Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

Richard Rodgers: Letters to Dorothy [SIGNED]

By: (Rodgers, Richard); edited by William W. Appleton

Price: $150.00

Publisher: New York, The New York Public Library : 1988

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 26413

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

[book has just a touch of shelfwear to the bottom edge, but is otherwise as new; the jacket shows some handling wear, with a few scrape marks on both the front and rear panels, and a short closed tear at the bottom edge of the rear panel]. (B&W photographs, facsimiles) One of a limited edition of 250 numbered copies, this being #187, SIGNED by Dorothy Rodgers on the limitation page. (There were also 26 presentation copies, lettered A to Z.) Transcriptions of letters written by composer Richard Rodgers to his wife, covering the period 1926 to 1937, sourced from Mrs. Rodgers's personal papers...
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In For a Penny

By: Anderson, Oliver

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, Arthur Barker Ltd. : 1950

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 25308

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

[minimal wear to book; jacket slightly chipped at top of spine, small closed tear at upper corner of rear panel, otherwise clean and attractive]. Comic novel about a Lincolnshire native who "since infancy has dedicated himself exclusively to studying English village life, which, he maintains, is completely misrepresented in our current country literature. The rural scene, he avers, is not a cosy paradise inhabited by whimsical squires and philosophical craftsmen; it is characterised, rather, by brutal rapacity, sly animal cunning and orchidaceous vice."
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Concepts in Film Theory

By: Andrew, Dudley

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Oxford/New York, Oxford University Press : 1984

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 25589

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

[nice tight clean copy, minimal shelfwear, previous owner's signature on ffep; jacket faded along spine, one tiny nick and some associated short creasing at top of front panel, short diagonal crease at top corner of front flap]. This book "concentrates on the major areas of debate rather than on individual figures" in the sometimes arcane regions of film theory. The author, touted as "a master at making the world of film theory accessible to a largely mystified [and, one might also say, largely uninterested] public," here "provides lucid explanations of theories which involve perceptual psyc...
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Buster Keaton's The General [SIGNED by notorious film "archivist" Raymond Rohauer]

By: Anobile, Richard J., ed.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, Universe Books (A Darien House Book) : 1975

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 25640

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

[moderate wear to lower extremities, otherwise a nice clean copy; jacket has a few tiny edge-tears and some consequent dog-earing along top edge, small closed tear at bottom of front panel]. (The Film Classics Library) Series (B&W film frame blowups) One of a series of books that rendered classic films into book form, by means of thousands of frame blow-ups; as the cover blurb has it, "the most accurate and complete reconstruction of a film in book form [with] over 2,100 frame blow-up photos shown sequentially and coupled with all the original dialogue frames from the film." In some wacky wa...
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Charles Henry and the Formation of a Psychophysical Aesthetic

By: Argüelles, José A.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Chicago/London, The University of Chicago Press : 1972

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 27667

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

[minimal wear to book, previous owner's name and date in ink (very small) at top of front endpaper; the jacket is modestly worn at edges and extremities, some surface rubbing/scuffing, slight wrinkling at upper edge of rear panel]. (color frontispiece) "This work provides the first thorough, scholarly study of the unique personality and extraordinary achievement of Charles Henry (1859-1926). Seeking a common ground for all sensory experience, Henry formulated a 'scientific aesthetic' based on the biomathematics of the sense organs. That doctrine is psychophysics, through which Henry saw bey...
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Nights with Armour [SIGNED]

By: Armour, Richard

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, McGraw-Hill : (c.1958)

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 6976

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

[some wear at heel of spine, bottom corners lightly bumped, otherwise a nice clean copy with a previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedown; jacket has some edge/corner wear,a bit rubbed, front flap vertically creased]. SIGNED by the author on the ffep with a generic inscription ("All good wishes"). More "Lighthearted Light Verse." Signed by Author
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Shackles of the Free

By: Ashton, Mary Grace

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Frederick A. Stokes Company : 1929 (c.1928)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 19452

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

[bright and clean, very slight deterioration to cloth at base of spine, spine just a teensy bit turned, small piece torn out of edge of last text page (no loss of text), vintage price label (from The White House, San Francisco) on rear pastedown; jacket lightly edgeworn, small chip at top left corner of front panel]. "When a beautiful woman, in the prime of youth, finds herself married to a lifelong invalid and at the same time knows that love has come to her for the first time through another man, what is she to do? What of her vow, 'for better or for worse'?" Apparently the author, who wro...
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The Chalk Garden

By: Bagnold, Enid

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Random House : (c.1956)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 25862

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

[light wear to lower extremities; jacket browned at spine (as typical with RH plays of this period), miniscule chipping at spine ends]. (B&W photographs) Comedy about an elderly eccentric and her disturbed, pyromaniacal granddaughter, the latter looked after by a governess with a green thumb and a mysterious past. The original 1955 Broadway production starred (in the respective roles) Gladys Cooper, Betsy von Furstenburg and Siobhan McKenna, and ran for 182 performances; a West End (London) production the following year featured Edith Evans, Judith Stott and Peggy Ashcroft; Evans repeated he...
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Pearl's Kitchen: An Extraordinary Cookbook [SIGNED, with additional note]

By: Bailey, Pearl

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York/London, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich : (c.1973)

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 28138

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

[minor soiling to bottom edges of covers, no other significant blemishes; the jacket has a few tiny tears and some associated shallow creasing and dog-earing along the top edge, and a diagonal crease in the rear flap]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the dedication page: "Dear Fil - / I send / Lots of Love / Pearl." "Departing from the usual statistical shorthand one associates with cookbooks, [the author] has given us a cookbook filled not only with mouth-watering recipes but also with warmth and humor and anecdote after anecdote from her private and public life. Pearl seems to be chat...
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Blood Brotherhood

By: Barnard, Robert

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Walker and Company : (c.1977)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 27995

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

[no discernible wear to book, one-time owner's initials plus date & place of purchase written in ink along edge of rear pastedown (concealed beneath rear jacket flap); the jacket is lightly scuffed, and has a 2-inch closed tear (internally tape-repaired) at top of spine, with some associated creasing across the upper section of the front panel]. Murder at an Anglican church, high on the Yorkshire moors, during a symposium on the role of the Church in the modern world, the attendees at which are an international gaggle of ecclestiastical guests-cum-suspects: "a bishop who was a well-known TV p...
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The Swiftest Thing in Life

By: Barre, Jean

Price: $85.00

Publisher: New York, H.C. Kinsey & Company, Inc. : 1932

Edition: First American Edition

Seller ID: 19643

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

[good solid clean book, minor shelfwear only; jacket has small tears and minor paper loss at a couple of corners, fading to spine, short closed tear and associated diagonal crease at bottom of front panel]. An Italian prince, his wild and irrepressible brother, an English beauty, her impudent and possessive American lover, an artist, and more! "A really fresh experience among romantic novels." Ten bucks off the price if you can identify the dust jacket artist.
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Madam

By: Barrett, Richmond

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, Liveright, Inc. : (c.1932)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 19290

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

[a tight clean book, minor wear to cloth at spine ends, vintage price sticker (from The White House, San Francisco deparment store) on rear pastedown; jacket moderately edgeworn, a couple of tiny chips at bottom of front panel, light soiling to rear panel]. "Madam is Daisy Park-Newbold Wendell, a woman who is one-third grande dame, one-third eccentric and one-third child. Heiress to millions, twice unhappily married, this woman of tremendous energy spends most of her time playing the invalid. Either at her mother's Long Island place or in a huge suite of hotel rooms, Madam spends her days i...
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The Sign of the Cross [Photoplay Edition]

By: Barrett, Wilson

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Grosset & Dunlap : [1932] (c1896, 1924)

Edition: First Edition Thus

Seller ID: 27033

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

[nice clean book with the faintest touch of shelfwear, vintage retailer's small label (Elder's) on rear pastedown; the jacket is bright and attractive, despite some edgewear, a few tiny tears and small bits of paper loss at the extremities, and a small but unsightly brown stain near the top of the rear panel (with a few tiny holes in the jacket at that point, probably as an unintended result of someone's attempt to remove the stain)]. (photographic endpapers) "Against a background of depravity, vice, intrigue and cruelty in Nero's court is laid this story of the pure love of a Christian girl a...
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The Mediocrat

By: Bartley, Nalbro

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. : 1928

Edition: Later Printing

Seller ID: 19572

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

(in A.L. Burt reissue dust jacket) [minimal shelfwear, top corners a bit bumped; jacket edgeworn, a bit of paper loss at spine ends, a few small edge-tears]. Proto-feminist novel that grapples with the burning question: "Is there a new kind of woman coming to disturb our homes -- a woman who lives by making war on her kind? Has the freedom won by the 'old-fashioned suffragist' been taken over by a new 'emancipated' type who ignore women's duties while demanding women's privileges? Hilda Reynolds was forced to believe so. She had created for her husband, her three boys, and her flapper ...
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Catherine Foster

By: Bates, H.E.

Price: $175.00

Publisher: New York, The Viking Press : 1929

Edition: First American Edition

Seller ID: 19402

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

[light shelfwear only, one-time owner's signature at top of ffep; jacket somewhat age-toned, with a few tiny tears and minor paper loss surrounding top of spine, short tears at bottom hinges, one additional tiny closed tear at top of front panel]. Bates's second published novel, "the story of a woman's passionate love for her husband's romantic and shiftless brother. There are three major characters, Catherine -- Charles, her husband -- and Andrew, the lover. Their story is acted out against the background of the English countryside ablaze with the beauty which Catherine sees and feels ...
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Who Fought and Bled

By: Beebe, Ralph

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, Coward-McCann, Inc. : (c.1941)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 22785

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

(price-clipped) [nice clean solid copy, with just a bit of shelfwear to the bottom edge, attractive private-library bookplate on front pastedown; jacket is edgeworn, with tiny tears and minor paper loss at several corners, a little creasing, 2-inch tape-repaired closed tear and associated creasing at bottom of front panel, vertical creasing to front flap, a few nicks to edges of rear panel]. Two of the land campaigns of the War of 1812 furnish the setting for this novel. "It is chiefly the story of the Ohio country and Michigan Territory, and the campaigns of the Western Army against the B...
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Hell Let Loose

By: Beeding, Francis (pseud. for John Leslie Palmer and Hilary Aiden St. George Saunders)

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Grosset & Dunlap : (c.1937)

Edition: Reprint

Seller ID: 13566

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

[nice copy, square and solid, faint shelfwear at top and bottom edges; jacket edgeworn, various small tears, still attractive]. "Against an authentic background of war-torn Spain, [the author] tells of a struggle for a tremendously important military secret -- pitting the secret agents of four nations against one another and ranging in his story from Madrid to Seville, from underground dugouts to airplanes above the battle lines." One of numerous thrillers by this pseudonymous authorial team to feature Colonel Alastair Granby, D.S.O., of the British Intelligence Service.
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The Visitors

By: Benchley, Nathaniel

Price: $150.00

Publisher: New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company : (c.1965)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 24741

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

[minor shelfwear, spine very slightly turned, one-time owner's signature at top of ffep; jacket a bit rubbed and scuffed on both front panel and spine, but otherwise clean and attractive]. Unaccountably scarce comic novel, "a salty New England ghost story [that] is Nathaniel Benchley at his best, a combination of unique material, high comedy, and excitement." Basis for the 1967 movie THE SPIRIT IS WILLING, produced and directed by William Castle. The dust jacket art is by Charles Addams.
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A Modern Tragedy

By: Bentley, Phyllis

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company : 1934

Edition: First American Edition

Seller ID: 24140

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

[light shelfwear only, faint soiling to bottom edges of covers; jacket a bit edgeworn, with some wrinkling and minor paper loss at spine ends, tiny pull-tear near bottom of spine panel, light soiling to rear panel]. Depression-era tale set against the backdrop of the textile business in Yorkshire, this novel tells of the tribulations of an ambitious young man whose burning desire to marry a society girl leads him to compromise his principles. The stunning dustjacket design is by Boris Artzybashoff.
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The Spinner of the Years

By: Bentley, Phyllis E.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, Rae D. Henkle Co., Inc. : (c.1929)

Edition: First American Edition

Seller ID: 19321

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

[nice clean copy, minimal shelfwear, very slight bumping to top corners; jacket has small tears and occasional minor paper loss at most corners, light surface rubbing and moderate soiling]. An early novel by this English author, "a story of maternal greed and simplicity and their effect on the lives of the children of two widows." Among the quotes from British reviews lifted for the American jacket blurb is one positing the novel as "reminiscent in its passion and power of the Bronte Sisters" (what, all of them?) -- rather an interesting observation in light of the fact that Ms. Bentley, lat...
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Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj