Category: Signed

Perry returns to his office late one night and finds an attractive woman climbing into his balcony window. She claims to be Virginia Colfax, the secretary of Ed Garvin who has an office next door to Perry's. Ms. Colfax says that she climbed into Perry's office in order to escape from Garvin's hot tempered wife but Perry later learns that Garvin is married to two women. Garvin and second wife Lorrie are sent to Mexico by Perry until he can clear up the matter but when Garvin's first wife, Ethel, is murdered there's an even bigger mess on the scene. And just who in the world is Virginia Colfax, ...
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The Case of the Sleepwalker's Niece

By: Gardner, Erle Stanley

Price: $150.00

Publisher: NY, Pocket Books Inc.: 1956

Seller ID: mv11

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good

A man's wife is divorcing him after he is caught sleep walking with a knife near her bed. When his stepbrother is found dead stabbed with the knife, he is charged with murder and is accused of using his sleepwalking as a cover-up. Adapted from the novel, and aired on CBS in 1957 on the Perry Mason TV series.
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The Chinese Parrot

By: Biggers, Earl Derr

Price: $1,500.00

Publisher: New York, Collier Books: 1926

Seller ID: mlfd87

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

The Chinese Parrot (1926) is the second novel in the Charlie Chan series of mystery novels by Earl Derr Biggers. It is the first in which Chan travels from Hawaii to mainland California, and involves a crime whose exposure is hastened by the death of a parrot. The story concerns a valuable string of pearls which is purchased by a wealthy and eccentric financier. The handsome young son of the jeweler is assigned to shepherd the transfer of the pearls to the financier's vacation home in a desert area of California. Because of his long association with the owner of the pearls- before joining the...
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The Diner's Companion- Signed

By: Maurice C. Dreicer

Price: $150.00

Publisher: New York, Crown Publishers: 1955

Seller ID: xox10

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Maurice C. Dreicer, a gastronome visited more than 60 countries in a 40- year quest for the perfect steak. Dining out is a fine art. To get the most enjoyment for your time and money, you need to know not only how to plan and where to go for fine food and drink in general, as well as for unusual specialties, but you must also know how to command attention, service, comfort complete satisfaction. Maurice C. Dreicer (called by a prominent columnist the "Pulitzer Prize Committee of One in the nourishment field") has been an outstanding' authority and writer for more than a quarter of a c...
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The Divine Comedy - In Three Volumes

By: Baskin, Leonard; Dante Alighieri, Translated By Thomas G. Bergin

Price: $500.00

Publisher: New York, Grossman Publishers: 1969

Seller ID: 164ooo

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Inscribed presentation by Leonard Baskin on ffe of volume I. Laid in is Yale University's invitation to the opening of the exhibition concerning the making of this Grossman edition of 'The Divine Comedy'. Three volumes housed in an slipcase.
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The Dragon Murder Case Signed

By: S. S. Van Dine

Price: $1,100.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribners Sons: 1933

Seller ID: 147vvy

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

The Dragon Murder Case is a 1934 mystery film adaptation of the novel of the same name by S. S. Van Dine, starring Warren William as private detective Philo Vance; Warren William's first starring role. Directed by H. Bruce Humberstone for Warner Bros. Wonderful idea to give a party with people who dislike each other. Late at night everyone decides to go into the pool, except Stamm, who is drunk. Montague dives in as does Greeff and Leland, but only Greeff and Leland come out. Montague is no where to be found so Leland suspects foul play and calls the cops. Luckily, Philo is with the D.A. and ...
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The Edwin Pope Collection

By: Michener, James A.; Pope, Edwin

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Dallas, Texas, U.S.A., Taylor Pub: 1988

Seller ID: vlp40

ISBN: 0878336095

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

The Farmers Hotel

By: O'HARA, JOHN

Price: $350.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: 1951

Seller ID: 4vg3

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

The Forest Lovers

By: Hewlett, Maurice

Price: $350.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co.: 1898

Seller ID: xz98

Binding: Half-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

'The Forest Lovers' is set in France during the Romantic era, and the experiences of Prosper le Gai in the mysterious forest of Morgraunt. Prosper is a happy-go-lucky guy intent only upon adventure. A confirmed bachelor, happenstance suddenly compels him to marry a poor servant-girl in order to rescue her from being hanged as a witch, or handed over to a false monk. In the end his wife, Isoult la Desireé, proves to be the long-lost daughter of the Countess Isabel, Countess of Hauterive and Lady of Morgraunt. The motive of the story is the triumphant progress of Isoult's love for her knig...
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The Graves: Srebrenica and Vukovar

By: Stover, Eric

Price: $325.00

Publisher: Germany, Scalo Verlag AC: 1998

Seller ID: x34

ISBN: 3931141764

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Inscribed by Eric Stover. Small erasure mark at top corner of first page, else near fine.This book is the harrowing account by Eric Stover, with photographs by Gilles Peress, of how, from a hell of mud and decomposing bodies, Haglund began to piece together the victims' identities and the terrible ways they died. Over 40,000 Muslim refugees were living in and around Srebenica when it fell to the Serbs, under General Ratko Mladic in July 1995. Of the men who fled, or were rounded up by Serb troops, many were never seen again. Stover talks to the surviving families, women and children including ...
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The Hays Office

By: Will H. Hays [Raymond Moley]

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Indianapolis, The Bobbs-Merrill Company: 1945

Seller ID: 14bn

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

A prominent Republic politician, Will Hays gave up his political ambitions after serving as U.S. postmaster general to become the motion picture industry's morality czar. Hays set up a strict movie production code that saved Hollywood from government censorship by imposing limits on acceptable screen behavior; it became the basis for an early industry movie rating system. The author, Raymond Moley, argues that the centralization of film standards in the Hays Office actually leads to greater freedom in film by creating federal standards rather than State and local control of content. Extensive...
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The Hundred Brothers

By: Antrim, Donald

Price: $25.00

Publisher: U.S.A., Crown: 1997

Seller ID: dc11

ISBN: 0517703106

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New

housed in a publisher's near fine slipcase.
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The Latent Heterosexual

By: Chayefsky, Paddy

Price: $175.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: 1967

Seller ID: vw39

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

The Lonely Guy's Book of Life

By: Friedman, Bruce Jay

Price: $120.00

Publisher: New York, McGraw-Hill: 1978

Seller ID: bjf15

ISBN: 0070224323

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Basis for the 1984 Movie 'The Lonely Guy' starring Steve Martin. If you're a Lonely Guy, says author Bruce Jay Friedman, take heart: There are millions of people just like you out there. Unfortunately, your chances of meeting any of the really attractive ones are slim. "The Lonely Guy's Book of Life" is Friedman's classic manual on handling undesired solitude. Some of his tips (and remember, a woman also can be a Lonely Guy): - Your apartment: The worst view you can have is of a bridge, particularly a "Lost Horizon" type that's obscured in fog at the far end. In no time at all...
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the man who left home

By: Paul, Louis

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Chicago, the Black Cat Press: 1938

Seller ID: lp5.

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Coth spine. Edges rubbed. Unumbered of 149. Additionally inscribed by Norman Forgue, book's designer.
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The Movement to Americanize the Immigrant

By: Edward George Hartmann, Phd.

Price: $175.00

Publisher: New York, Columbia University Press: 1948

Seller ID: br25xx

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

The Americanization Movement was a concerted effort during the late 19th and early 20th centuries to help new immigrants settle and assimilate into America's civic culture with the intent of promoting patriotism and productivity. These efforts primarily took the form of English language classes and courses in American civics but suffered from vague definitions of what "Americanization" meant besides learning the language, being loyal to the United States, and accepting our republican form of government. The Americanization movement was originally started by non-profit organizations wit...
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The Muses are Heard

By: Capote, Truman

Price: $500.00

Publisher: New York, Reader's Digest Association: 1957

Seller ID: 94pzz

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Volume Two, the spring 1957 offerings from Reader's Digest. For the Truman Capote completist. This signed Truman Capote Reader's Digest book is one of a kind.
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The New Sammy Cahn Song Book

By: Sammy Cahn

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, Warner Bros. Publications Inc.: 1989

Seller ID: 13vpo

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Frank Sinatra once said of songwriter Sammy Cahn: "Sammy's words fit my mouth the best of all the writers." Now you can enjoy 99 of Sammy's finest compositions with this songbook in piano/vocal/guitar format. Songs include: All That Love Went to Waste . Bei Mir Bist Du Schon (Means That You're Grand) . Call Me Irresponsible . The Christmas Waltz . Come Fly with Me . Day by Day . Good Little Girls . I'll Walk Alone . I've Heard That Song Before . Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! . Love and Marriage . Only the Lonely . Our Town . Pocketful of Miracles . Shoe Shine Boy . Thoroughly ...
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The Notebooks of Captain Georges

By: Renoir, Jean

Price: $175.00

Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown & Company: 1966

Seller ID: xvm26

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

The Original Rubaiyyat of Omar Khayaam A New Translation with Critical commentaries

By: Robert Graves / Omar ali-Shah

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Doubleday & Company: 1968

Seller ID: 28mmp

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Very good+ slipcase. #319 of 500. Tipped in plate on the half-title page.
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The Patriots

By: Kingsley, Sidney

Price: $175.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: 1943

Seller ID: 25cmq

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

This pulitzer prize winner's play, about Thomas Jefferson, that won the drama critic's circle award for best play of 1943. Mr. Kingsley wrote the play while in service during World War II, and the result is intriguing. "What is this democracy we are fighting for?" Mr. Kingsley says he asked himself. "Just what did these fellows - our original patriots- have in mind?" His answer, embodied in the character of Jefferson, is a confident faith in the common folk to govern themselves, to survive without guidance from a privileged aristocracy. The aristocratic side is represented ...
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The Profits of Religion

By: Upton Sinclair

Price: $400.00

Publisher: Pasadena, CA, 1918

Seller ID: kjb28

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

This excoriating critique of religion, especially as represented by powerful clerical institutions, is a lesser-known work by the author who had earlier become famous with his publication of The Jungle, an expose of the poor labor conditions and unsanitary practices in Chicago's meat-packing industry. More than just a tirade against religion, this is an impassioned, idealistic socialist writing at the beginning of the First World War, when the notion of an international socialist revolution still seemed like a very real possibility to many of the left-leaning thinkers of the day. Sinclair's ch...
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The Puttermesser Papers

By: Ozick, Cynthia

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, NY, U.S.A., Alfred A. Knopf Incorporated: 1997

Seller ID: 0co12

ISBN: 0679454764

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Yearning for a life of the mind, Ruth Puttermesser finds herself mired in the lowest circles of city bureaucracy. Her love life hopeless, her fantasies more influential than wan reality, she nevertheless turns out to be the best mayor New York City has ever elected. Soon enough, though, paradise gained becomes paradise lost, and--even for a wistful visionary like Puttermesser--the problem of disappointment remains unresolved. signed by author on a bookplate
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The Return of A. J. Raffles

By: Greene, Graham

Price: $550.00

Publisher: New York, Simon and Schuster: 1975

Seller ID: 103a

ISBN: 067122297X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

The Road to Rome

By: Sherwood, Robert E.

Price: $150.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribnber's Sons: 1927

Seller ID: 45pum

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

The author's first book. "The Road to Rome" was the first play of Robert E. Sherwood, and a success on Broadway in 1927. It has a comic situation set in a period of history which allows Mr. Sherwood to work in some of his anti-war feelings. Mr. Sherwood has set his play in 216 B.C., at the time when Hannibal was nearing the end of his march on Rome. Hannibal didn't attack Rome when he reached it, Mr. Sherwood explains, because a certain blond, the bored and sex-starved wife of Rome's dictator, got to him first. When Rome seems doomed, she flees the city and breaks through Hannibal's li...
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The Shield and The Storm

By: Thomas G. Blake

Price: $155.00

Publisher: No Place, The Commorative Group: 1992

Seller ID: tgb28

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

The Gulf War - August 1990 - February 1991, codenamed Operation Desert Shield for operations leading to the buildup of troops and the defense of Saudi Arabia; and Operation Desert Storm was a war waged by coalition forces from 34 nations led by the United States against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion and annexation of Kuwait. Approx.9.5x12 inches. Square, sharp, clean, and tight, in fine collectible condition.
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The Silver Cord

By: Howard, Sidney

Price: $600.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1927

Seller ID: 160jgf

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

The printed wrappers of this Theatre Guild Library edition are bound into a contemporary custom-made hard cover binding for thespian Otis Skinner, whose bookplate is mounted on the front paste down. The Sidney Howard inscription is written to Mrs. Otis Skinner. An additional inscription in an unknown hand, as well. Staged on Broadway, and was made into a feature film. A domineering matriarch is less than happy when her son brings home his new bride. She immediately sets to work at sabotaging their marriage as well as the engagement of her younger and weaker son.
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The Store

By: T.S. STRIBLING [signed]

Price: $450.00

Publisher: New York, Doubleday , Doran & Company: 1933

Seller ID: 43sqm

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Winner of a Pulitzer Prize in 1933, The Store is the second novel of Stribling's monumental trilogy set in the author's native Tennessee Valley region of North Alabama. The novel's action begins in 1884, when Grover Cleveland became the first Democratic president since the end of the Civil War, and it centers about the emergence of Colonel Miltiades Vaiden as a figure of wealth and power in the city of Florence. In The Store, Stribling succeeds in presenting the essence of an age through the everyday lives of his characters. The Store is a first-rate story filled with diverse and vital chara...
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The Story of Television The Life of Philo T. Farnsworth

By: Philo T. Farnsworth, George Everson

Price: $1,000.00

Publisher: NY, W.W. Norton: 1949

Seller ID: mh159i

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Front hinge shows a hairline split of the paper. Still firm, tight, clean , and bright. Overall VG. Philo Taylor Farnsworth (1906 - 1971) was an American inventor and television pioneer. His patents were crucial to the development of television.He is perhaps best known for his 1927 invention of the first fully functional video camera tube, the "image dissector", as well as the first fully functional and complete television system. Farnsworth developed a television system complete with receiver and camera, which he produced commercially in the form of the Farnsworth Television and R...
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Category: Signed