Death in a Cold Climate
by Barnard, Robert
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. 1981 (c.1980). First American Edition Second Printing. Hardcover. [nice tight clean copy, no significant wear to book, former owner's name plus date & place of purchase written in ink at top of front endpaper, plus an additonal short note on the front pastedown; jacket shows the faintest bit of handling wear]. Mystery novel concerning the murder of an Englishman in Norway. .
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by Barnard, Robert
New York: Scribner. Near Fine in Fine dj. 2008. First American Edition. Hardcover. [nice clean tight copy with no discernible wear, former owner's initials plus date & place of purchase written in ink along edge of rear pastedown (concealed by jacket flap); the jacket itself is flawless]. Mystery novel about a woman investigating a liaison in her mother's past, an inquiry triggered by a mysterious anonymous letter received just after the mother's death. .... Read More
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Death of a Mystery Writer
by Barnard, Robert
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. 1979. 1st U.S. edition Second Printing. Hardcover. [no discernible wear to book, but the former owner's name plus date & place of purchase are written in ink at the top of the front endpaper; the jacket is flawless except for long horizontal surface-scratch across the rear panel]. Sir Oliver Fairleigh-Stubbs, a famous author of detective novels, collapses and dies at his birthday party. ... Read More
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Death of a Perfect Mother [original UK title: Mother's Boys]
by Barnard, Robert
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. (c.1981). First American Edition Second Printing. Hardcover. [nice tight clean copy, no significant wear, former owner's name plus date & place of purchase written in ink at top of front endpaper, no other marks; the jacket is faintly edgeworn, with one tiny closed tear at the bottom of the rear panel]. "Lill Hodsden is a monster. She humiliates her husband, blackmails her lovers,... Read More
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Political Suicide
by Barnard, Robert
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. (c.1986). First American Edition. Hardcover. [nice clean copy with no discernible wear, the only blemish being a former owner's name plus date & place of purchase written in ink at top of front endpaper; the jacket is nearly flawless, with just a faint vertical scuff line down the middle of the rear panel]. "Member of Parliament James Partridge has committed suicide by throwing himself into... Read More
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The Case of the Missing Brontë
by Barnard, Robert
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. (c.1983). 2nd printing. Hardcover. [no significant wear to book, but the former owner's name plus date & place of purchase is written in ink at the top of the front endpaper; the jacket has some very minor wrinkling at the top of the front panel]. The third of the author's Inspector Perry Trethowan mysteries, this tale is set in motion by the discovery in... Read More
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Death of an Old Goat
by Barnard, Robert
New York: Walker and Company. Near Fine in Very Good dj. 1977. First American Edition. Hardcover. [no significant wear to book, faint dust-soiling to top edge, former owner's name plus date & place of purchase written in ink at top of front endpaper; jacket is a bit edgeworn and somewhat wrinkled and surface-scuffed]. The author's first book, set at an Australian university, about the murder of a recently-arrived visiting lecturer from England. .
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Death by Sheer Torture
by Barnard, Robert
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. 1982 (c.1981). First American Edition. Hardcover. [nice clean book with no significant wear, former owner's name plus date & place of purchase written in ink at top of front endpaper; the jacket is nearly flawless, with just a minor wrinkle at the top of the rear panel]. Murder mystery centering around an eccentric family in which the murder of the father -- "on a... Read More
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Livery Stable Days
by Barnard, Upton
San Antonio TX: The Naylor Company. Very Good in Very Good dj. (c.1959). First Edition. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [bumping to base of spine resulting in slight cracking of binding at that point, otherwise just lightly shelfworn on the bottom edge, a touch of dust-soiling to top of text block; jacket lightly soiled, shows a little wear along the top edge, spine slightly browned with a couple of tiny stains]. (halftone photo frontispiece) "An authentic historical... Read More
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Schoolgirl
by Barnes, Carman
New York: Horace Liveright. Good. 1929. 5th printing. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [worn book, bumping and light fraying to cloth at all corners, small nick in cloth at right-hand edge of front cover, spine slightly turned, covers a little grubby; internally clean, hinges a little tender but still intact]. This first novel by Carman Barnes, based on her own experiences in various Southern boarding schools, was published when she was 16 ("just a schoolgirl... Read More
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Friends and Relations: Photographs by Tina Barney
by Barney, Tina; edited by Constance Sullivan and Susan Weiley
Washington/London: Smithsonian Institution Press. Fine. (c.1991). First Edition. Softcover. [nice clean book, as-new with no discernible wear]. (Photographers at Work) Series Trade PB (color photographs) This entry in the Smithsonian's excellent "Photographers at Work" series contains an interview with the photographer, a one-page biographical essay, a half-page of technical information, and 24 photographs. Barney: "I'm documenting something that's important historically, that has never been done efore, in photography at least, from the inside... Read More
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Indian Film
by Barnouw, Erik, and S. Krishnaswamy
New York/London: Columbia University Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. [nice tight copy, minimal shelfwear, faint musty odor from long storage, tiny inked date on ffep; jacket very slightly rubbed, faint foxing on flaps, some insignificant wrinkling in the rear panel]. (B&W photographs) A full-scale history of the first fifty years of Indian cinema and the Indian film industry, which during the 1920s "was already outproducing Great Britain." .... Read More
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Life of P.T. Barnum, Written by Himself; including his Golden Rules for Money-Making; brought up to 1888
by Barnum, Phineas T.
Buffalo NY: The Courier Company, Printers. Good. 1888. Updated edition. Hardcover. (brown embossed boards, gilt and black lettering & decoration on spine; no dust jacket) [a decent copy, the front hinge cracked but still holding, modest bumping at most corners with occasional slight fraying]. (B&W engraved illus., incl. frontis. portrait) An updating of Barnum's autobiography, originally published in 1869, bringing it to 1888 (three years before his death). .
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Barnum's Own Story: The Autobiography of P.T. Barnum, combined & condensed from the various editions published during his lifetime
by Barnum, P.T. (combined & condensed by Waldo R. Browne)
New York: The Viking Press. Good. 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [worn copy, spine turned; binding intact; spine lettering darkened almost to the point of unreadability, large custom bookplate of playwright Alden Nash on front endpaper]. (B&W frontispiece portrait + 5 B&W plates) The extended title pretty much tells it all, and an "Editor's Note" details the various versions of his life published by Barnum between 1855 and 1888, summing up thus: "The... Read More
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The Paper Cap: A Story of Love and Labor
by Barr, Amelia E.
New York/London: D. Appleton and Company. Good. 1918. First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [a good sound copy, dust-soiling and age-darkening to edges of text block, bumping and slght exposure of boards at all tips, one-time owner's pencil signature on front endpaper (color frontispiece) A very late-in-life novel by this prolific British-born novelist and teacher -- her last, in fact, completed (according to her NYT obituary) in June 1918, the month before she suffered a... Read More
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Love in Atlantis
by Barrett, B.L.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. [a touch of shelfwear to book; jacket has a teensy nick at top of front panel, minor paper loss at lower extremities]. Novel about a 14-year-old girl, specifically of "her sexual awakening and admission into the never-changing mysteries ('the lore girls need that mothers may not tell them') in a southern California seaside town in the golden, long-ago summers of... Read More
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The End of The World: A Post-Mortem by Its Intangible Assets
by Barrett, James W., ed.
New York/London: Harper & Brothers. Very Good+. 1931. 1st Edition (D-F). Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [good sound copy, lightly shelfworn, spine lettering a bit dulled, faint beverage ring on rear cover, large vintage bookplate on front endpaper (apparently pasted on top of the same individual's ownership signature; see Notes)]. (B&W photograph, facsimiles, cartoon) A collection of short pieces, by a number of its contributors and editorial staffers, lamenting the recent demise of The New... Read More
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The Swiftest Thing in Life
by Barre, Jean
New York: H.C. Kinsey & Company, Inc.. Near Fine in Very Good dj. 1932. First American Edition. Hardcover. NOISBN . [good solid clean book, minor shelfwear only; jacket has small tears and minor paper loss at a couple of corners, fading to spine, short closed tear and associated diagonal crease at bottom of front panel]. An Italian prince, his wild and irrepressible brother, an English beauty, her impudent and possessive American lover, an artist, and... Read More
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Madam
by Barrett, Richmond
New York: Liveright, Inc.. Near Fine in Very Good dj. (c.1932). First Edition. Hardcover. [a tight clean book, minor wear to cloth at spine ends, vintage price sticker (from The White House, San Francisco deparment store) on rear pastedown; jacket moderately edgeworn, a couple of tiny chips at bottom of front panel, light soiling to rear panel]. "Madam is Daisy Park-Newbold Wendell, a woman who is one-third grande dame, one-third eccentric and one-third child.... Read More
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The Lovomaniacs
by Barrett, Rona
Los Angeles: Nash Publishing. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. [solid clean book, light age-toning to page edges, minor shelfwear; jacket has various tiny nicks along top edge, 1/4" triangular chip at base of spine, spine slightly color-shifted]. The only novel by "Miss Rona," at the time one of Hollywood's best-known columnists/commentators. Film historian/ bibliographer Anthony Slide writes in his bibliography, "The Hollywood Novel: A Critical Guide to Over 1200 Works":... Read More
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The Sign of the Cross [Photoplay Edition]
by Barrett, Wilson
New York: Grosset & Dunlap. [1932] (c1896, 1924). First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Near Fine in Very Good dj. [nice clean book with the faintest touch of shelfwear, vintage retailer's small label (Elder's) on rear pastedown; the jacket is bright and attractive, despite some edgewear, a few tiny tears and small bits of paper loss at the extremities, and a small but unsightly brown stain near the top of the rear panel (with a few tiny holes in the jacket at... Read More
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The Animal Kingdom: A Comedy
by Barry, Philip
New York/Los Angeles: Samuel French. Very Good-. (c.1931). Unstated ed.. Softcover. [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... Read More
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War in Heaven
by Barry, Philip
New York: Coward-McCann. Very Good+ in Very Good- dj. (c.1938). 2nd impression. Hardcover. [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 ... Read More
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The Philadelphia Story; a comedy in three acts
by Barry, Philip
New York: Coward-McCann Inc.. Very Good+. (c.1939). First Edition. Hardcover. (lacking the original dust jacket, but encased in a professionally-made facsimile reproduction of same; see 2nd image posted with this listing) [good sound copy, light wear to extremities, spine slightly turned, age-toning to fore-edge, tiny spot on bottom edge of text block; vintage bookseller's label (Satyr Book Shop, Hollywood) on rear pastedown]. The original comedy from which the delightful 1940 movie of the same name... Read More
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Paris Bound: A Comedy
by Barry, Philip
New York: Samuel French. Fine in Very Good+ dj. 1929. 3rd printing. Hardcover. [nice clean book with no discernible wear; the jacket is lightly worn, with a few tiny scrape marks on the front panel, a small tear with just a bit of paper loss at the upper left corner of the rear panel]. Barry's first major hit (immediately preceding the much better-known "Holiday"), this comedy about infidelity had a Broadway run of 234 performances... Read More
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