New York: Viking Press, 1928. First Thus. 12mo (17.75cm.); publisher's cloth in light tan decorative dust jacket printed in brown and orange; [6],187pp.; frontispiece and decorations throughout. Jacket extremities gently rubbed, small chip at spine crown, spine a bit toned, else Near Fine in Very Good or better jacket. "A..... More

[Los Angeles]: Warner Brothers, 1938. Rare odd-size promotional broadside for the 1938 Warner Brothers exploitation drama "Crime School," starring Humphrey Bogart and the Dead End Kids. In addition to stills and renderings from the film, the piece includes a full plot synopsis - something not included on any of the..... More

New York: Jacobsen Publishing Company, 1939. Novelization of the 1929 Columbia Pictures feature film, directed by Roy William Neill and Starring Ralph Ince and Aileen Pringle. The film was released just a month after the Crash and features, in its climactic scene, the suicide of a Wall Street big-wig by..... More

Gainesville: University Press of Florida, [2005]. First American Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's cloth-backed boards in photo-illustrated dust jacket; xxxvi,266pp.; 16 leaves of illus. printed on rectos and versos. Light shelf wear, faint soil spot to jacket spine, else Near Fine. Biography of the Russian ballet dancer and teacher Agrippina Vaganova..... More

[New York]: Moving Picture Operators Union Local 306 / A.F.L., n.d., ca. 1932. Presumably issued during the 1932 union wars between the New York-based Moving Picture Operators Union Local 306 and the Empire State Motion Picture Union. The dispute came to a head on a Monday evening in early September..... More

Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986. First Edition. "Dostoevsky and Soviet Film blends three major motifs with ease and elegance: an analysis of all films produced in the Soviet Union which used Dostoevsky's fiction, as well as those planned but never realised; a history of the Soviet film industry spanning prerevolutionary..... More

New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, [1970]. First Edition. Oblong quarto (18x26.5cm.); original simulated cloth in photo-illustrated dust jacket; 111pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Jacket extremities a bit shelf worn with a couple short closed tears to top edge of rear panel not approaching text, top textblock edge a bit foxed..... More

New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1980. First Edition. First printing. Folio (40cm.); glossy paper pictorial wrappers depicting Roy Lichtenstein design in full color; 62pp. Text block is yellowing at the edges and margins. Wrappers have slight surface scuffing, and soiling; margins mildly toned. Wrappers are also beginning to separate from..... More

New York: Macmillan Company, 1935. First American Edition. Octavo (19.25cm.); publisher's cloth in yellow and blue decorative dust jacket, dark blue topstain; [10],301pp. Some chipping and wear to jacket extremities, including short tear at bottom of upper jacket flap with subsequent creasing and tiny loss at top fore-edge corner, rear..... More

New Haven: Yale University Press, [2002]. First American Edition. Quarto (28cm.); publisher's boards in glossy photo-illustrated dust jacket; xii,173pp.; illus. throughout, some in color. Pinpoint wear to jacket extremities, else Near Fine. Substantial catalog of an exhibition mounted in Lisbon and Madrid. More

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1936. First Edition. Octavo (19.75cm.); original cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 316pp. Jacket extremities rubbed, closed tears and creasing to top edge of upper panel have been repaired and reinforced with archival tape to verso, some of which is slightly visible from rear panel. Near Fine..... More

Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius, 1938. First Edition. Number 12 in the Haldeman-Julius series "The ABC Library of Living Knowledge." McCabe, best known for his anticlerical writings, here undertakes to demystify the motion picture industry for a working-class audience. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed paper wrappers; 28pp + ads. Text slightly toned, else fine..... More

Westport: Greenwood Press, [2001]. First Edition. Octavo (24cm.); original cloth in black photo-illustrated dust jacket; viii,[2],343pp. Tiny blemish to jacket gloss, minor edge wear, else Very Good to Near Fine. Inscribed and signed by the author on title page in English and Greek. Contributions to the Study of Music and..... More