"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
Offered by ReadInk
![Dandelion Wine [*SIGNED* association copy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/471/226/1454226471.0.m.jpg)
Dandelion Wine [*SIGNED* association copy]
by Bradbury, Ray
Garden City NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc.. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj. 1957. Later Printing. Hardcover. [light shelfwear only, a couple of tiny red spots (ink?) on bottom edges of covers, very slight deterioration to cloth at top of spine; jacket shows a little wear at extremities, small chip at base of spine, spine panel slightly... Read More
Offered by ReadInk
The First Hollywood Musicals: A Critical Filmography of 171 Features, 1927 through 1932
by Bradley, Edwin M.
Jefferson NC/London: McFarland & Company, Inc.. Near Fine. (c.1996). First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket, as issued) [nice clean copy with just a touch of wear at the extremities]. (B&W photographs) Exhaustive, well-researched film-by-film chronicle of the early years of the film musical. Includes credits (including all songs, with songwriters noted) for each film, along... Read More
Offered by ReadInk
Americanization Questionnaire
by Bradshaw, Cathrine A.
New York: Noble and Noble. Near Fine. (c.1925, 1926). Unstated edition. Hardcover. (decorated cloth; no dust jacket, possibly as issued) [nice clean copy with only minor shelfwear]. I don't think you need much more than the subtitle to tell you what this book is all about: "Containing the Questions usually asked of Aliens applying for Citizenship Papers,... Read More
Offered by ReadInk
![Us Ladies [*SIGNED*]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/873/199/1298199873.0.m.jpg)
Us Ladies [*SIGNED*]
by Brady, Mariel
New York: D. Appleton-Century Company. Very Good in Good dj. 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. [solid copy, slight fraying to bottom corners, minor wear at spine ends, light dust-soiling to top edge; jacket has some shallow chipping along the top edge, a bit of paper loss at spine ends and bottom right-hand corner of front panel, general rubbing/scuffing].... Read More
Offered by ReadInk
Murder a la Stroganoff
by Brahms, Caryl, and S.J. Simon
New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co.. Very Good+. 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [solid, square copy, with some fading to black cloth along edges, mild browning to page edges]. .
Offered by ReadInk
The Elephant is White
by Brahms, Caryl, and S.J. Simon
New York: Farrar & Rinehart. Good+. (c.1940). First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [moderately worn copy, spine turned, spine cloth faded and white spine lettering rubbed; attractive small label (like a miniature bookplate) on front pastedown]. (line drawings) One of this writing team's scarcer works, a satirical novel about a young Englishman who falls in with... Read More
Offered by ReadInk
![Six Curtains for Natasha [original title: Six Curtains for Stroganova]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/812/546/8546812.0.m.jpg)
Six Curtains for Natasha [original title: Six Curtains for Stroganova]
by Brahms, Caryl, and S.J. Simon
Philadelphia/New York: J. B. Lippincott Company. Very Good+ in Good dj. (c.1946). First Edition. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [solid copy, some wear (board exposed) at bottom rear corner; jacket wrinkled/creased along top edge of front panel, some paper loss at corners and spine ends]. Satirical novel set against the backdrop of the Russian ballet; the fourth (and last) in... Read More
Offered by ReadInk
It's Cold Out There
by Braly, Malcolm
New York: Pocket Books (80801). Very Good. 1976 (c.1966). 1st printing thus. Softcover. [solid copy, slight spine roll, minor abrasions and a bit of edgewear to covers, printed price blacked out on front cover]. Mass Market PB The author's third novel, about an ex-convict whose desperate need for money leads him to take a job selling... Read More
Offered by ReadInk
False Starts: A Memoir of San Quentin and Other Prisons
by Braly, Malcolm
Boston: Little, Brown and Company. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. (c.1976). First Edition. Hardcover. [very nice copy, no significant wear but with a generic bookplate on the ffep; jacket similarly nice, very clean with just a couple of traces of minor wear]. Memoir by the author of "It's Cold Out There" and "On the Yard,"... Read More
Offered by ReadInk
Westward: The Romance of the American Frontier
by Branch, E. Douglas
New York/London: D. Appleton and Company. Very Good+ in Good+ dj. 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. [good solid copy, minor wear to extremities, one-time owner's signature at lower corner of front endpaper, vintage bookseller's label (Winch & Marshall, San Jose, California) on rear pastedown; jacket heavily browned at spine (which also has a couple of puncture-tears), some minor... Read More
Offered by ReadInk
River Lady
by Branch, Houston, and Frank Waters
New York/Toronto: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc.. Very Good in Fair dj. (c.1942). 2nd printing. Hardcover. [a decent copy, but with noticeable wear to the extremities, half-title page partially stuck to front pastedown; the jacket has suffered paper loss along the top and bottom edges and the spine, and the rear panel is blemished by a number of... Read More
Offered by ReadInk
Imported Americans; the story of the experiences of a disguised American and his wife studying the immigration question
by Brandenburg, Broughton
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company. Very Good+. 1904. First Edition. Hardcover. (pictorial cloth with photographic label; no dust jacket) [nice-looking book, light wear to corners only; charming gift inscription on front endpaper, advocating sympathy towards foreigners, to a father "from his loving son," dated Xmas 1904]. (32 B&W photographic plates) The author explains how he... Read More
Offered by ReadInk
Wiener Werkstätte: Design in Vienna, 1903-1932
by Brandstätter, Christian (translated by David H. Wilson)
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc.. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. 2003. First American Edition. Hardcover. [nice clean copy, essentially as-new but with the front hinge slightly sprung and a very slight bowing to the boards; the jacket is flawless]. (color and B&W photographs, art reproductions) Lavishly-illustrated book (550 illustrations, 450 of which are in... Read More
Offered by ReadInk
Deathman Pass Me By: Two Years on Death Row
by Brasfield, Philip, with Jeffrey M. Elliot
San Bernardino CA: Borgo Press. Near Fine. 1983. First Edition. Softcover. [a tight, clean, unread copy, with just a trace of edgewear]. (Borgo Bioviews, No. 3) Series Trade PB (B&W photographs) First-person narrative by a man convicted of first degree murder and kidnapping in Wichita County, Texas, in 1978, and sentenced to death by lethal injection --... Read More
Offered by ReadInk
![What the Movies Made Me Do [*SIGNED*]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/310/547/8547310.0.m.jpg)
What the Movies Made Me Do [*SIGNED*]
by Braudy, Susan
New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good+ in Near Fine dj. 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. [remainder mark bottom edge, some wear to edges/corners of book; jacket has traces of wear along top edge, very slight fading to spine]. SIGNED on the ffep by the author, with a generic, non-personalized inscription ("Enjoy the book! I hope you laugh!").... Read More
Offered by ReadInk
Red Alley
by Bready, Charles J.
Cedar Rapids IA: The Torch Press. Fine in Near Fine dj. (c.1938). First Edition. Hardcover. [a beautiful copy, with just a touch of soiling to the rear panel of the dust jacket; so bright and fresh, in fact, that I suspect it must have come from what's known as "new old stock," books that were never in ... Read More
Offered by ReadInk
Doubting Thomas
by Brebner, Winston
New York: Rinehart & Company, Inc.. Very Good in Very Good dj. (c.1956). First Edition. Hardcover. [shelfwear and bumping to bottom corners, age-toning to edges of text block (typical of Rinehart books in this period), overall a clean and solidly bound book; jacket moderately edgeworn, light rubbing/soiling, small pull-tear in rear panel]. Novel -- sorry, "magical... Read More
Offered by ReadInk
A Penny for the Poor
by Brecht, Bertolt (translated from the German by Desmond I. Vesey; verses translated by Christopher Isherwood)
New York: Hillman-Curl, Inc.. Very Good in Poor dj. 1938. 1st U.S. edition. Hardcover. [book itself is solid and internally clean, some soiling and light shelfwear to top and bottom edges; the jacket, however, has had about as many bad things done to it as you can imagine: it's been laminated (which has resulted in considerable yellowing/discoloration,... Read More
Offered by ReadInk
The Wicked Wit of the West
by Brecher, Irving, as told to Hank Rosenfeld
Teaneck NJ: Ben Yehuda Press. Fine. (c.2009). 3rd printing. Softcover. [as-new, in perfect condition]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) "The last great Golden-Age screenwriter shares the hilarity and heartaches of working with Groucho, Garland, Gleason, Burns, Berle, Benny & many more." Neither an authobiography or a memoir, this is essentially a long oral history --... Read More
Offered by ReadInk
The Child in the City: A Series of Papers Presented at the Conferences Held During The Chicago Child Welfare Exhibit
by Breckinridge, Sophonisba P., ed.
Chicago: Philanthropy. Fair. 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [moderate wear at extremities, both hinges cracked (the front more severely than the rear), private "Ex Libris" bookplate on front pastedown; all photographic plates are present (one illustrating the beginning of each major section of the book), but one is detached from the binding]. (11... Read More
Offered by ReadInk
Eden Seekers
by Breitfeld, Rose
Boston: Meador Publishing Company. Good. (c.1948). First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [spine cloth faded (gilt title still fully readable), top corner of ffep cut away, light bumping to several corners]. Uncommon novel which (from my brief skim of it) seems to be a tale of Jewish village life in some unspecified Eastern European location. ... Read More
Offered by ReadInk
Stories of Darkness and Dread
by Brennan, Joseph Payne
Sauk City WI: Arkham House. Near Fine in Fine dj. 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. [no significant wear to book, but a previous owner has written his name plus the date & place of purchase in ink at the top of the half-title page, and there are small check-marks (in both ink and pencil) next to every title... Read More
Offered by ReadInk
![The Wicked Book of Brother Barnabas [*SIGNED*]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/162/972/1327972162.0.m.jpg)
The Wicked Book of Brother Barnabas [*SIGNED*]
by Anonymous [Frederick Hazlitt Brennan]
New York: Richard R. Smith. Very Good-. 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [moderately shelfworn copy, with numerous abrasions to cloth along top and bottom edges of both covers, some wear at spine ends, modest bumping at all corners, some discoloration in gutters]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the ffep: "To Robert Rainer[?] /... Read More
Offered by ReadInk
The Chronicles of Lucius Leffing
by Brennan, Joseph Payne
West Kingston RI: Donald M. Grant, Publisher. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. [no wear to book, essentially a brand-new copy, but with a previous owner's name plus date & place of purchase written in ink at the top of the front endpaper; the jacket shows just a touch of wear at a couple... Read More
Offered by ReadInk