![Are the Stars Out Tonight?; the story of the famous Ambassador and Cocoanut Grove, "Hollywood's Hotel" [*SIGNED*]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/308/955/1702955308.0.m.jpg)
Are the Stars Out Tonight?; the story of the famous Ambassador and Cocoanut Grove, "Hollywood's Hotel" [*SIGNED*]
by Burk, Margaret Tante
Los Angeles: Round Table West. Near Fine. (c.1980). First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket, possibly as issued) [nice clean book, virtually as-new but slightly bumped at the lower tips]. (B&W photographs, facsimiles) INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the title page. A heavily photo-illustrated, anecdotal history of the Ambassador Hotel and its Cocoanut... Read More
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Lincoln Observed: Civil War Dispatches of Noah Brooks
by Burlingame, Michael, ed.
Baltimore/London: The Johns Hopkins University Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. [nice clean book with minimal wear, former owner's initials plus date & place of purchase written in ink along edge of rear pastedown (concealed beneath rear jacket flap), otherwise unmarked; the jacket is flawless apart from some very light surface wear... Read More
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High Thursday
by Burlingame, Roger
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Near Fine in Very Good- dj. 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [good sound copy, minimal shelfwear, faint spotting and light dust-soiling to top of text block; the jacket has a handful of small edge-nicks, is scuffed on the front and rear panels, faded and scuffed along the spine, with a shallow chip... Read More
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Cartwheels
by Burlingame, Roger
Garden City NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. [good sound copy, light shelfwear, small bookseller's rubber-stamped name (Bertrand Smith's Acres of Books, Long Beach, Calif.) at bottom corner of front pastedown; the jacket is moderately edgeworn, with a few small nicks and light soiling, minor creasing, and... Read More
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![Editha's Burglar [*SIGNED* by "Baby Peggy"]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/428/695/1520695428.0.m.jpg)
Editha's Burglar [*SIGNED* by "Baby Peggy"]
by Burnett, Frances H[odgson].
Boston: L.C. Page & Company. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj. (c.1925). Baby Peggy Edition. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [modest wear to spine extremities and lower corners; the jacket has a few small nicks at both ends of the spine, and some minor winkling across the top edge of the rear panel]. (B&W photographs) SIGNED by "Baby Peggy" /... Read More
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![This Heart, This Hunter [*SIGNED*]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/859/223/346223859.0.m.jpg)
This Heart, This Hunter [*SIGNED*]
by Burnett, Hallie Southgate
New York: Henry Holt and Company. Good+ in Fair dj. (c.1953). First Edition. Hardcover. [moderate shelfwear, slight fraying to cloth at top of spine, light soiling/browning to page edges; jacket worn/rubbed, dampstained at spine, a few small tears, several internal tape repairs, paper loss at top of spine (no loss of text)]. INSCRIBED ("for Swanie / whose... Read More
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The Romantick Lady (Frances Hodgson Burnett): The Life Story of an Imagination
by Burnett, Vivian
New York/London: Charles Scribner's Sons. Very Good. 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [front hinge a little weak, but otherwise a good sound copy, with some spotting/foxing on the top edge of the text block; small vintage bookplate on the front pastedown]. (B&W plates) A biography of the author of the children's classics "The Secret... Read More
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Nobody Lives Forever
by Burnett, W.R.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good. 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [solid copy, moderate edgewear, slight fraying of cloth at top of spine, spine cloth darkened, small red mark on bottom page edges]. .
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Dark Hazard
by Burnett, W.R.
New York: Harper & Brothers. Very Good+. 1933. Later Printing (H-H). Hardcover. (lacking the original dust jacket, but encased in a professionally-made facsimile reproduction of same; see 2nd image posted with this listing) [solid copy, moderate shelfwear, light bumping to top corners, one-time owner's florid signature on half-title page]. Tale of a gambler who gets married... Read More
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The Silver Eagle
by Burnett, W.R.
New York: Lincoln MacVeagh/The Dial Press. Near Fine. 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket, but encased in a nice-looking facsimile reproduction of the original first edition jacket; see 2nd scanned image posted with this listing) [no significant wear apart from some rubbing to silver spine lettering at base of spine (title and author are bright and... Read More
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The Goodhues of Sinking Creek
by Burnett, W.R.
New York/London: Harper & Brothers. Very Good. 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. (quarter cloth over paper-covered boards; no dust jacket) [modest overall wear, slight bumping/cracking to lower corners, faint tide mark along bottom edge of front cover]. (woodcut illustrations) Short novel (88 pages), set in rural Ohio in the years just preceding the Civil War, about an... Read More
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High Sierra
by Burnett, W.R.
New York/London: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good+. 1940. 2nd printing. Hardcover. (lacking the original dust jacket, but encased in a professionally-made facsimile reproduction of the first edition jacket; see 2nd image posted with this listing) [good sound copy, light shelfwear and minor external soiling, a touch of fading to the spine cloth]. Novel about an ... Read More
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Saint Johnson
by Burnett, W.R.
New York: Lincoln MacVeagh/The Dial Press. Very Good+. 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. (lacking the original dust jacket, but encased in a professionally-made facsimile reproduction of same; see 2nd image posted with this listing) [good sound copy with light wear to the extremities, slight fading to the spine cloth]. Burnett's fictional re-telling of the Earp-Clanton feud and... Read More
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![Little Caesar [Photoplay Edition]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/427/846/1675846427.0.m.jpg)
Little Caesar [Photoplay Edition]
by Burnett, W.R.
New York: A.L. Burt Company. Very Good. [1931] (c.1929). PhotoPlay Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [modest shelfwear, minor bumping/softening at tips, very slight fraying at a couple of tips, vertical wrinkling in spine cloth (binding fully intact), diagonal wrinkle in cloth at lower corner of rear cover]. (4 B&W film stills) Burnett's first published novel, and the... Read More
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Pale Moon
by Burnett, W.R.
London: Macdonald. Near Fine in Very Good dj. 1957. First British Edition. Hardcover. NOISBN . [light shelfwear to bottom edge, faint soiling to top of text block; jacket shows a little wear along top and bottom edges, tiny tears and miniscule paper loss at several corners, small internal tape repair at top of spine]. "A novel... Read More
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Nobody Lives Forever
by Burnett, W.R.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good in Good dj. 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. [light soiling to top and bottom edges of covers, flowery gift inscription (non-authorial) on ffep, bookplate on front pastedown; jacket is trimmed roughly 1/8"-1/4" along top and bottom edges, small stain at upper right corner of rear panel]. "The adventures of a... Read More
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Round the Clock at Volari's
by Burnett, W.R.
Greenwich CT: Gold Medal Books (s1145). Very Good. 1961. First Edition. Softcover. [moderate wear to edges and extremities, some creasing in spine but binding intact]. Mass Market PB A paperback original. "Volari's ws a place shunned by the law, stalked by the lawless and patronized by bored, idle people looking for kicks. The big safe... Read More
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The Unknown Steersman
by Burn, Irene
New York: Brentano's. Very Good. 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [moderate wear to extremities and bottom edge, faint bookseller's rubber-stamped name on front pastedown, white spine lettering somewhat rubbed but still fully readable, binding solid]. Novel set in British India. According to one contemporary reviewer, the book was "chiefly concerned with the... Read More
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It Came from Bob's Basement: Exploring the Science Fiction and Monster Movie Archive of Bob Burns
by Burns, Bob, with John Michlig
San Francisco: Chronicle Books. Fine. (c.2000). First Edition. Softcover. [very nice, clean, as-new copy]. Trade PB (B&W/color photographs, facsimiles) "A colorful journey through the vivid world of fantastic cinema and a true tribute to Bob Burns, a man who has dedicated his life to the preservation of an amazing number of movie artifacts. Illustrated with... Read More
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![Gracie: A Love Story [*SIGNED*]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/934/159/1692159934.0.m.jpg)
Gracie: A Love Story [*SIGNED*]
by Burns, George
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. Fine in Near Fine dj. (c.1988). First Edition. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [a lovely copy, with no discernible wear to either book or jacket, the latter downgraded a tad only because of the price-clipping]. (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED briefly ("To / Rosalyn & Arthur / My Best") and SIGNED by the author on the front... Read More
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![100 Years, 100 Stories [*SIGNED*]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/955/857/1700857955.0.m.jpg)
100 Years, 100 Stories [*SIGNED*]
by Burns, George
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. (c.1996). First Edition. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [no significant wear to book, but a bit of foxing on the edges (mostly the top) of the text block; the jacket has a tiny closed tear at the bottom of the front panel close to the spine, and an embossed ... Read More
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The Gallery
by Burns, John Horne
New York/London: Harper & Brothers. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. (c.1947). Later Printing (K-W). Hardcover. [good sound copy, very slight bumping to bottom corners; jacket has shallow chips at top of front panel and top of spine, small tears with minor paper loss at front corners]. Novel depicting military life (including its homosexual aspects) in... Read More
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![El caso Powers; materiales sobre el proceso judicial de la causa criminal instruida al piloto espía norteamericano Francis Gary Powers (17-19 de Agosto 1960) [The Powers case; materials on the judicial process of the criminal case, etc.]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/078/503/1597503078.0.m.jpg)
El caso Powers; materiales sobre el proceso judicial de la causa criminal instruida al piloto espía norteamericano Francis Gary Powers (17-19 de Agosto 1960) [The Powers case; materials on the judicial process of the criminal case, etc.]
by Buró de Información Soviético, Moscú [Soviet Information Bureau, Moscow]
Montevideo: Ediciones de la Seccion de Prensa de la Legacion de la URSS en el Uruguay. Very Good. 1960. 1st Edition (presumed). Softcover. [external soiling and edgewear, but solidly bound and internally clean]. (B&W photographs) A full account -- in Spanish, and from the Soviet perspective -- of the trial of the U-2 "spy pilot" Francis Gary... Read More
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The Same Person
by Burr, Anna Robeson
New York: Duffield & Company. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. [nice copy, spine slightly turned, top edge dust-soiled, tiny smudge at bottom edge, slight fading to cloth at top of spine to match missing pieces of dj; jacket is generally clean and attractive, with only minor wear at a couple of corners,... Read More
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John Ford and Andrew V. McLaglen
by Burrows, Michael
Cornwall (U.K.): Primestyle Limited. Near Fine. 1970. First Edition. Stapled wraps. [nice clean copy, light handling wear only]. ("Formative Films" series) Series (B&W photographs) Short (32 pages) monograph on the work of film directors John Ford and Andrew V. McLaglen -- the latter being a sort of low-rent version of the former, by virtue not only... Read More
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