Item 2796Night Bus
New York: Dell, 1951. first thus. mass market paperback. 16mo unpaginated. Dell 10¢ Book 3. see pictures for synopsis. Scarce copy. #02861.
TV/film/radio
Item 2598Gertrude Lawrence as Mrs Q
New York: Greystone Press, 1954. hardcover. 8vo 414pp. from front flap: "Here is the intimate true story of a magnificent romance of our time--the love and marriage of two vivid, fascinating personalities: cockney-born Gertrude Lawrence, adored star of the English and American theatre, and Richard Aldrich, proper New Englander and.....
Item 1754Communication
Harcourt Brace and World. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 116pp. history of forms of communication for young readers. #01816.
Item 2696The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
New York: Bantam Books, 1958. mass market paperback. 16mo 199pp. 6th printing 1958. see pictures for synopsis. #02761.
Item 3241The History of Popular Culture . . . Since 1815
New York: Macmillan Company, 1968. first thus. softcover. 8vo 390pp. stated first printing. see pictures for selection of contents. #03306.
Item 2729The Brighter Buccaneer
New York: Fiction Publishing Company. mass market paperback. 16mo 160pp. see pictures for synopsis. #02794.
Item 3215The Industry
New York: Times Books, 1981. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 278pp. from front flap: "Saul David's The Industry is a narrative gem, the very funny and astonishingly perceptive memoirs of a New Yorker-turned-Hollywood-movie-maker, a sophisticated Easterner suddenly seduced, abandoned, and in charge of production among the movie industry movers and doers.....
Item 2453From the Bowery to Broadway:
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993. first edition. hardcover. 4to 552pp. with a foreword by Helen Hayes. from front flap: "From the Bowery to Broadway offers a panoramic view of the early history of the American popular theater through the career of a consummate showman. In the half-century between his stage.....
Item 2198Good Night, Sweet Prince
New York: Viking Press, 1944. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 474pp. biography of the stage, silent and sound film star John Barrymore by his friend Gene Fowler, published shortly after Barrymore's death. #02263.
Item 2893Due to Circumstances Beyond Our Control. . .
New York: Random House, 1967. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 325pp. stated first printing. from front flap: "Because television can make so much money doing its worst, it often cannot afford to do its best." This paradox summarizes the dilemma of commercial television today, and is the theme of this "occupational.....
Item 1835The Vulnerable Americans
Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, 1966. first edition. hardcover. 8vo from front flap: "A delightful, utterly fascinating expose of the entire spectrum of modern swindles--huge and small-time--from fake TV advertising and "discount" bargains to bogus door-to-door salesmen and the latest wrinkle in the phony credit card racket. Writing.....
Item 3210More In Sorrow
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1954. hardcover. 8vo 308pp. second printing October 1958. from front flap: "For thirty-odd years, Wolcott Gibbs has been diverting readers of The New Yorker ("a magazine of modest but genteel circulation") with his incomparable parodies, profiles, short stories, and theater reviews. He has, during.....
Item 3167Tinsel
New York: Delacorte Press, 1979. Book Club Edition. hardcover. 8vo 342pp. from front flap: "Besides being a distinguished American novelist, William Goldman is one of the best-known and most-respected scriptwriters in the country today. In Tinsel he turns his talents loose on Hollywood, and the results are dazzling." #03232.
Item 1589Halliwell's Film Guide
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1980. Second Edition. hardcover. 8vo 1018pp. first printing second edition. from front flap: "For the second edition of his internationally acclaimed Film Guide, Leslie Halliwell has extended its scope to include silent films and films in languages other than English, bringing in nearly 1500 valuable.....
Item 1924Entertainers and the Entertained
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1986. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 336pp. from front flap: "John Houseman, the most distinguished living figure in the entertainment arts--popular and "serious"--has for more than half a century been involved with nearly every revolutionary, headline-making event in the theater, the film industry, radio and television.....
Item 1916Return of the Jedi
New York: Ballantine Books, 1983. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 184pp. Del Rey book club edition (first, with N31 gutter code p.183). Novelization based on screenplay by Lawrence Kasdan and George Lucas. includes color photographs of production stills from movie. #01978.
Item 3251Elmer Gantry
New York: Dell, 1960. mass market paperback. 16mo 447pp. movie tie-in edition. Dell S10. Third printing. see pictures for synopsis. #03316.
Item 2427British Music Hall
London House and Maxwell, 1966. first US edition. hardcover. 8vo 208pp. Foreword by John Betjeman. history of British music halls and variety performers, illustrated. #02492.
Item 2837Star Trek The Wrath of Khan
New York: Pocket Books, 1982. mass market paperback. 16mo 223pp. first Pocket Books printing July 1982. see pictures for synopsis. #02902.
Item 3228Play Power
New York: Vintage Books, 1971. mass market paperback. 12mo325pp. Vintage V-687. see pictures for synopsis. #03293.
Item 2456Dolly
New York: HarperCollins, 1994. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 338pp. from front flap: "Being as intensely private as she is talented, Dolly has never before talked openly about her life--the hard times as well as the good--until now. In this inspiring autobiography Dolly reveals how she got to where she is.....
Item 2409No Applause--Just Throw Money
New York: Faber and Faber, 2005. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 328pp. from front flap: "In No Applause--Just Throw Money, writer and modern-day vaudevillian Trav S.D. explores the many ways in which vaudeville's story is the story of show business in America. In documenting the rich history and cultural legacy of.....
Item 2193In One Ear
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1952. first edition. hardcover. 12mo 258pp. 107 disarmingly casual snapshots of men and events, composed into a far-reaching panorama of the American situation at midcentury. from front flap: "Readers of Not So Wild a Dream as well as listeners to Eric Sevareid's broadcasts will know.....
Item 3405Labyrinth
New York: Henry Holt, 1986. mass market paperback. 16mo 183pp. + color photographs/stills from the film. scarce copy. #03471.
Item 2826The Light in the Piazza
New York: Pocket Books, 1961. mass market paperback. 16mo 119pp. +b/w photographs from MGM movie. Cardinal Edition GC 128 1st printing December 1961. See pictures for synopsis. #02891.