(pictorial paper label on front cover; no dust jacket, as issued) [shelfwear and bumping to bottom edges, some fraying to cloth at top of spine, a few tiny stains adjacent to spine (on both front and rear covers)] (B&W photographs, cartoons, ads, etc.) Commemorative yearbook, issued to coincide with the "Page One Ball," an annual shindig at which the Big Apple's newspapermen (and probably a few women) gathered to make merry, give themselves awards, and generally congratulate one another for being, well, New York newspapermen, at a time when NYC boasted no fewer than seven daily papers.... View More...
[very light soiling to bottom edge, paper-clip indentation at top of one page, minimal shelfwear; jacket shows only light handling wear]. (B&W photographs) A collection of essays by print and TV journalists about "concerted corporate and/or government efforts to kill their controversial stories and their careers," this book portrays "a press corps that regularly engages in self-censorship and attacks reporters who come under fire for not doing so, [and] a Fourth Estate that has largely relinquished its watchdog role and that has been co-opted by corporate and government powers." A fascinatin... View More...
[good solid copy, minor shelfwear, light staining to endpapers, contemporary gift inscription on front pastedown, light spotting (foxing?) on a few pages; jacket only moderately worn, spine a little faded, but has been laminated by a previous owner]. (B&W photographs, cartoon drawings) "Written in 'ball park English,' here is a photo-biography of an ace news photographer. Mr. Coleman gives us his amazing mass of memories of the whole turbulent newspaper scene through the last forty-five years -- and packs his book with sensational photographs of the biggest newspaper scoops of all time, as w... View More...
[beautiful copy, no significant wear to either book or jacket] (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the half-title page: "To ________ -- A friend I am fortunate / enough to have. / Fondly, / Will Fowler / 1993." Colorful memoir by the son of Gene Fowler, who earned his own place in L.A. noir-history early in his career by being the first reporter on the scene of the Black Dahlia murder. Later, as a feature writer for the Los Angeles Herald & Express, he "covered Hollywood's most torrid love affairs and killings." The book is primarily about his career as a... View More...
(no dust jacket, as issued) [nice-looking copy with no discernible external wear, but with some yellow hi-liting and marginal ink markings in several chapters]. (tables, charts) The book "describes the recent history of newspaper firms in the United States and The Netherlands, and attempts to assess the chances of survival of the printed newspaper." View More...
[good solid copy, very light soiling to page edges, no significant wear; jacket a bit rubbed]. INSCRIBED ("For _______ -- / Best wishes!") and SIGNED by Hiaasen on the title page. A selection of the popular author's Miami Herald columns from 1985-1998, "written with the same dark humor and satirical edge" as his best-selling novels. "Known for evoking the disastrously flawed paradise of modern South Florida, Hiaasen proves in these columns that facts can indeed be stranger than the fiction they inspire." Signed by Author View More...
(in Grosset & Dunlap dust jacket) [book is moderately worn, spine cloth faded, light dampstaining to cloth along top edges of both covers; jacket is slightly shorter than the book itself, and has been backed with brown paper tape along all edges and seams, which has filled in for various small chips and other bits of paper loss (at spine extremities and several other corners)]. INSCRIBED to screenwriter Sonya Levien and SIGNED by the author on the ffep: "With admiration and / much affection / Always," and dated "Hollywood, August 13, 1939." Irene Kuhn (1898-1995) was a reporter and columnist ... View More...
(price-clipped) [nice tight copy, some very light staining to the top edges of the covers, light discoloration to endpapers, gift inscription (non-authorial) on ffep; jacket shows light wear at the extremities, one tiny closed tear at top of rear panel]. (B&W photographs) "The Amazing Story of a Fabulous Newspaper," that being the legendary New York Evening Graphic, which nurtured (spawned?) a whole slew of notable and notorious talents, including Walter Winchell, Jerry Wald, Ed Sullivan, and Samuel Fuller; even director John Huston served a very brief stint as a reporter in the early 1930s. T... View More...
[very nice copy, light age-toning to edges of text block but no significant shelfwear, one-time owner's signature on ffep; jacket shows only minor wear to extremities and edges, a handful of itsy-bitsy closed tears and minor nicks]. "An utterly unconventional account of a young woman correspondent's whirlwind experiences in the Far East and Russia during the chaos of war." Miss Moats (1908-1989), a well-born young lady who was educated in Mexico City, New York, Rome, Paris and South Carolina, began her professional writing career in 1933. She became an international reporter of sorts -- alt... View More...
[nice solid copy with minimal wear, a touch of soiling to bottom of text block, tiny scrape mark on ffep; jacket shows very light soiling, sliglht wear at bottom front corner of front panel, short closed (repaired) tear at top of spine]. (B&W photographs, endpaper maps) INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the second front endpaper: "March 28th 1960 / To Florence Henderson -- / With warmest regards / Harrison E. Salisbury." "Barred from Russia for five years, the author -- Russian-speaking, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for the New York Times -- returned to a 'new' Russia in 1959. Based ... View More...
(no dust jacket) [nice copy, light shelfwear to bottom edge, minor soiling to top edge, previous owner's signature on ffep]. Here's why vanity presses exist: so that people who've had interesting lives can write "novels" that are rather nakedly autobiographical. The author (per the blurb, quoted from the dust jacket on another copy) had worked at the "finest newspapers in New York City, Los Angeles and Seattle" before finding his true calling as general manager of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce; it seems pretty clear that the "fast-growing, naughty coastal metropolis cal... View More...
[minor shelfwear, binding just slightly shaken; jacket has tiny nicks at several spine corners, minor crinkling at spine ends, otherwise bright and clean]. INSCRIBED "For Bob Lewine / a dear, kind friend" and SIGNED by the author on the ffep. Commentary by a widely syndicated journalist and columnist, "a commentator who is often morally indignant when relating the day's lamentable events and a poetic stylist when reminiscing about the past, describing a succulent meal or a good book." The inscribee, Robert Lewine, was an Emmy-winning network television programmer who was the ... View More...
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