The "Creeps" Omnibus; containing Creeps, Shudders and Shivers in one volume

London: Philip Allan. Fair. 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. (lacking the original dust jacket, but encased in a professionally-made facsimile reproduction of same; see 2nd image posted with this listing) [considerable staining and fading to orange cloth covers, binding a little shaken, staining and age-toning to edges of text block, one-time owner's inked signature at top of front endpaper, another one-time owner's notes about place & date of purchase at top of half-title page, small ... Read More

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New York Post - January 14, 1992 ["Hoffa Had JFK Killed" headline]

New York: The New York Post Company. Near Fine. 1992. (Vol. 191, No. 49). Newspaper. [nice clean newspaper, basically newsstand-fresh with just a minor wrinkle at the top of the front cover]. (B&W photographs, ads) What more needs to be said after the screaming HOFFA HAD JFK KILLED headline? (The headline over the story itself reads HOFFA HAD THE MOB MURDER JFK.) The headline fronts a story by Jack Newfield, who cites as... Read More

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Stars of the Movies and Featured Players

Hollywood: The Hollywood Publicity Company, Inc.. Poor. (c.1927). First Edition. Softcover. [pretty beat-up, suitable for reference/research use only; rear cover detached, paper loss at corners of front cover and also corners of first few pages, water-staining to the rear endpapers (and affecting to some degree the last one-third or so of the book); on the bright side, there do not appear to be any missing pages]. (B&W photographs) Full-page portraits of 250 actors and actresses... Read More

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The Big Love

by Aadland, (Mrs.) Florence, as told to Tedd Thomey

New York: Warner Books. Near Fine. 1986 (c.1961). Reprint (1st ptg. thus). Softcover. [nice tight copy (uncreased spine), extremely light wear here and there at edges and spine extremities]. Mass Market PB One of the classic Hollywood tell-alls, "the true story of Errol Flynn's love affair with 15-year-old Bev Aadland -- told by her mother." Originally published as a paperback original in 1961, this reprint edition features a new afterword by "as told to"... Read More

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Sky Birds (April 1933)

by (A.A. Wyn, ed.) (T.W. Ford, Arch Whitehouse, Joe Archibald, et al.)

New York: Magazine Publishers, Inc.. Very Good+. 1933. (Vol. XII, No. 3). Magazine. [minor foldover at right side of front cover, otherwise a nice clean solid copy with only light wear, one tiny tear at top of front cover]. Novel: "Wing Warriors" by T.W. Ford. Novelette: "Canyon of Crashes" by Arch Whitehouse. Stories and features include: "Kilt in Action" by Joe Archibald; "Blue Flare Below" by James Perley Hughes; "The Kite-Conqueror" (about... Read More

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Fire on the Mountain

by Abbey, Edward

New York: The Dial Press. Very Good+. 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. NOISBN . (quarter-bound, red and yellow cloth; no dust jacket) [very slight bump to bottom front corner, light soiling to yellow portions of covers, previous owner's inked name at top of ffep]. Quite a decent copy of Abbey's third novel, about a New Mexico rancher who refuses to let his land be taken over and turned into a bombing range by the U.S. Air... Read More

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Immigration: Select Documents and Case Records

by Abbott, Edith

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. Very Good. 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [front hinge starting, other than that quite a decent copy with only light external wear]. (The University of Chicago Social Service Series) Series From the Preface: "This is not a book of 'readings.' It is a source book, compiled to make available for students of immigration a collection of published documents and hitherto unpublished case records that will throw... Read More

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Chaos in Asia

by Abend, Hallett

New York: Ives Washburn, Inc.. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. (c.1939). First Edition. Hardcover. [a nice solid copy, light shelfwear to bottom edge and at top of spine, one-time owner's name scrawled at top of ffep; jacket has a couple of tiny chips at top of front panel, a few nicks elsewhere along top and bottom edges, very shallow paper loss at spine ends]. "Written out of deep understanding and with the authority of... Read More

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Room for a Son

by Abrahams, Robert D.

Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. [light shelfwear, a bit of wear to spine ends; the jacket is modestly edgeworn, with minor paper loss at the spine ends, and a small horizontal tear mid-spine (no paper loss)]. "This novel tells a simple, moving and intensely human story about a Jewish family in a small American town and the young refugee whom they adopted. ... Through... Read More

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Awakened

by Abrams, Margaret

Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America. Near Fine in Very Good- dj. 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. [very slight wear to spine extremities, no other discernible wear; the jacket has a small piece missing at the lower left corner of the front panel, with an associated 2-inch diagonal closed tear, some diagonal creasing at the other three corners of the front panel, and some minor paper loss and dog-earing at the spine ends]. "A small-town congregation... Read More

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Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem [*SIGNED*]

by Ackroyd, Peter

London: Sinclair-Stevenson. 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in Fine dj. [very light foxing to edges of text block, but no other sigificant wear; the jacket is flawless] SIGNED by the author on the title page. Murder mystery set in Victorian London, more particularly in "the world of late-Victorian music hall and pantomime," as a famous music hall comedian gets involved in the case of a serial killer known as the "Limehouse Golem." Basis for the 2016 British film of... Read More

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Communist Infiltration of Hollywood Motion-Picture Industry -- Part 3. Hearings Before the Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, Eighty-Second Congress, First Session: May 22, 23, 24, 25; June 25 and 26, 1951

by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities

Washington DC: United States Government Printing Office. Near Fine. 1951. First Edition. Printed wraps. [very light external soiling, small piece torn away at bottom right corner of front cover]. Transcripts of the testimonies of five individuals, given before HUAC as part of its second major investigation into purported communist influence in Hollywood. (The first, in 1947, was what set in motion the practice of blacklisting suspected communists, which was in full swing by the... Read More

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Laughing in the Jungle: The Autobiography of an Immigrant in America [with *SIGNED* note]

by Adamic, Louis

New York/London: Harper & Brothers. Very Good in Good dj. 1932. 2nd printing. Hardcover. [a good sound copy, moderately shelfworn with some exposure of boards at lower corners and along top edge of rear cover; the jacket has some paper loss at both ends of the spine, extending a bit into the top of the rear panel, otherwise just lightly edgeworn]. Includes a typed and SIGNED note from the author, affixed to the front endpaper. ... Read More

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Grandsons: A Story of American Lives

by Adamic, Louis

New York/London: Harper & Brothers. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. 1935. Fourth Edition. Hardcover. [minor shelfwear, some age-toning to edges of text block, light dust-soiling to top edge; the jacket is a bit edgeworn, with small tears and some associated short creasing at the bottom corners of the front panel]. "This is the story of two brothers, Peter and Andy Gale, and their cousin Jack, three young Americans of today. Their grandfather, Anton ... Read More

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Two Years Under Arms: A Novel of Life in a Military School

by Adam, Robert J.

New York: Exposition Press. Very Good in Very Good dj. (c.1953). First Edition. Hardcover. NOISBN . [moderate shelfwear, light fading to cloth at edges, light discoloration in gutters; jacket a little edgeworn, spine is browned with some minor staining, a few tiny nicks here and there]. The author, a native of Dunlap, Kansas, and a then-resident of Lyons, Kansas (about 110 miles to the west, in case you were wondering), novelizes his experience at military... Read More

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Contraband

by Adams, Cleve F.

New York: Signet Books (902). Very Good+. 1951 (c.1950). 1st printing. Softcover. [nice bright copy, slight spine roll, minor edgewear to covers] Mass Market PB "Reed Smith was a hard-boiled Federal Narcotics agent who had tangled with the toughest crooks and crimes, in his time. But when he was assigned to track down a gang of international dope smugglers, he met the most brutal killers of his career. Using respectable contacts and ... Read More

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The Golf House Murder

by Adams, Herbert

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company. Very Good. (c.1933). First Edition. Hardcover. [light shelfwear, some dust-darkening to top of text block; includes a COLOR PHOTOCOPY of the original jacket (but which cuts short half of the rear flap)]. Increasingly hard-to-find golf-themed mystery, in an INCOMPLETE PHOTOCOPY of the original dust jacket (missing half the rear flap, the text of which is related to a different book). PLEASE NOTE that I did not manufacture this faux... Read More

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Bugs Bunny: Fifty Years and Only One Grey Hare [plus promotional magazine]

by Adamson, Joe

New York: Henry Holt and Company (A Donald Hutter Book). Near Fine in Near Fine dj. (c.1990). First Edition. Hardcover. [extremely light shelfwear and minor bumping to lower corners, otherwise as-new; the jacket is similarly nice, with only some faint wrinkling along the top and bottom edges]. (color and B&W illustrations; photographs) A deeply-researched, entertainingly-written history of the "rabbit for all seasons," issued to mark the 50th anniversary of his creation, and covering his... Read More

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James Dean, Fairmount, Indiana & Farming: Conversations with Marcus Winslow

by Adams, Leith, ed.

Orlando FL: BearManor Media. Fine. (c.2022). First Edition. Hardcover. (laminated pictorial boards; no dust jacket, as issued) [a nice clean as-new book]. (B&W photographs) "The story of James Dean and the Midwestern family that raised him through the eyes of the boy who thought of him as an older brother, more than a cousin. Coupled with never-before published letters and a treasure trove of photographs, Marcus recalls Dean and the farm and the fans... Read More

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Campus Sleep-In

by Adirondack, Leslie

New York: The Olympia Press / The Traveller's Companion (TC-497). Very Good+. (c.1970). First Edition. Softcover. [a nice tight copy, light edgewear to covers, minor soiling to front cover, tiny tear at top of spine, minor soft creasing at bottom of rear cover]. (The Traveller's Companion Series) Series Mass Market PB Erotic novel with a college-campus setting, highlighting (per the cover subtitle) "The Intimate Co-ed Revolution." The rear cover reproduces a little squib ... Read More

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The Electric Sensation

by Adirondack, Leslie

New York: The Olympia Press / The Traveller's Companion (TC-459). Very Good+. (c.1969). First Edition. Softcover. [a bit of spine roll, otherwise a nice tight copy with minor external wear]. (The Traveller's Companion Series) Series Mass Market PB Erotic novel with a rock 'n' roll background, about a groupie who falls in (or jumps in) with a band on tour; much sexual intercourse ensues. ("Leslie Adirondack" is a pseudonym if I've ever seen... Read More

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The Haunting Hand

by Roberts. W. Adolphe

Good. First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [Good only, a worn but intact book; spine turned, moderate wear with slight fraying to cloth at a few corners, top right-hand edge of front cover bumped, one-time owner's name on ffep, light staining to rear cover, spine lettering partially rubbed off]. New York-set mystery novel about a movie actress who sees a creepy disembodied arm and hand reaching out from under her bed one night, and... Read More

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Mil Besos / 1000 Kisses

by Afanador, Ruven

New York: Rizzoli International Publications. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. [a lovely copy, with only minimal wear to both book and jacket]. (B&W photographs) The third (and most uncommon) book by this Colombian-born photographer presents "an extraordinary collection of images of the women of flamenco," shot by Afanador "under the bright sunlight and set against the austere landscape and incandescent walls of Andalusia in Southern Spain. Under improbably... Read More

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Death's Mannikins

by Afford, Max

New York/London: D. Appleton-Century Company. Very Good+. 1937. First American Edition. Hardcover. (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) [nice copy with only minimal shelfwear, but apparently once owned by one of those fiends who never heard of a bookmark, as about a dozen pages or so have short diagonal creases at the upper corners... Read More

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Brooklyn Is: Southeast of the Island: Travel Notes

by Agee, James

New York: Fordham University Press. (c.2005). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in Near Fine dj. [nice clean as-new copy, with just a touch of surface wear to the jacket]. The first stand-alone publication of an essay on the borough, written by Agee on assignment for Fortune magazine in 1939, but rejected by its editors and unpublished until it appeared in Esquire magazine in 1968. Jonathan Lethem, in his Preface, calls it "this astonishing secret text which like the heart of the... Read More

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