The Films of Lon Chaney
by Blake, Michael
Lanham MD/London: Vestal Press, Inc.. Fine in Fine dj. 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. [a lovely as-new copy, with no discernible wear to either book or jacket]. (B&W photographs, facsimiles) The final installment in this author's trilogy of books about Chaney, this volume presents "the most complete filmography of Chaney's work ever compiled. For each of the actor's 158 known film appearances, [the author] includes cast and crew lists, plot synopsis, critical comments, and behind-the-scenes... Read More
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Scabby Dichson
by Blaker, Richard
Garden City NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.. Very Good-. (c.1928). 1st Edition (stated) 2nd Printing ("B"). Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [moderately worn copy, dust-soiling and age-toning to page edges, hinges a little weak but still fully intact, 1928 birthday gift inscription on half-title page; paper label on front cover is soiled but intact, but the corresponding spine label is a bit chipped, is peeling off a little at one corner, and has faded almost to... Read More
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Medal Without Bar
by Blaker, Richard
Garden City NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.. Good+. 1930. First American Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [ex-rental library book with various stamps and a small label remnant on the ffep, minor bumping and light wear to extremities, moderate external soiling, a bit of wear along front joint]. A highly-regarded novel of the First World War, considered one of the first major works to be based on an author's personal combat experiences. Blaker (1893-1940),... Read More
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The Jefferson Secret: A Mystery With Love and Without a Murder
by Blaker, Richard
Garden City NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.. Near Fine in Very Good dj. 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. NOISBN . [minimal wear to book, very slight bumping to lower extremities, vintage price sticker (from The White House) on rear pastedown; jacket a little darkened at spine, a few tiny edge-nicks]. "A Mystery with love and without a murder," revolving around a prodigal son's relationship with his steel magnate father, the secret formula for a new... Read More
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On Pegasus He Rode
by Blaker, Richard
New York: Carrick & Evans. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. (c.1938). First Edition. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [nice copy, mild shelfwear, very light water-spotting on top edge (interior not affected); jacket a bit worn at corners, some soiling/spotting on spine]. "In this unusual story of a man's struggle against his life-long desire to escape reality, [the author] has written a brilliant novel which adds to the stature of his already distinguished reputation as a... Read More
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Type-Faces: A Photographic Study of Ward Ritchie [*SIGNED* limited edition; incomplete copy (see notes)]
by Blanco, Amanda; with a foreword by Lawrence Clark Powell
Northridge CA: Santa Susana Press. Near Fine. 1988. Limited Edition. Hardcover. [brown cloth clamshell box has some minor scuffing to the underside; mounted plates are in Fine condition]. (B&W photographs) SIGNED by the subject, master printer Ward Ritchie, on the title page and also on Plate 12, latterly with an inscription "For old friends from the 1930s -- the Petits"; additionally SIGNED by Lawrence Clark Powell on the limitation page. "Designed, printed and... Read More
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Carita's New World
by Blanchard, Lucy M.
Boston: The Page Company. Very Good. 1919. First Edition. Hardcover. (pictorial cloth; no dust jacket) [a good sound copy with modest shelfwear, a bit of wear and slight fraying at extremities, some rubbing to the spine illustration; one-time owner's address and pencil gift inscription on front pastedown and front endpaper, vintage bookseller's label (Brentano's, New York) on rear pastedown]. (frontispiece + 5 B&W plates) Further adventures of the titular character, a Mexican girl making ... Read More
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Goodbye, I Guess [*SIGNED*]
by Blankfort, Michael
New York: Simon and Schuster. Very Good+ in Very Good- dj. 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. NOISBN . [light shelfwear to bottom edges, spine moderately turned; jacket shows wear at edges and corners, some scuffing to front panel, dog-earing at top of spine, tiny tear and associated creasing at bottom of front panel]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the title page to fellow screenwriter Daniel Taradash: "To Dan / for the many lunches; /... Read More
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I Met a Man
by Blankfort, Michael
Indianapolis/New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. (c.1937). First Edition. Hardcover. [good solid copy, light shelfwear, date and place of an earlier purchase in ink on ffep; jacket has a small chip at upper left corner of front panel, minor paper loss at several other corners]. First novel by the later-blacklisted screenwriter, set during World War I and telling the story of the friendship that develops between a German officer and... Read More
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The Brave and the Blind
by Blankfort, Michael
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company. Good in Fair dj. (c.1940). First Edition. Hardcover. NOISBN . [decent reading copy, ex-lending library book but marked as such with only one stamp; the problem is the jacket, which has been trimmed slightly along top/bottom edges, and is encased in one of those old-fashioned jacket protectors with the black strips along top/bottom, then is additional glued AND taped to the endpapers, permanently I'm afraid; there's also some paper loss at... Read More
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Blood and Sand [movie tie-in edition]
by Blasco Ibañez, Vicente
New York: Grosset & Dunlap. Very Good+ in Very Good- dj. [1941] (c1919, 1922). Madison Square Books (reprint). Hardcover. [light shelfwear, previous owner's name rather clumsily inked out at top of ffep; jacket shows wear and tiny tears at several corners, spine a little faded, internally tape-repaired tear at top of spine, a little scuffing to front panel, wrinkling/creasing at top of rear panel]. (photographic dust jacket) Tie-in for the second (1941) movie version of ... Read More
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I, Billy Shakespeare!
by Blatty, William Peter
Garden City NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc.. Fine in Near Fine dj. 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. [nice tight copy with no discernible wear; jacket very clean and attractive, with a short closed tear and associated creasing at top of spine]. (line drawings) "A wildly amusing first-person narrative (from tapes) by a phantom William Shakespeare, in which the Bard of Avon's ghost discusses many things -- particularly the charges that he didn't write the plays.... Read More
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Birds Got to Fly; a novel in six parts
by Blodgett, Ruth
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company. Good in Good dj. (c.1929). Unstated edition. Hardcover. [solid but shelfworn copy, top corners bumped/cracked (boards exposed), bottom corners less so, some discoloration to first few pages and last few pages of book, vintage bookseller's label on rear pastedown; jacket worn, various small tears, soiling to rear panel, minor paper loss (no text affected) at spine ends]. "Young and self-confident, Rosanne is transplanted from her native New York to... Read More
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The Soul of the Moving Picture
by Bloem, Walter S. (translated from the German by Allen W. Porterfield)
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company. Very Good. (c.1924). First American Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [light wear to extremities and a bit along hinges, gilt spine lettering a bit dulled but still fully readable, one-time owner's name at top of ffep, light staining to rear free endpaper]. (B&W photographs) An early attempt to formulate an aesthetic of the cinema, not on a purely theoretical basis but also grounded in the realities of film ... Read More
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Pack Mule
by Bloom, Ursula
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc.. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. 1932. 3rd printing. Hardcover. NOISBN . [minor wear to spine ends, otherwise a tight clean book, apparently unread, vintage price sticker (from The White House, San Francisco) on rear pastedown; jacket shows a little wear along bottom edge and at top corners]. "The story of a man who was a pack mule for women," whatever the hell that means. Oh, I... Read More
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Lycanthropia
by Bloxham, Fredrick
San Francisco: Robert D. Reed Publishers. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. (c.2000). First Edition. Hardcover. [nice copy with no discernible shelfwear, just a tiny bit of soiling on the front endpaper; the jacket shows a little bit of surface rubbing, minor wrinkling at top of front panel]. Fantasy/crime thriller set in Los Angeles (or, as it ought to be called in this book, Werewolf City). The plot features a couple of werewolves trying... Read More
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Daniel Blum's Screen World 1964 (Volume 15)
by Blum, Daniel
New York: Chilton Books. Very Good+ in Good+ dj. (c.1964). (Volume 15). Hardcover. [good sound clean copy, minor wear to lower extremities; the jacket is edgeworn and lightly soiled, with various tiny chips and tears, with a wide shallow chip at the top of the rear panel, and about a half-inch of paper loss at the top of the spine]. (B&W photographs) Provides cast/production credits for all films released in the U.S. during 1963. ... Read More
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Daniel Blum's Screen World 1962 (Volume 13)
by Blum, Daniel
New York: Chilton Company. Very Good+ in Poor dj. (c.1962). (Volume 13). Hardcover. [light bumping to lower corners, otherwise just minor shelfwear; the jacket is heavily edgeworn, with numerous small tears and tiny chips, paper loss at both ends of spine, creasing, light soiling, etc. (serviceable in new mylar, but that's about the best I can say)]. (B&W photographs) Provides cast/production credits for all films released in the U.S. during 1961. Front jacket panel... Read More
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Daniel Blum's Screen World 1949 [Volume 1]
by Blum, Daniel
New York: Greenberg: Publisher. Poor. (c.1950). First Edition. Softcover. [heavily worn with extensive creasing to covers; the spine covering is almost completely gone, but it's holding together -- just barely -- because it was stitched, not perfect-bound; rubber stamp of Kier's Book House on front endpaper and title page]. (B&W photographs) The first issue of this long-running annual round-up of the year's films and personalities. In the beginning (and for another year or... Read More
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Daniel Blum's Screen World 1955 (Volume VI)
by Blum, Daniel
New York: Greenberg: Publisher. Near Fine in Very Good dj. (c.1955). (Volume VI). Hardcover. [nice clean book with only minor shelfwear, one-time owner's signature on front endpaper (see Notes); the jacket shows some wear at edges and extremities, minor paper loss at top of spine, a bit of soiling to the rear panel (B&W photographs) Provides cast/production credits for all films released in the U.S. during 1954. The "Promising Personalities" of the year... Read More
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Daniel Blum's Screen World 1954 (Volume V)
by Blum, Daniel
New York: Greenberg: Publisher. Good+. (c.1954). (Volume 5) First Printing. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [solid copy, bumping to several corners, a bit of staining to covers; internally unblemished]. (B&W photographs) Provides cast/production credits for all films released in the U.S. during 1953. The "Promising Personalities" of the year, with the single exception of Audrey Hepburn, proved to be, on the whole, a pretty undistinguished bunch: Byron Palmer, Lori Nelson, Biff Elliot, Steve Forrest, Kathleen... Read More
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Daniel Blum's Screen World 1951 (Volume II)
by Blum, Daniel
New York: Greenberg: Publisher. Fair. (c.1951). (Volume 4) First Printing. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [considerable wear to edges and extremities, light soiling and a vertical scrape on the front cover, binding a little loosey-goosey but all pages still attached; a good reference copy, but no more]. (B&W photographs) Provides cast/production credits for all films released in the U.S. during 1950. The "Promising Personalities" of the year were about evenly split between those who... Read More
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A New Pictorial History of the Talkies
by Blum, Daniel; updated by John Kobal
New York: Grosset & Dunlap. 1970 (c.1968). Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. [book is modestly worn at extremities, but still a good sound copy, with the former owner's initials plus date & place of purchase written in ink along edge of rear pastedown (concealed beneath rear jacket flap); the jacket is attractive and quite serviceable, despite considerable edgewear and a fair amount of wrinkling (especially at the corners), and some internal tape reinforcement at the base of... Read More
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Theatre World: Season 1949-50
by Blum, Daniel, ed.
New York: Greenberg: Publisher. Fair. (c.1950). (Volume VI). Softcover. [heavily external wear (especially along the spine, which has sustained some damage but is still holding together), including a long diagonal crease in the front cover; internally clean, and complete]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) A review of the theatre season from June 1, 1949 through June 1, 1950 -- not just Broadway, but also covering many important regional theatres, national touring companies, off-Broadway, plays that... Read More
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Daniel Blum's Screen World 1953 (Volume IV)
by Blum, Daniel
New York: Greenberg: Publisher. Very Good-. (c.1953). (Volume 4) First Printing. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [shelfwear and light bumping/fraying to all corners, small light stain at right edge of front cover, internally clean and unmarked]. (B&W photographs) Provides cast/production credits for all films released in the U.S. during 1952. The "Promising Personalities" of the year contained quite a few actors who actually did fulfill their promise; those singled out (with full-page photos of... Read More
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