Entertainment & Pop Culture
Milpitas, California: Society for Creative Anachronism, Inc., 1980-1992. Staplebound wraps. 11" X 8 1/2". 32-48pp each. Staplebound pictorial paper wraps. Moderate wear to each binding, with gentle bumping to extremities, moderate dust soiling and foxing, occasional creasing to corners, and some small tears to heads and tails of spines. Heavy... More
Baltimore: Dolphin-Moon Press and Atomic Books, 1998-2007. Paperback. 11" X 8 1/2". 96pp; 128pp; 144pp; 128pp; 128pp. Mild edgewear to paper wraps, with price sticker to rear wraps. Bindings are firm, tight, and sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A very nice, solid run of James Taylor's "Shocked and Amazed!"... More
Novato, California: Broderbund, 1999. Cd_rom. 8 3/4" X 10" X 5 5/8" box. Moderate wear to original box, with 4 1/4" tear along edge of flap, edgewear, gentle bumping, and creasing. MAD toilet paper still in original publisher's wrap. Mild edgewear to Totally Mad User's Guide, 30pp. All seven CD-ROMs... More
n.p. American Greetings Corp. Circa 1985. Staplebound wraps. 14" X 10". Complete punch-out book to assemble Dracula's castle, a carriage with skeleton horse, witches brewing over a cauldron, a scary cornfield, a cemetary gatehouse, and a mobile with a witch flying past the moon and bats below. Moderate edgewear to... More
New York: Jacobsen-Hodgkinson Corporation, 1925. First Edition. Paperback. 7 7/8" X 5 3/8". 137pp. Rather heavy wear to pictorial wraps featuring Gloria Swanson, with edgewear, dust soiling, surface scratching and scattered rubbing, chipping to spine, and 1 1/2" X 1" chip to top corner of rear wrap. Pages are age-toned... More
New York: Frederick Fell, Inc., 1955. Cydney. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 5 5/8". 190pp. Chipping and tearing to edges of dust jacket, with mild dust soiling to rear and edges of flaps. Mild edgewear and gentle bumping to blue cloth hardcover binding, with amusing metallic purple stamped design to cover... More
Brooklyn: Sal Quartuccio, 1975. First Edition. Staplebound wraps. 10 7/8" X 8 1/2". Unpaginated. Very mild edgewear to staplebound color pictorial wraps. Binding is firm and sound. Foxing to edges of text block. Pages are clean and unmarked. A very presentable copy of this feature on the art of Neal... More
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. 7 3/4" X 5 1/4". 309pp. Stated First Edition. First American Edition. Heavy wear to original dust jacket, several large tears to spine and one to bottom corner of front wrap. Wonderful promotional text concerning Vicki Baum and "Grand Hotel... More
New York: The Sun Dial Press, 1940. Hardcover. 8 1/8" X 5 5/8". 357pp. Heavy wear to price-clipped pictorial dust jacket featuring a scene from the MGM film adaptation, with front panel and flap separated from spine and rear panel and flap, with edgewear, small tears to edges and extremities... More
New York: Benjamin Blom, 1969. Hardcover. 9 1/2" X 6 1/4". 263pp. Ex-Hofstra University Library, with accompanying stamps, bookplate, and card envelope. Green cloth over boards with decorations in brown and spine lettered in gilt. Bumping to corners of binding and light shelfwear. Binding is tight and sound. Contents are... More
Kansas City: Walsworth Publishing Company, 1993. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 12 3/8" X 9 3/8". 248pp. Edition limited to 7,500 copies, this being number 3799. Mild wear to glossy pictorial dust jacket, with light surface scratching, edgewwear, and dust spotting. Faux football-like leather over boards, with upper board and spine lettered... More
Atlanta: The Pinchpenny Press, 1973. Paperback. 6 5/8" X 4 1/8". 103pp, plus 4 leaves of illustrations and ads. Business card of magician Paul Kirkman of Nostalgia Shop laid in, with 1984 instructions for Finger Flash Model 1A. Moderate wear to paper wraps, with toning, edgewear, and light soiling to... More
London: J. Miles & Co., Ltd., 1906. Hardcover. 12" X 9 3/4". Unpaginated, 44 pages, including 8 plates, several hand-painted. Title page and headings by Walter Crane. Signed by May Warley and Susie Nainby, both listed under the names of women selling the programme, with two others, at page facing... More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. 11 1/4" X 8 5/8". 244pp. Inscribed by Herb Bridges to previous owners at title page and dated 29 Nov. '89. Moderate edgewear to unclipped dust jacket, with sunning and light dust soiling. Yellow paper over boards, with spine backed in... More
Bruschini, Antonio; de Zigno, Federico; Questi, Giulio (Foreword); Garko, Gianni (Foreword)
Firenze: Glittering Images, 2001. Hardcover. 12 3/8" X 9 5/8". 173pp. Text in Italian and English. Pictorial paper over boards. Mild wear to binding, with tear to edge of tail of spine. Binding is firm and sound. Pages are clean and bright. A very nice copy of this tribute to... More
Capp, Al; Kitchen, Denis (Ed., Commentary)
Milwaukie, Oregon: Dark Horse Books, 2003-2004. First Edition. Hardcover. 12 1/4" X 9 1/4". 125pp; 117pp; 118pp, plus ads. Glossy pictorial paper over boards. Mild edge- and surfacewear to bindings, else fine, firm, tight, and sound. Pages are clean and bright. A very nice set of first printings of this... More
Chavez, Marian; Spina, Tony; Mack, David (Ed.); Wierzbicki, Joe (Illust.)
New York: Tannen Magic, Inc., 1979. Paperback. 11" X 8 1/2". 153pp. Mild edgewear and scattered rubbing to paper wraps, with dust soiling to rear. Binding is firm and sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A solid and attractive copy of this comprehensive guide to dove magic, which introduces the... More
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. 7 3/4" X 5 3/8". 299pp. Lacking dust jacket. Red cloth over boards, with upper board and spine lettered in yellow. Moderate edgewear to binding, with bumping to extremities and small tear to head of spine. Mild soiling to edges of... More
New York: A Perfect Crime Book (Doubleday) Viking Penguin, Simon and Schuster, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1999, 2000, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. 9 1/2" X 6 1/4". Each volume First Edition, First Printing. Mistress of Justice inscribed and dated to half-title, A Maiden's Grave, The Devil's Teardrop, Speaking in Tongues... More
London, New York: Hodder and Stoughton, 2001. First British Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 9 1/2" X 6 1/4". 324pp; 341pp; 352pp. Each volume First U.K. Edition, First Printing. Each volume signed by the author to title page. Set presents nicely, with each unclipped dust jacket enclosed in protective archival sleeve... More
New York: A Perfect Crime Book (Doubleday), 1992. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 9 1/2" X 6 1/4". 344pp. Presents nicely in unclipped, protective archival sleeved dust jacket. Brown paper over boards with spine backed in maroon cloth and lettered in gilt. Mild edgewear to dust jacket and binding, else... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1939. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 8 1/4" X 5 3/4". xiii, 295pp. Heavy edgewear to price-clipped dust jacket, with chipping to extremities, small open tears to edges, 2" long tear to rear panel's top edge, mild soiling, and sunning. Cream colored cloth over boards, with... More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1939. Hardcover. 7 3/4" X 5 3/8". xiii, 295pp. Heavy edgewear to price-clipped dust jacket, with significant chipping to edges and extremities, very heavy scattered rubbing, mild soiling, and sunning. Purple cloth over boards, with upper board and spine stamped in black. Mild edgewear to... More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1926. Hardcover. 7 5/8" X 5 1/4". 398pp, plus 4 leaves of ads. Early reprint. Moderate wear to colorful dust jacket, with crease to front and rear panel, small tears to head and tail of spine and at edges, and light dust soiling. Advertisements of... More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1941. Second Printing. Hardcover. 8" X 5 3/4". 231pp. Lacking dust jacket. Black cloth over boards, with spine lettered in orange and upper board stamped in blind. Moderate edgwear to binding, with corners bumped and small tear to head of spine. Binding is firm... More
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![James Taylor's "Shocked and Amazed!" On & Off the Midway, Volumes 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 [5 Volume Set]](/pictures/thumb/3889.JPG?v=1531005277)
![[Vintage Halloween] Dracula's Castle Punch-Out Fun Book](/pictures/thumb/4121_1.JPG?v=1539910998)
![Al Capp's Li'l Abner: The Frazetta Years, Volume 2: 1956-1957, Volume 3: 1958-1959, [and] Volume 4: 1960-1961 [Three Volume Set]. Al Capp, Denis Kitchen, Commentary Ed.](/pictures/thumb/3886.JPG?v=1531005276)
![Jeffery Deaver's First 7 Stand-Alone Works: Mistress of Justice, The Lesson of Her Death, Praying for Sleep, A Maiden's Grave, The Devil's Teardrop, Speaking in Tongues, [and] The Blue Nowhere (Seven Volume Set of First Editions). Jeffery Deaver.](/pictures/thumb/2508.JPG?v=1466523263)
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