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Dallinger, Nat.
Unforgettable Hollywood
New York, Quill,
1983, First Edition ed, Hard Cover,
Condition: Very Good, Jacket: Very Good, Nat Dallinger one of "Movieland's" old-timers spent forty years snapping photos of stars in their favorite haunts. While most are candid, none are ordinary (1949 Rock Hudson and Vera-Ellen as they appeared as Mr. and Mrs. Academy Award Oscar, covered in gilt paint at the Hollywood Press Photographers Ball). Hollywood's most glamorous in full page informal settings; with their wives, children, parties, pets; Gable, Garland, Garfield, Barrymore, Bergman, Mitchum, Monroe, Brando, etc. This is a unique book of photos, many you will not see in other similar photography books of old Hollywood: Lana Turner and Jerry Lewis; Gene Kelly and Natalie Wood; Burt Lancaster with Yvonne DeCarlo; Elizabeth Taylor cooking with her mother; Frank Sinatra and Eddie Fisher; Clark Gable on a motorcycle, many, many others. Black cloth boards and spine. DJ not price clipped, white, silver, red and black lettering. 2 inch closed tear to lower edge. All else VG+, very clean, solidly bound. First Edition. 4 to, not paginated
(Hudson, Hollywood, 1950, Nat, Dallinger, Photographer, Still, Photography, Hollywood, Stills, Grouch, Marx) Cat No. 2069.
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24.50
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Le May, Alan.
The Unforgiven
New York, Harper & Bros,
1957, First Edition ed, Hard Cover,
Condition: Fine, Jacket: Near Fine, A magnificent story of the American frontier; and lives of the cattle drivers of theTexas Panhandle in the 1870's. In part a story of an Indian raid at the time of the Kiowa Moon and human courage, desperate guile and violent action. First Edition E-G to copyright, also stated This book was published serially under the title of the Kiowa Moon. Black boards, rifle illustration, tan cloth spine, red lettering. DJ not price clipped, brown, black, tan. Mild soiling to rear dj, front upper edge 1/4 closed tear mild 1 inch crease. In protective brodart mylar. Basis for the 1960 film of the same name starring Burt Lancaster and Audrey Hepburn, directed by John Huston. Collectable condition; clean, tight no writing or inscriptions. 8vo, 245 pages
(Edition, The Unforgiven, First, Edition, Alan, Le, May, Texas, Panhandle, 1870's, Cattle, Drivers, 1800's, Texas, Indian, Raids, 1800's, Kiowa, Moon, Modern, First, Editions, American, Frontier, 1800's, Classic, Westerns, Cattlemen) Cat No. 1633.
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110.00
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Bloch, Robert.
Unholy Trinity; The Scarf, The Dead Beat; The Couch
Santa Cruz, Scream Press,
1986, First Edition ed, Slipcase,
illus: Harry O. Morris, Condition: Fine, Jacket: Fine, Signed by Author Robert Bloch's (1917-1994) First Printing. "This Volume is Number 2 (then, in Bloch's hand) '7 Presenation copies' of 250 Copy Boxed Edition-Signed by Authur and Artist (illustrated by Harry O. Morris); with an additional inscription above "To our darling wife, Elly from both of us-" A one of a kind, copy presented to Bloch's wife. This special omnibus volume presents three pivotal novels in Modern Suspense Fiction; all out of print for over twenty years; Vintage Block at his very best: The Scarf (the origin of which is detailed in the author's foreword); the murderous exploits of a sociopapthic young writer as he uses a string of women to get to the top. (includes a previously suppressed chapter.) The Dead Beat; details another compulsive struggle of upward mobility, this time by a "hep" piano player who cons a naive middle class couple into opening their home to him. The Couch; is not about a psychotic sette but the novelization of his screenplay for the 1961 Blake Edwards produced film. About a mental case, cheerfully undergoing outpatient treatment with an eminent Los Angeles psychiatrist. But! can the good doctor cure a crazy killer who's "feigning" insanity? Bloch's career spanned seven decades of the 20th century. Bloch's most widely known character is Norman Bates from PSYCHO (1959), also wrote as Collier Young American crime and suspense writer who acquired fame with his portrayals of psychopaths. He was seventeen when he sold his first story, 'The Feast in the Abbey', to Weird Tales magazine.Due to the Depression he could not find any other work and between 1934 and 1942 Bloch was a full time writer. Many of his early stories show the influence of Edgar Allan Poe or especially of H.P. Lovecraft, with whom Bloch had correspondence since 1932. "He merely praised what I did," Bloch said in an interview, "and if he made any criticisms, they were always couched as suggestions and largely were about factual matters." Most of the fiction Bloch published between 1935 and 1938 have much connections with the Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. Bloch returned Cthulhu Mythos periodically, also as late as 1979, when STRANGE EONS appeared. After Lovecraft's death in 1937, Bloch broadened the scope of his fiction. His horror themes included voodoo ('Mother of Serpent's), revenge ('The Mandarin's Canaries'), demonic possession (Fiddler's Fee'), and black magic ('Return to the Sabbat'). Bloch's first science fiction story, 'The Secret of the Observatory', was published in Amazing Stories. Bloch also wrote humorous science fiction - he did not know much about hard sciences and considered his work scientific fantasy. By the mid-1940s he had gone through supernatural themes, and he shifted his interest in psychology. In the 1940s Bloch's fiction started to reflect his growing interest in the mind of psychopathic killers, who had entered after WW II widely at the scene of popular culture. Among others in such films as Hitchcock's Spellbound, psychiatric theories were used to explain the behaviour of the characters. 'Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper' (1943) is one of the most famous pieces about the forefather of all serialkillers. The story was published in Weird Tales and have been reprinted in a number of anthologies. This book is in (unread) Condition, it is Mint except that is was opened to be signed. Truly a collector's item. The value of Block's work will only continue to grow, he was one of the most revered writers and novelists of this Genre. 8 vo, 250 pages- Digitals available.
(Trinity, Signed, Robert, Bloch, Signed, Books, Robert, Bloch, First, Edition, Signed, Limited, Edition, Books, Horror, First, Edition, Modern, Horror, Modern, Horror, Abnormal, Psychology, Murder, Stories, Author, Of, Psycho, Famous, Horror, Writers, Presentation, Copies, Robert, Bloch, Presentation, Copy) Cat No. 2042.
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285.00
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Ginzburg, Ralph.
An Unhurried View of Erotica. Introduction By Dr. Theodor Reik. Preface By George Jean Nathan
New York, The Helmsman Press,
1958, First Edition ed, Slipcase,
Condition: Very Good, An exploration of the universal interest Anglo-Saxons had and have in all aspects of sex. It shows the powerful undercurrent of pornography that runs faithfully with the great stream of literature. Following the erotic trend that moves under the surface of literature from its beginning of the ANglo-Saxon Exeter Book (manuscript that gathers the largest collection of Old English poetry. It was given by Bishop Leofric to his cathedral in 1070), until the pornographic work of our time. The author has woven choice expamples of English erotic literature into an interpretive and explanatory context. Bibliography of 100 titles to rear of book. Black cloth boards & spine, lower half of boards, blind stamped decorative 'E' design, gilt lettering to spine. Slipcase, black, rubbing to edges. Tight very clean copy. First Ed.
(Erotic, Literature, Erotica, In English, Literature, Literature, And Sex, Pornography, First, Edition, Pornographic, Literature, Pornography, In Literature) Cat No. 1219.
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17.50
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Stanley, Harry.
Unique Magic
London, London's Magic Centre,
Wraps,
Condition: Fine, Harry Stanley Magician and owner of the famous London Magic Studio on 14 Firth Street. A cataloge for professional & amature magicians, 80 pages of ads: The Red Moon, a new pocket trick; The Thing; Colour Films for Magicians; Gypsy Thread; The Mystic Three; Leipzig's Card Levitation; Silken Bombshell, an astounding visual vanish; Marconick's, Fountain of Silk's; 20th Century Rope and Silks; Mind Control, etc. Fine condition, blue illustrated wraps. sm 4 to. Circa 1960
(Stanley, Magician's, Catalog, Magic, Tricks, Card, Tricks, The Magic, Of, Slydini, The Gen, Magic, Magazine, Vintage, Magic, Trick, Ads, Vintage, Magic, Catalog) Cat No. 2002.
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30.00
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