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Those War Women, by One of Them

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, Coward-McCann : 1929

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 19464

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Very Good+ dj

[nice tight clean book, showing no discernible wear; jacket has a few small nicks along the top edge (especially at top of spine, but with no significant paper loss), a little wrinkling at the top of the front panel, and a small tear at the bottom front hinge]. "This anonymous diary of a woman participant in the A.E.F. [American Expeditionary Force] is a peculiar human document that must stand with others of the great war. The writer who has woven her staccato series of ten years ago into a formal and continuous record will stir a thousand memories of Bordeaux, Tours, Paris, Le Mans, Malo, fo...
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The Further Adventures of Romney Pringle

By: Ashdown, Clifford (pseud. for R. Austin Freeman and John J. Pitcairn)

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Oswald Train, Publisher : (c.1969)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 18826

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Very Good+ dj

[nice and clean, no discernible wear to book; jacket has a teensy-tiny nick at top of front panel, faint soiling/browning to spine]. Half a dozen Victorian-era detective stories, co-authored by R. Austin Freeman in collaboration with his close friend, Dr. John James Pitcairn. Unlike the preceding volume of Pringle stories (which was a reprint of a collection originally published in 1903), this volume is the first book printing of six previously-uncollected tales. As the jacket blurb explains: "These are the last six Romney Pringle stories -- there are no more." Contains two short i...
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The Irish Beauties

By: Barrington, E. (L. Adams Beck)

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. : 1931

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 19832

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Very Good+ dj

[book is tight and fresh, with no discernible wear; jacket shows a touch of wear along top and bottom edges, some minor soiling around the edges of the rear panel] Romantic period piece about two penniless "young Irish beauties who believed in a dream and saw it changed into truth" -- the dream in question being an old woman's prophecy that they would "marry in England a little below the King and that their luck would begin with the Golden Vanity and a woman with a man's name." Both names appearing on the title page of this book were pseudonyms used by British-born Canadian author Elizabeth ...
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Glass Slippers Always Pinch

By: Bawden, Nina

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Philadelphia/New York, J.B. Lippincott Company : 1960 (c.1959)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 20230

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Very Good+ dj

[nice tight copy, appears unread, no discernible wear to book; jacket show minor wear at extremities, small tear and associated crease at top of spine]. Uncommon novel about a suburban London girl who "has all the makings of an Angry Young Woman [but] unfortunately, she is plagued with that most debilitating of characteristics for a young lady with a mission in life: she has a sense of humour. This affliction, when coupled with her unfailing propensity for doing all the wrong things for all the wrong reasons, cannot fail but produce calamitous results." Bawden's prolific output was ...
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Glass Mountain

By: Beach, Joseph Warren

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Macrae Smith Company : (c.1930)

Edition: 2nd printing before publication

Seller ID: 19308

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Very Good+ dj

[book itself is in beautiful condition, especially the patterned-foil covers which are clean and bright; the jacket is just a teensy bit edgeworn, with some scuffing along the spine panel]. "This brilliant and lyrical novel is the story of Norma Wardroper, her life and loves. In the mountains of California she meets Max Harder, painter of American sporting scenes; is drawn irresistibly to him, runs away with him to Spain and, later, marries him. When he leaves her for another woman, she seeks to adjust her life to lonely days, to accept her predicament without becoming cynical. The author ...
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The Man in the Crowd: Confessions of a Sports Addict [SIGNED]

By: Cohen, Stanley

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Random House : (c.1981)

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 22593

ISBN-13: 9780394508757

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Very Good+ dj

[book itself is tight and clean, with no discernible wear; jacket also quite nice, with just a couple of tiny external nicks (one at top of spine, the other at top right corner of front panel), and several vertical creases in the rear flap]. INSCRIBED in 2004 "to _______ & _____ -- / All the best, / Love" and SIGNED by the author on the ffep. An acknowledged classic of sports literature, this "wonderfully evocative memoir of [the author's] lifelong fascination with the world of sports [is] much more than that. It is also a nostalgic remembrance of decades past, and the way life ...
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Tradition and Change in Three Generations of Japanese Americans

By: Connor, John W.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Chicago, Nelson-Hall : (c.1977)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 22504

ISBN-13: 9780882292885

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Very Good+ dj

[nice clean book, no discernible wear; jacket shows moderate edgewear, a little scuffing to front and rear panels]. (tables, figures) "This study of the acculturation of three generations of Japanese Americans is based on both biographical data and psychological tests. After describing the focus of his investigation and the various research instruments that were employed, [the author] presents the historical framework within which distinctive Japanese and American characteristics developed. An account of Tokugama, Japan is followed by an analysis of the effects of nineteenth-century mod...
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Tom B. and the Joyful Noise

By: Cushman, Jerome

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, The Westminster Press : (c.1970)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 24115

ISBN-13: 9780664324674

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Very Good+ dj

[no discernible wear to book; jacket has a very shallow chip and a one-inch closed tear at top of front panel, otherwise just lightly edgeworn (mostly along top edge of rear panel)]. (pen and ink drawings) Story for young readers about Tom B., "a cocky little black boy who uses his shoeshine kit as a passport to explore New Orleans," falls in love with jazz in the French Quarter, meets the Preservation Hall musicians (one of whom promises to give him trumpet lessons), and "one thing naturally leads to another."
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Climbing the Mountain: My Search for Meaning [SIGNED]

By: Douglas, Kirk

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Simon & Schuster : (c.1997)

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 26103

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Very Good+ dj

(price-clipped) [no significant wear to either book or jacket, the latter downgraded only because of the price-clipping]. (B&W photographs) SIGNED boldly (no inscription) by the author on the front endpaper. "With the siimple power and astonishing candor that made his 1988 autobiography a number one international bestseller, [the author] now shares his quest for spirituality and Jewish identity -- and his heroic fight to overcome crippling injuries and a devastating stroke." Signed by Author
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Trooper

By: Handel, Leo A.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Austin TX, Windsor House Publishing Group, Inc. : 1998

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 24584

ISBN-13: 9781881636007

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Very Good+ dj

[book itself is tight and clean with no discernible wear; jacket shows some wear at corners and edges, a couple of tiny tears (one tape-repaired) at top of front panel]. "A German Shepherd Tells the Story of His Life -- A Life Filled with Joy and Tragedy." The author was a documentary film producer/director, who called upon his "years of experience with German shepherds" to channel his inner dog and produce this first-canine narrative, that encompasses everything from Trooper's "tangles with rose bushes, traffic, ocean waves, and criminals to moments of tenderness, sorrow, joy, and fear. [It...
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The Cost of Living Like This

By: Kennaway, James

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Atheneum : 1969

Edition: First American Edition

Seller ID: 22007

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Very Good+ dj

(price-clipped) [nice tight clean book, with no discernible wear; jacket shows a tiny bit of surface wear to the rear panel, short diagonal crease at bottom of front flap]. Novel set in London and Glasgow, about "the old triangle -- two women and a man -- a husband, a wife, a little girl from the office. If the basic situation is more than familiar, it still has never been explored with such power or described and dissected so vividly in contemporary terms." This was the first of two posthumously-published novels by Kennaway, a Scottish novelist who died in a car accident in 1968 at ...
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Images in Low Key: Cinematographer Sol Polito, A.S.C. [SIGNED]

By: Lazarou, George A.

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Athens (Greece), Published By the Author : 1985

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 27341

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Very Good+ dj

[book is in flawless condition; the original clear plastic dust jacket has some minor wrinkling and surface wear]. (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the half-title page, to noted film historian Rudy Behlmer. A detailed appreciation and chronicle of the work of Polito, who entered the movie business in 1912 and went on to become one of Warner Bros.' top cameramen during the 1930s and 1940s. (Among his credits were: I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG; 42nd STREET; THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD; CONFESSIONS OF A NAZI SPY; THE SEA HAWK; NOW, VOYAGER; and SORRY, WRONG NUMBER....
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Black Mountain

By: Leasure, Robert

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons : (c.1975)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 23823

ISBN-13: 9780399116018

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Very Good+ dj

[nice clean book with no discernible wear; jacket lightly edgeworn, also printed slightly out of register (see scanned image)]. Novel set in the Colorado Rockies, about a legendary and mysterious grizzly bear known as Old Mose, who "fought against the men who hunted him on Black Mountain with guns, traps, poison. To the white men he was 'the bear no man could kill,' a devil-monster. To the Indians he was a woodland god."
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Half a Loaf

By: Lewis, Grace Hegger

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, Horace Liveright, Inc. : 1931

Edition: 3rd printing

Seller ID: 24545

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Very Good+ dj

(price-clipped) [very nice copy, no significant wear to book; jacket shows just a bit of wear to spine extremities]. The only novel by the then-ex-wife of Sinclair Lewis (they had divorced in 1925 and he had already remarried, to journalist Dorothy Thompson), this book doesn't try very hard (or at all) to put up any kind of a "fictionalized" screen -- the jacket blurb states: "This story of what it means to be a famous author's wife, told by a famous author's former wife, throws a floodlight upon the jangled marriages of today." OK, she at least changes the names -- the husband here is "Timo...
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The Deal

By: Marshall, G. William

Price: $20.00

Publisher: [New York?], Bartholomew House Ltd. : 1968

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 26461

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Very Good+ dj

[nice clean book with no discernible wear; jacket shows just light overall handling wear]. Novel presenting "a terrifyingly detailed close-up of the motion picture game played in Hollywood, New York and Paris." In his bibliography of Hollywood novels, Anthony Slide summarizes the book thus: "A producer of European art films, noted for his unprincipled methods, signs a contract with a Hollywood leading man [who] is immoral and requires the producer to rescue him from a number of scrapes." According to the jacket blurb, the author "has been successful in every phase of the international motion...
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Art as Design: Design as Art: A Contemporary Guide

By: McIlhany, Sterling

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York/London, Van Nostrand Reinhold Company / Studio Vista : (c.1970)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 20298

ISBN-13: 9780289279854

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Very Good+ dj

(price-clipped) [nice clean book, no discernible wear; jacket shows some light rubbing and very faint soiling, but would rate Near Fine if not for the price-clipping]. (B&W and color photographs; facsimiles) "Here is a book that ranges through all aspects of modern living, examining man-made things, discussing why they look as they do. The more than 250 illustrations come from museums, art galleries, picture archives, industry, science, advertising, the mass media, and artists and designers all over the country. . . . The book observes no artificial limits, but embraces design as a univer...
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Portrait of a Con Man: A Game Some People Play

By: Mendoza, Fay

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Vantage Press : (c.1975)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 8148

ISBN-13: 9780533018697

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Very Good+ dj

[nice tight clean book; jacket shows a little rubbing/scuffing along bottom edge of front panel, one small tear there as well, spine a bit faded]. "Portrait of a Conned Woman" might be a better title for this "chronicle of one woman's experience--of an unsuspecting woman who was 'taken,' heart and pocketbook, by a con man working, albeit just barely, within the law--and how her programming in a rigidly defined sex role made her the perfect victim, a pushover just waiting to be fleeced." Most of the book takes the form of a long letter from the author to her lawyer, in a diary-l...
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Untold Decades: Seven Comedies of Gay Romance

By: Patrick, Robert

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, St. Martin's Press : (c.1988)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 23979

ISBN-13: 9780312023072

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Very Good+ dj

[very nice clean tight copy, no discernible wear; jacket has a couple of tiny surface-scars on front panel, minor soiling along the front flap foldover]. "Seven one-act plays, each in a different setting with different characters, which together trace the romantic comedy of gay male love in America through the last seven different decades," from "the secret sophistication of the international gay scene in the '20s through such variations as the poverty-enforced prostitution of the '30s, wartime revelty in the '40s, Cold War paranoia in the '50s, ghetto ritualization in the '60s, c...
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The Prince's Darling [original U.K. title: The Rocklitz]

By: Preedy, George (pseud. for Gabrielle Margaret Vere Campbell, aka Marjorie Bowen)

Price: $150.00

Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead & Company : 1930

Edition: American Edition

Seller ID: 19806

Binding: Hardcover Second Printing

Condition: Fine in Very Good+ dj

[beautiful clean copy with no discernible wear; jacket has small tears and minor chipping/paper loss at spine ends, a couple of short closed tears and associated creasing along bottom edge of front panel]. A "stirring tale, filled with color and movement, the setting being the autocratic life of the great nobles in the most wealthy and dissipated of the German states, Saxony, at the close of the seventeenth century. The story centers around the delicately beautiful Madelon de Neitschütz, who is forced by her unscrupulous father and dissipated brothers to choose wealth and power instead o...
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The Computer Prophets

By: Rosenberg, Jerry M.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York/London, The Macmillan Company / Collier-Macmillan Ltd. : (c.1969)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 25756

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Very Good+ dj

(price-clipped) [nice clean book with no discernible wear, small bookseller's label at top corner of ffep (Vroman's, Pasadena); jacket has a tiny tear at the top front hinge and some associated minor creasing to the upper left corner of the front panel, and a short diagonal crease at bottom corner of rear flap, but is otherwise very clean with just minimal surface wear]. An interesting (and rather scarce) biographically-structured survey of the major developments in the history of computer technology, presenting "fascinating and dramatic biographies of the men who developed what we know today...
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