The Borgia Cabinet
by Fletcher, J.S.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap. Near Fine in Very Good dj. [1933] (c.1930). Reprint 2nd Printing (stated). Hardcover. [nice clean book with minor wear at the extremities, one-time owner's name plus date & place of purchase in ink at top of front endpaper; the jacket is lightly edgeworn, with a couple of tiny chips along the bottom edge,... Read More
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The Box Hill Murder
by Fletcher, J.S.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Near Fine in Very Good dj. 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. [a nice clean copy, light wear to extremities; the jacket is moderately edgeworn, with a handful of nicks at the bottom of the front panel, minor paper loss to the spine extremities, and some color-shifting to the spine]. "Someone killed Susan... Read More
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I Love an Actress; a comedy in four acts
by Fodor, Laszlo; adapted by Chester Erskin
New York/Los Angeles/London: Samuel French. Good. (c.1932). French's Standard Library Edition. Softcover. (printed wraps) [about one inch of spine covering missing at top of spine, otherwise just lightly worn; internally clean]. (stage diagrams) Translation/adaptation of a Hungarian play (original title "Szereten Egy Szinesznot"), about a famous actress who is pursued and wooed by a civil ... Read More
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North of Market
by Foff, Arthur
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. (c.1957). First Edition. Hardcover. [very nice copy, slight age-toning to top page edges; jacket shows just a trace of wear at a few corners]. DESCRIPTION TO BE WRITTEN. Novel set in San Francisco, that (per the jacket blurb) captures "the look and feel, ... Read More
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Cheer Up and Hang On
by Foley, James W.
Pasadena CA: Star-News Publishing Co.. Very Good+. 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket, probably as issued) [light shelfwear only, with a tiny bit of some sort of schmutz affixed near the top of the front cover]. (frontispiece portrait) A little book of light inspirational verse, with titles like "The Gold Old Rule," "Straight Ahead," "To... Read More
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Gay Prelude
by Folkard, Christian
London: Robert Hale & Company. Very Good+ in Good dj. 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. DETAILS NEEDED. [book is just lightly shelfworn, a bit of dust-soiling to top of text block, "FILE COPY" stamped in large letters on half-title page, "G5" written in red pencil at bottom corner of both ffep and half-title; jacket has a couple of... Read More
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The Distant Laughter [*SIGNED*]
by Forbes, Bryan
New York: Harper & Row. Fine in Near Fine dj. (c.1972). 1st U.S. edition. Hardcover. 0060113081 . INSCRIBED "To Gordon / with much affection always / & happy memories of / the prison compound at / Gower Street!" and SIGNED by the author on the ffep, additional dated "Sept. 1973." Novel by the noted actor-turned-film director/producer/writer,... Read More
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Mama's Bank Account
by Forbes, Kathryn (pseud. for Kathryn Anderson McLean)
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj. (c.1943). Later Printing. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [minor shelfwear only, one-time owner's name and address in blue ink at top of front endpaper; the jacket is slightly sun-browned at the spine, but otherwise shows no significant wear]. If the term "heart-warming" didn't already exist, it would have... Read More
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![Catalog of Atomic Bomb Photograp[h]y for Able Day 1 July 1946 and Baker Day 25 July 1946, Bikini Atoll, USAAF Task Unit 1.52](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/085/150/1602150085.0.m.jpg)
Catalog of Atomic Bomb Photograp[h]y for Able Day 1 July 1946 and Baker Day 25 July 1946, Bikini Atoll, USAAF Task Unit 1.52
by (United States Army Air Forces)
[Washington DC]: United States Army Air Forces. Very Good+. [ca.1947]. First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket, probably as issued) [light external soiling, a little darkening to the spine]. (charts, maps) A massive catalog of all (and I do mean all) the photo-technical data related to the photography (both still and motion picture, both black & white... Read More
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The High Country Illuminator
by Ford, Daniel
Garden City NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc.. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. 1971. Later Printing. Hardcover. [nice tight copy, just a touch of wear at the spine ends (both book and jacket)]. The third published novel by this journalist/novelist/historian, who first became known for his prize-winning dispatches from Vietnam in the 1960s (and his later-filmed Vietnam... Read More
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Portrait of the Assassin
by Ford, Gerald R., and John R. Stiles
New York: Ballantine Books. Fair. 1966 (c.1965). First Paperback Edition. Softcover. [reading/reference copy only, with considerable edgewear to covers; internally clean, binding fully intact]. Mass Market PB A sort of nonfiction novelization of the Warren Commission Report, by two of the Commission's members, focusing specifically on "the mind and motives" of Lee Harvey Oswald and intended... Read More
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![Action: Directors Guild of America [magazine] (September-October 1971) [special issue: John Ford and STAGECOACH]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/639/840/1482840639.0.m.jpg)
Action: Directors Guild of America [magazine] (September-October 1971) [special issue: John Ford and STAGECOACH]
by {Ford, John} Thomas, Bob, editorial consultant
Hollywood CA: Directors Guild of America. Near Fine. 1971. (Vol. 6, No. 5). Magazine. [nice clean copy, faint handling wear only]. (B&W photographs) A special issue of the DGA magazine, devoted exclusively to John Ford's classic 1939 western STAGECOACH. Includes: appreciations of the film by critics Arthur Knight and Andrew Sarris; Ford's own account of the... Read More
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Wide Angle (Vol. 10, No. 1) [topic: The Studio System: Case Histories]
by (Fore, Steve, ed.)
Athens OH: Ohio University College of Fine Arts / Athens Center for Film and Video. Near Fine. (c.1988). (Vol. 10, No. 1). Journal. [a nice clean copy with faint handling wear only]. (B&W photographs) This issue of this respected academic film journal is devoted to case histories of the development and production of a several films of... Read More
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The Daughter of the Hawk
by Forester, C.S.
New York: Jacobsen Publishing Company, Inc.. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj. (c.1928). Reprint. Hardcover. NOISBN . [minor shelfwear to bottom edge, bumping to top corners, age-toning to top edge of text block; jacket shows some wear and minor paper loss at corners, short closed tear and associated wrinkling/creasing at bottom of front panel, a couple of... Read More
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Turnaround: A Memoir
by Forman, Miloš, and Jan Novak
London/Boston: Faber and Faber. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. 057117289X . [light age-toning to edges of text block, slight bumping at top of spine; jacket shows a touch of wear at spine ends, extremely light surface rubbing]. (B&W photographs) Czech-born film director Forman's "frank, vibrant, passionate memoir -- written with novelist... Read More
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Movie Hooky
by Foster, Dan
San Diego: Los Hombres Press. Fine. (c.1992). First Edition. Softcover. 1879603047 . [nice tight copy, no discernible wear, just the tiniest bit of soiling to bottom edge]. Trade PB "The period is 1935 to 1938, the location Dallas, the star a young boy named William Carfax who -- long before he discovers his sexuality -- discovers his... Read More
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Mother Jones [magazine] (February/March 1989) [cover: Susan Sarandon]
by (Foster, Douglas, ed.)
San Francisco: Foundation for National Progress. Very Good+. 1989. (Vol. 14, No. 2). Magazine. [nice copy, tape-repaired split at top of spine but no other significant wear]. (B&W and color photographs, ads, graphics) The cover story is about actress Susan Sarandon, focused on her political and social activism. Other features in this issue: "The Bandler Method,"... Read More
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The Medieval Castle
by Foster, Harold [Hal]
New York: Hastings House. Fair in Good dj. (c.1957). First Edition. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [an ex-school library book, shelfworn but firmly bound, with all the usual treatments (circulation pocket and bar-code affixed to front endpaper, school name (Marigold School) stamped on several pages, otherwise internally clean); the dust jacket is encased in one of those old-fashioned plastic... Read More
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Not of Her Race
by Foster, Nancy K.
Boston: Richard G. Badger / The Gorham Press. Very Good. 1911 (c.1910). First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [a little bit of surface deterioration to covers, light external soiling, spine cloth a little darkened, spine slightly turned, old gift inscription (non-authorial) on ffep]. (B&W photo frontispiece) Miscegenation-themed novel, set in Southern California and Northwestern Mexico.... Read More
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The Real Bettie Page: The Truth About the Queen of the Pinups
by Foster, Richard
Secaucus NJ: Birch Lane Press/Carol Publishing Group. Near Fine in Fine dj. 1998 (c.1997). 2nd printing. Hardcover. [nice clean copy, as-new but for the faintest trace of foxing on the top edge of the text block; the jacket is flawless]. (color and B&W photographs) The "truth" about the "real" Bettie Page -- probably one of the... Read More
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Blindstone
by Foster-Melliar, R[obert] A[ubrey]
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company. Very Good+. [1915]. First American Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [a good sound copy with just light wear to the extremities, modest age-toning to edges of text block, old bookseller's rubber-stamp on front pastedown (Bertrand Smith Acres of Books, Long Beach, Cailfornia)]. First published in English by Hurst & Blackett... Read More
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![Theory and Techniques of Twelve Tone Composition [*SIGNED*]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/423/313/1182313423.0.m.jpg)
Theory and Techniques of Twelve Tone Composition [*SIGNED*]
by Fotine, Larry
Sepulveda CA: Poly Tone Music Publishing Company. Near Fine. (c.1967). First Edition. Hardcover. (blue cloth; no dust jacket, probably as issued) [nice copy, just a touch of handling wear]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author/composer on the ffep: "June 28, 1971 / To Sonny Burke: / I hope you'll like / this book -- and if you... Read More
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Dark Star
by Fountain, Leatrice Gilbert, with John R. Maxim
London: Sidgwick & Jackson. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. 1985. 1st UK edition. Hardcover. [nice clean book, upper corners bumped but no other significant wear, small bookseller's stamp on front endpaper (Larry Edmunds Cinema Bookshop); jacket lightly worn, slightly bumped at the upper extremities]. (B&W photographs) A biography, by his daughter, of the silent screen idol... Read More
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A Solo in Tom-Toms [*SIGNED*]
by Fowler, Gene
New York: P.F. Collier & Son Corporation. Very Good+. (c.1946). Reprint. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [a good sound copy with a little wear at the spine ends, moderate fading to the spine, irregular age-toning to edges of text block]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper: "To Jimmy Durante: / And this one is... Read More
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Minutes of the Last Meeting
by Fowler, Gene
New York: The Viking Press. Near Fine in Very Good dj. 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. [light shelfwear only, spine very slightly turned; the jacket is quite presentable, despite a deep but very slim vertical tear near the top right corner of the front panel, a few small scratch marks just adjacent to it, and a couple of... Read More
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