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 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 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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American Film Acting: The Stanislavski Heritage
by Blum, Richard A.
Ann Arbor/London: UMI Research Press. Near Fine. (c.1984). First Edition. Softcover. [a couple of tiny scuff marks on front cover, otherwise virtually as new] (Studies in Cinema, No. 28) Series Trade PB (B&W photographs) "In this book -- the first to examine the impact of [Constantin] Stanislavski's system on American film acting -- [the author] follows the development of acting theory and practice in America from the New York pictorial stage of the 1920s... Read More
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First Dance; or, A Lesson in Romance: a comedy for women in three acts
by Bodeen, DeWitt
New York/Los Angeles/Toronto/London: Samuel French. Very Good. (c.1939). Unstated edition. Softcover. (printed wraps) [small tear in binding at top of spine, light handling wear and age-toning; a few pencil annotations in Act One]. (stage diagram) A comedy with an all-female cast, about a wise grandmother counseling her granddaughter, who is nervous about attending her first dance, with a flashback to how she, as a young woman, helped her six young cousins to rebel against parental... Read More
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Replenishing Jessica
by Bodenheim, Maxwell
New York: Boni and Liveright. Good. (c.1925). First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [moderately worn copy, some darkening to spine cloth, light bumping at corners, 1925 gift inscription (non-authorial) on ffep]. Early novel by Bodenheim, then a leading figure of the Greenwich Village literary scene. Despite some pre-publication expurgation by publisher Horace Liveright (who initially found Bodenheim's manuscript "filthy"), the book's depiction of its titular heroine's sexual adventures raised the ire of the... Read More
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When in Disgrace [*SIGNED*/numbered edition]
by Boetticher, Budd
Santa Barbara CA: Neville. Fine. 1989. Limited (Numbered) Edition. Hardcover. (in pictorial slipcase, also Fine; no dust jacket with this issue) [pristine condition, absolutely brand-new with no wear of any sort to either book or slipcase]. (B&W photographs) This is the "deluxe first printing," limited to 250 copies (this being #171), bound in yellow silk and SIGNED by the author on the limitation page. Memoir by the noted film director and bullfighting aficionado,... Read More
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Allan Dwan: The Last Pioneer
by Bogdanovich, Peter
New York: Praeger Publishers. Very Good+. 1971. 1st U.S. edition (softcover issue). Softcover. [solid clean copy, light external rubbing/scuffing]. (Praeger Film Library) Series Trade PB (B&W photographs) "In half-a-century making films, Allan Dwan worked with D.W. Griffith, directed Douglas Fairbanks, Gloria Swanson and Shirley Temple, discovered Ida Lupino, and made action pictures like SUEZ and SANDS OF IWO JIMA." An extended interview (which originated as an American Film Institute oral history) with the veteran... Read More
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The Cinema of Orson Welles
by Bogdanovich, Peter
New York: Museum of Modern Art. Poor. (c.1961). First Edition. Softcover. [a reading/reference copy only, worn and soiled and heavily tape-repaired along the spine (externally and internally)]. (B&W photographs) A16-page monograph, published in conjunction with MoMA's retrospective of Welles's films -- essentially just an annotated filmography, covering all the director's features from CITIZEN KANE through TOUCH OF EVIL (eight films, plus a short bit on JOURNEY INTO FEAR), with a brief summary of his... Read More
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The Cinema of Howard Hawks
by Bogdanovich, Peter
New York: The Film Library of the Museum of Modern Art. Near Fine. (c.1962). First Edition. Stapled wraps. [nice copy, minor external soiling only, old price sticker adhered to inside front cover]. (B&W photographs) Published in conjunction with the first major American retrospective of Hawks's films, this very scarce 38-page monograph -- primarily a filmography with excerpted comments from an interview with Hawks conducted by Bogdanovich -- was the first publication (in English) to indicate... Read More
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The Cinema of Alfred Hitchcock
by Bogdanovich, Peter
New York: Museum of Modern Art. Good. 1963. First Edition. Softcover. [some light staining. light soiling and age-toning to the front cover, faint dampstain at upper corner of rear cover slightly affecting the last few pages]. (B&W photographs) Published in conjunction with the first major American retrospective of Hitchcock's films, this rather scarce 48-page monograph was the earliest critical work on the Master of Suspense to be published in the U.S. It's hard to... Read More
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The Living and the Dead
by Boileau, Pierre, and Thomas Narcejac (translated by Geoffrey Sainsbury)
New York: Ives Washburn, Inc.. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. 1957. First American Edition. Hardcover. [spine slightly turned, a little wear to top and bottom edges of covers, age-toning and minor soiling to edges of text block; jacket slightly chipped (with old small internal tape repairs) at spine ends (no impact on text), faint (almost invisible) vertical crease in spine, light soiling to rear panel, a couple of tiny nicks in bottom edge of rear... Read More
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Fundamentals of Television
by Bolen, Murray
Hollywood CA: Hollywood Radio Publishers, Inc.. Very Good+ in Good dj. (c.1950). First Edition. Hardcover. [minor wear to book at extremities, a few slightly dog-eared lower page corners, non-authorial gift inscription on front endpaper; the jacket is a little bit on the tattered side, with various tiny nicks and chips along the edges (B&W photographs, diagrams, facsimiles) "TELEVISION has 'arrived'," announces the jacket blurb, "and with it an expert's authoritative book on the subject,"... Read More
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The Baby Lamb
by Boley, Jean
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co.. Very Good+ in Good dj. (c.1948). First Edition. Hardcover. [light wear to book at extremities, a touch of soiling to top of text block, small bookseller's rubber-stamped name on front pastedown (Bertrand Smith's Acres of Books, Long Beach, Calif.); jacket very worn, with tears and paper loss at several corners, more pronounced at spine ends]. The author's second novel, set in the community of American expatriates in Buenos... Read More
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The Callahan Girls
by Bolton, Carole
New York: William Morrow & Company. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. [nice tight copy with very slight wear at base of spine; jacket shows a bit of wear along top edge, one teensy-tiny nick at top of front panel, browning to rear panel and top edges of jacket flaps]. (Morrow Junior Books) Series Juvenile novel about two sisters who work together in a New York market research office, with Kate,... Read More
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Tennessee Outpost
by Bolton, Ivy
New York/Toronto: Longmans, Green and Co.. Near Fine in Good dj. 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. [nice clean copy with only minimal shelfwear, vintage bookplate affixed to verso of ffep with yellowing scotch tape; jacket is bright and attractive despite some edgewear, a one-inch missing piece at top of spine (partially affecting first word in title) and several old tape-repairs along bottom hinges and at top and bottom edges of rear panel]. (line drawings) Historical... Read More
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All Men Are Dogs!
by Bond, Dorothy
New York: Capitol Publishing Company, Inc. (A Crescent Publication). Very Good. (c.1950). First Edition. Softcover. [covers a bit edgeworn, mostly along spine, light fading/rubbing to upper sections of front cover]. Trade PB (cartoon drawings) Substitute "Hounds" (or better yet, "Pigs") in the title, and you'd be closer to the mark: pretty much the entire book is devoted to the myriad ways in which the "working girls" of the world can expect to be sexually harassed... Read More
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Edward Bond Letters, Volume I
by (Bond, Edward) Stuart, Ian, ed.
Langhorne PA: Harwood Academic Publishers. Very Good+. (c.1994). First Edition. Hardcover. 3718655039 . (laminated boards; no dust jacket) [moderate rubbing/scuffing to covers, top corners very slightly bumped]. (Contemporary Theatre Studies, Volume 5) Series "Beginning in the 1980s Edward Bond's dissociation with the established theatre was inevitable as many leading theatre, such as the RSC and the Royal National Theatre, produced plays antithetical to his belief in a new and useful theatre. Consequently, most of... Read More
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Darn Right It's Butch: Memories of Our Gang [and] The Little Rascals [*SIGNED*]
by Bond, Tommy "Butch," with Ron Genini
Wayne PA: Morgin Press Inc.. Near Fine in Fine dj. 1994. First Edition Third Printing. Hardcover. [the teeniest bit of wear to book at the spine ends; the jacket is flawless]. (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the title page: "To Bill -- What memories / what a pal! What a / Director! / Tommy 'Butch' Bond / 8/28/99." Autobiography of "one of the original Our Gang-Little Rascals" (which of... Read More
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Blood on the Land
by Bonham, Frank
New York: Ballantine Books. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. (c.1952). First Edition. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [book is almost flawless, with just the slightest bump to the bottom front corner, pages very lightly age-toned (much less than often seen in these cheaply-produced volumes), one-time owner's signature at top of ffep; jacket is lightly edgeworn, tiny chip at base of spine, small unobtrusive closed tear at top rear foldover]. "Ross Chance had travelled a long way... Read More
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A Thousand Imitations
by Bonime, Florence
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc.. Very Good in Near Fine dj. (c.1967). First Edition. Hardcover. NOISBN . [moderate shelfwear and light soiling to bottom edge; jacket is almost flawless, with just one tiny crease at bottom right-hand corner of front panel]. Novel about four NYC couples, by an author (it sez here) who was "married to a psychoanalyst, and lives in Greenwich Village." A native of the Bronx, she had gone to... Read More
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The Fanatics
by Bonner, Charles Jr.
New York: The Mohawk Press. Good in Good dj. 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. NOISBN . [solid enough copy, but has taken some moisture at bottom at some point in its history, leaving light dampstains on the fore-edge and bottom edge, and the bottom part of the text block is a bit rippled and very lightly stained throughout the book; the jacket is intact but edgeworn and heavily soiled, with minor paper loss at several corners]. "A... Read More
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Death by Dynamite
by Bonney, Joseph L.
New York: Carrick & Evans, Inc.. Very Good+ in Very Good- dj. (c.1940). First Edition. Hardcover. [light shelfwear, a bit of age-toning to edges of text block, one-time owner's name plus date & place of purchase and brief commentary in ink at top of front endpaper; the jacket is edgeworn, with a couple of tiny closed tears at the top of the rear panel, and upon close examination is shown to have been internally tape-reinforced along... Read More
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Rainbow at Night
by Bonner, Mary Graham
New York: Lee Furman, Inc.. Good. (c.1936). First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [decent reading/research copy, moderate wear to extremities, lightly bumped at several corners, a bit more so at top corner of front cover, some soiling to edges of text block, spine very slightly turned, hinges a little tender]. Novel set in a small fishing community on the outer coast of Nova Scotia, about an American musician who comes into town, ingratiates himself with... Read More
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