[a very nice copy, with just a touch of wear at the spine ends (both book and jacket), light age-toning to top edge of text block]. An overlooked mid-century classic, a novel about a "gentleman gambler" and the effects of his nomadic and irregular lifestyle on his wife and daughters. Set in Kansas and Oklahoma during the Great Depression, it was substantially autobiographical (the author being one of the daughters). She also happened to be the wife of the great cinematographer James Wong Howe, and was later acclaimed for another Depression-era novel, "Whose Names Are Unknown," written in the... View More...
[minor soiling to bottom edges of covers, no other significant blemishes; the jacket has a few tiny tears and some associated shallow creasing and dog-earing along the top edge, and a diagonal crease in the rear flap]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the dedication page: "Dear Fil - / I send / Lots of Love / Pearl." "Departing from the usual statistical shorthand one associates with cookbooks, [the author] has given us a cookbook filled not only with mouth-watering recipes but also with warmth and humor and anecdote after anecdote from her private and public life. Pearl seems to be chat... View More...
[light soiling to bottom edges of covers, no other significant wear; the jacket has a tiny tear and some associated dog-earing at the top rear hinge, and a couple of tiny nicks at the bottom edge of the front panel]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the half-title page: "To Flip [sic] -- In love is / all --- / Pearl." (The inscribee, Fil Perell, was a Los Angeles restaurant critic/journalist and cable-access show host.) Laid in is a letter (TLS) on Pearl Bailey Production Corp. letterhead, thanking Perell (whose forename is also rendered incorrectly here as "Flip") for "the beautfiul wo... View More...
[very slight wear to extremities, generally a nice clean copy; the jacket has a ragged chip at the bottom rige corner of the rear panel, some discoloration to the spine, small tape stains at the lower corners of the front panel, a small tears at a couple of corners]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper: "To Del, / - with best wishes / and total confidence -- / Elliott / June '64." The author's first novel, about an "aging, raging poet seeking to maintain his identity and independence in a world that wants to reduce him to its own level." The basis for the 1966 film of th... View More...
(brick-orange paper-covered boards; no dust jacket, probably as issued) [light foxing to front-cover paper lable, faint stain at right edge of front cover, small black smudge on rear cover]. This short poem (reprinted from the November 1985 issue of "Poetry" magazine), illustrated with four beautiful linoleum cuts, was the third of four limited editions of this Armenian-American poet's works to be issued by this small press. Balakian won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Laid in to this copy is Christmas card (apparently sent to the book's one-time owner), containing a brief poem ("I Sing ... View More...
[bottom corners bumped, light dust-soiling to top of text block; jacket spine a little faded, some tanning/soiling to rear panel]. Suspense novel about a man trying to rediscover his past after waking up in hospital with no memory, and also rendered mute by having had his throat cut. View More...
[only lightly shelfworn with a couple of very slightly bumped corners, but downgraded a bit due to dust-soiling to the top edge of the text block; jacket shows some wear at edges and extremities, one tiny closed tear and associated short diagonal crease at top of rear panel, light soiling to rear panel, "RED-HAIRED" on spine somewhat faded but still readable]. Thriller about a woman who, believing her husband to have been killed in the war, remarries -- only to have her husband (the red-haired man, now an escaped convict) reappear on the scene, and promptly murder her new husband -- after whic... View More...
[a very nice copy, no discernible wear at all to the book; the jacket shows only minimal handling wear]. (B&W photographs) Joint reminiscences of the early days of filmmaking by two veteran cinematographers whose "careers span the crucial period from the beginning to the consolidation of the Hollywood industry after the introduction of sound. From the personal stories of the two men (giving in alternating chapters with a charming cross-cutting effect) emerges an intimate account of the infant industry: the ruthless commercial piracy taken for granted by all, the attempt by a small group of m... View More...
[no significant wear to book, just the former owner's name and date & place of purchase in ink at top of front endpaper; jacket shows just the teensiest bit of surface wear]. (B&W photographs, poster reproductions) An omnibus volume containing three previously-published books: "Days of Thrills and Adventure"; "A Thousand and One Delights"; and "The Thrill of It All." The first volume was primarily about movie serials, the second about B-movie adventures films of the 1940s (primarily), and the third about Western films. ****NOTE that additional postage charges will be assessed for internatio... View More...
[nice, as-new copy, with no significant wear to either book or jacket]. (Filmmakers, No. 89) Series (B&W photographs) Memoirs of a filmmaker who directed, by his own count, 421 TV films, 92 short subjects, and a dozen feature films -- "none of which are as interesting as the story you are about to read." Although he's refreshingly modest about the aesthetic value of his work, his immortality as an auteur is assured by his solo helming of all six season (170 episodes) of "Green Acres," an absolute masterpiece of mid-century American absurdist cornpone surrealist humor. Ask anybody. View More...
[light external wear only]. Trade PB (pen & ink chapter-head drawings) INSCRIBED at some length and SIGNED by the author on the inside front cover. The author, who had previously collaborated with Rasputin's daughter Maria on a biography of the latter's famous/notorious father, here puts her research to a different purpose: "a culinary exploration of the wonderful cooking of Russia, and of Russian history and culture in a time when peasant met palace in an empire on the verge of unimaginable change." There's quite a bit of interesting anecdotal material about old Rassy, and Russian culture, ... View More...
[a very nice copy, minor shelfwear, light smudge on front endpaper, previous owner's name and date & place of purchase in ink along edge of rear pastedown (concealed behind rear jacket flap); jacket is nice and bright, with just a teensy bit of wear to the upper right corner of the front panel]. (The Crime Club) Series INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the title page: "To Big Al, / with greetings / from / Bob Barnard." Sussex-set mystery novel about an illegitimate daughter of the protagonist's elderly father, the result of his long-ago fling with a famous actress, who's purportedly resea... View More...
[nice clean book with no significant wear, former owner's name plus date & place of purchase written in ink at top of front endpaper; the jacket is nearly flawless, with just a minor wrinkle at the top of the rear panel]. Murder mystery centering around an eccentric family in which the murder of the father -- "on a Spanish Inquisition-style torture machine" -- is investigated by his estranged son, a young police inspector. First published in England as "Sheer Torture." View More...
[no discernible wear to book, but the former owner's name plus date & place of purchase are written in ink at the top of the front endpaper; the jacket is flawless except for long horizontal surface-scratch across the rear panel]. Sir Oliver Fairleigh-Stubbs, a famous author of detective novels, collapses and dies at his birthday party. Unexpectedly, his "elder son, who openly hated his father, inherits most of the estate." However, "the manuscript of the unpublished volume left to [the author's] wife -- a posthumous 'last case' that might be worth millions -- has disappeared. And Sir Olive... View More...
[nice clean tight copy with no discernible wear, former owner's initials plus date & place of purchase written in ink along edge of rear pastedown (concealed by jacket flap); the jacket itself is flawless]. Mystery novel about a woman investigating a liaison in her mother's past, an inquiry triggered by a mysterious anonymous letter received just after the mother's death. View More...
[no significant wear to book, but the former owner's name plus date & place of purchase is written in ink at the top of the front endpaper; the jacket has some very minor wrinkling at the top of the front panel]. The third of the author's Inspector Perry Trethowan mysteries, this tale is set in motion by the discovery in an old trunk, by an elderly retired schoolteacher, of a previously unknown Emily Brontë manuscript. View More...
[book is flawless except for the former owner's initials plus date & place of purchase in ink along edge of rear pastedown (concealed beneath rear jacket flap); the jacket itself IS flawless, no "except for"]. Detective Inspector Charlie Pierce looks into the death (murder?) of a TV soap opera star who had been universally disliked by his fellow performers -- and who was replaced on the show, after his demise, by an equally unpleasant former member of the cast. View More...
[nice clean book with the faintest touch of shelfwear, vintage retailer's small label (Elder's) on rear pastedown; the jacket is bright and attractive, despite some edgewear, a few tiny tears and small bits of paper loss at the extremities, and a small but unsightly brown stain near the top of the rear panel (with a few tiny holes in the jacket at that point, probably as an unintended result of someone's attempt to remove the stain)]. (photographic endpapers) "Against a background of depravity, vice, intrigue and cruelty in Nero's court is laid this story of the pure love of a Christian girl a... View More...
[a very nice copy, with just the barest trace of shelfwear; the jacket is also quite nice, with just a bit of wear to the extremities]. (B&W plates) "A biography which is not fictionized" (well, there's a relief) of the beautiful and elegant Eugnie de Montijo, who, as the wife of Napoleon III, became the last Empress of France, and who "was independent, and loved to hunt, ride, tramp, [and] dress unconventionally." According to this telling of her story (not fictionized, remember), she was "far stronger than her husband [and] made many of his decisions. She had a passion for government [and... View More...
[modest age-toning and light edgewear to covers, slight spine roll; NOTE that this has been graded by book standards, NOT on the comic-book grading scale]. (Single Series No. 7) Series (color cartoon strips) A rare-ish one-off comic book (in a slightly larger, magazine-size format), consisting of reprints of Sunday entries in Ben Batsford's strip about a pugnacious newsboy. It originated as a strip called "Susie Sunshine," created by Earl Hurd, which ran in the New York Evening Graphic from 1927 to 1929, and was then handed off to a couple of other artists (one of whom changed the title to "T... View More...
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