![These Charming People; being a tapestry of the fortunes, follies, adventures, gallantries and general activities of Shelmerdene (that lovely lady), Lord Tarlyon, Mr. Michael Wagstaffe, Mr. Ralph Wyndham Trevor and some others of their friends [etc.]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/203/231/938231203.0.m.jpg)
These Charming People; being a tapestry of the fortunes, follies, adventures, gallantries and general activities of Shelmerdene (that lovely lady), Lord Tarlyon, Mr. Michael Wagstaffe, Mr. Ralph Wyndham Trevor and some others of their friends [etc.]
by Arlen, Michael
New York: George H. Doran Company. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. (c.1924). 2nd printing ("B"). Hardcover. NOISBN . [solid copy, light shelfwear, minor fading to cloth; jacket shows wear along top and bottom edges, a few shallow chips and tiny tears, horizontal crease near top of front panel]. "The author calls his book 'a tapestry of the fortunes, follies, adventures, gallantries of a certain lovely lady and her friends and companions in this tale.'... Read More
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![Up the Years from Bloomsbury: An Autobiography [*SIGNED*]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/952/360/1418360952.0.l.jpg)
Up the Years from Bloomsbury: An Autobiography [*SIGNED*]
by Arliss, George
Boston: Little, Brown and Company. Near Fine. 1928 (c.1927). 5th printing. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [some minor wear to the extremities, gilt spine lettering slightly rubbed, all in all a bright attractive copy; one-time owner's name at top of front endpaper (see notes)]. (B&W photographic plates) INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper: "To Mr. Cecil deMille / with my best wishes / from George Arliss / Dec. 1928." The ... Read More
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![The Historical Society of Southern California Quarterly (June 1954) [cover: Helen Hunt Jackson]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/540/203/1316203540.0.l.jpg)
The Historical Society of Southern California Quarterly (June 1954) [cover: Helen Hunt Jackson]
by (Arlt, Gustave O., ed.)
Los Angeles: Historical Society of Southern California. Very Good+. 1954. (Vol. XXXVI, No. 2). Journal. [minimal handling wear, old price sticker (with information blacked-out) on front cover]. (B&W photographs) Contents: "California's Literary Women," by Gustave O. Arlt; "Daily Life in Early Los Angeles," by Mayme R. Krythe; "The Redondo Railroad," by Franklyn Hoyt; "Ozro William Childs," by Hortense Childs Reynolds; "California Volunteers," by A. Hunt; "Rancho Boca de Santa Monica," by Mary Boyce Kennedy;... Read More
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![The Historical Society of Southern California Quarterly (June 1960) [cover: Edward Fitzgerald Beale]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/550/203/1316203550.0.l.jpg)
The Historical Society of Southern California Quarterly (June 1960) [cover: Edward Fitzgerald Beale]
by (Arlt, Gustave O., ed.)
Los Angeles: Historical Society of Southern California. Very Good+. 1960. (Vol. XLII, No. 2). Journal. [minimal handling wear, old price sticker (with information blacked-out) on front cover]. (B&W photographs) Contents include: "Edward Fitzgerald Beale and the Indian Peace Commissioners in California, 1851-1854," by Richard E. Crouter and Andrew F. Rolle; "Military Posts of the Old Frontier: Arizona-New Mexico," by Frank A. Schilling; "The Great Debate in California: 1859," by Donald E. Hargis; "Lantern in... Read More
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Una Aventura Americana: Españoles en Hollywood
by Armero, Álvaro
Madrid: Compañía Literaria. Near Fine. 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. (laminated pictorial boards; no dust jacket, as issued) [nice clean copy with just a touch of wear at the extremities, a couple of tiny unobtrusive pit marks on front cover]. (B&W/color photographs, facsimiles) An illustrated account (with text entirely in Spanish) of Spanish actors, writers and technicians at work in the Hollywood film industry, focusing primarily on the early talkies era, with much coverage of... Read More
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![It All Started With Eve [*SIGNED*]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/814/951/1675951814.0.m.jpg)
It All Started With Eve [*SIGNED*]
by Armour, Richard
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company. Near Fine in Very Good dj. (c.1956). 2nd printing. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [minimal shelfwear to book, spine very slightly turned; the jacket is moderately edgeworn, with tiny tears and small bits of paper loss at several extremities, a bit of creasing along the bottom edge of the front panel]. (cartoon drawings) INSCRIBED ("All good wishes") and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper. A humorous (and sexist in a... Read More
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John Frankenheimer: Interviews, Essays, and Profiles
by Armstrong, Stephen B., ed.
Lanham MD/Toronto/Plymouth (UK): The Scarecrow Press, Inc.. Fine. 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. (laminated pictorial covers; no dust jacket, as issued) [nice clean as-new book, with no discernible wear]. A collection of "the most interesting and insightful articles and features published on this underrated director," dated from 1961 through 2002. Although most of the book consists of interviews, also included are "journalistic profiles of the director at work and essays that Frankenheimer himself wrote... Read More
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![Film Journal [*SIGNED*]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/463/378/1673378463.0.l.jpg)
Film Journal [*SIGNED*]
by Arnold, Eve
London: Bloomsbury Publishing. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. 2002. 1st U.K. edition. Hardcover. [nice clean book, minor shelfwear only; jacket shows just a touch of handling wear]. (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author/photographer in red ink on the half-title page: "For ____ / with love / Eve" (in a somewhat shaky hand). A collection of Arnold's candid photographs of (mostly) actors and actresses, taken behind the scenes on numerous films from the 1950s to the 1980s, accompanied... Read More
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Fish and Company
by Arnold, Ralph
New York: The Macmillan Company. Good. 1951. First American Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [wear to extremities (slight exposure of boards at a couple of corners), spine slightly turned, one-time owner's initials, date & place of purchase, and brief comment ("Superior!") in ink along edge of rear pastedown]. Light mystery novel set in Italy, a one-off in the genre for this author, who also turned out a number of nonfictional works as well as... Read More
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![Of Blood and Oil: With the Israeli Underground [*SIGNED*]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/990/543/8543990.0.m.jpg)
Of Blood and Oil: With the Israeli Underground [*SIGNED*]
by Arnovitz, Erwin
New York: Exposition Press. Very Good- in Fair dj. (c.1951). First Edition. Hardcover. [book just moderately worn, small tear in cloth at top of spine; jacket somewhat tattered, separated at front hinge (held together by Brodart cover), large piece missing at lower left of front panel]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the ffep. Novel about an idealistic young American physician who goes to Israel to participate in "the birth pangs of a... Read More
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Soviet Cinema
by Arossev, A., ed.
Moscow: Voks. Good. 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. (pictorial paste-on cover illustratoins; no dust jacket) [a well-worn ex-library copy, with remnants of removed labels on front pastedown and ffep, bumping and edgewear all around; also note that the celluloid silhouette of Stalin is missing from this copy]. (B&W photographs) The Soviets' own assessment (in English) of their national cinema during the Stalin era, profusely illustrated. Includes: numerous articles on the Soviet film industry... Read More
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Diary of a Candid Lady
by Arroway, Francis M.
Garden City NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc.. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. NOISBN . [minor wear to cloth at spine ends, otherwise a pristine copy; jacket has a couple of tiny tears and some associated wrinkling/creasing at top of spine, one small closed tear at top of rear panel, very minor rubbing and edgewear]. Satirical novel about a couple of ex-prostitutes (one now married to a stockbroker, the other the... Read More
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A Tribute to Billy Wilder
by Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Near Fine. [1979]. Ephemera. [light wear only, minor bump to bottom right corner]. (B&W photographs) Small brochure/program schedule and notes for LACMA's Wilder retrospective, held from July 6 to August 24, 1979. Thirty films were screened, the most recent (at that time) being AVANTI! (Seems like they might have made a space for THE FRONT PAGE, although one can certainly understand the omission of... Read More
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![Eadweard Muybridge: The Stanford Years, 1872-1882 [*SIGNED* by Adolph Zukor]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/097/180/1721180097.0.l.jpg)
Eadweard Muybridge: The Stanford Years, 1872-1882 [*SIGNED* by Adolph Zukor]
by Stanford University Museum of Art
[Palo Alto CA]: Department of Art, Stanford University. Very Good+. (c.1972). First Edition. Softcover. (large-format oblong softcover) [minor wear to extremities, light handling wear, a touch of foxing/staining to page edges; includes printed sheet of additions and corrections]. (Stanford Art Book 14) Series (B&W photographs, facsimiles) This copy has a tipped-in sheet preceding the title page, containing a brief tribute by Arthur Knight "honoring the centennial of Eadweard Muybridge's achievements [and also] the centennial... Read More
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![Ready, Willig and Abel [*SIGNED*]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/405/455/1699455405.0.m.jpg)
Ready, Willig and Abel [*SIGNED*]
by Artzt, Walter
Cleveland/New York: The World Publishing Company. Near Fine in Very Good- dj. 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. [light shelfwear only to book; the jacket has some wear at edges and extremities and a small ragged tear (with a little paper loss) at the top front hinge]. (line drawings) INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author at the top of the dedication page, with an additional pencil note at the bottom of the page stating that the inscribee had... Read More
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Turn Left or Be Killed
by Ashbaugh, Nancy
New York: The Vanguard Press. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj. (c.1971). First Edition. Hardcover. [a bit of soiling to bottom edges of covers and top edge of text block, small gouge in lower edge of text block; jacket tanned at spine, otherwise clean and attractive]. Novel about "an elegant black prostitute whose beliefs about her profession are as startling as are her looks [who] has managed to establish respectability in a small house in... Read More
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The Adventures of Romney Pringle
by Ashdown, Clifford (pseud. for R. Austin Freeman and John J. Pitcairn)
Philadelphia: Oswald Train: Publisher. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. 1972. 2nd printing. Hardcover. NOISBN . (price-clipped) [nice clean book, minor wear to extremities; jacket a little browned along edges and spine Reprint edition of this renowed collection of Victorian-era detective stories, originally published in book form in 1903. The earliest fiction by R. Austin Freeman, "soon to be acknowledged as one of the great masters of the field, in collaboration with his... Read More
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The Further Adventures of Romney Pringle
by Ashdown, Clifford (pseud. for R. Austin Freeman and John J. Pitcairn)
Philadelphia: Oswald Train, Publisher. Fine in Very Good+ dj. (c.1969). First Edition. Hardcover. NOISBN . [nice and clean, no discernible wear to book; jacket has a teensy-tiny nick at top of front panel, faint soiling/browning to spine]. Half a dozen Victorian-era detective stories, co-authored by R. Austin Freeman in collaboration with his close friend, Dr. John James Pitcairn. Unlike the preceding volume of Pringle stories (which was a reprint of a collection originally... Read More
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![The New Civics: A Textbook for Secondary Schools [*SIGNED*]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/098/108/1534108098.0.m.jpg)
The New Civics: A Textbook for Secondary Schools [*SIGNED*]
by Ashley, Roscoe Lewis
New York: The Macmillan Company. Very Good+. 1925. New and Revised Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket, probably as issued) [nice-looking copy with firm binding, gilt spine lettering still bright and easily readable; lightly shelfworn with some age-toning to edges of text block]. (The Ashley Books on The New Social Science for Secondary Schools) Series (B&W photographs, facsimiles INSCRIBED on the front endpaper -- "Charles King / with the compliments / of the author / Pasadena,... Read More
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Bricks and Mortar
by Ashton, Helen
Garden City NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.. Very Good+. 1933 (c.1932). First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [a good sound copy with just a bit of external wear, some fading to spine cloth]. Novel covering four decades in the life of an architect and his family, set mostly in London. Reprinted by Persephone Books in 2005; laid in are printed copies of their catalog blurb, and an online review which calls it "just... Read More
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Shackles of the Free
by Ashton, Mary Grace
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company. Near Fine in Very Good dj. 1929 (c.1928). First Edition. Hardcover. [bright and clean, very slight deterioration to cloth at base of spine, spine just a teensy bit turned, small piece torn out of edge of last text page (no loss of text), vintage price label (from The White House, San Francisco) on rear pastedown; jacket lightly edgeworn, small chip at top left corner of front panel]. "When a... Read More
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![The Santa Ana Wind [*SIGNED*]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/265/968/740968265.0.m.jpg)
The Santa Ana Wind [*SIGNED*]
by Ashton, Sharon (pseud. for Helen Van Slyke)
Garden City NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc. for The Crime Club. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. NOISBN . [nice tight clean copy, faint wear to top and bottom edges of book; jacket slightly faded at spine, tiny tears at top corners of spine, one-inch closed tear at bottom of rear panel, light soiling to rear panel]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author (using her real name) on the half-title page:... Read More
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The Black Cap: New Stories of Murder and Mystery
by Asquith, Cynthia, ed.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Very Good. 1928. First American Edition. Hardcover. (pictorial orange cloth; no dust jacket) [modestly worn book, a touch of fraying at ends of spine, some dust-soiling to top of text block, former owner's name plus date & place of purchase in ink at top of front endpaper]. Lady Asquith's second anthology. Contents: "Shall We Join the Ladies" (J.M. Barrie); "The Killing-Bottle" (L.P. Hartley); "An Unrecorded Instance" (Mrs. Belloc... Read More
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The Ninth Annual American Film Institute Life Achievement Award Honoring Fred Astaire, April 10, 1981
by {Astaire, Fred} [The American Film Institute] (McBride, Joseph, ed.)
[Washington DC]: The American Film Institute. Very Good. 1981. Stapled wraps. [modestly worn, with some light scuffing/scraping on the front cover; the "Guest Seating" insert has a large piece torn out of the upper right corner of the front cover (no loss of content)]. (B&W photographs) Nice program/tribute book, largely photographic; also includes short essays by Arlene Croce, John Green, Marcelle Clements, and Adolph Green, plus a filmography. NOTE that this is the... Read More
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Footprints: An Autobiography
by Astor, Brooke
Garden City NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc.. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj. 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. 038514377X . [very nice copy with no significant wear, would rate as Fine except for remainder spray to bottom edge; jacket shows light edgewear, minor soiling, a little scuffing near bottom of spine, unobtrusive one-inch closed tear at top front hinge]. (B&W photographs) Scarce memoir by the late Mrs. Astor (her second), recounting "her disastrous first marriage ... Read More
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