What Turns Women On
Penthouse/Ballantine, January 1974. Paper Back. Minor scuffing on top and bottom of spine. More
Miscellaneous
The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana
Capricorn Books, 1963. Trade Paperback. A bit warped. More
Ticking Clock: Behind the Scenes at 60 Minutes
St. Martin's Press, February 2021. Hardcover. Two-time Peabody Award-winning writer and producer Ira Rosen reveals the intimate, untold stories of his decades at America's most iconic news show. It's a 60 Minutes story on 60 Minutes itself. When producer Ira Rosen walked into the 60 Minutes offices in June 1980..... More
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6)
Scholastic, Inc., July 2005. Hardcover. As the Harry Potter sequence draws to a close, Harry's most dangerous adventure yet is just beginning . . . and it starts July 16, 2005. We could tell you, but then we'd have to Obliviate your memory. More
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Book 5)
Arthur A. Levine Books, June 2003. Hardcover. The next volume in the thrilling, moving, bestselling Harry Potter series will reach readers June 21, 2003 -- and it's been worth the wait! We could tell you, but then we'd have to Obliviate your memory. More
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7)
Arthur A. Levine Books, July 2007. Hardcover. It all comes down to this - a final faceoff between good and evil. You plan to pull out all the stops, but every time you solve one mystery, three more evolve. Do you stay the course you started, despite your lack of..... More
Losey on Losey
Doubleday & Company, January 1968. Paper Back. Clean, sound, with mild wear. More
Agee on film: Five film scripts by James Agee (BP 173)
Beacon Press, 1964. Paper Back. Clean, sound, without markings. No underlining. No side-notes. Very good+ reading copy. More
The South Never Plays Itself: A Film Buff’s Journey Through the South on Screen
NewSouth Books, December 2020. Hardcover. From The Birth of a Nation to Forrest Gump, from the bayou to the Appalachians, American filmmakers have been fascinated by the South since the invention of the medium. Deeply complex and often mysterious, the character of the South makes for compelling stories, and The..... More
Unfinished: A Memoir
Ballantine Books, February 2021. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - In this thoughtful and revealing memoir, readers will accompany one of the world's most recognizable women on her journey of self-discovery. "I have always felt that life is a solitary journey, that we are each on a train, riding through..... More
Encyclopaedia Britannica, Eleventh & Twelfth Editions
Encyclopoedia Britannica Company, 1910- 1922. Hardcover. Gilt-titled maroon cloth. Minimal shelf wear. Complete 32-volume set includes volumes 1-29 (the 11th Edition, from 1910-11), plus volumes 30-32 (the 12th Edition, from 1922). More
Cléo de 5 a 7 (BFI Film Classics)
British Film Institute, May 2020. Paper Back. Cléo de 5 à 7 (Cléo from 5 to 7), Agnes Varda's classic 1962 work depicts, in near real-time, 90 minutes in the life of Cléo, a young woman in Paris awaiting the results of medical tests that she fears will confirm a...... More
Mike Nichols: A Life
Penguin Press, February 2021. Hardcover. An instant New York Times Bestseller! A magnificent biography of one of the most protean creative forces in American entertainment history, a life of dazzling highs and vertiginous plunges--some of the worst largely unknown until now--by the acclaimed author of Pictures at a Revolution and..... More
Fred Rogers: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (The Last Interview Series)
Melville House, February 2021. Paper Back. Fred Rogers's gentle spirit and passion for children's television takes center stage in this collection of interviews spanning his nearly forty-year career Nearly twenty years after his death, Fred Rogers remains a source of comfort and fond memories for generations who grew up watching..... More
Hatless Man: 8an Anthology of Odd and Forgotten Manners
Viking Books, September 1995. First Edition. Cloth. Etiquette manuals were the self-help books of the past. These 600 excerpts, with revealing social commentary, afford a telling glimpse into the ballrooms, bedrooms, and streets of the 19th and 20th centuries. Here are manners for everyone from sweethearts and servants to dancers..... More
Male Daughters, Female Husbands: Gender and Sex in an African Society
Zed Books, October 1987. Trade Paperback. Challenging the received orthodoxies of social anthropology, Ifi Amadiume argues that in precolonial society, sex and gender did not necessarily coincide. Examining the structures that enabled women to achieve power, she shows that roles were neither rigidly masculinized nor feminized. Economic changes in colonial..... More
Fanny and Alexander: The full text of Bergman's last, great film.
Pantheon, May 1983. First Thus. Paper Back. First American Edition. Previous owner's 'From the Library of' type emblem blind-stamped half title page. There is an inked signature on this same page and also on the page opposite the copyright page. (216 pages) Overall very good+. More
The Marriage Scenarios: Scenes from a Marriage; Face to Face; Autumn Sonata
Pantheon, May 1983. First Thus. Paper Back. First American paperback edition. Previous owner's name inked inside on two separate pages: half title page & contents page. There is also a blind stamped 'Library of' emblem also on half title page. Small tear to fore-edge of firt 14 or so pages..... More
Ticking Clock: Behind the Scenes at 60 Minutes
St. Martin's Press, February 2021. Hardcover. Two-time Peabody Award-winning writer and producer Ira Rosen reveals the intimate, untold stories of his decades at America's most iconic news show. It's a 60 Minutes story on 60 Minutes itself. When producer Ira Rosen walked into the 60 Minutes offices in June 1980..... More
Stick Dog
HarperCollins, January 2013. Hardcover. Introducing everyone's new best friend: Stick Dog! Don't miss the very first book in this bestselling funny illustrated series. He'll make you laugh...he'll make you cry...but above all, he'll make you hungry! Follow Stick Dog as he goes on an epic quest for the perfect burger..... More
The Big Sleep (BFI Film Classics)
British Film Institute, November 2020. Paper Back. The Big Sleep: Marlowe and Vivian practising kissing; General Sternwood shivering in a hothouse full of orchids; a screenplay, co-written by Faulkner, famously mysterious and difficult to solve. Released in 1946, Howard Hawks' adaptation of Raymond Chandler reunited Bogart and Bacall and gave..... More
Near Dark (BFI Film Classics)
British Film Institute, October 2020. Paper Back. First released in 1987, Near Dark is a vampire film set in the contemporary American Midwest that tells the story of Caleb, a half-vampire trying to decide whether to embrace his vampire nature or return to his human family. The film, an early..... More
The Seventh Seal (BFI Film Classics)
British Film Institute, November 2020. Paper Back. The Seventh Seal is probably Bergman's best-known work and the film that most clearly bears the director's unmistakeable signature. The opening scene sets the tone: a stony beach under a leaden sky, the knight alone with his thoughts, then the approach of black-clad..... More
Just as I Am: A Memoir
HarperCollins Publishers, January 2021. Hardcover. "In her long and extraordinary career, Cicely Tyson has not only succeeded as an actor, she has shaped the course of history." -President Barack Obama, 2016 Presidential Medal of Freedom ceremony Just As I Am is my truth. It is me, plain and unvarnished, with..... More
Semantic Antics: How and Why Words Change Meaning
Random House Reference Publishing, April 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. A fun, new approach to examining etymology Many common English words started out with an entirely different meaning than the one we know today. For example: The word adamant came into English around 855 B.C. as a synonym for 'diamond, '..... More
