[pretty beat-up, suitable for reference/research use only; rear cover detached, paper loss at corners of front cover and also corners of first few pages, water-staining to the rear endpapers (and affecting to some degree the last one-third or so of the book); on the bright side, there do not appear to be any missing pages]. (B&W photographs) Full-page portraits of 250 actors and actresses of the late silent era, arranged alphabetically. View More...
[a reading/reference copy only; covers heavily edgeworn, rubbed, creased, etc., and the spine crudely tape-repaired; one-time owner's signature at top of half-title page]. Trade PB "The truth about the U.S. Occupation of Germany," by the radical journalist/editor who was awaiting his deportation hearing at the time he wrote the book. Following World War II, he "went into Germany with the first team under American command to clean up Hitler's mess in a key sector, the press. This is an account of what he and his associates did and of how their work began to be sabotaged before the end of th... View More...
(no dust jacket) [a reading/reference copy only, heavily worn, front hinge cracked, boards exposed at bottom corners, missing ffep, need I go on?]. Novel about "a Jewess born in the slums of a Levantine seaport [who] becomes a courtesan, selling her favors in the shabby cabarets of Eastern ports." The book was filmed under the title A DAUGHTER OF ISRAEL in 1928, a late silent starring Betty Blythe, of which the New York Times opined that "the most interesting point about it is that it was filmed in the countries of its backgrounds, which include Turkey, Egypt, Palestine and France." Regardle... View More...
(printed wraps) [very worn, with most of the spine gone -- but the main problem is that it's been very crudely "repaired" by a previous owner (using 2x4 address labels, of all things): one label applied externally (to hold the detached front cover in place) and THREE more internally to piece back together the half-title page, which had been ripped down the middle both vertically and horizontally; plus general age-toning, dog-earing at corners, etc.]. A much-abused copy of the published version of this venerable drama of divorce and insanity, first staged in London in 1921 and very soon therea... View More...
(no dust jacket) [ex-rental library book with typical markings (from Walker's Circulating Library, Long Beach, California), well-worn, exposure of boards along bottom edges of covers, bumping/fraying at all corners, hinges cracked, jacket text glued to front pastedown, pencil scribbling on rear pastedown -- need I continue? It's a reading/research copy ONLY]. The author's third foray into medical fiction, following "The Interne" (1932, co-written with Wallace Thurman) and "Private Practice" (1933). In this one, Dr. Carl Armstrong (protagonist of the earlier books) has returned from two years ... View More...
[externally in pretty bad shape (see images and notes), with part of the front cover torn (or eaten) away, and general overall soiling and discoloration; the binding, however, is intact, and the internals are perfectly OK]. (B&W photographs) Here, my friends, we have that most lamentable and problematic of objects: a unique and highly collectable item that we must honestly acknowledge is in distinctly uncollectable condition -- the very sort of thing that the overworked verbal shrug "it is what it is" was coined to describe. And yet -- and yet -- there's no denying that it IS a thing, and qu... View More...
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