Missoula MT: Pictorial Histories Publishing Company. Very Good+. 1993 (c.1991). 3rd printing. Softcover. 0-929521-51-X . [nice clean copy, very slight dog-earing to corners of front cover, spine color-shifted/faded]. Trade PB (B&W and color photographs, drawings, etc.) Profusely illustrated survey of American life and culture during World War II -- including not just hundreds of vintage photographs, but a vast array of reproductions (many in color) of advertisements, postcards, products, greeting ... more information

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Chicago: Nelson-Hall. Very Good+. (c.1978). 1st printing. Softcover. 0-88229-608-6 . [clean & tight, mild handling wear, faint crease in spine]. Trade PB (B&W photos, other illus.) . ... more information

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Jefferson NC/London: McFarland & Company. Very Good+. 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. 0-89950-030-7 . (no dust jacket, as issued) [solid copy, light wear, faint foxing to top edge, some kind of vertical white scrape along right-hand side of front cover]. (B&W photographs) History of the Poverty Row studio which turned out 31 serials and 16 feature films in its eight-year history, including the final screen appearance of Tom Mix, the 1935 serial THE MIRACLE RIDER. . ... more information

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New York: St. Martin's Press. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. (c.1989). 1st U.S. edition. Hardcover. 0-312-04258-2 . [nice clean copy, very light bumping at a couple of corners; jacket shows a bit of soiling, a few tiny edge-tears, nothing significant]. INSCRIBED ("To _______ / My very best wishes / and a big Shalom / from Israel") and SIGNED by the author on the ffep, dated Oct. 1992. "In the tradition of Sholom Aleichem and Isaac Bashevis Singer, [this book] makes a fresh and engagin... more information

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Garden City NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc.. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. [solid copy, light shelfwear, mild browning to page edges, previous owner's possession stamp on front pastedown; jacket edgeworn, minor paper loss at top of spine (no text affected)]. SIGNED by the author (signature only) on the ffep. The novelist-and-sometime-screenwriter's only Hollywood novel -- although some think his 1960s biographies of Jean Harlow and Rudolph Valentino have their ... more information

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Cottage Grove WI: The Arizona Jim Co-Op. 1974. (issue no. 11). Stapled wraps. [minor soiling to rear cover, light stain at bottom of first few pages]. (B&W photographs) Critical/historical film journal. Contents include articles on: "The Strange Case of the Hollywood Ten"; 3-D films; Fifties gangster films; Don Siegel and BABY FACE NELSON; THE BAND WAGON (Vincente Minnelli); "Nicholas Ray: The Years at RKO" (Part 2); Elia Kazan in the Fifties; three films by Robert Aldrich (KI... more information

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Cottage Grove WI: The Arizona Jim Co-Op. 1974. (issue no. 13). Stapled wraps. [moderate soiling/rubbing to front cover]. (B&W photographs) Critical/historical film journal. Contents include articles on: THE EXORCIST (William Friedkin); A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (Stanley Kubrick); CHINATOWN (Roman Polanski); director Robert Mulligan; the recent films of Blake Edwards; the films of Noel Black; "The Search for Self in the Films of Nicolas Roeg"; the BILLY JACK phenomenon; formalist cinema. . Very ... 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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London/New York/Toronto: Oxford University Press. Very Good in Good+ dj. (c.1932). First Edition. Hardcover. NOISBN . [solid copy, light shelfwear, slight dust-darkening to top edge; jacket has a few tiny chips at top and bottom edges of front panel, small crescent-shaped puncture-tear in front panel, shallow chip at top of rear panel, spine sun-browned]. (B&W frontispiece, illustrated endpapers) Juvenile mystery-adventure, set largely aboard a passenger ship traveling between Hong Kong and Shangh... more information

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Kjobenhavn (Copenhagen): Gyldendalske Boghandel, Nordisk Forlag. Good+. 1916-1917. Hardcover. NOISBN . (half-bound, leather over marbled boards; no dust jacket) [heavy surface wear to boards, edgewear all around, leather binding split along rear hinge (about halfway up from bottom of spine) but text block itself is quite solid, and internally the book is very clean]. (B&W photographs, maps, etc.) Volume 2 only of a five-volume history of World War I, in Danish; extensively illustrated with photogr... more information

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Vienna (Austria): ECHO Verlag. 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. (laminated covers; no dust jacket, as issued) [minor handling wear, faint soiling to rear cover; vertical wrinkle in rear endpaper]. (color photographs) Text in German. Handsomely produced, extensively illustrated year-by-year retrospective of the first 20 years of Austria's largest outdoor rock music festival. Includes numerous double-page spreads devoted to many of the star performers who have appeared over the years, including: The Be... 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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Santa Rosa CA: Black Sparrow Press. 1987. First Edition. Softcover. [moderately worn copy, light exterior soiling, light dampstain at bottom corner of first few pages, "#3" written at top of spine, minor annotations in text on a few pages]. Trade PB Covers the years 1936 to 1945 in the life of the author and his wife, screenwriter Marguerite (Maggie) Roberts. Among the numerous subjects included are the author's memories of Nathanael West, and in particular of learning about West's death in ... more information

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New York: The Seabury Press. Very Good in Very Good dj. (c.1976). First Edition. Hardcover. 0-8164-9284-0 . [a solid copy, but with a dampstain affecting the bottom corners, front and rear, of both the jacket and the book; almost no effect on the book's pages, though, except for a minor stain at the bottom corner of the rear endpaper and the last text page]. These classic radio scripts are, quite simply, laugh-out-loud funny -- and occasionally so insanely imaginative as to border on the surreal. A... more information

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New York: St. Martin's/Marek. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. (c.1986). First Edition. Hardcover. 0-312-84639-8 . [solid clean copy, top corners bumped, small dent in bottom edge of rear cover but otherwise very little wear; jacket shows some edgewear, small tears at several corners, some creasing at bottom right-hand corner of front panel, small chip at top of rear panel near spine]. A first novel "of subtle and profound psychological suspense," about "a woman and her sexy teenage daugh... more information

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London: Brilliance Books. 1987. First printing. Softcover. [tight and clean, minor crease in front cover, tiny split at bottom front hinge]. Trade PB "In the village where Nina and Masha live, the men go hunting, the women marry young, and the river is enchanted. When Masha and Nina fall into the water, their families give them up for dead, but the two young women find themselves at the start of a perilous journey that alters their lives forever. A rollicking adventure story with tree people, w... more information

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Philadelphia/New York: J. B. Lippincott Company. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. (c.1938). Unstated ed. Hardcover. NOISBN . (price-clipped) [good solid copy, moderate shelfwear; jacket edgeworn, a bit soiled, mild chipping along top edge, minor paper loss at top of spine, one small closed tear at top of front panel]. "The scene is an isolated village on the coast of Maine. The life of the villagers is narrow; seldom do they leave the community, and they have little interest in what takes place elsewhe... more information

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Chicago: Pellegrini & Cudahy. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. (c.1947). First Edition. Hardcover. [good solid copy, light shelfwear, minor dust-soiling to top page edges; jacket moderately edgeworn, tiny tears at a couple of corners, minor paper loss at spine ends (no text affected), some soiling/darkening to spine]. (endpaper map by Hjalmar Skuldt) "A gleaning of the best passages from [the author's] journal of daily life in Sac Prairie, Wisconsin. With the humor of a Mark Twain and the sen... more information

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San Diego: Los Hombres Press. (c.1991). First Edition. Softcover. [moderate edgewear, slight curling at edges of front cover]. Trade PB Book, based on numerous personal interviews, that "outs" (more or less) a number of music industry figures -- some by name, others quasi-anonymously. Kinda smarmy, but nonetheless valuable for its frank discussion of homosexuality in the music business. Foreword by Leonard Bernstein. . Very Good. ... more information

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