[minor shelfwear, a couple of diagonally-creased upper page corners toward the end of the book, some minor ink notations on rear pastedown; jacket lightly soiled, spine panel a bit scuffed, tiny chip at base of spine, one tiny closed tear and very shallow insect-nibbling along lower edge of front panel]. "In this fascinating critical biography, [the author] examines Reich's life and ideas against the background of the shifting cultural and political currents of the twentieth century. Drawing from years of extensive research -- including interviews with those who knew Reich -- Wilson provides ... View More...
[moderate wear along spine and a bit at lower right corner of front cover, but generally a clean, tight copy]. (caricature drawings) "Vital Statistics" and short biographies of a dozen big names in the NBC-TV lineup at the time: Steve Allen, Perry Como, Eddie Fisher, Groucho Marx, Dave Garroway, George Gobel, Bob Hope, Milton Berle, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Dinah Shore, Gisele MacKenzie, and Arlene Francis. Each section is accompanied by a full-page caricature sketch of the subject; all are also featured on the beautiful color cover. This copy includes two bound-in insert ads: in the front, an ... View More...
[moderate shelfwear to lower extremities, light foxing to both pastedowns; the jacket is worn along the top and bottom edges, with various tiny nicks and a bit of creasing, and there's some scuffing to the spine panel]. This novel "is simply the story of Nancy Prager. Raised by a devoted elder sister to care for nothing but the preservation of her lovely face and body, Nancy ruthlessly sacrificed her family, her lovers, and her husband to satisfy her mad love for her own beauty. She lived for only one thought -- to preserve her looks, as she moved like another Helen of Troy through New York'... View More...
[a nice sound copy, light shelfwear, gilt spine lettering just a bit rubbed; the jacket is lightly soiled, with tiny tears and minor paper losses at the spine corners, and a small piece torn away at the bottom right corner of the front panel]. (B&W drawings) An epistolary tale, in the vein of Ring Lardner's "You Know Me Al," as Ed. Harmon ("formly the sensation of baseball") quits the Big Leagues -- impulsively, to avoid being shipped out to the minors -- signs up to fight the Germans, and writes humorous semi-literate letters to his pal Joe back home, relating jocular accounts of his experien... View More...
[modest wear to top and bottom edges, spine very slightly turned; the jacket is a bit age-toned (slight more at spine) and moderately edgeworn, with some minor chipping at the spine ends]. (4 B&W film stills) Boxing yarns in a hard-boiled vernacular, narrated by a manager/promoter whose big ticket is a fighter named "Kid Roberts," a college man (real name Kane Halliday) who's gotten into the prizefighting game under a pseudonym. Although jacket-blurbed as a "novel," in fact this book is made up of a dozen short stories (all of which had appeared in Collier's magazine between May 1920 and Apri... View More...
(price-clipped) [a good sound copy, light shelfwear only; the jacket shows a little wear at the spine ends, slight fading to the spine, minor soiling and light foxing to rear panel]. A late novel by the author who made a huge splash with her 1941 debut, "Whistle Stop" -- the last, in fact, to be published before she went literarily silent for the last forty years of her life. (She completed one more novel, "Sudden Rain," in 1972, but a dispute with her publisher nixed its publication; the manuscript was discovered in her refrigerator after her death in 2002, and was published finally in 2005... View More...
[nice clean book, virtually as-new with just a touch of age-toning to the top of the text block; the jacket shows minor handling wear only, no tears or chips]. A posthumously-published novel by this overlooked, underrated, and publicity-shy author, who completed the book in 1972 but refused to accede to her publisher's demands to promote it, instead putting the manuscript into cold storage -- quite literally, in her refrigerator, where it was discovered after her death in 2002. Prior to that time, she had six published novels to her credit, beginning with the prize-winning "Whistle Stop" in ... View More...
(no dust jacket) [a nice clean solid copy, light bumping to the lower corners and a touch of soiling to the bottom of the text block, but no other significant wear; vintage bookseller's label (Vroman's, Pasadena) on rear pastedown]. Something of an oddity, a putative "Hollywood novel" that isn't, really, at least not in the sense of having much to do directly with the movie industry. Bibliographer Anthony Slide describes it as dealing with "the sex lives of a group of Hollywood types," and I think the key word here is "types": there's an ex-screenwriter (emphasis on ex-), the daughter of a ... View More...
[heavily worn book with numerous flaws, cracked hinges, most of rear endpaper torn away, tear in final text page (no loss of actual text), etc. (there is a nice vintage bookseller's label from Newbegins, San Francisco, on the rear pastedown, though); the jacket's a bit of a mess also, with numerous tears, creases, internal and external tape-repairs, staining, etc.]. Novelization of the popular courtroom melodrama about a showgirl who's accused of murdering her millionaire lover, and whose defense attorney is her brother. The play had a 437-performance run on Broadway during the 1927/28 seaso... View More...
[light external wear, some toning/light soiling to edges of text block, faint darkening to spine]. (stage diagrams) From the front-cover synopsis, better than anything I could write: "After thirty years on the great trade route from Harlem to Coney Island, Captain Obadiah Rich's excursion steamship Happiness is about to be takien out of service and made over into a garbage scow. The compassionate captain rebels at the idea and on the final cruise heads his antique tub straight for the Caribbean and a magic island south of Trinidad where his oddly assorted passengers can begin life anew under... View More...
(price-clipped) [good sound copy with only minor shelfwear, the 5th of the book's 8 signatures (i.e. pp. 141-172) printed on cheaper paper and thus notably age-toned, one-time owner's signature on front endpaper, vintage bookseller's label (Paul Elder & Co., San Francisco) on rear pastedown; the jacket is worn at edges and extremities, with a small bit of surface insect-nibbling near the bottom of the rear panel]. The author's first novel, a psychological horror tale set in a small town on Cape Cod, about a young woman (the book's narrator) who enters into a loveless marriage to escape her ab... View More...
(no dust jacket) [minor abrasions and light spotting to covers, spine a little faded, faded strip along top of rear cover; binding solid, internally clean]. (Cinema World, No. 7) Series (B&W photographs) Early and influential entry in the "Cinema World" (later "Cinema One") series, and the first serious book in English devoted to Hawks's work. Excellent filmography (through EL DORADO), one of the hallmarks of this series. Very uncommon in the hardcover issue, but alas lacking the dust jacket. View More...
[modest wear to book, small tear in fore-edge of first text page; jacket shows only minor wear at edges and extremities]. (Readers Library, no. 204) Series British version of a "photoplay edition," in a small format (about the size of a mass market paperback). A novelization of the Paramount historical adventure film OLD IRONSIDES, which was released in the U.S. in 1926, this particular edition -- for whatever reason -- does NOT contain any bound-in stills, nor does the jacket art specifically reference the movie (except for the words "Paramount Picture"); internally, the film is mentioned o... View More...
[the book is just lighly shelfworn, but the front endpaper bears a library pocket, 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, browned at the spine (as typical), is additionally stamped "FILE COPY" twice on the front panel and once on the spine, also with a catalog/inventory number on the front, and has a couple of tiny edge-tears and light soiling]. (B&W photographs) "The romantic tale of a day in the ... View More...
[a nice tight copy, with light exterior handling wear only]. Mass Market PB "A Fawcett Premier Original," this biography provides "an important contribution toward an understanding of Wilhelm Reich, a man praised and scorned but rarely understood." View More...
[a sound copy, but somewhat shelfworn along the bottom edges, with a moderately turned spine and light spotting to the edges of the text block, slight bumping to upper corners, light staining along edge of rear endpaper, vintage label on rear pastedown (El Jardin Library, Ventura, Calif., although there are no other library markings of any kind); the jacket is age-toned and moderately edgeworn, with small tears (but minimal paper loss) at lower corners]. A locked-automobile mystery: "Five persons saw the car overturn and hastened to the rescue only to find the doors jammed and Sir Andrew Burk... View More...
[very slight bend to bottom right corner, no other discernible wear]. (color reproductions) French translation of Yeats's essay on Blake's illustrations for Dante's "The Divine Comedy," originally published in 1897. A rough partial translation of the publication statement reads: "This essay by WB Yeats, translated by Martine de Rougemont and illustrated with twelve original watercolors by William Blake, was printed on May 12, 2009, on the presses of the Imprimerie Grenier in Gentilly, limited to 2,000 paperback copies. The first 75 copies have been numbered and signed by Martine de Rougemont... View More...
[top front corner slightly bumped, one-time owner's name and date written at top of front endpaper; jacket shows just a bit of wear at extremities, tiny surface scrape at both ends of spine, itsy-bitsy paper loss at top rear hinge]. (endpaper maps) This "pulsating novel of adventure, revenge and exotic love in the West Indies of the seventeenth century, when the might of imperial Spain was making its last great stand to retain its conquests in the New World" tells the story of Kit Gerado's "lifelong search for the revenge on Don Luis del Toro, the Spanish grandee who had killed his mother and ... View More...
[good sound copy, very slight bumping to lower corners, light spotting to top edge of text block, one-time owner's name written at top of front pastedown and her address label at top of rear pastedown (in both instances mostly concealed by the jacket flaps); the jacket shows a bit of wear at edges and corners, very minor chipping at top of spine]. (endpaper maps) "In a strange way, they were twins -- though one of them was a commoner, and the other an Emperor, though they shared not one drop of related blood. Pietro di Donati, son of a blacksmith, and Frederick the Second of Hohenstaufen, Hol... View More...
[minimal shelfwear, tiny hole in top edge of rear cover; jacket very slightly rubbed]. (B&W photo frontispiece) A nearly-complete collection (27 stories) of the author's short fiction, ranging from the 1920s to the 1960s, which evokes "the joy and pain of the Jewish immigrant experience." Includes the entirety of two story collections published during her lifetime, "Hungry Hearts' and "Children of Loneliness." The introduction by Vivian Gornick places the stories in their literary and historical context. View More...
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