Condition: Very Good in Good+ dj

Painting with Light

By: Alton, John

Price: $200.00

Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company : 1949

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 24808

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dj

[light shelfwear to edges and extremities, a bit of foxing on endpapers; jacket has a shallow chip at top left corner of front panel, also a little paper loss at top right corner, a couple of little nicks at top edge of rear panel, minor edgewear elsewhere, light soiling to rear panel]. (B&W/color photographs, line drawings) An indispensible guide to lighting for photography, by one of Hollywood's master cinematographers. The emphasis is on motion picture lighting, of course, but most of the techniques can be applied as well to still photography. Per the author's introduction, the book inclu...
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The Love Trapeze

By: Bull, Lois

Price: $65.00

Publisher: New York, The Macaulay Company : (c.1934)

Edition: Later Printing?

Seller ID: 22083

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dj

[light shelfwear to bottom of book, very slight deterioration of cloth at spine extremities; jacket shows some edgewear, a couple of tiny closed tears, moderate fading to spine, light soiling to rear panel]. Circus novel about "the nonchalant Mario Verona, greatest living king of the flying trapeze, [who] rose from an obscure continental performer to become the spoiled darling of America's big top," and the two women who loved him: "the famous Mavis Merton, tragic Queen of the Air, [and] Mitzi, "another aerialist, young, vivacious, loyal, and gallant." Although the jacket...
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The "Charm" Girl

By: Delaney, E.L.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, Liveright Publishing Corporation : (c.1935)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 21149

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dj

[a solid clean copy, modestly shelfworn on bottom edge and at top of spine, one-time owner's name and address on front pastedown; jacket shows a little wear along top edge, light dampstain to upper part of spine, extending a bit onto the rear panel]. (cartoon illustrations) Sub-titled (on the jacket) "the SCREAM-LINE correspondence of a radio charmer and her girl friend," this is an amusing and topical entry in the primarily American sub-sub-genre of the epistolary comic novel that might be described as "letters from a (not-so) dumb gal (or guy)." (The same well was notably tapped by Ring La...
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The Poison Arrow

By: Dennis, Jefferson

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Fortuny's : (c.1940)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 8946

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dj

(price-clipped) [moderately shelfworn but still solid copy, previous owner's name taped to ffep, top edge dust-darkened; jacket edgeworn, moderately soiled, spine sunned, minor paper loss at top of spine and top left corner of front panel]. Review copy, with publisher's slip laid in. " The thrilling adventures of a daring youth in the cities and jungles of Peru," this being "Pancho Bustamonte, a student at the Colegio of Callao [ who] mingles with Indians,foreigners, revolutionaries, and all the other people who find a refuge in the South American country." The author "s...
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Show Boat

By: Ferber, Edna

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday, Page & Co. : (c.1926)

Edition: First Trade Edition

Seller ID: 23492

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dj

[slight bump to top right corner of front cover, light foxing to bottom edge of text block, spine very slightly turned; unclipped jacket ($2.00 printed price) is lightly soiled, sun-browning to spine and along edge of rear flap, a bit of chipping at top of spine (slightly affecting the printed title thereon)]. An American classic. The novel was a best-seller, and the subject matter made its adaptation into a stage musical a natural; the Kern-Hammerstein musical opened on Broadway in December 1927 and ran for a year and a half; the first, mostly-silent version went into release in 1929, follow...
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The Big Dream [SIGNED]

By: Fisher, Steve

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday & Company, Inc. : 1970

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 10124

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dj

[good tight copy, internally clean but with some irregular faded spots on front cover as a result of once-dampened dust jacket; jacket is mildly edgeworn, water-stained at upper spine and upper left-hand corner of front panel (although because of the jacket design it's relatively unobtrusive), plus there's a triangular chip at the top front hinge (affecting both the front panel and top of spine)]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the ffep. This hard-boiled veteran writer returns yet again to the Hollywood Novel, a genre he mined repeatedly (often striking a rich vein of cliche) througho...
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Whitey: The Playboy of "Queer People" Runs Riot in Manhattan

By: Graham, Carroll and Garrett

Price: $200.00

Publisher: New York, Grosset & Dunlap : (c.1931)

Edition: Reprint "Second Printing" (stated)

Seller ID: 21239

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dj

[moderate shelfwear and light soiling to bottom edge, slight fraying to cloth at top of spine; jacket shows wear at extremities, 2-inch split at bottom front hinge, short closed tear and associated creasing at bottom of front panel, short L-shaped tear at top front hinge]. The middle book in the "Whitey Trilogy" (which nobody actually calls it) -- following the notorious "Queer People" (1930) and preceding "Kings Back to Back" (1932) -- in which the amoral (sorry, irrepressible) ex-newspaperman and booze-hound hits the Big Apple, where "his boudoir and other exploits -- including the manageme...
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Painted Lady

By: Grose, Helena

Price: $75.00

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

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 20282

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dj

[ex-rental library book but marked as such only by label on front pastedown, moderate shelfwear, bottom corners bumped, spine slightly turned, a bit of soiling to top page edges; jacket shows wear along top edge, chipping/rubbing/soiling to spine, small hole in spine, still colorful and attractive]. After returning from a convent(!) and hearing her mother's heartbreaking story about having been kidnapped by a "Russian underworld King, in her youth; forced to a degraded cabaret life; [and] shunned by a shocked husband on her eventual return," Shirley Dail vows revenge. To that end, sh...
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Times Square

By: Heuser, Beatrice L.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Samuel Curl, Inc. : 1947

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 7259

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dj

[good solid book, bottom corners heavily bumped, mild edge-soiling, faint bookstore stamp on front pastedown; jacket edgeworn, a few small tears, a little paper loss at spine ends and here and there along edges]. "A stirring yet sensitive portrayal of the theatrical world, not of today, but of the gaudy twenties,of the heyday of the 'Scandals' and the 'Vanities.' It is a story of glamour, hard work and heartache, of courage, loyalty and love." (Which would make it different from all those other novels about the theatre, of course.) Great jacket, though.
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They Never Get Tired

By: Macadam, Catharine

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Frederick A. Stokes Company : 1937

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 22704

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dj

[spine a bit turned, moderate discoloration to cloth along front joint, one-time owner's signature on ffep, vintage bookseller's label (The Personal Book Shop, Boston) on ffep; jacket shows wear at all corners, tiny chip at top edge of front panel, short closed tear and associated creasing at bottom front hinge, a few small edge-tears]. "They" might never get tired, but I wonder if the same can be said of a reader who slogs his or her way through this purportedly comic novel about "the haphazard and somehow enticing life of the Rivett family who think they're artists and count the...
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The Naked and the Dead [SIGNED]

By: Mailer, Norman

Price: $400.00

Publisher: New York, Rinehart and Company, Inc. : (c.1948)

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 27338

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dj

[shelfworn along bottom edges of covers and at top of spine; the jacket is edgeworn, with a few shallow nicks and chips along the top and bottom edges]. SIGNED by the author (no inscription) on the front endpaper; laid in is a ticket stub from the 1989 event at which the signature was obtained by the book's previous owner. Mailer's Important Debut Novel, notable for its (almost) no-holds-barred depiction of the ugliness of war, notable also for the introduction of "fug" and its many variants (including "mother-fuggin") as a substitute for a word that was, even then, pretty well known and wid...
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Naked Eye

By: Neider, Charles

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Horizon Press : 1964 (c.1962)

Edition: 1st U.S. edition

Seller ID: 3097

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dj

[moderate wear, top edge dusty, agency stamp (H. N. Swanson) on ffep, tape marks on pastedowns & endpapers from formerly taped-down jacket; jacket edgeworn, faint water-stain near base of spine]. Novel about "the loves of a famous photographer"; blurbs on the front panel by Aldous Huxley, Mark Schorer and Max Eastman.
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The Lonely Steeple

By: Wolfson, Victor

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Simon and Schuster (A Venture Press Book) : (c.1945)

Edition: 4th printing

Seller ID: 26764

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dj

(price-clipped) [good sound copy with only minor shelfwear, the 5th of the book's 8 signatures (i.e. pp. 141-172) printed on cheaper paper and thus notably age-toned, one-time owner's signature on front endpaper, vintage bookseller's label (Paul Elder & Co., San Francisco) on rear pastedown; the jacket is worn at edges and extremities, with a small bit of surface insect-nibbling near the bottom of the rear panel]. The author's first novel, a psychological horror tale set in a small town on Cape Cod, about a young woman (the book's narrator) who enters into a loveless marriage to escape her ab...
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Women With Nets

By: Worthington, Richard [Richard Worthington Post]

Price: $65.00

Publisher: New York, Brentano's : 1932

Edition: 2nd printing

Seller ID: 16423

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dj

(price-clipped) [book bumped at top corners, otherwise a solid clean copy; jacket has a shallow chip at top of front panel, small piece missing at bottom corner of rear panel, general edgewear and light soiling]. Novel set in post-World War I Berlin, centering around four women ? "women past their youth and bored with marriage, who lay snares for the unwary young men of more talent and charm than resources." Apparently the author's only novel; per the jacket blurb he had spent the preceding three years in Germany "contributing short stories and articles to various magazines there and in this...
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Condition: Very Good in Good+ dj