Three Gals a Week
by West, Token
New York: Phoenix Press. Good. (c.1942). First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [front endpaper apparently removed, with consequent cracking of front hinge; two previous owner's labels affixed to front pastedown]. Trashy romantic fiction of the sort that mostly went straight to the rental-library market. What I love about these books (apart from the so-bad-it's-sometimes-fun... Read More
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Back to the Batcave [*SIGNED*]
by West, Adam, with Jeff Rovin
New York: Berkley Books. Near Fine. 1994. First Edition. Softcover. [very slight wear to several corners of front cover, otherwise nice and clean]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Adam West on the title page, with an additional handwritten note from West to the inscribee, laid in. The author recounts his experience of... Read More
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The Ballad of Tom Dula: The Documented Story Behind the Murder of Laura Foster and the Trials and Execution of Tom Dula
by West, John Foster
Durham NC: Moore Publishing Company. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. [1970]. First Edition. Hardcover. [a bit of foxing/staining and light wear along the top edge, no other significant wear; the jacket is also a bit stained along the edges and at the spine, but presents well in new mylar]. (B&W photos, facsimile of map) This... Read More
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The Crooked Road
by West, Morris L.
New York: William Morrow and Company. Very Good in Good dj. 1957. First American Edition. Hardcover. [spine slightly turned, minor bumping to lower corners, a little dust-soiling to top of text block, tiny stain on fore-edge; jacket faded at spine, missing about 1.5" inches from bottom of spine, 2-inch split at lower front flap-fold, several other nicks... Read More
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Hail, Hero!
by Weston, John
New York: David McKay Company, Inc.. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. (c.1968). First Edition. Hardcover. NOISBN . [nice clean copy, minor wear to base of spine; jacket slightly age-toned at spine, no other significant wear]. Novel about "the twenty-four hours in the life of a young man just before he goes into military service," even... Read More
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Tide Marks
by Westrup, Margaret (Mrs. W. Sydney Stacey)
New York: The Macmillan Company. Near Fine in Very Good dj. 1913. 1st [U.S.] Edition. Hardcover. NOISBN . [a very nice copy, with just the slightest wear at the corners; jacket has small tears at several corners, tiny bit of paper loss at upper rear corner, slight chipping at base of spine, somewhat faded at spine, but ... Read More
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A Wreath and a Curse
by Wetzel, Donald
New York: Crown Publishers. Very Good in Very Good dj. (c.1950). First Edition. Hardcover. NOISBN . (price-clipped) [solid copy, moderate shelfwear to bottom edge, dust-soiling to top edge, slight fading to cloth along top edge; jacket edgeworn, a bit soiled, various tiny chips and tears (nothing too serious), small label with endorsement by E.C. Delafield Jr. affixed... Read More
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They Shall Not Die
by Wexley, John
New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good. 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. (patterned paper-covered boards; no dust jacket) [slight bumping to bottom corners, some fading to spine, tiny tear at top of spine; firmly bound and internally clean]. Dramatization of the Scottsboro Boys case and trial, by a playwright who went on to a relatively brief screenwriting... Read More
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The Last Mile: A Play in Three Acts
by Wexley, John
New York/Los Angeles: Samuel French. Very Good-. (c.1930, 1929). Later Printing. Softcover. [minor wear to extremities, spine somewhat browned, old selling price of $1.00 rubber-stamped at upper corner of front cover, some pencil annotations throughout Act 1]. (B&W photo frontispiece) Classic "big house" melodrama, focusing on a group of prisoners on Death Row in a ... Read More
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The Tethered Bubble
by Weyant, Fanny Lee
New York/London: The Century Co.. Near Fine in Very Good dj. (c.1930). First Edition. Hardcover. [solid clean book with light wear at spine ends, very slight bumping to a couple of corners, vintage bookseller's label (Newbegins, San Francisco) on rear pastedown; jacket moderately edgeworn, with a few tiny nicks along the bottom edge]. Novel set in... Read More
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Mr. George's Joint
by Wheaton, Elizabeth Lee
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co. (A Virginia Quarterly Review Book). Very Good+. 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [a nice-looking copy, minor wear to extremities, a bit of soiling to bottom of text block]. Novel set in the African-American community of Texas City, Texas, centering around an establishment that's a combination beer joint, restaurant,... Read More
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Mrs. Bratbe's August Picnic
by Wheldon, Jacqueline
Boston/Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin Company/The Riverside Press. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. 1966. First American Edition. Hardcover. [slight bumping to all corners, faint soiling to top of text block, shelfwear and light soiling to lower extremities; the jacket is lightly soiled, with a few tiny nicks and tears along the top edge, a bit of wear and... Read More
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Over the Border
by Whitaker, Herman
New York/London: Harper & Brothers. Very Good-. 1917. Early printing (G-R). Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [moderately shelfworn, binding intact, front cover and spine gilt lettering rubbed and dulled, slight bumping/fraying at the tips; contains some interesting additions and annotations, discussed in the Notes]. Western adventure novel set in Northern Mexico, involving the exploits of a... Read More
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The Grown-ups
by Whitcomb, Catharine
New York: Random House. Very Good in Good dj. (c.1937). First Edition. Hardcover. [light shelfwear, some fading to cloth in upper part of covers, some discoloration to endpapers (in gutters); jacket is edgeworn and rubbes, with some creasing and light soiling, various small chips and tears, a bit of paper loss to both ends of spine]. The... Read More
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The Malfreys
by Whitcomb, Catharine
New York: Random House. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. (c.1944). First Edition. Hardcover. [good sound book, slight fading to cloth at top of spine, minor shelfwear and light soiling to bottom edges; jacket modestly edgeworn, age-toned and lightly soiled, a bit of chipping at top of spine, short diagonal creases at bottom corners of both flaps,... Read More
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In the Fine Summer Weather
by Whitcomb, Catharine
New York: Random House. Very Good+. (c.1938). First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [nice solid book, minimal shelfwear, would rate Near Fine but for some uneven dust-soiling to the top of the text block; two rubber-stamps inside, of Bertrand Smith's Acres of Books, Long Beach, Calf. (on front pastedown) and Monroe Gift Shop (on front endpaper)]. ... Read More
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The Beckoning Fairground: Notes of a British Exile in Lotus Land
by Whitcomb, Ian
Los Angeles: California Classics Books. Near Fine. (c.1994). First Edition. Softcover. [essentially as new, with just a couple of tiny spots on the fore-edge]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED ("For ____ / best wishes from") and SIGNED "Ian," on the title page, with a big circle drawn around his surname. "Whitcomb's irreverent, impassioned, often surreal interests... Read More
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What People Said
by White, W.L.
New York: The Viking Press. Very Good+. 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. (oatmeal cloth; no dust jacket) [nice copy, minor shelfwear to bottom edge, just a touch of soiling to spine; clipped text from jacket glued to front pastedown and rear endpaper, one-time owner's name on verso of front endpaper]. This novel, set in a small city in... Read More
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She Faded into Air
by White, Ethel Lina
New York: Harper & Brothers. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. (c.1941). First Edition. Hardcover. [solid copy with minor shelfwear, light age-toning to page edges, very light stain on top edge, old price-sticker shadow on ffep; jacket shows minor paper loss at a few corners, slight wrinkling and minor wear along top and bottom edges, minor paper... Read More
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Guggenheim Magazine - Fall 1997 [special issue re Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain]
by (White, Jennifer Knox, ed.)
New York: Guggenheim Museum Publications. Near Fine. 1997. (Volume 11). Magazine. [light handling wear only, tiny price-sticker affixed to lower corner of rear cover]. (color/B&W photographs, graphics) Most of this issue is devoted to the spectacular art museum, designed by Frank Gehry, that opened in Bilbao in October of that year. Includes an interview with... Read More
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The Money Trap
by White, Lionel
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc.. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. [modest wear to cloth at spine ends, stamped "Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Library, Culver City, Calif." on front endpaper but NO other markings of any kind; the jacket is edgeworn, with some minor paper loss at the top of the spine, and a... Read More
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In the Balance
by White, M.E. [Mary Ellen]
New York: Harper & Row. Near Fine in Very Good dj. (c.1968). First Edition. Hardcover. NOISBN . (price-clipped) [nice clean copy, with light shelfwear; jacket slightly wrinkled at top of front panel, very minor dog-earing at top of spine]. A bit of Sixties-ness, "a satire and very funny in parts, but also a tragedy." Per the... Read More
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Cobras with False Faces
by White, Richard S.
New York: Vantage Press. Near Fine in Very Good dj. (c.1971). First Edition. Hardcover. [nice clean book with minimal shelfwear; jacket very lightly edgeworn with faint soiling]. Vanity press novel in which "Rafael Whitfield, a professor of the sciences at the State Teacher's College in Mount Ridge, is falsely accused and convicted of committing a lewd... Read More
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Northwest Wagons
by White, Samuel Alexander
New York: Phoenix Press. Very Good. (c.1941). First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [moderately shelfworn, hinges/binding intact, bottom front corner bumped, a couple of shallow dents at top and bottom edges of front cover, one-time owner's inked name on ffep]. "The Northwest Mounted Police Commissioner gave Constable Stewart Fuller a difficult berth when he assigned... Read More
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What Happened to Sherlock Holmes?; as set to rest in The Legend of Wilson/The Amazing Athlete [*SIGNED*]
by White/Prince, Terence ("recorded by")
Marina del Rey CA: Seagull Publishing Company. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. [minimal shelfwear to book, previous owner's name and date & place of purchase in ink along left edge of front pastedown (concealed by the front jacket flap); jacket has a tiny bit of paper loss at top of spine, a touch... Read More
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