Condition: Very Good in Near Fine dj

A Thousand Imitations

By: Bonime, Florence

Price: $65.00

Publisher: New York, Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc. : (c.1967)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 16614

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Near Fine dj

[moderate shelfwear and light soiling to bottom edge; jacket is almost flawless, with just one tiny crease at bottom right-hand corner of front panel]. Novel about four NYC couples, by an author (it sez here) who was "married to a psychoanalyst, and lives in Greenwich Village." A native of the Bronx, she had gone to work at age 16 in the advertising business, and in the 1960s and 1970s was a teacher of fiction writing at the New School for Social Research. (Featured in our Catalog #2, available upon request.)
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It's All Zoo

By: Browne, Gerald A.

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday & Co. : 1968

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 7935

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Near Fine dj

[good solid copy, book appears Near Fine until you peek under the jacket and see that there has been fading to the green cloth (from dampness) along the edges of both covers -- NOT "water-damaged," since the interior of the book is completely unaffected and there is no warping or other damage to the covers (believe me, leave the jacket on and you'll never notice it); the jacket itself is clean and bright, with just some minimal edgewear]. Scarce novel (the author's first) about young Americans (of the "now" generation) in Paris. "Lillian was a beautiful, groovy bird in toda...
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Supernatural on Stage: Ghosts and Superstitions of the Theatre

By: Huggett, Richard

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Taplinger Publishing Company : 1975

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 24602

ISBN-13: 9780800874957

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Near Fine dj

[light shelfwear to bottom edge of rear cover near spine, slight insect-nibbling to edge of ffep; jacket a bit edgeworn, tiny closed tear and associated horizontal wrinkle at bottom of front panel]. (B&W photographs) Entertaining compendium of theatrical lore -- from the Barrymore family, who "always gave one another red apples which were never to be eaten on opening nights," to the belief that yellow is a bad-luck color because it was worn by the Devil in medieval mystery plays, to Tallulah Bankhead's insistence that all visitors enter her dressing room on their right foot first. And...
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Betrayed by Rita Hayworth

By: Puig, Manuel (translated by Suzanne Jill Levine)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, E.P. Dutton & Co. : 1971

Edition: First American Edition

Seller ID: 26506

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Near Fine dj

[ex-library book, with typical stamping on title page and 2nd half-title page, "withdrawn" stamps on both endpapers and pastedowns, tape stains at top and bottom edges of both endpapers, some soiling to edges of text block; the jacket, however, is unblemished and about as nice as you could want, with just a small wrinkle near the top of the front panel]. Puig's debut novel, about a middle-class Argentine family whose "only escape from the dreariness of small-town living is the movies."
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Rocking America: An Insider's Story [SIGNED]

By: Sklar, Rick

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, St. Martin's Press : (c.1984)

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 28040

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Near Fine dj

[minimal shelfwear to book, would rate Near Fine but for foxing to edges of text block; the jacket shows just minor wear to the spine extremities, one tiny closed tear at bottom of front panel]. (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the half-title page: "To Joan Rivers, / Who grew up listening / to this! / Rick Sklar / Sept 17, 1984 / Los Angeles." "This is Rick Sklar's acclaimed story of how he helped develop the universally imitated 'Top 40' format that kicked off the boom years of rock radio. Naming names, unlocking radio industry closets, [the author] recreates and analy...
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The Player

By: Tolkin, Michael

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Atlantic Monthly Press : (c.1988)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 3567

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Near Fine dj

[book is Fine but for remainder mark; jacket has some laminate wrinkling at edges]. Modern classic of the Hollywood novel, memorably filmed by Robert Altman in 1992, from a screenplay by Tolkin.
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The Graveyard Companion: Twenty Stories of Fantasy and Terror

By: Usher, Gray and Shaun

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Elsevier/Nelson Books

Edition: Advance Review Copy

Seller ID: 27467

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good in Near Fine dj

[a review copy (with the original publisher's slip laid in) in unprinted paper covers, which the previous owner chose to completely encase in clear tape, as well as having written his name plus date & place of purchase at the top of the front endpaper; there is also one diagonally-creased lower page corner; the jacket is nearly flawless, with just a touch of handling wear and a handful of horizonal stress lines along the flap-folds]. A collection of short stories by this father and son (the stories are not joint efforts, however; each is credited only to one or the other). The final story in...
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Condition: Very Good in Near Fine dj

A Thousand Imitations

It's All Zoo

Supernatural on Stage: Ghosts and Superstitions of the Theatre

Betrayed by Rita Hayworth

Rocking America: An Insider's Story [*SIGNED*]

The Player

The Graveyard Companion: Twenty Stories of Fantasy and Terror

Rocking America: An Insider's Story [SIGNED]