Kismet: A Musical Arabian Night
by Wright, Robert, and George Forrest (music & lyrics); Charles Lederer and Luther Davis (book)
New York: Random House. Very Good+ in Good dj. (c.1954). Fireside Theatre BCE. Hardcover. [book has minor external dampstain at bottom corners (inside of book not affected), otherwise no significant wear; jacket typically browned at spine and edges, lightly dampstained at bottom of front and rear panels, small tears at several corners]. "The romantic tale of a day in the life of a handsome and poetic beggar in legendary Bagdad." Filmed by M-G-M in... Read More
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Tourist Third
by Wright, Ruth
Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Company. Fair. (c.1933). First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [reading copy only, with bumping/fraying/exposure of boards at most corners, spotting and staining on endpapers, heavy wear at spine ends, etc.] Romance novel about a young, pretty rich girl who agrees to a marriage that's approved by her stern-willed and domineering mother, but then meets and falls in love with another guy while vacationing on a small island off the coast... Read More
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Man Wants But Little
by Wright, Wilson (pseud. for William Reitzel)
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, Inc.. Good. 1933. 2nd printing. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [worn copy, soiling to top edge, all corners bumped to some degree; text from jacket flaps glued to front and rear pastedowns, one-time owner's name and date/place of purchase scrawled in pencil on ffep]; Agrarian novel of sorts, about a young Spanish farmer who emigrates to Cuba, "where the rising wave of a boom-period sweeps him tempestuously into the... Read More
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Photoplay Writing
by Wright, William Lord
New York: Falk Publishing Co., Inc.. Very Good+. (c.1922). First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket, probably as issued) [good solid copy, light shelfwear to bottom edge, a little spotting/soiling to fore-edge, minor discoloration to endpapers, attractive vintage bookplate (W. Ernest Vincent II) on front pastedown; gilt lettering on front cover a little rubbed but still fully readable]. (B&W photographic plates) This volume, "used as a supplementary text in [the] New York Institute of Photography,"... Read More
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Man Wants But Little
by Wright, Wilson (pseud. for William Reitzel)
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, Inc.. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj. 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. [light shelfwear, spine slightly turned, faint dust-soiling to top of text block; jacket slightly edgeworn and age-toned]. Agrarian novel of sorts, about a young Spanish farmer who emigrates to Cuba, "where the rising wave of a boom-period sweeps him tempestuously into the drama of Cuban life. He answers the confusion of American mines, local politics, sugar boom,... Read More
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More Than a Cowboy: The Life and Films of Fred Thomson and Silver King
by Wyatt, Edgar M.
Raleigh NC: Wyatt Classics, Inc.. Fine in Very Good+ dj. 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. [book is tight, clean and flawless; the jacket has a bit of minor damage to the top of the spine and some creasing along the top edge of the rear panel]. (B&W photographs) "The first complete biography of Fred Thomson, the almost forgotten cowboy star of the silent era. Contains over 300 illustrations, including rare shots never before published. ... Read More
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![Cinema [magazine] (Summer 1967) [spotlighting BONNIE AND CLYDE]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/066/641/1492641066.0.l.jpg)
Cinema [magazine] (Summer 1967) [spotlighting BONNIE AND CLYDE]
by {Wyler, William} (Hanson, Curtis Lee, ed.)
Beverly Hills CA: Spectator International. Very Good+. 1967. (Vol. 3, No. 5). Magazine. [modest wear along spine, very slight bend at top right corner]. (B&W photographs) A remarkably rich issue of this always-interesting periodical, which tried (with mixed success) to be both a serious (albeit artsy) "cinema journal" and an industry-hip-newsy-insider entertainment publication. (Many of its contributors -- notably editor Curtis Lee Hanson, who later dropped the "Lee" -- went on to successful... Read More
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Strangers Are Coming
by Wylie, I.A.R. [Ida Alexa Ross]
New York: Random House. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. (c.1941). First Edition. Hardcover. [a very nice copy with minimal shelfwear, generic but colorful vintage bookplate on front pastedown; the jacket shows only mild edgewear, no significant flaws]. This "witty novel of American antagonisms and old-world traditions" is also "a delightful satire on life in an American college town [and] a stirring statement for the case of the war sufferers in our midst." The... Read More
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Keeper of the Flame
by Wylie, I.A.R. [Ida Alexa Ross]
New York: Random House. Near Fine. (c.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) [nice clean copy with minimal shelfwear, spine slightly turned, minor bumping to lower front corner]. Novel about the young widow of an up-and-coming politician who's killed in a solo car accident, and her subsequent affair with the war correspondent who's been assigned by... Read More
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![Four Sons; photoplay title of Mother Bernle Learns Her Letters, and Other Stories [Photoplay Edition]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/061/590/1572590061.0.m.jpg)
Four Sons; photoplay title of Mother Bernle Learns Her Letters, and Other Stories [Photoplay Edition]
by Wylie, I.A.R. [Ida Alexa Ross]
New York: Grosset & Dunlap. [1928]. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj. [a nice-looking copy with just light shelfwear, front hinge a little weak (but not cracked), faint dust-soiling to top edge; the jacket is mildly edgeworn, with a few tiny nicks at the spine ends and single (internal) tape-reinforcement across the top of the spine]. (8 B&W film stills) Photoplay Edition, issued to coincide with the release of the 1928 Fox Film Corporation silent film directed... Read More
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Twin-Born
by Wyllarde, Dolf
New York: The Macaulay Company. Very Good+. (c.1934). First Edition. Hardcover. [solid copy, light discoloration to cloth along front joint, small ink stain on rear cover]. Twin brothers, sons of English gentry, are separated by novelistic contrivance, er, I mean, circumstances (a shipwreck, how original!), at the age of sixteen. Brother Arthur, "thrown amongst savage races," on an island somewhere off the coast of British Somaliland, "[loses] touch with civilization" but develops into... Read More
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Twin-Born
by Wyllarde, Dolf
New York: The Macaulay Company. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. (c.1934). First Edition. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [light shelfwear, top corners slightly bumped; jacket shows a bit of edgewear, slight fading at spine, minor soiling to rear panel]. Twin brothers, sons of English gentry, are separated by novelistic contrivance, er, I mean, circumstances (a shipwreck, how original!), at the age of sixteen. Brother Arthur, "thrown amongst savage races," on an island somewhere off the... Read More
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The Goodly Seed
by Wyllie, John
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc.. Very Good+ in Good dj. 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. [good solid book, minor shelfwear to bottom edges, light soiling to top of text block, one-time owner's address stamp on front endpaper; jacket has been insect-nibbled along both flap-folds and a bit on the spine and front panel, but is otherwise intact (and now in new mylar to prevent further degradation)]. "This novel tells of four days in the... Read More
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Red Sun South
by Wynd, Oswald
Garden City NY: Doubleday & Co., Inc.. Fair in Good+ dj. 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [book is solid enough, but the cloth has deteriorated in several places (top and bottom edges) exposing the boards; one-time owner's signature on front pastedown; jacket and the boards exposedbeen worn (or eaten?) through in several places, exposing the boards; the jacket is edgeworn, with various small tears and shallow chipping, minor paper loss at base of spine, tiny... Read More
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The Motion Picture Stunt Pilots and Hollywood's Classic Aviation Movies
by Wynne, H. Hugh
Missoula MT: Pictorial Histories Publishing Company. Fine. 1987. First Edition. Softcover. 0933126859 . [very nice copy, virtually as new with no significant wear; clean inside and out]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) The author explains his book's scope in his Preface: "The total subject of motion picture flying, from its beginning to the present, is far too extensive to be adequately covered in one volume. Therefore this book is limited to the 1920s and 1930s,... Read More
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The Lost Mark
by Wynnton, Patrick (pseud. for Anthony Richardson)
Philadelphia/London: J.B. Lippincott Company. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj. 1929. 1st (U.S.) edition. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [light wear to base of spine, a little soiling/spotting to top edge and fore-edge; jacket spine somewhat faded, a couple of small and unobtrusive edge-tears]. Sea-going mystery-adventure, listed in Hubin, that begins in a subterranean cafe in Marseilles, where a young English sailor falls in with a rough crowd and finds his passions inflamed by a beautiful young... Read More
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The Day the Laughter Stopped: The True Story of Fatty Arbuckle
by Yallop, David A.
New York: St. Martin's Press. Fine in Very Good dj. (c.1976). First Edition. Hardcover. [nice clean book with no discernible wear; the jacket has several short tears and some associated creasing at the top and bottom edges of the front panel and a tiny chip at the bottom edge, dog-earing along the top edge of the rear panel, and is slightly faded along the spine]. (B&W photographs, endpaper illus.) A well-researched examination of the myth-shrouded... Read More
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Fifteen Things Charles and Ray Teach Us; an essay
by Yamashita, Keith
Venice CA: Eames Office. Fine. (c.1999). First Edition. Softcover. [nice clean as-new copy with no discernible wear]. (B&W photographic covers) "An essay about the DESIGNING DUO [Charles and Ray Eames] that changed how we look at the world." (NOTE: this publication was issued in two versions, one with Charles on the front cover and Ray on the back, the other reversed; this copy is the former (Charles on front).] .
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"There Was a Crooked Man"
by Yates, George Worthing
New York: William Morrow and Company. Good+. 1936. 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) [shelfworn book, with some external soiling, bumping and fraying at several corners, one-time owner's inked initials plus date & place of purchase along edge of rear pastedown (concealed beneath jacket flap)]. The author's first mystery novel published under his own name (following... Read More
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Exploring Small Towns: 1. Southern California
by Yeadon, David
[Pasadena CA]: The Ward Ritchie Press. Very Good+. (c.1973). Unstated edition. Softcover. [light edgewear to covers, several crease lines in rear cover]. Trade PB (pen and ink drawings, maps) Vintage guidebooks have a charm all their own, both as windows into what their subject area was like "back when" and as challenges to modern-day tourists or explorers to seek out whatever traces might remain today. And when a book like this one -- which was... Read More
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The Saracen Blade
by Yerby, Frank
New York: Dial Press. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj. 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. [good sound copy, very slight bumping to lower corners, light spotting to top edge of text block, one-time owner's name written at top of front pastedown and her address label at top of rear pastedown (in both instances mostly concealed by the jacket flaps); the jacket shows a bit of wear at edges and corners, very minor chipping at top of spine].... Read More
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The Golden Hawk
by Yerby, Frank
New York: The Dial Press. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj. 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. [top front corner slightly bumped, one-time owner's name and date written at top of front endpaper; jacket shows just a bit of wear at extremities, tiny surface scrape at both ends of spine, itsy-bitsy paper loss at top rear hinge]. (endpaper maps) This "pulsating novel of adventure, revenge and exotic love in the West Indies of the seventeenth century, when the... Read More
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Arrogant Beggar
by Yezierska, Anzia
Garden City NY: Doubleday, Page & Co.. Very Good+. 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. (black cloth, paper spine and front cover labels; no dust jacket) [good sound copy, spine slightly turned, modest bumping to lower corners, one-time owner's neat property stamp on title page]. Yezierska's third novel (and fifth published book) deals with a young department store clerk who tries to escape the poverty and drudgery of her life on New York's Lower East Side by... Read More
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Bread Givers
by Yezierska, Anzia
Garden City NY: Doubleday, Page & Company. Near Fine. 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [sharp-looking copy with only minor shelfwear]. Yezierska's second novel (and fourth published book), "a struggle between a father of the Old World and a daughter of the New," begins on New York's Lower East Side, where the immigrant Polish Smolinsky family lives on the edge of poverty in a Hester Street tenement. The Orthodox Jewish father's strict adherence... Read More
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