Cinematography and Talkies
by Cameron, James R., and Joseph A. Dubray
Woodmont CT: Cameron Publishing Company. Very Good. [1932]. Unstated edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [modest external wear, very slight exposure of boards at several corners, a touch of fraying at the top of the spine, large piece of front endpaper torn away, property stamp of one-time owner (Wm. M. Dennis Film Libraries, Los Angeles) on title page]. (B&W photographs, diagrams, advertisements) A thoroughgoing technical explanation of the workings of the various motion picture apparati of... Read More
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Cameron's Encyclopedia on Sound Motion Pictures [*SIGNED* association copy]
by Cameron, James R., comp.
Manhattan Beach NY: Cameron Publishing Company. Good. (c.1930). First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [front hinge weak and rear hinge cracked, with light bumping/fraying to a couple of bottom corners, a little spotting/soiling to top of text block, tiny dent in top edge of front cover]. (advertisements) INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the verso of the half-title page: "To / Bill Canavan / with the high esteem of / Jim Cameron /... Read More
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Cheating at Bridge: Go Home with the Winners
by Cameron, Judson J.
Las Vegas: Gambler's Book Club. Near Fine. (c.1973, 1933). Reprint. Softcover. [nice clean book, faint external wear, former owner's embossed stamp on title page (see Notes)]. Trade PB (B&W illustrations) Reprint of a book originally published in 1933, with the cover blurb noting that "since that time hundreds of books about Bridge have been published [but] none mention cheating, while almost every one written about Gin or Poker has something to say about advantage... Read More
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Brooklyn: The Once and Future City
by Campanella, Thomas J.
Princeton/Oxford: Princeton University Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. (c.2019). First Edition. Hardcover. [faint tea-stain on fore-edge, otherwise a nice clean book with no significant wear; the jacket is just a teensy bit wrinkled at the crown of the spine]. (B&W photographs, facsimiles, maps) In this "unprecedented history of Brooklyn, told through its places, buildings, and the people who made them," the author "recounts the creation of places familiar and long forgotten, both... Read More
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Wild Was the Road
by Candela, Benigno
New York: Vantage Press. Very Good in Good dj. (c.1963). First Edition. Hardcover. [some visible wear to boards along bottom edges, at both ends of spine, and corners, faint dust-soiling to top edge of text block; jacket edgeworn, rubbed, and lightly soiled, with a few tiny nicks and tears, 1-inch horizontal scrape on front panel, one 2-inch closed tear at bottom front hinge]. Vanity-press novel tracing "the history of an Italian family through two... Read More
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Tex Avery: The MGM Years, 1942-1955
by Canemaker, John
Atlanta: Turner Publishing, Inc.. Fine in Near Fine dj. First American Edition. Hardcover. [a lovely copy, no discernible wear to book; the jacket has some very slight wear along the top edge and a bit of scuffing to the rear panel, but still presents beautifully in a new mylar cover]. (color/B&W illustrations and photos) Nicely-produced and lavishly-illustrated survey of the great animation director's most creative period, during which he made many of the cartoons... Read More
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Walt Disney's Nine Old Men & The Art of Animation
by Canemaker, John
New York: Disney Editions. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. (c.2001). First Edition. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [no significant wear to book, but there is a Christmas gift inscription on the ffep; the jacket is very nice, with just a touch of surface handling wear, downgraded from Near Fine only because of the price-clipping]. (B&W and color photographs and artwork) A history of Disney animation, as seen through the careers of the studio's legendary Nine Old... Read More
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High Table
by Cannan, Joanna
Garden City NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.. Very Good+. 1931. First American Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [moderate wear and slight bumping to extremities, one-time owner's signature on front pastedown]. Novel about a sickly, timid and anti-social boy who takes refuge in books, not just as a child but throughout his life, right up until he's an an elderly Oxford don -- at which point the war (you know, The War) opens his eyes to... Read More
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The Inspector Guy Northeast Mysteries [2 volumes: They Rang Up the Police; Death at The Dog]
by Cannan, Joanna
Boulder CO: The Rue Morgue Press. 1999. Reprint. Softcover. Near Fine. [nice copies, both essentially as-new with no significant wear, but each with a previous owner's initials plus date & place of purchase written in ink along the edge of the inside rear cover]. Trade PB A pair of English-village mystery yarns, both featuring Inspector Guy Northeast, described in the books' introductions as "a big, raw-boned man whose youth, slowness of speech and lack of formal education belie his very... Read More
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Sentry
by Canney, Heyward Emerson
New York/London: Harper & Brothers. Very Good+ in Fair dj. 1928. 1st Edition (H-C). Hardcover. (price-clipped) [a good sound copy, a little fading to spine cloth, light shelfwear to bottom edges, tiny stain in front gutter with bleed-through on the first couple of pages, a couple of pages roughly opened with resulting slight raggedness to edges; the jacket is worn and age-toned, with a lengthwise crease in the spine (beginning to split), shallow chipping at... Read More
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Heirs
by Cannon, Cornelia James
Boston: Little, Brown and Company. Near Fine. 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [bumped at base of spine, very slight wear to front joint, front cover lettering just a touch rubbed; otherwise a nice-looking and exceptionally clean book]. Novel set in a small New Hampshire mill town, in which the native New Englanders are dying out (the principal characters are a young couple who find themselves unwillingly childless) and being supplanted by Polish immigrants.... Read More
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Pulptime: Being a Singular Adventure of Sherlock Holmes, H.P. Lovecraft, and the Kalem Club, As if Narrated by Frank Belknap Long, Jr.
by Cannon, P.H.
Buffalo NY: W. Paul Ganley (Weirdbook Press). Near Fine in Fine dj. 1985 (c.1984). 2nd impression. Hardcover. [a very nice copy with no discernible wear, but a previous owner has written his name and the date & place purchased in ink at the top of the front endpaper; the jacket is in perfect, as-new condition]. (full-page B&W illustrations) "In these pages, H.P. Lovecraft lives again and Sherlock Holmes stalks New York in 1925, looking for... Read More
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Out of Bounds
by Cannon, Ralph
Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Co.. Near Fine in Very Good dj. (c.1937). First Edition. Hardcover. [minimal shelfwear, slight fading to cloth at spine ends; jacket edgeworn, short ragged closed tear at top of front panel, shorter closed tear at top of rear panel, rubbing/scuffing to rear panel]. Juvenile novel with a college football background. A tough street kid from Little Italy, "where the gang played a lawless game, with no rules, no standards,... Read More
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Van Dyke and the Mythical City, Hollywood
by Cannom, Robert C.
Hollywood CA: Murray & Gee, Inc.. Very Good+ in Good dj. (c.1948). First Edition. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [solid copy, lightly shelfworn with slight bumping to lower corners; the jacket is a bit raggedy around the top of the spine, with modest wear along the top and bottom edges and small tears at several corners, including a short diagonal tears at the upper left and lower right corners of the front panel]. (B&W photographs) A colorful and... Read More
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Take My Life
by Cantor, Eddie, with Jane Kesner Ardmore
Near Fine in Near Fine dj. Later Printing. Hardcover. [nice copy, minimal shelfwear to book; jacket lightly soiled on rear panel, with a touch of wear to the spine extremities]. (B&W photographs) Eddie Cantor's autobiography, in which "he retraces the steps that have carried him from a dingy one-room apartment on New York's lower East Side through a thousand stage doors and out into the glow of the footlights and the applause and laughter... Read More
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The Way I See It [*SIGNED*]
by Cantor, Eddie; edited by Phyllis Rosenteur
Englewood Cliffs NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc.. Near Fine in Very Good dj. (c.1959). First Edition. Hardcover. [a nice clean book with minor shelfwear only; the jacket is moderately edgeworn, with a number of tiny nicks and small edge-tears, light scuffing/soiling]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper: "To Morris / Weisstein - / all good wishes / Sincerely, / Eddie Cantor / Dec- 20, / 1959." "One of America's best-loved comedians reveals... Read More
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The Land of Plenty
by Cantwell, Robert
New York: Farrar & Rinehart. Very Good. (c.1934). First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [solid but moderately shelfworn copy, light bumping and very slight fraying at several corners, one-time owner's name on front pastedown]. Classic Depression-era novel set in a mill town in the western part of the author's native Washington state (understood to be Aberdeen, but not named in the book itself). Cantwell's second (and last) published novel, cited and discussed extensively by Rideout, who found it "the best... Read More
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The World We Live In (The Insect Comedy); a play in three acts with prologue and epilogue
by Capek, Josef and Karel (adapted and arranged for the American stage by Owen Davis)
New York/Los Angeles: Samuel French. Near Fine. (c.1933, 1922). French's Standard Library Edition Later Printing. Softcover. [a nice clean copy, with minimal wear and faint external soiling only]. (scene design diagram) A satirical morality play, something along the lines of "Animal Farm" (but with insects), co-written (with his brother) by the Czech playwright whose "R.U.R." had opened in New York just a few weeks earlier. (Josef Capek was primarily a painter, but also ... Read More
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The Black Reaper
by Capes, Bernard; edited by Hugh Lamb
Ashcroft, BC (Canada): Ash-Tree Press. Very Good+ in Near Fine dj. 1998. Expanded edition. Hardcover. [no discernible wear to book, although a handful of pages have short diagonal creases at the upper corners from having been turned down as markers (why, oh why? -- this is why BOOKMARKS were invented, people!), and the former owner's initials plus date & place of purchase are written in ink on recto of rear endpaper; the jacket is flawless apart... Read More
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Breakfast at Tiffany's: A Short Novel and Three Stories
by Capote, Truman
New York: Random House. Very Good+. (c.1958). 2nd printing. Hardcover. (lacking the original dust jacket, but encased in a professionally-made facsimile reproduction of same; see 2nd image posted with this listing) [a good sound copy, a couple of tiny smudges on front cover, the teensiest bit of fraying to the upper front corner]. Probably Capote's most "beloved" work -- or at least the basis for a beloved-by-some 1961 movie (despite certain embarrassing aspects, e.g. Mickey... Read More
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The World of Li'l Abner [*SIGNED*]
by Capp, Al
New York: Farrar, Straus and Young. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. [minor wear at ends of spine, pages age-toned but not severely, vintage bookplate on front pastedown; the jacket is modestly edgeworn, slightly faded at the spine, a little scuffed on the front panel, with a tiny closed tear and some associated creasing at the bottom of the rear panelDETAILS NEEDED; generic bookplate of Susanna Lloyd on front pastedown (cartoon... Read More
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Frank Capra: The Tenth Annual American Film Institute Life Achievement Award, March 4, 1982 [event program/tribute book]
by {Capra, Frank} [The American Film Institute] (McBride, Joseph, ed.)
[Washington DC]: The American Film Institute. Near Fine. 1982. Stapled wraps. [a small amount of wear along the spine, otherwise nice and fresh, just about as new]. (B&W photographs) Nicely-done program/tribute book, largely photographic, from Capra's Life Achievement Award dinner; includes filmography. It's interesting to note that the tribute book's editor (also the co-author of the tribute itself) was Joseph McBride, who some years later published a highly critical biography of Capra. NOTE that... Read More
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The Name Above the Title: An Autobiography [ARC]
by Capra, Frank
New York: The Macmillan Company. Near Fine. (c.1971). Advance Review Copy. Softcover. (printed wraps) [light handling wear, modest bump to base of spine]. An advance copy (with indicators in the text where illustrations are to appear, but none are actually included) of the great director's notably self-serving yet highly readable autobiography. .
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Frank Capra: The Tenth Annual American Film Institute Life Achievement Award, March 4, 1982 [event program/tribute book]
by {Capra, Frank} [The American Film Institute] (McBride, Joseph, ed.)
[Washington DC]: The American Film Institute. Near Fine. 1982. First Edition. Stapled wraps. [a nice clean copy, minor handling wear only and a couple of small horizontal stress lines along the spine]. (B&W photographs) Nicely-done program/tribute book, largely photographic, from Capra's Life Achievement Award dinner; includes filmography. It's interesting to note that the tribute book's editor (also the co-author of the tribute itself) was Joseph McBride, who some years later published a highly critical biography... Read More
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The Taken Town
by Carew, Dudley
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Very Good in Fair dj. 1947. First American Edition. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [moderately shelfworn, light age-toning to edges of text block, faint old bookseller's rubber-stamp at bottom corner of front pastedown (Bertrand Smith Acres of Books, Long Beach, California); the jacket is heavily edgeworn, with a bit of paper loss at the spine ends and a dampstain along the bottom edge (externally visible only on the rear panel and both flaps)... Read More
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