Passionate Puritan
by Colver, Alice Ross
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company. Very Good in Poor dj. 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. [solid book, dust-soiling to top edge, review copy with original publisher's slip affixed to ffep, unsourced contemporary newspaper review glued to front pastedown, reviewer's name (Harry Taylor) and date received written at top of ffep; the jacket, unfortunately, has had a large... Read More
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![Los Angeles, A View From Crown Hill [*limited/SIGNED* edition]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/305/400/1320400305.0.m.jpg)
Los Angeles, A View From Crown Hill [*limited/SIGNED* edition]
by Comer, Virginia Linden
(n.p.): Talbot Press. Fine. (c.1986). First Edition. Hardcover. (gilt-stamped leather; no dust jacket, as issued) [lovely, as-new copy]. (B&W photographs, facsimiles) SIGNED by the author on the limitation page (this copy being "Number 123 of 500 Deluxe, Hardbound copies"), with an additional personal inscription by the author on the preceding blank page. An illustrated history... Read More
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Red Fleece
by Comfort, Will Levington
New York: A.L. Burt Company. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. (c.1915). Reprint. Hardcover. [a good sound copy with light shelfwear, a few tiny dark spots on bottom edge of text block; the jacket ((corner-clipped at both corners of both flaps, possibly by design) shows light wear at edges and corners, a few tiny nicks and tears].... Read More
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Races and Immigrants in America
by Commons, John R.
New York: The Macmillan Company. Very Good. 1908 (c.1907). 2nd printing. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [good sound copy, modest wear to extremities, gilt lettering on front cover and spine still bright and easily readable]. (B&W photographs, plates, charts) A racially-focused examination of the "immigration problem," in which the author wastes no time getting to his thesis:... Read More
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![Cine-Kodak News (June 1940) [cover: The Golden Gate Exposition]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/826/138/1320138826.0.m.jpg)
Cine-Kodak News (June 1940) [cover: The Golden Gate Exposition]
by Eastman Kodak Company
Rochester NY: Eastman Kodak Company. Very Good. 1940. (Vol. 16, No. 3). Stapled wraps. [light wear to edges and extremities, some wrinkling to covers]. (B&W and color photographs) 12-page compendium of tips and tricks for the amateur movie-maker. Includes: an account of how Mrs. R.F. Hamilton of Portland, Oregon ("fast becoming Portland's semi-official color biographer!"),... Read More
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1955 Ford Thunderbird Handbook
by (Ford Motor Company)
Dearborn MI: Ford Motor Company. Very Good. (c.1954). First Edition. Stapled wraps. [some external scuffing and edgewear to covers, some horizontal stress lines along spine, a couple of black smudge lines on front cover]. (B&W illustrations) 64-page booklet containing all the information you need to va-va-voom! in your new 1955 Ford T-Bird -- the very first... Read More
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![The Catalogue of The American Play Co., With Original Casts [cover title: The Plays of the American Play Company]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/958/543/8543958.0.m.jpg)
The Catalogue of The American Play Co., With Original Casts [cover title: The Plays of the American Play Company]
by [The American Play Company]
New York: The American Play Co.. Very Good. 1908. First Edition. Softcover. NOISBN . [moderate edgewear, some soiling to page edges, general wear due to age but still quite solid]. "The American Play Company presents herewith its first annual catalogue of plays with a record of their original casts and productions, representing what it knows... Read More
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![How to Sell Real Estate at a Profit; proved methods for starting and conducting a real estate business -- [etc.]; as used successfully by thirty-two real estate concerns](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/636/066/1642066636.0.m.jpg)
How to Sell Real Estate at a Profit; proved methods for starting and conducting a real estate business -- [etc.]; as used successfully by thirty-two real estate concerns
by The System Company
Chicago/New York/London: The System Company. Good. 1910 (c.1909). 7th Revised Edition. Hardcover. (pictorial paste-on label on front cover; no dust jacket, possibly as issued) [sound but worn copy; binding intact, but there's about a 1.5" split in the cloth at the upper rear hinge, light fraying to cloth at both ends of spine]. (System "How-Books") Series (facsimile illustrations, charts) Everything... Read More
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Warren Oates: A Wild Life
by Compo, Susan
Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky. Fine in Fine dj. (c.2009). First Edition. Hardcover. [nice clean as-new copy, with no discernible wear to either book or jacket]. (Screen Classics) Series (B&W photographs) A biography of "one of the most memorable and skilled character actors of the 1970s." ****NOTE that additional postage charges will be... Read More
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![The Sibyl of the North: The Tale of Christina, Queen of Sweden [with movie tie-in dust jacket]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/747/884/1692884747.0.m.jpg)
The Sibyl of the North: The Tale of Christina, Queen of Sweden [with movie tie-in dust jacket]
by Compton Mackenzie, Faith
Boston/New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. Near Fine in Very Good dj. 1931. Unstated edition. Hardcover. [nice clean book with only light wear at the extremities; in a Grosset & Dunlap dust jacket (see Notes) with a bit of chipping along the top edge]. (B&W plates) A biography of the 17th-century Swedish monarch, published earlier the same year... Read More
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Railroad Magazine (April 1943 issue)
by (Comstock, Henry B., ed.)
Chicago: Popular Publications, Inc.. Very Good+. 1943. (Vol. 33, No. 5). Magazine. [nice condition, minor wrinkling in spine, slight edgewear to covers, pages tanned at edges but still supple, small rubber-stamped date on front cover]. (halftone photographs, drawings, ads, etc.) Pulp-magazine format publication containing numerous features (pictorial, historical, technical, even poetic) for the railroad enthusiast.... Read More
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![Sherlock Holmes: The Schocken Edition [4 volumes: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes; The Hound of the Baskervilles; The Return of Sherlock Holmes, ]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/434/794/1600794434.0.m.jpg)
Sherlock Holmes: The Schocken Edition [4 volumes: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes; The Hound of the Baskervilles; The Return of Sherlock Holmes, ]
by Conan Doyle, A[rthur]
New York: Schocken Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. 1975-1976. 1st Editions Thus. Hardcover. [the books are only minimally shelfworn, and each has the previous owner's name plus date & place of purchase in ink at the top of the front endpaper (all were bought at the same time and place: Vroman's in Pasadena, California, which... Read More
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Antitrust in the Motion Picture Industry: Economic and Legal Analysis
by Conant, Michael
Berkeley/Los Angeles: University of California Press. Very Good+. 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [nice clean book with just some faint wear to covers and extremities] (Publications of the Bureau of Business and Economic Research, University of California) Series (tables) "This study in industrial economics and antitrust law succinctly outines the history of the industry... Read More
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The Original Illustrated Arthur Conan Doyle
by Conan Doyle, (Sir) Arthur
Secacus NJ: Castle Books. Near Fine in Fine dj. 1983 (c.1980). Reprint. Hardcover. [very nice copy, very minor soiling to top of text block and to lower edge of front cover; no discernible wear to jacket]. (B&W illustrations) Facsimile reproductions of 18 of Conan Doyle's non-Sherlock Holmes stories of mystery, suspense and adventure, reproduced as they appeared... Read More
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Scandal Sheets: A Novel Based on the Life of Pietro Aretino, The First Yellow Journalist
by Conde, E.R.
New York: G. Howard Watt. Very Good in Good dj. 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [a bit of browning/soiling to edges of covers, spine cloth slightly darkened, remant of old price sticker on rear pastedown; jacket moderately edgeworn, spine browned/discolored, a little paper loss at spine ends (taking away "Scandal" at top of spine, both flap fold-overs... Read More
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Hard Candy
by Condos, Barbara
New York: William Morrow and Company. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. (c.1988). First Edition. Hardcover. [very slight wear to one lower corner, otherwise clean and nice; the jacket has some very slight edgewear and a couple of tiny nicks at the spine ends, and is just a touch faded along the spine]. The author, "daughter of... Read More
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We Called It Music: A Generation of Jazz
by Condon, Eddie; narration by Thomas Sugrue
New York: Henry Holt and Company. Very Good in Very Good dj. First Edition. Hardcover. [moderate shelfwear, light soiling to covers; jacket has tiny tears at several corners and a lengthwise crease in the spine]. (B&W photographs) Memoir of jazz musician Eddie Condon (1905-1973), "a kind of autobiography, but what it comes down to is a... Read More
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Zez Confrey's Modern Course in Novelty Piano Playing
by Confrey, Zez
New York: Jack Mills Inc.. Near Fine. (c.1923). Unstated edition. Softcover. [nice copy with minor handling wear only, pencil annotations at top of a couple of pages]. "Contents include explanations of 100 'breaks' and figures used by the famous composer in his recordings of Victor records and Q.R.S. piano rolls, as well as his new syncopated... Read More
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![Autumn Serenade [*SIGNED*]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/377/022/743022377.0.m.jpg)
Autumn Serenade [*SIGNED*]
by Conhaim, D. László
Prague: The Prague Review Books. Near Fine. 1999. First Edition. Softcover. 8090229115 . [a little fading to spine and along left edge of front cover, no other significant wear]. Trade PB INSCRIBED ("For _____, With very best wishes") and SIGNED by the author on the ffep, additionally dated "Prague, 16.4.'99." Novel about a one-armed American... Read More
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Prologue to Glory: A Play in Eight Scenes, Based on the New Salem Years of Abraham Lincoln
by Conkle, E[lizabeth]. P[routy].
New York/Los Angeles/London: Samuel French. Very Good+. 1938. 1st Edition (softcover issue). Softcover. (printed wraps) [tight clean copy with light shelfwear, slight fading to spine, slight uneven age-toning to covers]. (B&W photographs, stage diagrams) A dramatization of early episodes in the life of Lincoln. A production of the WPA's Federal Theatre Project, it ran for 161... Read More
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![Iola Conklin: Her Book [title on spine: Memoirs of Iola Schmidlapp Conklin]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/547/369/740369547.0.m.jpg)
Iola Conklin: Her Book [title on spine: Memoirs of Iola Schmidlapp Conklin]
by (Conklin, Iola Schmidlapp) (Conklin, George W., ed.)
Beverly MA: Memoirs Unlimited. Near Fine. (c.1996). Unstated edition. Hardcover. NOISBN . (1/4-bound, teal and rust cloth, gilt decoration on front cover; no dust jacket, probably as issued) [gift inscription on ffep from "Anne & George," the latter possibly George Conklin, although this is unconfirmed]. (B&W photographs, facsimiles) Privately- (and posthumously-) published memoir of Iola... Read More
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Cumann na mBan and the Women of Ireland 1913-25
by Conlon, Lil
Kilkenny, Ireland: The Kilkenny People Ltd.. Very Good+. 1969. First Edition. Softcover. [light external soiling, very slight edgewear to covers]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) A history of the founding and early years of the Irish republican women's paramilitary organization, which was allied with the Irish Volunteers, and later, the Irish Republican Army. Its members played... Read More
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Crashing Thru: My Life History
by Connelly, [James Leo] "One Eye"
Dayton OH: (published by the author). Fine. (c.1934). First Edition. Stapled wraps. [beautiful clean copy with no discernible wear; looks like it's been living in a box in the dark since 1934]. (B&W halftone photos, cartoon illustrations) 16-page (including covers) promotional booklet, measuring 8-1/2" x 11-1/4", touting the amazing life and "career," if you can call... Read More
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Little David; play in one act
by Connelly, Marc
New York: Dramatists Play Service. Near Fine. 1937. First Edition. Stapled wraps. [light external wear only]. (Playable Short Plays) Series "An unproduced scene from 'The Green Pastures,' suggested by Roark Bradford's 'Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun.'" According to an introductory note, this scene was omitted from "The Green Pastures" due to time limitations, and was... Read More
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Shake Hands with the Devil
by Conner, Rearden
New York: William Morrow and Company. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. 1934. First American Edition. Hardcover. [nice tight copy with minimal shelfwear, light age-toning to top of text block; jacket has a small closed tear and some associated creasing and light scuffing at bottom of front panel]. Book set during the Irish Civil War of... Read More
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