Englewood Cliffs NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc.. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj. 1971 (c.1970). 2nd printing. Hardcover. 0-13-752527-3 . [bottom corner bumped, a couple of small stains at bottom edge of rear cover; jacket a little worn at extremities, short closed tear and associated crease at bottom front hinge, very light soiling to rear panel]. (B&W photographs) Autobiography of the Italian slum kid who battles his way, in and out of the ring, to get to the top of the fight game -- and never quite makes ... more information

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New York/London: New York University Press. (c.1980). First Edition. Softcover. [moderately worn copy, bumping at top corner resulting in diagonal creasing of top page corners in about 2/3 of the book, some soiling to covers, gift inscription on ffep]. (The Gotham Library) Series Trade PB "In the first comprehensive study of Jarry in English, [the author] describes the panorama of Jarry's achievement. Beginning with Jarry's first extant works, he discusses the emergence of Jarry's philosophy and ... more information

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New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Near Fine in Very Good dj. (c.1971). First Edition. Hardcover. 0399106871 . (price-clipped) [slight darkening to top edge, bookplate on ffep; jacket edgeworn, a bit of wrinkling at spine ends, slight paper loss at top of spine]. (B&W photographs) . ... more information

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New York: Pantheon Books. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj. (c.1975, 1973). 1st U.S. ed. Hardcover. 0-394-48367-7 . (price-clipped) [good solid copy, moderate shelfwear to bottom edge; jacket mildly soiled, a bit of corner wear, vertical crease in rear flap]. (B&W photographs) "A biography that is both a marvel of scholarly investigation and an exceptionally subtle description of those shadow areas that exist between a man's life and his work, his memory and his imagination." . ... more information

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[Dallas TX]: Johnston Printing & Adv.. Very Good. (c.1927). Presumed 1st. Hardcover. (green pictorial cloth, no dust jacket) [moderate overall wear; slight spreading of binding at second signature, but no loose pages]. (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED to "the precious friend of my girlhood" and SIGNED by the author on the ffep. A very curious little book of Texas ephemera -- bits of local Dallas history interspersed with a smattering of I'm-not-quite-sure what. The author in her Forewo... more information

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Denver CO: Hebrew Educational Alliance. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. (c.1991). First Edition. Hardcover. [nice clean copy, minor shelfwear, spine slightly turned; jacket a bit edgeworn here and there]. "This book presents a brilliant fusion of a rich historical religious tradition and a deep love, understanding and engagement with contemporary culture. The Jewish experience gave the Biblical heritage to mankind in ancient times. Here that experience is articulated for Jews and non-Jews alike in t... more information

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New York: Carroll & Graf. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. 0-7867-0136-6 . [nice tight clean copy, mild wear at base of spine but appears unread; jacket has some very minor wrinkling and one tiny closed tear at top of front panel]. "An inspirational story of young love and the transforming power of music -- a novel that will engage and delight everyone who believes that wonderful things can happen to good people. On the Korean peninsula during the freezing winter of... more information

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New York: The Aldus Printers (For Abbott Kimball). Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. 1954. Limited Edition. Hardcover. (red decorated boards) [lovely copy, very light wear at the extremities but otherwise almost new in appearance; in original glassine jacket, which has some wrinkling near top of of front panel and one small tear and associated creasing at bottom edge of front panel (note that I have scanned the book WITHOUT the glassine)]. Excerpted from the author's "The Girl from the Marsh Croft,... more information

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Boston: Little, Brown and Company. 1910. "New Illustrated Edition". Hardcover Later Printing. (no dust jacket) [reading copy; shelfworn but intact, slight fraying to cloth at most corners, minor external soiling, spine lettering rubbed to near-unreadability; internally clean and all 29 plates present]. (B&W plates) Classic of Swedish literature, and the basis for Greta Garbo's most famous pre-Hollywood film, directed by Mauritz Stiller in 1924. . Good+. ... more information

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New York: William Morrow & Co.. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. (c.1991). 2nd printing. Hardcover. 0-688-09695-6 . [clean and tight, minor wear, but a couple of dents at top edge of boards; jacket just a bit rubbed]. (B&W photographs) . ... more information

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Woodstock & New York: The Overlook Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. 1-58567-062-6 . [faint soiling to fore-edge, otherwise a tight unworn book, apparently unread; jacket shows a bit of surface-scratching, mostly to rear panel]. Reprints fifteen of the author's New Yorker profiles of entertainment personalities: Woody Allen, David Mamet, Frank Sinatra, Arthur Miller, Liev Schreiber, Roseanne, Irving Berlin, Wallace Shawn, Eddie Izzard, Neil LaBute, Bob Hope, Ing... more information

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Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society. Near Fine. 1996. First Edition. Softcover. 0-880882-053-5 . [very slight bumping to bottom corners, otherwise a nice clean copy, practically as new]. Trade PB (B&W illustrations) "Genealogical information lies buried in town halls all over New England, locked within records like....earmarks, licenses, mortgage books, military records, poor records, selectmen's minutes, tax records, and more. [This book] contains full descriptions of 18 d... more information

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Garden City NY: Double & Company, Inc.. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. 0-385-15632-4 . [nice clean copy, tiny dent in bottom edge of front cover, no other discernible wear; jacket similarly nice, with just a bit of crinkling along top edge]. Memoir by a Bozeman, Montana, housewife who had some big-time psychiatric and drug-and-alcohol-related troubles, and finally found help at Dr. Lechler's psychosomatic clinic in Bad Herrenalb, West Germany. Her story is presente... more information

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New York: The Archer Press Corporation. (c.1931). Triangle Monthly Books. Hardcover. [decent copy of a cheaply-manufactured book, spine turned and book slightly twisted on its axis, light soiling to top edge, browning to pages (not brittle), one-time owner's signature and date in blue ink at top of title page; jacket has one tiny chip at upper right-hand corner of front panel, short tear at bottom of rear panel, dampstaining to rear panel along spine]. "Gertrude was young, only seventeen, and bea... more information

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New York: Grosset & Dunlap. Good. (c.1932). First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [some fraying to cloth at spine ends, moderate bumping to several corners, binding/hinges intact, internally clean]. (4 B&W film stills) Novelization of the 1932 film starring Jean Harlow (who appears in all four of the stills illustrating the text), a gangster tale that was about as down-and-urban-gritty as M-G-M ever got. (Warner Bros. was the more natural habitat for this sort of picture.) The film repre... more information

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New York: The Citadel Press. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. 1971 (c.1969). First American Edition. Hardcover Second Printing. 0-8065-0225-8 . [nice clean book, faint soiling to top page edges but no discernible wear; tiny closed tears and associated minor creasing at top of spine, light edgewear here and there]. (B&W photographs) Very frank memoir by the one-time "Peekaboo Girl," who was a pretty big deal throughout the 1940s, but whose career collapsed after she left Paramount in 1948 (int... more information

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New York: Doubleday. 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. [nice clean copy, no discernible wear; jacket has some very minor wrinkling along top edge, slight wear at a couple of corners]. "Lush new novel of romance and adventure set against the background of dazzling pageantry and tarnished splendor that was eighteenth-century Venice." . Fine in Near Fine dj. ... more information

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New York: Henry Holt and Company. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. 0-8050-3119-7 . [nice copy, green remainder stripe on bottom edge near spine, otherwise no discernible wear; jacket has a tiny tear at bottom front hinge, otherwise just a trace of surface wear]. (B&W photographs) . ... more information

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Golden CO: Fulcrum Publishing. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. (c.1996). First Edition. Hardcover. 1-55591-266-4 . [nice tight copy, as-new but for a very faint pencil mark on top edge; jacket shows minor surface wear, nothing to call the book police about]. "In the tradition of Terry Tempest Williams, Gretel Ehrlich, and Linda Hasselstrom, [the author] looks to the West in a wide-ranging search for a heritage to pass on to her children. When she and her husband move their young family north to Wyomi... more information

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London: The Bodley Head. 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. [nice clean copy, minimal shelfwear; jacket shows slight wrinkling and surface-scratching]. "Constance Liddell answers a personal column ad -- Polish gentleman, 50s, political refugee, seeks intellectual woman to marry -- and with high hopes arranges to meet Iwo Zaluski. Constance, in her mid-forties, is an exile from marriage, deserted by her high-flying husband for a series of younger women. In Iwo she sees a fellow exile. But he is s... more information

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