Ladies in the Parlor
by Tully, Jim
New York: Greenberg: Publisher. Poor. (c.1935). First Edition. Hardcover. a Tully's unsentimentalized tale of a young woman who escapes small-town poverty (and various abusive and sexually aggressive men) by going to work in a high-class and politically well-connected Chicago brothel was beset by serious censorship trouble. Banned outright in Canada, it was one of eight American-authored books that were the subject of obscenity prosecutions in the U.S. between 1934 and 1944 (Sova, "Banned Books:... Read More
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Beggars of Life
by Tully, Jim
Garden City NY: Garden City Publishing Co., Inc.. Very Good in Very Good dj. (c.1924). The Star Series (reprint). Hardcover. [moderate wear to book's extremities, some dust-soiling to top of text block; the jacket is a little faded and lightly browned along the spine, with a tiny piece missing at the upper corner of the rear panel, a touch of edgewear here and there]. Tully's breakthrough book, and the one that typecast him forever as the... Read More
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While the Crowd Cheers
by Tunberg, Karl
New York: The Macaulay Company. Near Fine in Very Good dj. (c.1935). First Edition. Hardcover. [solid clean book, with just a touch of wear at spine ends; jacket shows some wear along bottom edge, fading to spine, soiling to rear panel]. Novel about a "smashing, handsome, blond All-American football giant whose name was in every headline," who married a "smart, sophisticated, gorgeous, hero-worshipping, and ambitious" girl -- and "what happened to them after the... Read More
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While the Crowd Cheers
by Tunberg, Karl
New York: The Macaulay Company. Very Good. (c.1935). First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [decent copy, binding intact, covers somewhat faded, soiling/spotting to top and bottom page edges, bottom front corner bumped, offsetting to both pastedowns]. Novel about a "smashing, handsome, blond All-American football giant whose name was in every headline," who married a "smart, sophisticated, gorgeous, hero-worshipping, and ambitious" girl -- and "what happened to them after the roar of the crowd settled... Read More
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Some Go Up
by Tupper, Samuel Jr.
New York: Robert M. McBride & Company. Near Fine in Very Good dj. 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. [minor shelfwear, light soiling to top of text block; jacket somewhat soiled and spotted, mild edgewear, a couple of tiny nicks at bottom of rear panel]. Novel about "white folks of the wide-awake modern South . . . dealing with fortune's universal seesaw, as experienced by two Southern families." The author, a native of Atlanta, presumably knew... Read More
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Griffithiana: Journal of Film History - no. 44/45 (May-September 1992)
by Turconi, Davide, ed. (Peter Lehman, English language ed.)
Gemona (Italy): La Cineteca del Friuli. Near Fine. 1992. (No. 44/45). Journal. [virtually as-new, with just the teensiest bit of handling wear]. (facsimiles, B&W photos, color poster reprod.) A double number of this highly-specialized film history journal, published in conjunction with the Pordenone Silent Film Festival, and generally keyed to the contemporaneous festival offerings and presentations. Major topics of this issue/festival were the Eclair Company, a French film producing firm that also had... Read More
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Lost Shadows
by Turiansky, Osip (translated from the Ukranian by Andrew Mykytiak)
New York: Empire Books. Fair in Good dj. (c.1935). First Edition. Hardcover. [book is worn and externally soiled, aging/spotting to edges of text block, small dampstains at lower right corner of front cover and upper left corner of rear cover, a little insect damage to bottom edge of text block; the jacket is slightly wrinkled and lightly soiled, with a number of tiny edge-nicks, shallow chipping at upper front hinge]. Uncommon novelization of an... Read More
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Madame Judas
by Turnbull, Margaret
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company. Very Good. 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [moderate external wear, a little soiling to paper label on front cover, spine turned, a couple of ink spots on spine, slight fading to spine cloth, paper spine label cracked/faded; small, attractive vintage bookplate on front pastedown ("Ex Libris / 'Sledmere,' Dorset, Vermont")] Mystery novel, by a former motion picture scenarist, that introduced the character of Juliet Jackson, a newpaper ... Read More
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The Cinema of Adventure, Romance & Terror; from the archives of American Cinematographer
by Turner, George E., ed.
Hollywood: The ASC Press. 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. [essentially an as-new book, downgraded from "Fine" only due to the presence of a small array of tiny brown spots on the top edge; the jacket is very lightly surface- and edge-worn, and has a soft vertical crease an a bit of light wrinkling at the lower left corner of the front panel]. (B&W photographs) A themed collection of previously-published "historical" articles from back issues of... Read More
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Mary Todd Lincoln: Her Life and Letters
by Turner, Justin G., and Linda Levitt Turner
New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. 1972. 3rd printing. Hardcover. [good sound copy, slight bump to lower rear corner but no other significant wear, small remainder stamp on bottom edge of text block; one-time owner's name at top of front endpaper, gift inscription (non-authorial) on half-title page, another former owner's initials plus date & place of purchase in ink along edge of verso of rear endpaper; jacket shows only minor... Read More
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Lana -- the Lady, the Legend, the Truth [*SIGNED*]
by Turner, Lana
New York: E.P. Dutton, Inc.. Fine in Near Fine dj. (c.1982). 2nd printing. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [a lovely copy, with no discernible wear to either book or jacket]. (B&W photographs) SIGNED by the author (her full signature, no inscription) on the front endpaper. A very nice copy of the legendary Sweater Girl's memoir of life in the rarefied air of Hollywood Golden-Age stardom, up to and including that messy business when her daughter picked up... Read More
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There Was Once a City
by Turton, Godfrey E.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Near Fine in Fine dj. 1927. 1st [U.S.] Edition. Hardcover. [a very nice copy, the book blemished only by a couple of small brown spots on the fore-edge, otherwise clean and tight, with an old bookseller's price label on rear pastedown; the jacket is fresh and unmarked, with only the slightest bumping at the base of the spine]. A sort of modern variation on the old Breton legend (with the action... Read More
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Philo Vance: The Life and Times of S.S. Van Dine
by Tuska, Jon
Bowling Green OH: Bowling Green University Popular Press. Very Good. 1971. First Edition. Softcover. [moderate external wear and light soiling, one-time owner's name and date & place of purchase in ink at top of title page]. (Popular Writers Series, No. 1) Series (B&W photographs) A survey of the Philo Vance mysteries, ___ books published between 1930 and 1939, by Willard Huntington Wright under his Van Dine pseudonym. About half of this 64-page book... Read More
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Views & Reviews (Summer 1971)
by (Tuska, Jon and Ruth, eds.)
Milwaukee: Views & Reviews, Inc.. Near Fine. 1971. (Vol. 3, No. 1). Journal. [a nice clean copy, minor edgewear only]. (B&W photographs) In this issue: a historical/critical discussion of the Mae West film KLONDIKE ANNIE; a survey article, "The Sound Serial," by Robert M. Malcomson; historical/critical article on MEN WITHOUT LAW, a 1930 Buck Jones western; a lengthy production history and critical examination of TRADER HORN (1930); Part IV of Jon Tuska's series of articles,... Read More
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Close Up: The Contract Director
by Tuska, Jon, ed.
Metuchen NJ: The Scarecrow Press, Inc.. Near Fine. 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. 0810809613 . (no dust jacket, as issued) [good solid copy, light shelfwear, internally clean, boards very slightly bowed, small bookseller's label (Cinemabilia) on rear pastedown]. (B&W photographs) Career articles, usually incorporating interviews, with the following Hollywood directors: Walter Lang, H. Bruce Humberstone, William Dieterle, Joseph Kane, William Witney, Lesley Selander, Yakima Canutt, Lewis Milestone, Edward Dmytryk, and Howard Hawks. Each article... Read More
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Blind Mouths [*SIGNED* by film producer Walter Wanger]
by Tweed, Thomas F.
London: Arthur Barker, Ltd.. Good. 1934. Advance copy. Softcover. (plain brown wraps) [spine roll, modest external wear]. An advance copy of this uncommon politically-themed novel, about a dictator who rules over a confederation of six central European countries, and the messianic faith-healer who champions the region's peasants in their opposition to the dictator's plans for state-controlled farming. The author's previous (and apparently only other) novel was also in a politically-charged vein: published... Read More
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The Great Los Angeles Swindle: Oil, Stocks, and Scandal During the Roaring Twenties
by Tygiel, Jules
New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. [nice-looking book, very faint soiling to bottom page edges; jacket shows just a trace of handling wear]. (B&W photographs) The history of the "wonderfully complex" Julian Petroleum Corporation swindle, inextricably linked with the story of the Southern California oil/real estate boom of the 1920s, which had "as many unexpected twists and turns as any mystery novel." It... Read More
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She Rode a White Horse
by Tyler, Evelyn
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. (c.1952). First Edition. Hardcover. [nice clean tight book, with only minimal shelfwear; jacket shows some traces of wear along spine edges, but still bright and attractive overall]. This "powerful novel of a beautiful woman in politics" tells the story of a woman who accepts the offer of a nomination to Congress from the Democratic Party boss in her Manhattan district. An idealist... Read More
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The Hollywood Hallucination
by Tyler, Parker
New York: Creative Age Press, Inc.. Good. (c.1944). First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [binding intact, but shelfworn; apparently a rental-library book at one time, stamped as such (Timms Libraries, Inc., Syracuse NY) on front endpaper, and with some scarring and residue on both endpapers and pastedowns from removed labels and once-affixed jacket flaps]. The first book of film criticism by this influential critic, who has achieved a kind of lasting literary fame as... Read More
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Red Wine First
by Tyre, Nedra
New York: Simon and Schuster (A Venture Press Book). Very Good+ in Very Good dj. 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. [modest shelfwear to top and bottom edges, old gift inscription (non-authorial) on front pastedown; jacket has some shallow chipping along top edge, split halfway up from bottom along front flapfold, various small nicks and closed tears]. The first book by this Georgia-born author, who worked at various times as a social worker, library assistant, clerk-typist,... Read More
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Archival Treasures: Film, Television & Radio Preservation at UCLA
by UCLA Film, Television & Radio Archives
Los Angeles: UCLA Film, Television & Radio Archives. 1985. First Edition. Stapled wraps. Near Fine. [faint handling wear only]. (B&W photographs) Program book for a film series that ran at UCLA from January 11-March 16, 1985, showcasing numerous films, television programs, and radio broadcasts that had been preserved by UCLA at its archive, "one of the nation's preeminent centers for the preservation and study of motion pictures and the broadcast media." This was the first program of its kind presented... Read More
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Besides, the Wench is Dead
by Ullin, Robert
Garden City NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.. Very Good in Very Good dj. 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [solid copy, very light wear to cloth at most corners, small label on ffep from "Central Building Newsstand" with indication of rental rate (the ONLY evidence that this is an ex-rental library book); jacket is very lightly soiled, chipped at top and bottom spine extremities, but still quite attractive]. One of those rooming-house novels so popular... Read More
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Mrs. Goudie's Tea Pairty [*SIGNED*(?); see notes]
by "Uncle Tom" [pseud.]
Edinburgh: Andrew Elliot. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. (price-clipped?) [boards slightly bowed, top rear corner bumped; jacket clipped at both corners of front flap, spine slightly faded/rubbed, modest overall soiling]. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper ("To / James Donald, Esq. / with kindest / regards -- / 18th July, 1937") and SIGNED on the half-title page, presumably by the author. (The first initial of the signature is clearly... Read More
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Report of the Committee on the Conduct of the War on the Attack on Petersburg, on the 30th Day of July, 1864
by [United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War.]
Washington DC: Government Printing Office. Fair. 1865. First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket, as issued) [heavily worn, including exposure of boards at all corners, but binding is intact; foxing/discoloration to endpapers and early pages; ex-private library, with label of W.H. Edwards, Downers Grove, Illinois on front pastedown]. The official Congressional report on one of the major debacles of the Civil War, known historically as the Battle of the Crater. An early engagement in... Read More
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It's Always Four O'Clock
by Updyke, James (pseud. for W.R. Burnett)
New York: Random House. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. (c.1956). First Edition. Hardcover. [nice tight clean copy, faint shelfwear only; the jacket is slightly faded at the spine, with some minor edgewear]. "The fast-paced story of a Los Angeles jazz combo -- piano, guitar and bass -- and a girl singer named Berte Evers," narrated by a 24-year-old guitar player from Chicago. It is also "the tragic story of Royal Mauch, a strange... Read More
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