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Santa Cruz CA: Gray Matter Press. Fine. (c.1990). First Edition. Softcover. 0962627208 . [very nice, as-new book, with no discernible wear]. Trade PB (cartoon illustrations) The only book-form collection of this "satirical fantasy of the inner world" (which ran in various daily and alternative publications from 1981 through 2000) by the West Coast-based cartoonist, active since the early 1970s, who describes it as taking place "inside somebody’s mind (as distinguished from the inside of his brain)." Most of Eagan's work is more overtly political than this strip, which involves a somewhat ape-like protagonist searching for true happiness, the meaning of life, and other such elusive goals. .

Sierra Madre CA: The Lantern Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. 1932. Second Edition. Softcover. (grey card covers, in black dust jacket with silver printing & decoration) [minor offsetting to endpapers; very slight edgewear at top of jacket]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author/poet on the front endpaper: "To Charles King -- / in appreciation / Florence Eakman." A 26-page booklet, consisting of a 2-page introductory piece in which the author recounts an encounter with Fate, followed by eighteen single-page poems. Inscribee Charles King was a Pasadena-based newspaperman and author; Florence Eakman was a longtime resident of Sierra Madre (a foothill community just to the northeast of Pasadena), and was well-known locally as a children's author, playwright, teacher, and poet. (She even advertised her services as a poet-for-hire in the local newspapers.) The inscribee (and original owner) of the book, Charles King, was a Pasadena-based newspaperman, author and sometime… Read More

London: B.T. Batsford Ltd.. Fine. (c.1999). First Edition. Softcover. [very nice copy, basically as new]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) The author -- "star of GOLDFINGER, three CARRY ON films and many other international comedies and thrilelrs -- takes a sideways look at her remarkable career and the way in which film glamour was created and marketed in the 1950s and 1960s. Signing up with Alexander Korda, the Bond and Carry On films, Hollywood, Pinewood and African crocodiles all come under Shirley's humorous microscope. There are candid membories of the DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE series with Dirk Bogarde and work with Hammer, Peter Sellers, Bob Hope, Lloyd Bridges and others in the 1960s." Foreword by Mickey Spillane; Introduction by Jonathan Coe. ****NOTE that additional postage charges will be assessed for international shipping of this moderately heavy book; if this concerns you, please contact us for a shipping quote before placing your order.**** .

Philadelphia: American Baptist Publication Society. Good. (c.1896). First Edition. Hardcover. NOISBN . (decorated cloth; no dust jacket) [light external soiling, bumped at all corners, slight exposure of board at lower front corner, some wear to spine ends, vintage bookseller's rubber-stamped name (Bertrand Smith's Acres of Books, Long Beach, Calif.) on front pastedown; gilt/maroon decoration on front cover and spine still reasonably bright and attractive]. (B&W plates (photos and drawings)) Historical/religious fiction set in 17th-century England and America, backgrounded by the English Civil War, the execution of Charles I, the rise and rule of Oliver Cromwell, and so on. To escape all this trouble, and to gain a measure of religious freedom, a man and wife (she being the daughter of the Earl of Dorset, occupant of the titular house) emigrate to America, specifically Salem, Massachusetts. .

New York: Grosset & Dunlap. Good+ in Fair dj. (c.1930). First Edition. Hardcover. [solid copy with moderate wear and slight bumping at several corners, ffep removed; jacket heavily edgeworn, spine missing about 1-1/2" at bottom, a little paper loss at most corners, quarter-sized chip at bottom corner of rear panel, various other small nicks and chips; fortunately the wear to the jacket has had only minimal impact on the attractive front panel art]. A beautiful young redhead, desperate to raise the money necessary to send her seriously ill mother to a sanatorium in Arizona, places an ad in the personals: "Young girl in desperate circumstances will agree to marry in return for loan of $5,000." Unfortunately, the guy who takes her up on it is her wealthy employer, "a man whom [she] could never love." (Oh, so it wasn't all about the money, after all? I'm confused.) .

London: Methuen London Ltd.. Very Good. 1987. 1st printing. Softcover. [light edgewear to covers, diagonal creasing at top and bottom corners of front cover, bottom corner of rear cover]. (Methuen's World Dramatists) Series Five works by one of Britain's leading political playwrights. "This volume offers the best of his work from the seventies on subjects ranging from South Africa ("The Jail Diary of Albie Sachs") to schizophrenia ("Mary Barnes"), from venereal disease ("Saigon Rose") to the Black Death ("O Fair Jerusalem"), and on to the rise of fascism in contemporary Britain ("Destiny"). .

New York: AIDART (Advanced Institute for Development of American Repertory Theatre). Near Fine. 1968-1970. (Vol. 1, No. 1 - Vol. 3, No. 3). Stapled wraps. [all issues in uniformly nice condition, with just a touch of wear along the spines of a few, and a single inked note on the rear cover of one; six of the nine have the original subscriber's address label affixed to the rear cover]. (B&W photographs) The first nine issues of this very content-rich quarterly newsletter devoted to the repertory theatre scene in (mostly) America. All issues are either 16 or 20 pages in length, and feature primarily stories (often with interviews) about notable individuals or theatre companies, as well as about the general state of repertory theatre. Although the focus isn't usually on individual plays, the first issue does contain a great feature on "Creating 'The Great White Hope'," including comments by playwright Howard Sackler, director Edwin Sherin, and other members of… Read More

Harmondsworth, England: Penguin Books. Near Fine. 1984 (c.1983). First Paperback Edition. Softcover. [light age-toning to page edges, previous owner's name plus date & place of purchase in ink at top of front endpaper; also NOTE that the book is encased in a protective plastic cover, which is removable if desired (I have scanned the book with the cover in place)]. Trade PB (B&W photographs, facsimiles) "In a fascinating study, [the author] deals with the lesser-knwon areas of Conan Doyle's life: up to the age of twenty-three, when the publication of his first novel, 'Micah Clarke,' and the simultaneous debut of Holmes and Watson in 'A Study in Scarlet' made him a literary celebrity. It is a journey which takes the reader from Conan Doyle's bleak childhood as the son of a talented but difficult alcoholic, through his Jesuit education and medical training, to his experiences at sea as a ship's doctor." .

New York: The Macmillan Company. Very Good. 1913. 2nd printing. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [solid copy, modest wear to extremities, spine a bit turned, slight bump to bottom front corner]. Novel about a young Jewish girl on New York's Lower East Side, who's forced to go to work in a garment factory after the death of her father (owner of a second-hand bookstore). When the dreadful working conditions compel she and her co-workers to strike, Yetta gets involved with the Woman's Trade Union League and its charismatic leader, Mabel Train. This sets her on a path of transformation from an "ignorant, timid, toil-drugged" sweatshop worker to "an intelligent, strong-souled woman." (Quoting here from the review in the New York Times, which called the novel "a wise and noble book.") As her social and political consciousness rises, she ultimately gets involved in the founding and publication of a Socialist newspaper. .

Garden City NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co., for the Crime Club. Fair in Fair dj. 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. [ex-rental library book, with all the usual depredations: the book itself is good and sound, but worn and soiled; the jacket is similarly worn and soiled, backed with brown paper, firmly affixed to the book at the pastedowns, and reinforced with strips of ugly black tape across the top and bottom ends of the spine; the front endpapers are stamped several times with "POPULAR FICTION LIBRARY," but with no location specified]. Mystery novel set in a hospital. Per Hubin, the doctor-author wrote eight such medically-themed whodunits between 1935 and 1948, most of which featured the character Victor Bondurant, a police inspector; in this one he's "hauled out of retirement" to solve the murder at hand. .

New York: The Museum of Modern Art. Fine. (c.1976). First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket, as issued) [nice clean copy with no discernible wear]. (color photographs) Monograph issued in conjunction with the first major exhibition of the work of this modern master of photography, usually acknowledged as the man who put color photography on the map, as it were, artistically. Some initial criticism of his work focused on the fact that his subject matter was often quite mundane -- to which writer/ photographer Eudora Welty had the best riposte: "No subject is fuller of implications than the mundane world!" .

New York: Simon and Schuster. Near Fine in Good dj. 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. [nice clean book with minimal wear to the extremities, light age-toning to fore-edge, one-time owner's name on front endpaper; the jacket is worn, with some shallow chipping along the top edge, various small nicks and tiny tears along the bottom edge, diagonal creases at the top corner of the front flap and the bottom corner of the rear flap, and moderate soiling and surface wear]. The very uncommon first edition of what went on to become one of the most widely read and influential books on its subject, presenting (to quote the cover blurb of a later paperback edition) "a direct, jargon-free approach to the problem of achieving truth in writing." (The book is better known by the title of its revised (1946) edition, under which it remains in print to this day: "The Art of Dramatic Writing.") Theatrical producer Gilbert Miller correctly prophesied its longevity and influence in his Introduction, in which he ranked it… Read More

New York: Modern Age Books, Inc.. Very Good. 1938 (c.1932). Reprint. Softcover. [some wear at edges and corners, light soiling and age-toning to edges of text block]. (Seal Books) Series Biographical fiction about abolitionist John Brown, originally published by Simon & Schuster in 1932. Contains eight pages of ads for other Modern Age publications in the back of the book. .

[New York]: Arcadia House. Very Good in Very Good+ dj. (c.1956). First Edition. Hardcover. [apparently an ex-rental library book (not overtly marked as such but with the remnant of a label on the rear endpaper), only lightly worn but with some black residue along the bottom edges of both pastedowns and endpapers (from one of those old-style dust jacket covers, now removed), and a bit of staining to several early pages; the jacket is nice and clean with only some modest wrinkling and minor edgewear]. Murder mystery about a group of executives at a New York advertising agency who have to spend an obligatory weekend in Connecticut in the company of a disagreeable client (the chairman of a frozen foods company) -- who proves to be, at first, a somewhat lonely man who's concerned about the whereabouts of his "beautiful young blonde wife, and subsequently an inconveniently dead man who succumbs (or so it appears) to a heart attack. The author (not to be confused with the prominent West… Read More

New York/London: Harper & Brothers. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. [nice solid copy, light soiling to bottom edge, internally clean; jacket is edgeworn, small piece missing at bottom right-hand corner of front panel, faint dampstain near top of front panel, nearly split along rear foldover, still quite attractive]. Futurist fantasy in which a young Greek war refugee, introduced to the wonders of modern machinery, works his way up from garage mechanic to member of an airline crew. This gets him mixed up with a mysterious American arms merchant, and he eventually finds himself a stowaway on a gigantic Russian airship (the "Zodiak") operated by the Militant Anti-God League, which (of course!) takes its marching, er, flying orders straight from Moscow, and whose mission, he discovers, is to blanket the world with Communist propaganda leaflets and thereby lay the groundwork for a World Revolution. The book appears to be chock-full of mystical… Read More

New York: Esquire Associates. Near Fine. 1986. (Vol. 105, No. 6). Magazine. [nice clean copy, virtually as-new; faint traces of removed mailing label on front cover, one tiny tear at bottom of front cover]. (photographs, ads, graphics) One of those massive "theme" issues (in this case, 354 pages) that Esquire used to put out every so often, this one keyed to presenting their very particular Esquire-y "Man At His Best" portrait of what it was like to be A Man in the 1980s -- or, more precisely, what went into the process of BECOMING a man, in America, during that 30-year post-World War II span embedded in the stated theme-title. The quality of the dozens of contributors is quite high -- ranging all over the map (the male map, that is) from bona fide literary giants like William Kennedy, Ken Kesey, Allen Ginsberg and Norman Mailer (writing about himself, of course); to journalistic stars like Gay Talese, Bob Greene, Mike Royko and Roger Kahn; to celebrity commenters of… Read More

Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House. Near Fine in Very Good dj. [1958]. 1st English-language edition. Hardcover. [slight bumping to upper corners, minor discoloration in gutters and on pp.4/5 (from old bookmark, probably), no other significant wear; jacket shows a bit of wear along top and bottom edges, some surface abrasions along spine, minor paper loss at top of spine, tiny chip at top edge of front panel]. (Arts Library) Series (B&W photographs and drawings) A collection of 20 essays, articles and letters written by the great Russian director and theoretician in the 1930s and 1940s. Part One, "About Myself and My Films," is largely autobiographical; Part Two, "Problems of Film Direction," is primarily concerned with the aesthetics of film; Part Three, "Portraits of Artists," presents Eisenstein's thoughts about the men he worked with and/or admired, among them Maxim Gorky, Sergei Prokofiev and Charlie Chaplin (including a section… Read More

Berkeley/Los Angeles: University of California Press. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. [1973] (c.1964). First American Edition. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [only light shelfwear to book, spine slightly turned, previous owner's name and city of residence on front endpaper; the jacket is nice and clean, with the price-clipping being the only flaw]. (B&W photographs) A "revised and enlarged" translation of the first major book about legendary German filmmaker F.W. Murnau, by the almost-as-legendary German critic/historian, originally published in France in 1964. "For this first English-language edition the text has been extensively revised and expanded (two lost films have come to light since publication of the French edition and several riddles have been solved); and the complete script of 'Nosferatu,' with Murnau's own working notes and alterations, has been included." A combination of biography and critical film analysis/interpretation, it's a book… Read More

Tamarac FL: Poorhouse Press. Fine. 2005. 27th printing. Softcover. [nice clean as-new book, with no discernible wear]. Trade PB (pen & ink drawings) "Principles & Practice of the World's Most Popular Art Form," explained and illustrated by one of its greatest practitioners. First published in 1985; per the copyright page, this printing "contains the expansion added in 1990," and per the front cover blurb it's been "expanded to include print & digital." Given the stated date of printing (2005), this must have been the last printing done during Eisner's lifetime (he died in January of that year, but the rear-cover biographical blurb still refers to him in the present (living) tense). .

New York: The New American Library. Fine in Very Good dj. 1969. 2nd printing. Hardcover. NOISBN . [nice tight clean book with no discernible wear; jacket has a browned strip along the top edge of both the front and rear panels, minor wrinkling at bottom of front panel]. The author's second novel, about "New York Now -- and the girls who live there. Why they live there. What they're doing there. The men they're doing it with." The "four attractive girls trying to make it in the toughest town in the world" are: a 24-year-old model whose having lots of sex, despite "her stubborn orgasm problem"; a 29-year-old divorcee who's "starting to drink too much" due to her fear of loneliness; a 25-year-old airline stewardess who really wants to get married but is madly in love with a pilot who doesn't; a 27-year-old fashion reporter, obsessed with her career but burdened with baggage. And here's the kicker: they all meet the same guy… Read More