Category: Television and Radio

American Horror Story: Freak Show

Price: $100.00

Publisher: [Los Angeles], FX : [2008]

Seller ID: 24417

Condition: Near Fine

(in Near Fine slipcase) [book itself is unworn, but slightly blemished on rear endpapers from removal of spot of sticky substance; slipcase shows some external surface-rubbing]. (color photographs and graphics) Large-format (approx. 9"x13") promotional book (in slipcase), issued in advance of the premiere of the fourth season of the FX series "American Horror Story," a self-contained 13-episode mini-series set in Jupiter, Florida, in 1952, and telling the story of the struggle fo survival of one of the last remaining freak shows in America. Several pages are devoted to each of the show's maj...
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Herman Wouk's War & Remembrance

Price: $25.00

Publisher: (n.p.), Capital Cities/ABC, Inc. : (c.1988)

Seller ID: 23287

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

[the faintest trace of handling wear; essentially as-new]. (color photographs) Nicely-produced promotional booklet (9"x12") with fold-out pages, issued in conjunction with the 1988 ABC-TV miniseries adaptation of Wouk's sprawling World War II novel, itself a follow-up to his earlier book "The Winds of War," which had been a big-deal TV event five years before. Both programs were produced and directed by Dan Curtis, and starred Robert Mitchum as Captain Victor "Pug" Henry; the cast of this one also included Jane Seymour, John Gielgud, Polly Bergen, Victoria Tennant, Sharon Stone, Peter Graves...
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Hallmark Hall of Fame: The First Forty Years

By: (UCLA Film and Television Archive)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, UCLA Film and Television Archive : 1991

Seller ID: 20760

ISBN: NO

Binding: Stapled wraps

Condition: Near Fine

[tiny bend at bottom corner of front cover, otherwise as-new]. (B&W photographs) Tribute/program guide for a retrospective series of programs from the first four decades of long-running drama series, which began in the era of live TV and continues to this day. Includes program notes (by Kenneth Kirby) for the 32 programs presented in the series proper, presented throughout August and September 1991, plus notes for three additional out-of-series shows included in UCLA's annual Festival of Preservation. The program is a nice mix of HHoF's repertoire, which ranged from the tried-and-true high-t...
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The Outlook for Television

By: Dunlap, Orrin E., Jr.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Arno Press and the New York Times : 1971 (c.1932)

Seller ID: 14451

ISBN-13: 9780405035647

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

(no dust jacket, as issued) [minor spotting on front cover, otherwise a nice tight clean book; NOT ex-library]. (History of Broadcasting: Radio to Television) Series (B&W photo frontispiece, other photos) Facsimile reprint of the 1932 edition, published by Harper & Brothers. The author was the radio editor of the New York Times, and the author of numerous tomes about the radio business. The frontispiece is a portrait photo of Guglielmo Marconi, reproducing his inscription to the author. The book's Foreword is by the legendary William S. Paley, President of the Columbia Broadcasting System....
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The Brontës of Haworth [2 volumes] [SIGNED]

By: Fry, Christopher

Price: $75.00

Publisher: London, Davis-Poynter Limited : 1975

Seller ID: 22474

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

[both volumes very nice, minor dust-soiling to top edges, Vol. I slightly faded along spine and at top of front cover]. Trade PB INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the title page of Volume I: "for Dick and Mickey / with love from / Kit / The Toft[?] / August 17, 1975. Four TV plays about the Brontë family, "based on Yorkshire Television's production." The inscribees were film director Richard Fleischer and his wife; Fry had written the screenplay for the Fleischer's 1961 film BARABBAS. Signed by Author
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Radio and Television: A Selected, Annotated Bibliography: Supplement Two, 1982-1986

By: Pringle, Peter K., and Helen H. Clinton

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Metuchen NJ/London, Scarecrow Press : 1989

Seller ID: 8658

ISBN-13: 9780810821583

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

(no dust jacket, as issued) [minor exterior rubbing/scuffing, mostly to rear cover].
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Vic and Sade: The Best Radio Plays of Paul Rhymer

By: Rhymer, Paul (ed. by Mary Frances Rhymer)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, The Seabury Press : (c.1976)

Seller ID: 16810

ISBN-13: 9780816492848

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dj

[a solid copy, but with a dampstain affecting the bottom corners, front and rear, of both the jacket and the book; almost no effect on the book's pages, though, except for a minor stain at the bottom corner of the rear endpaper and the last text page]. These classic radio scripts are, quite simply, laugh-out-loud funny -- and occasionally so insanely imaginative as to border on the surreal. As Jean Shepherd puts it in his insightful foreword, "great reputations exist in the theater or the novel on far less profound and effective work that Rhymer's. In fact, he probably wrote more funny lin...
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Naked City: The Television Series [SIGNED]

By: Rosin, James

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, The Autumn Road Company : (c.2008)

Seller ID: 22395

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Fine

[very nice, as-new book, with no discernible wear]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) SIGNED by the author on the title page. Episode guide to the noted crime series (inspired by the 1948 feature film), which ran for four seasons on ABC-TV between 1958 and 1963. (It began as a half-hour show, with 39 episodes airing during its first year, after which it was cancelled by the network; re-tooled as an hour-long series, it returned to the air after a year's hiatus, eventually logging an additional 99 episodes over three seasons.) The book is pretty standard-issue in terms of format: each episode is tr...
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Top TV Shows of the Year 1954-1955

By: Settel, Irving, ed.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Hastings House/Comm. Arts : (c.1955)

Seller ID: 5446

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

(no dust jacket) [minimal shelfwear, minor soiling to top edge, paper-covered boards are a little browned around the edges, inside very clean]. (B&W photographs) Includes scripts from "Johns Hopkins Science Review"; "The Jackie Gleason Show (The Honeymooners)"; "See It Now" ("Report on Senator Joseph R. McCarthy"); "Elisha and the Long Knives" (Kraft TV Theatre); "Native Dancer" (Goodyear TV Playhouse); "The Thinking Heart" (Kraft TV Theatre); "Camel News Caravan"; "What's My Line?"; "Meet the Press"; "The Home...
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The Best of Armstrong Circle Theatre

By: Settel, Trudy and Irving (adapted by)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, The Citadel Press : (c.1959)

Seller ID: 20861

ISBN: NO

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good

[covers rubbed and edgeworn, a little fading to spine; binding solid, internally clean]. Trade PB "The most talked-about television documentaries now presented in story form." Early examples of the "docu-drama" form; includes adaptations of "Buried 20,000 Years--The Dead Sea Scrolls" (original teleplay by Irve Tunick), " Thirty Days to Reconsider" (original teleplay by Roger Hirson, about a Los Angeles couple who attempt to save their marriage through counseling), and "Assignment--Junkie's Alley" (original teleplay by Mel Goldberg, about an undercover p...
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Some Joe You Don't Know: An American Biographical Guide to 100 British Television Personalities

By: Slide, Anthony

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Westport CT/London, Greenwood Press : 1996

Seller ID: 20774

ISBN-13: 9780313295508

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

(laminated pictorial boards; no dust jacket) [spine slightly turned, no other significant wear]. (B&W photographs) Biographical essays, with bibliographies, on some of the British TV actors and actresses who are most widely known to American audiences. Incorporates transcripts of interviews with several of the subjects: Terence Alexander, Richard Briers, Benny Hill, Wendy Richard, Prunella Scales, and Moray Watson. Among the additional familiar names included are: Rowan Atkinson, Tom Baker, Jeremy Brett, Robbie Coltrane, Dame Edna Everedge (Barry Humphries), David Frost, Stephen Fry, Michael...
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The Television Industry: A Historical Dictionary

By: Slide, Anthony

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Greenwood Press : (c.1991)

Seller ID: 17879

ISBN-13: 9780313256349

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

(no dust jacket, as issued) [nice clean copy, top corners lightly bumped but no other discernible wear]. A-to-Z guide to the TV industry, with "more than 1,000 entries on production companies, distributors, organizations, genres, technical terms, and much, much more." Includes a general bibliography of reference books on television. Considering the changes in the TV business over the last twenty years, this book has become "historical" in more ways than one.
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The View from Sunset Boulevard: America as Brought to You by the People Who Make Television

By: Stein, Ben

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Basic Books, Inc. : (c.1979)

Seller ID: 22873

ISBN-13: 9780465090327

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice tight copy, no significant wear, just a couple of extremely light stain-lines on bottom of text block; jacket a little rubbed, but no tears or chips]. An early work by the ex-Nixon speechwriter and future cable quiz-show host, for which he interviewed a bunch of TV people, which led him to the conclusion that "the 'alternate reality' of the small screen reflects the politics and idiosyncratic view of life of this singular Los Angeles-based community."
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Radio Programs, 1924-1984: A Catalog of Over 1800 Shows

By: Terrace, Vincent

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Jefferson NC/London, McFarland & Company, Inc. : (c.1999)

Seller ID: 25581

Condition: Very Good+

(no dust jacket, as issued) [nice unworn copy, faint shadow from removed label at upper left corner of front cover, and for some reason half the ffep has been torn away]. (B&W photographs) "This book is the largest and most detailed description of radio series ever published -- an alphabetical listing of 1,835 entertainment programs broadcast from 1924 through 1984. The listings provide casts (performers and their characters), information about character relationships, storylines, announcers, musicians, producers, hosts, variety and dramatic show regulars, dates, networks, running times,...
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Category: Television and Radio