Condition: Good in Near Fine dj

Footloose; sequel to "The Flapper Wife"

By: Burton, Beatrice

Price: $85.00

Publisher: New York, Grosset & Dunlap : (c.1926)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 25055

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Near Fine dj

[book is in decent used condition, but has some serious deterioration to the cloth around the bottom front hinge; the jacket (which originated on a different copy of the book) is bright and clean, almost like new except for a touch of wear at the top of the spine]. "Readers of 'The Flapper Wife' will remember May Seymour as the reckless, pleasure-loving young married woman who brought Gloria's little home to the brink of ruin, as the butterfly who drove her husband to suicide. In [this book] we find her a disillusioned widow, her heart filled with bitterness against her old home community and...
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The Kingmaker

By: Denker, Henry

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, David McKay Company : (c.1972)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 22922

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Near Fine dj

[heavy foxing to top edge, somewhat less on fore-edge, some soiling to book's covers, boards slightly warped, light musty smell; the jacket, however, has been affected by none of this, and is nearly flawless, with just a touch of soiling to the rear panel]. One of the more outrageous romans-a-clef in the annals of Hollywood fiction, a thinly fictionalized telling of the rise of MCA founder Jules Stein -- here "Dr. Irwin Cone" (nee 'Isidore Cohen"), who builds his "Talent Corporation of America" into a powerful media giant, and who eventually moves to protect his empire fro...
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The Story of a Prison [Stacy Keach's prison library copy]

By: Southerton, Peter

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Reading, Berkshire (U.K.), Osprey Publishing Ltd. : 1975

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 15401

ISBN-13: 9780850452600

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Near Fine dj

(price-clipped) [book is only lightly worn, but with tape marks on both pastedowns and endpapers, numerous notes in ink on rear fep; jacket is in almost perfect condition, with just a smidge of surface wear]. Beginning with a history of Reading Gaol, a "rather horrific account of cruelties practised upon the criminal," the book examines the history of penal practice in Britain from the 16th century to the present day. The jacket blurb declares it to be "of great interest to workers in the prisoner and probation services, magistrates, [and] students in social studies and social history," but ...
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El Rodeo [1931 USC Yearbook]

By: [University of Southern California] Morehouse, Morton, ed.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, University of Southern California : 1931

Edition: (Vol. XXVI)

Seller ID: 15787

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Near Fine dj

(no dust jacket, as issued) [a solid copy, but with light dampstaining and page-rippling (mostly along the top edge), and some moderate external soiling to covers, all obviously the result of having gotten a little bit damp at some point; there's also a small nick to the front joint; binding fully intact, internally clean]. (B&W photographs, color graphics) 1930 yearbook of the University of Southern California, covering the 1930/1931 academic and sporting activities at the school. As you might imagine, much space is given to the latter; there are accounts (with photographs) of each game of ...
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Condition: Good in Near Fine dj

Footloose; sequel to "The Flapper Wife"

The Kingmaker

The Story of a Prison [*Stacy Keach's prison library copy*]

El Rodeo [1931 USC Yearbook]

The Story of a Prison [Stacy Keach's prison library copy]