Condition: Very Good+ in Near Fine dj

Vertigo: The Making of a Hitchcock Classic

By: Auiler, Dan

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, St. Martin's Press : 1998

Edition: 3rd printing

Seller ID: 23424

ISBN-13: 9780312169152

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Near Fine dj

[spine slightly turned, bottom front corner and base of spine bumped; jacket shows just a bit of surface wear, tiny wrinkle at top of front panel]. (B&W/color photographs) "An in-depth re-creation of the making of Hitchcock's signature thriller." Foreword by Martin Scorsese.
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What the Movies Made Me Do [SIGNED]

By: Braudy, Susan

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf : 1985

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 3237

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Near Fine dj

[remainder mark bottom edge, some wear to edges/corners of book; jacket has traces of wear along top edge, very slight fading to spine]. SIGNED on the ffep by the author, with a generic, non-personalized inscription ("Enjoy the book! I hope you laugh!"). Signed by Author
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Nine Horrors, and a dream

By: Brennan, Joseph Payne

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Sauk City WI, Arkham House : 1958

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 28184

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Near Fine dj

[modest bumping to the upper corners but no other significant wear, former owner's name plus date & place of purchase in ink on front endpaper (along with a bookstore rubber-stamp), small ink check-marks next to all titles in table of contents; jacket shows just a teensy bit of wear at the extremities, and has a narrow browned strip along the right edge of the rear panel (adjacent to the spine)]. Contents: "Slime"; "Levitation"; "The Calamander Chest"; "Death in Peru"; "On the Elevator"; "The Green Parrot"; "Canavan's Back Yard"; "I'm Murdering Mr. Massington"; "The Hunt"; "The Mail for Junip...
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The Black Reaper

By: Capes, Bernard; edited by Hugh Lamb

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Ashcroft, BC (Canada), Ash-Tree Press : 1998

Edition: Expanded edition

Seller ID: 27534

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Near Fine dj

[no discernible wear to book, although a handful of pages have short diagonal creases at the upper corners from having been turned down as markers (why, oh why? -- this is why BOOKMARKS were invented, people!), and the former owner's initials plus date & place of purchase are written in ink on recto of rear endpaper; the jacket is flawless apart from some very slight wrinkling at the bottom of the rear panel]. (B&W photo frontispiece) A collection of short stories by Capes (1854-1918), including "some of the most imaginative tales of terror of his era: stories of werewolves and the Wandering ...
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Jellybean [aka: Jelly Bean]

By: Carson, Robert

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown & Co. : (c.1974)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 5099

ISBN-13: 9780316130264

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Near Fine dj

[nice clean copy, mild shelfwear, spine a little turned; jacket in great shape, minor surface-scratching to front panel, light staining on spine from removal of label (this jacket having been "salvaged" from an ex-library copy of the book and transferred to this copy]. "Sheer entertainment, an old-fashioned, rip-roaring adventure story set in the American West following the Civil War."
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Half in Shadow

By: Counselman, Mary Elizabeth

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Sauk City WI, Arkham House : 1978

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 28185

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Near Fine dj

[a touch of wear at the base of the spine, one-time owner's name plus date & place of purchase written in ink along edge of rear pastedown (concealed beneath rear jacket flap), small check-marks next to all titles in table of contents; the jacket is very nice, showing just the tinest bit of soiling and some minor wrinkling at the top of the front panel (which for some reason shows up more in the scanned image than to the eye)]. A collection of the author's "finest spectral fiction written over a period of thirty-five years," including her legendary tale "The Three Marked Pennies," which origi...
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Realms of Darkness

By: Danby, Mary, ed.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: London, Octopus Books Limited : 1985

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 27525

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Near Fine dj

[minor shelfwear to book, former owner's name plus date & place of purchase in ink at top of front endpaper, check marks (in ink and pencil) next to most titles in table of contents; jacket shows minor surface wear only]. Anthology of 73 "nightmarish tales of the supernatural and macabre," introduced by Christopher Lee. Includes stories by Martin Amis, Robert Bloch, Anthony Boucher, Agatha Christie, Roald Dahl, August Derleth, Davis Grubb, Patricia Highsmith, Stephen King, Bill Pronzini, Henry Slesar, Bram Stoker, Dennis Wheatley, and many others. ****NOTE that additional postage charges wi...
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Beaton

By: Danziger, James

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, The Viking Press (A Studio Book) : 1980

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 16975

ISBN-13: 9780670152490

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Near Fine dj

[a bit of shelfwear to bottom edge, with very light deterioration of cloth at a couple of points; jacket has just a couple of tiny closed tears at edges]. (B&W photographs) SIGNED on the title page by actress Jacqueline Bisset, with an inscription (dated "Dec 80") to "Bill" (William Allyn), producer of her film RICH AND FAMOUS. An extensive survey of Cecil Beaton's photographic work; it's unknown (to me, anyway) whether he ever lensed Ms. Bisset.
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Ten Brave Women

By: Daugherty, Sonia

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Philadelphia/New York, J.B. Lippincott Company : (c.1953)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 24977

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Near Fine dj

[a bit of wear to lower extremities and top of spine, one-time owner's mostly-erased (but still readable) name and address on ffep; jacket shows just a little wear at spine ends, slight age-toning]. (pen and ink drawings) "Dramatic stories," for juvenile readers, of "ten women who left their stamp on America [and] whose personal stature adds to our heritage." They are: Anne Hutchinson, Abigail Adams, Dolly Madison, Narcissa Whitman, Julia Ward Howe, Susan B. Anthony, Dorothea Lynde Dix, Mary Lyon, Ida M. Tarbell, and Eleanor Roosevelt. This was a companion/follow-up to the sam...
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Derby Dugan's Depression Funnies

By: De Haven, Tom

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Metropolitan Bks/Henry Holt : 1996

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2680

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Near Fine dj

[remainder mark on top edge, a couple of tiny dents at top and bottom of boards, otherwise a clean, tight, unread book; jacket shows minimal handling wear]. Another comic-strip homage from De Haven; this one does for the 1930's what his earlier book, Funny Papers, did for the 1890's. The book was designed by Art Spiegelman with Kelly Soong, and features a color frontispiece, a full-page Sunday "Derby Dugan" strip by "Walter Geebus," the book's protagonist (actually drawn by Spiegelman).
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Colonel Markesan and Less Pleasant People

By: Derleth, August, and Mark Schorer

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Sauk City WI, Arkham House : (c.1966)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 28162

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Near Fine dj

[book has no significant wear, but has a couple of small glue(?)-stains at the lower corners of both covers, a one-time owner's name plus date & place of purchase in ink along the edge of the rear pastedown (concealed beneath the rear jacket flap), and small ink check-marks next to every title in the table of contents; the jacket is lightly age-toned at the spine and edges, but otherwise unblemished]. A collection of early collaborative stories of the macabre by these authors, most of which were published in Weird Tales during the 1930s. The stories: "In the Left Wing"; "Spawn of the Maelstr...
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Dark Mind, Dark Heart [SIGNED]

By: Derleth, August, ed.

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Sauk City WI, Arkham House : 1962

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 27715

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Near Fine dj

[minor shelfwear to book, age-toning to top edge and fore-edge, small ink check-marks next to all titles in table of contents, previous owner's initials + date & place of purchase written in ink along edge of rear pastedown (concealed beneath rear jacket flap); the jacket itself is quite nice, with just a few tiny nicks along the top edge, some sun-browning at the edges of both flaps]. INSCRIBED generically ("Sincerely") and SIGNED by the editor on the front endpaper. Anthology of "new, hitherto unpublished work" by numerous masters of the genre. Contents: "Under the Horns" (Robert Bloch); ...
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Dark Things

By: Derleth, August, ed.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Sauk City WI, Arkham House : 1971

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 28177

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Near Fine dj

[minimal shelfwear to book, small check-marks next to several titles in table of contents, one-time owner's initials plus date & place of purchase written in ink along edge of rear pastedown (concealed beneath rear jacket flap); the jacket has just a touch of wear at several corners, light browning along edges of front panel]. The "fourth in a series of anthologies of entirely new, hitherto unpublished stories." Contents: "The Funny Farm" (Robert Bloch); "The Eyes of Mme. Dupree" (P.H. Booth); "'The Peril That Lurks Among Ruins'" (Joseph Payne Brennan); "Napier Court" (Ramsey Campbell); "The...
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Travellers by Night

By: Derleth, August, ed.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Sauk City WI, Arkham House : 1967

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 28159

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Near Fine dj

[lower corners lightly bumped, previous owner's name plus date & place of purchase in ink along edge of rear pastedown (concealed beneath rear jacket flap), small ink check-marks next to all title in table of contents; the jacket is nearly flawless, with just a touch of wrinkling at the lower corners matching the bumped book corners]. "An anthology of new horror stories," 14 of 'em, specifically: "The Cicerones" by Robert Aickman; "Episode on Cain Street" by Joseph Payne Brennan; "The Cellars" by J. Ramsey Campbell; "The Man Who Rode the Trains" by Paul A. Carter; "A Handful of Silver" by Mar...
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Yes, My Darling Daughters

By: Duncan, David

Price: $35.00

Publisher: London, Heinemann : 1960 (c.1959)

Edition: 1st U.K. edition

Seller ID: 24196

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Near Fine dj

[light shelfwear, minor spotting to edges of text block, one-time owner's name stamped on front pastedown; jacket is very nice, slightly browned at spine but otherwise unblemished]. Set in Los Angeles, this light-hearted novel deals with a novelist-screenwriter and his three unruly teenage daughters. Like his protagonist, the author was a science-fiction writer and sometime-screenwriter (his most notable credit was THE TIME MACHINE, but he was also responsible for such lower-grade fare as MONSTER ON THE CAMPUS and THE LEECH WOMAN) -- and according to his IMdB data, he had (wait for it....) t...
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Seeds of Destruction: Nationalist China in War and Revolution, 1937-1949

By: Eastman, Lloyd E.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Stanford CA, Stanford University Press : 1984

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 15181

ISBN-13: 9780804711913

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Near Fine dj

[moderate wear to book along top and bottom edges, slight deterioration of cloth on front cover, otherwise a solid clean book; jacket shows only slight wear along top edge]. "In this study based on a wide array of hitherto unused documentary sources, the author delves deeply into the inner workings of the Nationalist regime and concludes that the Nationalists collapsed largely as a result of their own failings. Most strikingly, he uses the records and memoirs of the Nationalists themselves to document the weaknesses of the Nationalist rule. ... He carefully scrutinizes the relationship ...
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Exit Sherlock Holmes: The Great Detective's Final Days

By: Hall, Robert Lee

Price: $15.00

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

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 27904

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Near Fine dj

[spine slightly turned, minor soiling to top edge, previous owner's name plus date & place of purchase and brief comment in ink on front endpaper; jacket shows some light surface wear, vertical surface-scratch at bottom of rear panel, minor wrinkling along top edge]. "This volume brings to light one of the most sensational secrets in the history of crime. Almost half a century ago, Dr. John H. Watson, lying close to death in a London hospital, composed what appears to be the final account of the career of Sherlock Holmes. Sealed in a tin dispatch box for the ensuing decades, it has been unc...
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The Nine-Hundred Block [SIGNED]

By: Haviland-Taylor, Katharine

Price: $85.00

Publisher: Philadelphia/London, J.B. Lippincott Company : 1932

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 26719

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Near Fine dj

[good sound copy, some soiling to top edges of covers, spine very slightly turned; the attractive jacket is lightly edgeworn, with some minor nicking at the extremities and spine ends, a short tear at the top front hinge, and tiny stain at the top edge of the front panel]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper: "For / Frances & Bill Thornton / with my very warm / good wishes / Katharine Haviland-Taylor." Novel about a young woman and her divorceé mother who move into an apartment house in a somewhat déclassé neighborhood, a development that provokes much conversation amongs...
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To Catch a Spy; a Toby Peters mystery

By: Kaminsky, Stuart M.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Carroll & Graf Publishers : 2002

Edition: 2nd printing

Seller ID: 26491

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Near Fine dj

[remainder stripe on top edge, otherwise just minimally worn, with slight bumping to lower corners; jacket shows a bit of surface rubbing, but no tears or chips]. Yet another of the prolific Kaminsky's series of Hollywood-history-themed screwball-mystery novels, in which detective Toby Peters is hired (yet again) by some iconic Tinseltown figure -- in this instance, Cary Grant, who in real life (according to an Author's Note) "had been working as a special agent for the British Intelligence Services" since the late 1930s -- a fact (or factoid) from which the author spins a tale, set in 1944, ...
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Cold Fear; new tales of terror

By: Lamb, Hugh, ed.

Price: $60.00

Publisher: London, W.H. Allen : 1977

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 28179

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Near Fine dj

[no significant shelfwear to book, light tanning to edges of text block, small light stain on fore-edge, tiny ink check-marks next to all titles in table of contents, one-time owner's initials plus date & place of purchase written in ink along edge of rear pastedown (concealed beneath rear jacket flap); the jacket is very nice, with just a touch of surface wear]. Contents: "Lullaby for a Baby Horror-story Writer" (by Marion Pitman); "In the Bag" (Ramsey Campbell); "The Music in the House" (Eleanor Inglefield); "In the Glow-zone" (Brian Lumley); "The Papal Magician" (Ken Alden); "Laura" (Robert...
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Condition: Very Good+ in Near Fine dj