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The Savage God: A Study of Suicide [SIGNED]

By: Alvarez, A.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Random House : (c.1972)

Edition: First American Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 20618

ISBN-13: 9780394474519

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj

[some discoloration to front pastedown and ffep, otherwise a solid clean book with very light shelfwear; jacket a little rubbed, with tiny closed tears at bottom corners of rear panel]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the ffep: "For Tom Doyle, / Thanks for a really stimulating / talk. / Best wishes / - Al Alvarez / L.A., May 16, 1972." The British poet/essayist/critic's best-known work, which "begins with a personal memoir of the young American poet Sylvia Plath and proceeds into a study of how she, and so many artists in the twentieth century, chose to die. The book explor...
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I Never Sang for My Father

By: Anderson, Robert

Price: $35.00

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 24441

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj

[a nice tight copy with no significant wear, downgraded a bit due only to some ink notes on the rear endpaper (a review copy, with original publisher's slip laid in); jacket has a few small closed edge-tears]. (B&W photographs) Drama about a widowed college professor and his troubled relationship with his aging father. The 1970 movie version, directed by Gilbert Cates, starred Gene Hackman and Melvyn Douglas. [NOTE: Although the book doesn't bear the typical Random House "First Printing" statement, it was (as noted) a review copy, so I assume the omission of the printing statement is...
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Legend of a Lady: The Story of Rita Martin

By: Andrews, Robert Hardy

Price: $60.00

Publisher: New York, Coward-McCann, Inc. : (c.1949)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 24161

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj

[modest wear to extremities, very light foxing to edges of text block; jacket moderately edgeworn]. Novel about an ambitious businesswoman, the "pretty, fragile Rita Martin, who beneath her charming exterior is hell-bent for personal success and who tramples with small, well-shod feet on all who stand in her way." The story is set against the background of "a high-powered advertising agency specializing in soap operas," a milieu the author knew as well as anybody: he wrote thousands of scripts for radio serials and soap operas from the early 1930s through the mid-1950s, while also finding tim...
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Turn Left or Be Killed

By: Ashbaugh, Nancy

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, The Vanguard Press : (c.1971)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 27307

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj

[a bit of soiling to bottom edges of covers and top edge of text block, small gouge in lower edge of text block; jacket tanned at spine, otherwise clean and attractive]. Novel about "an elegant black prostitute whose beliefs about her profession are as startling as are her looks [who] has managed to establish respectability in a small house in a white community bordering on Watts. ... It is only when the riots in Watts occur that Fiona must look behind the beige scarf so chicly tied beneath her chin and the silky clinging black raincoat that are her shields, to discover who she is and where s...
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The Second Ghost Book

By: Asquith, Cynthia, ed.

Price: $125.00

Publisher: London, James Barrie : 1952

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 27531

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj

[minor shelfwear, a bit of spotting on fore-edge and top edge of text block, former owner's name plus date & place of purchase in ink at top of front endpaper, ink and pencil check-marks next to all titles in table of contents; jacket has a couple of tiny tears/nicks at spine extremities, a bit of soiling to rear panel]. Twenty new stories are presented here, in the sixth of seven anthologies that Lady Asquith edited during her lifetime. Contents: "Captain Dalgety Returns" (Laurence Whistler); "Christmas Meeting" (Rosemary Timperley); "Danse Macabre" (L.A.G. Strong); "The Memoirs of a Ghost"...
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Footprints: An Autobiography

By: Astor, Brooke

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday & Company, Inc. : 1980

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 14521

ISBN-13: 9780385143776

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj

[very nice copy with no significant wear, would rate as Fine except for remainder spray to bottom edge; jacket shows light edgewear, minor soiling, a little scuffing near bottom of spine, unobtrusive one-inch closed tear at top front hinge]. (B&W photographs) Scarce memoir by the late Mrs. Astor (her second), recounting "her disastrous first marriage [to politician John Dryden Kuser]; her second [to Charles "Buddy" Marshall], a fairy-tale romance cut short by the early death of her husband; and her third, to Vincent Astor, one of the richest men in America." Thanks in large measure to outliv...
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A Life on Film

By: Astor, Mary

Price: $125.00

Publisher: New York, Delacorte Press : 1971

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 27791

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj

(price-clipped) [a bit of shelfwear to bottom edges of covers, otherwise a nice clean copy with no significant blemishes; the jacket is very lightly soiled, with a touch of fading along the spine and a single closed tear at the bottom of the front panel]. (B&W photographs) Memoirs of the actress/novelist, covering her film career from silent picture days through her appearance in HUSH, HUSH, SWEET CHARLOTTE in 1964. Introduction by Sumner Locke Elliott. Copies of the hardcover edition are getting increasingly hard to find (especially in decent condition), with even the paperback edition goin...
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Palace of Light

By: Atlas, Jacoba

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, E. P. Dutton : 1989

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 664

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj

[light shelfwear, one bent page corner; jacket a little rubbed but no tears or chips]. A love story set against the backdrop of labor unrest and the early days of the motion picture industry in Los Angeles. [Although this goes unmentioned in the jacket copy, the author did her college dissertation on the history of Hollywood labor unions, and is also the daughter of screenwriter Leopold Atlas, whose notable credits included THE STORY OF G.I. JOE (for which he received an Oscar nomination), and who was blacklisted for his political affiliations until he bowed to pressure from HUAC and became a...
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There Was Another

By: Ayres, Ruby M.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. : 1938

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 16070

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj

[good sound copy with only light shelfwear, spine a bit turned, dust-darkening to top edge, some offsetting to endpapers, original owner's signature on front pastedown; jacket a bit worn at edges, a handful of insignificant tears and wrinkles, light soiling]. "A story of the bondage of a girl to a shadow" -- or, less poetically, a romance novel about a young woman whose dreams of blissful future happiness with the dreamboat who's just proposed to her are rent asunder by the sudden and wholly unexpected reappearance of "the man she had married when she was only sixteen, with whom sh...
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Eyes of India

By: Baronti, Gervé

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, The Macaulay Company : (c.1925)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 18800

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj

[light wear to cloth at spine ends, a bit of dust-soiling to top edge, faint (mostly erased) pencil signature on ffep; jacket has one small closed tear at top of front panel, spine a bit color-shifted, minor surface wear]. "To call this really excellent novel the most accurate picture of Indian life to be published since Kipling introduced us to India is not to exaggerate. It is amazingly truthful, frank and honest -- and it presents the Eastern viewpoint with startling freshness," although "some there are who may not agree with its thesis." The author, per a New York Times ...
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The American Inquisition 1945-1960 [SIGNED]

By: Belfrage, Cedric

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Indianapolis/New York, The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc. : (c.1973)

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 26317

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj

[light wear to cloth at extremities and bottom edges of covers, a couple of small brown spots (tea?) on top of text block; jacket shows moderate wear at edges and extremities]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper: "for Elena and Jack Baskin / with love in San Francisco / Cedric Belfrage / Nov 1973." The author's very personal recounting of the political climate in the U.S. during the decade and a half following World War II. As a long-time lefty (and editor since 1948 of the National Guardian, the story of which he told in a later book, "Something to Guard"), he was even...
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Murder Without Make-up

By: Benjamin, Edla

Price: $150.00

Publisher: New York, Random House : (c.1940)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 22673

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj

[a nice clean book, light shelfwear, spine just a bit turned; jacket moderately faded along spine, otherwise colorful and attractive with minor wear only]. Quite uncommon murder mystery about a killing that occurs on opening night of a Broadway play and "involves, before its solution, the most important figures in the whole production -- the rich producer, equally famous in New York and Hollywood, the titled and fabulously clever author, the beautiful star herself, and all the lesser members of the cast and backstage crew." According to the jacket blurb, the author came "from a family that h...
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Janie

By: Bentham, Josephine

Price: $250.00

Publisher: New York, Dial Press : (c.1940)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 18016

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj

[slight bumping to several corners, tiny stain on bottom of text block, one-time owner's signature on top of front pastedown; jacket is quite nice, with just a bit of wear at the spine ends]. A weirdly "lost" novel about "a real American girl -- her magnificent day-dreams, her jealous boyfriends, her strange enthusiasms, her searing disappointments, her tolerant but puzzled parents." Let me explain the "lost" business. A movie called JANIE was released by Warner Bros. in 1944; it starred Joyce Reynolds, then a 19-year-old ingenue whose career subsequently went nowhere (although, to be fair,...
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Milton Berle: An Autobiography [SIGNED]

By: Berle, Milton, with Haskel Frankel

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Delacorte Press : (c.1974)

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 26582

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj

[good solid copy, a bit of shelfwear to bottom edge; jacket nice and clean, some shallow chipping at top of rear panel, long vertical crease in front flap]. (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the front endpaper: "For 'Fritzi', / a Wonderful gal / and a great Performer / With deep appreciation / and Love / Milton." The "startling" autobiography of the TV icon, who never let the facts get in the way of a good story. (For starters, consider his bogus claim that his showbiz career was kicked off at the age of 5 when he won a children's Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest -- in 1913, the ...
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In Defense of Children

By: Beverly, Bert I., M.D.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, The John Day Company : (c.1941)

Edition: 10th printing

Seller ID: 25841

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj

[minor shelfwear, tiny dent in top edge of rear cover; jacket is lightly soiled, a bit age-tanned along the spine, tiny tear at top of spine]. (decorations) Vintage, pre-Dr. Spock child-raising advice manual. "Here at last is a book on the rearing of children, from birth through adolescence, by one who is eminent both as a psychologist and as a physician. He declares that mental health can be assured at birth to all babies who are normal at birth (and nearly all of them are) and whose parents have before them a clear picture of growth and development and carry out a few general principles." ...
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Never Go Back; a novel without a plot

By: Boas, George

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York/London, Harper & Brothers : 1928

Edition: 1st Edition (G-C)

Seller ID: 23599

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj

[moderate wear to spine ends, spine slightly turned, small previous owner's signature and date on ffep; jacket somewhat age-toned, shallow chipping to base of spine]. "A pungent satire of university life," the first (and only) novel by the noted American historian of philosophy, who over a long and distinguished academic career (primarily at Johns Hopkins University, from 1921 to 1956) wrote over a dozen books, including "The Inquiring Mind," "The Limits of Reason" and "Vox Populi." Boas received his education primarily at Brown University and UC-Berkeley (earning his Ph.D. at the latter in ...
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Nearer the Earth

By: Borst, Beatrice

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, Random House : (c.1942)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 22539

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj

[light shelfwear, a touch of foxing to cloth at edges of covers and along hinges; jacket bright and attractive, slight wear to base of spine, small closed tear at bottom front hinge]. This "story of a well-bred girl's coming of age" was that years winner of the Avery Hopwood Award, which has been presented at/by the University of Michigan since the early 1930s. The New York Times critic, altough noting that the book was "a far cry from the brash and earthy realism" of the previous year's winner, Maritta Wolff's "Whistle Stop," praised it as "an earnest and sincere chronicle of the life of [it...
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Blaze Allan

By: Bos Ross, Lillian

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, Grosset & Dunlap : (c.1944)

Edition: Reprint

Seller ID: 25169

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj

[good sound copy (albeit of a cheaply-manufactured book), tiny nick in cloth near top of rear hinge; jacket is lightly edgeworn, and has an old price sticker adhered to the upper corner of the front flap]. Novel set in the Big Sur country of California, about a young woman who rebels against her father's attempt to marry her off to a "dull [and] somehow repulsive" fellow, spurred on by her meeting a "courteous, handsome young Scandinavian, newly come to the Coast." A sequel to the author's 1942 novel "The Stranger," this is often referenced as the second installment in her multigenerational ...
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My Next Bride

By: Boyle, Kay

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company : (c.1934)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 25044

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj

[minor shelfwear, spine cloth faded, some fading to cloth around edges of covers; jacket a little darkened at spine, minor wear to bottom corners]. An early work by Boyle (her fourth published novel), "the story of an American girl who drifts from the middle west to New York, and finally to Paris, in her search for life as well as for a living. It is the story of her first experiences in love and what they bring her to. . . . Unlike other books about American exiles, this story is filled with a nostalgia and longing for American voices and words and substances as well as for the American scen...
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The New Populism: The Politics of Empowerment

By: Boyte, Harry C., and Frank Riessman, eds.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Temple University Press : 1986

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 14699

ISBN-13: 9780877224297

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj

[nice tight copy, minor shelfwear to bottom edge, faint soiling to top page edges; jacket shows a bit of wear at extremities, one tiny tear at top right-hand corner of front panel, light soiling to rear panel]. A "highly charged collection of essays, speeches, and interviews examining the impact of populism in the 1980s," at a time when it appeared as though this "movement could change the face of American democracy." Wonder how that worked out? Contributors include Studs Terkel, Robert Coles, Jim Hightower, Barbara Mikulski, Tom Harkin, Ernesto Cortes, and Cornel West .
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