Cineliteracy: Film among the arts
Random House, January 1978. Oversize Softcover. More
Random House, January 1978. Oversize Softcover. More
Museum of Modern Art, December 1989. Paper Back. More
FOREIGN LANGUAGE, January 1979. Paper Back. {7' X 8'} Wonderful, unique color illustrations. Adapted from the cartoon film of the same name. Mild user wear. Some darkening/foxing. Rubber stamped image of face (that does not belong in book verso of cover. [84 pages]. More
Faber & Faber, March 1989. Trade Paperback. This is an anthology of over 150 pieces by contemporary women writers ranging in tone from innocent to erotic, and from serious to hilarious with pieces by authors such as Erica Jong, Alice Walker and Jayne Anne Phillips. It includes short stories, poetry..... More
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, November 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Out of all the many stars and celebrities Hollywood has produced, only a handful have achieved the fame--and, some would say, infamy--of Orson Welles, the creator and star of what is arguably the greatest American film, Citizen Kane. Many books..... More
Akadine Pr, February 2001. Paper Back. Previous owner's name. More
Fitzhenry & Whiteside/Godwit, 1989. Soft Cover. More
Penguin Group USA Inc, January 1986. Trade Paperback. The Bishop of London called the work 'an open insult upon Religion and good manners' and James Boswell referred to it as 'a most licentious and inflaming book.'. More
G. P. Putnam's Sons, January 1963. First Thus. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass market paperback with bowed, slightly cocked spine. Stated, First paperback edition. [228 pages]. More
First Second, March 2016. Soft Cover. Globetrotting troublemaker Delilah Dirk and her loyal friend Selim are just minding their own business, peacefully raiding castles and traipsing across enemy lines, when they attract the unwanted attention of the English Army. Before they know it, Delilah and Selim have gotten themselves accused..... More
MacMillan Publishing Company, August 1972. Reprint. Paper Back. 12mo. 11th printing of first Aladdin Books edition. Previous owner's name in ink on verso of front cover. [64 pages]. More
Masquerade Books, July 1995. Mass Market PaperBack. More
HarperCollins Publishers, October 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. From Paulo Coelho--celebrated and internationally bestselling author of The Alchemist and several other beloved works of literature--comes a gorgeously designed book of quotes that both diehard fans and newcomers to this popular writer's work will treasure. A beautiful book with four-color artwork by..... More
Capital Transport Publishing/NRM, November 2006. Soft Cover. More
Capital Transport Publishing, January 1999. Soft Cover. More
Miramax Books, May 2001. Hardcover. Now an original movie on Disney+, here is the book that started it all, the international bestseller about a teenage criminal mastermind and his siege against dangerous, tech-savvy fairies. Twelve-year-old criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl has discovered a world below ground of armed and dangerous--and extremely..... More
Scholastic Press, August 2023. Paper Back. Ambition will fuel him. Competition will drive him. But power has its price. It is the morning of the reaping that will kick off the tenth annual Hunger Games. In the Capitol, eighteen-year-old Coriolanus Snow is preparing for his one shot at glory as..... More
Scholastic Press, August 2010. Hardcover. The greatly anticipated final book in the New York Times bestselling Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins. The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge. Who do they think should pay for the unrest?Katniss Everdeen.The final book in The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins..... More
Fireside / Simon & Schuster, 1972. Oversize Softcover. More
20th Century Fox, 1974. Lobby Cards. 8 full color Lobby Cards from Martin Ritt film 'Conrack' all signed by Pat Conroy (author of the novel, 'Conrack'). In very good condition with only very mild edgewear to these beautiful prints. More
Chicken House, April 2011. Trade Paperback. The blockbuster #1 New York Times bestselling modern classic, now with a brand-new cover in anticipation of Book Two in the series! The #1 New York Times Bestseller!With a lonely boy named Ben on board, the brave young dragon Firedrake sets out on a...... More
Random House Inc, April 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Review copy. Review slip laid in. In dustjacket. Front flap not clipped. Half bound. Black cloth covered spine with gold lettering and blue paper covered boards with gold stamped device front panel. First/first, stated, '9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2'..... More
Veloce Publishing, November 2003. Oversized Hardcover. The Pontiac Firebird has earned a unique place amongst speedy domestic cars. It has garnered a reputation for being larger than life and many have come to view it as a large car. Firebird was originally a small US car, classified as a sport..... More
Allen & Unwin Academic, September 2004. Trade Paperback. Mathematics and sex may make odd bedfellows, but this fun, flirty look at the relationship between the two subjects shows that they are closely related. Revealing the ways in which math can help unlock the secrets of love, lust, and life's search..... More
Islandport Press, October 2020. Oversized Hardcover. Maine lawmaker Cleveland Sleeper loved steamy, creamy, dreamy clam chowder. Thoughts of tomatoes in his chowder made him see red. So he proposed a bill to make it a crime to add tomatoes to clam chowder. New Yorkers were offended! A war of words..... More
Edition Olms, November 2008. Oversized Hardcover. "Vogue "magazine named her the queen of the burlesque revival, and "Vanity Fair" calls her a burlesque superheroine. She's integral to the underground fetish scene, yet she's front and center at every buzzed-about fashion show. Today's Bettie Page has transcended such cultural barriers with..... More
Europa Editions, August 2020. Trade Paperback. Book Two in the Internationally Bestselling Mirror Visitor QuartetWINNER of the 2021 Prix Albertine Jeunesse In book two of the bestselling Mirror Visitor Quartet, "the plots multiply, the world of the Arks gains depth, details abound, and the story envelops the reader as the..... More
Chronicle Books (CA), April 1999. Oversize Softcover. The covers of children's books dazzle us with art, enchantment, and boldly creative designs. This is especially true of books created during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, what could be called the golden age of children's book publishing. During this time..... More
Chartwell Books Inc., May 1984. First Edition. Cloth. First/first (US); Quarto {8 & 1/2' x 9 & 3/4'}; sound binding with unmarked interior pages. Dustjacket has moderate darkening and cloudy tanning. Black clothcovered boards with gold lettering. (216 pages). More
Push, June 2021. Hardcover. Everything happens for a reason. At least that's what everyone keeps telling Liam Cooper after his older brother Ethan is killed suddenly in a hit-and-run. Feeling more alone and isolated than ever, Liam has to not only learn to face the world without one of the..... More
Directors Guild of America, December 1998. First Edition. Oversize Softcover. Moderate shelfwear and bumped corners. Signed and dedicated by the author on the half title page. More
G. Braziller, January 1971. First Edition. Cloth. First/first US. Stated, first printing. Octavo in edgeworn dustjacket with small splotch of damp staining verso of front jacket panel and some black ink transfer.Moderate darkening/foxing to DJ verso. Flap is not clipped. Black cloth covered boards with stamped magenta foil & silver..... More
Collins Reference, October 2006. Paper Back. Did you know that school originally meant "free time"? Or that a gymnasium was originally a "nude practice area"? Or that nachos are named after Ignacio "Nacho" Anaya, who created them? The fascinating stories of these words and over three hundred more are told..... More
Bantam Classics, January 1991. Mass Market PaperBack. Written deliberately to increase the circulation of Dickens's weekly magazine, Household Words, Hard Times was a huge and instantaneous success upon publication in 1854. Yet this novel is not the cheerful celebration of Victorian life one might have expected from the beloved author..... More
National Geographic Society, 1975. Reprint. Cloth. 4th edition. Large folio. {12 & 1/2' x 19'} In dustjacket with edgewear with small tears and chipping along edges. Foxing/tanning, including, especially heavy to verso. Some creasing. Quarter binding with denim blue cloth covering spine side and aegean blue cloth covers boards on..... More
SilverWood Books, January 2010. Oversized Hardcover. Tiny bump at spine heel beginning to fray; else, near fine. More
Nicholson and Bass Limited. Hardcover. Tight binding; Clean, sturdy boards; Pages free of markings; Un-clipped dust jacket Very Good w/ no significant flaws to disclose; Jacket now housed in protective mylar to ensure further preservation; An excellent copy. More
HarperCollins Publishers, April 1984. Hardcover. Previous owner's name. More
Buckethead Enterprises of Oz, 1986. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Octavo. White card stock cover with lettering & illustrations in red & black inks. Foxing within white background areas of cover. Dust stains top edge. Title is not common. [172 pages]. More
John Wiley & Sons Inc, December 1991. Trade Paperback. As is. Title page price clipped. More
Oxford University Press, USA, July 1979. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Octavo. Sun-bleached spine. Well worn. Previous reader's name written in ink upon half title page. [386 pages]. More
Gramercy, (1959). Hardcover. A little foxing, but overall, a clean, solid copy. More
Wordsworth Editions Ltd, May 1997. Paper Back. Previous owner's name. More
HP Trade, 1985. First Thus. Paper Back. Quarto. Clean, sound. [96 pages]. More
HP Trade, 1985. First Thus. Paper Back. Quarto. Mild shelfwear. Top right corner bending slightly. Heavily sun-bleached spine. [96 pages]. More
Stoeger Pub Co, November 1992. Oversize Softcover. Legendary Sporting Rifles covers a vast span of time and technology beginning with the Kentucky Longrifle -- the firearm of Colonial America -- followed by other early rifles such as the Plains Rifle, Hunt, Jennings and Volcanic Rifles. More
Weiser Books, August 2004. Trade Paperback. Next to Rosslyn Chapel in Scotland, no other place on Earth holds as much esoteric symbolism as France's Rennes le Ch'teau. Its location and design are the subjects of countless rumors, myths, and legends. Mysteries of Templar Treasure and the Holy Grail, formerly published..... More
Atheneum/Richard Jackson Books, September 2002. Hardcover. More
Atria Books, April 2005. Oversize Softcover. Now in paperback, an intimate look at the woman the world adored, by the son who adored her with unique photos, drawings, and other rare Audrey memorabilia. She dazzled millions as Gigi. Eliza Doolittle. Holly Golightly. But to her most adoring fan, Audrey Hepburn..... More
simon & schuster, April 0196. First Edition. Hardcover. First/first U.S. edition in tattered, torn jacket with darkened spine and jacket edges. Front flap is clipped bottom corner. This is an advance review copy with review slip laid in. Otherwise it is just an ordinary hardcover edition. It is not a...... More
Back Bay Books, November 1994. Trade Paperback. Anais Nin was the ultimate femme fatale, a passionate and mysterious woman, world famous for her steamy love affairs and extravagant sexual exploits, most notably her simultaneous affairs with Henry and June Miller and her bicoastal bigamous marriages. In the mid-1920s, eager to..... More
Lulu.com, December 2009. Trade Paperback. Fitzgerald humorously takes on our present-day cultural and political vices, follies and shortcomings-i.e. American stupidity. A young California evolutionary biologist, Dr. Alexander Hayward, sets about to find out WHY so much stupidity is afoot in our country these days. The author wittily navigates the reader..... More
Hill & Wang, October 1968. Cloth. Octavo. Dustjacket missing. Cedar colored cloth with gold lettering on spine. Previous owner's name inked fep. 5th printing. [436 pages]. More
Brandon House, January 1965. Mass Market PaperBack. Mild user wear. Faint foxing. 248 pages. More
Moffat, Yard & Co., 1919. First Edition. Cloth. Three Color Plates. Discoloration to boards especially at bottom edge & bow to boards. Interiors clean. Binding intact. More
Speak, April 2010. Trade Paperback. The critically acclaimed, bestselling novel from Gayle Forman, author of Where She Went, Just One Day, and Just One Year. Soon to be a major motion picture, starring Chloe Moretz! In the blink of an eye everything changes. Seventeen -year-old Mia has no memory of..... More
Ertel Publishing, Inc., November 2004. First Edition. Paper Back. Documents the appealing, high-performance AMC cars. Starting with the 1951 Nash-Healey, then the Hudson Hornet, Nash Ambassador "Le Mans", the awesome 1957 Rambler Rebel, the 1966-1969 Rambler American Rogue, the Rebel Machine, AMX, 1969 Scrambler, 1971 Hornet SC360, 1972-1975 V8 Gremlin..... More
Henry Holt & Company, November 1987. Oversized Hardcover. Published in Association with the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This unique collection of children's songs is lavishly illustrated with works of art drawn from the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The selections range from nursery songs and folk songs to..... More
Howard Baker, January 1978. Hardcover. More
Howard Baker, January 1977. Hardcover. More
Guldstrand Motor Productions, January 2003. Hardcover. Quarto {9 & 3/4' x 11 & 3/4} Slick black covered boards with gold lettering along spine and on front cover. Lightly tanned end papers with even lighter rubbing. Tightly bound. In stiff cardstock slipcase wrapped in golden fabric with blue foil lettering. With..... More
National Book Pub. Co, January 1964. Soft Cover. Quarto. Soiling & discoloration to exteriors. Clean text. Title is hand written on spine. Nasty white supremacy spew. More
Motorbooks Intl, November 1989. Oversize Softcover. More
CarTech, November 2005. Oversized Hardcover. Stock car racing in the 1960s featured intense behind the scenes battles between the factories, rules makers, track owners, promoters, and racing teams. Everyone was trying to keep up with the rapid year-to-year changes that brought more cubic inches, more horsepower, smoother shapes, and faster..... More
HarperCollins, September 2008. Reprint. Hardcover. The original hardcover edition of a perennial favorite, The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, which has sold more than one million copies and is the only novel to win both the Newbery Medal and the Carnegie Medal. Bod is an unusual boy who inhabits an..... More
E. C. Publications, December 1958. First Edition. Magazine. 8' x 10 & 3/4'; stapled magazine; mild toning; two stapled intact; clean, without markings; creases back panel of cover. Back cover top left corner torn off (one & 1/2-inch piece). (48 pages). More
E.C. Publications, January 1958. Paper Back. Eight-inch x Ten & 3/4-inch; cover worn; front with tiny (1/8th-inch) closed tears fore-edge; toning & curl along stapled edge. Center fold , pages 23 through 26 strained at staples with 3/4-inch closed tears, but pages remain attached & intact. Also small finger-nail clipping..... More
Atria Books, November 2005. First Edition. Novelty. With a willingness to go where no book has gone before, 'A Piece of Cake' is a sexual handbook for the 21st century woman. Based on interviews with some of the thousands of women involved with the CAKE organisation, this is a sex..... More
Creative Therapeutics, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Oblong 12mo. Pictorial paper covered boards with color illustrations by Frank Richmond. Mild dust staining & foxing to cover and textblock top edge. Tanning & dust stains to end papers. Sound binding. [108 pages]. More
Faber and Faber, October 2002. Hardcover. More
Midnight Marquee Press, May 2010. Oversize Softcover. This issue, Midnight Marquee #77, offers two feature articles. One a "Forum/Against 'Em" analysis of the James Whale Universal classic The Invisible Man, with many arguing it remains the best film that Whale directed and features the best use of humor in classic..... More
Simon & Schuster, February 2019. Trade Paperback. "Erica Garza has written a riveting, can't-look-away memoir of a life lived hardcore...In an era when predatory male sexual behavior has finally become a topic of urgent national discourse...Getting Off makes for a wild, timely read" (Elle). A fixation on porn and orgasm..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, June 1999. Trade Paperback. Education of the Senses draws on a vast array of primary sources to reexamine nineteenth-century sexual behavior, overturning a number of stereotypes, especially about women and sexuality. The most learned, as well as the wittiest survey of human sexuality ever to..... More
Nashoba Publications, January 1993. Paper Back. Cream colored softcover. No title on spine. More
Dover Publications, June 1975. Paper Back. Guides novice in mastering 36 tricks; 16 pages of cut-out materials. 36 additional tricks. 64 illustrations. This would be good or even very good, but at least one leaf is missing from bonus magic apparatus' section bound in rear for this edtion. Otherwise sound..... More
Merit Press, January 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Fourteen-year-old April May Manning spent her life on airplanes with her flight attendant parents. When her father dies in a crash, April's mom marries a pilot who turns out to be an abusive jerk, and gets Mom confined to a psychiatric hospital. So..... More
Merit Press, June 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. April Mae Manning from Unaccompanied Minor is back, and back in trouble, but this time, she's run out of chances... April Mae was raised on airplanes by her flight-attendant parents. But since her dad's death and her mom's remarriage to the nefarious pilot..... More
Echo Point Books & Media, February 2014. Oversize Softcover. Once upon a time, there was a guy named Max Balchowsky who decided he wanted to beat Ferrari and Jaguar at their own game-road racing. The trouble was, he didn't have the cash for a factory racer. So he built his..... More
Van Nostrand Reinhold, June 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Some shelf wear and a small 3mm closed tear on the jacket. Signed by the author, ' To John Wiley, Super pilot, writer and friend' on the front free endpaper. Mylar wrapped to protect. More
Dell Publishing Company, October 1967. First Thus. Mass Market PaperBack. First Dell printing. Reprinted from Doubleday & Co., 1966 edition. Moderate shelfwear, edgewear with bowed spine. Textblock edges tinted Cyan blue. Creased lower corners of covers front & rear.[320 pages]. More
Routledge & Dutton, (circa 1910). Hardcover. Fourth edition. Covers badly worn, faded and soiled; pages foxed; previous owners' names in front; binding tender. Not an attractive copy, but a complete, thorough work with excellent illustrations throughout. More
David R Godine Publishing, September 1988. First Edition. Cloth. First/first in chipped, torn, edgeworn jacket. Octavo. Blue textured paper covered spine wit siliver lettering. Beige paper covered boards. Previous owner's name inked fep. Tight bindng. [288 pages]. More
Random House Reference Publishing, April 1990. Trade Paperback. Previous owner's name. More
Clarke Historical Library/Central Michigan University, 1976. Cloth. Octavo. No dustjacket. Orange cloth covered boards with stamped gold lettering along spine. Tight binding. Clean & sound. Illustrated best known for his work on books by L. Frank Baum. [225 pages]. More
Grove Pr. Mass Market PaperBack. Top corner of rear cover and last 80 pages ragged; still a complete, readable copy. More
MacMillan, January 1938. Cloth. {7' x 9'} Orange cloth covered boards with black lettering in ornate black border on front panel. Spine is without lettering. Dustjacket is missing. One and one-half inch diameter black stain center of front board. Moderate wear to boards. Bruised corners. Heavily tanned end pages. More
Skira Rizzoli, April 2010. Oversized Clothbound. This work presents some of the world's most brilliantly conceived cars from the 1930s to the mid-1960s, the 'Golden Age' of car-making, including masterpieces by Bugatti, Duesenberg, Jaguar, Mercedes-Benz, Porsche, Ferrari, Alfa Romeo, and others. A celebration of the finest designs of the Golden..... More
Bobbs Merrill, January 1961. Reprint. Hardcover. {6 & 1/4 x 9 & 1/4'} Heavily edgeworn paper covered pictorial boards with scribbles & soiling to rear panel. Previous owner's bookplate affixed to front yellow pastedown and non-authorial inscription in ballpoint on yellow f.f.e.p. [95 pages]. More
Krause Publications, June 2002. Paper Back. Embrace the thundering horsepower of Firebird, Pontiac's number one performance car, in this full-colour reference featuring comprehensive coverage of every Firebird built from 1967 to 2002. Owners and fans will enjoy tracking the evolution through hundreds of colour photographs while learning about their favourite..... More
The International Wizard of Oz Club, 1988. First Edition. Soft Cover. Octavo. {5' x 7 & 1/2'} Sunned spine. Brown cardstock cover with black ink. [105 pages]. More
Hmh Books for Young Readers, January 1973. Hardcover. This book brings together for the first time in one volume the best stories of Joel Chandler Harris. "Chosen with care from seven different books, this is a well-made collection, the more welcome because some of the stories have long been out..... More
D. Appleton & Company, 1891. Reprint. Cloth. Octavo. Brown cloth heavily worn. Torn toward bottom of spine. Leaning spine. Gold lettering and illustration. Starting to split at gutter of front free end page. [231 pages]. More
The Heritage Press, 1957. Reprint. Cloth. Small quarto in dark brown slipcase that is heavily worn with bits of flaking. Case is heavy cardstock. Brown cloth covered boards with brown title and illustration framed within black rectangle on spine and front panel. {158 pages] The Heritage Club newsletter, Sandglass, Number..... More
Houghton, Mifflin and Company / Riverside Cambridge Press, 1899. Reprint. Cloth. 12mo. -- Four & 3/4-inch x Seven & 1/2-inch; Early reprint, published approximately 1899; missing date on title page indicates this is not a first printing. Green cloth covered boards with wear to edges, darkening/dust stains. Gold lettering on..... More
Aspen Publishers, May 2002. Paper Back. Ideally suited for child-focused courses that deal with the juvenile justice system or child-parent-state issues, this concise new casebook offers a perfect balance of scope and depth. More
Grove Press, 1963. First Thus. Cloth. Bound in heavy green cloth illustrated with line drawings on the front board and spine. Lettered in gold. Red endpapers. Very light rubbing on the edges of the boards. Jacket has a few small closed tears. Mylar wrapped to preserve. Excellent Grove Press edition..... More
McGraw-Hill Book Companies, January 1965. Paper Back. More
Longman, 1989. Paper Back. A practical, reference book for students and teachers which helps the user to avoid or correct those errors frequently made by foreign learners of English. It contains over 1700 common errors in alphabetical order, each entry contains an example of the error, a correct version and..... More
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1902. Reprint. Cloth. Early reprint of classic historical novel. Red cloth with black lettering and black & silver decorative illustrations. Black tinted textblock edges. Front free end page is torn at gutter about two inches starting at bottom edge. 8 illustrated plates, including frontispiece. And 3 illustrated..... More
Arcadia Publishing Library Editions, April 2003. Hardcover. From the August 1957 VIR race program: "The rolling Virginia hills have been painstakingly clad with an ultra-smooth skin of macadam to provide a course of great natural beauty. The superb spectator visibility is nicely equated to a road layout that will test..... More