![[Stan Lee presents The Man of Bronze] Doc Savage (August, 1975) [issue no. 1]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/905/941/8941905.0.m.jpg)
[Stan Lee presents The Man of Bronze] Doc Savage (August, 1975) [issue no. 1]
by Wolfman, Marv, ed.
New York: Magazine Management Co. (Curtis). Near Fine. 1975. August 1975. Magazine. NOISBN . [very minor edgewear, light diagonal creasing near bottom corner of front cover; would probably grade VF-NM in comic book terms]. (B&W illustrations, photographs) A magazine-format comic book (and movie tie-in), featuring an illustrated DS adventure, "The Doom on Thunder Isle," and a long interview with George Pal, writer/producer of the feature film DOC SAVAGE: THE MAN OF BRONZE, starring Ron... Read More
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The Lonely Steeple
by Wolfson, Victor
New York: Simon and Schuster (A Venture Press Book). Very Good in Good+ dj. (c.1945). 4th printing. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [good sound copy with only minor shelfwear, the 5th of the book's 8 signatures (i.e. pp. 141-172) printed on cheaper paper and thus notably age-toned, one-time owner's signature on front endpaper, vintage bookseller's label (Paul Elder & Co., San Francisco) on rear pastedown; the jacket is worn at edges and extremities, with a small bit of surface... Read More
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Excursion: A Play in Three Acts
by Wolfson, Victor
New York: Random House. Very Good+. (c.1937). "Revised Acting Version". Softcover. [light external wear, some toning/light soiling to edges of text block, faint darkening to spine]. (stage diagrams) From the front-cover synopsis, better than anything I could write: "After thirty years on the great trade route from Harlem to Coney Island, Captain Obadiah Rich's excursion steamship Happiness is about to be takien out of service and made over into a garbage scow. The... Read More
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The Eagle on the Plain
by Wolfson, Victor
New York: Simon and Schuster. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj. (c.1947). First Edition. Hardcover. NOISBN . [good solid copy, mild shelfwear, light dust-soiling to top edge, one tiny smudge on bottom edge; jacket shows a bit of shelfwear here and there, minor paper loss (no text affected) at spine ends, light soiling/browning to rear panel]. Novel set in a small town in upstate New York, one of "a number of towns and villages which... Read More
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Sex Alarm
by Woller, Olga
New York: Margent Press. Good+ in Poor dj. 1946. Unstated. Hardcover. (jacket is Fair) [general shelfwear, bottom corners heavily bumped; jacket missing a large jagged chuck at top of spine, affecting both panels at upper corners and losing "S" in title]. One of those cheapie novels the meaning of whose (admittedly catchy) title is wilfully obscure, and whose jacket copy tells you virtually nothing: "The course of love in the higher circles of the... Read More
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![My Life, My Way: An Autobiography [*SIGNED*]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/134/071/990071134.0.m.jpg)
My Life, My Way: An Autobiography [*SIGNED*]
by Wonder, Ginger
Sioux Falls SD: Pine Hill Press. Near Fine. (c.2000). First Edition. Softcover. [teensy-weensy dog-earing to a couple of orders, otherwise essentially as new; label on title page with author's address and phone number]. Trade PB INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the dedication page: "To you it's a / pleasure. / Ginger Wonder." Self-published autobiography of "a Senior Citizen who has lived from the Depression Years to the Year 2000." The ... Read More
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Hamtramck -- Then and Now: A Sociological Study of a Polish-American Community
by Wood, Arthur Evans
New York: Bookman Associates. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. (c.1955). First Edition. Hardcover. [minor shelfwear only; the jacket is lightly edgeworn, slightly color-shifted at spine]. (B&W photographs, maps) "A study of the political and social behavior of Polish immigrants and their children in Hamtramck, Michigan, a community which they have dominated since the first decade of the present century." Treating Hamtramck "as a sort of 'cultural island' within the Detroit Metropolitan Area," the... Read More
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San Francisco in Maps & Views
by Woodbridge [or Woodbrige], Sally B.
New York: Rizzoli. Very Good+ in Near Fine dj. 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. [slight bumping to corners, small red dot (probably a remainder mark) on bottom edge of text block, some damage to binding in front and rear gutters (although the binding itself is still quite solid); the jacket is quite nice but for the minimal bumping at the corners, matching the book]. (maps) This beautifully-designed book "explores the city's growth over the course of... Read More
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TV Personalities Biographical Sketch Book - Volume 3
by Wood, Carlyle, ed.
St. Louis: TV Personalities. (c.1957). (Volume 3). Plastic comb binding. Near Fine. [nice clean copy, no signfiicant wear, plastic comb backstrip completely intact]. (B&W photographs) "Interesting Biographical Information about ... well known Television Stars," averaging a bit less than a page in length for each (about 185 people are covered in 158 pages), with each entry accompanied by a head shot. Many of the names we recognize today as iconic stars of early television were covered in Volumes 1 and... Read More
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The Sensualist: A Novel of the Life and Times of Oscar Wilde
by Wood, Clement
New York: Jonathan Swift, Publishers. Very Good in Good dj. (c.1942). First Edition. Hardcover. [bottom corners bumped, tiny piece of cloth torn (or chewed) away at top of spine, light foxing to front endpapers; jacket shows wear at corners, half-inch deep chip at top of spine (taking away part of "The" in title), a bit of soiling to front panel]. The author, "himself a noted poet and novelist, has made an intensive study of the... Read More
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The Woman Who Was Pope: A Biography of Pope Joan, 853-855 A.D.
by Wood, Clement
New York: William Faro, Inc.. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. 1933 (c.1931). 3rd printing. Hardcover. [just a touch of shelfwear, modest age-toning to edges of text block; the jacket is lightly edgeworn, and has some random spotting on the rear panel]. Or, not. A "biography" (if we may call it that) of the woman who purportedly reigned as Pope of Rome for a couple of years during the 9th Century, but whose actual existence... Read More
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![They Call Me Coach [*SIGNED*]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/982/305/390305982.0.m.jpg)
They Call Me Coach [*SIGNED*]
by Wooden, John, as told to Jack Tobin
Waco TX: Word Books. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. 1976 (c.1972). 5th printing. Hardcover. 0876803052 . (price-clipped) [nice clean copy, light bumping to bottom corners; jacket lightly edgeworn and a bit rubbed, slightly color-shifted at spine, small closed tear at bottom right-hand corner of front panel]. (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED ("Thank you, _______, for your interest in this coach / Best wishes,") and SIGNED by the author on the ffep, additionally dated 10/11/76 in... Read More
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The Presence of Everett Marsh
by Wood, [James] Playsted
Indianapolis/New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. (c.1937). First Edition. Hardcover. [a bit of wear at both ends of spine, moderate age-toning to top of text block, a little offsetting/minor discoloration to both endpapers and pastedowns; jacket lightly edgeworn, minor paper loss at base of spine, ragged tear across top of spine (with old internal tape-repair, small paper loss at upper front hinge), small tears at a couple of corners, short... Read More
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Under the Bright Lights
by Woodrell, Daniel
New York: Henry Holt and Company. Fine in Near Fine dj. (c.1986). First Edition. Hardcover. 0030085144 . [nice tight clean book with no discernible wear; jacket a little rubbed, one small closed tear at bottom of rear panel]. The author's first novel, set in the bayou country of Louisiana, featuring police detective Rene Shade. .
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Young Working Girls; a summary of evidence from two thousand social workers
by Woods, Robert A., and Albert J. Kennedy, eds.
Boston/New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. Very Good+. 1913. First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [good solid copy, minor bumping to top corners, gilt lettering on spine and front cover still bright; one-time owner's name and reading-note-to-self on ffep, some pencil underlining and occasional brief notations (also in pencil) in the text]. Sponsored by the National Federation of Settlements (and with an introduction by Jane Addams, its first president), this volume grew out a study... Read More
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The Edge of Darkness
by Woods, William
Philadelphia/New York/London: J.B. Lippincott Company (A Story Press Book). (c.1942). 3rd impression. Hardcover. Very Good in Poor dj. (in a Grosset & Dunlap movie tie-in dust jacket) [good sound copy, light soiling to covers, some fading to spine cloth where pieces of jacket are absent, a lot of pencil scribbling (song lyrics?) on both sides of rear endpaper; the jacket is a mess, very worn, missing about two inches from base of spine, with various other tears and chips, yet... Read More
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The Greatest Show on Earth: A Play in Four Acts
by Woods, William Whitfield
Chicago: Brentano's. Very Good. 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [light wear to extremities, a little spotting/soiling to top page edges; attractive vintage bookplate (Mary and Seymour Korman) on ffep]. (photo frontispiece portrait of author) Very scarce anti-war drama, in which the protagonist, a World War I veteran whose younger brother was killed in combat and who becomes a isolationist/pacifist as a result, goes into politics, apparently for the sole purpose of exposing how... Read More
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Evelyn Prentice
by Woodward, W.E.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. NOISBN . [nice book, bottom corners slightly bumped and some light spottng on the top edge, no other significant wear; jacket is moderately rubbed and edgeworn, with one short closed tear and associated pair of diagonal creases at bottom of front panel; note that the jacket is, curiously, unpriced]. Very scarce novel, the story of a woman who had married her... Read More
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Opinion of the Court
by Woolfolk, William
Garden City NY: Doubleday & Co.. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in Near Fine dj [nice tight copy, faint yellowing of page edges, small dented spot on fore-edge; jacket has one small tear at upper front corner, mild chipping at spine ends]. "When [the author] was editor for a well-known television series, 'The Defenders,' he found it impossible to win approval for a script that embodied the central thesis... Read More
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The Ten Faces of Cornell Woolrich
by Woolrich, Cornell
New York: Simon and Schuster. Fair in Good dj. (c.1965). First Edition. Hardcover. [ex-library with typical markings (including a catalog card affixed to the front endpaper), confined to the front endpaper and title page; moderately shelfworn and the spine somewhat turned; the jacket flaps are firmly glued down, alas, so there's nothing to be done except to sell it "as is," a perfectly good reading copy that looks respectable on the shelf (the jacket is... Read More
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Children of the Ritz
by Woolrich, Cornell
New York: Boni and Liveright. Very Good. 1927. 2nd printing. Hardcover. (lacking the original dust jacket, but encased in a professionally-made facsimile reproduction of same; see 2nd image posted with this listing) [a good sound copy, age-toning and light soiling to edges of text block, some discoloration to endpapers]. Woolrich's second published novel, "the story of a beautiful young flapper, a sub-deb, born with a silver cocktail shaker in her hand (in place of... Read More
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Black Alibi
by Woolrich, Cornell
New York: Simon and Schuster. Good. 1942. 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) [a solid clean copy, but with some deterioration to the black cloth at both ends of the spine and shelfwear/exposure of boards at the lower tips]. Suspense thriller about a series of grisly murders, attributed to a jaguar on the loose, in a large... Read More
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Hotel Room
by Woolrich, Cornell
New York: Random House. (c.1958). First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+. (no dust jacket) [good sound copy with only minor wear to the upper extremities, a touch of fraying to the cloth at the lower rear hinge, very slight scrunching to the edges of a few pages in the middle of the book, and an agency label (Famous Artists Associates, Beverly Hills) on the front endpaper]. Late-career episodic novel by the great suspense/mystery writer, which according to biographer Francis M. Nevins... Read More
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The Black Path of Fear
by Woolrich, Cornell
Garden City NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co. , for the Crime Club. Fair. 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [ex-lending library book (label and various stamps on front pastedown), heavily worn (especially at bottom corners), hinges tender although not cracked; should be considered a READING COPY only]. Dark suspense yarn set in Havana. Filmed, somewhat, as a B-noir (THE CHASE) in 1946, with uninspired direction (by Arthur Ripley) and Bob Cummings (who was... Read More
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Nightmare
by Woolrich, Cornell
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company. Very Good+. 1964. 1st printing thus. 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, a little wear to the extremities]. (Red Badge Detective) Series A collection of six Woolrich stories: "I'll Take You Home, Kathleen"; "Screen-Test"; "I O U"; "Three O'Clock" (filmed by Alfred Hitchcock for the short-lived anthology TV series "Suspicion");... Read More
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