Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

Edwardian Excursions: From the Diaries of A.C. Benson 1898-1904

By: (Benson, A.C.) Newsome, David, ed.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: London, John Murray : 1981

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 27997

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[no discernible wear to book, but the previous owner has written his name plus the date & place of purchase at the top of the front endpaper, and has also taped there the business card of the bookshop where he bought it; the jacket is nearly flawless, with just a touch of edgewear]. (B&W photographs, facsimiles) Author Arthur (A.C.) Benson's "abiding passion was the diary which he began to keep in 1897," when he was about thirty-five years old. "This selection from the first few years is a marvellous evocation of Edwardian Britain, a series of twelve period pieces mixing London and the count...
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The Paintings of Cheng Shenghu

By: (Ge Zhengang, ed.)

Price: $450.00

Publisher: Shanghai, Shanghai People's Fine Arts Publishing House : 1999

Edition: Presumed 1st

Seller ID: 24598

ISBN-13: 9787532221387

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[a bit of wear to bottom edges of book's covers; jacket very slightly wrinkled along top edge, tiny tear at top front hinge]. (100 color plates) One hundred examples, reproduced in color, of the art of Shanghai-born painter Cheng Shenghu. (All text is in Chinese, except: the title and publisher information (taken from the front cover and front jacket panel), a brief blurb on the front jacket flap, the list of editorial board members, the introduction by Huang Chunyao, and the titles (captions) of the individual paintings.) From the jacket flap: "Mr. Cheng Shenghu was born in May 1960 in...
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Laser Marquee (October-November 1994 issue) [cover: Bing Crosby]

By: (Roan, Cary M., ed.)

Price: $25.00

Edition: (Vol. 1, No. 2)

Seller ID: 23926

Binding: Magazine

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[minor creasing along right edge of front cover, no other significant wear]. (B&W photographs, ads) The second (and possibly final) issue of this short-lived periodical, pitched as "the collectors' guide to classic movies on laserdisc" -- although "ill-timed" might be a better descriptor than "short-lived," since by 1994 the handwriting was already on the wall for the laserdisc: the DVD format was introduced the following year. About half of this magazine's 24 pages (including covers) is devoted to lists of recent releases, with the only really substantive content bein...
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I Must Be in There Somewhere [SIGNED]

By: Ackland, Joss

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton : 1989

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 24641

ISBN-13: 9780340493960

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[tiny dent in top edge of rear cover, no other significant wear to book; jacket a little wrinkled along bottom edge, tiny closed tear at top of front panel, small closed tear and associated creasing at bottom of rear panel]. (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author and his wife Rosemary (a Scottish actress to whom he was eventually married for 51 years) on the ffep. Autobiography of the British actor who's had a long and varied career in the theatre, TV and movies, primarily in England, although American audiences may recognize him for his roles in LETHAL WEAPON 2 and THE HUNT FOR...
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Mil Besos / 1000 Kisses

By: Afanador, Ruven

Price: $850.00

Publisher: New York, Rizzoli International Publications : 2009

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 27373

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[a lovely copy, with only minimal wear to both book and jacket]. (B&W photographs) The third (and most uncommon) book by this Colombian-born photographer presents "an extraordinary collection of images of the women of flamenco," shot by Afanador "under the bright sunlight and set against the austere landscape and incandescent walls of Andalusia in Southern Spain. Under improbably and often chaotic circumstances in this remote and rural milieu, Afanador, together with the women and his troop of inspired collaborators, created an intricate choreography of poses and gestures that embodies the p...
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Jessie and Jesus and Cousin Claire

By: Andrews, Raymond

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Atlanta, Peachtree Publishers Ltd. : (c.1991)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 25836

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[a teensy bit of foxing on top edge of text block, otherwise a clean solid copy with no significant wear; jacket shows light surface wear only]. (pen and ink drawings) Two short novels about two very different black women, by the gifted African-American author of "Appalachee Red," who committed suicide in the early 90's.
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The Life Cry

By: Anonymous

Price: $200.00

Publisher: New York, The Macaulay Company : (c.1933)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 21769

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice tight clean copy, minor shelfwear only; jacket very attractive, with just a touch of soiling and a couple of tiny edge-nicks]. The trials and tribulations of an unwed mother -- or, more precisely, a divorcee who gets knocked up by her lover, then refuses his half-hearted marriage proposal, and subsequently suffers "pain, hunger, want." The jacket copy really goes to town, in the best Macaulay house style: "No human experience is so profound and rich in emotion as the long crisis of pregnancy . . . and when the expected child must legally be fatherless then crisis is added upon crisis. ....
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The Self-Enchanted -- Mae Murray: Image of an Era

By: Ardmore, Jane

Price: $65.00

Publisher: New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company : (c.1959)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 26986

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice-looking copy, with just a bit of wear to the spine ends, small stain at bottom corner of front endpaper; jacket also worn just a bit at the spine ends, with a tiny chip at the lower rear spine corner, and some other light surface wear]. (B&W photographs) A biography of the silent-film actress Mae Murray, whose life and career are put forth as emblematic of the 1920s, the "era of fabulous nonsense." The author was a longtime Hollywood columnist/journalist, who apparently prepared the book with the full cooperation of Murray herself. (Ms. Ardmore was a popular collaborator on such tomes,...
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Flying Through Hollywood By the Seat of My Pants

By: Arkoff, Sam, with Richard Trubo

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Birch Lane Press : (c.1992)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 26128

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[minor shelfwear, the faintest bit of soiling to bottom of text block; jacket has a couple of wrinkles in the spine, light rubbing to rear panel]. (B&W photographs) Autobiography of B-movie mogul Samuel Z. Arkoff, co-founder in 1954 of American International Pictures, where "an entire generation of filmmakers and stars got their start."
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This Mortal Coil

By: Asquith, Cynthia

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Sauk City WI, Arkham House : 1947

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 27713

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[a touch of wear at the spine ends, very light soiling to black cloth covers, one-time owner's name and date in blue ink on front endpaper, subsequent owner's initials + date & place of purchase written in ink along edge of rear pastedown (concealed beneath rear jacket flap); the jacket is very nice, with just the faintest touch of soiling to the rear panel]. Lady Cynthia Asquith (1887-1960), long renowned as an editor/anthologist (most notably of the "Ghost Book" series), here presents the first (and only) collection of her own short fiction in the weird/macabre vein, seven stories and two n...
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The Lost Traveler

By: Babb, Sanora

Price: $125.00

Publisher: New York, Reynal & Company : (c.1958)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 25164

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[a very nice copy, with just a touch of wear at the spine ends (both book and jacket), light age-toning to top edge of text block]. An overlooked mid-century classic, a novel about a "gentleman gambler" and the effects of his nomadic and irregular lifestyle on his wife and daughters. Set in Kansas and Oklahoma during the Great Depression, it was substantially autobiographical (the author being one of the daughters). She also happened to be the wife of the great cinematographer James Wong Howe, and was later acclaimed for another Depression-era novel, "Whose Names Are Unknown," written in the...
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Fuel-Injected Dreams

By: Baker, James Robert

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, E.P. Dutton : (c.1986)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 20270

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice tight copy, both book and jacket show only minor handling wear]. The late author's first novel, a "gothic, intense and erotic" tale of an L.A. disc jockey who becomes drawn into the world of Dennis Contrelle, a brilliant rock composer of the '60s and '70s who has subsequently become " a recluse in a world guarded by high walls and savage servants." (The usual disclaimers aside, Phil Spector is said to have been the inspiration for Contrelle. I couldn't possibly comment.)
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Saturday Afternoon at the Movies: 3 Volumes in 1

By: Barbour, Alan G.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Bonanza Books : 1986

Edition: First Edition Thus

Seller ID: 27514

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[no significant wear to book, just the former owner's name and date & place of purchase in ink at top of front endpaper; jacket shows just the teensiest bit of surface wear]. (B&W photographs, poster reproductions) An omnibus volume containing three previously-published books: "Days of Thrills and Adventure"; "A Thousand and One Delights"; and "The Thrill of It All." The first volume was primarily about movie serials, the second about B-movie adventures films of the 1940s (primarily), and the third about Western films. ****NOTE that additional postage charges will be assessed for internatio...
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At Death's Door [SIGNED]

By: Barnard, Robert

Price: $40.00

Publisher: London, Collins : 1988

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 27425

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[a very nice copy, minor shelfwear, light smudge on front endpaper, previous owner's name and date & place of purchase in ink along edge of rear pastedown (concealed behind rear jacket flap); jacket is nice and bright, with just a teensy bit of wear to the upper right corner of the front panel]. (The Crime Club) Series INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the title page: "To Big Al, / with greetings / from / Bob Barnard." Sussex-set mystery novel about an illegitimate daughter of the protagonist's elderly father, the result of his long-ago fling with a famous actress, who's purportedly resea...
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Death by Sheer Torture

By: Barnard, Robert

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons : 1982 (c.1981)

Edition: First American Edition

Seller ID: 27616

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice clean book with no significant wear, former owner's name plus date & place of purchase written in ink at top of front endpaper; the jacket is nearly flawless, with just a minor wrinkle at the top of the rear panel]. Murder mystery centering around an eccentric family in which the murder of the father -- "on a Spanish Inquisition-style torture machine" -- is investigated by his estranged son, a young police inspector. First published in England as "Sheer Torture."
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Death of a Mystery Writer

By: Barnard, Robert

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons : 1979

Edition: 1st U.S. edition Second Printing

Seller ID: 27996

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[no discernible wear to book, but the former owner's name plus date & place of purchase are written in ink at the top of the front endpaper; the jacket is flawless except for long horizontal surface-scratch across the rear panel]. Sir Oliver Fairleigh-Stubbs, a famous author of detective novels, collapses and dies at his birthday party. Unexpectedly, his "elder son, who openly hated his father, inherits most of the estate." However, "the manuscript of the unpublished volume left to [the author's] wife -- a posthumous 'last case' that might be worth millions -- has disappeared. And Sir Olive...
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The Case of the Missing Brontë

By: Barnard, Robert

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons : (c.1983)

Edition: 2nd printing

Seller ID: 28017

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[no significant wear to book, but the former owner's name plus date & place of purchase is written in ink at the top of the front endpaper; the jacket has some very minor wrinkling at the top of the front panel]. The third of the author's Inspector Perry Trethowan mysteries, this tale is set in motion by the discovery in an old trunk, by an elderly retired schoolteacher, of a previously unknown Emily Brontë manuscript.
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Indian Film

By: Barnouw, Erik, and S. Krishnaswamy

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York/London, Columbia University Press : 1963

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 25131

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice tight copy, minimal shelfwear, faint musty odor from long storage, tiny inked date on ffep; jacket very slightly rubbed, faint foxing on flaps, some insignificant wrinkling in the rear panel]. (B&W photographs) A full-scale history of the first fifty years of Indian cinema and the Indian film industry, which during the 1920s "was already outproducing Great Britain."
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The Innocent Empress: An Intimate Study of Eugnie

By: Barschak, Erna

Price: $150.00

Publisher: New York, E.P. Dutton and Company : 1943

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 25008

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[a very nice copy, with just the barest trace of shelfwear; the jacket is also quite nice, with just a bit of wear to the extremities]. (B&W plates) "A biography which is not fictionized" (well, there's a relief) of the beautiful and elegant Eugnie de Montijo, who, as the wife of Napoleon III, became the last Empress of France, and who "was independent, and loved to hunt, ride, tramp, [and] dress unconventionally." According to this telling of her story (not fictionized, remember), she was "far stronger than her husband [and] made many of his decisions. She had a passion for government [and...
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Jim Tully: American Writer, Irish Rover, Hollywood Brawler

By: Bauer, Paul J., and Mark Dawidziak

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Kent OH, The Kent State University Press : (c.2011)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 27086

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[tiny smudge on top edge of text block, otherwise a nice, as-new copy; jacket similarly nice, with just a touch of wrinkling at the base of the spine]. (B&W photographs) A deeply-researched biography of the best hard-boiled writer you've never heard of -- unjustly so. A very big deal in his day, Tully (1886-1947) is today virtually forgotten. He lived a hardscrabble early life, spending much of his youth as a "road kid" -- "scrambling into boxcars, sleeping in hobo jungles, avoiding railroad cops, begging meals from back doors, and haunting public libraries," all the while harboring "wild a...
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Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj