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The Professor

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, The Modern Library : 1997

Seller ID: 28023

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[no discernible wear to book, but there is a former owner's initials plus date & place of purchase written in ink along the edge of the recto of the rear endpaper; the jacket shows just faint traces of some surface-scuffing on the front panel]. The first novel completed by Charlotte Brontë, which remained unpublished until 1857, two years after her death. Based on her own experiences as a student in Brussels in 1842 and "told from the point of view of William Crimsworth, the only male narrator" in any of her works, the book "formulated a new aesthetic that questioned many of the presuppositi...
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Washington in Lincoln's Time

By: Brooks, Noah; edited, with an introduction by Herbert Mitgang

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York/Toronto, Rinehart & Company, Inc. : (c.1958)

Seller ID: 27614

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

[nice clean copy with minimal shelfwear, the tiniest bit of fraying at the base of the spine, 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 edgeworn and lightly soiled, with internal tape reinforcements along the top and bottom edges and the rear flapfold]. (B&W photographs, facsimiles) A reprint, with a new introduction, of this classic "up close and personal" account of Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War, first published in 1895. "Brooks, intimate of Lincoln, able and gifted journalist,...
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The Barrios of Manta: A Personal Account of the Peace Corps in Ecuador

By: Brooks, Rhoda and Earle

Price: $200.00

Publisher: New York, The New American Library : (c.1965)

Seller ID: 26870

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

(price-clipped) [good solid clean book with just a touch of wear to the top edges; the jacket is bright and clean, would rate Near Fine but for the price-clipping]. (B&W photographs, pen & ink drawings) "The first book ever written by Peace Corps volunteers," this volume relates the experience of the authors, a young couple who "left home and friends in Illinois to serve as members of the Peace Corps in Manta, Ecuador." Uncommon.
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NOTORIOUS: Alfred Hitchcock and Contemporary Art

By: Brougher, Kerry, and Michael Tarantino (essays)

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Oxford (UK), Museum of Modern Art : 1999

Seller ID: 27641

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

[miniscule handling wear, essentially as-new]. (B&W and color photographs, facsimiles) Catalogue for a museum exhibition highlighting the relationship between art and film as seen through the prism of Alfred Hitchcock's works. Includes two essays: "Hitch-hiking in Dreamscapes," by Kerry Brougher, and "How He Does It, or The Case of the Missing Gloves," by Michael Tarantino. Artists and filmmakers whose work figured in the exhibition were: John Baldessari, Judith Barry, Cindy Bernard, Victor Burgin, Stan Douglas, Atom Egoyan, Christoph Girardet & Matthias Müuuler, Douglas Gordon, Pierre Huygh...
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Bear with me: The Teddy Bear: a symposium

By: Bull, Peter

Price: $75.00

Publisher: London, Hutchinson & Co. Ltd. : 1969

Seller ID: 27069

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[a very nice copy, just a touch of soiling to top and bottom edges of yellow cloth covers; the jacket is bright and fresh, with only a teensy bit of wear to the extremities, light scuffing to the rear panel]. (B&W photographs) "Here is all Teddy Beardom -- bears on the Matterhorn, bears on the stage, John Betjeman's bear, Donald Campbell's bear, a bear in an Evelyn Waugh novel, Christopher Robin's bear, bears and Theodore Roosevelt, bears as healers, bears with family trees, baronet bears, autobiographical bears, correspondent bears, bears with High Moral Principles, bears on the screen, Vale...
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Wynn Bullock

By: Bullock, Barbara (text); with notes by the Photographer

Price: $40.00

Publisher: San Francisco, Scrimshaw Press : 1971

Seller ID: 27846

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

[very slight wear to lower extremities, modest bump to upper rear corner; original acetate jacket is present, showing moderate surface wear and apparently having shrunk so that it's about 1/4" shorter than the book at both the top and bottom edges; NOTE that we have scanned the book without its acetate jacket]. (Publication number 8) Series This was the first major monograph devoted to this San Francisco-based photographer (1902-1975), even though he'd been active as a photographer, to incrementally-increasing acclaim, since the 1930s. Although the volume presents a handful of his early work...
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The Canadian Chow Sourcebook

By: Bunting, Jennifer

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Newburgh, Ontario (Canada), Cranberry Hill Enterprises : (c.1984)

Seller ID: 27541

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[no discernible wear to book, former owner's name plus date & place of purchase in ink at top of front endpaper, advertisement for the book taped to inside front cover; the jacket shows only minor wear at extremities, and is internally (and unnecessarily) reinforce with clear tape along the top and bottom edges]. (B&W photographs) "A reference source on usual and unusual Chow topics for Canadian breeders and pet owners." Includes: "A Brief History of the Chow Chow in Canada"; a sourcebook on many topics, from artificial insemination to whelping (with some information no doubt being dated, bu...
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The Ninth Wave

By: Burdick, Eugene

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company : 1956

Seller ID: 27540

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Fair dj

[reading copy only, a sound but quite shelfworn book, with bumping/fraying to cloth at most corners; the jacket is heavily edgeworn, with numerous small tear and chips, most notably at the upper spine]. Novel about a guy who "rose to power by a series of almost mathematical calculations in which he used people's emotions instead of numbers," ultimately becoming "the biggest man in one of the biggest states in one of the biggest countries in the world." (All of which sounds like a chillingly modern premise for a book written during the supposedly buttoned-down 1950s.) This was the author's fi...
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Any Old Iron [SIGNED]

By: Burgess, Anthony

Price: $65.00

Publisher: London, Hutchinson : (c.1989)

Seller ID: 16923

ISBN-13: 9780091738426

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dj

[both book and jacket are in flawless, as-new condition]. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Comic novel about the modern-day rediscovery of King Arthur's sword, Excalibur. Signed by Author
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Are the Stars Out Tonight?; the story of the famous Ambassador and Cocoanut Grove, "Hollywood's Hotel" [SIGNED]

By: Burk, Margaret Tante

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, Round Table West : (c.1980)

Seller ID: 28169

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

(no dust jacket, possibly as issued) [nice clean book, virtually as-new but for a tiny bump/dent in the top edge of the rear cover]. (B&W photographs, facsimiles) INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the title page: "To ____: / 'The past is fun / to remember!' / Warm regards, / Margaret Tante Burk." A heavily photo-illustrated, anecdotal history of the Ambassador Hotel and its Cocoanut Grove nightclub. Introduction by Adela Rogers St. Johns. ****NOTE that additional postage charges will be assessed for international shipping of this moderately heavy book; if this concerns you, please cont...
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Editha's Burglar [SIGNED by "Baby Peggy"]

By: Burnett, Frances H[odgson].

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Boston, L.C. Page & Company : (c.1925)

Seller ID: 27147

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj

(price-clipped) [modest wear to spine extremities and lower corners; the jacket has a few small nicks at both ends of the spine, and some minor winkling across the top edge of the rear panel]. (B&W photographs) SIGNED by "Baby Peggy" / Diana Serra Cary on the title page. Reprint of a Burnett short story (originally published in 1881 and later adapted for the stage), issued as a tie-in to the 1924 movie adaptation, retitled THE FAMILY SECRET, and illustrated with numerous stills from the film. The movie starred "Baby Peggy" (born Peggy-Jean Montgomery in 1918), who was then one of Hollywood's...
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It Came from Bob's Basement: Exploring the Science Fiction and Monster Movie Archive of Bob Burns

By: Burns, Bob, with John Michlig

Price: $45.00

Publisher: San Francisco, Chronicle Books : (c.2000)

Seller ID: 27212

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Fine

[very nice, clean, as-new copy]. Trade PB (B&W/color photographs, facsimiles) "A colorful journey through the vivid world of fantastic cinema and a true tribute to Bob Burns, a man who has dedicated his life to the preservation of an amazing number of movie artifacts. Illustrated with more than 200 never-before-published photographs of everything from King Kong's metallic skeleton to the terrifying Alien Queen, [this book] brings you up close and personal with the incredible props and artwork used in some of the best science fiction and creature features ever made. Told with irresistible enth...
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Image for Tarzan's Quest [its first appearance, as "Tarzan and the Immortal Men," in six consecutive issues of The Blue Book Magazine (October 1935 - March 1936)]

Tarzan's Quest [its first appearance, as "Tarzan and the Immortal Men," in six consecutive issues of The Blue Book Magazine (October 1935 - March 1936)]

By: Burroughs, Edgar Rice

Price: $500.00

Publisher: New York, The McCall Company : 1935-1936

Seller ID: 21862

Binding: Magazine

Condition: Very Good

[a solid Very Good on average (several issues would individually grade Near Fine), with the only serious condition problems being some soiling and surface damage along the spine and lower rear cover of the December 1935 issue, and a couple of surface scrapes/blemishes on the front cover of the November 1935 issue]. These six issues of The Blue Book Magazine contain the first appearance of Burroughs's "Tarzan and the Immortal Men," published in hardcover and subsequently known as "Tarzan's Quest," presented in monthly installments from October 1935 (Vol. 61, No. 6) through March 1936 (Vol. 62, ...
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Mario Lanza and Max Steiner

By: Burrows, Michael

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Cornwall (U.K.), Primestyle Limited : 1971

Seller ID: 27924

Binding: Card Covers

Condition: Near Fine

[extremely light handling wear, occasional faint vestiges of some erased pencil underlining (you'll have to squint under a bright light to find them), tiny bookstore rubber-stamp on title page]. (B&W photographs) A nice little booklet (44 pages, not including the covers), pairing appreciations of the Philadelphia-born opera singer (and sometime movie actor) and the great film composer, with brief bibliographies and filmographies for both. (And in case you're wondering: no, Lanza and Stein had no shared film credits.)
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The Case of the Chinese Gong

By: Bush, Christopher

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Triangle Books : 1940 (c.1935)

Seller ID: 28100

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Good dj

[shelfworn book, slight exposure of boards at lower corners, minor fraying at both ends of spine, pages age-toned as typical with these cheap reprints, one-time owner's name plus date & place of purchase written in ink along edge of rear pastedown (concealed beneath rear jacket flap); the jacket is heavily edgeworn, faded at spine, numerous old internal tape-repairs at edges and fold-points]. "At precisely 7:30, when a servant announced dinner by striking a Chinese gong, Mr. Greeve became the late and unlamented Mr. Greeve -- with a bullet hole through his head. One of his guests had shot him...
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I Should Care: The Sammy Cahn Story [SIGNED]

By: Cahn, Sammy

Price: $85.00

Publisher: New York, Arbor House : (c.1974)

Seller ID: 27285

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj

[light shelfwear, slight fading to cloth at base of spine, a little age-toning to top edge of text block; jacket has a few tiny tears and minor paper loss at spine ends, some discoloration to rear panel]. (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED ("and I do!") and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper. Memoir by the great American songwriter, "who teamed with such as Jule Styne and Jimmy Van Heusen to write the songs that have made him legendary and framed the lives of two generations of Americans." Signed by Author
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Double Indemnity

By: Cain, James M.

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard : 1992

Seller ID: 27916

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

[minor wear to spine extremities, previous owner's name at top of front endpaper]. Trade PB Cain's classic of insurance fraud-cum-murder, obsessive love, corrosive guilt, and ultimate damnation -- a fun read all around, and the basis for one of the best films noir ever made. Originally published as a serial in Liberty magazine in 1935.
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The Postman Always Rings Twice (Armed Services Edition, Q-2) [SIGNED]

By: Cain, James M.

Price: $5,000.00

Publisher: (n.p.), Editions for the Armed Services, Inc. : [1944] (c.1934)

Seller ID: 23858

Binding: Stapled wraps

Condition: Very Good

[moderately worn copy, slght fading along spine, short diagonal crease at bottom corner of front cover; internally quite clean, with typical signs of aging to cheap paper]. An outstanding association copy of Cain's most famous novel, INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the title page -- an amusing inscription to film producer and fellow screenwriter Carey Wilson which reads: "To Cary [sic] Wilson / The best edition / of all / Jim." Wilson was the producer of the long-delayed MGM film version of the book, released in 1946, and in fact had been the first writer assigned to the property when M...
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Too Politically Sensitive [SIGNED]

By: Callahan, Michale, with Jake Aurelian

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Savoy IL, Land of Lincoln Press : (c.2009)

Seller ID: 27247

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[one tiny dent in bottom edge of both covers, otherwise no significant wear; jacket shows a bit of surface handling wear, minor wrinkle at bottom edge of rear panel]. (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the primary author (Callahan) on the title page. In his first assignment as Investigations Commander for a nine-county area in East-Central Illinois, the author reviewed a 14-year-old murder case. The investigation changed his life, as it led to a (successful) years-long fight to free the two innocent men who had been wrongfully convicted of the crime -- a fight that also exposed "the ...
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Being an Actor

By: Callow, Simon

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, Methuen : 1984

Seller ID: 26869

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[only minor wear to book, page edges somewhat age-tanned; jacket lightly worn along top edge, one small tear and some associated minor creasing at top right corner of rear panel]. (B&W photographs) The first half of the book is an account of Callow's acting career; the second half "attempts to describe what it is actually like to be an actor in the present day theatre." Laid in is Callow's printed calling card.
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Category: *NEW ARRIVALS