[a reading/reference copy only; the magazine had obviously gotten wet at some point, and is therefore wrinkled and rippled throughout -- although not stained, or smelly, or otherwise blemished, apart from a small price-sticker-removal scar on the front cover]. (B&W photographs) The feature stories in this issue are: an article by James Silke entitled "Attack," billed as "an analysis of the new cinema and its Hollywood beginnings"; an interview with Jean Renoir; mostly-photographic features on the films WHAT A WAY TO GO! and BEHOLD A PALE HORSE (Fred Zinnemann); a 6-page "picture essay" (all f... View More...
(no dust jacket) [a serviceable reading copy, but no more; the book had gotten wet at some point, with consequent large staining and cloth rippling to lower right corner of front cover, and a smaller area similarly blemished on rear cover; former owner's initials plus date & place of purchase in ink along edge of rear pastedown; large, attractive custom bookplate of one Forrest P. Blunt on front pastedown, partially affected at lower corner by previously-described dampstaining]. Mystery novel set in Washington, D.C., revolving around the murder of a mysterious Argentine woman in her Washingto... View More...
(no dust jacket) [reading copy only, with considerable shelfwear to bottom edges (boards exposed in several spots), rear hinge split, vintage bookseller's label (Bert Barber's Book Store, Fort Worth) on rear pastedown]. Novel about a Dutch family, in Paris and later New York, by a writer once referred to (at least by Time Magazine) as "Holland's foremost novelist." Apparently her depiction of American life in the middle section of the book was grounded in a personal visit to this country in 1925. View More...
(no dust jacket) [pretty rough condition, reading copy only; heavy external wear, all pages attached but binding weak, rear endpapers removed with consequent weakening of rear hinge, vintage bookseller's label on front pastedown]. A novel of the Vermont hill country, reissued as a Dell paperback in 1953, under the title "Go Down to Glory." View More...
(no dust jacket) [considerable external wear, but still a solid reading copy; ex-lending library, with large stamp for Hayman's I.D.A. Pharmacy (city unstated) on ffep and half-title/blurb page]. A romance of the West, involving Native American characters: "What made Red Hawk flinch from the bloody rites of the Cheyenne tribal traditions, when he reached the age of eighteen? He was known to be strong and courageous yet he could not go through with it. Dismissed from his tribe, in disgrace, he took refuge among the whites and fell in love with Maisry Lester." View More...
(no dust jacket) [solid reading copy, but that's about it: worn/bumped at top and bottom corners (boards exposed), several deteriorated spots on spine cloth, etc.] INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the half-title page: "To 'Fraulein' / at Black [Torkey?] / from / Eardley Beswick / Xmas '38." Novel set in and around Lancashire, England, with the action taking place before, during and after World War I. It's in rough enough condition that I probably wouldn't offer it for sale but for the authorial inscription -- I mean, it just might be the only extant Eardley Beswick signature! S... View More...
(no dust jacket) [reading/reference copy only; moderate external wear, spine turned, large pieces of both ffep and half-title page torn out]. Scarce novel with a Los Angeles setting, described by California fiction bibliographers Baird & Greenwood thusly: "A tense story (but not a detective novel) in which a psychopathic composer works his influence upon a group of people, fueling a violent situation, resulting in murder." View More...
(no dust jacket) [moderate wear at extremities, both hinges cracked (the front more severely than the rear), private "Ex Libris" bookplate on front pastedown; all photographic plates are present (one illustrating the beginning of each major section of the book), but one is detached from the binding]. (11 B&W photographic plates) A collection of papers presented at the conferences referenced in the book's subtitle, held during two weeks in May 1911. Following some introductory matter (including the comments of Jane Addams regarding the "Opening of the Exhibit"), the papers are... View More...
[pretty beat-up, with heavy external wear (covers edgeworn/creased, small piece missing at bottom front corner, etc.), tears in title page and first page of text, bottom inch or so of spine covering missing, etc.]. (Popular Plays and Screen Library) Series (B&W photographs) A cheaper version of the popular "Photoplay Editions" issued mostly by Grosset & Dunlap and A.L. Burt, this is a novelization of the 1926 Warner Bros. film of the same name, starring Patsy Ruth Miller and Clive Brook. Illustrated with a whopping TWO stills from the film, plus small portraits of the six principal ac... View More...
[worn copy, rear cover detached, pages browned and somewhat brittle, chipping/flaking at corners, creasing to covers, etc.]. (Popular Plays and Screen Library) Series (B&W photographs) Novelization of the 1926 MGM film THE BLACKBIRD starring Lon Chaney, Renée Adorée and Owen Moore, and directed by Tod Browning. (The book, bearing a 1925 copyright date, seems to have been issued prior to the release of the film itself -- which obviously had an 11th-hour title change -- in January 1926.) The three photographic plates in the book itself are full-page portrait shots of Adorée, Moore, and Tod Br... View More...
(no dust jacket) [worn but intact copy, slight fading to spine cloth, bumping to all corners, fraying to cloth and some exposure of boards at bottom edge, several small gouges in rear cover, small bookseller's rubber stamp inside, one-time owner's name at top of title page]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the title page: "To Marie Vasgard / with good luck wishes / Robert E. Callahan / 1947." As nearly as I can make out the plot of this somewhat overwrought novel, it has to do with a man who places hundreds of "lonely hearts" advertisements in newspapers around the coun... View More...
[reading/reference copy only: considerable external wear, soiling to covers, etc.; pages browned and brittle due to cheap pulp paper; page also exhibit numerous tiny chips and tears, mostly at corners and along bottom edges, although no text has been lost]. (B&W photographs) Big league statistics and summaries for the previous (1945) season, along with team-by-team lineups for 1946, with numerous photos of players and brief commentaries about their past accomplishments and future prospects. View More...
[reading/reference copy only: considerable external wear, especially along spine, etc.; pages still generally white and supple, with some intermittent spotting/staining]. (B&W photographs) Big league statistics and summaries for the previous (1950) season, along with team-by-team lineups for 1951, with numerous photos of players and brief commentaries about their past accomplishments and future prospects. This edition also includes a 15-page section presenting a "Complete Picture-Record Gallery of the 60 Immortals in Baseball's Hall of Fame," with black-and-white reproductions of por... View More...
(no dust jacket) [a reading/reference copy only; just modestly shelfworn, but badly stained at the lower corners of both the front and rear covers (externally and internally); former owner's name plus date & place of purchase in ink at top of front endpaper]. Vintage mystery novel about a Chicago-based detective who ventures out of the city to investigate the mysterious "suicide" of a wealthy man, possibly related to an ancient curse placed on a frieze that he had salvaged from a ruined chateau in France and brought back to America to decorate his mansion. View More...
(no dust jacket) [ex-rental library book, intact but quite shelfworn, with considerable paper residue/remnants on front cover and both pastedowns, fading to spine cloth, some kind of white stain along rear hinge, etc.; a reading copy, nothing more]. Typical Chase pulp, with a classic politically-incorrect title (changed for most later editions to the more benign "Twelve Chinamen and a Woman"). Quote from the tiny portion of the jacket text that remains on the front pastedown: "This is no book for the faint-hearted. It is for mystery fans who like explosive action." View More...
(no dust jacket) [reading copy only; an ex-rental library book, stamped as such on all endpapers, with heavy wear to bottom edge (boards exposed), front hinge cracked, moderate soiling to page edges]. Novel about a successful New York businesswoman, owner of her own interior decoration firm. "There was more to this business than just picking out nice lamp-shades, and matching the draperies to the rug. Sometimes she wished she had married young and gone to California to live. Sometimes she wished she had picked out a nice easy job like scrubbing floors." View More...
(pictorial front cover label; no dust jacket) [worn copy, external soiling, rear hinge cracked, fraying with exposure of boards at corners, tiny white stain at front joint, small nick in cloth at bottom edge of rear cover -- and SEE NOTES about enhancements and scribblings in text]. (color plates, line drawings) The author's second Little Jack Rabbit book (the first, the "Big Blue Book," was published in ____), presenting another visit to "Rabbitland, where Make Believe is the open sesame -- that state of mind in childhood which makes possible all things visible and invisible."... View More...
(no dust jacket) [spine turned, binding a little weak (but intact), bumping and slight fraying to all corners, one-time owner's name on ffep, some deterioration to cloth at rear joint; internally clean, a perfectly OK reading copy]. The author's second mystery novel, also the second to feature Sergeant Cass Harty, "wisecracking member of the New York Homicide Squad, and his skeptical little stooge, Barney Stauffer." The pair investigate a group of violent murders at a small Long Island beach resort, with one of the mysteries encountered along the way being: "How did a Button Gwinnett autogra... View More...
(no dust jacket) [solid reading copy, moderate external soiling, some deterioration to cloth on rear cover, 3-inch split to cloth along front joint; humorous contemporary gift inscription (non-authorial) on ffep, along with attractive vintage bookplate of one Marianna V. Hover]. Novel set in the Lake District of northern England (Cumberland, specifically), telling the tale of a couple of poachers, Red Ike and Will Moffatt, who run afoul of a powerful and not-very-nice landowner -- a situation complicated by the fact that Will and the landowner's daughter are in love. (And Red Ike is in love ... View More...
(no dust jacket) [ex-women's club library book (with rubber-stamp and handwritten note attesting to same on the front endpapers); worn copy, spine a little turned, fraying to extremities, staining to edges of text block, etc.; a reading copy only]. Novel about a young woman, Raquel Rojas, who leaves her small Arizona border town to escape a marriage to a man she doesn't love; she makes her way to New York (of course), lands a job as a model, and before you can say "ooh la la," finds herself swept off to Paris by a dashing Frenchman, Monsieur Alphonse. Although all the textual evidenc... View More...
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