Way of Life
by Daly, Muriel
New York/London: D. Appleton-Century Company. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. [light wear to bottom edges and spine ends, slight fading to cloth at top of spine; jacket lightly soiled, tiny puncture-tear in spine (internally tape-repaired), a couple of little edge-nicks]. A novel of English society, "peopled with a group of characters... Read More
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Spencer and His Friends [*SIGNED*]
by Dana, Barbara
New York: Atheneum. Very Good+ in Very Good- dj. 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. [only minor shelfwear, but with small stains at the top edges of about a half-dozen pages early in the book; the jacket shows some edge- and surface-wear, including a bit of soiling and surface-scarring (mostly to the rear panel) resulting from the careful removal... Read More
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Realms of Darkness
by Danby, Mary, ed.
London: Octopus Books Limited. Very Good+ in Near Fine dj. 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. [minor shelfwear to book, former owner's name plus date & place of purchase in ink at top of front endpaper, check marks (in ink and pencil) next to most titles in table of contents; jacket shows minor surface wear only]. Anthology of... Read More
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Everything and Nothing: The Dorothy Dandridge Tragedy
by Dandridge, Dorothy, and Earl Conrad
New York: Abelard-Schuman. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. (c.1970). First Edition. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [modest shelfwear, light foxing to top of text block; jacket spine badly faded, with moderate rubbing/scuffing to the front and rear panels]. (B&W photographs) Posthumously-published autobiography of the African-American actress-singer, who died in 1965 at the age of 42 from an accidental... Read More
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A Bill of Divorcement; a play in three acts [*SIGNED* by the entire original cast]
by Dane, Clemence
London: William Heinemann. Poor. 1921. Unstated edition. Softcover. (printed wraps) [very worn, with most of the spine gone -- but the main problem is that it's been very crudely "repaired" by a previous owner (using 2x4 address labels, of all things): one label applied externally (to hold the detached front cover in place) and THREE more internally... Read More
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How to Hypnotize Yourself and Others
by Dane, Victor
Hollywood/New York: The Marcel Rodd Company. Very Good+ in Near Fine dj. (c.1946). First Edition. Hardcover. [a nice copy, although there are a number of small pencil marks in the margins in the first one-third or so of the book; the jacket is very lightly age-toned at the spine]. "Both for fun and practical use, a ... Read More
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The Misted Mirror
by Daniel-Rops, Henry (pseud. for Henri Petiot); translated from the French by R.H. Mottram
New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good+ in Good dj. 1931. First American Edition. Hardcover. [light external soiling and a bit of wear to extremities; jacket has several small chips along top and bottom edges, browned at spine, several tears that are internally tape-repaired]. Novel about a young man and his travails as part of that... Read More
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Hugo Friedhofer: The Best Years of His Life: A Hollywood Master of Music for the Movies
by Danly, Linda, ed.
Latham MD/London: The Scarecrow Press, Inc.. Fine in Fine dj. 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. 0810835827 . [nice tight clean book, no discernible wear to either book or jacket]. (Filmmakers, No. 66) Series (B&W photographs) "A comprehensive survey of the career of one of Hollywood's most oustanding composers of film music, [which] provides numerous perspectives, ranging from... Read More
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Michael Dante: From Hollywood to Michael Dante Way [*SIGNED*]
by Dante, Michael; edited by Marshall Terrill
Albany GA: BearManor Media. Near Fine. 2013. First Edition. Softcover. [slight warping of the book along the spine, but essentially as-new, with slight curling to the front cover along the right-hand side]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED briefly to a friend and SIGNED by the author on the title page. Memoir by a former minor... Read More
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Beaton
by Danziger, James
New York: The Viking Press (A Studio Book). Very Good+ in Near Fine dj. 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. 0670152498 . [a bit of shelfwear to bottom edge, with very light deterioration of cloth at a couple of points; jacket has just a couple of tiny closed tears at edges]. (B&W photographs) SIGNED on the title page by... Read More
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The Max Steiner Collection: MSS 1547
by D'Arc, James V., and John N. Gillespie, comp. and ed.
Provo UT: Brigham Young University / Harold B. Lee Library. Near Fine. 1996. First Edition. Softcover. [a nice clean copy, virtually as-new except for a crack in the perfect-binding about midway through the book (with no loose pages, however)]. (B&W photographs, color facsimiles) Catalog/finding aid for the Max Steiner Collection of music scores, correspondence, and other... Read More
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The Films of Oliver Reed
by d'Arcy, Susan
London: Barnden Castell Williams Limited. Very Good+. (c.1974). First Edition. Stapled wraps. [nice clean copy with minimal wear, but with a rather unsightly sticker-removal scar at the upper right corner of the front cover]. ("The Films of...," no. 12) Series (B&W photographs) A 48-page monograph on the career of actor Oliver Reed. Includes filmography through... Read More
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Ten Brave Women
by Daugherty, Sonia
Philadelphia/New York: J.B. Lippincott Company. Very Good+ in Near Fine dj. (c.1953). First Edition. Hardcover. [a bit of wear to lower extremities and top of spine, one-time owner's mostly-erased (but still readable) name and address on ffep; jacket shows just a little wear at spine ends, slight age-toning]. (pen and ink drawings) "Dramatic stories," for juvenile readers,... Read More
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All Things New [*SIGNED*]
by Daugherty, Sonia
New York: Thomas Nelson and Sons. Very Good in Very Good dj. 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. [light staining to edges of text block, otherwise a good sound copy with only modest shelfwear; the jacket is moderately edgeworn, lightly browned at the spine, with tiny bits of paper loss at most corners and the spine ends]. (pen &... Read More
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Smart Cookie
by Dauphine, Claude, and Laura Aumont
[New York]: Elite Books, Inc.. Good in Good dj. (c.1961). First Edition. Hardcover. [front hinge starting to crack, otherwise a decent copy with only minor wear to extremities; jacket heavily edgeworn, short diagonal tear at upper left corner of front panel, a few other tiny tears and nicks, inverted-V-shaped wrinkle in front panel]. Trashy novel about... Read More
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The Fatal Charm
by Dauphine, Claude, and Laura Aumont
(n.p.): Elite Books, Inc.. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. (c.1961). 1st Edition (unstated). Hardcover. [light wear at spine extremities, spine slightly turned, light browning to page edges; jacket shows some wear along top and bottom edges, minor chipping at top of spine, a couple of small closed tears]. "Beau Tremaine -- a most handsome and... Read More
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Wings (Spring (February-April) 1947) [includes "Achtung--Stormaviks!" by Goodis]
by (David Goodis, R. Keene Lee, Walt Sheldon, et al.)
New York: Wings Publishing Co.. Fair. 1947. (Vol. X, No. 9). Magazine. [well-worn copy, with quite a bit of damage to the spine (gaps in covering), which has several old horizontal tape-repairs, to the point where the covers, although both present, are esentially detached from the text block and just barely holding together; the front cover is... Read More
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A Jew's Head
by Davidman, Shloima [Solomon]
Brooklyn NY: S. Davidman. Very Good. 1942. First Edition. Stapled wraps. [moderate external soiling, single-staple binding solid, internally clean]. ("Subway Library," No. 1) Series A small pocket-size publication, No. 1 in the "Subway Library" series, published by the author (who later went by the name Solomon Davidman). Noted as "translated from Yiddish," it's... Read More
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Seven Times Seven: An Autobiography
by Daviess, Maria Thompson
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company. Very Good+. 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [spine very slightly turned, light wear to spine ends, spotting/foxing to top of text block]. (frontispiece portrait) Autobiography of the Kentucky-born writer and suffragette (1872-1924), published just a few months before her death, from heart failure. Her early education... Read More
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Kif: An Unvarnished History
by Daviot, Gordon (pseud. for Elizabeth MacKintosh, aka Josephine Tey)
New York: D. Appleton & Company. Very Good in Very Good dj. 1929. 2nd printing. Hardcover. [a good sound copy, minor shelfwear, light surface deterioration of cloth near bottom of front cover, a bit of dust-soiling to top of text block; the jacket is a bit worn at edges and spine extremities, with a one-inch scrape/indentation mark... Read More
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The Academy and the Award: The Coming of Age of Oscar and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
by Davis, Bruce
Waltham MA: Brandeis University Press. Fine in Near Fine dj. (c.2022). First Edition. Hardcover. [no discernible wear to book; the jacket shows just a touch of surface wear on the front panel, and has a very short diagonal wrinkle at the upper corner of the front flap]. (B&W photographs) A thorough, deeply-researched and very readable account... Read More
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I'll Show You the Town [Photoplay Edition]
by Davis, Elmer
New York: Grosset & Dunlap. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. [1925] (c.1924). 4th printing (stated). Hardcover. [nice clean book, just a touch of deterioration to cloth at base of spine; the jacket has a number of small tears and some shallow chipping along the top edge (including about 3/8" paper loss at top of spine), some surface... Read More
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Tread Lightly, Angel
by Davis, Frederick C.
Garden City NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., for The Crime Club. Very Good in Very Good dj. 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. [shelfwear to book along bottom edges and at upper extremities, pages lightly age-tanned; jacket shows wear at edges and corners, with a bit of paper loss near the top of the spine, a closed tear at the... Read More
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![The Velvet Light Trap (No. 11, Winter 1974): The 50s [cover: James Dean in REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/761/825/13825761.0.m.jpg)
The Velvet Light Trap (No. 11, Winter 1974): The 50s [cover: James Dean in REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE]
by (Davis, John, and Susan Dalton, eds.)
Cottage Grove WI: The Arizona Jim Co-Op. Very Good+. 1974. (No. 11). Periodical. [minor soiling to rear cover, light stain at bottom of first few pages]. (B&W photographs) Critical/historical film journal. Contents include articles on: "The Strange Case of the Hollywood Ten"; 3-D films; Fifties gangster films; Don Siegel and BABY FACE NELSON; THE BAND... Read More
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The Velvet Light Trap (No. 17, Winter 1977): TVLT Revisited (By Popular Demand) [cover: Marlene Dietrich in THE DEVIL IS A WOMAN]
by (Davis, John, ed.)
Cottage Grove WI: (No Publisher Stated). Near Fine. 1977. (No. 17). Periodical. [nice clean copy with no significant wear]. (B&W photographs) Critical/historical film journal. This issue reprints ten articles from issues 1-8, including: "Some Warners Musicals and the Spirit of the New Deal"; FOR APACHE (John Ford); "The Strange Romance of 'Dirty Harry' Callahan... Read More
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