Condition: Very Good in Very Good+ dj

It's Cleaner on the Inside [SIGNED]

By: Bright, John

Price: $75.00

Publisher: London, Neville Spearman : 1961

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 17460

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good+ dj

[spine a little turned, boards a little bowed, shallow dent at top of front cover, light age-toning to page edges; jacket just a bit edgeworn, one tiny tear at top of spine, another tiny closed tear at top of front panel, light soiling to rear panel]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the ffep (see addtional note below). The second of only two books published by this noted screenwriter during his lifetime (and his only novel to see print), this Dostoyevskian tale of a rebellious young man who works his way up in the San Francisco underworld until "tragedy, horror and disintegration&#...
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Dalton Trumbo [SIGNED]

By: Cook, Bruce

Price: $60.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons : (c.1977)

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 26292

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good+ dj

[minor shelfwear to bottom edge, moderate foxing to edges of text block; jacket is bright and clean, with just a bit of edgewear along the top and bottom edges, one tiny closed tear at top of front panel, short diagonal crease at bottom corner of front flap]. (B&W photographs) SIGNED and INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper. "A biography of the Oscar-winning screenwriter who broke the Hollywood blacklist," portrayed by Bryan Cranston in the 2015 biofilm TRUMBO. Remarkably, this book, which appeared just a year after its subject's death, remained the only full biography of Trumbo un...
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The Leaf is Green

By: Craven, John V.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf : (c.1931)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 17300

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good+ dj

[a solid clean copy, nice and tight with only minimal wear, but with considerable fading to cloth at spine and edges of covers; jacket moderately faded at spine, otherwise just lightly worn at edges]. Is there any literary icon we Americans are more enamored of than the alcoholic writer? It takes some effort to think of a major 20th Century author whose life wasn't touched (or hammered) by John Barleycorn, including the author of "John Barleycorn" himself. (Look it up.) Poe, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Parker, Chandler, Kerouac, Capote, Bukowski -- that hardly scratches the surface, and ...
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Lonesome Places

By: Derleth, August

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Sauk City WI, Arkham House : (c.1962)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 28101

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good+ dj

[very light shelfwear to book, front hinge a little weak, previous owner's initials plus date & place of purchase written in ink along edge of rear pastedown (concealed beneath rear jacket flap), ink check-marks next to every title in the table of contents; the jacket shows a bit of wear at the spine ends and the corners, and has a diagonal crease in the rear flap and a tiny abrasion mark on the front panel]. "The best of August Derleth's macabre stories of the past decade and a half are collected her in the fifth book of supernatural tales from his pen." (Most were published in various maga...
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An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood

By: Gabler, Neal

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Crown Publishers, Inc. : (c.1988)

Edition: 3rd printing

Seller ID: 27955

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good+ dj

[front hinge a bit damaged (but not split or separated), small red remainder dot on bottom edge of text block; the jacket shows a bit of surface wear, with some minor crinkling at the spine ends]. (B&W photographs) "A provocative, original, and richly entertaining group biography of the Jewish immigrants who founded and came to dominate the American film industry. These men -- Adolph Zukor, Carl Laemmle, Louis B. Mayer, the Warner brothers, Harry Cohn -- created an image of America out of their own idealism, a vision that proved so powerful that it ultimately came to shape the myths, values,...
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Benjamin grabbed his Glicken and ran: an autobiography

By: Gordon, Fred

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Row : (c.1971)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 11761

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good+ dj

[solid copy, light soiling to covers and page edges, black remainder stripe on top edge; jacket shows light surface/edge wear, very minor chipping at spine ends, some creasing to both flaps]. "This first novel introduces a young writer whose imagination offers a unique literary and visceral experience," and purports to be the autobiography of one "Benjamin Hackett -- frightening, fascinating, dangerous, lovable, a twenty-three-year-old living on the edge of madness -- [who] tries to explore the most remote corners of his mind." His instrument is his notebooks, in which he "talks about himsel...
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The Bright Nemesis

By: Gunther, John

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Indianapolis, The Bobbs-Merrill Company : (c.1932)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 13910

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good+ dj

[solid copy, moderate soiling to page edges, light shelfwear; jacket shows some wear at edges and corners, rear panel soiled but front panel still colorful and attractive]. "A Thriller for Adults," this murder mystery, the author's second novel, is set in a fictionalized Balkan nation, "Corcisco," where a murder is investigated by "Manfred B. Tate, the mild little bulldog of a newspaper correspondent." According to the jacket blurb, much is made of the setting: "Here is a remarkable picture of life in a small Balkan state. Land and people are drawn in sharp, bril...
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John Grierson: A Documentary Biography

By: Hardy, Forsyth

Price: $20.00

Publisher: London/Boston, Faber and Faber : 1979

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 23930

ISBN-13: 9780571103317

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good+ dj

[foxing to edges of text block, no other significant blemishes; jacket lightly soiled, minor dog-earing along top edge]. Biography of the filmmaker who helped initiate the British documentary film movement in the 1930s, went on to establish the National Film Board of Canada, served as Director of Mass Communications at UNESCO, and more, and who "had an inspiring influence on film-makers on both sides of the Atlantic." The author, "a fellow Scot who knew Grierson from 1930, assesses his contribution to the cinema and the art of communication and gives a fascinating portrait of an ...
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Sylvia

By: Hauck, Louise Platt

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Grosset & Dunlap : 1931

Edition: Reprint

Seller ID: 16574

Binding: Hardcover Second Printing

Condition: Very Good in Very Good+ dj

[a bit of wear to base of spine and bottom corrners, otherwise a good solid book; jacket bright and attractive, minor wear along top and bottom edges, light soiling to spine, a few tiny nicks and closed tears]. "Lovely Sylvia Anne Marston was the victim of unrequited affection. But she was not without initiative. She proposed to the man and when he refused her she bought a second-hand sedan and sought the fastnesses of the high mountain peaks in which to heal her broken heart. The story whisks the reader from sylvan forests to a 'swanky' Junior League entertainment, and ends on a gay an...
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The Quest

By: Karl, Frederick

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, William Heinemann Ltd. : 1961

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 9450

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good+ dj

[moderate shelfwear, ffep removed thus slightly weakening the front hinge, faint dust-soiling to top edge; jacket shows minor wear at extremities, light soiling to rear panel]. A novel of Florence under the German occupation in World War II; the author's first novel.
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The Man-Wolf and Other Horrors

By: Lamb, Hugh, ed.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: London, W.H. Allen : 1978

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 27718

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good+ dj

[light shelfwear, tiny ink check-marks next to all titles in table of contents (plus 2-line commentary written beneath), occasional check-marks in margins of text, previous owner's initials + date & place of purchase written in ink along edge of rear pastedwon (concealed beneath rear jacket flap); the jacket is moderately rubbed and scuffed (mostly on the rear panel), with a bit of wear along the top edge]. One of the more uncommon Lamb-edited anthologies of long out-of-print horror tales. Contents: "The Horror of Abbot's Grange" (Frederick Cowles); "The Finless Death" (R.E. Vernede); "The K...
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A Tale of One January

By: Maltz, Albert

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, Calder and Boyars : 1966

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 25285

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good+ dj

[appears to be an ex-ship's library book, with only a single stamp on the front pastedown marking it as such (the stamp is of The Cunard Steamship Company Limited); there is some staining on the bottom edge and fore-edge, the latter bleeding a bit into the pages for about the first half of the book, but otherwise relatively little wear; the jacket is a bit rippled, with some horizontal creasing along the top and bottom of the front panel, but all in all pretty decent-looking, having been long protected by a (new removed) library jacket cover]. Maltz's final published novel, about a group of e...
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Corcho Bliss

By: Olsen, Austin

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Simon and Schuster : (c.1972

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 6025

ISBN-13: 9780671213565

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good+ dj

[good clean copy, minor wear to cloth at spine ends, small remainder mark on bottom edge; jacket has a little surface wear, mild wrinkling along top edge]. A "bawdy, funny, breathlessly readable novel," with a hero reminiscent of a younger Rooster Cogburn (of Charles Portis's True Grit). Set during the Mexican Revolution.
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The Little Hellion: A Story of "Egypt" (Southern Illinois)

By: Rauch, Mabel Thompson

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Duell, Sloan and Pearce : (c.1960)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 3669

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good+ dj

[ex-library but just mildly worn and minimal markings, front hinge a little loose (but not separated), faint tape residue on front cover only, pocket on rear fep; jacket is quite nice, clean and bright, spine somewhat faded (except where the call number label used to be), and a 1" irregular closed tear at bottom of spine].
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South of Red River [SIGNED]

By: Sherry, Sylvia

Price: $60.00

Publisher: London, Hamish Hamilton : 1981

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 13004

ISBN-13: 9780241105795

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good+ dj

[moderate shelfwear, small nick at bottom of each board, light foxing to top edge, top corners slightly bumped; jacket shows a little wear and minor wrinkling along top and bottom edges]. INSCRIBED ("For _________ / affectionately," and SIGNED and dated (3 January 1982) by the author on the half-title page. Historical novel, "set in Texas in 1840 during its brief spell as an independent republic after the Mexican war and the Alamo tragedy." The primary character is "General Sam, a tough, hard-drinking hero, based on General Sam Houston," and the story unfolds "ag...
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The Immortal Lover: A Burns Romance

By: Steuart, John A.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Philadelphia/London, J.B. Lippincott Company : (c.1929)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 19783

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good+ dj

[book is moderately shelfworn, with some browning and spotting (foxing) to the top of the text block; the dust jacket (sourced separately and married to this copy) is clean and attractive, with a couple of short closed tears and associated horizontal creasing along bottom edge of rear panel, another tiny closed tear at top of spine, and some modest edgewear along the top edge]. "In presenting the life of [Robert] Burns in novel-form," explains the author in his preface, "I have been concerned almost wholly with the man and only incidentally with the poet." With that in mind, and with a focus...
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Condition: Very Good in Very Good+ dj