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.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1986.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A balanced and thoroughly researched biography of this woman, who was one of the most prominent screenwriters and playwrights of the 20th century, but is perhaps even better known for her 30 year long affair with detective story writer Dashiell Hammett and her left-wing politics, and her literary memoirs. Notes, index. 507 pp, plus 16 pp of photographs. ISBN: 0-671526871.

New York: Davis Publications / Dial Press, (1981) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of 24 stories by August Derleth, Bill Pronzini, Clark Howard, Helen Neilson, John Lutz, Margaret Maron and others. Includes the Alfred Hitchcock Photo Quiz by Peter Christian. 349 pp. ISBN: 0-803700288.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986. dj. Hardcover first edition - Both the biography of her mother, Lena Horne (from her first appearances at the Cotton Club and New York Cafe Society to her departure for Hollywood, where she became the first true black movie star) and the story of several generations of her family, from the matriach who was able to buy her own freedom from slavery, to the to Frank Horne, Lena's uncle, a poet during the Harlem Renaissance and a member of FDR's "Black Cabinet" and to Lena herself. This is also the story of the influential black bourgeoisie - what Du Bois called 'the talented tenth' - from emancipation to the civil rights movement. Photographs. xii. 262 pp. ISBN: 0-394513061.

Los Angeles: Sherbourne Press, (1965.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED by Nolan on the title page. Biography of the controversial and award-winning director, covering the entire span of his career. Illustrated with photographs. Two appendixes: The Projects of John Huston: Films and Plays 1931-1965, and A Huston Bibliography. 247 pp, Review copy with publisher's slip laid in.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - Autobiography of the African American actor, James Earl Jones, who came from a family of farmers and sharecroppers in Mississippi who lived twelve to a house, but went on to became one of the great actors of our time. Photographs, chronology of his career and roles, index. xxii 393 pp. ISBN: 0-684195135.

New York: St Martin's, (1981) dj. Hardcover - A Toby Peters mystery - set in the Golden Days of Hollywood, and against the backdrop of World War II, with Gary Cooper and Ernest Hemingway taking the star turns. 186 pp.

New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2006) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's third mystery - Biographer and amateur sleuth Cece Caruso's book on Dashiell Hammett is headed for the big screen. SIGNED on the title page. 324 pp. ISBN: 0-060581093.

New York: Bloomsbury, (2007) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Part guidebook and part biography, this is a wonderfully offbeat look at femininity and empowerment in 20th century America as embodied in the career of Katherine Hepburn. INSCRIBED "For--Turtlenecks rock, as we know. enjoy!" 193 pp. ISBN: 13579108642.

New York: Ives Washburn Publishers, 1934. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of poetry by the son of early movie mogul, Jesse Lasky (among other things, co-founder of Paramount Pictures), who was himself a very sucessful screenwriter. Presentation copy INSCRIBED "To Julius and 'Hattie' Evans - in memory of the merry mornings at 'Mother Lubin's' - Best of luck." 59 pp.

Tucson: University of Arizona, American Indian Studies Program, 1995. First edition - Red Ink was a literary journal focused on the stories, art, poetry, and essays of Native American students, and which was published for 25 years, from 1990-2015. This issue includes articles on American Indian identity by Frederick Lomayesva, on films by Brent Michael Davids. Words of the Wind by Adrienne King, photo essay by Annetta Sapier, book reviews, notes on contributors and more. Large format. 46 pp.

New York: Macmillan, 1914. Hardcover first edition - A novel partially based on London's voyage around Cape Horn in 1912 - it is unfortunately marred by overt racism and the concept of white supremacy (those in command on the ship are fair-skinned, while those who toil are of the 'swarthy races.' Color frontispiece. Basis for three films. 378 pp.

New York: St Martin's, (1994.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A Hobart Lindsay / Marvia Plum mystery, set in the world of early independent black film-making. SIGNED on the title page. Author's note, 264 pp. Dust jacket art by Earl Keleny. ISBN: 0-312-113323.

New York: St Martin's, (1994.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A Hobart Lindsay / Marvia Plum mystery, set in the world of early independent black film-making. SIGNED on the title page. Author's note, 264 pp. Dust jacket art by Earl Keleny. ISBN: 0-312-113323.

New York: St Martin's, (1994.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The third Hobart Lindsay / Marvia Plum mystery, set in Oakland, California and involving the making of a movie about black World War II pilots - the Tuskegee airmen. Introduction by Jane Langton SIGNED by the author. Author's note, 272 pp. Dust jacket art by Earl Keleny. ISBN: 0-312-113323.

New York: Oxford University Press, (1991). Hardcover first edition - Biography of the author of "Gone With the Wind" - one which explores how her Southern upbringing, in which she was imbued from childhood with tales of the Civil War, affected the novel. Overall a sympathetic and perceptive look at a woman who in many ways defied the cultural expectations of her time. Photographs. Notes, index. xix, 533 pp. ISBN: 0-195052765.

Boston: Little Brown, (2010.). First edition - The ninth book by this award winning writer - a hilarious novel which 'vividly imagines a low-down darkly comic future, as inspired by a drive-in movie classic.' 725 pp.

Boston: Little Brown, (2010.). First edition - The ninth book by this award winning writer - a hilarious novel which 'vividly imagines a low-down darkly comic future, as inspired by a drive-in movie classic.' 725 pp.

New York: Grand Central, (2011.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Not exactly your usual autobiography, this contains 24 far-ranging and stranger than fiction vignettes mostly from his early life but up through his controversial Oscar acceptance speech. Funny and thought-provoking. Illustrated with photographs. 427 pp. . ISBN: 9780446532242.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2011) dj. Hardcover first edition - Spanning more than ninety years, this is an account of "Rin Tin Tin's journey from orphaned puppy to movie star and international icon.It begins on a battlefield in France during World War I, when a young American soldier, Lee Duncan, discovered a newborn German shepherd in the ruins of a bombed-out dog kennel." Photographs. Notes on sources. 324 pp. ISBN: 978-1439190135.

Portland, OR: Collectors Press, (1999.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An oversized and lavishly full color illustrated history of 20th-century science fiction - "with images of film posters, magazines, and books - many shown here for the first time [this book] offers an insider's view of the prophetic writers, illustrators and editors who made science fiction the most popular form of entertainment in the 20th century." SIGNED on the title page by both the author Frank Robinson and one of the illustrators whose work is featured in the book - Boris Vallejo. Large heavy folio. Index. 256 pp. ISBN: 1888054298.

Portland, OR: Collectors Press for Barnes and Noble, (1999.). An oversized and lavishly full color illustrated history of 20th-century science fiction - "with images of film posters, magazines, and books - many shown here for the first time [this book] offers an insider's view of the prophetic writers, illustrators and editors who made science fiction the most popular form of entertainment in the 20th century." Large folio. Index. 256 pp. ISBN: 1888054298.

New York: Atheneum, (1990). Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, set in Berlin, in early 1933 as the Nazi regime is gaining power, and Jews, radicals, and other undesirables are leaving the city. Based on film director Fritz Lang and his wife Thea. Praise from Thomas Pychon, among others, who called it "daringly imagined and darkly romantic - a moral thriller." Review copy with publisher's material laid in. 211 pp. ISBN: 0-689120907.

Tucson: University of Arizona, American Indian Studies Program, 1996. First edition - Red Ink was a literary journal focused on the stories, art, poetry, and essays of Native American students, and which was published for 25 years, from 1990-2015. This issue includes articles on Indian gaming by Robert Morin, on memories of memories of Eskimo culture by Mary Jane Litchard. archeology on the rez by Al Livingston, poetry by Nantiki Rose, Cindi Landrum, E. K Kim Caldwell, art by Jessica Estrada, book reviews, notes on contributors and more. Large format. 98 pp. Cover art by Leonard Chana.

New York: Facts On File, Inc., 1995. A reference to the creatures of science fiction. The ultimate encyclopedia of the unimaginable, featuring over 100 illustrations and a user-friendly format. Includes accounts of superheroes and spacecraft from places and times unknown. Introduction, Guide for the Reader, 5 Appendices, Index. 372 pgs. ISBN: 0-8160-31134.

New York: Da Capo Press, (2016). First edition - This biography, by the author of the classic book on the Manson cult, "The Family" "takes a close look at Tate's lifeÑfrom her itinerant childhood and early career in fashion to her transition to film, passionate marriage to the brilliant and troubled Roman Polanski, and violent murder at the hands of the Manson family cult. Sanders's 'Sharon Tate' offers new insights into what happened on the night of her death and explores new motives for the targeting of the Polanski household." IIlustrated with drawings by Rick Veitch and photographs. 271 pp.

New York: Harper & Row, (1978) dj. Hardcover first edition - Autobiography of this French film actress, originally published in France in 1976. index. vii, 403 pp. ISBN: 0-060139862.

South Brunswick & New York / London: A. S. Barnes / The Trinity Press, (1977.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Uncommon first edition of this important study of "the most potent symbol of Japanese film to the Western filmgoer," that of the samurai, especially as exemplified in the films of Akira Kurosawa. Includes chapters on the major themes - the blind - blind swordfighters, rebellion, slayers - and more - Illustrated throughout with photographic stills. Glossary of Japanese terms, bibliography, filmographies and index; 242 pp. ISBN: 0-498-01349-9.

Charlottesville, VA: Thomasson-Grant, (1994) dj. Hardcover first edition - "In the most outrageous volume of his eight-part 'Hollywood' series, editor J. C. Suares has assembled a brilliant and daring collection of vintage and contemporary photograps by Tinseltown's most celebrated photographers." Two books published back to back and reversed (one half shows male cinema stars in drag, the other half female). 80 pp. ISBN: 1-565660560.