CARTOONIST PROfiles (March 1990)
by (Hurd, Jud, ed.)
Westport CT: CARTOONIST PROfiles Inc.. Fine. 1990. (No. 164). Magazine. [nice clean copy with no significant wear]. (cartoon illustrations, B&W photographs) Featured in this issue: an article by cartoonist Jerry Scott, about the construction of a giant "Nancy" balloon for use in parades; an interview with Jay Kennedy, the Comics Editor of King Features Syndicate ... Read More
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Lummox
by Hurst, Fannie
New York: Harper & Brothers. Near Fine. 1923. Early printing. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [a good solid copy, gilt lettering on spine and front cover still bright some rubbing to gilt lettering on front cover and spine]. Hurst's second novel, about the miserable life of a homely and inarticulate servant-girl working in a sailors' boarding-house, was her... Read More
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No Glass Slipper
by Hurst, Margery
New York: Crown Publishers, Inc.. Very Good+ in Very Good- dj. (c.1967). First Edition. Hardcover. [light wear to extremities, very slight bumping to a couple of corners; the jacket has been a bit insect-nibbled along both flap-folds, and is somewhat sun-browned along the spine, with a tiny bit of paper loss at the base of the spine].... Read More
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Frankie and Johnny
by Huston, John
New York: Albert & Charles Boni. Fair. (c.1930). First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [both hinges cracked, some deterioration to cloth at spine ends, board slightly exposed at top rear corner; generally a decent clean copy]. (color frontispiece plate; B&W drawings) Future screenwriter/director John Huston's first published book, a dramatization of the well-known song about... Read More
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Big Business
by Hutchinson, A.S.M.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company. Near Fine in Very Good dj. 1932. First American Edition. Hardcover. [nice clean book with just a trace of shelfwear, old bookseller's faint rubber-stamped name on rear pastedown (Jones Stationery & Gifts, Santa Maria, Calif.); jacket edgeworn and lightly soiled, with some shallow chipping along top and bottom edges]. (cartoon drawings)... Read More
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Mashpee: The Story of Cape Cod's Indian Town
by Hutchins, Francis G.
West Franklin NH: Amarta Press. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. [nice clean book with only a touch of wear to the base of the spine; the jacket is a little age-browned along the spine, with a couple of itsy-bitsy nicks at the bottom edge of the front panel]. (B&W photographs,... Read More
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The Vision
by Hutchens, Paul
Grand Rapids MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. [minor bumping to base of spine, no other significant wear, one-time owner's name and address in blue ink at top of front endpaper; the jacket has a short closed tear at top front hinge, another tiny tear and associated... Read More
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Eff Off
by Hutson, Sandy
London: Arlington Books. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. 0718190769 . [minimal shelfwear, spine very slightly turned; jacket shows just a bit of wear at edges and extremities]. Kind of an British "Blackboard Jungle"/"Up the Down Staircase," with an idealistic teacher trying to cope with students in a "special school" who are... Read More
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Perfect Silence [*SIGNED*]
by Hutton, Jeff
Halcottsville NY: Breakaway Books. Near Fine in Fine dj. 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. [a nice tight clean book, would be Fine but for the slight exposure of boards at several spots on the bottom edges of the covers; the jacket is flawless]. SIGNED by the author (no inscription) on the half-title page. Novel set during... Read More
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The Devils of Loudun [movie tie-in edition]
by Huxley, Aldous
New York: Perennial Library / Harper & Row. Very Good+. 1971. First Edition Thus. Softcover. [nice tight copy with mild edgewear to covers, a touch of age-browning to front cover]. Mass Market PB (B&W photographs) A reprint of Huxley's account (originally published in 1952) of "demonic possession and witchcraft in a seventeenth-century French convent." It's... Read More
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Prematurely Gay
by Iams, Jack
New York: William Morrow & Company. Very Good+ in Fair dj. 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. [only lightly shelfworn, lower rear corner very slightly bumped, a couple of tiny tears in cloth at top of spine, front hinge feels a little weak (not cracked); jacket has suffered about an inch-plus of paper loss at both ends of spine,... Read More
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Prophet by Experience
by Iams, Jack
New York: William Morrow and Company. Very Good in Very Good- dj. 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [solid copy, top edge a little dust-darkened, top corners moderately bumped; jacket worn along top/bottom edges, various tiny tears, minor chipping at spine ends]. Satirical novel about a cave-dwelling hermit who takes a subscription to a weekly news magazine and... Read More
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Pug
by Idell, Albert
New York: The Greystone Press. Very Good+. (c.1941). First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [a good sound copy with light external wear, very slight fading to spine cloth, a few tiny white flecks on front cover, slight bumping to lower corners]. The author's rather scarce first novel, a boxing yarn set "not [in] the world of... Read More
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Before the Fact
by Iles, Francis (pseud. for Anthony Berkeley)
Garden City NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.. Near Fine. 1933 (c.1932). Early printing. Hardcover. (lacking the original dust jacket, but encased in a professionally-made facsimile reproduction of same; see 2nd image posted with this listing) [nice clean copy, spine very slightly turned, extremely light wear to extremities]. "This is the story of Lina Aysgarth, who, after... Read More
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Summer Brave, and Eleven Short Plays
by Inge, William
New York: Random House. Near Fine in Very Good dj. (c.1962). First Edition. Hardcover. [good solid copy, with just a touch of age-toning to the top of the text block; the jacket is browned at the edges, with a few small surface-scrapes and some light soiling, and has been "stretched" a bit so it now fits a... Read More
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Young Gentlemen, Rise
by Ingham, Travis
New York: Farrar & Rinehart. Good. (c.1935). First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [a good solid copy, but with considerable external spotting, mostly to spine and front cover; internally clean and well-bound, but still best to consider this a reading copy only]. Novel about four college classmates (Yale, Class of 1928) who get together in 1934... Read More
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Reflections in a Glass Eye: Works from the International Center of Photography Collection
by (International Center of Photography) Handy, Ellen, curator
Boston: Bulfinch Press/Little, Brown and Company. Fine in Near Fine dj. (c.1999). First Edition. Hardcover. 0821226258 . [book is tight, clean, as-new; jacket shows just a bit of surface handling wear]. (B&W/color photographs) "Published on the occasion of ICP's twenty-fifth anniversary, [this book] provides an innovative look at the diversity of the photographic medium. The... Read More
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Nudes
by Ionesco, Irina
Zurich: Edition Stemmle. Fine in Fine dj. (c.1996). 1st English-language edition. Hardcover. [lovely, as-new copy, with no discernible wear to either book or jacket]. (B&W photographs) From the Romanian-born photographer's introduction: "To me, photography is essentially a poetic medium. I think of it as a theatrical mode of writing, somewhere to set down all my obsessively... Read More
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The Cardinal's Scar: The Story of a Matador
by Irby, Christian
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company. Very Good-. 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [a good sound copy with only modest shelfwear, although the yellow-cloth binding has picked up enough light soiling over its lifetime to give the book a somewhat grubby external appearance; faint bookseller's rubber-stamp (Bertrand Smith's Acres of Books, Long Beach, Calif.)... Read More
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Deadline
by Irving, Alexander
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company. Very Good+ in Fair dj. 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. [good solid clean copy, light wear to extremities; the jacket is a bit on the ragged side, with several chips at the edges of the front panel, additional tears and some paper loss at both ends of the spine, various other depredations... Read More
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The Van Gelder Papers, and Other Sketches
by Irving, John Treat
New York/London: G.P. Putnam's Sons. Very Good. 1895 (c.1887). Second Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [moderately shelfworn book, binding fully intact, small vintage bookseller's stamp on front pastedown (Bertrand Smith Acres of Books, Long Beach, Calif.)]. Tales of old Long Island. The author in his Preface states that he has endeavored to complete the work of... Read More
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The Women Swore Revenge
by Irwin, Inez Haynes
New York: Random House. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. (c.1946). First Edition. Hardcover. [minor shelfwear only, a couple of very slightly scrunched lower page corners; the jacket is bright and attractive, with only some very shallow paper loss along the top and bottom edges, and a couple of tiny closed tears at the bottom of the... Read More
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The Shaman's Revenge
by Irwin, Violet; based on the Arctic Diaries of Vilhjalmur Stefansson
New York: The Macmillan Company. Very Good. 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [modest wear to extremities, some soiling to edges of text block, spine slightly turned; binding solid, internally quite clean]. (pen and ink drawings, one map) Something of an adventure-novelization of incidents presented by Stefansson in his 1913 book "My Life with the ... Read More
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Three Live Ghosts; a comedy in three acts
by Isham, Frederick S.
New York: Samuel French. Good. (c.1922). French's Standard Library Edition. Softcover. [moderate wear to extremities, one-inch tear at top of spine resulting in separation of spine covering from text block in that area]. (B&W halftone photographs) A screwball comedy (before the term was coined) set in London, about three men who've been declared legally dead, but who... Read More
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How Many Angels [*SIGNED*]
by Israel, Charles E.
Toronto: Macmillan. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. 1956. First Canadian Edition. Hardcover. [light shelfwear, faint staining to fore-edge, age-toning to top of text block; jacket a bit edgeworn (a few tiny nicks along top edge), light dampstaining at bottom right corner of front panel and bottom left corner of rear panel]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by... Read More
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