Condition: Very Good in Very Good dj

Two Years Under Arms: A Novel of Life in a Military School

By: Adam, Robert J.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Exposition Press : (c.1953)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 17344

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dj

[moderate shelfwear, light fading to cloth at edges, light discoloration in gutters; jacket a little edgeworn, spine is browned with some minor staining, a few tiny nicks here and there]. The author, a native of Dunlap, Kansas, and a then-resident of Lyons, Kansas (about 110 miles to the west, in case you were wondering), novelizes his experience at military school -- by all accounts the sort of thing you never quite get over, although it doesn't necessarily obligate you to write a book about it -- to present a "vivid and authentic account of .... the hazing, the maneuvers, the sports, the...
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Jungle Roundup [SIGNED? (see note)]

By: Ames, Robert Andrew

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard : (c.1959)

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 12171

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dj

[moderate shelfwear, slight bumping/fraying to bottom corners, top rear corner also lightly bumped; jacket has several small tears and light wear along top edge, minor chipping at bottom of rear panel, a little paper loss at top of spine, spine sunned]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED, apparently by the author, on the ffep. The inscription reads "To _______ / del autor con todo mi respeto[?]," which translates roughly to "with all the respects of the author." The signature reads "Robert R. Horry, alias Ricardo de Enacienda" [sp?]. I have uncovered no known pseudonyms for this author, but everything a...
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Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph

By: Arbus, Doon, and Marvin Israel, eds.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Millerton NY, Aperture : (c.1972)

Edition: 2nd printing

Seller ID: 24914

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dj

[moderat shelfwear to book, a handful of tiny dents in bottom edges of covers, light staining (foxing?) along bottom edge of front cover; jacket lightly soiled (mostly on rear panel), a bit of wear along top and bottom edges]. (B&W photographs) Kind of an Arbus Greatest Hits volume, containing many of her most famous and haunting photographs. It was issued in conjunction with the first major retrospective of her work, mounted by the Museum of Modern Art in 1972, just a year after her death by suicide. ***PLEASE NOTE that additional shipping charges for this moderately heavy book will be req...
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The Green Hat (photoplay title: OUTCAST LADY) [Photoplay Edition]

By: Arlen, Michael

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, Grosset & Dunlap : [1934] (c.1924)

Edition: First Edition Thus

Seller ID: 27843

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dj

[modest wear to book extremties, minor soiling to edges of text block; the jacket shows some wear, and a few small nicks, along the top and bottom edges, with some minor creasing at the bottom edge of the front panel, light soiling to the rear panel, moderate fading to the spine]. (B&W photographic endpapers) Photoplay edition, a tie-in with the 1934 M-G-M film adaptation, entitled OUTCAST LADY, which starred Constance Bennett (who another bookseller offering this title seems to think is Marlene Dietrich) and Herbert Marshall (he of the wooden leg), and was directed by Robert Z. Leonard. Thi...
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Livery Stable Days

By: Barnard, Upton

Price: $65.00

Publisher: San Antonio TX, The Naylor Company : (c.1959)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 23277

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dj

(price-clipped) [bumping to base of spine resulting in slight cracking of binding at that point, otherwise just lightly shelfworn on the bottom edge, a touch of dust-soiling to top of text block; jacket lightly soiled, shows a little wear along the top edge, spine slightly browned with a couple of tiny stains]. (halftone photo frontispiece) "An authentic historical account of the day when the Livery Stable was one of the hubs of social activity in practically every American community. The arrival of the automobile erased the Livery Stable from the community picture, but here is the accou...
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The Revolt: Story of the Irgun

By: Begin, Menachem

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, Henry Schuman : (c.1951)

Edition: First American Edition

Seller ID: 23201

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dj

[good sound copy, light shelfwear, bottom rear corner heavily bumped (which has affected many of the book's pages, giving them a soft diagonal crease at the bottom corner); jacket moderately edgeworn, slightly darkened along spine, a couple of tiny tears at top of front panel, very slight paper loss at spine ends, small chip at upper left corner of rear panel, soiling to rear panel]. The future Israeli Prime Minister's memoir of his role, as commander-in-chief of the underground army known as the Irgun Zvi Leumi, in the struggle to drive the British out of Palestine, which "opens in a Soviet ...
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The Madness in Sports: Psychosocial Observations on Sports [SIGNED]

By: Beisser, Arnold R.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Appleton-Century-Crofts : (c.1967)

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 23236

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dj

(price-clipped) [solid copy, light shelfwear, some very slight fading to black cloth, faint remnants of erased pencil notes at various places in the text; the jacket is nice-looking, with just light wear to the extremities and a bit of soiling and scuffing to the rear panel (NOTE that this jacket was transferred from another copy of the book)]. SIGNED and DATED (Mar. 8, 1968) by the author on the ffep. "Now a noted psychiatrist has written a brilliantly perceptive study of the factors underlying this potent force in our national life. Dr. Beisser's new book encompasses the entire scope of t...
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The Frightened Giant: My Unfinished Affair with America

By: Belfrage, Cedric

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London, Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd. : 1957

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 25814

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dj

[moderate shelfwear to top and bottom edges, typical with this cheaply-produced book, but generally a good sound copy; the jacket spine is slightly faded, with just a teensy bit of paper loss at top of spine and at a couple of corners]. A passionate memoir by blacklisted journalist/editor/novelist (and one-time film critic) Belfrage, written during the three months he spent in jail in New York awaiting his eventual deportation, in which he expresses both his admiration for America and Americans -- but also "his detestation of that small group of Americans who seek to panic their countrymen int...
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Strictly Private

By: Benson, Therese

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York/Chicago, A.L. Burt Company : (c.1931)

Edition: 3rd printing (stated)

Seller ID: 27503

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dj

[lightly shelfworn, slight deterioration to binding at spine ends, front endpaper rather carelessly razored out; the jacket is edgeworn, with minor paper loss at the spine ends]. "This delightfully clever tale recounts the sudden disappearances of Miss Muffet, a golden-haired child whom everybody wants; some because they love her, some because they hate her, and some because they don't want others to have her. Altogether, Miss Muffet becomes a bone of bitter contention and proceeds to get kidnapped every time a would-be guardian is out of sight." A would-be "madcap" novel that's seriously c...
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Doubting Thomas

By: Brebner, Winston

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Rinehart & Company, Inc. : (c.1956)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 20539

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dj

[shelfwear and bumping to bottom corners, age-toning to edges of text block (typical of Rinehart books in this period), overall a clean and solidly bound book; jacket moderately edgeworn, light rubbing/soiling, small pull-tear in rear panel]. Novel -- sorry, "magical tale" -- about "a man in an unnamed city, holding down an unrewarding job in a wonderfully bureaucratic organization called simply The Agency, returning each evening to his dissatisfied and unsatisfying wife." His miserable existence is leavened only once a year, "at Holiday time, [when] he assumes his secret...
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Grand Motel

By: Brent, William and Milarde

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Greenberg, Publisher : (c.1955)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 8444

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dj

[spine moderately turned, small tear at top of spine, previous owner's name at top of ffep; jacket has a few small edge-tears, small chip at top of front panel, minor paper loss at spine ends]. "A young couple's hilarious account of their adventures in running a motel" in a small mid-coastal California town, "San Simon." There is a marginal Hollywood angle, in that the husband is a failed screenwriter, and the first few pages of the book talk about the disillusionment and disappointment that led them to abandon Tinseltown for the glories of motel management. The authors' post...
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Captive Goddess

By: Bull, Lois

Price: $125.00

Publisher: New York, The Macaulay Company : (c.1935)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 23741

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dj

(price-clipped) DETAILS NEEDED. "Lois Bull has departed from the Broadway scene to delve into colorful, out-of-the-way places in the Near East. In Tommy Drew she creates a believable character who finds life good because he has a knack for making it continually exciting, and who fears nothing except beguiling females who might curb his roving disposition." Case in point: the "fabled golden goddess" depicted on the front of the dust jacket. This is a "Lost Race" novel, later published in paperback under the title "Forbidden," and as the jacket blurb suggests, this wasn't the author's typical...
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Maggie of the Suicide Fleet; as written from the log of Raymond D. Borden, Lieutenant, U.S.N.R.

By: Buranelli, Prosper

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. : 1930

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 15274

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dj

[moderately shelfworn book, light bumping to bottom corners, spine slightly turned; jacket edgeworn, a little browned at spine, worn at spine ends, one tiny chip at bottom of front panel, small tears with very minor paper loss at front corners]. (line drawings) The true story, more or less, of the U.S.S. Margaret, the most notorious ("the worst," in the author's words) of the many private vessels that were pressed into service for submarine patrol by the U.S. Navy during World War I. A former pleasure yacht, the Maggie "was an old, old lady, never built to go out of sight of land...
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Pay the Piper [SIGNED]

By: Bushnell, Adelyn

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Coward-McCann, Inc. : (c.1950)

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 9189

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dj

[solid copy, moderate shelfwear, top edge dust-soiled, tape/newspaper discoloration to pastedowns and endpapers due to supplemental materials (see notes); jacket moderately edgeworn, a few small tears, diagonal crease near bottom of front panel, minor paper loss at spine ends]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the ffep; in her inscription, dated in the month of publication (April 1950), she describes the book as "an expose of the music racket, teachers draining pupils of money & time when pupils have nothing to offer." The novel tells the story of a talented singer who "goes ...
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The Young Divorcees [SIGNED]

By: Charell, Lissa

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, Macmillan : (c.1963)

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 2430

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dj

[some soiling to edges of book; jacket mildly soiled, a few small tears, some corner wear]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the ffep in 1971. Signed by Author
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Anne Marguerite

By: Cleugh, Sophia

Price: $85.00

Publisher: Boston/New York, Houghton Mifflin Company : 1932

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 16654

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dj

[solid book, light foxing/soiling to page edges, one-time owner's signature on ffep, library donation label on front pastedown (no other library markings; specific library not identified); jacket shows light wear at extremities, some light soiling/foxing to front panel]. Story of "the captivating daughter of a highborn rou and a maid-in-waiting to the Queen of France. Buffeted by fortune, she led a life of extremes -- from poverty to wealth, high life to low life, joy to despair. Swept into the seething torrent of the French Revolution, she was cast into prison and in the shadow of the guil...
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The White and Gold Lady

By: Daingerfield, Foxhall

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, George H. Doran Company : (c.1927)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 9509

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dj

[nice solid copy, minor shelfwear, a couple of pages ragged at fore-edge from having been carelessly cut; jacket shows mild edgewear, a bit of soiling/rubbing, a couple of tiny edge-tears, ragged pull-tear across across mid-spine (no text affected)]. "This is a story of Kentucky of the eighties, of an exalted society that worshipped beauty in women and blood in horses, whose lives were ordered and arranged by the rules of a chivalry now half-forgotten. Into the quiet lives of the blue-grass aristocracy there penetrates a drama of passion, of love, whose effect is devastating and profound....
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Kif: An Unvarnished History

By: Daviot, Gordon (pseud. for Elizabeth MacKintosh, aka Josephine Tey)

Price: $350.00

Publisher: New York, D. Appleton & Company : 1929

Edition: 2nd printing

Seller ID: 24747

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dj

[a good sound copy, minor shelfwear, light surface deterioration of cloth near bottom of front cover, a bit of dust-soiling to top of text block; the jacket is a bit worn at edges and spine extremities, with a one-inch scrape/indentation mark on the spine, and a long diagonal closed tear (and associated crease) at the top of the front panel (which is quite unobtrusive and might have been expertly repaired at some point)]. The story of a horse-loving English farm boy who serves in the British Army during World War I, but whose disillusionment upon his return to civilian life in London leads hi...
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Flashback

By: Dooley, Roger

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday & Co. /Crime Club : 1969

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2605

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dj

[moderate wear at extremities, spine turned; jacket shows some wear corners, small tears with minor paper loss at top of spine, a little wrinkling at base of spine]. Mystery novel concerning a staff writer for a film magazine who gets involved in a murder case while investigating an old-time Hollywood scandal.
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A Variety of Fallon [SIGNED]

By: Fallon, Carlos

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown and Company : 1950

Edition: 2nd printing

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 26637

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dj

(price-clipped) [slight bumping to all corners, very slight fraying to a couple, otherwise a nice clean copy with only minor shelfwear; the jacket has several old internal tape repairs along the top and bottom edges, shallow chipping and some wrinkling at both ends of spine, a few tiny tears and associated creasing along both top and bottom edges]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper: "To Henny / with affectionate / regards / Carlos Fallon." Uncommon memoir by a man who was a popular and well-known lecturer in his day, but who has subsequently faded into near-total obscu...
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Condition: Very Good in Very Good dj