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  • ALL EARS: Cultural Criticism, Essays and Obituaries. by Cooper, Dennis.
    Cooper, Dennis.
    ALL EARS: Cultural Criticism, Essays and Obituaries.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    Soft Skull Press, (1999). First edition - Includes essays on AIDS, youth culture, drugs, films and contemporary art as well as "stoic, unsentimental and bracing" obituaries for Kurt Cobain, River Phoenix and William Burroughs and more. Issued as a trade paperback original. 146 pp.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 71887
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  • HE DREAMS WHAT IS GOING ON INSIDE HIS HEAD: Ten Years of Writing. by Cott, Jonathan.
    Cott, Jonathan.
    HE DREAMS WHAT IS GOING ON INSIDE HIS HEAD: Ten Years of Writing.

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.

    San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books, (1973). First edition - Includes interviews with John Lennon, Mick Jagger, Jean-Luc Bertrande and others, essays on Bob Dylan, Leonard Crow Dog, The Last Poets, Randy Newman, the Fillmore, Yoko Ono, Igor Stravinsky, Jean Genet, Ingmar Bergman, Francois Truffaut, Frank O'Hara, film reviews, and a selection of Cott's poetry and more - a great picture of the late 1960s, early 1970s! Illustrated with black and white photographs. 349 pp plus final photograph. ISBN: 0-87932-0656.

    Condition: Near fine in stiff gold wrappers.

    Book ID: 62460
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  • HE DREAMS WHAT IS GOING ON INSIDE HIS HEAD: Ten Years of Writing. by Cott, Jonathan.
    Cott, Jonathan.
    HE DREAMS WHAT IS GOING ON INSIDE HIS HEAD: Ten Years of Writing.

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.

    San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books, (1973). First edition - Includes interviews with John Lennon, Mick Jagger, Jean-Luc Bertrande and others, essays on Bob Dylan, Leonard Crow Dog, The Last Poets, Randy Newman, the Fillmore, Yoko Ono, Igor Stravinsky, Jean Genet, Ingmar Bergman, Francois Truffaut, Frank O'Hara, film reviews, and a selection of Cott's poetry and more - a great picture of the late 1960s, early 1970s! Illustrated with black and white photographs. 349 pp plus final photograph. ISBN: 0-87932-0656.

    Condition: Very good in stiff gold wrappers (some sunning to the spine).

    Book ID: 74287
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  • Haskell, Molly.
    LOVE AD OTHER INFECTIOUS DISEASES: A Memoir.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Morrow, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - A look at life, and at love, when her husband was suffering from a strange and terrifying illness.

    Condition: Near fine in a good dj (tear and associated creasing.)

    Book ID: 11455
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  • ELIA KAZAN: A Biography. by [Kazan, Elia.] Schickel, Richard.
    [Kazan, Elia.] Schickel, Richard.
    ELIA KAZAN: A Biography.

    Edition: Later printing.

    New York: Harper Collins, (2005.) dj. Hardcover - A biography of one of the most towering figures in film and theater history - born in 1909 to Greek parents in Istanbul, Turkey, by the 1950s he was the most important and influential director in the nation, dominating both theater and film. ... His films -- notably 'On the Waterfront' - brought a new realism to the movies. More than just a biography of one more, this detailed and comprehensive books casts a new light on six decades of American history. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Photographs, notes, bibliography, index. xxxi, 510 pp.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)

    Book ID: 41800
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  • BLUE SKIES FALLING. by Knight, Arthur Winfield.
    Knight, Arthur Winfield.
    BLUE SKIES FALLING.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2001) dj. Hardcover first edition - "Sam Bonner is on a journey.He and his young wife, Sara, are traveling through the Southwest, visiting the sights that Sam himself immortalized as one of Hollywood's premier directors of a genre of film that captured a generation of viewers: the Western. There was a day when Sam ruled the industry, and death was but a far-off rumor" - but now the films are fading, and the end Sara is facing is coming inexorably closer. 283 pp. ISBN: 0-31287779X.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder line)

    Book ID: 63885
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  • THE DANGEROUS EDGE. by Lambert, Gavin.
    Lambert, Gavin.
    THE DANGEROUS EDGE.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Grossman Publishers -The Viking Press, 1976. dj. Hardcover first edition - "An Inquiry Into the Lives of Nine Masters of Suspense" - an exploration of the events that shaped the minds and inspired the classic works of mystery and crime by nine writers: Wilkie Collins, Arthur Conan Doyle, G.K. Chesterton, John Buchan, Eric Ambler, Graham Greene, Georges Simenon, Raymond Chandler and Alfred Hitchcock. Bibliography. 272 pp. ISBN: 0-670255815.

    Condition: Fine in a good only dust jacket (large chip to back cover of dj.).

    Book ID: 42511
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  • LUCK BE A LADY, DON'T DIE. by Randisi, Robert J.
    Randisi, Robert J.
    LUCK BE A LADY, DON'T DIE.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2007.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second Rat Pack Mystery with Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr, Sam Giancana and other mobsters on the scene in 1960's Las Vegas, where the film "Oceans 11" is about to have its premiere. Fast moving and fun. SIGNED on the title page. Author's note. 262 pp. ISBN: 9780312360436.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 56397
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  • YOU'RE NOBODY TILL SOMEBODY KILLS YOU. by Randisi, Robert J.
    Randisi, Robert J.
    YOU'RE NOBODY TILL SOMEBODY KILLS YOU.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2009.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fourth Rat Pack Mystery with Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr, and more. In this one, Eddie G.Õs services have been enlisted again, this time to help Marilyn Monroe, who thinks sheÕs being followed. SIGNED on the title page. Author's note. bibliography. 278 pp. ISBN: 978-0312376437.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 56398
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  • MEMOIRS OF THE DEVIL. by Vadim, Roger.
    Vadim, Roger.
    MEMOIRS OF THE DEVIL.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1977) dj. Hardcover first edition - Autobiography of the French film director, focusing on his three wives - Brigitte Bardot, Catherine Deneuve and Jane Fonda. Translated from the French by Peter Beglan. Illustrated with photographs. 187 pp. ISBN: 0-151119066.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 86931
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  • Wells, Herbert George) Haining, Peter (editor).
    THE H. G. WELLS SCRAPBOOK.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Clarkson Potter, (1979.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Subtitled "Articles, Essays, Letters, Anecdotes, Illustrations, Photographs, and Memorabilia about the Prophetic Genius of the Twentieth Century." While Wells was noted as a historian, educator, social philosopher, supporter of women's rights and much more, this is a book dedicated to documenting the life and times of Wells, the writer - the inventor - of science fiction and fantasy. Includes essays on Wells by Jorge Luis Borges and Basil Copper, critical reviews, articles on films based on Wells's fiction, three early pieces of fiction and prophecy by Wells, a parody, "The Island of Professor Menu," by James F. Sullivan, George Cruikshank drawings to Marvel comics covers, and much more. Foreword…

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    New York: Clarkson Potter, (1979.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Subtitled "Articles, Essays, Letters, Anecdotes, Illustrations, Photographs, and Memorabilia about the Prophetic Genius of the Twentieth Century." While Wells was noted as a historian, educator, social philosopher, supporter of women's rights and much more, this is a book dedicated to documenting the life and times of Wells, the writer - the inventor - of science fiction and fantasy. Includes essays on Wells by Jorge Luis Borges and Basil Copper, critical reviews, articles on films based on Wells's fiction, three early pieces of fiction and prophecy by Wells, a parody, "The Island of Professor Menu," by James F. Sullivan, George Cruikshank drawings to Marvel comics covers, and much more. Foreword by Jack Williamson. Profusely illustrated with black and white photographs, drawings and reproductions of old newspapers and magazines on every page. Large format. 144 pp. ISBN: 0-517-537222.

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    Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket. (price-clipped.)

    Book ID: 34892
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