Trademarks of the 20's and 30's
by Baker, Eric, and Tyler Blik
San Francisco: Chronicle Books. Near Fine. (c.1985). 3rd printing. Softcover. 0877013608 . [light handling wear only]. Trade PB (B&W and color reproductions) This book "presents a fascinating colletion of the most ingenious designs and devices ever to represent a commercial product or serve. These two remarkable decades were times of sloganism, radio jingles, and visual ... Read More
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Control: A Pageant of Engineering Progress [*SIGNED*]
by Baker, George Pierce
New York: The American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Good. (c.1930). First Edition. Hardcover. (paper-covered boards over black cloth; no dust jacket, probably as issued) [well-worn at all edges and extremities, partial splitting of black cloth along rear joint]. (11 B&W plates) INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper: "To / Frank P. Bevan... Read More
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Boy Wonder
by Baker, James Robert
London: Fourth Estate. Very Good. 1996 (c.1988). 1st printing thus. Softcover. [minor creasing to both front and rear covers, moderate edgewear, slight bumping to lower rear corner]. Trade PB A modern classic of Hollywood fiction, a kaleidoscopic, CITIZEN KANE-like portrait of a movie-biz wunderkind -- "a rollicking, readable monster of a novel -- deliciously cynical,... Read More
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Josephine
by Baker, Josephine, and Jo Bouillon (translated from the French by Mariana Fitzpatrick)
New York: Harper & Row. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. (c.1977). First American Edition. Hardcover. [sharp-looking copy, with no discernible wear to book; the jacket has some very minor wear along the bottom edge, and the faintest bit of surface handling wear]. (B&W photographs) The autobiography of one of the most sensational performers of the... Read More
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Mendoza in Hollywood: A Novel of the Company
by Baker, Kage
San Diego/New York/London: Harcourt, Inc.. Near Fine in Fine dj. (c.2000). First Edition. Hardcover. 015100448X . [very nice tight copy, the faintest bit of spotting on top edge, appears unread; jacket pristine, looks like it's been in protective cover from Day One]. Sci-fi/fantasy/time travel novel, set largely in early Los Angeles and Hollywood. .
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind Diary
by Balaban, Bob
(n.p.): Paradise Press Inc.. Near Fine. (c.1978). First Edition. Softcover. [nice tight copy, minor edgewear to covers, very slight fading at the spine]. Mass Market PB (B&W photographs) Actor Balaban (who played Francois Truffaut's interpreter in the film) fortuitously kept a diary, "the only on the spot account of both the making of the movie and, more... Read More
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The Oriental Rug [limited/*SIGNED* edition]
by Balakian, Peter
Lewisburg PA: The Press of Appletree Valley. Very Good+. 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. (brick-orange paper-covered boards; no dust jacket, probably as issued) [light foxing to front-cover paper lable, faint stain at right edge of front cover, small black smudge on rear cover]. This short poem (reprinted from the November 1985 issue of "Poetry" magazine), illustrated ... Read More
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Raoul 'Sonny' Balcaen: My Exciting True-life Story in Motor Racing [etc.]
by Balcaen, Raoul F. III, with Jill Amadio and Pete Lyons
Sherborne, Dorset, UK: Evro Publishing. Fine in Fine dj. 2022. First Edition. Hardcover. [a flawless, as-new book] (B&W and color photographs) Memoir by a pioneering drag racer and hot rodder who went on to a notable career as an automobile designer, working in association with major figures in the racing-car field such as drivers-turned-entrepreneurs Lance Reventlow and... Read More
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Manhattan Nights
by Baldwin, Faith
New York: Farrar & Rinehart. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. (c.1937). First Edition. Hardcover. [a lovely clean copy, with no significant wear but the very faintest spotting to the bottom page edges (less squinty eyes would call it Fine with nary a pause); jacket lightly soiled at the rear panel, with some light wear and a... Read More
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The Secrets of Reading Character at Sight: How to Measure Your Powers and Increase Your Income
by Balkin, Harry H.
New York: Blue Ribbon Books. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. 1941. Reprint. Hardcover. [a touch of wear to extremities, pocket on rear pastedown (see notes), generally a nice clean copy; jacket shows edgewear and light rubbing, minor paper loss at both ends of spine]. (pen and ink drawings) "This book explains simply the famous Balkin system... Read More
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The Gaucho
by Ball, Eustace Hale; novelized from the screen play by Elton Thomas and the short story by Lotta Woods
London: The Readers Library Publishing Company Ltd.. Very Good in Very Good+ dj. [1928]. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. [modest shelfwear, some wear to extremities, binding intact; the jacket shows a bit of wear along the edges and spine, with some very slight paper loss at a couple of corners and a tiny closed tear at the top of... Read More
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The Winds of Miramura [*SIGNED*]
by Ball, John
Boston/Toronto: Little, Brown and Company. Very Good in Very Good dj. (c.1975). First Edition. Hardcover. [a little wear to spine ends, age-toning to edges of text block, some minor discoloration to front endpaper; the jacket spine is color-shifted, the jacket has been internally tape-reinforced all along the top and bottom edges (with no bleed-through, however), and a... Read More
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The Wife of the Red-Haired Man
by Ballinger, Bill S.
London: Max Reinhardt. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. 1957. 1st U.K. edition. Hardcover. [only lightly shelfworn with a couple of very slightly bumped corners, but downgraded a bit due to dust-soiling to the top edge of the text block; jacket shows some wear at edges and extremities, one tiny closed tear and associated short diagonal crease... Read More
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The Longest Second
by Ballinger, Bill S.
London: Max Reinhardt. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. 1958. 1st U.K. edition. Hardcover. [bottom corners bumped, light dust-soiling to top of text block; jacket spine a little faded, some tanning/soiling to rear panel]. Suspense novel about a man trying to rediscover his past after waking up in hospital with no memory, and also rendered mute... Read More
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Stigma
by Ballin, Hugo
New York: The Macaulay Company. Very Good. (c.1928). First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [solid copy, light wear and very slight fraying to cloth at a couple of corners, light spotting to top page edges]. Novel about a mother and daughter, set in Colorado, San Francisco, Arizona, and New York. The author had already been... Read More
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Mark One: The Dummy [*SIGNED*]
by Ball, John
Boston/Toronto: Little, Brown and Company. Fine in Near Fine dj. (c.1974). First Edition. Hardcover. [nice clean book, virtually as-new with no discernible wear to the book; ditto for the jacket, although the book's previous owner thought it appropriate to internally reinforce the top and bottom edges of the jacket with a long strip of clear tape (absolutely... Read More
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Carmella Commands
by Ball, Walter S.
New York/London: Harper & Brothers. Very Good in Fair dj. 1929. 1st Edition (H-D). Hardcover. [moderate wear to top edges of covers, rubbing to paper label on front cover, a little discoloration to endpapers and first few pages at front of book, original owner's acquisition note on ffep; jacket chipped along top edge and along spine, very... Read More
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One Reel a Week
by Balshofer, Fred J., and Arthur C. Miller, with the assistance of Bebe Bergsten
Berkeley/Los Angeles: University of California Press. Fine in Near Fine dj. 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. [a very nice copy, no discernible wear at all to the book; the jacket shows only minimal handling wear]. (B&W photographs) Joint reminiscences of the early days of filmmaking by two veteran cinematographers whose "careers span the crucial period from the... Read More
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More Gore Score: Brave New Horrors
by Balun, Chas.
Key West FL: Fantasma Books. Near Fine. (c.1995). Second Edition. Softcover. [a tiny dog-earing to the lower corner of the rear cover, date rubber-stamped on top edge, otherwise bright and clean]. Trade PB (B&W photographs, facsimiles) Mini-reviews of modern horror (emphasis on gory) films, a companion to the author's earlier "The Gore Score" (published in various... Read More
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The Sweet Hereafter [*SIGNED*]
by Banks, Russell
New York: HarperCollins. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. (c.1991). First Edition. Hardcover. [nice tight copy, very slight bumping to lower tips, no other significant wear; the jacket shows faint handling wear only, with a teensy bit of crinkling at the top of the spine]. SIGNED by the author (no inscription) below his printed name on the... Read More
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![Gopal the Jester: A Hindu Romance [*Paul Bern's copy*]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/024/571/1690571024.0.m.jpg)
Gopal the Jester: A Hindu Romance [*Paul Bern's copy*]
by Bannerji, Rajani Kanta (trans.)
New York: "Privately Printed for The Library of Facetious Lore". Very Good. (c.1928). Limited Edition. Hardcover. (quarter-bound, blue cloth spine and yellow paper-covered boards) [good sound copy, with some age-toning around the edges of both covers, minor staining on the rear cover, a couple of edge-nicks, bumping and slight exposure of board at rear corner, vintage bookseller's... Read More
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Mixed Marriage
by Banning, Margaret Culkin
New York: Grosset & Dunlap. Very Good in Good dj. (c.1930). 4th printing (stated). Hardcover. [a good sound copy with modest shelfwear, some insect damage to the fore-edge of the front endpaper; the jacket is edgeworn, with a number of tiny chips and tears along the top and bottom edges]. This "Sensational Book on a Vital... Read More
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Love at the Mission
by Baptist, R. Hernekin (pseud. for Ethelreda Lewis)
Boston: Little, Brown and Company. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. [ex-department store library book, but marked as such only by multiple small library and "withdrawn" stamps on both pastedowns and endpapers, and with so little wear as to suggest that nobody ever actually checked it out and read it; the jacket is... Read More
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Screen Facts -- issue #11 (1965) [Hedy Lamarr]
by Barbour, Alan G., ed.
Kew Gardens NY: Screen Facts Press. Very Good+. 1965. (Vol. 2, No. 5; whole #11). Periodical. [very slight tears at spine ends, soft diagonal crease in front cover] (B&W photographs) Almost all of this 64-page magazine is devoted to a career article about actress Hedy Lamarr, by Gene Ringgold; the article quotes her liberally, although it's... Read More
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Humphrey Bogart
by Barbour, Alan G.
New York: Galahad Books. Near Fine in Very Good dj. (c.1973). 1st hardcover edition. Hardcover. [spine slightly turned, no significant wear, some ink check-marks in the text (see Notes); the jacket shows a bit of wear at edges and corners, with a handful of tiny nicks along the top and bottom edges]. (The Pictorial Treasury of... Read More
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