Danger Zone
by Whitfield, Raoul
New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good. 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. (lacking the original dust jacket, but encased in a professionally-made facsimile reproduction of same; see 2nd image posted with this listing) [modest shelfwear, light dust-soiling and age-toning to edges of text block, diagonal wrinkle in front cover cloth]. A hard-boiled boys' adventure yarn by this "Black Mask" stalwart, "a fast-moving story which describes the war crossing of a group of pilots on a... Read More
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Solo
by Whitmore, Stanford
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. (c.1955). First Edition. Hardcover. NOISBN . [minor soiling/spotting to pages edges, otherwise a solid clean copy; jacket faded at spine, some wear to corners, a few closed tears, scraping/creasing to rear panel]. Novel about "one of the greatest jazz pianists ever heard on the South Side of Chicago," a supremely talented but self-centered and rebellious musician who "wasn't interested in making money... Read More
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The Museum of Broadcasting Presents Contemporary German Television: March 8 - April 30, 1983
by Whitney, Craig R. (introduction)
New York: The Museum of Broadcasting. Very Good+. 1983. First Edition. Softcover. [moderate external edge- and surface-wear]. (B&W photographs) Program book for a series of screenings at the Museum of Broadcasting, highlighting the work of Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Wolfgang Petersen, among others. There are several essays and articles devoted to the then-recently-deceased Fassbinder, including a piece on his TV work by Andrew Sarris; the Petersen section of the book includes an interview with... Read More
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The House of Landell; or, Follow and Find [*SIGNED*]
by Whitney, Gertrude Capen (Mrs. George Erastus Whitney)
New York: R.F. Fenno & Company. Very Good in Fair dj. (c.1917). First Edition. Hardcover. NOISBN . [moderately worn but solid book, a bit of staining and soiling to edges of text block, some foxing/discoloration to endpapers; jacket is worn and soiled, with various tears and chips, missing about 1-1/2 inches at bottom of spine, a bit of paper loss at top of spine]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the ffep: "With love... Read More
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Jennifer
by Whitney, Janet
New York: William Morrow & Company. Good. (c.1941). First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [worn copy, moderate external soiling, light fraying at several corners, darkening to spine cloth, front hinge cracked but not split]. Historical romance set in the early 19th century, in which the eponymous heroine, the daughter of a British doctor, is moved by the poverty and social injustice she sees around her (this being the early days of the Industrial Revolution) to... Read More
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Don't Speak to Strange Girls
by Whittington, Harry
Greenwich CT: Fawcett Publications (Gold Medal k1303). Near Fine. 1963. 1st Edition (pbo). Softcover. [nice tight copy, uncreased spine, light external scuffing to covers, some faint diagonal soft creasing at bottom right corner of front cover, agency name rubber-stamped on front endpaper]. Mass Market PB "An Original Gold Medal Book," one of many turned out by this prolific author of trashy pulp fiction during the 1950s and 1960s. This one is about a "guy who... Read More
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The Devil Wears Wings
by Whittington, Harry
London/New York/Toronto: Abelard-Schuman Ltd. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. [modest bumping to upper corners but no other significant wear, agency stamp on front endpaper; the jacket is lightly soiled, with a few nicks along the edges, a couple of short closed tears, and a small triangular surface-wound to the rear panel (slightly affecting the text thereon); the lower corner of the front jacket flap is clipped (possibly where a British ... Read More
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Brute in Brass
by Whittington, Harry
Greenwich CT: Fawcett Publications (Gold Medal 595). Good+. 1956. 1st Edition (pbo). Softcover. [general exterior wear, slight spine lean, small crack/tear at bottom rear hinge, vertical creasing along left edge of front cover, agency name lightly rubber-stamped on front endpaper]. Mass Market PB Hard-boiled tale, a paperback original, about a bad cop redeemed (sort of) by falling in love. A la some of Jim Thompson's better work, the book is narrated by its troubled... Read More
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The American Vein: Directors and Directions in Television
by Wicking, Christopher, and Tise Vahimagi
New York: E.P. Dutton. Very Good+. 1979. First Paperback Edition. Softcover. [modest edgewear to covers, light soiling to bottom edge, slight bending at lower corners of last few pages and very slight curling in rear cover]. Trade PB A groundbreaking work in TV history, thsi was the "first comprehensive work to consider films that have been made especially for the small screen, either as TV movies or as series segments." Quite blatantly modeled after... Read More
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Back to Virtue, Betty
by Widdemer, Margaret
New York: Farrar & Rinehart. Good in Fair dj. (c.1934). First Edition. Hardcover. [worn but intact copy, apparently an ex-rental library book (although marked as such only by the rubber-stamped name "James Pharmacy" on both endpapers); the jacket shows quite a bit of wear (creasing, soiling, etc.), and has a chip at the top of the front panel and another (patched crudely with white paper) at the lower right corner; in addition, the jacket has... Read More
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Skyblue the Badass
by Wiebe, Dallas
Garden City NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc. / Paris Review Editions. Very Good in Very Good dj. 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. NOISBN . [moderate soiling and light dampstain to top edge of text block (interior of book unaffected), white patch (probably from sticker removal) on ffep, otherwise just lightly shelfworn; jacket slightly tanned at spine, tiny stain at bottom right corner of front panel]. The first of only two published novels by this Kansas-born author... Read More
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Right On!'s 100 Super-Soul Stars
by Wieder, Judy, and Lynn Mattern, comps.
New York: Tiger Beat / New American Library. Near Fine. 1972. First Edition. Softcover. [nice tight clean copy, with just a touch of handling wear]. Mass Market PB (B&W photographs) "An Official Tiger Beat Publication," presenting capsulized life stories of 100 "Super Soul Stars," compiled by the editors of Right On! Magazine. "Read all about the Jackson Five, Ike and Tina, Aretha, Temptations, Supremes and 95 other Soul greats -- How they made it... Read More
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The Politics of an Emerging Profession: The American Library Association, 1876-1917
by Wiegand, Wayne A.
New York/Westport CT/London: Greenwood Press. Fine. 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. 0313250227 . (no dust jacket, as issued) [nice as-new copy, with no discernible wear]. (Contributions in Librarianship and Information Science, No. 56) Series History of the founding and early years of the ALA. Includes (as you might expect) an extensive bibliography and a full index. Appendices I and II break down the constant characteristics and the changing characteristics, respectively, of the Association's board... Read More
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The Southpaw
by Wiggen, Henry W.; punctuation freely inserted and spelling greatly improved by Mark Harris
Indianapolis/New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company. Very Good. (c.1953). First Edition. Hardcover. (lacking the original dust jacket, but encased in a professionally-made facsimile reproduction of same; see 2nd image posted with this listing) [good sound copy, modestly shelfworn with minor bumping to bottom corners; agency stamps on front and rear pastedowns (Ad Schulberg) and on front endpaper, half-title page and title page (H.N. Swanson, Inc.) (see Notes)]. The opening installment in Harris's "Henry Wiggen" tetralogy of baseball novels, all narrated by... Read More
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Civil Liberties Under Attack
by Wilcox, Clair, ed.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. Near Fine in Very Good dj. 1951. 2nd printing. Hardcover. [tiny light stain at bottom edge of front cover, no other significant wear to book; the jacket shows modest edge- and surface-wear, with a couple of small closed tears, teensy bits of paper loss at the spine ends, and minor soiling to the rear panel]. Contents: "The Pragmatic Necessity for Freedom," by Henry Steele Commager; "Progress in Civil Rights," by... Read More
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Irma La Douce; a screenplay
by Wilder, Billy, and I.A.L. Diamond
New York: Tower Publications (A Midwood-Tower Book, F275). Fair. 1963. First Edition. Softcover. [cheaply-produced paperback, such that any amount of stress on the binding will inevitably result in a cracked binding and loose pages, as with this copy; it looks fairly nice externally, but has a couple of loose (detached) pages]. Mass Market PB (B&W photographs) The screenplay for Wilder & Diamond's 1963 romantic comedy about a happy-go-lucky Parisian prostitute and the gendarme who... Read More
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Break-up
by Wilde, Hagar
Boston: Little, Brown and Company. Fair. 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [FAIR condition only, although solidly bound and internally clean except for the initials of (I guess) a one-time owner on the front pastedown; externally, though, it's kind of a mess, with a number of small paper bits stuck to the front cover (which is also quite soiled), and a large ugly stain on the rear cover (I suspect the paper bits are... Read More
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A Loving Gentleman: The Love Story of William Faulkner and Meta Carpenter [*SIGNED*]
by Wilde, Meta Carpenter, and Orin Borsten
New York: Simon and Schuster. Very Good in Very Good dj. (c.1976). First Edition. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [moderate wear to book at extremities; jacket a little faded and soiled along spine and adjacet edges of both panels, a bit of wear along top edge, including a couple of small closed tears and very shallow paper loss at top of spine]. (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the colophon page: "For Ann and Del,... Read More
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The Long Christmas Dinner & Other Plays in One Act [*SIGNED*]
by Wilder, Thornton
New York/New Haven: Coward-McCann/Yale University Press. Good+ in Poor dj. 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. [book is shelfworn, slight fraying to cloth at top of spine; the jacket is a real mess, in three pieces (held together, albeit not very well, by a new mylar jacket cover) with extensive chipping, most of the spine missing, etc.]. INSCRIBED by the author on the on the ffep: "For Elsa Lanchester / and Charles Laughton / with the admiration and... Read More
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My Days With Errol Flynn: the Autobiography of Stuntman Buster Wiles
by Wiles, Buster, with William Donati
Santa Monica, CA: Roundtable Publishing, Inc.. Fine in Near Fine dj. 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. [very nice copy, no discernible wear to book; jacket just a touch rubbed at top of spine]. (B&W photographs) Buster Wiles met Errol Flynn on the set of CAPTAIN BLOOD in 1935, and was his stunt double and good buddy for many years. "In the early Forties, [he] lived at Flynn's vast estate in the Santa Monica Mountains, Mulholland... Read More
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The Copper Mask, and other stories
by Wiley, Hugh
New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. [good sound copy, minor age-toning to edges of text block, no other significant wear; the jacket is lightly edgeworn, with a couple of tiny closed tears, very shallow paper loss at top of spine and lower edge of rear panel, tiny edge-tear at bottom of front panel]. "These are stories about the Chinese of San Francisco written with all the authority... Read More
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Manchu Blood
by Wiley, Hugh
New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Near Fine in Good dj. 1927. 1st & 2nd Printings Before Publication. Hardcover. [nice tight copy, no significant wear, very minor soiling to fore-edge; jacket chipped and moderately soiled, paper loss at both ends of spine (slightly affecting last two letters in MANCHU at top of spine)]. Short stories set in San Francisco's Chinatown, "centering in the sympathetic figure of a crafty old Chinese butler" named Jim Sin. All... Read More
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Bring Home the Bride
by Wilhelm, Gale
New York: William Morrow & Company. Very Good. 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [solid copy, some dust-darkening to top edge of text block, browning to spine cloth and paper spine label; halftone photograph of the very mannish-looking author neatly affixed to front pastedown, one-time owner's signature and date at bottom of ffep]. A "straight" novel, you might say, by an author whose somewhat slender literary reputation rests almost entirely on two of... Read More
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No Letters for the Dead
by Wilhelm, Gale
New York: Random House. Very Good+ in Fair dj. (c.1936). First Edition. Hardcover. [modest shelfwear to book; includes the rare and fragile original acetate dust jacket and both dust jacket flaps; see Notes for additional details and condition information]. The author's second book, often described as an epistolary novel, although strictly speaking it's not, although it does quote quite often from letters exchanged by the principals. The story has to do with "a... Read More
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Crucible
by Williams, Ben Ames
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. (c.1937). Later Printing. Hardcover. [a good solid book, light shelfwear to bottom edge, previous owner's bookplate on ffep; jacket shows some wear and minor creasing along the bottom edge, additional wear at top right corner of front panel, spine a bit sunned]. Novel set in a Boston suburb, about the effects on a family when the husband/father is accused and convicted of the murder of... Read More
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