Mr. Arkadin
by Welles, Orson
New York: Pyramid Books (G357). Very Good. 1958. 1st printing thus. Softcover. [moderate external wear, a couple of small pen squiggles at lower right corner of front cover]. Mass Market PB Novel about a mysterious international financier who pays a handsome young playboy to uncover his hidden past, which reveals "a sordid path of women, high finance and corruption." A fairly straightforward adaptation of Welles's 1955 film of the same name, first published in... Read More
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Le Procès (The Trial) (in: l'Avant-Scène Cinema, no. 23 (spécial), February 15, 1963)
by Welles, Orson
Paris: L'Avant-Scène. Very Good+. 1963. (No. 23, numéro spécial). Periodical. [modest edgewear to covers, internally Fine; encased in a custom-cut plastic "jacket" which is somewhat surface-worn and has a tiny missing piece adjacent to the spine, but has protected the magazine quite nicely]. (B&W photographs) An early "special" issue of this long-running French film periodical, which (per its usual practice) is devoted almost exclusively to presenting the full scenario (in French) of a single film... Read More
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Cinema [magazine] (July 1966) [cover: Linda Evans]
by {Wellman, William} (Hanson, Curtis Lee, ed.)
Beverly Hills CA: Spectator International. Very Good. 1966. (Vol. 3, No. 3). Magazine. [several vertical creases in both front and rear covers, a bit of scuffing to rear cover, otherwise a nice clean copy]. (B&W photographs) The major feature of this issue is a fourteen-page interview with William Wellman, illustrated with many stills from his films -- quite possibly the most in-depth look at his career to have appeared at that time. Other... Read More
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A Talent for Murder
by Wells, Anna Mary
New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good in Good dj. 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. [spine slightly turned, small stain on top edge, some discoloration to pastedowns and endpapers; jacket is heavily edgeworn, little bits of paper loss at spine ends and several corners, shallow chip at upper left-hand corner of front panel]. A psychoanalytical murder mystery, in which the accused murderess doesn't actually know if she's guilty or not. Although she testifies to her... Read More
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The Shape of Things to Come
by Wells, H.G.
New York: The Macmillan Company. Very Good+. 1933. First American Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [a good sound copy, slight crinkling to cloth at crown of spine, minor bump to upper right corner of front cover, mild age-toning to edges of text block]. Wells's novel of a future utopian/technological civilization that rises from the ashes of a world beset by economic depression and a world war (which in some ways resembled the actual World ... Read More
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Raff, The Jungle Bird: The Story of Our Talking Mynah [*SIGNED*]
by Wells, Zetta and Carveth
New York: Robert M. McBride and Company. Near Fine in Very Good dj. (c.1941). First Edition. Hardcover. [very light bumping at several corners, small newspaper obituary of Raffles affixed to ffep]. (pen and ink drawings) SIGNED by the authors on the half-title page (Zetta with her first name only, Carveth with his full name and with an additional small sketch of an elephant added). The story, told by the noted explorer/world traveler/lecturer/filmmaker Wells ... Read More
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Houdini: A Definitive Bibliography: A Description of the Literary Works of Harry Houdini
by Weltman, Manny
Van Nuys CA: Finders/Seekers Enterprises. Near Fine. (c.1991). Revised Edition. Stapled wraps. [nice copy, faint smudging on front cover, extremely light bumps at a couple of corners]. (facsimile reproductions) Despite the title, the author admits in a brief preface that "it is really not completely definitive." Still, it represents twenty-five years of dedicated research, and is very nicely done. Divided into five sections: Books, Pamphlets, Articles; Houdini's Reports on Variety Acts in... Read More
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Other People's Daughters
by Wembridge, Eleanor Rowland
Boston/New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. Near Fine in Very Good dj. 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. [a nice clean copy, light shelfwear, slight age-toning to top of text block; jacket lightly toned at spine, small chip at bottom right corner of rear panel, a couple of tiny chips along top edge "Seventeen Studies from Life," the stories of "those drifting girls of the big cities who pass by day from one temporary job to another, by... Read More
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Life Among the Lowbrows
by Wembridge, Eleanor Rowland
Boston/New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. (c.1931). Later Printing. Hardcover. [modestly shelfworn, light age-toning to edges of text block, one-time owner's signature on ffep (see NOTE below); jacket a little darkened along spine, tiny tears and minor paper loss at several corners]. Mrs. Wembridge, following up her earlier work "Other People's Daughters," here turned her attention to boys and well as girls -- but it's pretty clear that it's... Read More
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Soldiers' Women
by Wendler, Otto Bernhard (translated from the German by Ian F.D. Morrow)
New York/London: Harper & Brothers. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. 1930. First American Edition. Hardcover. [good sound book, just a touch of wear to extremities, light spotting to fore-edge, vintage price sticker (from San Francisco department store The White House) on rear pastedown; jacket has 2.5" split at bottom of rear foldover, minor soiling/creasing to rear panel]. "Perhaps this is the first book to touch on that particular aspect of war; the soldiers and... Read More
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Pursuit of a Parcel
by Wentworth, Patricia
Philadelphia/New York: J.B. Lippincott Company. Very Good+. 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [lightly worn copy, minor spotting to covers, spine cloth a little bit faded, slight bumping at spine ends and several corners]. The third and last of the author's "Inspector Lamb" mysteries. .
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To Whom It May Concern: The Story of Victor Ilyitch Seroff
by Werner, M.R.
New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith. Very Good+ in Fair dj. 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. [nice solid clean copy, slight fading to cloth at ends of spine; the jacket is a bit on the tattered side, with numerous small chips, tears, etc.]. Very uncommon account of the early life of Victor Ilyitch Seroff (1902-1979), whom the author (Werner) met in Paris in the late 1920s, and found so fascinating that he "laid aside other... Read More
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Where Town Begins
by Werry, Richard R.
New York: Greenberg: Publisher. Near Fine in Very Good dj. (c.1951). First Edition. Hardcover. NOISBN . [nice clean copy with just a touch of wear to extremities; jacket shows a bit of wear at edges and corners, a few small tears at edges and corners but no significant paper loss]. Michigan author's first novel (following a volume of poetry published in 1947), a noir-ish tale of a Navy veteran who returns to his family and... Read More
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The Country of the Heart
by Wersba, Barbara
New York: Atheneum. Fine in Near Fine dj. 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. [nice clean book with no discernible wear; the jacket shows just the teensiest bit of wear at several corners]. Young adult fiction about "the grief -- and glory -- of a first love," concerning "a young man's love letter to a woman who is dead: a writer he met when he was eighteen and she was forty. Reconstructing their affair like pieces... Read More
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Peter the Drunk
by Wertenbaker, Charles
New York: Horace Liveright. Very Good. 1929. 2nd printing. Hardcover. NOISBN . (no dust jacket) [solid binding, moderate external wear, bumping and very slight fraying to bottom corners, one-time owner's signature on ffep]. Novel about the effect of the eponymous protagonist's constant imbibing on his marriage (hint: it's not good). On the very first page, he's "a little tight but not as tight as he had been," and from then on there's rarely... Read More
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Back to the Batcave [*SIGNED*]
by West, Adam, with Jeff Rovin
New York: Berkley Books. Near Fine. 1994. First Edition. Softcover. [very slight wear to several corners of front cover, otherwise nice and clean]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Adam West on the title page, with an additional handwritten note from West to the inscribee, laid in. The author recounts his experience of portraying Batman in the campy 1960s TV series. Includes a full annotated episode guide to the series.... Read More
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The Ballad of Tom Dula: The Documented Story Behind the Murder of Laura Foster and the Trials and Execution of Tom Dula
by West, John Foster
Durham NC: Moore Publishing Company. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. [1970]. First Edition. Hardcover. [a bit of foxing/staining and light wear along the top edge, no other significant wear; the jacket is also a bit stained along the edges and at the spine, but presents well in new mylar]. (B&W photos, facsimile of map) This book, about the real-life 1868 murder case that was the basis for the popular folk ballad about "Tom Dooley,"... Read More
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The Crooked Road
by West, Morris L.
New York: William Morrow and Company. Very Good in Good dj. 1957. First American Edition. Hardcover. [spine slightly turned, minor bumping to lower corners, a little dust-soiling to top of text block, tiny stain on fore-edge; jacket faded at spine, missing about 1.5" inches from bottom of spine, 2-inch split at lower front flap-fold, several other nicks and small tears]. "An exciting novel about an American newspaperman fighting for his 'big story' in the ... Read More
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Hail, Hero!
by Weston, John
New York: David McKay Company, Inc.. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. (c.1968). First Edition. Hardcover. NOISBN . [nice clean copy, minor wear to base of spine; jacket slightly age-toned at spine, no other significant wear]. Novel about "the twenty-four hours in the life of a young man just before he goes into military service," even though he's passionately against war and does intend to do any killing: "he wants only to look in the... Read More
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Tide Marks
by Westrup, Margaret (Mrs. W. Sydney Stacey)
New York: The Macmillan Company. Near Fine in Very Good dj. 1913. 1st [U.S.] Edition. Hardcover. NOISBN . [a very nice copy, with just the slightest wear at the corners; jacket has small tears at several corners, tiny bit of paper loss at upper rear corner, slight chipping at base of spine, somewhat faded at spine, but overall clean and attractive]. The life and love of one Philippa Hamilton, per the jacket blurb "a splendid... Read More
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Three Gals a Week
by West, Token
New York: Phoenix Press. Good. (c.1942). First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [front endpaper apparently removed, with consequent cracking of front hinge; two previous owner's labels affixed to front pastedown]. Trashy romantic fiction of the sort that mostly went straight to the rental-library market. What I love about these books (apart from the so-bad-it's-sometimes-fun prose) is that the publisher's usually printed a version of the jacket blurb inside the front of the book.... Read More
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A Wreath and a Curse
by Wetzel, Donald
New York: Crown Publishers. Very Good in Very Good dj. (c.1950). First Edition. Hardcover. NOISBN . (price-clipped) [solid copy, moderate shelfwear to bottom edge, dust-soiling to top edge, slight fading to cloth along top edge; jacket edgeworn, a bit soiled, various tiny chips and tears (nothing too serious), small label with endorsement by E.C. Delafield Jr. affixed at upper left-hand corner of front panel (not covering any text)]. "Dad and Mom, Ruth and her... Read More
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They Shall Not Die
by Wexley, John
New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good. 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. (patterned paper-covered boards; no dust jacket) [slight bumping to bottom corners, some fading to spine, tiny tear at top of spine; firmly bound and internally clean]. Dramatization of the Scottsboro Boys case and trial, by a playwright who went on to a relatively brief screenwriting career before his political associations caught up with him and got him blacklisted. The original Broadway production... Read More
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The Last Mile: A Play in Three Acts
by Wexley, John
New York/Los Angeles: Samuel French. Very Good-. (c.1930, 1929). Later Printing. Softcover. [minor wear to extremities, spine somewhat browned, old selling price of $1.00 rubber-stamped at upper corner of front cover, some pencil annotations throughout Act 1]. (B&W photo frontispiece) Classic "big house" melodrama, focusing on a group of prisoners on Death Row in a Federal prison in Oklahoma. Spencer Tracy's starring performance in the original Broadway production led directly to his first... Read More
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The Tethered Bubble
by Weyant, Fanny Lee
New York/London: The Century Co.. Near Fine in Very Good dj. (c.1930). First Edition. Hardcover. [solid clean book with light wear at spine ends, very slight bumping to a couple of corners, vintage bookseller's label (Newbegins, San Francisco) on rear pastedown; jacket moderately edgeworn, with a few tiny nicks along the bottom edge]. Novel set in "a well-known woman's college in the year 1897, a time when 'higher education for females' was still a warmly... Read More
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