The Incident at Naha
by Bosse, M.J.
New York: Simon and Schuster. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. (c.1972). First Edition. Hardcover. [nice tight copy with minimal shelfwear; mostly-white jacket shows a bit of soiling]. The author's second novel (but first mystery), "a strange combination of hippie life in the West Village, wealth in Long Island and the war in Vietnam." It's... Read More
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This Was England: Manners and Customs of the Ancient Victorians; a survey in pictures and text of their history, morals, wars, inventions, sports, heroes and social and sexual distinctions between 1870 and 1900
by Bott, Alan
Garden City NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.. Near Fine in Very Good dj. 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. [minor shelfwear only, a nice clean copy; jacket lightly worn, a few tiny nicks along top edge, some surface rubbing at both ends of spine]. (B&W plates) "A NEW TECHNIQUE, in which pictures blend with text to show recent... Read More
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Nothing in Common [*SIGNED*]
by Bottner, Barbara
New York: Harper & Row. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. (c.1986). First Edition. Hardcover. 0060206047 . (price-clipped) [moderate shelfwear, bottom corners lightly bumped; jacket dog-eared at a couple of top corners, one small tear and some associated wrinkling/edgewear at top of rear panel]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the title page. The... Read More
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The Rose of Jericho
by Boucicault, Ruth Holt
New York/London: G.P. Putnam's Sons/The Knickerbocker Press. Good. 1920. First Edition. Hardcover. NOISBN . (black and gilt decorated cover; no dust jacket) [front hinge starting, light dampstaining to covers, offsetting to endpapers, spine cloth a bit faded, gilt spine lettering rubbed but still readable]. Novel about a small-town girl who becomes a stage actress. A... Read More
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Simenon photographe
by Bourlard, Tristan
Arles (France): Actes Sud / Solin. Near Fine. 2000. First Edition. Softcover. [just a touch of scuffing to the covers, otherwise as new]. (Archives Privées) Series Trade PB (B&W photographs) A collection of photographs taken by the celebrated crime novelist Georges Simenon during his travels in the early- to mid-1930s, in Africa, Russia, Malta, Tahiti and ... Read More
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The Fat Baron
by Boutell, Clip; pictures by Frank Lieberman
Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. [nice-looking copy, slight fading to cloth along top edges, pencilled gift inscription from 1951 (in child's hand) on half-title page but otherwise unmarked; jacket shows minor wear at edges/corners, a couple of itsy-bitsy tears at top edge]. "Once there was a baron whose whole... Read More
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The McGuffin
by Bowen, John
Boston/New York: The Atlantic Monthly Press. Fine in Near Fine dj. (c.1984). First American Edition. Hardcover. 0871130181 . [nice tight clean unread book, with no discernible wear; jacket shows very light wear at extremities, faint rubbing/soiling]. Mystery novel about a middle-aged, divorced film reviewer who finds himself involved in what seems to be "a real-life replay... Read More
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The Loaf and the Lilies
by Bowers, Penelope
London: William Heinemann Ltd.. Good in Fair dj. 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. [moderate shelfwear, soiling to top edge of text block, gift inscription (non-authorial) on ffep, small vintage bookseller's rubber stamp (Bertrand Smith "Acres of Books," Long Beach, California) on front pastedown; jacket heavily worn with various chips, tears, creasing, etc.] Described as "an English... Read More
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Films in Review (November 1980) [cover: Robert Redford and the cast of ORDINARY PEOPLE]
by Bowers, Ronald, ed.
New York: National Board of Review of Motion Pictures. Very Good+. 1980. (Vol. XXXI, No. 9). Periodical. NOISBN . [nice clean copy, light wear along spine, slight rubbing to covers]. (B&W photographs) Contents include: career articles on Dirk Bogarde and Josephine Hutchinson, with filmographies; an article on "Current French Cinema"; brief interview/articles on directors Paul Mazursky, Philippe... Read More
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Films in Review (April 1980) [cover: Sissy Spacek and Tommy Lee Jones in COAL MINER'S DAUGHTER]
by Bowers, Ronald, ed.
New York: National Board of Review of Motion Pictures. Very Good+. 1980. (Vol. XXXI, No. 4). Periodical. NOISBN . [nice clean copy, light handling wear, slight dog-ear to bottom corner of front cover, diagonal crease at bottom corner of one page]. (B&W photographs) Contents include: an account of the festivities surrounding the presentation of the organization's... Read More
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Operation Bughouse
by Bowie, Beverley
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company. Very Good+ in Good dj. 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [good sound copy, lower front corner bumped, minor white stain at bottom of front cover; the jacket is well-worn, somewhat scraped and scuffed, with an M-shaped chip at the bottom of the front panel, some mostly-internal dampstaining surrounding the base of... Read More
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The Time of Friendship; a volume of short stories
by Bowles, Paul
New York/Chicago/San Francisco: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. Near Fine in Very Good dj. (c.1967). First Edition. Hardcover. [minor shelfwear, tiny spot on top edge of text block; the jacket is age-toned (mostly along the spine), has a tiny chip at the upper right corner of the front panel, and a couple of small scrape marks on the front... Read More
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Arrowrock: Songs and Stories of a Prodigal
by Bowman, Earl Wayland
Caldwell ID: The Caxton Printers, Ltd.. Good. (c.1931). First Edition. Hardcover. NOISBN . (no dust jacket) [moderate wear and slight fraying to cloth at spine ends, a bit of bumping and minor fraying to bottom corners, old bookseller's rubber stamp (Bertrand Smith Acres of Books) on front pastedown, spine lettering rubbed (or faded) to unreadability]. (frontispiece... Read More
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John Henry: The Rambling Black Ulysses
by Bowman, James Cloyd
Chicago: Albert Whitman & Company. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. [minor wear to book at extremities; jacket a little rubbed/scuffed on front panel, moderate wear and shallow chipping along top edge, uneven fading to rear panel, still colorful and attractive]. (pen & ink drawings, illustrated endpapers) An enhanced retelling of the... Read More
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Isle of Demons
by Bowman, John Clarke
New York: The Dial Press. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. [nice-looking copy, tight and clean, very light wear to book extremities; jacket shows minor wear at corners]. "This is a basic love story, woven into a tapestry of the glitter, intrigue and violence, of immense courage and over-mastering avarice against a... Read More
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Fusee: The Adventures of Ethan Allen
by Boyd, Dusty
New York: Carlton Press Inc.. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. (c.1975). Presumed 1st. Hardcover. [minimal shelfwear, mild tanning of pages, two previous owners' signatures on ffep (plus an annotation from one about when and where he bought the book); jacket mildly soiled, a couple of small closed tears, chipping with a little paper loss at both... Read More
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Life Makes Advances
by Boyd, Madeleine
Boston: Little, Brown and Company. Very Good+ in Good dj. 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. [a bit of spotting/soiling to page edges, light shelfwear to bottom edge, minor fading to cloth near top of spine; jacket shows some edgewear, darkened with age, various tiny nicks here and there]. A particularly fine example of a "novel of retribution,"... Read More
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The Pink Egg
by Boyden, Polly
Truro MA: Pamet Press. Very Good+ in Good dj. (c.1942). First Edition. Hardcover. DETAILS NEEDED. World War II-era political parable, somewhat in the vein of "Animal Farm" -- "a story that is, at one and the same time, both symbol and adventure, actual and romantic, satirical and completely engaging." Oh, and did I mention that all... Read More
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My Next Bride
by Boyle, Kay
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj. (c.1934). First Edition. Hardcover. [minor shelfwear, spine cloth faded, some fading to cloth around edges of covers; jacket a little darkened at spine, minor wear to bottom corners]. An early work by Boyle (her fourth published novel), "the story of an American girl who... Read More
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Week-End
by Brackett, Charles
New York: Robert M. McBride & Company. Good. 1925. 2nd printing. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [worn but intact, light staining to covers, diagonal red line of undetermined origin/purpose across bottom right corner of front cover, vintage bookseller's label (Unity Pegues, Hollywood, California) on rear pastedown]. The second novel by the future New Yorker drama critic ... Read More
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Fantastic (January-February 1954) [includes "The Dwarf"]
by Bradbury, Ray, and others
Chicago: Ziff-Davis Publishing Co.. Very Good. (c.1953). (Vol. 3, No. 1). Wraps. [moderate wear, a little creasing to covers; binding solid, pages supple, lightly browned at edges]. The Bradbury story is "The Dwarf" (this may possibly be its first printing, although nothing in the magazine itself either confirms or contradicts that). Other contributors include Algis... Read More
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The Ray Bradbury Estate: Auction Ends September 25th, 2014
by -{Bradbury, Ray}
Los Angeles: Nate D. Sanders Fine Autographs & Memorabilia. Near Fine. 2014. First Edition. Catalog. [nice clean copy, slight wear to extremities]. (B&W and color photographs, facsimiles) 144-page catalog, offering a wide array of personal possessions of memorabilia from the estate of acclaimed writer Ray Bradbury -- 462 lots in all, including: numerous artworks (paintings, drawings,... Read More
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"Science Fiction: Before Christ and after 2001" (in the 1975 Filmex catalogue)
by Bradbury, Ray
Los Angeles: Los Angeles International Film Exposition. Near Fine. 1975. First Edition. Stapled wraps. [nice clean copy, faint external handling wear only]. (B&W photographs, ads, graphics) An original essay by Bradbury, contained in the official catalogue/program book for the fourth (1975) iteration of the once-beloved and still-lamented Filmex (the Los Angeles International Film Exposition), which... Read More
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The October Country
by Bradbury, Ray
New York: Ballantine Books (F 580). Very Good+. 1962. 2nd printing. Softcover. [light edgewear to covers, slight spine roll and concavity, original selling price carefully whited-out on front cover and spine]. Mass Market PB (pen & ink drawings) Nineteen stories "of the awesome [and] the macabre," including "The Jar," which was memorably adapted for TV's "The ... Read More
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"Beyond Forty: Bright Films for Bright People" (in the program book for the Fourth Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival, January 7-17, 1993)
by Bradbury, Ray
Palm Springs CA: Palm Springs International Film Festival. Fine. 1993. Stapled wraps. [a nice clean as-new copy, quite likely owned by someone who didn't actually attend the festival, since it shows no signs of being folded, rolled up, carried around in a purse or book bag, etc.]. (photographs, graphics, advertisements) Pretty much a typical film festival... Read More
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