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By: Will H. Hays [Raymond Moley]
Price: $150.00
Publisher: Indianapolis, The Bobbs-Merrill Company: 1945
Inscription: Signed by Author(s)
Seller ID: 14bn
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 actua... View more info
By: Antrim, Donald
Price: $25.00
Publisher: U.S.A., Crown: 1997
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author(s)
Seller ID: dc11
housed in a publisher's near fine slipcase. View more info
By: Chayefsky, Paddy
Price: $175.00
Publisher: New York, Random House: 1967
Inscription: Signed by Author(s)
Seller ID: vw39
Price: $120.00
Publisher: New York, McGraw-Hill: 1978
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: Inscribed by Author(s)
Seller ID: bjf15
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... View more info
By: Mickey Spillane
Price: $275.00
Publisher: New York, Signet: 1952
Inscription: Inscribed by Author(s)
Seller ID: hu30p
Johnny McBride blows into Lyncastle on a mission of revenge. His best friend - a man who was his exact double - died in an accident trying to save Johnny's life. He left behind a letter revealing how he'd been framed and run out of Lyncastle, a ruined man, how he had been deprived of his money, his honor, and his girl. So Johnny sets out to get the mob who had double-crossed him. How he pulls off this dangerous, gutter-tough job and manages to hold on to his skin, makes... View more info
By: Paul, Louis
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Chicago, the Black Cat Press: 1938
Inscription: Signed by Author(s)
Seller ID: lp5.
Coth spine. Edges rubbed. Unumbered of 149. Additionally inscribed by Norman Forgue, book's designer. View more info
By: Edward George Hartmann, Phd.
Price: $175.00
Publisher: New York, Columbia University Press: 1948
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: Inscribed By Edward George Hartmann
Seller ID: br25xx
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 acc... View more info
By: Capote, Truman
Price: $500.00
Publisher: New York, Reader's Digest Association: 1957
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: Signed By Truman Capote
Seller ID: 94pzz
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. View more info
By: Norman Mailer
Price: $450.00
Publisher: New York, Rinehart: 1948
Inscription: Signed by Norman Mailer
Seller ID: www108
Written in gritty, journalistic detail, the story follows an army platoon of foot soldiers who are fighting for the possession of the Japanese-held island of Anopopei. Written in 1948, The Naked and the Dead is representative of the best in twentieth-century American writing. In 1998 the Modern Library ranked The Naked and the Dead 51st on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. It was adapted into a film of the same name by Warner Bros. in... View more info
By: Sammy Cahn
Price: $100.00
Publisher: New York, Warner Bros. Publications Inc.: 1989
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: Signed By Sammy Cahn
Seller ID: 13vpo
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 ... View more info
By: Renoir, Jean
Price: $175.00
Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown & Company: 1966
Inscription: Signed By Jean Renoir
Seller ID: xvm26
By: Robert Graves / Omar ali-Shah
Price: $200.00
Publisher: Doubleday & Company: 1968
Inscription: Signed by Robert Graves & Omar Ali-Shah
Seller ID: 28mmp
Very good+ slipcase. #319 of 500. Tipped in plate on the half-title page. View more info
By: Kingsley, Sidney
Price: $200.00
Publisher: New York, Random House: 1943
Inscription: Inscribed By Sidney Kingsley
Seller ID: 25cmq
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 commo... View more info
By: Upton Sinclair
Price: $400.00
Publisher: Pasadena, CA, 1918
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: Inscribed on the Cover By Upton Sinclair
Seller ID: kjb28
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 ... View more info
By: Ozick, Cynthia
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York, NY, U.S.A., Alfred A. Knopf Incorporated: 1997
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: Signed by Cynthia Ozick
Seller ID: 0co12
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 View more info
By: Greene, Graham
Price: $550.00
Publisher: New York, Simon and Schuster: 1975
Inscription: Signed by Author(s)
Seller ID: 103a
Price: $150.00
Publisher: New York, Charles Scribnber's Sons: 1927
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: Signed Robert E. Sherwood
Seller ID: 45pum
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-s... View more info
By: Thomas G. Blake
Price: $155.00
Publisher: No Place, The Commorative Group: 1992
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: Signed By Thomas G. Blake
Seller ID: tgb28
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. View more info
By: Howard, Sidney
Price: $600.00
Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1927
Inscription: Inscribed by Author(s)
Seller ID: 160jgf
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 se... View more info
By: Hoagy Carmichael
Price: $750.00
Publisher: New York, Rinehart and Company: 1946
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author(s)
Seller ID: zii75
Illustrated with photographs.The dust jacket shows shallow chipping at the extremities, else it's vg. Signed on 1st blank page.Carmichael composed several hundred songs, including fifty that achieved hit record status. He is best known for composing the music for "Stardust", "Georgia on My Mind", "The Nearness of You", and "Heart and Soul" , four of the most-recorded American songs of all time. Carmichael's "Ole Buttermilk Sky" w... View more info
Price: $450.00
Publisher: New York, Doubleday , Doran & Company: 1933
Inscription: Signed by Author(s)
Seller ID: 43sqm
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... View more info
By: Philo T. Farnsworth, George Everson
Price: $1,000.00
Publisher: NY, W.W. Norton: 1949
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: Inscribed by Author(s)
Seller ID: mh159i
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 telev... View more info
Price: $2,000.00
Publisher: New York, Random House: 1957
Inscription: Signed by Author(s)
Seller ID: uh436
First state with duplication of line 8 again on line 10-page 327. No date present on dust jacket. View more info
By: Kazan, Elia
Price: $100.00
Publisher: New York, Stein and Day: 1975
Inscription: Inscribed By Elia Kazan
Seller ID: 27jvi
Iinscribed prior to publication, in 1974, to Kazan's long time friend and collaborator Budd Schulberg and Shulberg's wife, Geraldine Brooks. View more info
By: Sagan, Francoise
Price: $600.00
Publisher: New York, Delacorte Press/E. Friede: 1978
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: Signed by Francoise Sagan
Seller ID: 44zqe
Price: $30.00
Publisher: New York, Viking Press: 1980
Inscription: Signed by Malcolm Cowley
Seller ID: mc30
Inscribed by Malcolm Cowley View more info
By: Jackie Collins
Price: $250.00
Publisher: New York, World Pub. Co.: 1968
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: Signed by Jackie Collins
Seller ID: jc16
A very scarce signed copy of Jackie Collins' first novel. Made into a film in 1979, starring Tony Franciosa and Carroll Baker. David Cooper works in advertising but spends more time on his love life despite the fact that he is married. When his wife Linda discovers his girlfriends, she decides to find get revenge by having an affair. View more info
By: Douglas Menville, R. Reginald [ signed by both]
Price: $125.00
Publisher: New York, Times Books: 1977
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: Inscribed by Author(s)
Seller ID: 12gyti
Basic reference book for the student of science fiction genre film. Authors provide an index and an extensive bibliography. View more info
Price: $150.00
Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co.: 1939
Seller ID: hsc18
SIGNED limited edition. 1 of 265. Illustrated. VG+ in a good slipcase biography / New England View more info
Price: $200.00
Publisher: New York, Alfred A Knopf: 1929
Inscription: Signed By Boris Artzybasheff
Seller ID: mlp48
