Softie
by Warren, Howard
New York: Phoenix Press. Very Good. (c.1939). First Edition. Hardcover. NOISBN . (no dust jacket) [ex-rental library book (only signs are light stamp on rear pastedown and remnants of jacket flaps on both pastedowns); moderate wear to top and bottom edges, several corners bumped, dust-soiling to top edge, small rubber-stamped bookseller's name on front pastedown, large "Ex Libris / My Book -- My Pledge!" bookplate on ffep (owner's name/address not filled in)]. Vintage racy... Read More
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![The General: A Farcical Novel with an Historical Background Based on Buster Keaton's Comedy Spectacle Film of the Same Name [etc.] [Photoplay Edition]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/268/228/1693228268.0.l.jpg)
The General: A Farcical Novel with an Historical Background Based on Buster Keaton's Comedy Spectacle Film of the Same Name [etc.] [Photoplay Edition]
by Warren, Joseph
New York: Grosset & Dunlap. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. (c.1927). First Edition. Hardcover. [light shelfwear, front hinge a little weak, a bit of dust-soiling to the top edge of the text block, one-time owner's name rubber-stamped on front endpaper; the jacket is moderately soiled, with a tiny chip at the bottom of the front panel, teeny bits of paper loss at several corners, and a couple of old tape repairs (of the aforementioned chip... Read More
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![What a Widow!; a romantic comedy, based on the talking motion picture [etc.]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/192/381/1722381192.0.m.jpg)
What a Widow!; a romantic comedy, based on the talking motion picture [etc.]
by Warren, Joseph; novelized from the original screen story by Josephine Lovett
New York: Grosset & Dunlap. Very Good+ in Good dj. (c.1930). First Edition. Hardcover. [book is just lightly shelfworn, vintage bookseller's label (The Three Schuster Stores, Book Department) on front pastedown; the jacket has a number of crudely-applied old/yellowed internal tape repairs (mostly fixing several tears on the spine, but also with a long strip (applied both internally and externally) along the front flapfold; most of the front panel illustration, fortunately, is unblemished]. (4 B&W... Read More
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The New Awareness: Religion Through Science Fiction
by Warrick, Patricia, and Martin Harry Greenberg, eds.
New York: Delacorte Press. (c.1975). First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in Very Good dj. [light shelfwear to bottom edges, faint soiling to top of text block, bookseller's label on front pastedown; jacket mildly edgeworn, a few tiny nicks along top edge, short puncture/pull-tear at left edge of front panel]. An anthology of 15 science-fiction stories, each chosen to illustrate some basic question about the nature of God, man, and the universe. The stories "provide a new way of looking at... Read More
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![Land of the Good Shadows: The Life Story of Anauta, an Eskimo Woman [*SIGNED* by the book's subject]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/771/014/1689014771.0.l.jpg)
Land of the Good Shadows: The Life Story of Anauta, an Eskimo Woman [*SIGNED* by the book's subject]
by Washburne, Heluiz Chandler, and (Anauta) [aka Anauta Blackmore; Lizzie Ford Blackmore]
New York: The John Day Company. Very Good+. (c.1940). 3rd impression. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [a good sound copy, light wear to extremities, a teensy bit of fraying at the base of the spine]. (B&W photographs, endpaper maps) INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the half-title page: "with / Best Wishes to / John, E J Waddell / From / [Eskimo characters] / Anauta"; with additional inscription in the same hand: "with the compliments of your ... Read More
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Man of La Mancha; a musical play
by Wasserman, Dale; lyrics by Joe Darion, music by Mitch Leigh
New York: Random House. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. (c.1966). Book Club Edition. Hardcover. [nice book, tight and clean with only slight wear at extremities; jacket is similarly nice, with just a touch of edgewear]. (B&W photographs) Musical adaptation of "Don Quixote," which premiered in 1965 with Richard Kiley in the title role; filmed by director Arthur Hiller in 1972, with Peter O'Toole and Sophia Loren. [Note re book content: please note that, ... Read More
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Man of La Mancha; a musical play [*SIGNED*]
by Wasserman, Dale; lyrics by Joe Darion, music by Mitch Leigh
New York: Random House. Near Fine in Good dj. (c.1966). First Edition. Hardcover. [minor wear to cloth at spine ends, no other significant wear; the jacket is rubbed and scuffed, with a few tiny edge-nicks, and is severely color-shifted along the spine and along the left edge of the front panel]. (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED and SIGNED by playwright Wasserman on the front endpaper: "To Del, who / helped -- / Dale." Musical adaptation of ... Read More
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![Players in a Game [aka "Play With Fire"]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/361/062/978062361.0.m.jpg)
Players in a Game [aka "Play With Fire"]
by Wasserman, Dale
New York: Dramatists Play Service. Near Fine. (c.1989). Unstated edition. Softcover. [very light smudging at top of front cover, minor soiling to rear cover; otherwise clean and unmarked]. (B&W photo frontispiece) A lesser-known work by ths American writer, who made his name in live TV drama in the 1950s, then segued into a somewhat fitful screenwriting career -- but whose name is probably most strongly associated with the hit 1966 musical "Man of La... Read More
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The Wild Earth's Nobility; a novel of the Old West
by Waters, Frank
New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation. Good. (c.1935). First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [solid but shelfworn reading copy, bumping to most corners and spine ends, cloth slightly frayed at several corners and at top of spine, spine cloth a bit faded, light dampstaing to front cover]. The author's second novel, a family saga set during the Colorado mining boom, which began in the 1870s and extending into the early years of the 20th century.... Read More
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Elizabeth Taylor
by Waterbury, Ruth
New York: Appleton-Century. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. (c.1964). First Edition. Hardcover. [nice clean copy, minimal shelfwear, spine very slightly turned; jacket shows a little surface wear, additional slight bumping/wear around top of spine]. (B&W photographs) One of the first reasonably serious biographies of La Liz, by a well-connected Hollywood journalist -- a one-time editor of Photoplay Magazine, who wound up on the staff of the famous (and dreaded) columnist Louella Parsons. ... Read More
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Elizabeth Taylor [*SIGNED*]
by Waterbury, Ruth
New York: Appleton-Century. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. (c.1964). First Edition. Hardcover. [nice clean copy, minor wear to spine ends; the jacket shows a bit of wear along the top edge, a couple of nicks and some very minor creasing at the top of the spine]. (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author in red ink on the front endpaper: "Even better than being / inside Elizabeth Taylor / is being inside Walter, Mickey... Read More
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Blessed Plot
by Watkins, Ernest
London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd.. Very Good+ in Very Good- dj. 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. [a bit of soiling at top/bottom edges, minor shelfwear; jacket worn at corners, torn/wrinkled at lower right front panel, back panel soiled, chipping & a little paper loss at both ends of spine]. "A comedy of our times," sez the jacket blurb. "Aubrey Beardsley Mafeking Potts, in the Spring of 1944, feels that his self-chosen war task as Director of Army... Read More
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!["Quick, Watson, the Camera": Seventy-five Years of News Photography [*SIGNED* by numerous Watsons]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/691/463/1535463691.0.l.0.jpg)
"Quick, Watson, the Camera": Seventy-five Years of News Photography [*SIGNED* by numerous Watsons]
by Watson, Delmar, ed.; text by Helen R. Weiner
Hollywood CA: Delmar Watson. Near Fine in Very Good dj. (c.1975). First Edition. Hardcover. [light shelfwear to book along bottom edge; the jacket shows a bit of wear along top and bottom edges, short closed tear at top of front panel, short but somewhat ragged closed tear and associated minor creasing at bottom of front panel]. (B&W photographs) This copy has been INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the front endpapers by editor Delmar Watson, and additonally... Read More
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The Case of the Philosophers' Ring
by Watson, (Dr.) John H.; unearthed by Randall Collins
New York: Crown Publishers, Inc.. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. (c.1978). First Edition. Hardcover. [no discernible shelfwear, a nice clean book except for the former owner's name, date & place of purchase, and brief editorial commentary, all in ink on the front endpaper; the jacket shows just a touch of surface-soiling]. (B&W photographs) "Amid the drugs and cult mysticism of the Edwardian Underworld, Sherlock Holmes encounters the world's most evil genius, and his... Read More
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The Virgin King
by Watson, Francis
New York/London: D. Appleton-Century Company. Near Fine in Very Good- dj. 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [tight, clean book, with minor wear to the extremities, light previous owner's stamp on the first two front endpapers; the jacket is moderately edgeworn, with some rubbing and scuffing to the front panel, very shallow paper loss at the spine ends, and a small (1" x 1/4") puncture-tear on the rear panel which slightly affects the text thereon]. ... Read More
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Southern Cultures (Summer 2008): Katrina
by (Watson, Harry L., and Larry J. Griffin, eds.)
Chapel Hill: American South. Near Fine. 2008. (Vol. 14, No. 2). Journal. [virtually as new, with just tiny bumping to t5he upper right corner of the front cover and the lower corner of the rear cover]. (B&W photographs) Special issue devoted entirely to essays examining multiple aspects of the impact of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans and the Gulf region. The essays: "Always the Tragic Jezebel: New Orleans, Katrina, and the Layered Discourse... Read More
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![Sober and Properly Dressed [*SIGNED*]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/702/702/1381702702.0.m.jpg)
Sober and Properly Dressed [*SIGNED*]
by Watts, Stephen
London: The Bodley Head. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. [spine a bit turned, light bumping to top right corner of front cover; jacket shows some wear at upper extremities, 1.5" closed tear at top of rear panel, a couple of tiny closed tears at top of front panel]. INSCRIBED briefly and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper. "A novel about the theatre and Fleet Street," by an... Read More
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Tropic Seed [original UK title: No Quarter]
by Waugh, Alec
New York: Farrar & Rinehart. Very Good in Good dj. (1932). First American Edition. Hardcover. (price-clipped and more) [modest shelfwear to book, light soiling to edges of text block; the jacket is colorful and attractive, but unfortunately has had about a quarter-inch trimmed off along both the top and bottom edges]. "Here is a sturdy, richly-colored tale of several generations of French emigres living on the island of Martinique, and of the strain of an... Read More
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Charlie Dell
by Wayne, Anderson
New York: Coward-Mccann, Inc. Very Good+ in Fair dj. (c.1952). First Edition. Hardcover. [light shelfwear to book, one-time owner's name and address in pencil on ffep; jacket heavily worn at edges, rather crudely repaired and reinforced with brown tape]. Somewhat hard-boiled story, set in Denver, of an average Joe (er, Charlie) -- "one of those human molecules who contribute to the placing of a decimal point in the Kinsey Report" -- who has a fling with... Read More
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The Blonde Trap
by Weatherall, Ernie
New York: The Woodford Press. Very Good in Very Good dj. 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. [light shelfwear, slight bumping to lower corners; jacket shows some wear along spine and at corners]. Trashy novel in the Woodford vein, about a married man who "fell into the blonde trap [when he] met a predatory female who was common, vulgar, and unfaithful to him. And for her he almost sacrificed his iwfe and his career -- and... Read More
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The Eight Corners of the World
by Weaver, Gordon
Chelsea VT: Chelsea Green Publishing Co.. Fine in Near Fine dj. 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. [nice as-new copy, with no discernible wear to book; the jacket has just a touch of wrinkling along the top edge, which effectively disappears inside its new mylar jacket cover]. A satrical novel, "the story of the life and times of Yoshinori Yamaguchi (a.k.a. Gooch, a.k.a. Lt. Benshi, a.k.a. Foto Joe), a Japanese with a passion for the English language... Read More
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Her Knight Comes Riding
by Weaver, John V.A.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good+. 1928. Unstated edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [a good sound copy, light shelfwear, front board very slightly bowed, a bit of spotting on the front cover, spine cloth somewhat darkened; bookplate of MGM writer/producer Carey Wilson on front pastedown]. Novel about the collision between the romantic notions of an unsophisticated Brooklyn stenographer and the drab reality of her life and relationships. This was the first novel by... Read More
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![Whisper of the Muse: The Overstone Album & Other Photographs by Julia Margaret Cameron [*SIGNED*]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/842/438/993438842.0.l.jpg)
Whisper of the Muse: The Overstone Album & Other Photographs by Julia Margaret Cameron [*SIGNED*]
by Weaver, Mike (essay)
Malibu CA: The J. Paul Getty Museum. Fine in Near Fine dj. 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. 0892360887 . [lovely copy, no wear at all to book; jacket shows just a bit of wear along top edge of front panel, small pen-point scratch (no ink) near bottom of rear panel]. (sepia-tone photographs) INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Mike Weaver, author of the book's central essay, on the half-title page: "For Dick & Mickey / with love &... Read More
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History of Photography (Summer 1998): Photography and Architecture; Ansel Adams
by Weaver, Mike, and Anne Hammond, eds.; Daniel Naegele, guest ed.
London/Washington DC: Taylor & Francis Ltd.. Near Fine. 1998. (Vol. 22, No. 2). Softcover. [nice clean copy, just a tiny bit of edgewear, minor scuffing to rear cover]. (B&W photographs) The bulk of this issue is devoted to two topics. "Photography and Architecture" features a guest editorial and five articles focusing on that topic, including an interview with Ezra Stoller, and discussions of Walter Benjamin, Le Corbusier, and Violett-le-Duc. The section on Ansel Adams... Read More
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Bride of the Gorilla
by Weaver, Tom
Albany GA: BearManor Media. (c.2015). First Edition. Softcover. Fine. [a very nice, as-new book, with no discernible wear]. (Scripts from the Crypt, No. 3) Series Trade PB (B&W photographs, facsimiles) Everything -- and I really do mean everything -- you could possibly want to know about this 1951 Grade-B (optimistically) "outlandish monster melodrama." Includes: an introduction by John Landis; the full original screenplay; an article about the making of the film; a tribute to its screenwriter-director, Curt Siodmak; an essay... Read More
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