![Wajda Films [two-volume set, in slipcase]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/600/043/923043600.0.l.jpg)
Wajda Films [two-volume set, in slipcase]
by {Wajda, Andrzej} Kosinska, Barbara, ed.
Warsaw (Poland): Wydawnictwa Artystyczne i Filmowe. Fine. (c.1996). 1st Edition (English version). Hardcover. (two volumes without dustjackets (as issued), in cardboard slipcase) [books are in perfect condition; the slipcase very close to it, with just slight bumping to one corner (the set was in the original shrinkwrap when received by us, which was removed only to permit proper cataloguing)]. (B&W and color photographs, sketches) Beautifully-produced two-volume survey of the ouevre of the great Polish... Read More
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![The Best Pictures 1939-1940, and the Year Book of Motion Pictures in America [*SIGNED*]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/121/405/1716405121.0.l.jpg)
The Best Pictures 1939-1940, and the Year Book of Motion Pictures in America [*SIGNED*]
by Wald, Jerry, and Richard Macaulay, eds.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [a good sound copy, modest wear to extremities; the jacket is edgeworn, with bits of paper loss at both ends of the spine, miscellaneous creasing at the top and bottom edges of the front panel, tiny tears at all corners, and a 3/4" puncture wound at the rear hinge; NOTE that the dust jacket on this book has been... Read More
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The Naked City: A Screenplay
by Wald, Malvin, and Albert Maltz (ed. by Matthew J. Bruccoli)
Carbondale/Edwardsville IL: Southern Illinois University Press. Fine in Fine dj. (c.1979). First Edition. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [both book and jacket are as-new, with no discernible wear, having been in the original publisher's shrink-wrap until I removed it to check the bibliographic details; and yes, that's when it was discovered that the jacket was clipped, so the publisher must have sent it out that way(?)]. (Screenplay Library) Series (B&W photographs) Screenplay for the 1948 film, with... Read More
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My Steve Sax Connection: How a Hero Led an Abused Boy to Manhood
by Waldman, Alan Bennett
Encino CA: Astor Street Publishing Corporation. Near Fine. (c.1990). 1st Edition (unstated). Softcover. [bright and tight, appears unread; as-new but for a very short diagonal crease at the bottom right corner of the front cover]. Trade PB "This is the intimate story of a psychologically abused boy, who fulfilled his dream of writing his book to Steve Sax, his favorite major league baseball player. By envisioning his favorite player as his big brother, he ... Read More
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The Land is Large
by Waldman, Emerson
New York/Toronto: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc.. Fair. (c.1938). First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [a decent reading/reference copy only, solidly bound but with a big stain surrounding the base of the spine, and some fading to the spine; vintage bookseller's rubber stamp (Bertrand Smith Acres of Books, Long Beach, Calif.) on front pastedown]. Uncommon novel, "a selection of The Discoverers," about a struggling Russian-Jewish immigrant on New York's Lower East Side, and later in... Read More
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The Disinherited
by Waldman, Milton
London/New York/Toronto: Longmans, Green and Co.. Fair. 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [a reading/reference copy only; a well-worn book, hinges cracked but holding, slight exposure of boards at several corners, some staining to the first few pages; an ex-library book (rental library?), with the jacket blurb affixed to the front pastedown, the remnants of a removed circulation label on the front endpaper, and a pocket with circulation card on the rear pastedown]. ... Read More
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This is Ragtme
by Waldo, Terry
New York: Hawthorn Books, Inc.. Near Fine in Very Good dj. (c.1976). First Edition. Hardcover. [no significant wear to book, just a touch of fading to covers along the bottom edges; the jacket has a few tiny edge-tears and some associated wrinkling/creasing at the bottom edge of the front panel]. (B&W photographs) A history of ragtime, "from its inception through its colorful evolution," one of the first to be published after the "rediscovery" of... Read More
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![Spatanga Flat [*SIGNED*]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/799/557/20557799.0.m.jpg)
Spatanga Flat [*SIGNED*]
by Waldrop, James
Dallas TX: Royal Publishing Company. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. (c.1966). First Edition. Hardcover. [nice clean copy, extremely light wear at base of spine; jacket shows mild edgewear, a little browning along spine]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author at the top of the ffep, below which the book's previous owner has added his signature; laid in is a copy of a pre-publication promotional flyer for the book. First (and possibly only) novel... Read More
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!["It's Only a Movie, Ingrid": Encounters On and Off Screen [*SIGNED*]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/569/079/1632079569.0.l.jpg)
"It's Only a Movie, Ingrid": Encounters On and Off Screen [*SIGNED*]
by Walker, Alexander
London: Headline Book Publishing. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. [no significant wear to book, just a bit of age-toning to the edges of the text block; the jacket has a few scrape lines in the upper area of the rear panel]. (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the half-title page: "For ______: who will / find some friends and / (I hope) a few enemies / herein.... Read More
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Satan Came Also
by Walker, Dorothy Pierce
New York: Liveright Publishing Corp.. Near Fine in Very Good dj. (c.1941). First Edition. Hardcover. NOISBN . [clean, solid copy, minor wear at extremities; jacket rubbed, edgeworn, rear panel moderately soiled, minor chipping/wrinkling at top of spine]. Novel set in Boston in 1721, with "the vigor and excitement of this lusty period of our early life portrayed in its full value. [The book] does not ruthlessly debunk nor does it too lightly gloss over the evils... Read More
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Banjo
by Walker, Frank
London: Michael Joseph. Very Good in Very Good dj. 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. 0718115937 . [good sound copy, light shelfwear to bottom edge, small red lip print on bottom edge of text block (presumably a remainder mark); jacket moderately rubbed, no tears or chips, a touch of wrinkling along top edge of front panel]. (pen and ink drawings) The author's second book about dogs, and his first about the "grueling but hilarious adventures" of the... Read More
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The Singular Case of the Duplicate Holmes
by Walker, Jan
Romford (UK)/Studio City CA: Ian Henry Publications / Players Press. Near Fine in Fine dj. (c.1994). First Edition. Hardcover. [nice clean copy with no discernible wear to either book or jacket; the book would be Fine but for a previous owner's initials and date & place of purchase written in ink along the edge of the rear pastedown (concealed by the rear jacket flap)]. Sherlock Holmes is accused by a young lady of "writing her... Read More
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The Light on Her Face
by Walker, Joseph, ASC, and Juanita Walker
Hollywood CA: The ASC Press. Fine in Good dj. 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. [nice clean book in virtually as-new condition; the jacket shows some wear along the edges (and has a couple of tiny tears along the top edge), and the front panel has endured some unfortunate spotting and soiling (although it doesn't look too bad in its new mylar cover)]. (B&W photographs) Memoir of one of Hollywood's great cinematographers, active from the late 1910s... Read More
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The Devil Man
by Wallace, Edgar
New York: A.L. Burt Company. Very Good in Very Good dj. (c.1931). Reprint. Hardcover. [lightly shelfworn, a little foxing to bottom and fore-edge of text block; jacket shows modest wear at edges and corners, a little soiling to front panel]. Wallace potboiler (aren't they all?) about "a burglar, a ruthless murderer [who] would have robbed his own mother, the local poor-box and the King of England with the same degree of pleasure and skill." ... Read More
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![The Chapman Report [*SIGNED*]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/357/272/496272357.0.m.jpg)
The Chapman Report [*SIGNED*]
by Wallace, Irving
New York: Simon and Schuster. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. [light shelfwear, modest browning to pages (due to cheap grade of paper used), minor scrunching to top corners of a small section of pages; jacket chipped at top of spine (no loss of text), a little additional wear and creasing at top corners, general edgewear]. INSCRIBED generically ("Best - ") and SIGNED by the author on the front free endpaper,... Read More
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![Life and Limb: An Account of the Career of Melvin M. Belli, Personal-Injury Trial Lawyer [*SIGNED* by Belli]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/659/545/8545659.0.m.jpg)
Life and Limb: An Account of the Career of Melvin M. Belli, Personal-Injury Trial Lawyer [*SIGNED* by Belli]
by Wallace, Robert
Garden City NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc.. Good in Fair dj. 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. NOISBN . [book only moderately worn, but front hinge split and front cover hanging on by webbing only; jacket is worn, internally damp-stained, various tears and chips, paper loss at spine extremities]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Melvin Belli on the ffep. Signed by Biographee .
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"Fats" Waller's Piano Pranks: 5 Novelty Piano Solos Composed and Featured by "Fats" Waller, "Radio's Harmful Little Armful"
by Waller, "Fats"
New York: Joe Davis Inc.. Very Good+. (c.1934). Unstated edition. Softcover. [modest wear to extremities, a little scuffing to front cover along spine]. Music for: "Clothes Line Ballet"; "Alligator Crawl"; "Viper's Drag"; "Effervescent"; and "African Ripples." .
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Will the Real Toulouse-Lautrec Please Stand Up?
by Waller, Leslie
Garden City NY: Doubleday & Co.. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. [nice and tight, a little wear at corners, top edge slightly darkened; jacket has some edge/corner wear, minor chipping with very slight paper loss at both ends of spine]. Satirical novel about a TV comedian. .
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![Red Canvas [*SIGNED*]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/254/716/21716254.0.m.jpg)
Red Canvas [*SIGNED*]
by Wallenstein, Marcel
New York: Creative Age Press, Inc.. Very Good. (c.1946). First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [moderate shelfwear, light soiling to covers, spotting to top edge]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the ffep; looks like the original inscription and signature (in pencil) were gone over again with ink. Novel set in Nazi-occupied France. Signed by Author .
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Hollywood Honors Elia Kazan, Filmmaker & Informer
by Walsh, David
Oak Park MI: Mehring Books, Inc.. Fine. (c.1999). First Edition. Stapled wraps. 0929087984 . [nice clean copy, no discernible wear]. 40-page booklet (including covers; text is 30 pages, with ads taking up the rest of the space), issued to protest the presentation of an honorary Academy Award to Elia Kazan in 1999. Kazan, whose gifts as a filmmaker were and are unquestioned, had nonetheless long been a political lightning rod due to his... Read More
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Each Man in His Time: The Life Story of a Director
by Walsh, Raoul
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. [nice clean book, slight fading to cloth along top edges of covers, slight bumping to upper corners, and with the binding very slightly torqued (it will be fine after it sits up straight on your shelves); the jacket is slightly age-toned, with just a touch of wear along the top edge and a short closed tear at the top of... Read More
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![Hercules [special commemorative album]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/748/670/16670748.0.m.jpg)
Hercules [special commemorative album]
by (Walt Disney Productions) Golier, Patrick, ed.
(n.p.): (Privately Published). Fine. 1997. Hardcover. NOISBN . (pictorial hard cover; no dust jacket, as issued) [bright, clean and flawless]. (B&W/color photographs, illustrations) Sumptuously-produced album, produced as an expression of appreciation to the many people who contributed to the creation of the 1997 Disney animated feature HERCULES (not one of the studio's most financially successful efforts, but no matter). A prefatory note, over the signatures (printed, NOT original) of Alice Dewey (producer) and... Read More
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Honor Them, Then
by Walters, Eve
Garden City NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj. 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. [solid copy, light dust-soiling and minor spotting to top edge, minor bump to bottom rear corner, scar/remnant on front pastedown from mostly-removed bookplate or label, small rubber-stamped bookseller's name at bottom of front pastedown; jacket a bit edgeworn, spine slightly toned, minor paper loss at top of spine, small tear at top front corner]. "A first novel of... Read More
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The NinJew
by Walters, Richard
Pittsburgh: Dorrance Publishing Co., Inc.. Very Good+. (c.2005). First Edition. Softcover. 080596794X . [a little edgewear to covers, light surface-scratching to front cover]. Trade PB "Combining his knowledge of weightlifting, strength training, and martial arts with a solid foundation of philosophy, [the author] sets out to right wrongs and foil evildoers as The Ninjew, an exceptional Jewish warrior. In this exciting half-biography, half-fictional account, [the author] spins a compelling tale of foiling a... Read More
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!["Historic Hollywood Movie Studios" (3-part series in "American Cinematographer" magazine, March-April-May 1976) [*SIGNED*]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/238/418/1362418238.0.l.jpg)
"Historic Hollywood Movie Studios" (3-part series in "American Cinematographer" magazine, March-April-May 1976) [*SIGNED*]
by Wanamaker, Marc
Hollywood: ASC Holding Corp.. Very Good+. 1976. Magazine. [each of the three issues is in VG+ or better condition; one has a subscription address label on the rear cover, another some remnants of a removed label]. A three-part series on the early history of Hollywood studios by one of its most erstwhile chroniclers, featuring dozens of rare photos of studio plants and personnel. Each article is briefly INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author... Read More
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