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Mark the Music: The Life and Work of Marc Blitzstein [SIGNED]

By: Gordon, Eric A.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, St. Martin's Press: (c.1989)

Seller ID: 14371

ISBN: 0-312-02607-2

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[minor bumping/scuffing to bottom of book, but in all other respects a fresh, apparently unread copy; jacket similarly nice, with only some slight wrinkling to the spine]. (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED ("To _____ - Keep on rocking the cradle!") and SIGNED by the author on the ffep in the year of publication. "The first full-scale life-and-times biography of one of America's leading composers of the twentieth centur, the man who, according to Aaron Copland, made indigenous American opera possible. Along with Copland and Virgil Thomson, Marc Blitzstein (1905-1964) attempted in the tw...
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With Naked Foot

By: Hahn, Emily

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Indianapolis/New York, The Bobbs-Merrill Company: (c.1934)

Seller ID: 16038

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Good dj

(price-clipped) [book is slightly faded at spine, otherwise solid and clean with light age-toning to page edges; jacket has a somewhat jagged rip in spine (with a bit of paper loss, not affecting any text), and is split about halfway down the front fold, with several associated diagonal creases in the top right section of the front panel] Hahn's fourth book and second novel, drawing on her experiences living with a pygmy tribe in the Belgian Congo for two years in the early 1930s. She had previously published "Congo Solo," a nonfiction account of her time there, but here she spins th...
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A Pair of Jacks: Jack Dempsey & Son [SIGNED]

By: Hay, Jack

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Los Alamitos CA, Hwong Publishing Company: (c.1982)

Seller ID: 19190

ISBN: 0-89260-261-3

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

[moderate wear along spine, minor soiling to bottom edge, a little creasing in rear cover]. Trade PB (B&W halftone photographs) INSCRIBED at length and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper: "To _______ / My father's career is / the toughest act in history / to follow. This is / the story, as I picked / up the cards Fate dealt / and remember / With / Best / Wishes." (He has also added the note "soon to be a movie" at the top corner of the page, a hope that never materialized; in addition, laid in is his business card, with a Las Vegas address.) Very scarce memoir by th...
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The Hearsts: Father and Son [SIGNED]

By: Hearst, William Randolph Jr., with Jack Casserly

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Niwot CO, Roberts Rinehart Publishers: (c.1991)

Seller ID: 14728

ISBN: 1-879373-04-1

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice clean copy, no discernible wear to book; jacket has a couple of tiny scuffed spots on front panel (very unobtrusive), light wear at spine extremities]. (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED generically ("My best wishes") and SIGNED by the author (Hearst) on the half-title page. In this book, the authors "not only respond to the image created [of the senior Hearst] by [Orson] Welles [in CITIZEN KANE], but also tell the extraordinary story of an American family from the gold-diggings of California to the present Hearst media empire. The remarkable career of the junior Hearst -- to this...
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Charlie; the improbable life and times of Charles MacArthur [SIGNED]

By: Hecht, Ben

Price: $350.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: (c.1957)

Seller ID: 24931

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj

(price-clipped) [light wear to book's extremities, top corners very slightly bumped; jacket lightly edgeworn, a couple of tiny nicks at top edge of front panel, rubbing and minor wrinkling at spine ends]. (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED on the ffep "To Olive Peterson," with a rough sketch of a dog smoking a cigarette, below which the author has SIGNED "her friend / Ben Hecht." Hecht's freewheeling, anecdotal, affectionate memoir of his longtime friend and collaborator -- co-author with him of the plays "The Front Page" and "Twentieth Century" (among others) -- is ...
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Elvis: The Final Years [SIGNED]

By: Hopkins, Jerry

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, St. Martin's Press: (c.1980)

Seller ID: 24588

ISBN: 0312243847

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice tight clean book, no discernible wear whatsoever; jacket is similarly nice, with just a single small closed tear (virtually invisible) at top edge of front panel, a touch of wear along bottom edge of rear panel]. (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the ffep. Per the blurb: "the most comprehensive, best-documented, and definitive recounting of the tragic decline of the world's best-loved performer. [The author] has talked to everyone who could shed light on Elvis's later life -- from the time of his first triumphant live performance in Las Vegas in 1970, to the poi...
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Oath of Devotion

By: Isaacs, Julius

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc.: 1949

Seller ID: 22610

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj

[light shelfwear to bottom edge, slight bumping to top rear corner; jacket sunned at spine, light edgewear and scuffing]. "This book, by a former New York city magistrate, is in part the inspiring story of his own life; in part a vivid record of the city he has loved; in part an account of the Fusion Administration, embodying perhaps the most revealing portrait of Fiorello H. LaGuardia ever written. It tells of a career unusual for its variety and constant interest, unique for its inception and meaning. For Judge Isaacs, on graduating from the College of the City of New York, had taken ...
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The Brighter Half

By: Kelley, Ada Campbell

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Greenwich Book Publishers, Inc.: (c.1965)

Seller ID: 20501

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj

[minor soiling to cloth at top and bottom edges, no other significant wear; jacket somewhat faded at spine, with light overall soiling and age-toning]. Certainly one of the odder memoirs (if that's what it is) you're likely to encounter. The bulk of the book is the story of a woman named Anna Goldman Denny, who (like the book's author) is a native of St. Louis. She chronicles her life from childhood through her early career as an office worker in St. Louis and Chicago, her service with the Red Cross (stateside) during World War I, and in particular her long affair with an older man in her o...
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Very Lovely People: A Personal Look at Some Americans Living Abroad [SIGNED]

By: Kennedy, Ludovic

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Simon and Schuster: (c.1969)

Seller ID: 22974

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[very slight bumps to a couple of corners, no other significant wear; jacket is similarly nice, with one tiny tear at top front hinge, very light surface wear]. INSCRIBED "For the Fleischers / Two Lovely People / with every good wish" and SIGNED by the author on the title page. The author, "a brilliant British writer and television commentator, has over the past few years traveled completely around the globe, personally interviewing and writing about Americans whose ways of life seemed particularly interesting or significant to him. These Americans are not the Big Names of inter...
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A Time to Sing [SIGNED]

By: Kirsten, Dorothy

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday & Company: 1982

Seller ID: 9477

ISBN: 0-385-14744-9

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice tight copy, the faintest bit of soiling to bottom edges of boards but no significant wear; jacket shows very minor wear at corners and fore-edge, one tiny closed tear at top of front panel]. (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED ("To ________ / Sincerely") and SIGNED by the author on the ffep. The famous soprano's "warm and wonderful reminiscence of her brilliant career." Signed by Author
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Hanna & Walter: A Love Story [SIGNED]

By: Kohner, Hanna and Walter, with Frederick Kohner

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: (c.1984)

Seller ID: 21095

ISBN: 0-394-52164-1

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice clean book, no real wear but a very slight ripple in the text block; jacket shows just a bit of surface wear]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the ffep by both authors: "For _____ - good old - / friend - with all / our fondest wishes -- / Affectionately / Walter Kohner" (and) "In friendship to dear / _____ / Hanna Kohner" (and) "Los Angeles, Cal. / June 1984," in what appears to be Walter's hand. Love story about "two people separated by war and the Holocaust -- and miraculously reunited." Walter, preceded to the U.S. by brothers Paul and Frederick, both well e...
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The Navigator: Story by Avraham Goldreich [SIGNED]

By: Kolka, Gila (translated by Helen Kaye; edited by Rina Petilon)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Tel Aviv, (published by the author): 2009

Seller ID: 17700

ISBN: NO

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

[extremely light handling wear]. Trade PB (B&W and color photographs) INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the book's subject, Avraham Goldreich, on the title page. "The story of Avraham Goldreich, one of the first Navigators in [the] Israel Air Force." Although "written by" Gila Kolka, the narrative of Mr. Goldreich is presented in the first person. He tells the story of fleeing with his brother from Poland in 1942 and eventually making his way to Palestine, where he eventually becomes a navigator in the Israel Air Force, "one who has had a demonstrable influence on the development ...
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Our Ida Nudel: Testimonies of Former Prisoners and Refuseniks

By: Krausz, Peter, ed.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Tel Aviv, Israel Women for Ida Nudel: 1981 (c.1980)

Seller ID: 15992

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Near Fine

[minor handling wear, a couple of stress lines in rear cover next to spine]. (B&W photographs) A translated condensation of interviews conducted by Tal Hammel (who began the activity as a high school project in Israel in 1980), which ultimately came to serve as "a moving record of oral contemporary history which documented the incredible contribution made by Ida Nudel to the renascent Jewish national movement in the Soviet Union." Repeatedly denied an exit visa throughout the 1970s and thus unable to join her family in Israel, Ida Nudel became known as the "Guardian Angel" of...
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Show and Tell: New Yorker Profiles

By: Lahr, John

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Woodstock & New York, The Overlook Press: 2000

Seller ID: 18334

ISBN: 1-58567-062-6

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[faint soiling to fore-edge, otherwise a tight unworn book, apparently unread; jacket shows a bit of surface-scratching, mostly to rear panel]. Reprints fifteen of the author's New Yorker profiles of entertainment personalities: Woody Allen, David Mamet, Frank Sinatra, Arthur Miller, Liev Schreiber, Roseanne, Irving Berlin, Wallace Shawn, Eddie Izzard, Neil LaBute, Bob Hope, Ingmar Bergman, Mike Nicholas, Bert Lahr and Mildred Lahr.
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Notes on a Cowardly Lion: The Biography of Bert Lahr [SIGNED]

By: Lahr, John

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1969

Seller ID: 24572

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj

[some water-spotting on top edge of text block (no internal signs of this, however), light shelfwear and minor staining to bottom edges of both covers; jacket is very faded at spine (white-on-pink title is almost unreadable) but otherwise quite presentable]. (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the ffep: "For ___ -- / Who loves to laugh / & would have loved / Lahr, too. / Best regards, / John Lahr." This affectionate biography "is the chronicle, public and private, of the life of Bert Lahr, the last of the great clowns," written by his son, himself a renown...
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The Girl Who Had Everything: The Story of "The Fire and Ice Girl"

By: Leigh, Dorian, with Laura Hobe

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday & Company, Inc.: 1980

Seller ID: 18179

ISBN: 0385143311

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj

[tight clean copy, minimal shelfwear, remainder spray to bottom edge else Near Fine; jacket has one small closed tear and associated creasing at top of front panel, visible wear at top corners]. (B&W photographs) Autobiography of one of the world's first supermodels (before that term existed), who was also purported to be one of Truman Capote's primary inspirations for the character of Holly Golightly in "Breakfast at Tiffany's" (although similar claims have been made by and on behalf of others). Leigh was a fashion-industry icon in the 1940s and 1950s (as was her sister, Suzy Parker...
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Madame Sphinx

By: Lemestre, Marthe ("Martoune"); compiled by Antoine Giovanni & Michel Trécourt (trans. by Gale Strom)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Ballantine Books: 1975

Seller ID: 12980

ISBN: 0345246365

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

[solid copy, light edgewear, faint browning to page edges, bookstore stamp inside front cover]. Mass Market PB "The roaring twenties, the raging thirties -- the intimate memoirs of the celebrated Parisian Madam who catered to the world's most famous clientele. She was the toast of the twenties from New York to Hollywood with a fabulous speakeasy that offered delights beond gin to the glittering elite from Clark Gable and Douglas Fairbanks to Valentino and Al Capone. She was the rage of Paris in the thirties, where her extravagantly posh brothel provided infinite entertainments for ambas...
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The Writings of John Lennon: In His Own Write [and] A Spaniard in the Works

By: Lennon, John

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Simon and Schuster: (c.1981)

Seller ID: 24462

ISBN: 0671432575

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

(laminated boards; no dust jacket, as issued) [nice clean copy, essentially as new]. (line drawings) A reissue of Lennon's two books of absurdist poetry and prose, originally published during his Beatles days (in 1964 and 1965, respectively), with a new introduction by Paul McCartney.
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Apollo EECOM: Journey of a Lifetime

By: Liebergot, Sy; with David M. Harland

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Burlington, Ontario, Canada, Apogee Books/Collector's Guide Publishing Inc.: (c.2003)

Seller ID: 24773

ISBN: 1896522963

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice-looking book, just a bit of shelfwear to bottom edges of boards; jacket has a touch of wear at a couple of corners]. (B&W photographs, drawings) This autobiography, "the first 'space' book to be published by a former NASA flight controller [presents] an insider's recollections of some of the epic events in the national space program." Forewords by Ron Howard, director of the 1995 film APOLLO 13, and Clint Howard, who played the author in the movie -- both attesting to the importance of the insight that Liebergot brought to their understanding of the Apollo missions. (And yet he ...
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Mother Climbed Trees

By: Lindsay, Cynthia

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Simon and Schuster: 1958

Seller ID: 16576

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

[nice clean copy, with no significant wear, just the slightest age-toning to the fore-edge; jacket lightly soiled, with a little abrasion along the right-hand side of the top edge of the front panel]. Somebody ought to write a history of the "my-whacky-parent(s)" memoir, which had its heyday from the 1930s through the 1950s (think "Cheaper by the Dozen," "Life with Father," and most anything with the words "Papa" or "Mama" in the title). I'm not sure when it began to be supplanted by the parent-as-monster confessional -- I haven't written the history, a...
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Category: Biography/Autobiography