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Westport CT: CARTOONIST PROfiles Inc.. Fine. 1990. (No. 164). Magazine. [nice clean copy with no significant wear]. (cartoon illustrations, B&W photographs) Featured in this issue: an article by cartoonist Jerry Scott, about the construction of a giant "Nancy" balloon for use in parades; an interview with Jay Kennedy, the Comics Editor of King Features Syndicate (including King's submission guidelines, in detail); an article by editorial cartoonist Jimmy Margulies, about publishing a book of cartoons; an interview with magazine cartoonist Glenn Bernhardt; a discussion about the creation of the then-new "Baby Blues" strip by its creators, Jerry Scott and Rick Kirkman; a review of Chuck Jones's autobiography, "Chuck Amuck"; an article by Jake Vest, about his "That's Jake" feature; an article about his views on cartooning by "Beetle Bailey" creator Mort Walker. All this stuff is interesting, of course, but in some ways the… Read More

New York: Coward-McCann, Inc.. Near Fine in Good dj. 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. [nice tight copy with no discernible wear, appears unread, vintage bookseller's label on rear pastedown (Newbegins, San Francisco); jacket has some shallow chipping along the top edge, small tears and a bit of paper loss at most corners, general overall wear but still colorful and attractive]. Very scarce novel with a theatrical background, "about Min, who grew up among the cabbages, and married the harlequin, Lancelot Le Roy, star 'heavy' of the Julie La Verne Repertoire Company. An inexperienced country girl, Min was transplanted to the theatre of the nineties, where she became a buck and wing dancer -- and the mother of twins. The youngsters grew to be child actors of talent, and finally Broadway stars of international fame." The first of two novels by this author, a former film actress who had appeared in over one hundred silent films (many of which she also wrote), almost all… Read More

New York: The Pyramid Press. Very Good+. (c.1939). First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [good sound copy, light shelfwear, minor light spotting on front cover, mild bumping to lower corners]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author, opposite the title page: "'Let us not / forget Douglas / days' / Margaret Vogel / July 22, 1943." Novel about an orphaned girl who goes to live (and seek romance) on a Western ranch Signed by Author .

Boston: Little, Brown and Company. Very Good. 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [moderately worn copy, dust-soiling to top edge, slight fraying to cloth at top of spine, spine lettering dulled, old label on front pastedown, along with one-time owner's signature and date (April 1930, the publication month)]. Novel about an ex-con who joins the circus in order to escape the entrapments of the criminal/gang life in the city. The author had two fields of deep knowledge -- crime and the circus -- and this draws on them both. .

Chicago: Henry Regnery Company. Fine in Near Fine dj. (c.1972). First Edition. Hardcover. [nice tight clean copy with no discernible wear; jacket shows just a tiny bit of rubbing to the lower extremities and the top of the spine]. (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper: "For ______: / Listen you dirty / rat, where the / hell is your / ape-suit. / Best - / Ron." This first book-length biography of the tough-guy actor (who was also an accomplished song-and-dance man), who had retired from the screen a decade earlier, beat Cagney's own memoir to the bookstalls by about four years. Signed by Author .

Torun, Poland: TUMULT Foundation. Fine in Near Fine dj. 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. [no discernible wear to book, but SEE NOTE about slightly "clingy" pages; jacket has a couple of tiny scuff marks on front panel]. (B&W and color photographs) Nicely-produced album/anthology devoted to the life and work of the great American cinematographer, "published in a series on Lifetime Achievement Award Laureates," as selected annually by the staff of the Camerimage Festival; Deschanel was the 21st recipient of this honor. Includes: a brief biography and filmography; an introduction by Deschanel; a rundown of his work in student films, shorts, and documentaries; the cinematographer's illustrated commentaries on a dozen and a half of his feature films (ranging from bona fide classics such as BEING THERE, THE BLACK STALLION and THE RIGHT STUFF, to outright turkeys -- albeit great-looking ones! -- like ASK THE DUST) and his work in commercials; a chronicle of his… Read More

Köln/London/etc.: Taschen. Near Fine. (c.2002). First Edition. Flexible card covers. [virtually as-new, faint handling wear only]. (Icons) Series (color reproductions, B&W photographs) A collection of hundreds of California-themed photos and graphics culled from many sources, including advertisements, tourist brochures, magazine covers, postcards, etc. Introductory text in English, German, and French. .

New York: Claude Kendall. Good. 1931. 3rd printing before publication. Hardcover. NOISBN . (no dust jacket) [moderate overall wear, soiling to covers, rear hinge starting to separate; descriptive text from front jacket flap trimmed and affixed to second front free endpaper]. (pen and ink drawings) Heavy-breathing story of a "half-breed" and her tribulations, made into a howlingly outrageous movie starring Clara Bow (one of her last roles) in 1932. "Her story is the story of the growth of America, from the harsh, cruel days of the covered wagon to the easy, tangled inhumanties of today. It is the story of all men and all women." Eight striking woodcut-type illustrations. .

New York: The Macaulay Company. Fair. (c.1934). First Edition. Hardcover. NOISBN . (no dust jacket) [considerable external wear, but still a solid reading copy; ex-lending library, with large stamp for Hayman's I.D.A. Pharmacy (city unstated) on ffep and half-title/blurb page]. A romance of the West, involving Native American characters: "What made Red Hawk flinch from the bloody rites of the Cheyenne tribal traditions, when he reached the age of eighteen? He was known to be strong and courageous yet he could not go through with it. Dismissed from his tribe, in disgrace, he took refuge among the whites and fell in love with Maisry Lester." .

Los Angeles: New Age Publishing Co.. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj. (c.1945, 1946). Second Edition. Hardcover. NOISBN . [nice solid copy, light browning to page edges, minor shelfwear; jacket shows a little wear at extremities, small sticker-peel spot on spine (no text affected)]. "A story of adventure, love and strange experiences, finally culminating in Initiation in the Great Pyramid of Egypt. Together with Nameno, you go forth upon the greatest adventure of life. You invade weird, gloomy depths, brave conflict and danger, and emerge with renewed hope. You walk with him in green valleys of serenity and sit down with him in quiet contemplation. You peer into the beauty and meaning of religion and philosophy, and see the nations' fight for supremacy. Then comes the trial of ardent love." (That's it -- I've given away too much already!) .

New York: William Morrow & Company. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. [nice tight copy with very slight wear at base of spine; jacket shows a bit of wear along top edge, one teensy-tiny nick at top of front panel, browning to rear panel and top edges of jacket flaps]. (Morrow Junior Books) Series Juvenile novel about two sisters who work together in a New York market research office, with Kate, the younger, always coming up second best romantically to "her beautiful but occasionally addlepated older sister" Peggy, who "wanted to get married more than anything else in the world." They live with their widowed mother in an Upper East Side apartment; also in residence is brother Al, "who was a born dictator and took his job as head of the family far too seriously." .

New York: Dodd, Mead and Company. Good. 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [moderately worn copy, half of ffep torn away, light dampstain on rear cover, spine turned, front jacket text glued to front pastedown]. Scarce crime novel in which a detective and an orchestra leader team up to solve the murder of a notorious gamber/gangster. "A vivid picture of New York after dark. Gangsters, chorus girls, and society looking for a thrill, move through these pages, adding color and character to a story that races along on a high note of exciting suspense." Touted on the jacket blurb as the author's "latest novel," omitting to mention that he had actually been dead for a couple of years (since February 1935). This didn't seem to put much of a crimp in his output, however, this being the fifth of six novels to appear posthumously -- and the only one to bear his wife's name as co-author, which would seem to imply that the others had already been… Read More

Boston: Bruce Humphries Inc.. Very Good in Very Good- dj. (c.1939). First Edition. Hardcover. NOISBN . (price-clipped) [moderate shelfwear, spine a little turned, top corners a bit bumped, top edge dust-darkened, small bookseller's stamp on front pastedown; jacket worn at edges/corners, a few small tears, wrinkling/soiling to rear panel]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the ffep -- made rather more interesting by the fact of who it's inscribed TO: "Best wishes to / Mr. Douglas Fairbanks / The hero reminds me of you." The jacket copy describes the book as "an ultra-modern novel of romance, adventure and mystery, presented with spirit and skill," set in Tunisia and Miami, the author's home, which she regards as "the Magic City of America." Signed by Author .

Van Nuys CA: Venice Publishing Corporation. Very Good+. 1972. 1st Edition (pbo). Softcover. [nice tight copy, light horizontal crease near top of front cover]. Mass Market PB INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the inside front cover. A novel about a Governor whose re-election campaign is imperiled when he's involved in an accident that results in the death of a young woman, and has to cover it up; the similarities to Teddy Kennedy's 1969 Chappaquiddick plunge are probably not coincidental. The bio material on Slatzer touts "his friendship and acquaintance with every President since Harry Truman," and his purportedly extensive credits in the movie and TV biz (which in the end didn't amount to much) -- but he'll ultimately be remembered for his claim, in a book published two years after this one, that he had been secretly married to Marilyn Monroe in Mexico in 1952, and that the marriage had been broken up by Fox studio chief Darryl Zanuck. Signed by Author .

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 from the Village Voice, noting that the plot involves a young woman who "has been sadly bouncing between frat-house letter-men in quest of her first orgasm, all to no avail [until] she falls in with the bearded Jewish leader of SDS, who gives her hormoes a taste of what the vanguard's all about." ("Leslie Adirondack" is a pseudonym if I've ever seen one, and was used for at least one other Olympia/TC book, "The Electric Sensation," published the previous year.) Not… Read More

New York: Atheneum. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. [light shelfwear, slight fading to edges of boards, tiny date rubber-stamped in red at top corner of front endpaper, two dates written in ink at bottom right corner of front endpaper; the jacket is scuffed on the front panel, with small tears and some associated creasing at the upper corners of the spine]. Unaccountably scarce novel about an American airman stationed in London during World War II, who meets a middle-aged woman, "twice his years, a lusty, aging but ageless painter, with a fleeting fame for having once been Modigliani's mistress, [who] introduces him to the Bohemian world of her own extraordinary past, during the legendary days of Paris" -- and in the present time, introduces him to a young married English woman with whom he embarks on a passionate affair. The author, who himself served in the U.S. Army Air Corps and was stationed in London during World War II (funny coincidence,… Read More

Newburgh, Ontario (Canada): Cranberry Hill Enterprises. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. (c.1984). First Edition. Hardcover. [no discernible wear to book, former owner's name plus date & place of purchase in ink at top of front endpaper, advertisement for the book taped to inside front cover; the jacket shows only minor wear at extremities, and is internally (and unnecessarily) reinforce with clear tape along the top and bottom edges]. (B&W photographs) "A reference source on usual and unusual Chow topics for Canadian breeders and pet owners." Includes: "A Brief History of the Chow Chow in Canada"; a sourcebook on many topics, from artificial insemination to whelping (with some information no doubt being dated, but plenty still seeming useful or relevant); the "Canadian Chow Chow Breeding Register." .

Vienna WV: Old West Shop Publishing. Near Fine. (c.1989). First Edition. Softcover. [the tiniest little tear and associated itsy-bitsy creasing at bottom edge of front cover, otherwise as new]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) A really terrific collection of off-camera shots from Western films -- "your favorite western stars behind the camera, on location and more" -- from the 1930s through the 1970s. Many feature John Wayne, and quite a few include a film's director. And -- no small point -- many of them are printed in full-page format, so the quality can be properly rendered and appreciated. .

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company. Very Good+. 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [a good sound copy, light dust-soiling to top of text block, spine a little darkened]. (pen and ink drawings) A novel themed around the post-slavery migration of African-Americans from the South to the North, focusing on a group of "plantation Negroes" whose way of life is upended when the precarious financial situation of their home plantation eventually leads to its sale. From the New York Times review: "The Negroes are torn between their loyalty to their feudal lord, their love of the slow-going ways of life on the plantation, and the inducements held out to them by friends who have gone North to Harlem." The author is further described in the review (and wouldn't you know it?) as "a Southern woman whose personal affection for unlettered, plantation Negroes is as apparent as her intimate knowledge of them." .

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. (c.1964). First American Edition First Printing. Hardcover. NOISBN . [nice tight copy, very light shelfwear, one-time owner's address label on ffep; jacket slightly age-toned, a trace of wear along top edge, two-inch wrinkle/pucker along top rear hinge, minor soiling to rear panel]. Erotic take-off on Voltaire's Candide -- generally thought of as an artifact of the 1960s, although it was first published in France (as by "Maxwell Kenton") in 1958 -- here making its first legit (i.e., non-smuggled) appearance in the U.S., this also being the first hardcover issue, ditto the first with the authors' real names acknowledged. The book has (thankfully) outlived its notoriously awful 1968 film adaptation to become something of a bona fide classic. [All points for the First American Edition (first printing, unstated) have been confirmed, so thanks for not asking. Buy with confidence!] .