The Life Cry
by Anonymous
New York: The Macaulay Company. Good. (c.1933). First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [front hinge cracked, modest wear to the extremities, some light staining on the bottom of the text block, and a small dampstain surrounding the base of the spine; basically a reading/reference copy only]. A first-person account of the trials and tribulations of an unwed mother -- or, more precisely, a divorcee who gets knocked up by her lover, then refuses his... Read More
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Grey Towers: A Campus Novel
by (Anonymous)
Chicago: Covici-McGee Co.. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. 1923. 2nd printing. Hardcover. NOISBN . [spine slightly turned, a bit of dust-soiling to top edge, a couple of lightly bumped corners, one-time owner's address label on front pastedown; jacket moderately edgeworn, spine browned, small chip at top of rear panel; jacket a teensy bit shorter than the book, apparently made that way]. "A novel of protest, written by a young apostle of revolt, against ... Read More
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The Life Cry
by Anonymous
New York: The Macaulay Company. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. (c.1933). First Edition. Hardcover. [nice tight clean copy, minor shelfwear only; jacket very attractive, with just a touch of soiling and a couple of tiny edge-nicks]. The trials and tribulations of an unwed mother -- or, more precisely, a divorcee who gets knocked up by her lover, then refuses his half-hearted marriage proposal, and subsequently suffers "pain, hunger, want." The jacket copy really goes to town, in the best... Read More
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Ring Round the Moon: A Charade with Music
by Anouilh, Jean (translated by Christopher Fry)
New York: Oxford University Press. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. 1950. First American Edition. Hardcover. [light shelfwear, a touch of soiling to top of text block; jacket slightly dog-eared at top of spine, horizontal wrinkle along top edge of front panel]. Preface by Peter Brook, who directed the original London production at the Globe Theatre. The original French title was "L'Invitation au Chateau." .
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Dinner Dance and An All Star Tribute to Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne on the occasion of their Golden Wedding Anniversary
by American National Theatre and Academy and The Antans
[North Hollywood CA]: American National Theatre and Academy. Near Fine. 1972. First Edition. Softcover. (illustrated oversize wraps) [minor surface wear to covers, slight dog-earing to bottom right corner of front cover; spine is faded, and a previous owner has written "The Lunts" on it with a sharpie]. (B&W photographs) Souvenir program book from ANTA's tribute to Lunt and Fontanne, held on June 11, 1972, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. Approximately 120 pages, illustrated with... Read More
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Rekindled Fires
by Anthony, Joseph
New York: Henry Holt and Company. Very Good+. 1918. First Edition. Hardcover. (decorated cloth; no dust jacket) [good-looking book with light shelfwear, small light stain on spine, dust-soiling to top edge]. Novel set in a factory town in New Jersey, centering around the Zabransky family. The father, Michael Zabransky, who has come to the U.S. from Bohemia (the western region of today's Czech Republic), is a truck farmer who has established himself as a... Read More
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They Who Knock At Our Gates: A Complete Gospel of Immigration
by Antin, Mary
Boston/New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. Very Good+ in Good dj. 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. [light shelfwear, minor dust-soiling to top of text block, one-time owner's name and address inked on front endpaper; the jacket is worn along the top edge, with numerous shallow chips, abrasions, etc., there are a couple of closed tears with associated creasing at the bottom of the rear panel, some paper loss at the top of the spine, and a tiny piece... Read More
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Bitter Fruit
by Antony, Mark
New York: Greenwich Book Publishers. Very Good in Fair dj. (c.1959). First Edition. Hardcover. [solid copy, moderate wear to cloth at top/bottom edges, small nick in cloth at bottom of rear cover near spine, tiny tears/minor fraying at top of spine; jacket is just Fair, with soiling, chipping, etc.]. A trashy novel with a social conscience, it would appear, about a "dynamic young foreman in the effeminate Earle Prescott's industrial empire," who gets involved with... Read More
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Slow Boat Across [*SIGNED* with a letter from the author]
by Antrotter, Harry B.
New York: Psychological Library. Near Fine in Very Good dj. 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [good sound copy, very light bumping to upper rear corner, faint dust-soiling to top edge; the jacket has small tears at a couple of corners with very slight paper loss, shallow chipping surrounding the top of the spine, and a bit of scuffing to the rear panel]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the ffep, to a "friend and... Read More
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The Power-House
by Appel, Benjamin
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc.. Near Fine in Good+ dj. 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. [a nice tight clean copy, with minor wear to the extremities, top of spine slightly pushed; the jacket is bright and attractive with modest edgewear, some soiling to the rear panel, a shallow chip at the base of the spine, and a couple of tiny chips at the top edge of the front panel -- but also with a deep (1.5") chip at the... Read More
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"Property Protected" [story] (in Esquire, March 1937)
by (Appel, Benjamin)
Chicago: Esquire, Inc.. Very Good+. (March 1937). (Vol. VII, No. 3; whole No. 40). Magazine. [nice clean copy, binding (staples) firm, a bit of wear at spine ends, bumping and slight crinkling at upper right corner, one-time owner's name discreetly rubber-stamped in "q" of title on front cover]. (photographs, cartoons, ads, etc.) One of the harder-to-find 1930s issues of "The Magazine for Men," despite its general lack of household-name contributors (which is to say... Read More
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Fortress in the Rice
by Appel, Benjamin
Indianapolis/New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc.. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. (c.1951). First Edition. Hardcover. [nice clean copy, minimal shelfwear to book; jacket shows just a touch of edgewear, tiny chip at top of spine, small scratch mid-spine]. Novel set in the Japanese-occuped Philippines during World War II. "In this powerful, fast-moving novel of the Philippines, from Pearl Harbor to the return of the Americans, [the author] has dealt with a whole society,... Read More
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The Dark Stain
by Appel, Benjamin
New York: The Dial Press. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. NOISBN . [moderate shelfwear to bottom edge, very slight bumping to a couple of corners, a touch of foxing to fore-edge; jacket shows wear at spine ends, creasing/wrinkling along top of front panel, ditto (but much less) at bottom of front pane]. Novel set partially in Harlem, about how a home-grown American Fascist group tries to exploit racial tensions resulting... Read More
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Hell's Kitchen
by Appel, Benjamin
New York: Pantheon Books. Very Good+ in Near Fine dj. (c.1977). First Edition. Hardcover. [some foxing to edges of text block (mostly top edge), no other significant wear; the jacket shows just a bit of age-toning along the spine]. A novel drawing on the author's own childhood (specifically the kids he ran with) in New York's tough Hell's Kitchen during World War I -- a "solid Irish" neighborhood where "if you weren't Irish it could be... Read More
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Diane Arbus Revelations
by Arbus, Diane
New York: Random House. Fine in Near Fine dj. (c.2003). First Edition. Hardcover. [no discernible wear to book; the jacket shows just a trace of handling wear]. (B&W and color photographs) "A kind of autobiography" of the renowned photographer, who died in 1971 at the age of 48, prepared by her eldest daughter Doon Arbus. Published in conjunction with a comprehensive exhibition that premiered at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in ... Read More
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Modern Fine Printing: Papers Read at a Clark Library Seminar, March 11, 1967 [*SIGNED* by Ward Ritchie]
by Archer, H. Richard, and Ward Ritchie
Los Angeles: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library/University of California. Very Good+. 1968. First Edition. Stapled wraps. (printed wraps) [some uneven fading to the front cover, a couple of tiny stains along left edge of front cover, a bit of rust on the staples]. SIGNED by Ritchie on the title page. The Archer paper is entitled "The Private Press: Its Essence and Recrudescence"; The Ritchie paper is "Tradition and the Printers of Southern California." ... Read More
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The Theatrical 'World' of 1894
by Archer, William
New York: Benjamin Blom, Inc.. Very Good+. 1971. Reprint. Hardcover. NOISBN . (no dust jacket, probably as issued) [nice sound clean copy, with just a touch of wear at the extremities; the bottom corners of the paper spine label have chipped off, but with no loss of text on the label itself]. Facsimile reprint of the original (1895) edition, which itself essentially reprinted the theatrical reviews from "The World" covering productions on the London... Read More
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The 13th Festival of Preservation / July 20 - August 19, 2006
by (UCLA Film and Television Archive)
[Los Angeles]: UCLA Film and Television Archive. Fine. 2006. First Edition. Softcover. [very nice copy, clean and bright with no discernible wear] (B&W photographs) Program book for the annual festival held at UCLA to highlight their film/TV archive's recent preservation activities, containing program notes for the individual films in the festival, including: OF MICE AND MEN (Lewis Milestone, 1939); BABY DOLL (Elia Kazan, 1956); GOD'S LITTLE ACRE (Anthony Mann, 1958); THE RED KIMONA (Walter... Read More
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2nd Annual Festival of Preservation / July 7-30, 1989
by (UCLA Film and Television Archive)
[Los Angeles]: UCLA Film and Television Archive. Near Fine. 1989. First Edition. Softcover. [very minor handling wear, tiny tear at base of spine]. (B&W/color photographs) Program book for the annual festival held at UCLA to highlight their film/TV archive's recent preservation activities. Includes several pages of information about the Archive, and about film and TV preservation generally. The remainder of the book is devoted to program notes on the individual films in the... Read More
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The Ninth Festival of Preservation / Aug. 1-29, 1998
by (UCLA Film and Television Archive)
[Los Angeles]: UCLA Film and Television Archive. Near Fine. 1998. First Edition. Softcover. [nice clean copy, faint edgewear]. (B&W photographs) Nicely-produced program book for the annual festival held at UCLA to highlight their film/TV archive's recent preservation activities, containing program notes for the individual films in the festival, including: JOAN OF ARC (1948); STAGECOACH (1939); DARK COMMAND (1940); THE FRESHMAN (1925); MACBET (1948); THE MYSTERIOUS DR. FU MANCHU (1929); DEATH TAKES A HOLIDAY (1934); ... Read More
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The Sixth Annual Festival of Preservation / April 7 - May 1, 1994
by (UCLA Film and Television Archive)
[Los Angeles]: UCLA Film and Television Archive. Near Fine. 1994. First Edition. Softcover. [nice clean copy, very minor fingertip creases in front cover]. (B&W photographs) Program book for the annual festival held at UCLA to highlight their film/TV archive's preservation activities, containing program notes for the individual films in the festival, including: THE SEA HAWK (1924); two features by Cecil B. DeMille (THE PLAINSMAN and THIS DAY AND AGE); THE SPIDER (1931), co-directed by William... Read More
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The Eighth Annual Festival of Preservation / June 27 - July 20, 1996
by (UCLA Film and Television Archive)
[Los Angeles]: UCLA Film and Television Archive. Near Fine. 1996. First Edition. Softcover. [nice clean copy, mild edge & surface wear]. (B&W photographs) Program book for the annual festival held at UCLA to highlight their film/TV archive's recent preservation activities, containing program notes for the individual films in the festival, including: GILDA (1946; the cover image is also from this film, with Rita Hayworth); DESIGN FOR LIVING (1933); FEAR AND DESIRE (1953, Stanley Kubrick's... Read More
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The Self-Enchanted -- Mae Murray: Image of an Era
by Ardmore, Jane
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. (c.1959). First Edition. Hardcover. [nice-looking copy, with just a bit of wear to the spine ends, small stain at bottom corner of front endpaper; jacket also worn just a bit at the spine ends, with a tiny chip at the lower rear spine corner, and some other light surface wear]. (B&W photographs) A biography of the silent-film actress Mae Murray, whose life and career are... Read More
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Charles Henry and the Formation of a Psychophysical Aesthetic
by Argüelles, José A.
Chicago/London: The University of Chicago Press. Near Fine in Very Good dj. 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. [minimal wear to book, previous owner's name and date in ink (very small) at top of front endpaper; the jacket is modestly worn at edges and extremities, some surface rubbing/scuffing, slight wrinkling at upper edge of rear panel]. (color frontispiece) "This work provides the first thorough, scholarly study of the unique personality and extraordinary achievement of Charles Henry... Read More
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Flying Through Hollywood By the Seat of My Pants
by Arkoff, Sam, with Richard Trubo
New York: Birch Lane Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. (c.1992). First Edition. Hardcover. [minor shelfwear, the faintest bit of soiling to bottom of text block; jacket has a couple of wrinkles in the spine, light rubbing to rear panel]. (B&W photographs) Autobiography of B-movie mogul Samuel Z. Arkoff, co-founder in 1954 of American International Pictures, where "an entire generation of filmmakers and stars got their start." .
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