A Woman Called Fancy
by Yerby, Frank
New York: The Dial Press. Near Fine in Very Good dj. 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. [nice clean book with no significant wear, just a previous owner's name and date in green ink on the front endpaper; the jacket is moderately edgeworn, with small tears at the upper spine corners]. The sixth novel by this author, who pretty... Read More
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The Saracen Blade
by Yerby, Frank
New York: Dial Press. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj. 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. [good sound copy, very slight bumping to lower corners, light spotting to top edge of text block, one-time owner's name written at top of front pastedown and her address label at top of rear pastedown (in both instances mostly concealed by the jacket... Read More
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Arrogant Beggar
by Yezierska, Anzia
Garden City NY: Doubleday, Page & Co.. Very Good+. 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. (black cloth, paper spine and front cover labels; no dust jacket) [good sound copy, spine slightly turned, modest bumping to lower corners, one-time owner's neat property stamp on title page]. Yezierska's third novel (and fifth published book) deals with a young department store clerk... Read More
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Bread Givers
by Yezierska, Anzia
Garden City NY: Doubleday, Page & Company. Near Fine. 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [sharp-looking copy with only minor shelfwear]. Yezierska's second novel (and fourth published book), "a struggle between a father of the Old World and a daughter of the New," begins on New York's Lower East Side, where the immigrant Polish Smolinsky family... Read More
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How I Found America: Collected Stories of Anzia Yezierska
by Yezierska, Anzia
New York: Persea Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. (c.1991). First Edition. Hardcover. [minimal shelfwear, tiny hole in top edge of rear cover; jacket very slightly rubbed]. (B&W photo frontispiece) A nearly-complete collection (27 stories) of the author's short fiction, ranging from the 1920s to the 1960s, which evokes "the joy and pain of the... Read More
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Lavinia and the Devil
by York, Camilla
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. 1926. 4th printing. Hardcover. [nice copy, very slight wear to extremities, a bit of dust-soiling to top edge; jacket has very slight paper loss at a few corners, one short closed tear and associated crease at bottom of front panel, minor scuffing]. Triangular romance... Read More
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Entertainment Memorabilia - Thursday 19 July 2001 (Sale No. 8525) [cover: Bette Davis]
by Christie's New York
London: Christie's International Media Division. Near Fine. 2001. First Edition. Softcover. [minor handling wear only]. (B&W and color photographs, facsimiles) Auction catalogue, featuring the properties of (among others) Bette Davis and Mercedes de Acosta. The Davis items, which were consigned from the personal collection of her longtime "girl Friday," Kathryn Sermak, comprise Lots 37 through... Read More
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Accidentally on Purpose: An Autobiography [*SIGNED*]
by York, Michael
New York: Simon & Schuster. Fine in Fine dj. (c.1991). First Edition. Hardcover. [a beautiful, as-new copy, with no discernible wear to either book or jacket]. (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED "For ____ / with thanks for the / great photographs + / my best wishes" and SIGNED by the author on the title page. Memoir by the... Read More
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Manhattan Memories: A Book of Postcards of Old New York
by (Museum of the City of New York)
San Francisco: Pomegranate. Near Fine. (c.2000). First Edition. Softcover. [minor edgewear to covers only; all postcards are present]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) Small book of 30 postcards (all are present). "From the old Polo Grounds and Ebbetts [sic] Field ballparks to the once-ubiquitous Woolworth's lunch counters and Automats, [this book] elicits a familiar fondness for... Read More
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Spring 1950 [on cover: Spring / Nineteen Fifty]
by (The Analytical Psychology Club of New York)
[New York]: The Analytical Psychology Club of New York, Incorporated. Very Good. 1950. (Annual Edition). Printed wraps. NOISBN . (8.5 x 11 inches; typescript text, mimeographed on rectos only except for the title/copyright pages) [slight fading around edges of covers, vertical crease adjacent to front hinge with one-inch separation (tear) at bottom, vertical crease in rear cover,... Read More
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Page One of 1953: Yearbook of New York's Newspaper Men and Women
by (The Newspaper Guild of New York)
New York: Newspaper Guild of New York. Very Good. 1953. "20th Anniversary". Hardcover. (pictorial paper label on front cover; no dust jacket, as issued) [shelfwear and bumping to bottom edges, some fraying to cloth at top of spine, a few tiny stains adjacent to spine (on both front and rear covers)] (B&W photographs, cartoons, ads, etc.) Commemorative... Read More
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The Two Worlds of Jim Yoshida [*SIGNED*]
by Yoshida, Jim, with Bill Hosokawa
New York: William Morrow & Company, Inc.. Fine in Near Fine dj. 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. [nice tight clean copy, appears unread, with no discernible wear; the jacket is also nice and clean, with a tiny closed tear at the top of the front panel and a long vertical crease in the front flap]. INSCRIBED and ... Read More
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Best Seller: The Story of a Young Man Who Came to New York to Write a Novel About a Young Man Who Came to New York to Write a Novel
by Youmans, N.O. (pseud. for Allen Clark Marple)
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company. Very Good-. (c.1930). First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [decent clean copy, moderately shelfworn, ffep removed with consequent weakening of front hinge; attractive vintage custom bookplate on 2nd (remaining) ffep; possibly an ex-lending library book, although the only indicator is a letter-number code handwritten on the title page]. "A ribald picture... Read More
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Sonny Liston: The Champ Nobody Wanted
by Young, A.S. "Doc"
Chicago: Johnson Publishing Company. Very Good+. 1963. 2nd printing. Softcover. [moderate external wear, a little fading along top edge of rear cover; binding still completely intact]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) An "unauthorized" yet sympathetic biography, by a prominent African-American sportswriter, of the heavyweight boxing champion who took the title away from then-champ Floyd Patterson with... Read More
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The Films of Doris Day
by Young, Christopher
Secacus NJ: Citadel Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. (c.1977). First Edition. Hardcover. [nice clean copy with no discernible wear to book, the only blemish being a one-time owner's rubber-stamped signature on the front endpaper; the jacket has a tiny tear and some mild dog-earing at the top of the spine, a bit of wrinkling along... Read More
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The Films of Hedy Lamarr
by Young, Christopher
Secacus NJ: The Citadel Press. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. (c.1978). First Edition. Hardcover. [very nice copy, a touch of soiling to bottom edges of covers, bookseller's rubber-stamp on front endpaper; the jacket is lightly surface-worn, with a few tiny tears and minor dog-earing at top of spine, and is just a bit shorter than the... Read More
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![Spike Jones Off the Record: The Man Who Murdered Music [*SIGNED* by "Sir Frederick Gas"]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/137/890/1685890137.0.m.jpg)
Spike Jones Off the Record: The Man Who Murdered Music [*SIGNED* by "Sir Frederick Gas"]
by Young, Jordan R.
Beverly Hills CA: Past Times Publishing Co.. Very Good. (c.1994). First Edition. Softcover. [some wear at edges and corners, small tear in bottom edge of front cover, bump and slight damage at upper front hinge]. (Vintage Comedy Series) Series Trade PB (B&W photographs, facsimiles) INSCRIBED to friends and SIGNED on the title page by "Sir Frederick... Read More
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Mister Ed and Me [*SIGNED*]
by Young, Alan, with Bill Burt
New York: St. Martin's Press. Fine. (c.1994). First Edition. Softcover. [very nice copy, essentially as-new with no discernible wear]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the half-title page, just above a photo of Mister Ed: "To _____ - Thank / you for the all the pictures / and the kelp! /... Read More
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Black Roses
by Young, Francis Brett
New York/London: Harper & Brothers. Very Good+ in Good dj. 1929. 1st Edition (H-D). Hardcover. [solid, clean copy, light shelfwear, modest bumping to lower corners; jacket is edgeworn, especially along spine, with small tears and minor paper loss at several corners, and a somewhat ragged tear along the left edge of the front panel]. Hard to... Read More
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Seventy Light Years: A Life in the Movies
by Young, Freddie, as told to Peter Busby
London/New York: Faber and Faber. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. [a bit of age-toning to edges of text block, no other significant wear to book; the jacket has a bit of wrinkling along the top edge of the rear panel]. (B&W photographs) Posthumously-published autobiography of the great British cinematographer, who began his... Read More
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Psyche
by Young, Phyllis Brett
Toronto/New York/London: Longmans, Green and Company. Near Fine in Very Good dj. 1959. 1st Edition (stated). Hardcover. [minor wear to extremities, spine slightly turned; jacket a little edgeworn, tiny paper loss at a couple of corners, one-inch closed tear at top of front panel, small tear and associated creasing at top rear flap-fold]. First novel by... Read More
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Coup de Grâce
by Yourcenar, Marguerite (translated from the French by Grace Frick in collaboration with the author)
London: Secker & Warburg. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. 1957. 1st U.K. edition. Hardcover. [a couple of tiny spots on top edge of text block, no other significant wear; jacket just lightly rubbed]. Novel about a young man in the Baltics who is caught up in the passions and events of the Russian Civil War ... Read More
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Ships' Figureheads in and about New York [*SIGNED*]
by Zabriskie, George A.
Ormond Beach FL: "The Doldrums". Fine in Near Fine dj. 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. [a very nice copy, the book itself flawless; the jacket is slightly age-toned along the spine and at the edges, with some insignificant wear along the top edge]. (B&W photographs) SIGNED by the author beneath a printed preface, with the recipient's name... Read More
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Give Us This Day [*SIGNED*]
by Zara, Louis
Indianapolis/New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. NOISBN . (price-clipped) [nice solid copy, minor bumping at several corners, some offsetting to endpapers; jacket a bit edgeworn, light scuffing to front panel, a handful of tiny tears and chips, irregular paper loss (1/4"-1/2") at top of spine (no loss of... Read More
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Blessed is the Man
by Zara, Louis
Indianapolis/New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company. Near Fine in Very Good dj. 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. [a good sound clean book with minimal shelfwear; the jacket has some wear along the top and bottom edges, a ragged 1.5" split at the bottom front flapfold with associated diagonal creasing at the bottom corner of the front panel]. Novel about... Read More
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