[creasing/wrinkling at all corners and along spine, otherwise a decent copy, internally clean]. (B&W photographs) "Special Sexuality Issue," featuring a long article by David Madden, "Marble Goddesses and Mortal Flesh: Notes for an Erotic Memoir of the Forties." Also: articles by Harry M. Geduld, Lawrence Becker, and others; an examination of the films of Ken Russell, by Jack Fisher; poetry by Annabelle Hebert and Fred Chappell; a feature on MAD Magazine movie satires (reproducing individual frames from various satires, with themes relating to sexuality). View More...
[pages tanned but not brittle, typical edgewear to yapped covers, about 2" loss of paper covering at top of spine, light soiling to rear cover]. (pen and ink illustrations) Complete short novel: "Behind the Curtain," a Mr. Strang story (Carroll John Daly). Short stories: "Shot with Indigo" (H.W. Guernsey); "The Nervous Corpse" (Allen Saunders); "Clue of the Hard-Boiled Eggs" (Edward Parrish Ware); "Dead Line" (Irma Benjamin). Serial: "The Eel Walks," Part 2 of 2 (Joel Townsley Rogers). True stories: "Illustrated Crimes: The Jealous Killers of Glendale, N.Y." (about Ernest and Marie Vetter) (... View More...
[typical edgewear to yapped covers (tiny nicks, bends, etc.), pages tanned but not brittle, small ragged (but closed) horizontal tear at left edge of front cover, some soiling/staining to rear cover (pen and ink illustrations) Novelette: "Death Follows the Rat," a Twist Sullivan story (Carroll John Daly). Short stories: "Bright Copper!" (Roland Phillips); "Stormy Night" (Edward Parrish Ware); "The Edge of the Blade" (Eugene P. Lyle, Jr.). Serial: "Wanted for Murder," Part 2 of 5 (Hulbert Footner). True stories: "Broadway Wolf," Part 3 of 6 (No. "000"); "Illustrated Crimes: The Six-Years Man... View More...
[clean copy with modest edgewear, a number of deep scratch lines in both front and rear covers; no subscription label]. (B&W/color photographs) First issue of the AFI's magazine, which made a noble try at bringing a mixture of journalism and pop film scholarship/history to the masses, but ultimately faded into mediocrity before biting the bullet in the 1990s, when it was superseded by flashier and more celebrity-centric publications like "Premiere." This issue had a cover feature story on the production of ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN, and also featured articles by Samuel Fuller ("News That's Fit ... View More...
(no dust jacket) [moderately shelfworn copy, with numerous abrasions to cloth along top and bottom edges of both covers, some wear at spine ends, modest bumping at all corners, some discoloration in gutters]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the ffep: "To Robert Rainer[?] / With kindest regards / Frederick Hazlitt Brennan / Santa Ana, Jan. 4, 1944." One of the odder novels you'll ever run across -- as one contemporary reviewer described it, "a singularly unclassifiable mixture of whimsey, dullness, vulgarity and illuminating thought." It's kind of a fantasy-satire in which the title cha... View More...
[some age-toning at edges of covers and along spine, small bump and slight tear at lower front hinge, a couple of short diagonal creases at bottom right corner of front cover, long faint diagonal crease at top corner of rear cover, stamped on both covers (and once inside) "IMPORTANT! RETURN Story Dept." (but without specifying what entity's Story Dept.), a number of pencil annotations in the margins of Act One]. Comedy of manners about a romantic triangle. The original production starred Leslie Howard (who also co-produced), and marked his return to Broadway after his intial foray in Hollywoo... View More...
[some visible wear along edges and spine, short diagonal crease at top corner of rear cover]. Trade PB INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the playwright on the half-title page: "for ___ & _____ / with love from / Caroline / Christmas 1981." (Also laid in is a Christmas card from the playwright, with a brief note to the recipients.) "A free adaptation of Aristophanes' comedy which follows the spirit of the original but is far more than a mere translation. It is a light-hearted play with plenty of action, humour, and a happy ending! The cast can number as few as forty or as many as a hundre... View More...
(no dust jacket) [moderately worn copy, dust-soiling and age-toning to page edges, hinges a little weak but still fully intact, 1928 birthday gift inscription on half-title page; paper label on front cover is soiled but intact, but the corresponding spine label is a bit chipped, is peeling off a little at one corner, and has faded almost to the point of unreadability]. Novel about an English schoolboy, following him from early boyhood in India to later adolescence in England. According to a contemporary reviewer, the reader "is able to overlook the steady volley of English slang, the cut-... View More...
(no dust jacket) [a bit of soiling to covers, spine slightly turned, small black mark on top edge of text block, front hinge cracked but not split, light foxing to ffep]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the ffep: "To His Grace, Eddie, / Duke of Collinsville / with the compliments / of the author / Lucian Cary / December 23, 1930." Comic novel about a young prizefighter who decides to return to college, partly to please his wealthy parents and partly to win the heart of a co-ed for whom he's fallen hard. Originally published serially in The Saturday Evening Post (August 4 - Sept... View More...
[not too much wear, but the spine unfortunately has been repaired/reinforced with (shudder) masking tape]. (American Guide Series) Series (B&W photographs, map) Very scarce entry in the American Guide series. "Nauvoo is one of the most important places associated with the history of the middle west, and indeed of America. In its own right, present-day Nauvoo is exceptionally interesting and picturesque." In the 1840s it was the largest city in Illinois, and notable as the center of Mormonism; among its chief attractions are the Joseph Smith Homestead and the Brigham Young House. View More...
(dark green buckram; no dust jacket) [a decent, solid copy, with moderate overall wear, slight exposure of boards at several corners, gilt spine lettering somewhat dulled but still fully readable, light foxing to pages throughout; gift inscription from the year of publication on ffep (see notes), another former owner's signature on first page of Preface]. First edition of what became the standard history of the laying of the trans-Atlantic telegraph cable, which had actually happened in three stages: the first cable, laid between Ireland and Newfoundland from 1854 to 1858, failed after just t... View More...
(no dust jacket) [solid copy, mild soiling to page edges, moderately bumped/worn at corners, small tear in binding at top of spine, previous owner's signature on front pastedown]. View More...
(no dust jacket) [possible ex-library, although the only sign of it is the remnant of a painted label near the base of the spine; moderate exterior wear, previous owner's signature on front pastedown, attractive vintage bookplate on ffep, informational stamp about royalties at bottom of title page]. (B&W photo frontispiece, 2 B&W plates) Comedy by the author of "The Criminal Code." Contains "Instead of a Preface," by Barrett H. Clark, presented in the form of a letter to the author, summarizing his career. View More...
(no dust jacket) [solid copy with firm binding; some bumping/fraying to bottom edges, light fraying at top of spine, a couple of light beverage rings on front cover]. The author's first and only novel, a sea-going tale which served as the basis for the silent feature film of the same name, directed by Henry King for Inspiration Pictures in 1923. Goulding, an actor-turned-scenarist, went on to a notable career as a director beginning in 1925. View More...
(no dust jacket) [front hinge cracked but not separated, some bumping/softening at corners, slight fraying (exposure of board) at top front corner]. (47 color + 459 B&W photos/illustrations) A largely pictorial survey (with all text and captions in German) of the American theatre and cinema scene of the day. Following short introductory essays of about 50 pages each (Gregor on the theatre, Flp-Miller on the movies), the remaining two-thirds of the book (about 225 pages) is devoted to illustrations, usually no more than two to a page. Many are photographs, but a substantial number (particula... View More...
[edgewear and minor surface abrasions to covers, tiny ink mark on bottom edge, bumping to spine extremities, former owner's name in ink on inside front cover; text is clean and unmarked]. Trade PB (B&W photographs, graphics) From the Preface: "This book is conceived as a collection of Autonomous Works on the apparatus of cinema. The intention is to identify the individual components and complete film apparatus, the interdependent operations comprising the 'film, the author of the film, the spectator.'" (And that's just the opening paragraph; it gets denser.) Contents: "Upon Leaving the Movi... View More...
[externally scuffed and shelfworn, short diagonal crease at bottom corner of rear cover, remainder stripes on top and bottom edges of text block; internally clean, binding solid]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) A pioneering and indispensible work of early film history. The author brought a professional historian's discipline and reliance on original sources to a field which prior to that time had consisted almost entirely of anecdotal histories and self-serving memoirs, riddled with distortions and inaccuracies which went unchallenged, and yet were woven into the fabric of future histories of th... View More...
(pictorial cloth; no dust jacket) [front hinge starting, minor bumping and light wear at extremities, tiny shallow dent at bottom edge of front cover, "Fairview Farm / M.M. Norton / Garrettsville, Ohio" stamped on ffep]. (frontispiece + 7 b/w plates) Novel about an almost-35-year-old woman who travels to Russia in the 1890s as part of a group of eight tourists (all women), and re-connects with a man who had been her teacher years ago, and on whom she'd had a bit of a crush (and vice versa). This being Czarist Russia, it's inevitable that she gets mixed up with nihilists -- nihilists!... View More...
(no dust jacket) [a good sound copy with only modest shelfwear, although the yellow-cloth binding has picked up enough light soiling over its lifetime to give the book a somewhat grubby external appearance; faint bookseller's rubber-stamp (Bertrand Smith's Acres of Books, Long Beach, Calif.) on front pastedown]. Novel, set largely in the early years of 20th century Spain, about an acclaimed young matador who kills a man in a fight over a woman, subsequently escapes from prison and wanders the country as a fugitive before finding refuge with a nun. One contemporary reviewer stated that "one f... View More...
(no dust jacket) [gilt lettering on spine and front cover still bright; book has absorbed some moisture at some point, as there is dampstaining on the front cover and at the margins of both endpapers and pastedowns, and the book itself is a bit bowed; aside from that, however, this is a good solid copy, internally quite clean; there is a bit of damage (splitting) to part of the internal front hinge, but no separation, and the binding is completely intact]. (B&W photographs, diagrams) Very scarce early photography volume, printed in London (per a statement at the back of the book) despite the N... View More...
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