Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

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Reader's Digest Condensed Books: Spring 1952 Selections (Volume IX) [Adventures in Two Worlds; The Gabriel Horn; Duveen; Out of Africa; East Side General]

By: A.J. Cronin, Felix Holt, S.N. Behrman, Isak Dinesen, Frank G. Slaughter

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Pleasantville NY, The Reader's Digest Association : (c.1952)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 22889

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

[solid clean copy, minor wear to extremities, very slight bump to bottom rear corner, light age-toning to edges of text block, one-time owner's name/address stamp on both pastedowns, ffep and title page (enough already!); the jacket is slightly edgeworn and lightly rubbed, with tiny tears and a teensy bit of paper loss at a couple of corners, a bit of creasing in the middle of the rear panel]. Vol. 9 The ninth volume in the RDCB series, with the Spring 1952 issue of "News of The Reader's Digest Condensed Book Club" (8 pages) laid in. This edition contains condensed versions of four p...
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Torero

By: Afanador, Ruven; poems by Gloria Maria Pardo Vargas

Price: $350.00

Publisher: Zurich/New York, Stemmle Publishers / Edition Stemmle : (c.2001)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 27370

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

[slight bumping to corners, otherwise a nice clean book with no other significant wear; the jacket has a small ragged tear and a short associated diagonal crease at the upper right corner of the rear panel, plus a bit of wrinkling/dog-earing along the top edge of the rear panel]. (B&W photographs) The first and best-known book by this acclaimed Colombian-born photographer, a collection of black-and-white portraits of matadors from Mexico, Colombia, Peru, and Spain this is "a revelation of his essential self [that] not only brings together his many sources of inspiration but displays the full r...
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Ring Round the Moon: A Charade with Music

By: Anouilh, Jean (translated by Christopher Fry)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Oxford University Press : 1950

Edition: First American Edition

Seller ID: 26801

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

[light shelfwear, a touch of soiling to top of text block; jacket slightly dog-eared at top of spine, horizontal wrinkle along top edge of front panel]. Preface by Peter Brook, who directed the original London production at the Globe Theatre. The original French title was "L'Invitation au Chateau."
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Fortress in the Rice

By: Appel, Benjamin

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Indianapolis/New York, The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc. : (c.1951)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 20460

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

[nice clean copy, minimal shelfwear to book; jacket shows just a touch of edgewear, tiny chip at top of spine, small scratch mid-spine]. Novel set in the Japanese-occuped Philippines during World War II. "In this powerful, fast-moving novel of the Philippines, from Pearl Harbor to the return of the Americans, [the author] has dealt with a whole society, created a world in a fashion achieved by few American novelists. [The narrative involves] battles, love affairs, torture chambers, orgies, political machinations, [and] marches through the jungle -- each of these reflect[ing] in one way or a...
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Diary of a Candid Lady

By: Arroway, Francis M.

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday & Company, Inc. : 1964

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 16285

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

[minor wear to cloth at spine ends, otherwise a pristine copy; jacket has a couple of tiny tears and some associated wrinkling/creasing at top of spine, one small closed tear at top of rear panel, very minor rubbing and edgewear]. Satirical novel about a couple of ex-prostitutes (one now married to a stockbroker, the other the editor of a leading fashion magazine), who find themselves responsible for the "oafish" 19-year-old daughter of their former (deceased) employer, and decide the quickest way to get her off their hands is to introduce her into New York's high society -- by blackm...
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The Adventures of Romney Pringle

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

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Oswald Train: Publisher : 1972

Edition: 2nd printing

Seller ID: 18825

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

(price-clipped) [nice clean book, minor wear to extremities; jacket a little browned along edges and spine Reprint edition of this renowed collection of Victorian-era detective stories, originally published in book form in 1903. The earliest fiction by R. Austin Freeman, "soon to be acknowledged as one of the great masters of the field, in collaboration with his close friend, Dr. John James Pitcairn." The First American Edition of this reprint (got that?) appeared in 1968; this is the second printing, from 1972.
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The Santa Ana Wind [SIGNED]

By: Ashton, Sharon (pseud. for Helen Van Slyke)

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday & Company, Inc. for The Crime Club : 1974

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 20673

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

[nice tight clean copy, faint wear to top and bottom edges of book; jacket slightly faded at spine, tiny tears at top corners of spine, one-inch closed tear at bottom of rear panel, light soiling to rear panel]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author (using her real name) on the half-title page: "To Robert Lewine -- / from an unknown admirer named / Helen Van Slyke / Sept, 1974." Romantic suspense/mystery novel about a woman who marries a doctor and moves to his luxurious family compound, called Madrugada, in Southern California -- but soon finds herself in danger, and convinced that "...
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The Sophisticates

By: Atherton, Gertrude

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Horace Liveright : 1931

Edition: 4th printing

Seller ID: 19272

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

[nice tight copy, apparently unread, just a trace of wear to bottom edge, vintage price sticker (from the famous San Francisco department store, The White House) on rear pastedown; jacket a little rubbed and soiled, with a few tiny edge-nicks, soft diagonal crease in rear flap]. Novel about the "young, beautiful and incomprehensible ruler of the sophisticated set in a middle Western town," a woman who compensates for her unhappy marriage to a middle-aged banker by channeling her intellectual striving into the organization of a salon comprised of the local intelligentsia, such as they are. "F...
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The Pyramid of Lead

By: Atkey, Bertram

Price: $150.00

Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and Company : (c.1925)

Edition: 2nd printing

Seller ID: 19479

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

[very nice clean copy, firm and tight with just a touch of wear at the extremities; jacket a bit scuffed on the front panel, a couple of tiny edge-tears, long vertical scrape to top half of rear panel, minor soiling at spine and rear panel]. The first of three mysteries by this author, all quite uncommon, featuring his character "Prosper Fair," an upper-class Englishman "whose identity is itself a mystery [at least until the end of this first adventure]," who "takes on the role of a detective while he is wandering through the English countryside with his donkey and his dog...
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Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?

By: Axelrod, George

Price: $35.00

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

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 23883

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

[nice clean book (review copy with publisher's slip laid in), minimal shelfwear, light age-toning to top of text block; jacket lightly spotted on spine, one short closed tear at bottom of front panel, very shallow insect-nibbling along bottom edges of both flaps and bottom of front panel, a bit of soiling to edges of rear flap]. (3 B&W photographs) The play that made Jayne Mansfield a star. It was also the basis, after a fashion, for the 1957 film of the same name, although in "adapting" the play writer-director Frank Tashlin substantially re-imagined it, transmuting Axelrod's savage satire o...
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Talking to Myself [SIGNED, with additional letter]

By: Bailey, Pearl

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich : (c.1971)

Edition: 2nd printing (B)

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 28139

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

[light soiling to bottom edges of covers, no other significant wear; the jacket has a tiny tear and some associated dog-earing at the top rear hinge, and a couple of tiny nicks at the bottom edge of the front panel]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the half-title page: "To Flip [sic] -- In love is / all --- / Pearl." (The inscribee, Fil Perell, was a Los Angeles restaurant critic/journalist and cable-access show host.) Laid in is a letter (TLS) on Pearl Bailey Production Corp. letterhead, thanking Perell (whose forename is also rendered incorrectly here as "Flip") for "the beautfiul wo...
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Manhattan Nights

By: Baldwin, Faith

Price: $125.00

Publisher: New York, Farrar & Rinehart : (c.1937)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 14680

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

[a lovely clean copy, with no significant wear but the very faintest spotting to the bottom page edges (less squinty eyes would call it Fine with nary a pause); jacket lightly soiled at the rear panel, with some light wear and a couple of tiny tears along the top edge, very attractive nonetheless]. "A Panoramic Novel," sayeth the dust jacket -- which is another way of saying that the ever-popular Miss Baldwin (or her publishers) was not above pulling one of the oldest New-York-novelist tricks in the book, that of concocting a stew of "interrelated stories" about a wide array o...
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Dear Animated Bust: Letters to Lady Juliet Duff, France 1915-1918

By: Baring, Maurice

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Wilton, Salisbury, U.K., Michael Russell (Publishing) Ltd. : 1981

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 20789

ISBN-13: 9780859550864

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

[no siginficant wear to book, light spotting/foxing to edges of text block, one-time owner's name on ffep; jacket lightly rubbed, with faint soiling]. Letters home from a Royal Flying Corps staff officer stationed on the Western Front during World War I -- eccentric, whimsical, and sometimes just plain weird, written as "a civilising distraction from the mental and physical discomforts of the war, written to someone who may have missed a good deal of the subtleties, but who has done us all the favour of fostering the flow." (This someone, Lady Juliet Duff, is described in the book's ...
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Love in Atlantis

By: Barrett, B.L.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company : 1969

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 24349

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

[a touch of shelfwear to book; jacket has a teensy nick at top of front panel, minor paper loss at lower extremities]. Novel about a 14-year-old girl, specifically of "her sexual awakening and admission into the never-changing mysteries ('the lore girls need that mothers may not tell them') in a southern California seaside town in the golden, long-ago summers of the 1930's."
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Charlotte's Row

By: Bates, H.E.

Price: $150.00

Publisher: New York, Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith : [1932]

Edition: First American Edition

Seller ID: 19266

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

[nice tight copy, very slight bumping to bottom corners, vintage price sticker (The White House) at upper corner of rear pastedown; jacket lightly soiled, a handful of tiny nicks in bottom edge of rear panel]. An early work by Bates, "a novel of life in the poor quarter of an industrial town" in the English Midlands, the titular street being "a narrow cul-de-sac surrounded by factories, breweries, and sordid streets of houses." According to at least one critic, this was the book with which the author really began to find his voice, drawing on his family history and his own No...
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The Greta Garbo Murder Case [SIGNED]

By: Baxt, George

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, St. Martin's Press : 1992

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 20600

ISBN-13: 9780312069889

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

[light shelfwear, small light pink smudge on half-title page; jacket shows light wear at extremities, small tear and slight associated creasing at top rear foldover, tiny scuffed spot near top center of front panel]. SIGNED by the author (signature only) on the title page. Another in Baxt's long-running series of period murder mysteries centered around famous movie people in an ingeniously-imagined alternative Hollywood -- in this instance, Greta Garbo (instead of terminating her screen career after the embarrassment of TWO-FACED WOMAN, as she did in real life) accepts the lead in a modern-da...
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In the Name of the Son

By: Bazin, Herv (translated from the French by Richard Howard)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, Secker & Warburg : 1962 (c.1960)

Edition: 1st U.K. edition

Seller ID: 26866

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

[minor shelfwear, faint dust-soiling to top of text block; jacket shows just light handling wear, with a couple of tiny edge-tears]. Novel about a widowed schoolmaster in a French provincial town and his relationships with his three children, "an in particular with Bruno, the youngest, whom he rightly suspects is not his own."
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A History of the Business Man

By: Beard, Miriam

Price: $300.00

Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company : 1938

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 23610

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

[nice clean tight copy with no significant wear; jacket has a couple of tiny edge-tears, shallow chipping at top of spine, teensy-weensy chip at bottom of rear panel]. Miriam Beard (1901-1983), described by one scholar as "the maverick daughter of Progressive reformers Charles and Mary Beard," apparently wrote just two books in her life: "Realism in Romantic Japan" (1930) and this one, jacket-blurbed as "an attempt in a new direction -- the biography of a type, instead of an individual." A dense and ambitious work, it sought "to present an assemblage of facts about the development of the bus...
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Film: Complete Scenario / Illustrations / Production shots

By: Beckett, Samuel

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, Grove Press, Inc. : (c.1969)

Edition: 1st printing thus

Seller ID: 25630

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

(price-clipped) [nice copy with no wear whatsoever to book, just a previous owner's squiggled signature at top of ffep; the jacket bright and unblemished, downgraded only because of the price-clipping)]. (The Collected Works of Samuel Beckett) Series (B&W photographs) Beckett's original script (the only screenplay he ever wrote) for his 1965 short film featuring Buster Keaton, illustrated with photos from the film (although it's worth noting that "no attempt has been made to bring [the script] into line with the finished work"). Includes Beckett's own notes on the script, an an essay, "On Di...
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Memo from David O. Selznick

By: Behlmer, Rudy, ed.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, The Viking Press : 1972

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 28057

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

[nice clean book, the only blemish being a small scuff mark on the top edge of the text block; the jacket is in much nicer condition than usually seen on this title, with only some minor wear along the top edge, a small closed tear at the top front hinge, and some wrinkling/creasing near the top of the front panel]. (B&W photographs) An endlessly fascinating read-through of the correspondence files of the legendary producer of GONE WITH THE WIND and other classics (and an occasional non-classic) -- albeit, as editor Behlmer explains in his foreword, presenting "a rather one-sided case, with n...
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Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj