![Anyplace But Here [*SIGNED*]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/408/455/1699455408.0.l.jpg)
Anyplace But Here [*SIGNED*]
by Bontemps, Arna, and Jack Conroy
New York: Hill and Wang. Near Fine in Very Good dj. 1966 (c.1945). Revised Edition First Printing. Hardcover. [light shelfwear, very slight bump to lower front corner, a few very slightly scrunched lower page corners; the jacket has a few tiny nicks along the top and bottom edges, minor scuffing to the front panel, some fading at the spine]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by co-author Conroy on the front endpaper: "For my old friends / Gib... Read More
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![They Seek a City [*SIGNED*]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/483/508/1740508483.0.l.jpg)
They Seek a City [*SIGNED*]
by Bontemps, Arna, and Jack Conroy
Garden City NY: Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc.. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. [minor wear to extremities, light age-toning to edges of text block; the jacket has some very shallow chipping at the top of the spine (with small internal brown-tape reinforcement), modest soiling to the rear panel]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by co-author Conroy on the front endpaper: "Here's to Cliff and Maxine / McCarty, who came / seeking a... Read More
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Italo Scanga [*SIGNED* by the artist]
by Bonuomo, Michele, ed. (translated by Pasquale Verdicchio)
Salerno (Italy): Amalfi Arte. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. (c.1989). First Edition. Hardcover. [a very nice clean book, with the teensiest dent in the top edge of the rear cover; the jacket shows a trace of wear along the top edge]. (B&W and color photographs) INSCRIBED fulsomely and SIGNED by the artist/subject, on the second front endpaper: "To _______ / an artist and great person / with best wishes / Italo Scanga / 1989."... Read More
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The Beverly Hillbillies - no. 15 (December 1966)
by (comic book)
New York: Dell Publishing Co., Inc.. Very Good+. 1966. (No. 15). Comic Book. [modest edgewear, small L-shaped closed tear at top of front cover, short diagonal crease and tiny hole at lower right front cover; general handling wear and light thumb-creasing; staples/binding firm]. (Dell Comics) Series (cartoon art) The Hillbillies go on an ocean trip, their adventures chronicled in three episodes: "Crazy Cruise"; "Paradise -- Lost"; and "Homeward Bound." Also in this issue:... Read More
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Superman - no. 180 (October 1965)
by (comic book)
New York: National Periodical Publications, Inc.. Very Good+. 1965. (No. 180). Comic Book. [modest wear along spine, tiny piece missing at bottom right corner of front cover, where there is also some additional diagonal creasing; general handling wear; binding/staples firm]. (DC Comics) Series (cartoon art) Gotta love the cover story and illustration of Superman getting his ass whupped by a scantily-clad young lady while a group of same cheer her on. "Great Krypton!"... Read More
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After Prison -- What?
by Booth, Maud Ballington
New York: Fleming H. Revell Company. Good. (c.1903). First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [worn but still solid copy, some exterior soiling, white lettering on spine and front cover rubbed but still readable, rear hinge cracked but not separated; school library property label (see description) on front pastedown, unused circulation slip affixed to rear pastedown, no other library markings]. (B&W photo frontispiece) An impassioned plea for the humane treatment and rehabilitation of prisoner inmates,... Read More
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The Glass Lady [*SIGNED*]
by Bordages, Asa
New York: William Godwin, Inc.. Good. 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [worn copy, with a light dampstain down the right edge of the front cover, light bumping and slight exposure of boards at all corners]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper: "Dear Louis Berg -- / I'm sending you this because / I'll never be able to say what I want / to -- because you healed my body /... Read More
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Starforth
by Borden, Lucille Papin
New York: The Macmillan Company. Near Fine in Very Good dj. 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. [minor wear at spine ends, light dust-soiling to top edge, one-time owner's signature on ffep; jacket worn and wrinkled along top and bottom edges, various small tears and shallow chipping, unobtrusive tape-repair to base of spine]. "Maris, the chief character in the novel, is playmate and then lady-in-waiting to the Princess Mary Tudor, and the action takes place partly... Read More
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A Woman with White Eyes
by Borden, Mary
Garden City NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.. Fine in Very Good dj. 1930. 5th printing. Hardcover. NOISBN . [book is clean, tight and virtually flawless, vintage price sticker (from the famous San Francisco department store The White House) on rear pastedown; jacket somewhat discolored (or dust-soiled) along top and right edges of front panel, with a couple of short closed tears at bottom of rear panel, light soiling overall]. "Hunting, drinking, lovers, cards, money.... Read More
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Dorothea Lange: The Heart and Mind of a Photographer
by Borhan, Pierre
Boston/New York/London: Little, Brown and Company / A Bulfinch Press Book. Fine in Fine dj. 2002. First American Edition. Hardcover. [a lovely, as-new copy, with no discernible wear to either book or jacket]. (260 B&W photographs) A terrific survey of Lange's work, originally published in France. The book "puts into perspective a life devoted to humanity and sheds new light on a body of work that broadened the horizons of photography even as it served... Read More
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![Vitamins: What They Are and How They Can Benefit You [*SIGNED*]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/063/590/1572590063.0.l.jpg)
Vitamins: What They Are and How They Can Benefit You [*SIGNED*]
by Borsook, Henry
New York: The Viking Press. Very Good-. 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. (with several torn pieces of the original dust jacket laid in) [a good sound copy, with only light wear to extremities and slight fading along the spine, BUT there is a good deal of pencil underlining throughout the text (see Notes)]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper: "To my good friend / Charly King / from / Henry Borsook." The... Read More
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Nearer the Earth
by Borst, Beatrice
New York: Random House. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj. (c.1942). First Edition. Hardcover. [light shelfwear, a touch of foxing to cloth at edges of covers and along hinges; jacket bright and attractive, slight wear to base of spine, small closed tear at bottom front hinge]. This "story of a well-bred girl's coming of age" was that years winner of the Avery Hopwood Award, which has been presented at/by the University of Michigan since the... Read More
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Socialist Self-Management in Yugoslavia 1950-1980: Documents
by Boskovic, Blagoje, and David Dasic, eds.
Belgrade: STP (Socialist Thought and Practice). Near Fine. 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket, probably as issued) [very slight bumping to bottom corners, tiny scuff mark on front cover, no other significant wear]. Essays, speeches (many by Josip Broz Tito), official documents, government reports, etc., documenting "one of the greatest historical achievements of the working class and all working people in their long, organized revolutionary struggle to build socialism in Yugoslavia," which per... Read More
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The Twenty-third Annual American Society of Cinematographers Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography 2008
by Bosley, Rachael K., ed.
[Hollywood, Calif.]: American Society of Cinematographers. Near Fine. (c.2009). (23rd Annual). Softcover. [light scuffing to covers, minor edgewear]. (B&W photographs, advertisements) Tribute/program book for the annual ASC awards. The year's nominees in all categories are listed, and special attention (with one-page profiles) is devoted to the recipients of the various honorary awards: Isidore Mankofsky (the ASC Presidents Award); Donald McAlpine (the ASC International Award); Robert F. Liu (the ASC Career Achievement in Television... Read More
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![The Stranger; a novel of the Big Sur [*SIGNED*]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/363/567/1683567363.0.l.jpg)
The Stranger; a novel of the Big Sur [*SIGNED*]
by Bos Ross, Lillian
New York: William Morrow and Company. Very Good. 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [a good sound copy, moderate wear to extremities, slight fraying at lower corners]. (illustrated endpapers) INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the title page: "To Gertrud Boheen(sp?) / from a happy author / Lillian Bos Ross." (And below that inscription is another, when Ms. Boheen passed the novel along to another: "To Frank E. Brady / from Gertrud."... Read More
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Blaze Allan
by Bos Ross, Lillian
New York: Grosset & Dunlap. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj. (c.1944). Reprint. Hardcover. [good sound copy (albeit of a cheaply-manufactured book), tiny nick in cloth near top of rear hinge; jacket is lightly edgeworn, and has an old price sticker adhered to the upper corner of the front flap]. Novel set in the Big Sur country of California, about a young woman who rebels against her father's attempt to marry her off to a... Read More
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The Incident at Naha
by Bosse, M.J.
New York: Simon and Schuster. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. (c.1972). First Edition. Hardcover. [nice tight copy with minimal shelfwear; mostly-white jacket shows a bit of soiling]. The author's second novel (but first mystery), "a strange combination of hippie life in the West Village, wealth in Long Island and the war in Vietnam." It's narrated by the female half of an interracial couple, both graduate students in N.Y. (and he a Vietnam vet),... Read More
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This Was England: Manners and Customs of the Ancient Victorians; a survey in pictures and text of their history, morals, wars, inventions, sports, heroes and social and sexual distinctions between 1870 and 1900
by Bott, Alan
Garden City NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.. Near Fine in Very Good dj. 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. [minor shelfwear only, a nice clean copy; jacket lightly worn, a few tiny nicks along top edge, some surface rubbing at both ends of spine]. (B&W plates) "A NEW TECHNIQUE, in which pictures blend with text to show recent history in today's mirror, is used for [this book]. The result is a review of late Victorianism... Read More
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![Nothing in Common [*SIGNED*]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/860/544/8544860.0.m.jpg)
Nothing in Common [*SIGNED*]
by Bottner, Barbara
New York: Harper & Row. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. (c.1986). First Edition. Hardcover. 0060206047 . (price-clipped) [moderate shelfwear, bottom corners lightly bumped; jacket dog-eared at a couple of top corners, one small tear and some associated wrinkling/edgewear at top of rear panel]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the title page. The story of two girls -- one wealthy and one poor -- whose worlds collide when the poor girl's mother,... Read More
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The Rose of Jericho
by Boucicault, Ruth Holt
New York/London: G.P. Putnam's Sons/The Knickerbocker Press. Good. 1920. First Edition. Hardcover. NOISBN . (black and gilt decorated cover; no dust jacket) [front hinge starting, light dampstaining to covers, offsetting to endpapers, spine cloth a bit faded, gilt spine lettering rubbed but still readable]. Novel about a small-town girl who becomes a stage actress. A contemporary publisher's ad called it "a brilliant novel of stage life, with an unusual and unconventional heroine," also... Read More
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Simenon photographe
by Bourlard, Tristan
Arles (France): Actes Sud / Solin. Near Fine. 2000. First Edition. Softcover. [just a touch of scuffing to the covers, otherwise as new]. (Archives Privées) Series Trade PB (B&W photographs) A collection of photographs taken by the celebrated crime novelist Georges Simenon during his travels in the early- to mid-1930s, in Africa, Russia, Malta, Tahiti and elsewhere. All text is in French. .
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The Fat Baron
by Boutell, Clip; pictures by Frank Lieberman
Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. [nice-looking copy, slight fading to cloth along top edges, pencilled gift inscription from 1951 (in child's hand) on half-title page but otherwise unmarked; jacket shows minor wear at edges/corners, a couple of itsy-bitsy tears at top edge]. "Once there was a baron whose whole name was Baron Frederick Charles Henry Maximilian Francis Avoirdupois. But his name was not easy to remember,... Read More
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The McGuffin
by Bowen, John
Boston/New York: The Atlantic Monthly Press. Fine in Near Fine dj. (c.1984). First American Edition. Hardcover. 0871130181 . [nice tight clean unread book, with no discernible wear; jacket shows very light wear at extremities, faint rubbing/soiling]. Mystery novel about a middle-aged, divorced film reviewer who finds himself involved in what seems to be "a real-life replay of Alfred Hitchcock's 'Rear Window'." According to the jacket blurb, the book "is both a potent psychological ... Read More
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The Loaf and the Lilies
by Bowers, Penelope
London: William Heinemann Ltd.. Good in Fair dj. 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. [moderate shelfwear, soiling to top edge of text block, gift inscription (non-authorial) on ffep, small vintage bookseller's rubber stamp (Bertrand Smith "Acres of Books," Long Beach, California) on front pastedown; jacket heavily worn with various chips, tears, creasing, etc.] Described as "an English story written in India" in the jacket blurb, its theme deals with "reincarnation and fate." The first of... Read More
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Films in Review (November 1980) [cover: Robert Redford and the cast of ORDINARY PEOPLE]
by Bowers, Ronald, ed.
New York: National Board of Review of Motion Pictures. Very Good+. 1980. (Vol. XXXI, No. 9). Periodical. NOISBN . [nice clean copy, light wear along spine, slight rubbing to covers]. (B&W photographs) Contents include: career articles on Dirk Bogarde and Josephine Hutchinson, with filmographies; an article on "Current French Cinema"; brief interview/articles on directors Paul Mazursky, Philippe de Broca, Tage Danielsson, and Theodoros Bafaloukos, with commentary on their current films; a brief article (incorporating interview)... Read More
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