![Story: The Magazine of the Short Story (February 1935) [includes "Passage Into Eternity" by Bezzerides, plus two letters]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/739/215/1671215739.0.l.jpg)
Story: The Magazine of the Short Story (February 1935) [includes "Passage Into Eternity" by Bezzerides, plus two letters]
by (Bezzerides, A.I., et al.) Burnett, Whit, and Martha Foley, eds.
New York: Story Magazine, Inc.. Very Good-. 1935. (Vol. VI; whole No. 31). Magazine. [moderate overall wear, slight damage to lower right corner of front cover, heavy wear along spine but binding intact]. Contains the following stories: "No Fire on Mount Carmel" (R.E. Ashery); "Family Piece" (Virginia Moore); "2 or 3 Stories by Luchell" (Eluard Luchell McDaniel); "Men Like Gods" (George F. Meeter); "The Original Appoports" (Erin Samson); "Passage Into Eternity" (Bezzerides); "With Some... Read More
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![Thieves' Market [*20th Century-Fox Research Library copy*]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/764/014/1689014764.0.l.jpg)
Thieves' Market [*20th Century-Fox Research Library copy*]
by Bezzerides, A.I.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Very Good-. 1949. 1st Edition (A). Hardcover. (lacking the original dust jacket, but encased in a nice-looking facsimile reproduction of same; see 2nd image posted with this listing) [moderately worn copy, light soiling/foxing to top edge of text block, spine cloth somewhat faded and lightly stained; "Research Library / Twentieth Century-Fox" stamps on both pastedowns and on title page]. Classic hard-boiled/proletarian novel, about an immigrant trucker (of Greek ... Read More
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Thieves' Market
by Bezzerides, A.I.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1949. 1st Edition (A). Hardcover. Very Good. (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, slight fading to spine cloth, modest age-toning to edges of text block, small stain near top of rear cover]. Classic hard-boiled/proletarian novel, about an immigrant trucker (of Greek heritage, as was the author) who, while trying to make a living hauling produce in California's... Read More
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On the Sixth Day
by Bianco, Giuseppe [pseud. for Joseph White]
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. (c.1928). 1st [U.S.] Edition. Hardcover. [book is tight and clean, no discernible wear, light age-toning to page edges; jacket is almost flawless, with just a couple of tiny tears and associated horizontal creasing at top of front panel and front flap]. Novel set on the moors of Devon and in "sophisticated London," about the relationship between a father and daughter, the latter an unwanted... Read More
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![Salt of the Earth: The Story of a Film [*SIGNED*]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/113/744/1693744113.0.l.jpg)
Salt of the Earth: The Story of a Film [*SIGNED*]
by Biberman, Herbert
Boston: Beacon Press. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. (c.1965). First Edition. Hardcover. [light soiling to top edge of text block, no other significant wear to book; the jacket has a bit of wear along the top edge, a tiny bit of paper loss at the upper right corner of the front panel, and a short vertical puncture tear at the left edge of the front panel]. (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the front endpaper... Read More
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The Whole Story
by Bibesco, Elizabeth
New York/London: G.P. Putnam's Sons. Very Good+. 1926. 1st (U.S.) edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [sharp-looking copy, tight and square, paper spine label browned, light dust-soiling to top edge; slight fraying to cloth at bottom front corner]. The author's fourth book (and third story collection), dedicated "To Jean Cocteau." The eldest child of Herbert Henry Asquith (British Prime Minister from 1908-1916) and the sister of film director Anthony Asquith, Elizabeth was somewhat the... Read More
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Seven Keys to Baldpate [Photoplay Edition]
by Biggers, Earl Derr
New York: Grosset & Dunlap. [1925] (c.1911). First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Very Good+ in Fair dj. [good sound copy, minor wear to extremities, a little dust-soiling to top of text block; the jacket is heavily worn, missing about 2-1/2 inches from bottom of spine, large chip at left edge of rear panel, small bits of paper loss at several corners, various small tears and creases]. (4 B&W film stills) The first novel by the author who would later achieve lasting... Read More
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The Private Eye Cartoon Book
by Bilgrey, Marc
New York: Andrion Books. Near Fine. (c.1985). First Edition. Softcover. [a very tiny bit of wear to the upper right corner of the front cover, otherwise as new]. Trade PB (cartoon art) Cartoons about private detectives. The author/cartoonist credits Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett for "special inspiration," and occasionally uses quotes from both as captions or as the basis for his visual gags (single-panel cartoons). The author (per the rear-cover blurb) was... Read More
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The Wolf in the Garden
by Bill, Alfred H.
New York/Toronto: Longmans, Green and Co.. Fair. 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket, but encased in a nice-looking facsimile reproduction of the original first edition jacket; see 2nd image posted with this listing) [considerable shelfwear, bumping and fraying at all corners, external soiling, red spine lettering dulled, light staining along right side of front cover]. (pen & ink frontispiece drawing) A werewolf thriller set in a small village in New York's Hudson Valley in... Read More
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Charles Rennie Mackintosh: The Complete Furniture, Furniture Drawings & Interior Designs
by Billcliffe, Roger
London: John Murray. Fine in Near Fine dj. 1986. Third Edition. Hardcover. [a lovely copy, no discernible wear to book; the jacket shows only light handling wear, minor dog-earing at spine ends]. (B&W and color photographs & facsimiles) "Illustrated with almost 800 photographs, 20 in colour," this is "the definitive work on a designer of world renown." Originally published in 1979, this later edition "illustrates, in particular, a number of major pieces listed... Read More
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![The Frontiersman [original (U.K.) title: Frontiersmen]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/553/708/838708553.0.m.jpg)
The Frontiersman [original (U.K.) title: Frontiersmen]
by Bindloss, Harold
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. 1929. First American Edition. Hardcover. NOISBN . [nice clean book, minor shelfwear, slight bumping/fraying at top rear corner, vintage price sticker (from San Francisco department store The White House) on rear pastedown; jacket a bit edgeworn, light soiling to rear panel]. "A bitter feud was raging on the Manitoba prairies. On one side were grim, brawny frontiersmen, turning the wild prairies into... Read More
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Warner Bros.: Hollywood's Ultimate Backlot
by Bingen, Steven, with Marc Wanamaker
Lanham MD/Boulder/New York/London: Taylor Trade Publishing. Near Fine in Fine dj. (c.2014). First Edition. Hardcover. [a couple of faint ink smudges on top edge of text block, no other blemishes; jacket is flawless]. (B&W and color photographs, maps) "In this book, [the author] throws open Hollywood's iron gates and take you inside the greatest and yet most mysterious movie studio of them all: Warner Bros. Long home to the world's biggest stars and most... Read More
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M-G-M: Hollywood's Greatest Backlot
by Bingen, Steven, Stephen X. Sylvester, and Michael Troyan
Solana Beach CA: Santa Monica Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. (c.2011). First Edition. Hardcover. 1595800557 . [nice copy, only blemish to book is a faint stain on the bottom edge of the text block (the sort of thing you'd never have noticed if I hadn't pointed it out); the jacket shows just a touch of handling wear]. (B&W photographs, facsimiles) A different sort of movie-studio history, focusing not on the corporate history or... Read More
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![King Cowboy: Tom Mix and the Movies [*SIGNED*]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/421/838/1361838421.0.l.jpg)
King Cowboy: Tom Mix and the Movies [*SIGNED*]
by Birchard, Robert S.
Burbank CA: Riverwood Press. Near Fine. (c.1993). First Edition. Softcover. [nice clean copy, virtually as-new, very slight bend (no crease) to bottom right corner of front cover]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED to noted film historian Rudy Behlmer and SIGNED by the author on the title page. A well-documented and extensively-illustrated survey of the career of one of the great early Western film stars, "America's Champion Cowboy." **** NOTE that additional shipping charges... Read More
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Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood
by Birchard, Robert S.
Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. (c.2004). First Edition. Hardcover. 0813123240 . (price-clipped) [gift inscription (non-authorial) on ffep, otherwise like new; jacket similarly nice with just a touch of surface wear, slightly downgraded due only to the price-clipping]. (B&W photographs) A deeply-researched film-by-film examination of the career of "one of the giants of twentieth-century Hollywood." .
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![Silent-era Filmmaking in Santa Barbara [*SIGNED*]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/335/050/1445050335.0.l.jpg)
Silent-era Filmmaking in Santa Barbara [*SIGNED*]
by Birchard, Robert S.
Charleston SC: Arcadia Publishing. (c.2007). First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine. [nice clean copy, virtually as-new but for an unfortunate patch of laminate-peeling at the bottom corner of the rear cover, which has been somewhat crudely "patched" with a strip of clear tape]. (Images of America) Series Trade PB (B&W photographs) SIGNED by the author on the title page. Primarily a history of the American Film Company (known colloquially as the "Flying A," based on its winged logo), which was founded... Read More
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Alamo House: Women Without Men, Men Without Brains
by Bird, Sarah
New York: W. W. Norton & Co.. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. (c.1986). First Edition. Hardcover. 0393023230 . [nice tight copy, faint soiling/shelfwear to bottom edge; jacket clean and attractive, with one unobtrusive closed tear at top rear corner (at foldover)]. Comic novel of a Texas sorority house, "a woman's hilarious answer to Animal House" -- Secrets of the Yee-Haw Sisterhood, perhaps? -- based on the author's own undergraduate experiences at UT-Austin. Her ... Read More
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![I Ring Doorbells [*SIGNED*]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/252/471/1714471252.0.l.jpg)
I Ring Doorbells [*SIGNED*]
by Birdwell, Russell
New York: Julian Messner, Inc.. Good. 1939. 2nd printing. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [a good sound copy, but uneven fading to exterior cloth and a bit of damage to the front cover: a number of small indentations and one vertical surface rip (about 1" x 1/8")]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper: "Sept. 26, 1944 / For Martha / who will ring the / biggest bells in the / business -- /... Read More
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![Many Thousands Gone [*SIGNED*]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/955/631/1717631955.0.l.jpg)
Many Thousands Gone [*SIGNED*]
by Bishop, John Peale
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Very Good. 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [a good sound copy with no significant wear, would rate higher than Very Good but for the fact that the gilt spine lettering, while very strong and bright on the front cover, is almost completely rubbed away on the spine]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper: "To Jane Hutchins / with sincere regards / and best wishes... Read More
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The Art of Simon Bisley
by Bisley, Simon
Rockville Center NY: Metal Mammoth, Inc.. Fine. [2000]. First Edition. Hardcover. (laminated pictorial boards; no dust jacket, as issued) [nice clean book with no discernible wear]. (color and B&W illustrations) More than one hundred stunningly-reproduced examples of the artwork of this highly-regarded illustrator of comic books and graphic novels. From the foreword by Allan Grant: "This is art to DROOL over. Art to KEEP forever. Savour it on bleak, sunless days and watch... Read More
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Without a Stitch
by Bjørneboe, Jens (translated from the Norwegian by Walter Barthold)
New York: Grove Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. (c.1969). First American Edition First Printing. Hardcover. [nice clean book with minimal shelfwear; the jacket is also quite clean, and has a printed price label affixed at the top of the front flap, on top of the original printed price on the jacket itself]. First-person narrative novel about a "19-year-old girl troubled by her frigidity with boys" who discovers her Lesbian libido via a serious fight... Read More
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Return to Bondage
by Blackburn, Barbara
New York: Lincoln MacVeagh / The Dial Press. Very Good. 1926. First American Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [a good solid copy with only light wear, but unfortunately some dimwit, years ago, picked the book up after daubing his or her fingers in white paint, leaving several white finger-smudges on the front cover and spine, and some additional white paint stains along the edge of the rear cover; small bookseller's rubber-stamp on front pastedown... Read More
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Thunder on the Left; a play in three acts, from the novel of the same name by Christopher Morley
by Black, Jean Ferguson
New York: Samuel French. Very Good+. (c.1934). French's Standard Library Edition. Softcover. [a bit of age-toning, very slight damage to base of spine; binding intact and internally clean]. (stage diagram) An adaptation of Morley's 1925 semi-fantasy novel about a ten-year-old boy who finds himself projected twenty years into the future, and able to observe himself and his friends as adults. The play had a brief run (31 performances) at Maxine Elliott's Theatre in New... Read More
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Penny Wise; a comedy in three acts
by Black, Jean Ferguson
New York: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. Near Fine. (c.1937). Unstated edition. Softcover. [nice clean copy with minor external wear and one slightly scrunched lower page corner]. (B&W photo frontispiece, stage diagram) A comedy, set on a Connecticut farm, that had a brief (65 performances) run on Broadway in the spring of 1937, and then seems to have become (at least temporarily) a staple of various summer-stock companies. (The topliners of the N.Y. production were... Read More
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Lon Chaney: The Man Behind the Thousand Faces
by Blake, Michael F.
Vestal NY: The Vestal Press, Ltd.. Near Fine in Fine dj. 1993 (c.1990). First Edition. Hardcover. [a lovely copy, essentially as-new with no discernible wear to either book or jacket, but with a former owner's embossed ownership stamp at the upper right corner of the title page]. (B&W photographs) Lavishly illustrated, beautifully produced biography of the renowned "Man of a Thousand Faces," star of THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME and... Read More
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