New York: The Macaulay Company. Very Good+ in Good dj. 1924 (c.1923). "Special Popular Edition". Hardcover Nineteenth Printing. NOISBN . [nice solid book, square and tight, minimal shelfwear, light age-toning to page edges; jacket rubbed, several chips (including top spine corners with partial loss of title)]. The "Screen Edition," a tie-in with the 1923 silent film of the same name, which starred quintessential flapper Colleen Moore "as the winsome Patricia Fentriss" (it ... more information

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New York: Boni and Liveright. Very Good in Good dj. (c.1928). First Edition. Hardcover. NOISBN . [spine slightly turned, a little deterioration to cloth along front hinge, light shelfwear to bottom edge, vintage bookseller's label on ffep (The Studio Book Shop, Birmingham, Alabama); jacket worn and soiled, with paper loss at both ends of spine, additional chipping along top and bottom edges, various small tears, rubbing, etc.; still attractive, but it's seen better days]. A story of student li... more information

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Garden City NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc.. Near Fine in Very Good dj. 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. [small star stamped on ffep, else a flawless copy; DJ soiled, chipped/dog-eared at spine extremities, spine a bit discolored]. Novel about a big-time TV star, the enormously popular host of a daytime network talk/variety show, who had once been an ambitious young writer. Flashback chapters show how he went wrong. . ... more information

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Los Angeles: Wilshire House. (c.1988). First Edition. Hardcover. [nice copy, with just a slight bump to the bottom rear corner; faint wear to jacket at a couple of corners]. "...a moral fable set in a slyly portrayed amoral world, peopled with the archetypes beloved in Hollywood. This wicket romp through the machinations of ambition is set in a skewed Los Angeles circa 1963. Judd Haber, the agent's agent, a far-from-perfect Everyman, is estranged from his past (his name used to be Jacob Haber), ... more information

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Fresno CA: Academy Guild Press. Good in Very Good dj. (c.1962). First Edition. Hardcover. NOISBN . [a solid copy, but Good only due to some rust-colored staining along both hinges, wear to top edge of boards (almost as if the book had been shelved upside-down for a long time; boards exposed at a couple of points), top 1/8" of the spine is missing, pages browned; the jacket is moderately edgeworn, split (2") at bottom front foldover, mild diagonal crease along bottom of front panel, top quarte... more information

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New York: Simon and Schuster. Near Fine in Fine dj. (c.1997). First Edition. Hardcover. 0-684-83084-1 . [covers bowed slightly outward, top front corner bumped]. A mystery novel set in 1950's Hollywood, in which "Carson Drury" (read Orson Welles) attempts to buy back the rights to his failed second film, " The Imperial Albertsons," in order to re-shoot the original ending and restore his tarnished reputation. . ... more information

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London: The Salvation Army. Near Fine. 1983. Uncorrected proofs. Softcover. 0-85412-425-X . [tight and clean, minimal handling wear]. Trade PB . ... more information

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London: Samuel Tinsley. Good+. 1873 (1875). Later Printing (see note). Hardcover. (decorated red cloth w/gilt spine decoration and lettering; no dust jacket) [moderately worn at all edges and corners, rear hinge starting; boards a little grubby but internally very clean; vintage label on front pastedown with a verse about the lending of books ("If thou art borrow'd by a friend" etc.)]. A compendium of humorous or otherwise unusual gravestone inscriptions, in verse form. The author, in hi... more information

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New York: Macmillan Publishing Company. (c.1985). First Edition. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [minor shelfwear, very light browning to page edges, some smudging at bottom of ffep; jacket very lightly edgeworn, no tears or chips]. (B&W photographs) "The riveting, nonstop story of how the international art world -- once the stuffy preserve of the privileged few -- became a glamorous, high-stakes corporate arena. From Lord Duveen, the fabled dealer who sold old masters to J.P. Morgan and Andrew M... more information

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Garden City NY: Doubleday & Co.. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. 0-385-17628-7 . [clean/tight/unread, minimal shelfwear to bottom edge, bookstore name/address stamped on ffep; jacket bright and attractive, mild wear along top edge, one tiny closed tear at base of spine, another at bottom of rear panel, fainti soiling to rear panel]. "A haunting novel of fantasy and horror, [the novel] tells the story of six members of a carnival sideshow, victims of fate and of their... more information

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New York: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday. 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. [beautiful copy, the slightest trace of dust-soiling to top edge, otherwise appears unread; jacket bright and attractive, with only very slight wrinkling at spine ends]. "Oriana Fallaci's great achievement, a twentieth-century epic about the catastrophic civil war in Lebanon." Jacket blurb quotes critical comparisons with Hemingway and Malraux. (Originally published in Italy in 1990; the translation is by Fallaci herself, &... more information

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New York: Simon and Schuster. (c.1976). 1st (U.S.) edition. Hardcover. [book itself is nice and clean, with no significant shelfwear; jacket shows light surface wear, one-inch closed tear and associated diagonal crease at top of rear panel, tiny puncture-tear at left side of front panel, possible uneven color-shifting to front panel]. Novel by the late Italian journalist-author, a "brilliant and provocative" work presented in the form of a woman's interior monologue during her pregnancy -- a... more information

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New York: Liveright. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. (c.1976). 2nd printing. Hardcover. 0-87140-590-3 . [nice clean copy, light shelfwear to bottom edge; jacket shows light surface wear, minor wrinkling near bottom of rear panel]. The noted journalist's "direct witness to fourteen figures of contemporary history": Henry Kissinger, Nguyen Van Thieu, General Giap, Golda Meir, Yasir Arafat, Hussein of Jordan, Indira Gandhi, Ali Bhutto, Willy Brandt, Pietro Nenni, Mohammed Riza Pahlavi (the Shah ... more information

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London: Hamish Hamilton/St. George's. Near Fine in Very Good dj. 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. 0-241-10086-0 . [minimal shelfwear, previous owner's name on ffep; jacket lightly surface worn, surface peeling away a little at base of spine, short diagonal crease at bottom of front flap]. Ten stories, ranging in subject from spinsters to good time girls, from dogs to politicians. . ... more information

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New York: The Viking Press. Very Good. 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [moderately shelfworn, binding solid, light spotting to top edge, light finger-smudges on a few pages, slight fading to spine cloth, ownership signature of novelist Martin Dibner on ffep]. (chapter head drawings) Fante's third book, a collection of his (as usual) rather nakedly autobiographical short stories, thirteen interrelated tales centered around family life in an Italian-American community. Includes &q... more information

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Garden City NY: Sun Dial Press. Good in Poor dj. 1943. Reprint. Hardcover. [book covers somewhat soiled, faint water-stain on top edge (interior not affected); jacket heavily worn, missing two 1"x1" chunks at spine]. . ... more information

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Garden City NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc.. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. [beautiful copy, the tiniest bump/nick to cloth at rear bottom corner of spine; jacket has the teensiest trace of soiling to the front panel, but essentially appears almost brand-new]. (A Double D Western) Series "It was an ironic twist of fate that put the life of Walsh Camden in Del Kittridge's hands. Camden had been a good friend of Del's father until a bitter quarrel turned friend... more information

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New York: Rinehart & Company, Inc.. Very Good in Very Good dj. (c.1960). First Edition. Hardcover. NOISBN . [solid copy with full-page gift inscription (non-authorial) on ffep (see notes), light browning to page edges (typical with this title), very slight scrunching to bottom corners of a few pages, signs that the front hinge may have been glue-repaired (not by me); jacket moderately rubbed/edgeworn, one small white scrape near bottom right-hand corner of front panel, short closed tear at bottom f... more information

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New York: The Trident Press. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj. 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. [good solid copy, minor edge-soiling; jacket shows a little wear at edges/corners, a couple of tiny tears at top front panel]. Ambitious novel about a fundamentalist Southern preacher who uses the power of radio to become the head of a nationwide revivalist movement. . ... more information

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New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. (c.1962). First Edition. Hardcover. [nice solid copy, minor soiling to page edges, spine very slightly turned; jacket mildly soiled, spine a little sunned, chipping at bottom of front flap]. "A shocking novel of broken medical ethics and a doctor's family whose search for love explodes into violence and adultery." . ... more information

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