Written By: The Journal of the Writers Guild of America, west (August 1988)
by (Chambers, Lisa, ed.)
Los Angeles: Writers Guild of America, west. Near Fine. 1988. (Vol. 2, No. 8). Hardcover. [nice clean copy, a couple of short diagonal creases at upper right corner of front cover]. (B&W and color photographs, ads) The cover story is "Witty Women," profiling five sitcom writers: Yvette Lee Bowser, Lona Williams, Dana Savel, Amy Sherman-Palladino, and Eileen Conn. Featured articles: "Preston Sturges: A Screwball Centennial" by Devra Maza (along with the schedule of... Read More
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What the Sweet Hell?
by Chamberlain, Peter
New York: Henry Holt and Company. Very Good+. 1935. 1st (U.S.) edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [decent copy, minor foxing around edges of endpapers, hinges a little tender but not cracked or split, paper spine label a bit rubbed but still completely readable, a few pages near end of book slightly scrunched at top corners]. Short stories by a British writer, in a somewhat hard-boiled vein, as the title suggests. As the New York... Read More
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A Continent Remade: Reflections on the legacy of independence [etc.]
by (Chambers, Veronica, ed.)
New York: The New York Times. Near Fine. 2020. (February 9, 2020). Newspaper. [minimal external handling wear, slight wrinkling typical of a newspaper supplement; no folds or tears]. (B&W photographs) This 52-page Special Section of The New York Times presents eight essays by "luminaries of the African diaspora," reflecting on the 60th anniversary of the "Year of Africa" (1960), during which no fewer than seventeen countries on the continent declared independence from their colonial... Read More
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Hello, I Must Be Going: Groucho and His Friends [*SIGNED*]
by Chandler, Charlotte
Garden City NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc.. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [a very nice copy, solidly bound with no discernible shelfwear; the jacket has a couple of tiny nicks in the rear panel and an associated horizontal crease at the bottom edge]. (B&W photographs) SIGNED by the author (no inscription) at the top of the front endpaper. After interviewing Groucho Marx for Playboy magazine, the author ... Read More
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Dreamers in Dream City
by Chandler, Harry Brant
Santa Monica CA: Angel City Press. Fine in Fine dj. 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. 188331884X . [lovely, as-new book, with no discernible wear to either the book or the dust jacket]. (color photographs) .
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Stone Sculpture in the Prince of Wales Museum
by Chandra, Moti
Bombay, India: The Board of Trustees of the Prince of Wales Museum of Western India. Very Good in Very Good dj. 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. [no significant wear to book, but the covers appear to be faded in a somewhat odd, mottled way (no "damage" of any kind, though); the jacket is very lightly soiled, with a small tear at the top of the spine and another at the top right flapfold]. (B&W photographic plates) An illustrated... Read More
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The Little Sister
by Chandler, Raymond
London: Hamish Hamilton. Very Good-. 1949. First British Edition. Hardcover. (lacking the original dust jacket, but encased in a professionally-made facsimile reproduction of same; see 2nd image posted with this listing) [edgewear to covers, light damp-staining to front cover, spine moderately turned, spine cloth faded, light dust-soiling to top of text block, one-time owner's signature on front pastedown]. The first British edition of Chandler's "Hollywood novel." Issued in June 1949, it actually ... Read More
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The Lady in the Lake
by Chandler, Raymond
London: Hamish Hamilton. 1944. First British Edition. Hardcover. Fair. (lacking the original dust jacket, but encased in a professionally-made facsimile reproduction of same; see 2nd image posted with this listing) [a pretty grubby-looking copy, with considerable soiling to orange cloth (most notably on the spine), and the front hinge starting to give way; "Xmas 1944" handwritten on front endpaper]. "A woman disappears and her husband, who admits that he hates her, hires a detective to find her. It could be... Read More
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The High Window
by Chandler, Raymond
London: Hamish Hamilton. Very Good. 1949. 5th printing. Hardcover. (lacking the original dust jacket, but encased in a professionally-made facsimile reproduction of the first British edition jacket; see 2nd image posted with this listing) [lightly shelfworn, spine turned, some dust-soiling to top of text block, minor pencil notes on rear endpaper]. Philip Marlowe sets out to investigate a stolen rare coin, and gets mixed up in ever-so-much-more trouble. Filmed twice, oddly enough, in the... Read More
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Chandler Before Marlowe: Raymond Chandler's Early Prose and Poetry, 1908-1912
by {Chandler, Raymond} Bruccoli, Matthew J., ed.
Columbia SC: University of South Carolina Press. Fine. Limited/Numbered Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket; in slipcase) [both book and slipcase in flawless condition, except for a couple of infinitesimal scrape marks on the latter (second scanned image)]. (2 black & white photo frontispieces) A collection of Chandler's nascent literary efforts -- 27 poems (1908-1912); eight essays and sketches (1911-1912); four book reviews (1911-1912) -- plus a requiem and two sonnets composed late in his... Read More
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Johnny Guitar
by Chanslor, Roy
New York: Pocket Books (1017). Near Fine. 1954. 2nd printing. Softcover. [a very nice copy, with ust a touch of edge- and surface-wear to covers, firm and uncreased spine]. Mass Market PB "A novel of gamblers, outlaws and lynching in the American West," and renowned as the source of the famously overheated Nicholas Ray film -- which has all those elements but oh so much more, with Joan Crawford and Mercedes McCambridge squaring off, ostensibly... Read More
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Hazard
by Chanslor, Roy
New York: Simon and Schuster. Very Good+ in Very Good- dj. 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. [very slight fraying to spine ends, otherwise a good sound copy with minimal wear; the jacket is moderately scuffed, with a couple of teeny-tiny chips and some fading at the spine]. The story of a compulsive gambler, "Ellen Crane, whose blood tingled when the ponies ran or the dice rolled or the wheel spun," and of the private detective "who... Read More
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My Life with Chaplin: An Intimate Memoir
by Chaplin, Lita Grey, with Morton Cooper
(n.p.): Bernard Geis Associates. Fine in Very Good+ dj. (c.1966). First Edition. Hardcover. [a nice clean book with no discernible wear; the jacket has a fewsmall nicks and some associated dog-earring at the top of the spine, some modest surface wear, a tiny closed tear at the top edge of the rear panel and another, even tinier chip at the bottom edge]. (B&W photographs) A sensational-bordering-on-lurid memoir by Charlie Chaplin's second wife -- a... Read More
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Better Left Unsaid
by Daisy Princess of Pless; edited with an introduction and notes by Major Desmond Chapman-Huston
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc.. Near Fine in Very Good dj. 1931. 10th printing. Hardcover. [good solid copy, slight bumping to corners of rear cover, internally very clean; the foil jacket is edge- and surface-worn but largely intact]. (B&W photographs, facsimiles) "Women will love this book," claims the jacket blurb (written by some man, no doubt). "It is an unerringly true picture of the personal life of this charming Irish-English woman of the... Read More
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Please Don't Call Me Tarzan
by Chapman, Mike
Newton IA: Culture House Books. Fine in Near Fine dj. 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. [very nice copy, no discernible wear to book; the jacket shows just the slightest traces of surface wear]. (B&W photographs) Biography of Herman Brix, an outstanding college athlete (and medal-winning shot-putter at the 1928 Olympics), who had been a bit actor in Hollywood for several years when he was tapped by the Burroughs-Tarzan Corporation for the role of Tarzan in... Read More
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Evil Through the Ages: An Outline of Indecency
by Chappell, George S.
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company. Near Fine in Very Good dj. 1932. 2nd printing before publication. Hardcover. [minor shelfwear only, slight age-toning to edges of text block; the jacket has a few nicks along the edges, with very shallow chipping at both ends of the spine]. (cartoon illustrations) A satirical, mock-scientific swipe at the Puritanical mindset, presented as a series of lectures by an unnamed professor to explain . A jacket blurb... Read More
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Down from the Mountain
by Charbonneau, Louis
Garden City NY: Doubleday & Co.. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. [nice copy, clean and tight with minimal shelfwear, spine very slightly turned; jacket mildly rubbed, shows a bit of wear at spine extremities]. "A novel of high adventure in the pioneer West." .
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Jean Renoir [*SIGNED* by Renoir]
by Chardère, Bernard, and Max Schoendorff, eds.
Lyon (France): Cinématographique). Very Good+. 1962. Nos. 22-23-24 (May 1962). Softcover. [modest external wear and light soiling, some creasing in spine]. (Premier Plan, 22-23-24) Series (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED and SIGNED (lightly, in pencil) by Jean Renoir at the top of the contents page: "My best wishes to / Bob Dickson. / Jean Renoir." A special triple-issue (405 pages) of this esteemed French series, devoted entirely to Renoir's film work. Includes a 1938 article... Read More
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The Young Divorcees [*SIGNED*]
by Charell, Lissa
New York: Macmillan. Very Good in Very Good dj. (c.1963). First Edition. Hardcover. [some soiling to edges of book; jacket mildly soiled, a few small tears, some corner wear]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the ffep in 1971. Signed by Author .
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Idle Hands
by Charles, Edward (pseud. for E.C.E. Hemsted)
Boston/New York: Lothrop, Lee and Shephard Company. Very Good. 1936. First American Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [light external soiling and moderate shelfwear, small vintage bookseller's rubber stamp (Bertrand Smith's Book Store, Long Beach, California) at bottom corner of front pastedown]. English novel, about something or other -- artists, some kind of school, people having affairs with one another, the staff of an art magazine. (Do you have any idea how hard it... Read More
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British Films 1962
by Charman, Bernard, ed.
Welwyn Garden City (U.K.): The Alcuin Press. Very Good+. [1962]. Spiral bound. [modest external wear, front-cover laminate just starting to left at one corner]. (B&W photographs) Spiral-bound promotional book, designed to promote British films for the Continental marketplace. Each of the three dozen films highlighted is given a double-page spread, with credits, photos, and a brief synopsis in English, beneath which are short blurbs about the film in French, German, Italian, and Spanish.... Read More
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Barbary Brew: A Romantic Novel
by Charters, Zelda Stewart
New York: Stackpole Sons. Very Good in Very Good- dj. (c.1937). First Edition. Hardcover. NOISBN . [solid copy, some wear to the lower extremities (slight fraying at bottom corners and base of spine), light dust-soiling to top edge; jacket has minor tears at a couple of corners, small nick at fore-edge of front panel, slight paper loss around top of spine (no text affected), moderate soiling]. Historical romance set against the backdrop of the American... Read More
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Darlin' Bill: A Love Story of the Wild West
by Charyn, Jerome
New York: Arbor House. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. (c.1980). First Edition. Hardcover. 0877952833 . (price-clipped) [tight clean copy, bottom corners bumped; jacket shows minor wear along bottom edge, small tear at lower rear corner]. The book "recreates--and reincarnates--the life of the legendary hero of the wild West, James Butler Hickok--also known as 'Wild Bill'--whose much-bandied exploits as daring Union spy, ruthless Indian fighter, inveterate gambler and ladies' man spread his fame... Read More
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Shadow of a Hero
by Chase, Allan
Boston: Little, Brown and Company. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. [light wear to book, slight fading to cloth along top and bottom edges, small vintage bookseller's rubber-stamp (Bertrand Smith's Acres of Books, Long Beach, California) at bottom corner of front pastedown; jacket has tiny tears at several corners, some edgewear and minor wrinkling along bottom edge, a handful of tiny nicks and closed tears]. Novel about a newspaper's book... Read More
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East River
by Chase, Borden
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj. (c.1935). First Edition. Hardcover. [quite a decent copy, moderately shelfworn and with some smudging and marking to the cloth (mostly on the back cover), but nice enough that's it a bit of a shock to discover (from the rear endpaper) that it was once a lending library book (see notes); jacket is lightly soiled, some wear at edges and corners, neat internal tape-reinforcement at... Read More
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