upper right corner of the rear panel, plus a bit of wrinkling/dog-earing along the top edge of the rear panel]. (B&W photographs) The first and best-known book by this acclaimed Colombian-born photographer, a collection of black-and-white portraits of matadors from Mexico, Colombia, Peru, and Spain this is "a revelation of his essential self [that] not only brings together his many sources of inspiration but displays the full r... View More...
[nice clean as-new copy, with just a touch of surface wear to the jacket]. The first stand-alone publication of an essay on the borough, written by Agee on assignment for Fortune magazine in 1939, but rejected by its editors and unpublished until it appeared in Esquire magazine in 1968. Jonathan Lethem, in his Preface, calls it "this astonishing secret text which like the heart of the borough itself throbs in raw shambolic splendor, never completely discovered, impossible to mistake." View More...
[nice clean copy with no discernible wear; jacket has one itty-bitty nick at top of front panel, small tears and a tiny piece missing mid-spine]. (B&W photographs) This adaptation of McCullers's Southern Gothic novella about a small-town woman and her tragic love affair was produced on Broadway in the 1963/64 season, with Colleen Dewhurst in the lead, and had a respectable run of 123 performances; it was re-adapted for a film version in 1991. View More...
(no dust jacket, as issued) [very slight bumping to lower corners, no other significant wear]. (B&W photographs, maps) "Their story began back in April 1942, when the Group was activated -- a true 'war baby.' They were the first unit to take the almost untried B-24 into action in the Southwest Pacific, back in November 1942. From that time until the Japanese surrender 34 months later, they relentlessly carried the war to the enemy; from eastern New Guinea and Rabaul to Borneo, the Philippines, Formosa, and finally to the coast of China. Theirs is a tale of deadly aerial warfare, not only a... View More...
(no dust jacket) [a good sound copy, moderate wear to extremities, front endpaper appears to have been removed, although there is still a blank leaf preceding the half-title page]. An early printing of this beloved classic -- or at least it was beloved when I was in school in the state 50-some years ago, probably because she was a resident of Elmwood, Nebraska, for most of her adult life. Undoubtedly the best-known of Mrs. Aldrich's dozen novels, it told the story of a pioneer woman homesteader and her family in 1870s Nebraska. It was adapted for a 1995 TV-movie (under the hokey gag-me titl... View More...
[a clean, as-new copy with no discernible wear]. (B&W photograph, facsimiles) Almost the entirety of this 32-page journal is devoted to an article about how Joseph Carl Breil came to compose the musical score for D.W. Griffith's epic (and perpetually controversial) 1915 film THE BIRTH OF A NATION, and an analysis of that score. View More...
[nice tight clean book, with no discernible wear; the jacket is also quite nice, with just a touch of wrinkling along the top edge of the front panel, and a hint of surface rubbing]. (B&W photographs) This book captures "the emotion, the drama and the sweet reverie of what many baseball people and fans consider the greatest sports triumph ever, the 1955 Brooklyn [World] Series win over the Yankees." The author has drawn on interviews with "all of the 11 surviving members of that historical baseball team, [who] have contributed their poignant and personal recollections of that season," as wel... View More...
(no dust jacket) [a serviceable reading copy, but no more; the book had gotten wet at some point, with consequent large staining and cloth rippling to lower right corner of front cover, and a smaller area similarly blemished on rear cover; former owner's initials plus date & place of purchase in ink along edge of rear pastedown; large, attractive custom bookplate of one Forrest P. Blunt on front pastedown, partially affected at lower corner by previously-described dampstaining]. Mystery novel set in Washington, D.C., revolving around the murder of a mysterious Argentine woman in her Washingto... View More...
[clean copy with modest edgewear, a number of deep scratch lines in both front and rear covers; no subscription label]. (B&W/color photographs) First issue of the AFI's magazine, which made a noble try at bringing a mixture of journalism and pop film scholarship/history to the masses, but ultimately faded into mediocrity before biting the bullet in the 1990s, when it was superseded by flashier and more celebrity-centric publications like "Premiere." This issue had a cover feature story on the production of ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN, and also featured articles by Samuel Fuller ("News That's Fit ... View More...
[the book is just lighly shelfworn, but the front endpaper bears a library pocket (which has actually come detached, leaving behind a large glue stain), and is stamped several times "FILE COPY," with an additional label proclaiming it to be the M-G-M Script Department copy no. 2, and additional "Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Library" stamping on all three edges of the text block; the dust jacket, which has two small chips at the top of the front panel, is additionally stamped "FILE COPY" twice on the front panel, as well as with a catalog/inventory number]. (B&W photographs by Slim Aarons) A one-time ... View More...
[modest wear to extremities, very light foxing to edges of text block; jacket moderately edgeworn]. Novel about an ambitious businesswoman, the "pretty, fragile Rita Martin, who beneath her charming exterior is hell-bent for personal success and who tramples with small, well-shod feet on all who stand in her way." The story is set against the background of "a high-powered advertising agency specializing in soap operas," a milieu the author knew as well as anybody: he wrote thousands of scripts for radio serials and soap operas from the early 1930s through the mid-1950s, while also finding tim... View More...
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