Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dj

Motif: A Journal of the Visual Arts (No. 2, February 1959)

By: (McLean, Ruari, ed.)

Price: $35.00

Publisher: London, The Shenval Press Ltd : 1958

Edition: (No. 1)

Seller ID: 25520

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dj

[paper-covered boards are nice and clean, just a bit of bumping/browning along the edges, very faint musty odor to book, a bit of foxing on the last page; the original clear acetate dust jacket is present and in fairly nice condition, although wrinkled and a bit shrunken (it's now about 1/4" shorter than the book itself at both the top and bottom edges)] (B&W photographs, B&W and color graphics) The second issue of this somewhat pretentious hardcover publication, with an admitted bias towards the graphic arts. Included in this number: a feature on recent wood-engravings by Joan Hassall; an ar...
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The Short Term

By: Baker, Arthur

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Duell, Sloan & Pearce : (c.1948)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 10503

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dj

[good solid copy, mild shelfwear, light tanning to page edges and endpapers; jacket sunned at spine, minor edgewear/chipping along top/bottom edges, a bit of paper loss (no text affected) at spine ends, one-inch closed tear near bottom left-hand corner of front panel]. "The story of a small town going to judgment," centering around a murder trial and its effect on a community.
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War in Heaven

By: Barry, Philip

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Coward-McCann : (c.1938)

Edition: 2nd impression

Seller ID: 22960

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dj

[a decent solid copy, light soiling and age-tanning to edges of text block, light shelfwear, old tape marks on endpapers; the jacket has some shallow chipping and a couple of small tears along top edge, and appears to have been slightly trimmed along the top and bottom edges (since it's about 3/16" shorter than the book itself)]. The noted playwright's only novel, about "one memorable evening in the lives of a number of vaudeville artists." He also adapted the book for a dramatic version, "Here Come the Clowns," which opened on Broadway in December 1938; although it wasn'...
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Hollywood's Hollywood: The Movies About the Movies

By: Behlmer, Rudy, and Tony Thomas

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Secacus NJ, The Citadel Press : (c.1975)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 28062

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dj

[modest shelfwear to bottom edge (bumping and slight cracking to lower corners), otherwise a nice clean book; the jacket has suffered some chipping along the top edge, notably at the spine extremities, and a long diagonal tear in the rear panel has been neatly tape-mended]. (B&W photographs) A comprehensive survey of "the many films which have dealt with the motion picture colony, its inhabitants, myths, scandals, mysteries, melodramas, musicals, romances and even Westerns about the making of Westerns." It's interesting to have a look at the final chapter, "Prevues of Coming Attractions," an...
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Little Big Man

By: Berger, Thomas

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, The Dial Press : (c.1964)

Edition: Book Club Edition

Seller ID: 26921

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dj

[good sound book, modest shelfwear to bottom edges of covers, one-time owner's name written in upper corner of half-title page; jacket shows some wear at edges and extremities, with some wrinkling to the front panel, and has a short diagonal closed tear at the bottom corner of the rear panel]. (endpaper maps) Berger's Western burlesque, purporting to be "the reminiscences -- dictated at the ripe age of 111 -- of one Jack Crabb -- plainsman, Indian scout, gunfighter, buffalo hunter, bunco schemer and renegade squaw man. Cynical and unscrupulous, yet also a sentimental idealist, Jack Crabb alte...
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Smoky Waters

By: Berry, Raymond A.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Macrae Smith Company : 1935

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 28041

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dj

[minor shelfwear to book, "Lauderdale's" rubber-stamped on front endpaper and rear pastedown; the jacket is quite decent-looking, despite some staining to the spine panel, modest shelfwear and minor paper loss along the bottom edge, and a weird patching job, with the top inch-and-a-half of the spine panel missing but replaced NOT with a photocopy of that section of the spine panel but rather a photocopy of the spine of the book, which is not even the same color as the covers of this book; it does, however, show the title and the author's name, so it's not unpleasing -- just weird]. "A swiftly...
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Goodbye, I Guess [SIGNED]

By: Blankfort, Michael

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Simon and Schuster : 1962

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 24752

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dj

[light shelfwear to bottom edges, spine moderately turned; jacket shows wear at edges and corners, some scuffing to front panel, dog-earing at top of spine, tiny tear and associated creasing at bottom of front panel]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the title page to fellow screenwriter Daniel Taradash: "To Dan / for the many lunches; / the good talk; the years / that passed too swiftly / Mike / December 1962." Blurbed as "an elegy on the many kinds of love: first, last, normal, abnormal, and -- impossible," this novel, set primarily in Beverly Hills and Paris, "chall...
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Blood and Sand [movie tie-in edition]

By: Blasco Ibaez, Vicente

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Grosset & Dunlap : [1941] (c1919, 1922)

Edition: Madison Square Books (reprint)

Seller ID: 22838

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dj

[light shelfwear, previous owner's name rather clumsily inked out at top of ffep; jacket shows wear and tiny tears at several corners, spine a little faded, internally tape-repaired tear at top of spine, a little scuffing to front panel, wrinkling/creasing at top of rear panel]. (photographic dust jacket) Tie-in for the second (1941) movie version of Blasco Ibaez's classic novel of the rise and fall of a great matador, beautifully Technicolored by director Rouben Mamoulian for 20th Century-Fox. And speaking of color, have you ever seen a REDDER dust jacket in your whole life, to say nothing o...
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The Shoestring Symphony

By: Broekman, David

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Simon and Schuster : 1948

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 16096

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dj

(price-clipped) [solid clean copy, bumped at bottom corners but no other significant wear, attractive (if generic) bookplate with previous owner's signature on ffep; jacket shows wear at edges and corners, a few small tears, shallow chipping at spine ends, tiny piece missing at bottom right-hand corner of front panel, considerable fading to spine (where the title is almost unreadable)]. Interesting Hollywood not-quite-novel (although the front panel of the jacket calls it "a novel," I have in the past seen a contemporary disclaimer issued by the publisher, averring that it was in fact...
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A Preface to Maturity

By: Brousseau, Jule

Price: $65.00

Publisher: New York, Thomas Y. Crowell Company : (c.1935)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 21989

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dj

[good sound copy, minor shelfwear, some fading to cloth at spine ends, one-time owner's name/address stamped on top edge, fore-edge and ffep; jacket edgeworn, with various small nicks and tears, a bit of paper loss at both ends of spine, some surface-scraping to front panel, shallow chip at bottom of rear panel]. Novel about a young woman from Weehawken, New Jersey, who finds her only pleasure in music. Escaping from home (and a domineering mother), she attends Columbia University, and subsequently tries to "find herself" while making a precarious living in New York. The New York Ti...
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Thorstein Veblen and His America

By: Dorfman, Joseph

Price: $150.00

Publisher: New York, The Viking Press : 1934

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 27852

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dj

[a nice clean book, vintage bookplate on front pastedown, no significant shelfwear but a couple of tiny faded spots on spine cloth due to small chips and holes in the jacket spine; the jacket is moderately edgeworn, ragged tear at upper front flap-fold (but with only minimal paper loss), considerable browning to the spine (where there is also some shallow paper loss at both ends, a horizontal crack (with a tiny missing piece) mid-spine and another even tinier missing piece a little lower down)]. (B&W photo frontispiece) The first biography of this enormously influential Norwegian-American econ...
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Devil's Food

By: Grant, Dorothy Fremont

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Longmans, Green & Company : (c.1949)

Edition: Second Edition

Seller ID: 9493

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dj

[good solid copy, minor shelfwear, some dust-darkening to top edge; jacket shows wear at edges and corners, chips at top of spine corners (unfortunately affecting author's name), small chips at top/bottom edges of rear panel]. The author, the wife of artist Douglas Grant (the jacket designer for this book), has written "a fast-paced, moving novel of modern youth," which follows a young Manhattan woman who wins a radio contest and receives a scholarship to a "progressive" college in upstate New York. She "breaks away from home and family to live her own life," which bri...
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The Prettiest Politician

By: Hall, Caryl

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Funk & Wagnalls : (c.1968)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 24967

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dj

[a bit of wear to extremities, but generally a solid clean book; jacket has small bits of paper loss at spine corners, light soiling to rear panel, diagonal tear (internally repaired) and associated creasing at bottom right corner of rear panel]. Juvie fiction about a young college student blessed with "remarkable beauty," but who's determined to make her own way in the world rather than relying on her father's name and wealth, or on her good looks. She gets involved in a political campaign, but "rebels at the dull routine work that she is given. Then the party's handsome candidate, Richard...
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'Ye Drunken Damozel': The Tavern in the Folly

By: Jesty, Simon

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, Harrison Smith & Robert Haas : 1932

Edition: First American Edition

Seller ID: 22412

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dj

[moderately shelfworn, light-colored staining along front joint; jacket has paper loss at several corners, various small nicks and tears, some soiling and age-darkening to rear panel]. Somewhat phantasmagorical novel about a young fellow, the bastard son of a sailor, who grows up in a grimy quayside London cul-de-sac and falls in love with a "slum-sprite" girl whose lowlife father runs the titular pub. Returning some years later from military service, he finds that she's run off and become a celebrated chanteuse; he tracks her down to Rio, but she denies her younger identity, which of...
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A Pedlar's Pack

By: Kenney, Rowland

Price: $150.00

Publisher: New York, Thomas Seltzer : [1924]

Edition: First American Edition

Seller ID: 26935

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dj

[good sound copy, light shelfwear, vintage bookseller's ticket (Dr. Henry Goldman / Fine Books / Los Angeles) on rear pastedown; jacket has minor chipping at spine ends, slight fading to spine, modest wear and very shallow paper loss along bottom edge]. Sixteen short, punchy stories by this British journalist and diplomat (1882-1961), who spent much of his young life as an itinerant manual laborer ("navvy" in British slang), an experience that gave him ample material for these tales of "grim humor and unholy violence." "London, Manchester, Liverpool; the docks, yards and mills; the dens and ...
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"On the Night of the 18th..."

By: Meynell, Laurence W.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York/London, Harper & Brothers : (c.1936)

Edition: 1st Edition (L-M)

Seller ID: 28047

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dj

[slight bumping to lower corners, spine just a bit turned, former owner's initials plus date & place of purchase in ink at edge of rear pastedown (concealed beneath rear jacket flap); the jacket is modestly edgeworn, with a small tear-hole in the middle of the spine, and the lower corner of the front flap clipped and torn away (no loss of text)]. Scotland Yard is called in following the violent death (probable murder) of a much-disliked resident of a little English town. "Burdett had owned most of the village. He had also owned a fair number of the village wives. He had made life miserable...
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Thunder in Their Veins: A Memoir of Mexico

By: Moats, Leone B.; edited by Russell Lord

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York/London, The Century Co. : (c.1932)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 28153

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dj

[modest shelfwear, slight bumping to several corners, some light spotting/soiling to top edge of text block; the jacket is edgeworn, nearly split along the rear hinge with a horizontal tear across the middle of the spine, with some paper losses at the extremities, a 2-inch closed tear and associated diagonal creasing at the bottom right corner of the front panel, and a couple of other small tears and edge-nicks]. (B&W photographs, endpaper maps) An "unaffected memoir of revolutionary and modern Mexico," by a wealthy and socially prominent American woman whose husband was in the lumber business...
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A Time to Keep

By: Neagoë, Peter

Price: $75.00

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

Edition: Unstated edition (possible BCE)

Seller ID: 27847

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dj

[light bumping to a couple of corners, faint dust-soiling to top of text block; jacket is age-toned, spine faded (title is almost unreadable), minor paper loss at several corners, one small closed tear and associated short diagonal crease at top edge of front panel]. Uncommon memoir about the author's happy childhood in his native village in Transylvania. "This is the richly-rewarding day-to-day happenings in the village; of the legends handed down through the generations; of peasant wisdom and human passion; and above all, the story of a family remembered with love." Most of the author's w...
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Along the Yangtze River, and Stories Retold

By: Newman, Lucy Wheeler

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Boston, The Christopher Publishing House : (c.1937)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 28121

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dj

[modest shelfwear, some offsetting/discoloration to endpapers; jacket is a bit edgeworn, slightly faded at spine, tiny piece missing at lower right corner of front panel, big chunk torn out of the front jacket flap (on which there is no text)]. "A collection of wholly charming stories, of anecdotes told from the personal experience of the author, and bearing the impress of her own delight in living through the unique events of which she tells. The stories that she has retold, are the merest handful from China's store of legends and stories, preserved in art, drama, song, and poetry; and furt...
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Between the Covers

By: Owen, Frank

Price: $200.00

Publisher: New York, The Macaulay Company : (c.1938)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 25839

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dj

[book shows a bit of wear at spine ends and corners, but generally a good solid clean copy; the jacket has a bit of shallow chipping along both the top and bottom edges, with some associated creasing to the upper edge and lower right corner of the front panel; NOTE that the jacket is also split (separated) along the front hinge, but has been provisionally mended with two strips of removable tape, which will not preclude a future professional repair; it is additionally reinforced with a new mylar jacket protector]. A very presentable copy of this scarce bibliotale, which is of great appeal to ...
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Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dj