The Innocent Empress: An Intimate Study of Eugénie
by Barschak, Erna
New York: E.P. Dutton and Company. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. [a very nice copy, with just the barest trace of shelfwear; the jacket is also quite nice, with just a bit of wear to the extremities]. (B&W plates) "A biography which is not fictionized" (well, there's a relief) of the beautiful and elegant Eugénie de Montijo, who, as the wife of Napoleon III, became the last Empress of France,... Read More
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Born to Be Bad: Postcards from the Great Trash Films, Volume II
by Barson, Michael, comp.
New York: Pantheon Books. Near Fine. (c.1989). First Edition. Softcover. 0679725555 . [virtually as new, with just a touch of handling wear]. Trade PB (color reproductions) Oversize-postcard size reproductions (approx. 5"x8") of one-sheet posters or lobby cards from 31 B-movie classics, including TEENAGERS FROM OUTER SPACE, DETOUR, GUN CRAZY, CRY BABY KILLER, BLONDE SAVAGE, PRIVATE HELL 36, and so forth. The follow-up to a previous compilation, "Lost, Lonely, and Vicious." .
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Los Angeles in 7 Days; including Southern California
by Bartlett, Lanier, and Virginia Stivers Bartlett
New York: Robert M. McBride & Company. Fair. 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [worn at extremities with exposure of boards at tips, light external soiling, a bit of fraying to cloth at both ends of spine, front hinge cracked]. (frontispiece map) One of a series of such city guidebooks -- "The Seven Days Series" -- issued by this publisher in the 1920s and 1930s (there had also been volumes on New York, Boston,... Read More
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Second Flight
by Bartley, Nalbro
New York/Chicago: A.L. Burt Company. Good. (c.1932). Reprint. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [decent enough reading copy, binding solid, some staining to covers, age-toning to edges of text block, bumping to several corners]. Novel about a woman who remarries following a Reno divorce, and moves with her new hubby to Hooperstown, Ohio. On the basis of her first spouse's having been a movie star, this book has gotten classified as a "Hollywood novel" and included... Read More
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A Woman's Woman
by Bartley, Nalbro
New York: Grosset & Dunlap. Good in Fair dj. 1919. Reprint. Hardcover. [a good sound copy with intact binding, some soiling to edges of text block and offsetting to endpapers; the jacket is pretty rough, with small tears and bits of paper loss at all extremities, split and nearly separated along front hinge, spine panel mottled and soiled, etc.]. Novel about a 35-year-old married mother of two who decides to liberate herself from the... Read More
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The Mediocrat
by Bartley, Nalbro
Garden City NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.. Near Fine in Very Good dj. 1928. Later Printing. Hardcover. (in A.L. Burt reissue dust jacket) [minimal shelfwear, top corners a bit bumped; jacket edgeworn, a bit of paper loss at spine ends, a few small edge-tears]. Proto-feminist novel that grapples with the burning question: "Is there a new kind of woman coming to disturb our homes -- a woman who lives by making war on her... Read More
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The Rise of Massive Resistance: Race and Politics in the South During the 1950's
by Bartley, Numan V.
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. (c.1969). First Edition. Hardcover. 0807108480 . (price-clipped) [moderate shelfwear to book, previous owner's commercial bookplate on front pastedown; jacket a little edgeworn, a bit of paper loss at both ends of spine, light soiling to rear panel]. (B&W photographs) A history of the early Civil Rights era in the South, focusing not directly on the movement itself but rather on the fight put... Read More
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The Long Walk
by Barton, Betsey
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce. Very Good in Fair dj. (c.1948). First Edition. Hardcover. [some wear to book at spine ends, small bookstore stamp on front pastedown; jacket heavily worn, spine sunned, irregular fading to front panel, small pieces missing at top corner of front panel and top corner of rear panel near spine, top half-inch of spine missing, crescent-shaped stain on front panel, various small tears along bottom edge, etc.]. The author's... Read More
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The Red and the Blacklist: The Intimate Memoir of a Hollywood Expatriate [*SIGNED*]
by Barzman, Norma
New York: Thunder's Mouth Press / Nation Books. Fine in Fine dj. (c.2003). First Edition. Hardcover. [a lovely, as-new copy, with no significant wear to either book or dust jacket]. (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the title page: "For ______ / With friendship / & fondness / Norma." One of the best Hollywood blacklist memoirs, a book that "fizzes with the wit and energy found in the classic Hollywood comedies of... Read More
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The Great Sale
by Bascom, John
New York: Alfred H. King. Near Fine. 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [a nice clean copy with only faint shelfwear, vintage bookplate on front pastedown, small vintage bookseller's label at lower corner of rear pastedown (Stern Brothers)]. Novel about the efforts of the young owner of a department store in an unnamed Midwestern city (who has inherited the business from his father) to keep the business afloat during the darkest days of... Read More
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Errol Flynn: The Movie Posters
by Bassoff, Lawrence
Beverly Hills CA: Lawrence Bassoff Collection, Inc.. Near Fine. (c.1995). First Edition. Softcover. [a nice clean copy with only a trace of surface wear to covers]. Trade PB (color reproductions) An oversize, horizontal format book presenting color reproductions of 180 items (including posters, lobby cards, and other advertising matter) from the author's collection, with images related to all of Flynn's fifty feature films (yes, even CUBAN REBEL GIRLS). It's primarily a visual production,... Read More
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Pro Football From the Inside [*SIGNED*]
by Bass, Tom
(n.p.): In Pro. Very Good. (c.1974). First Edition. Softcover. [moderate edgewear to covers, scuffing to rear cover next to spine]. Trade PB INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the inside front cover: "For Mort / I sincerely hope / the poems bring / some joy and / understanding of / our great game of / football, / Tom Bass." Yep, despite the locker-room real dope suggested by the book's title -- not to... Read More
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Too Many Notes, Mr. Mozart
by Bastable, Bernard (pseud. for Robert Barnard)
London: Little, Brown and Company. Very Good+ in Fine dj. 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. [good sound copy with no significant wear, moderate age-toning to edges of text block, former owner's initials plus date & place of purchase written in ink along edge of rear pastedown (concealed beneath rear jacket flap); the jacket is nearly flawless, with only some tiny bits of surface wear that you'll need a magnifying glass to see]. Comic novel set in 1830,... Read More
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Beverly Hills: Portrait of a Fabled City
by Basten, Fred E.
Los Angeles: Douglas-West Publishers. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. (c.1975). First Edition. Hardcover. [spine slightly turned, but no significant wear to book; the jacket is lightly soiled, with one tiny closed tear at the top edge of the front panel, near the spine]. (B&W photographs, facsimiles) Lavishly-illustrated history of the city of Beverly Hills, "an incredible civic island, one of the world's wealthiest, most glamorous and famous communities" (and with a pretty high... Read More
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Main St. to Malibu
by Basten, Fred E.
Santa Monica CA: Graphics Press. Very Good+. (c.1980). First Edition. Softcover. [moderate handling wear, tiny bit of scarring to upper corner of front cover, vertical crease near left edge of front cover]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) "All-new photo treasury of celebrated scenes and memorabilia, Yesterday & Today," per the cover legend. Small-format paperback featuring approximately 100 photos taken in and around Santa Monica (most of them "historical" but a number also showing then-contemporary... Read More
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Catherine Foster
by Bates, H.E.
New York: The Viking Press. Near Fine in Very Good dj. 1929. First American Edition. Hardcover. NOISBN . [light shelfwear only, one-time owner's signature at top of ffep; jacket somewhat age-toned, with a few tiny tears and minor paper loss surrounding top of spine, short tears at bottom hinges, one additional tiny closed tear at top of front panel]. Bates's second published novel, "the story of a woman's passionate love for her husband's romantic and... Read More
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Spella Ho
by Bates, H.E.
London: Jonathan Cape. Near Fine in Very Good dj. 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. [nice clean copy with minimal shelfwear; the jacket is just about as nice, with just a touch of edgewear, but with a small chip at the base of the spine and a tiny hole torn in the middle of the spine]. "Spella Ho is the name of a great house. The novel which bears its name might be called the story... Read More
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Frankie Doodle
by Batsford, Ben
New York: United Feature Syndicate, Inc.. Very Good. 1939. Comic Book. [modest age-toning and light edgewear to covers, slight spine roll; NOTE that this has been graded by book standards, NOT on the comic-book grading scale]. (Single Series No. 7) Series (color cartoon strips) A rare-ish one-off comic book (in a slightly larger, magazine-size format), consisting of reprints of Sunday entries in Ben Batsford's strip about a pugnacious newsboy. It originated as a strip... Read More
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Jim Tully: American Writer, Irish Rover, Hollywood Brawler
by Bauer, Paul J., and Mark Dawidziak
Kent OH: The Kent State University Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. (c.2011). First Edition. Hardcover. [tiny smudge on top edge of text block, otherwise a nice, as-new copy; jacket similarly nice, with just a touch of wrinkling at the base of the spine]. (B&W photographs) A deeply-researched biography of the best hard-boiled writer you've never heard of -- unjustly so. A very big deal in his day, Tully (1886-1947) is today virtually... Read More
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The Sea Fairies
by Baum, L. Frank
Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Co. (A division of Henry Regnery Company). Fine in Near Fine dj. [1969] (c.1911). First Edition. Hardcover. [nice clean book with no discernible wear; the jacket shows only minor wear to the spine ends and along the front fold]. (pen and ink drawings) A nice copy of this uncommon facsimile reprint of Baum's 1911 imaginative tale of fairies and mermaids beneath the sea, featuring the original Neill illustrations (but no... Read More
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The Magic of Oz
by Baum, L. Frank
Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Co.. Fine. [1965] (c.1919). White Cover Edition. Hardcover. (pictorial boards; no dust jacket) [a beautiful, as-new copy]. (The Famous Oz Books) Series (pen & ink drawings) This was the 13th of the original 14 Oz books authored by L. Frank Baum before his death in 1919 (it was actually being printed at the time, and he had already completed writing the next book, "Glinda of Oz"). This particular printing... Read More
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It Was All Quite Different: The Memoirs of Vicki Baum
by Baum, Vicki
New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. (c.1964). First Edition. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [moderate shelfwear, light foxing to bottom edge of text block, one-time owner's name (in pencil) at top of half-title page; the jacket is a little worn along the top and bottom edges, with some minor paper loss at the top of the spine, a bit of light soiling]. (B&W photographs) Posthumously-published memoir by the Vienna-born author of ... Read More
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Glass Slippers Always Pinch
by Bawden, Nina
Philadelphia/New York: J.B. Lippincott Company. Fine in Very Good+ dj. 1960 (c.1959). First Edition. Hardcover. [nice tight copy, appears unread, no discernible wear to book; jacket show minor wear at extremities, small tear and associated crease at top of spine]. Uncommon novel about a suburban London girl who "has all the makings of an Angry Young Woman [but] unfortunately, she is plagued with that most debilitating of characteristics for a young lady with a mission... Read More
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Intermission: a True Tale [*SIGNED*]
by Baxter, Anne
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. (c.1976). 4th impression. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [faint foxing to top edge of text block, no other significant wear; the jacket is a bit wrinkled at the top of the spine, and bears a large "Autographed at Hunter's" label affixed to the lower right corner of the front panel (probably removable if you wish) (the label is day-glo green, although it appears almost white in the scanned... Read More
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The Killers
by Baxter, George Owen (pseud. for Frederick Faust, aka Max Brand)
New York: The Macaulay Company. Very Good. (c.1931, 1928). First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [moderate shelfwear, some browning/spotting to page edges, light bumps and slight fraying to cloth at bottom corners, one-time owner's signature in pencil on ffep, tiny tear at fore-edge of title page]. Crime novel that segues to a Western setting about halfway through (hence the Western-motif front-cover decoration of a man on horseback waving a large hat), by this prolific pulp... Read More
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