When the Snow Melts: The Autobiography of Cubby Broccoli
by Broccoli, [Albert] Cubby, with Donald Zec
London: Boxtree. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. [nice clean book, pushed/bumped a bit at the spine ends but otherwise unblemished; the jacket is a bit rubbed and scuffed]. (B&W photographs) This posthumously-published autobiography of "one of Hollywood's best-loved producers" is "as much the story of the rise of Hollywood as it is a fairy-tale of the son of an Italian immigrant who became a key player in that exclusive world."... Read More
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Shooting Stars of the Small Screen: Encyclopedia of TV Western Actors (1946-Present)
by Brode, Douglas
Austin: University of Texas Press. Near Fine. 2009. First Edition. Softcover. [nice clean as-new copy, the only blemish being a barely-noticeable soft diagonal crease at the upper corner of the rear cover]. (Ellen and Edward Randall Series) Series Trade PB (B&W photographs) "A comprehensive encyclopedia of more than 450 actors who received star billing or played a recurring character role in a TV Western movie or miniseries from the late 1940s up to 2008.... Read More
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West of Fifth
by Brody, Catharine
Garden City NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.. Very Good-. 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [a good sound copy with only moderate shelfwear, some fading to spine cloth, minor fraying at top of spine, lower tips lightly bumped with very slight exposure of boards, internally nice and clean]. Novel about "a girl press agent who knew what she wanted and got it." Catharine Brody was a newspaper and magazine writer before directing her... Read More
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The Shoestring Symphony
by Broekman, David
New York: Simon and Schuster. Very Good+ in Very Good- dj. 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [solid clean copy, bumped at bottom corners but no other significant wear, attractive (if generic) bookplate with previous owner's signature on ffep; jacket shows wear at edges and corners, a few small tears, shallow chipping at spine ends, tiny piece missing at bottom right-hand corner of front panel, considerable fading to spine (where the title is almost unreadable)]. ... Read More
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Walt Disney's Railroad Story: The Small-Scale Fascination That Led to a Full-Scale Kingdom
by Broggie, Michael
Pasadena CA: Pentrex Media Group. Fine in Near Fine dj. (c.1997). 2nd printing. Hardcover. [the book is flawless but for a very tiny blemish of unknown origin on the half-title page; the jacket shows just the faintest traces of surface handling wear]. (color and B&W photographs, facsimiles) The lavishly-illustrated story of Walt Disney's lifelong love of trains and railroading, a "fascination with highly detailed miniatures and mechanical animation that inspired his revolutionary concept in... Read More
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The Professor
by Brontë, Charlotte
New York: The Modern Library. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. 1997. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. [no discernible wear to book, but there is a former owner's initials plus date & place of purchase written in ink along the edge of the recto of the rear endpaper; the jacket shows just faint traces of some surface-scuffing on the front panel]. The first novel completed by Charlotte Brontë, which remained unpublished until 1857, two years after... Read More
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Washington in Lincoln's Time
by Brooks, Noah; edited, with an introduction by Herbert Mitgang
New York/Toronto: Rinehart & Company, Inc.. Near Fine in Very Good dj. (c.1958). First Edition Thus. Hardcover. [nice clean copy with minimal shelfwear, the tiniest bit of fraying at the base of the spine, 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 edgeworn and lightly soiled, with internal tape reinforcements along the top and bottom edges and the rear... Read More
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The Barrios of Manta: A Personal Account of the Peace Corps in Ecuador
by Brooks, Rhoda and Earle
New York: The New American Library. (c.1965). First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. (price-clipped) [good solid clean book with just a touch of wear to the top edges; the jacket is bright and clean, would rate Near Fine but for the price-clipping]. (B&W photographs, pen & ink drawings) "The first book ever written by Peace Corps volunteers," this volume relates the experience of the authors, a young couple who "left home and friends in Illinois to serve... Read More
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The Boiling Point [*SIGNED*]
by Brooks, Richard
New York: Harper & Brothers. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. (c.1948). First Edition. Hardcover. [nice tight copy, light shelfwear to bottom edges; jacket has a tiny chip at the top of the front panel, an even tinier one at the bottom of the rear panel, some rubbing to the rear panel, slight fading to spine]. SIGNED and DATED (February 1948, the month of publication) by the author on the ffep. The screenwriter-almost-director's second novel,... Read More
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Cinema Journal: The Journal of the Society for Cinema & Media Studies (Winter 2018)
by (Brooker, Will, ed.)
Austin: University of Texas Press, for the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Near Fine. 2018. (Vol. 57, No. 2). Journal. [nice clean copy, with just the slightest bit of handling wear]. (B&W photographs) Included in this issue: "The Economics and Politics of Auteurism: Spike Lee and Do the Right Thing" (Eleni Palis); "Fire and Failure: Studio Technology, Environmental Control, and the Politics of Progress" (Brian R. Jacobson; about American film studio fires in the ... Read More
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Anatomy and Histology of the Mouth and Teeth [with a letter to Dr. Harry Potter (no kidding)]
by Broomell, I. Norman, D.D.S, and Philipp Fischelis, M.D.
Philadelphia: P. Blakiston's Son & Co.. Very Good. (c.1917). 5th Edition, Revised. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [moderate external wear, good sound binding, internally clean]. (308 illustrations) A state-of-the-medical-science reference on all things related to the teeth and mouth (co-written, appropriately, by a dentist and an M.D.). Laid in is a letter dated April 7, 1932, from The Stratford Company (a Boston-based publisher) to one Dr. Harry R. Potter, at the College of Dentistry... Read More
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NOTORIOUS: Alfred Hitchcock and Contemporary Art
by Brougher, Kerry, and Michael Tarantino (essays)
Oxford (UK): Museum of Modern Art. Near Fine. 1999. First Edition. Softcover. [miniscule handling wear, essentially as-new]. (B&W and color photographs, facsimiles) Catalogue for a museum exhibition highlighting the relationship between art and film as seen through the prism of Alfred Hitchcock's works. Includes two essays: "Hitch-hiking in Dreamscapes," by Kerry Brougher, and "How He Does It, or The Case of the Missing Gloves," by Michael Tarantino. Artists and filmmakers whose work figured... Read More
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A Preface to Maturity
by Brousseau, Jule
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company. Very Good+ in Very Good- dj. (c.1935). First Edition. Hardcover. [good sound copy, minor shelfwear, some fading to cloth at spine ends, one-time owner's name/address stamped on top edge, fore-edge and ffep; jacket edgeworn, with various small nicks and tears, a bit of paper loss at both ends of spine, some surface-scraping to front panel, shallow chip at bottom of rear panel]. Novel about a young woman from Weehawken,... Read More
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The Kingdom in the Sky
by Brown, Alice
Los Angeles: Pacific Library Association. Very Good+. 1932. Reprint. Hardcover. (no dust jacket, likely as issued) [a handsome copy in attractive marbled boards, with a firm binding and just a bit of bumping at several corners]. Fantasy novel with heavy spiritual overtones, about a group of six characters (including a bank cashier absconding with some stolen securities, an unsuccessful playwright and his unfaithful wife; and a Vermont farm couple) who all die in one way... Read More
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Make Me Yours
by Browne, Eleanore
New York: The Macaulay Company. Very Good+. (c.1934). First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [quite a decent copy, the front hinge a bit weak but holding together, with a bit of wear along the top edge of the rear cover, slight fading at the spine]. "Marriage or Death! -- that was the decision that faced Perry Bannister, notorious Don Juan, when he is trapped into a meeting with five of his former flames: a film... Read More
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Tomorrow Comes Never
by Browne, Eleanor [Eleanore]
New York: Arcadia House Publications. Good in Poor dj. 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. [solid reading copy only, spine turned, spotting/soiling to page edges, original owner's name and address on front pastedown; jacket worn and soiled, large pieces missing at both ends of spine, long closed tear across front panel (internally tape-mended and not too obtrusive), various other tears but I'm sure you've got the idea by now]. Romance novel with an ambitious heroine, Holly, to... Read More
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Murder by Appointment
by Browne, Eleanore
New York: The Macaulay Company. Very Good in Good dj. (c.1934). First Edition. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [good solid copy, some darkening/spotting to top edge of text block, very slight rippling of cloth on rear cover, old gift inscription rather messily crossed-out/erased on front pastedown, rear endpaper removed; jacket is moderately soiled and heavily edgeworn, with paper loss at spine extremities, various small nicks and tears]. European-set mystery novel, involving "the formation of an international ... Read More
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With Trailing Banners
by Brown, Estelle Aubrey
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart. Very Good+. 1930. First Canadian Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [solid clean copy, slight bumping at all corners, very slight exposure of boards at bottom corners, small vintage bookseller's stamp at bottom of front pastedown]. Another unknown book by another forgotten author (my speciality!). Born in 1877, she served in the United States Indian Field Service (the educational wing, if you will, of the Bureau of Indian Affairs) from... Read More
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Murder on Beacon Hill
by Brown, Gerald
New York: Phoenix Press. (c.1941). First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. (lacking the original dust jacket, but encased in a well-made "Colorcopy" reproduction of same; see 2nd image posted with this listing, and see Notes for further explanation) [a well-worn copy, an ex-rental library copy with remnants of labels and jacket flaps on both pastedowns and endpapers, spine turned, fraying with exposure of boards at all corners, one-time owner's initials plus date of purchase in ink at edge of rear pastedown (concealed... Read More
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It's All Zoo
by Browne, Gerald A.
Garden City NY: Doubleday & Co.. Very Good in Near Fine dj. 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. [good solid copy, book appears Near Fine until you peek under the jacket and see that there has been fading to the green cloth (from dampness) along the edges of both covers -- NOT "water-damaged," since the interior of the book is completely unaffected and there is no warping or other damage to the covers (believe me, leave the jacket... Read More
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New York in the Elegant Eighties [spine title: Valentine's Manual 1927]
by Brown, Henry Collins, ed.
Hastings-on-Hudson NY: Valentine's Manual Inc.. Near Fine in Fair dj. 1926. 2nd printing. Hardcover. [spine very slightly turned, but no significant wear, minor discoloration to front endpaper; jacket age-toned, some paper loss at both ends of spine, small chip at top of front panel, small puncture-tear in rear panel, shallow chipping along bottom edge of rear panel]. (Valentine's Manual of Old New York, No. 11) Series (B&W and color illustrations) One of a series... Read More
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Halo in Brass [*SIGNED*]
by Browne, Howard
Missoula MT: Dennis McMillan Publications. Very Good+. 1988. Reprint. Softcover. [slight wear to corners of front cover, short soft diagonal crease at bottom right corner of front cover, slight dog-earing at lower corner of rear cover]. Trade PB SIGNED by the author (no inscription) on the half-title page. Reprint of the third Paul Pine mystery, originally published in 1949. Signed by Author .
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The Paper Gun: A Paul Pine Mystery [*SIGNED*]
by Browne, Howard
Belen NM: Dennis McMillan Publications. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. [nice copy, tight and unworn, just a trace of dust-smudging on top edge; jacket shows extremely light surface handling wear]. Limited/numbered edition of 350 copies, this being no. 83, and SIGNED on the limitation page by both the author and his son (the jacket artist); this copy additionally SIGNED by the publisher, Dennis McMillan, on the copyright page.... Read More
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Accustomed as I am
by Brown, John Mason
New York: W.W. Norton & Company. Very Good in Good dj. (c.1942). First Edition. Hardcover. [a good sound copy, with just a bit of soiling at the top edge of the front cover and some spotting/tanning to the top of the text block; the jacket is somewhat soiled and foxed, faded along the spine, and has several nicks and some shallow paper loss along the top edge]. (cartoon drawings) A "hilarious report from the lecture... Read More
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Florence Lawrence, The Biograph Girl: America's First Movie Star
by Brown, Kelly R.
Jefferson NC/London: McFarland & Company, Inc.. Fine. (c.1999). First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket, as issued) [tight clean copy, as-new with no discernible wear]. (B&W photographs) Well-researched biography of the actress who pretty much had the "star system" invented for her, due to her extreme popularity -- despite her anonymity -- in early Biograph films. .
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