The Lost Generation: A Portrait of American Youth Today
by Davis, Maxine
New York: The Macmillan Company. Very Good+. 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [good sound copy, light shelfwear to bottom edge, a bit of dust-soiling to top of text block, discoloration/offsetting to both endpapers and pastedowns, tiny dent in right edge of front cover]. The author's preface states: "This book is a portrayal of a... Read More
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Six Black Horses
by Davis, Nolan
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. (c.1971). First Edition. Hardcover. [solid copy, minimal shelfwear, light age-toning to page edges, faint tape marks (from what?) at top and bottom edges of endpapers; jacket nice and white, with just a trace of soiling, minor wear at top of spine]. The Kansas City-born author's first... Read More
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![With Ossie and Ruby: In This Life Together [*SIGNED*]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/675/819/1287819675.0.m.jpg)
With Ossie and Ruby: In This Life Together [*SIGNED*]
by Davis, Ossie, and Ruby Dee
New York: William Morrow and Company. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. (c.1998). First Edition. Hardcover. 0688153968 . [sharp-looking copy, virtually as-new but for the teensiest bumping of the top corners; jacket similarly nice, with just a touch of crinkling at the spine ends]. (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED ("To Mom + Dad / congratulations on your 54th")... Read More
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The Glamour Factory: Inside Hollywood's Big Studio System [*SIGNED*]
by Davis, Ronald L.
Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press. Near Fine. 1993. First Edition. Softcover. 0870743589 . [nice clean copy, virtually as new with faint handling wear only]. Trade PB (B(&W photographs) INSCRIBED to noted film director Vincent Sherman and SIGNED by the author on the ffep. A history of the golden age of the Hollywood studio system, drawing heavily... Read More
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Van Johnson: MGM's Golden Boy
by Davis, Ronald L.
Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. Fine in Fine dj. (c.2001). First Edition. Hardcover. [nice clean as-new copy, with no discernible wear to either book or jacket]. (Hollywood Legends Series) Series Thoroughly-researched biography (the only one) of this popular screen heartthrob of the 1940s and 1950s, whose private life was a bit on the troubled side. .... Read More
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Zachary Scott: Hollywood's Sophisticated Cad
by Davis, Ronald L.
Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. Fine in Fine dj. (c.2006). First Edition. Hardcover. [beautiful, as-new copy, with no discernible wear to either book or jacket]. (Hollywood Legends Series) Series (B&W photographs) Nicely-done biography, drawing heavily from Scott's own papers, of this suave leading man who found himself typecast as a generally unlikeable fellow -- not always... Read More
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Just Making Movies: Company Directors on the Studio System
by Davis, Ronald L.
Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. Near Fine. (c.2005). First Edition. Softcover. [very slight wear to bottom edge of front cover, otherwise as new]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) Interviews with twelve directors who worked as contract directors in the heyday of the Hollywood studio system: Henry Koster, Irving Rapper, Charles Walters, George Sidney, Vincent Sherman, Michael... Read More
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Hollywood Beauty: Linda Darnell and the American Dream
by Davis, Ronald L.
Norman/London: University of Oklahoma Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. (c.1991). First Edition. Hardcover. [nice clean book, essentially as new, top front corner lightly bumped; the jacket shows just a trace of surface wear]. (B&W photographs) The only major biography of one of Hollywood's most luminous actresses of the 1940s. "We follow Linda's path... Read More
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I Love You, Mary Fatt
by Davis, Russell F.
New York: Signet Books (D2058). Very Good. 1962 (c.1961). 1st printing. Softcover. [moderate soft creasing in front cover, a little wear to extremities, spine tight and uncreased]. Mass Market PB First-person narrative by a lovestruck adolescent, one Clarence Bascomb, likened in the cover blurbs to Holden Caulfield and Booth Tarkington's Penrod. There's something about... Read More
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The Auctioning of Mary Angel
by Dawson, Coningsby
Garden City NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.. Very Good+ in Good dj. 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [light shelfwear and minor bumping to bottom edge, age-toning and light dust-soiling to page edges; jacket is edgeworn, with various small tears, minor paper loss at spine ends (no loss of text)]. This "romance of the modern marriage... Read More
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City Harvest
by Dawson, Margaret Cheney
New York: The Macmillan Company. Good in Fair dj. 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. [soiling to covers along top and bottom edges, some discoloration to endpapers, otherwise a good sound copy; the jacket is in pretty rough shape, soiled and heavily edgeworn, especially along the spine, with about half an inch of paper loss at the top of... Read More
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Moshe Dayan: Story of My Life [*SIGNED*]
by Dayan, Moshe
New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc.. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. 1976. First American Edition. Hardcover. [a good sound book, light shelfwear only, some age-toning to edges of text block; the jacket shows only minor handling one, tiny closed tear at top of rear panel]. (B&W photographs) SIGNED by the author (no inscription) on... Read More
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House of Hospitality
by Day, Dorothy
New York/London: Sheed & Ward. Good in Fair dj. 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. [fading to cloth at spine and along edges of both covers, some deterioration to binding at both ends of spine, upper corners bumped and worn, discoloration in gutters but otherwise internally clean; the jacket is moderately soiled and heavily edgeworn, red title lettering faded... Read More
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All-Wool Morrison
by Day, Holman
New York: Harper & Brothers. Good in Good dj. 1920. First Edition. Hardcover. [book and binding are sound, but with considerable foxing to the page edges and the first few pages, slight deterioration to cloth along the front hinge, and the original owner's name and town scrawled broadly across both the front pastedown and the ffep; the... Read More
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How to Write Words for Songs
by Day, Julius E.
London: Reynolds & Co.. Very Good+. 1936. Unknown edition. Softcover. [moderate edgewear to covers, due to slight overlap of text block; otherwise a nice clean copy, with vintage bookseller's label (Foyle's, London) at bottom corner of inside front cover]. (B&W photographs) "With hints by the following Famous Song-writers:- Bert Lee, Francis Barron, Leslie Sarony, Leslie... Read More
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Loose Leaves
by Dayton, Katharine
Garden City NY: Doubleday, Page & Company. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. NOISBN . [a very nice copy, light wear to bottom edge, slight dust-soiling to page edges; jacket shows light wear at extremities, one tiny tear and associated crease at top left-hand corner of front panel]. The author's first book,... Read More
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Maybe You're Not Crazy: An Introduction to Psychiatry
by de Ovies, Raimundo
New York/Atlanta: Tupper and Love, Inc.. Very Good+ in Good dj. 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. [good solid copy, some age-toning and light spotting to top of text block, but just minimal shelfwear; jacket shows wear along spine, small tears and minor paper loss at several corners and top of spine, chipping to top and bottom of rear... Read More
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![The Clown of God; an old story told and illustrated by Tomie de Paola [*SIGNED*]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/962/857/1700857962.0.m.jpg)
The Clown of God; an old story told and illustrated by Tomie de Paola [*SIGNED*]
by de Paola, Tomie
New York/London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. (c.1978). 3rd printing (C). Hardcover. [a very nice copy with just a bit of wear to lower extremitiies, very slight bump to bottom rear corner; the jacket shows light handling wear only, no tears or chips]. (color drawings) INSCRIBED ("for Mark / with best wishes")... Read More
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Joaquin de Alba views Violence in America: De Tocqueville's America Revisited
by de Alba, Joaquin; Foreword by Chester Burger
Washington DC: Acropolis Books. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. (c.1969). First Edition. Hardcover. 0874911206 . [solid copy with minimal shelfwear, tiny stain on bottom edge of text block; jacket has a couple of tiny nicks at top of spine, a couple of small closed tears along top edge of rear panel, very light surface rubbing]. ... Read More
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![The Other Side of My Life; a personal journey into my unknown past, in search of the "other side" of my life [*SIGNED*]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/314/929/1650929314.0.m.jpg)
The Other Side of My Life; a personal journey into my unknown past, in search of the "other side" of my life [*SIGNED*]
by Deatherage, D. Gary
Nashville: Winston-Derek Publishers, Inc.. Near Fine. (c.1991). First Edition. Hardcover. (laminated boards; no dust jacket) [small surface-scrape on front cover, faint foxing to top edge of text block]. (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author opposite the title page. "The story of amazing and intriguing facts brough to light by one man's search for... Read More
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The Velvet Light Trap (No. 19, 1982) [cover: Henry Fonda in YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE]
by (DeBauche, Leslie Midkiff, et al., eds.)
Madison WI: John Davis. Near Fine. (c.1982). (No. 19). Periodical. [nice clean copy, light handling wear only]. (B&W photographs) Critical/historical film journal, this issue's stated theme being "Rereading Hollywood." Contents: Part Two of an analysis of the convention of the happy ending in Hollywood movies; an examination of the influence of Edith Head's film costume... Read More
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Daniel Pinkham: A Bio-Bibliography
by DeBoer, Kee, and John B. Ahouse
New York/Westport CT/London: Greenwood Press. Near Fine. 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. 0313255032 . (no dust jacket, as issued) [minor handling wear, slightly bumped at top front spine corner, tiny stain at edge of ffep]. (Bio-Bibliographies in Music, No. 12) Series (B&W photo frontispiece) "Ever since the mid-1940s when he was a recent graduate from Harvard, Daniel Pinkham... Read More
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Fuga Mexicana; un recorrido por la fotografía en México
by Debroise, Olivier
Mexico City: Cultura Contemporánea de México. Near Fine. 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. (pictorial boards; no dust jacket, probably as issued) [nice clean copy, faint rubbing to covers, a trace of wear to base of spine]. (B&W photographs) Historical survey of photography in Mexico. Text is entirely in Spanish. ****NOTE that additional postage charges will... Read More
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Serafina the Giraffe
by de Brunhoff, Laurent
Cleveland/New York: The World Publishing Company. Near Fine in Fair dj. (c.1961). First Edition. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [a beautiful clean copy, with just a touch of wear at the spine ends; the jacket, unfortunately, has a couple of long irregular tears in the front panel, which a previous owner inexplicably chose to tape-repair externally rather than internally, with... Read More
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Lands Beyond
by de Camp, L. Sprague, and Willy Ley
New York/Toronto: Rinehart & Co., Inc.. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj. (c.1952). First Edition. Hardcover. [a nice-looking copy, bumped at three of the four tips but no other significant wear, embossed ownership stamp of MGM writer/producer Carey Wilson on both endpapers; the jacket is a little age-toned, with minor wear at the edges and corners]. ... Read More
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