![King Cowboy: Tom Mix and the Movies [*SIGNED*]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/421/838/1361838421.0.m.jpg)
King Cowboy: Tom Mix and the Movies [*SIGNED*]
by Birchard, Robert S.
Burbank CA: Riverwood Press. Near Fine. (c.1993). First Edition. Softcover. [nice clean copy, virtually as-new, very slight bend (no crease) to bottom right corner of front cover]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED to noted film historian Rudy Behlmer and SIGNED by the author on the title page. A well-documented and extensively-illustrated survey of the career... Read More
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![Silent-era Filmmaking in Santa Barbara [*SIGNED*]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/335/050/1445050335.0.m.jpg)
Silent-era Filmmaking in Santa Barbara [*SIGNED*]
by Birchard, Robert S.
Charleston SC: Arcadia Publishing. Near Fine. (c.2007). First Edition. Softcover. [nice clean copy, virtually as-new but for an unfortunate patch of laminate-peeling at the bottom corner of the rear cover, which has been somewhat crudely "patched" with a strip of clear tape]. (Images of America) Series Trade PB (B&W photographs) SIGNED by the author on the ... Read More
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Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood
by Birchard, Robert S.
Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. (c.2004). First Edition. Hardcover. 0813123240 . (price-clipped) [gift inscription (non-authorial) on ffep, otherwise like new; jacket similarly nice with just a touch of surface wear, slightly downgraded due only to the price-clipping]. (B&W photographs) A deeply-researched film-by-film examination of the career of "one of... Read More
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Alamo House: Women Without Men, Men Without Brains
by Bird, Sarah
New York: W. W. Norton & Co.. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. (c.1986). First Edition. Hardcover. 0393023230 . [nice tight copy, faint soiling/shelfwear to bottom edge; jacket clean and attractive, with one unobtrusive closed tear at top rear corner (at foldover)]. Comic novel of a Texas sorority house, "a woman's hilarious answer to Animal House" --... Read More
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![I Ring Doorbells [*SIGNED*]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/252/471/1714471252.0.m.jpg)
I Ring Doorbells [*SIGNED*]
by Birdwell, Russell
New York: Julian Messner, Inc.. Good. 1939. 2nd printing. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [a good sound copy, but uneven fading to exterior cloth and a bit of damage to the front cover: a number of small indentations and one vertical surface rip (about 1" x 1/8")]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper: "Sept.... Read More
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![Many Thousands Gone [*SIGNED*]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/955/631/1717631955.0.m.jpg)
Many Thousands Gone [*SIGNED*]
by Bishop, John Peale
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Very Good. 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [a good sound copy with no significant wear, would rate higher than Very Good but for the fact that the gilt spine lettering, while very strong and bright on the front cover, is almost completely rubbed away on the spine]. INSCRIBED and... Read More
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Without a Stitch
by Bjørneboe, Jens (translated from the Norwegian by Walter Barthold)
New York: Grove Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. (c.1969). First American Edition First Printing. Hardcover. [nice clean book with minimal shelfwear; the jacket is also quite clean, and has a printed price label affixed at the top of the front flap, on top of the original printed price on the jacket itself]. First-person narrative novel... Read More
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Penny Wise; a comedy in three acts
by Black, Jean Ferguson
New York: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. Near Fine. (c.1937). Unstated edition. Softcover. [nice clean copy with minor external wear and one slightly scrunched lower page corner]. (B&W photo frontispiece, stage diagram) A comedy, set on a Connecticut farm, that had a brief (65 performances) run on Broadway in the spring of 1937, and then seems to have... Read More
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Return to Bondage
by Blackburn, Barbara
New York: Lincoln MacVeagh / The Dial Press. Very Good. 1926. First American Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [a good solid copy with only light wear, but unfortunately some dimwit, years ago, picked the book up after daubing his or her fingers in white paint, leaving several white finger-smudges on the front cover and spine, and... Read More
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Thunder on the Left; a play in three acts, from the novel of the same name by Christopher Morley
by Black, Jean Ferguson
New York: Samuel French. Very Good+. (c.1934). French's Standard Library Edition. Softcover. [a bit of age-toning, very slight damage to base of spine; binding intact and internally clean]. (stage diagram) An adaptation of Morley's 1925 semi-fantasy novel about a ten-year-old boy who finds himself projected twenty years into the future, and able to observe himself and... Read More
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The Films of Lon Chaney
by Blake, Michael
Lanham MD/London: Vestal Press, Inc.. Fine in Fine dj. 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. [a lovely as-new copy, with no discernible wear to either book or jacket]. (B&W photographs, facsimiles) The final installment in this author's trilogy of books about Chaney, this volume presents "the most complete filmography of Chaney's work ever compiled. For each of the... Read More
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A Thousand Faces: Lon Chaney's Unique Artistry in Motion Pictures
by Blake, Michael F.
Vestal NY: The Vestal Press, Ltd.. Fine in Fine dj. 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. [a bright and beautiful, as-new copy, with no discernible wear to either book or jacket]. (B&W photographs, facsimile documents) This book, a follow-up and companion volume to the author's 1993 biography of Chaney, "offers a fresh look at the various roles essayed by... Read More
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Lon Chaney: The Man Behind the Thousand Faces
by Blake, Michael F.
Vestal NY: The Vestal Press, Ltd.. Near Fine in Fine dj. 1993 (c.1990). First Edition. Hardcover. [a lovely copy, essentially as-new with no discernible wear to either book or jacket, but with a former owner's embossed ownership stamp at the upper right corner of the title page]. (B&W photographs) Lavishly illustrated, beautifully produced biography of the... Read More
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The Jefferson Secret: A Mystery With Love and Without a Murder
by Blaker, Richard
Garden City NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.. Near Fine in Very Good dj. 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. NOISBN . [minimal wear to book, very slight bumping to lower extremities, vintage price sticker (from The White House) on rear pastedown; jacket a little darkened at spine, a few tiny edge-nicks]. "A Mystery with love and without... Read More
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Medal Without Bar
by Blaker, Richard
Garden City NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.. Good+. 1930. First American Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [ex-rental library book with various stamps and a small label remnant on the ffep, minor bumping and light wear to extremities, moderate external soiling, a bit of wear along front joint]. A highly-regarded novel of the First World War, considered... Read More
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On Pegasus He Rode
by Blaker, Richard
New York: Carrick & Evans. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. (c.1938). First Edition. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [nice copy, mild shelfwear, very light water-spotting on top edge (interior not affected); jacket a bit worn at corners, some soiling/spotting on spine]. "In this unusual story of a man's struggle against his life-long desire to escape reality, [the... Read More
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Scabby Dichson
by Blaker, Richard
Garden City NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.. Very Good-. (c.1928). 1st Edition (stated) 2nd Printing ("B"). Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [moderately worn copy, dust-soiling and age-toning to page edges, hinges a little weak but still fully intact, 1928 birthday gift inscription on half-title page; paper label on front cover is soiled but intact, but the corresponding... Read More
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Carita's New World
by Blanchard, Lucy M.
Boston: The Page Company. Very Good. 1919. First Edition. Hardcover. (pictorial cloth; no dust jacket) [a good sound copy with modest shelfwear, a bit of wear and slight fraying at extremities, some rubbing to the spine illustration; one-time owner's address and pencil gift inscription on front pastedown and front endpaper, vintage bookseller's label (Brentano's, New York)... Read More
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![Type-Faces: A Photographic Study of Ward Ritchie [*SIGNED* limited edition; incomplete copy (see notes)]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/518/172/1270172518.0.m.jpg)
Type-Faces: A Photographic Study of Ward Ritchie [*SIGNED* limited edition; incomplete copy (see notes)]
by Blanco, Amanda; with a foreword by Lawrence Clark Powell
Northridge CA: Santa Susana Press. Near Fine. 1988. Limited Edition. Hardcover. [brown cloth clamshell box has some minor scuffing to the underside; mounted plates are in Fine condition]. (B&W photographs) SIGNED by the subject, master printer Ward Ritchie, on the title page and also on Plate 12, latterly with an inscription "For old friends from the... Read More
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The Brave and the Blind
by Blankfort, Michael
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company. Good in Fair dj. (c.1940). First Edition. Hardcover. NOISBN . [decent reading copy, ex-lending library book but marked as such with only one stamp; the problem is the jacket, which has been trimmed slightly along top/bottom edges, and is encased in one of those old-fashioned jacket protectors with the black strips along top/bottom,... Read More
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![Goodbye, I Guess [*SIGNED*]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/502/220/1257220502.0.m.jpg)
Goodbye, I Guess [*SIGNED*]
by Blankfort, Michael
New York: Simon and Schuster. Very Good+ in Very Good- dj. 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. NOISBN . [light shelfwear to bottom edges, spine moderately turned; jacket shows wear at edges and corners, some scuffing to front panel, dog-earing at top of spine, tiny tear and associated creasing at bottom of front panel]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by... Read More
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I Met a Man
by Blankfort, Michael
Indianapolis/New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. (c.1937). First Edition. Hardcover. [good solid copy, light shelfwear, date and place of an earlier purchase in ink on ffep; jacket has a small chip at upper left corner of front panel, minor paper loss at several other corners]. First novel by the later-blacklisted screenwriter,... Read More
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![Blood and Sand [movie tie-in edition]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/363/920/966920363.0.m.jpg)
Blood and Sand [movie tie-in edition]
by Blasco Ibañez, Vicente
New York: Grosset & Dunlap. Very Good+ in Very Good- dj. [1941] (c1919, 1922). Madison Square Books (reprint). Hardcover. [light shelfwear, previous owner's name rather clumsily inked out at top of ffep; jacket shows wear and tiny tears at several corners, spine a little faded, internally tape-repaired tear at top of spine, a little scuffing to front... Read More
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I, Billy Shakespeare!
by Blatty, William Peter
Garden City NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc.. Fine in Near Fine dj. 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. [nice tight copy with no discernible wear; jacket very clean and attractive, with a short closed tear and associated creasing at top of spine]. (line drawings) "A wildly amusing first-person narrative (from tapes) by a phantom William Shakespeare, in which... Read More
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Birds Got to Fly; a novel in six parts
by Blodgett, Ruth
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company. Good in Good dj. (c.1929). Unstated edition. Hardcover. [solid but shelfworn copy, top corners bumped/cracked (boards exposed), bottom corners less so, some discoloration to first few pages and last few pages of book, vintage bookseller's label on rear pastedown; jacket worn, various small tears, soiling to rear panel, minor paper loss... Read More
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