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An Essay on Wind With Curious Anecdotes of Eminent Peteurs, Etc. Written for the Edification of Windbound Ladies and Gentlemen. Humbly Dedicated to a Late Lord Chancellor

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Privately printed : No date, circa 1925

Seller ID: CL001121

Condition: Good

Privately printed, no place, no date (circa 1925), LIMITED EDITION of 650 copies but this copy not numbered, 109 pages, b&w woodcut illustrations, 5-3/4"x 8-7/8", maroon cloth with no titles, edge wear, corners frayed, covers lightly scuffed, spine a bit faded, spine ends very worn, no dust jacket, abrasion where bookplate was removed from front endpaper, front endpapers lightly soiled, light soil along fore-edge & top edge of first and last few pages, bottom corner of title page had stuck to next page & now a small portion of title page corner is torn off, occasional light soil on pages, othe...
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How to Shoot for Glamour

By: Bakal, Carl

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Camera Craft/Ziff-Davis, San Francisco CA : 1955, 1961

Seller ID: CL003023

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good-

Hardcover, 1st edition, 2nd printing (G-/no dj), Camera Craft/Ziff-Davis, SF CA, 1955, 1961, 1st edition, 2nd printing, 128 pages, index, 270 b&w photos, 6-1/8”x 9-1/4”, hardcover, color pictorial boards with Marilyn Monroe in pink bathing suit and polka dot umbrella on front, edge & corner wear, spine darkened, spine edges worn and with tears at top and bottom edges, light cover soil, light abrasion top left corner of front cover, two 1/4” pieces missing on rear cover, no dust jacket, light foxing on first and last few pages, otherwise contents clean and tight, book good- {Includes chapters o...
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Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film

By: Biskind, Peter

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Simon & Schuster : 2004

Seller ID: CL005012

ISBN-13: 9780684862590

Binding: Hardcover in dust jacket

Condition: Very Good+

Hardcover in dust jacket, (VG+/VG+), Inscribed by Author, First Printing, Simon & Schuster, New York, 2004, 544 pages, Preface, Introduction, Postscript, "Cast of Characters" list, Notes, Index, illustrated with small center section of b&w photos, 6.25 in. x 9.5 in., pale grey boards with purple spine, red titles, spine ends very faintly bumped, a little bit of minor fading along edges of boards, jacket shows very minor bumping to lower corners as well as slight bumping to upper corners and spine ends, a little slight bumping to top edge of front jacket panel, dust jacket protected in new arch...
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Rate Your Own Chess: Revised Edition. Raise Your Chess IQ in Mate-Rater Competition, Includes Computer Chess Notation

By: Bloss, F. Donald

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Van Nostrand Reinhold, NY : 1972, 1981

Seller ID: CL002339

ISBN-13: 9780442212612

Binding: Paperbound

Condition: Very Good

Van Nostrand Reinhold, NY, 1972, 1981, 1st printing of revised edition, (VG), 206 pages, appendix, over 85 b&w illustrations, oblong 8”x 6”, red paperbound, minor edge wear, two small scuffs on back, contents clean and tight, book very good (Provides a standard method for determining the approximate United States Chess Federation rating of a person who solves the Mate-Rater problems.) (VG) 2339 [Hs121EC]
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How to Win in The Middle Game of Chess

By: Horowitz, I. A.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: David McKay Co, NY : 1955

Seller ID: CL005251

Binding: Hardcover in dust jacket

Condition: Good+

David McKay Co, NY, 1955, no additional printings, 199 pages, profusely illustrated with 143 b&w chess board diagrams, 5.5”x 8.25”, hardcover, grey boards with black knight and black titles on spine, corners and spine ends very lightly worn, good dust jacket with light corner wear and chipping, two short closed tears and an 1/8” chip top edge front panel, rear panel lightly soiled and/or foxed with a short tear at bottom near spine, front flap price-clipped, dust jacket protected in a new, archival plastic cover, a little foxing on endpapers, pages lightly yellowed around edges, otherwise con...
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British Chess. Britain in Pictures: The British People in Pictures series

By: Matthews, Kenneth

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Collins, London : 1948

Seller ID: CL005249

Binding: Hardcover in dust jacket

Condition: Good+

Collins, London, 1948, 1st edition, 49 pages, short bibliography, 4 color plates including the frontispiece, 24 illustrations in b&w, 6.5”x 9”, hardcover, paper covered boards in black with white titles and white chess illustration on front and white titles on spine, white ruled lines around edges of both covers, light edge and corner wear, good dust jacket with a 1”x 1/2” triangular piece out of top left of front cover, 3/8” white line bottom right front cover, closed tear across bottom of spine, corners and spine ends chipped, spine and back panel a bit darkened, dust jacket protected in a n...
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Rainbow Party Book: For All Keen Teens Who Go Partying in Juniorette and Teenable Dresses

By: Pepper, Nancy, editor

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Rainbow (a teen dress manufacturer) : Circa 1950s

Seller ID: CL005272

Binding: Paperbound

Condition: Very Good

Rainbow (a teen dress manufacturer), no place, no date but circa the early 1950s, (VG), unpaginated but 16 pages including the covers, black, white and blue illustrations every page, 5-1/4”x 7-7/8”, paperbound, covers are white paper with blue swashes and black type and black illustration on front, white type on back, some very light creasing on covers that carries through to all the pages, contents clean and tight, book very good {Advertising of just a few lines at the bottom of some pages for Rainbow dresses. “The Dreamiest Date Dresses for the Keenest Teens. *Juniorettes in Regular Teen siz...
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Tips for Teens

By: Williams, Elinor and Ruth Underhill, illustrator

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Boston Herald-Traveler Corp, Boston : 1945

Seller ID: CL005265

Binding: Hardcover in dust jacket

Condition: Very Good

Boston Herald-Traveler Corp, Boston, 1945, 2nd edition, (VG/VG), 126 pages, b&w illustrations at the top of every page by Ruth Underhill, four 1-5/8” square film negatives laid-in, also laid-in the penciled rough draft with corrections of a four sheet “letter” entitled “The Real You” which reads like a letter from a Mom to her daughter, 5-5/8”x 8-3/4”, hardcover, turquoise cloth with red titles on front, top outside corners lightly bumped, very good dust jacket with small chips missing at corners and a few short edge tears, 1.5” closed tear top front panel near spine, a little rubbing on fore-...
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