(price-clipped) [moderate shelfwear, light foxing to bottom edge of text block, one-time owner's name (in pencil) at top of half-title page; the jacket is a little worn along the top and bottom edges, with some minor paper loss at the top of the spine, a bit of light soiling]. (B&W photographs) Posthumously-published memoir by the Vienna-born author of "Grand Hotel," but who (per the jacket blurb) "emerges from this autobiography [as] no mere one-title author." (I'll say! She wrote more than fifty books, and a couple dozen movies were adapted from her novels and stories. She herself worked... View More...
[minor shelfwear, faint dust-soiling to top of text block; jacket shows just light handling wear, with a couple of tiny edge-tears]. Novel about a widowed schoolmaster in a French provincial town and his relationships with his three children, "an in particular with Bruno, the youngest, whom he rightly suspects is not his own." View More...
[book itself is in beautiful condition, especially the patterned-foil covers which are clean and bright; the jacket is just a teensy bit edgeworn, with some scuffing along the spine panel]. "This brilliant and lyrical novel is the story of Norma Wardroper, her life and loves. In the mountains of California she meets Max Harder, painter of American sporting scenes; is drawn irresistibly to him, runs away with him to Spain and, later, marries him. When he leaves her for another woman, she seeks to adjust her life to lonely days, to accept her predicament without becoming cynical. The author ... View More...
[both volumes uniformly nice, with a touch of soiling to edges of text blocks; jackets show only light edgewear, no chips or tears]. (B&W and color plates) "One of the great Englishmen of the late eighteenth century was Sir Joseph Banks, for over forty years President of the Royal Society, the friend of scientists and the scientific advisor of the British Government, the patron of travellers, the consultant of innumerable people on innumerable subjects, international in his sympathies and services, one of the founders alike of Kew Gardens and of New South Wales. But Banks's first claim to fa... View More...
(price-clipped) [a nice clean copy with just a touch of wear to the spine extremities, one-time owner's signature at top of front pastedown, small stain at lower corner of rear cover (from the jacket having apparently gotten wet at one time and sticking to the book); the jacket is irregularly clipped at both corners of front flap, very faded at spine (editor's name and part of title nearly unreadable) and along left edge of front panel, tiny bits of paper loss at all corners and at spine ends]. Although described in the jacket copy as a "fine selection from the writings of native women on nati... View More...
[moderately shelfworn book, binding solid, no markings in text; jacket is well-worn, with numerous small tears and chips (including a quarter-size piece missing at lower right corner of front panel), spine heavily faded, some paper loss at top of spine (taking away part of title), a handful of old internal tape-mends]. Mystery novel about "the curious murder of the 'White Flower' of San Francisco night life." The author's first novel, it was (it sez here) "definitely stamped with her own attractive personality." A native of Berkeley, California, the author had cut her writing teeth in an Oa... View More...
[lightly shelfworn, slight deterioration to binding at spine ends, front endpaper rather carelessly razored out; the jacket is edgeworn, with minor paper loss at the spine ends]. "This delightfully clever tale recounts the sudden disappearances of Miss Muffet, a golden-haired child whom everybody wants; some because they love her, some because they hate her, and some because they don't want others to have her. Altogether, Miss Muffet becomes a bone of bitter contention and proceeds to get kidnapped every time a would-be guardian is out of sight." A would-be "madcap" novel that's seriously c... View More...
[light shelfwear only, faint soiling to bottom edges of covers; jacket a bit edgeworn, with some wrinkling and minor paper loss at spine ends, tiny pull-tear near bottom of spine panel, light soiling to rear panel]. Depression-era tale set against the backdrop of the textile business in Yorkshire, this novel tells of the tribulations of an ambitious young man whose burning desire to marry a society girl leads him to compromise his principles. The stunning dustjacket design is by Boris Artzybashoff. View More...
[moderate wear along spine and edges of covers, minor creasing at lower corner of rear cover]. (B&W photographs, graphics) A special edition of this venerable French cinema journal, devoted entirely to Orson Welles. About one-third of the 144-page publication is devoted to interviews with Welles himself (four of them, ranging from 1964 to 1982), with the remainder devoted to short features about various aspects of his work, individual films, etc. The text is entirely in French; includes a filmography with very detailed cast credits. View More...
[good sound book, modest shelfwear to bottom edges of covers, one-time owner's name written in upper corner of half-title page; jacket shows some wear at edges and extremities, with some wrinkling to the front panel, and has a short diagonal closed tear at the bottom corner of the rear panel]. (endpaper maps) Berger's Western burlesque, purporting to be "the reminiscences -- dictated at the ripe age of 111 -- of one Jack Crabb -- plainsman, Indian scout, gunfighter, buffalo hunter, bunco schemer and renegade squaw man. Cynical and unscrupulous, yet also a sentimental idealist, Jack Crabb alte... View More...
[nice tight clean book with just a touch of shelfwear; the jacket is modestly edgeworn, very slight paper loss at base of spine, a few short closed tears at the top and bottom edges of the front panel (with the one at the bottom having also occasioned some creasing), and a tiny surface-scrape in the upper right area of the front panel]. "Another page from the career of Mr. Roger Sheringham, whose proclivities in the direction of beer and criminology have given him an international following. It concerns the unfortunate sequence of events which began with one of the most extraordinary of murde... View More...
[tiny bump to bottom right corner of front cover, otherwise virtually as-new]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) A new, trilingual edition (text in English, French and German) of a "how-to" book on pin-up photography by the guy who virtually invented the technique, originally published by him under his own imprint in 1950, under the title "Pin-Ups: A Step Beyond." (The rear cover photo depicts a relaxed and bemused Robert Mitchum perusing a copy of the original publication.) Bruno Bernard (1912-1987) was a German-born emigre who only took up photography shortly after arriving in Los Angeles (fleein... View More...
[minor shelfwear to book, "Lauderdale's" rubber-stamped on front endpaper and rear pastedown; the jacket is quite decent-looking, despite some staining to the spine panel, modest shelfwear and minor paper loss along the bottom edge, and a weird patching job, with the top inch-and-a-half of the spine panel missing but replaced NOT with a photocopy of that section of the spine panel but rather a photocopy of the spine of the book, which is not even the same color as the covers of this book; it does, however, show the title and the author's name, so it's not unpleasing -- just weird]. "A swiftly... View More...
DETAILS NEEDED. The future blacklistee's first novel, "a book that goes straight to the heart of America." It's a multi-generational saga centering around a Michigan family, a mismatched husband and wife (he a gentle but ineffectual sort, she a religious zealot) and their four children, three boys and a girl. One boy becomes an alcoholic and another a money-worshipping status-seeker, but the more interesting pair are the sister (an aspiring actress) and the youngest brother (who's gay), who migrate to New York along with brother's lover, where they all cohabit and attempt to form a theatrica... View More...
[a bit of wear to the bottom edges and the spine extremities, one-time owner's name, address and date of acquisition filled in to supplied space on front pastedown, Christmas gift inscription from 1957 on the second front endpaper; the jacket (with the same design and illustration as the pictorial boards) is in pretty rough shape, with heavy edgewear, a diagonal closed tear extending from mid-spine to the lower mid-front panel, various other tears, some paper loss to spine, etc.]. (pen and ink drawings) "The Teen-age Guide to Social Success," providing "the lowdown on how to give and enjoy pa... View More...
[nice clean copy, virtually as-new but for an unfortunate patch of laminate-peeling at the bottom corner of the rear cover, which has been somewhat crudely "patched" with a strip of clear tape]. (Images of America) Series Trade PB (B&W photographs) SIGNED by the author on the title page. Primarily a history of the American Film Company (known colloquially as the "Flying A," based on its winged logo), which was founded in Chicago in 1910 and from 1912 located its primary production facility in Santa Barbara, California. Like other volumes in this excellent series, it's primarily a photographi... View More...
[book is modestly worn at extremities, but still a good sound copy, with the former owner's initials plus date & place of purchase written in ink along edge of rear pastedown (concealed beneath rear jacket flap); the jacket is attractive and quite serviceable, despite considerable edgewear and a fair amount of wrinkling (especially at the corners), and some internal tape reinforcement at the base of the spine]. (B&W photographs) A chronological survey of movie history (well, American movies, primarily), illustrated with "thousands of pictures of the great stars." (They might have added "teeny... View More...
[minor handling wear, one-time owner's name at top of front endpaper]. (Movie Paperbacks) Series Trade PB (B&W photographs) Bogdanovich's seminal work in the American critical appreciation of Ford's films; originally published in 1968, this edition includes a new chapter in which the author discusses his last visit to the dying Ford, in 1973, and the filmography has also been updated and corrected. About two-thirds of the book is a transcript of Bogdanovich's interview with the legendarily cranky and untalkative director. View More...
(price-clipped) [nice tight clean copy, with the teensiest bumping to the lower corners; the jacket shows just a trace of surface handling wear and some minor wrinkling at the bottom of the front flap and the top of the rear flap]. (color photographs) A fabulous compilation of poster art and other advertising images from classic horror/fantasy/SF films. Introduction by Stephen King; personal reminiscences contributed by Forrest J Ackerman, Clive Barker, Robert Bloch, Ray Bradbury, Harlan Ellison and Peter Straub. **** NOTE that additional shipping charges will apply for international shipping... View More...
[good sound copy (albeit of a cheaply-manufactured book), tiny nick in cloth near top of rear hinge; jacket is lightly edgeworn, and has an old price sticker adhered to the upper corner of the front flap]. Novel set in the Big Sur country of California, about a young woman who rebels against her father's attempt to marry her off to a "dull [and] somehow repulsive" fellow, spurred on by her meeting a "courteous, handsome young Scandinavian, newly come to the Coast." A sequel to the author's 1942 novel "The Stranger," this is often referenced as the second installment in her multigenerational ... View More...
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