Condition: Very Good in Fair dj

Backstage With Joe

By: Aistrop, Jack

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Roy Publishers : (c.1946)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 11718

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Fair dj

[solid copy, minor bumping at several corners, light soiling to page edges, small faint bookseller's stamp at bottom of front pastedown; jacket heavily worn at edges, with numerous small tears, soiling, etc.] "It was just a casual impulse that sent Corporal Blackie backstage to visit his friend Joe -- an impulse which carried him into the life of Eileen, the red-haired strip-teaser. This is their story, and the story of Norman, Eileen's husband, married just a few weeks before he was shipped out to Africa, to lose both hands, win the Military Medal and fall in love with his courageous yo...
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Box Office

By: Anderson, John

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith : 1929

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 20757

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Fair dj

[moderate wear to book extremties, some fading to cloth around perimeters of both covers and at spine; jacket is a bit tattered, missing about two inches from top of spine, some degree of paper loss at most corners, small ragged closed tear at bottom of front panel, etc.]. Treatise on the economic conditions facing the American theatre in the late 1920s, historically interesting from at least two particular perspectives: (1) being just prior to the stock market crash in October 1929 (the book was ; and (2) appearing in the midst of the movies' transition from silents to talkies. The book is ...
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Bitter Fruit

By: Antony, Mark

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Greenwich Book Publishers : (c.1959)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 11966

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Fair dj

[solid copy, moderate wear to cloth at top/bottom edges, small nick in cloth at bottom of rear cover near spine, tiny tears/minor fraying at top of spine; jacket is just Fair, with soiling, chipping, etc.]. A trashy novel with a social conscience, it would appear, about a "dynamic young foreman in the effeminate Earle Prescott's industrial empire," who gets involved with the boss's wife (and various "other attractive females that inhabit their Southern town"), and subsequently is nominated for governor of the state, at which point he gets involved in the segregation vs. integration battle.
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The Long Walk

By: Barton, Betsey

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Duell, Sloan and Pearce : (c.1948)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 6237

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Fair dj

[some wear to book at spine ends, small bookstore stamp on front pastedown; jacket heavily worn, spine sunned, irregular fading to front panel, small pieces missing at top corner of front panel and top corner of rear panel near spine, top half-inch of spine missing, crescent-shaped stain on front panel, various small tears along bottom edge, etc.]. The author's first novel, set in a veteran's hospital.
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Murder Unleashed

By: Bennett, Dorothy

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York/Chicago, A.L. Burt Company : (c.1935)

Edition: Reprint

Seller ID: 27477

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Fair dj

[moderately shelfworn book, binding solid, no markings in text; jacket is well-worn, with numerous small tears and chips (including a quarter-size piece missing at lower right corner of front panel), spine heavily faded, some paper loss at top of spine (taking away part of title), a handful of old internal tape-mends]. Mystery novel about "the curious murder of the 'White Flower' of San Francisco night life." The author's first novel, it was (it sez here) "definitely stamped with her own attractive personality." A native of Berkeley, California, the author had cut her writing teeth in an Oa...
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Bright Yellow Gold

By: Bennett, Horace W.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, John C. Winston Company : 1935

Edition: 1st (unstated)

Seller ID: 950

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Fair dj

[book has a bit of corner/edge wear, tiny nick in cloth near top of spine, gift inscription on ffep; jacket worn with various chips/tears, 1-1/2" piece missing at fore-edge)]. (color plates) "This book is a biography and historical novel and romance from the discovery of Pikes Peak by Zebulon Pike to the present date."
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Her Wanton Majesty

By: Botkin, Gleb

Price: $75.00

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

Edition: Reprint

Seller ID: 27344

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Fair dj

DETAILS NEEDED. "A narrative that moves with palpitating intensity through the lives of some of the most entrancing presonalities the world has ever seen," this is a somewhat trashy novelization of the life of Catherine the Great, "this low-born woman who stepped from bed to bed to reach the glory of the Imperial throne of Russia." (As one contemporary critic observed, "we expected, every time we turned a page, to hear [her] moan, soulfully, 'Why dontcha c'mup 'n see me some time?'.") The author, the son of Czar Nicholas II's personal physician (who was executed along with the royal family),...
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Butternut

By: Ceder, John

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Vantage Press : (c.1955)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 13359

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Fair dj

[moderately worn, light fraying to cloth at base of spine and bottom corners, a little fading around top front hinge, ffep corner-clipped, bottom corners of a few pages near the end of the book are bent/creased; jacket edgeworn and rubbed/scuffed, spine sunned, several tears and associated creasing along top edge, large chip at top left-hand corner of front panel (just missing the title)]. Scarce vanity-press novel by a WWII veteran, written in "Ozark Mountain speech, a dialect rich in old English words and colorful, striking phrases." It tells the story of "young Tad, whose broth...
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They Waited for the Night

By: Dale, Virginia

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. : 1939

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 24007

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Fair dj

[a decent, solid copy, bumped at corners but otherwise only lightly shelfworn; jacket is pretty rough, with heavy edgewear, a split about halfway up from the bottom along the front hinge, small piece missing from lower right corner of front panel, various other tears/creasing, etc.]. "A novel of backstage, written with inner knowledge and sophisticated wit by an important new author." The author, a Chicago native, had begun her career as a film and drama critic in Chicago, but gave that up when she starting writing magazine fiction. This, her first novel, was followed by two more, &#...
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Death Valley: A Guide

By: Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration of Northern California

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company : (c.1939)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 25335

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Fair dj

[book is moderately shelfworn, has a library-type pocket on front pastedown (with one-time owner's address label affixed), the same owner's signature on the copyright page, and a small envelope glued to the rear pastedown (see notes for content); the fold-out map affixed to rear endpaper is present and in excellent condition; jacket is heavily chipped along top edge, partially split along spine, a little paper loss at spine ends, a few tiny scrape marks on front panel, a tiny scraped hole in rear panel]. (American Guide Series) Series (B&W photographs) Comprehensive guide to the history, geol...
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Uncle Snowball

By: Frost, Frances

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Farrar & Rinehart, Inc. : (c.1940)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 21993

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Fair dj

(price-clipped) [partial exposure of webbing at front hinge but still a decent, well-bound book; light shelfwear and a bit of soiling to bottom edge, slight bumping at several corners; jacket is heavily edgeworn, internally tape-repaired at top of spine, light soiling and creasing to rear panel]. The chroncile of a year on the New England farm of William and Nancy Hayward and their nine children, plus "that lovable and kindly old sinner, Uncle Snowball," not a blood relative but an old geezer who has been "adopted" by the family: "A blizzard swooped down one day and litera...
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Best Film Plays of 1943-1944 [SIGNED by Gassner]

By: Gassner, John, and Dudley Nichols, eds.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, Crown Publishers : (c.1945)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 26941

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Fair dj

[good sound copy, with light shelfwear and some minor external dampstaining at the base of the spine, and a small bit of paper from the jacket interior still affixed to the lower front cover, where the jacket had once been stuck; the jacket has a shallow one-inch-wide chip at the bottom left of the front panel (where it had gotten adhered to the book), with some internal staining in that area as well; the jacket spine is severely faded and somewhat wrinkled, and there's quite a bit of generalized wear and tear, including several small tears along the top edge; now encased in a new mylar sleeve...
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Potash and Perlmutter Settle Things

By: Glass, Montague

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York/London, Harper & Brothers : 1919

Edition: 1st Edition (I-T)

Seller ID: 23663

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Fair dj

[moderate wear to bottom edge and top of spine, gilt spine lettering largely rubbed away (although front cover lettering is still strong); jacket heavily soiled, large chip at top right corner of rear panel, small chip at upper left corner of front panel, tiny surface-peeled scar on front panel, a bit of paper loss at all corners]. (cartoon drawings) Classic Jewish dialect humor, featuring the archetypal (some would say stereotypical) perpetually-bickering garment-trade business partners. In this episodic novel, the pair decide to make a trip to Paris to check out the fashion scene, and coin...
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Return Not Again

By: Heard, Annette

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Indianapolis/New York, The Bobbs-Merrill Company : (c.1937)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 26925

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Fair dj

[good sound copy, lightly shelfwear, tiny bump to top rear corner, some age-toning to edges of text block; the jacket is pretty rough, with heavy edgewear, some paper loss at and adjacent to spine ends, nearly split along rear hinge (but held together by new mylar jacket protector)]. Novel about poor white sharecroppers in the Mississippi delta region, specifically focused on its protagonist, Clementine Mann, a "cabin-patch woman" who works hard to make a success of the family farm despite being married to "a sulking, slinking no-account" husband. In the face of natural disasters and her husb...
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From Here to Eternity

By: Jones, James

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons : 1951

Edition: 1st Edition ("A")

Seller ID: 16988

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Fair dj

[moderately shelfwear, bumping to top corners; jacket heavily worn, moderately soiled, chipping to spine extremities, 2-inch tear at bottom front hinge with a little paper loss, split at front foldover about 3 inches up from bottom, ditto rear foldover about one inch]. One of the great novels to come out of its author's World War II experience, in this case centering around Pearl Harbor, where Jones was stationed before, during and immediately after the Japanese attack. Filmed to great Academy Award-winning effect by director Fred Zinnemann in 1953, with a raft of stellar performances -- Mon...
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Wedding Preparations in the Country, and Other Posthumous Prose Writings

By: Kafka, Franz (translated by Ernst Kaiser & Eithne Wilkins)

Price: $30.00

Publisher: London, Secker and Warburg : 1954

Edition: First Edition Thus

Seller ID: 27601

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Fair dj

[light shelfwear, minor fading to cloth at spine ends, age-toning to edges of text block; the jacket is a bit tattered, with small tears and a bit of paper loss at all corners and at ends of spine, shallow chipping at top edge of rear panel, spine panel sun-browned, general light soiling and handling wear]. "This important new collection from the Kafka manuscripts housed in the Schocken Library at Jerusalem, under the editorship of Max Brod, contains at least two pieces of major interest. 'Wedding Preparations,' the title story, was never completed, but it significant in showing Kafka at the...
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Behind the Iron Altar [SIGNED]

By: Kassarjian, Kevork`[aka Lee Kassarjian]

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Olivier, Maney & Co. : (c.1950)

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 21486

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Fair dj

[lightly shelfworn, slight bumping to all corners; jacket well-worn, with paper loss at most corners and along top and bottom edges of front panel, long ragged (but neatly closed) tear in rear panel]. (B&W halftone photographs, maps INSCRIBED fulsomely and SIGNED by the author on the ffep: "Presented to / Mrs. J.W. Kirchoff / In appreciation of her / interest in a progressive and / integrated America and in / admiration of her creative / inclinations. / Lee K. Kassarjian / 2306 Duane St. / L.A. 39 / NO-2-9803 / Los Angeles / May 6, 1953." A memoir of persecution, by an ex-priest of t...
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Maypoles and Morals

By: Kummer, Frederic Arnold

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, J.H. Sears & Company, Inc. : 1929

Edition: 4th printing

Seller ID: 22779

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Fair dj

[a good sound copy, light shelfwear, a little wear to cloth at ends of spine, some age-toning to edges of text block; the jacket is a bit of a mess, with a heavily soiled and faded spine, an irregular chunk missing at the bottom right corner of the front panel, some shallow chipping along the top edge, and various other depredations]. "An all informing novel of the love which expresses itself in passion and warmth -- which binds men and women in locked embrace, and, alas, too often through ignorance of its meaning drives them asunder. Yet this love when deeply based both physically and sp...
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Womanhood and Marriage [dust jacket title: The Soul of a Woman]

By: Macfadden, Bernarr

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Macfadden Publications, Inc. : 1928 (c.1918)

Edition: Reprint

Seller ID: 23662

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Fair dj

[moderately shelfworn, bumping to bottom corners, rubbing to gilt lettering on front cover; jacket a bit tattered, with a number of small chips and other bits of paper loss at edges and corners]. (B&W photographs) A manual covering literally every aspect of marriage, from an author often cited as a forerunner of the mid-20th century exercise gurus Charles Atlas and Jack LaLanne. If ever there was a self-made man, it was Bernarr Macfadden, an avid proponent of good health through exercise and diet (specifically vegetarianism), and above all avoidance of the medical establishment. His magazine...
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Three British Screen Plays: Brief Encounter; Odd Man Out; Scott of the Antarctic

By: Manvell, Roger, ed.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, Methuen & Co. Ltd. : 1950

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 27600

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Fair dj

[modestly shelfworn book, slight fading to cloth along bottom edge of front cover; the jacket is a bit ragged, with small tears and bits of paper loss at most corners, price-sticker mark and partial beverage-ring stain on front panel, wrinkling/creasing across top of front panel, etc.]. (B&W photographs) Scripts for three classics: BRIEF ENCOUNTER (written by Noel Coward, based on his play); ODD MAN OUT (written by F.L. Green and R.C. Sherriff, from Green's novel); and SCOTT OF THE ANTARCTIC (an original screenplay by Walter Meade and Ivor Montagu). "Published in Association with the British ...
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Condition: Very Good in Fair dj