Search Results: Titles starting with T from ReadInk

Easton MA: Stephen W. & Diane L. Albert. Very Good. 1991. (Vol. 2, No. 56). Magazine. [random ink scribbling at left side of front cover, rear cover has subscriber's address label and an array of vintage postage stamps affixed]. (B&W photographs) Small-format (8-1/2" x 5-1/2") TV collectors' fanzine, with two primary features in this issue: the cover story, a long tribute article about the recently-deceased actor James Franciscus, who starred in several successful TV series during the 1960s and 1970s, incorporating several interviews and quoting from his personal correspondence with the publishers; and a production-history article + episode guide for "Land of the Giants," a fantasy-adventure series created by Irwin Allen that ran for two seasons on ABC (1968-1970). The remainder of the issue is mostly taken up with small ads and news snippets of interest to collectors in this field. NOTE: That's a printed (not original) inscription/signature on the… Read More

Easton MA: Stephen W. & Diane L. Albert. Very Good+. 1991. (Vol. 2, No. 54). Magazine. [minor handling wear, rear cover has subscriber's address label and an array of vintage postage stamps affixed]. (B&W photographs) Small-format (8-1/2" x 5-1/2") TV collectors' fanzine, with two primary features in this issue: the cover story, a tribute to the recently-deceased character actress Natalie Schafer, best remembered for her portrayal of Mrs. Thurston P. Howell III on "Gilligan's Island," incorporating comments from several of her professional colleagues; and a brief feature and episode guide to "The Hathaways," a one-season sitcom that starred Peggy Cass and Jack Weston as a married couple, and the Marquis Chimps as their children. (You had to be there.) The remainder of the issue is mostly taken up with small ads and news snippets of interest to collectors in this field. NOTE: That's a printed (not original) inscription/signature on the… Read More

North Hollywood CA: (published by the author). Fine. 1986 (c.1985). 2nd printing. Stapled wraps. [as-new, from the publisher's (my) private stock]. A handy index to the major creative credits (directors; writers/authors; selected performers) of Rod Serling's classic TV series. This had its genesis in my frustration at not being able to use Marc Scott Zicree's otherwise terrific 1982 book "The Twilight Zone Companion" as a quick reference to answer such burning questions as "what was that episode whose title I can't remember in which Lee Marvin played an ex-boxer who manages a fighting robot?" or "how many episodes of the show did Don Siegel direct?" -- because it lacked a full index. This cheesed me off so much that I compiled and published my own; this is it. (I believe that subsequent editions of the Zicree book did enhance the index, so if you have one of those you won't need this; but if you only have the original 1982 edition, this… Read More

New York/London: G.P. Putnam's Sons. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. 1930 (c.1929). 1st [U.S.] Edition. Hardcover. [nice clean solid book, minor shelfwear to bottom edge; jacket has a small tear at top rear hinge, tiny chunk missing at bottom front hinge]. A story of love, murder and suicide, described by one critic as "atmospheric to the verge of mystical." The novel concerns a woman named Felicia Lissell, who travels to Rhodesia with her aunt, to visit the farm of Dick Cardross, but she doesn't suspect that "dangerous social complications awaited her in the gay English colony nearby." It seems that "Stella Cardross, her hostess, was a tiger woman who had long since been unfaithful to her husband in the purple of mad African nights. She considered both Paget Vyner and Patrick Fenn, co-owners of the Tagati mine, to be her own particular property, and brooked no disturbance of her admiring retinue. Felicia, however, was young and unspoiled, with a beauty… Read More

Sydney: Pacific Publications Limited. Very Good. 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. (pictorial blue-and-black cloth; no dust jacket) [modest shelfwear, very slight bumping to a couple of corners, a touch of fading to spine coth, a couple of tiny stains on rear cover]. (B&W photographs, ads, fold-out map) "In the preparation of this material the Author has not only drawn on his own experience -- obtained during more than twenty years of residence and travel among the islands of the Eastern Pacific -- but also has had recourse to the most reliable authorities of the past and present. So far as is known, no previous attempt has been made to produce a work of this sort on French Oceania." (The text is entirely in English except for the Preface, by the Governor of French Oceania, which is presented in both French and in English translation.) .

Rutland VT/Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Co.. Near Fine in Very Good dj. 1973 (c.1971). "First Tuttle Edition". Hardcover. [the very slighest bumping to the lower corners but no other discernible wear, vintage bookseller's label (Vroman's, Pasadena) at upper left corner of front endpaper; the jacket is a bit edgeworn, with small tears at several corners and a teensy bit of paper loss at the top of the spine]. (color photographs, endpaper maps) In the words of the author/photographer: "If I said that Tahiti (and its sister islands) are the most beautiful in the world, who could deny it? Or who would dispute me if I said that the lagoons here are more indescribably blue, the hills more fantstically shaped, the climate more convivial, the women more beautiful and enchanting, the men more friendly and jovial, the living easier, and the sunsets more splendid?" Further per the jacket blurb: "One has only to look at the striking illustrations in this book to see how… Read More

Hollywood CA: Leonard Clairmont. Very Good+. N.D.. 2nd Edition, Revised. Stapled wraps. [modest external wear and light soiling only, one-time owner's address label on title page, original price sticker on inside rear cover]. (B&W photographs) This circa-1960s booklet (70 pages) "is by no means a complete dictionary of the Tahitian language, but it is intended to serve as a guide to the traveler, or the casual student. It lists only the most frequently used Tahitian words and colloquial phrases, and their translation into the English language. It should, nevertheless, prove helpful in everyday conversation and correspondence to the person interested in Tahiti and its people." .

Near Fine in Near Fine dj. Later Printing. Hardcover. [nice copy, minimal shelfwear to book; jacket lightly soiled on rear panel, with a touch of wear to the spine extremities]. (B&W photographs) Eddie Cantor's autobiography, in which "he retraces the steps that have carried him from a dingy one-room apartment on New York's lower East Side through a thousand stage doors and out into the glow of the footlights and the applause and laughter that have so long been his due. [The book] is filled with anecdotes and stories about Eddie, his wonderful wife Ida, and their five-girl family, as well as Eddie's friends, the now fabled names of show business: George Jessel, Al Jolson, Irving Berlin, Sophie Tucker, George M. Cohan, Ruth Etting, Will Rogers, Ethel Merman, Jack Benny, and many others." A very nice copy of a book that is notoriously prone to wear. .

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. (c.1980. First Edition. Hardcover. 0070183066 . [lovely clean copy with no discernible wear apart from a tiny bump to the bottom front corner; jackets shows minor wear along top and bottom edges and at spine ends]. (B&W photographs) Warmly INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the ffep; the inscription is to noted TV producer-director Fletcher Markle and his wife, and bears Markle's small "Ex Libris" bookplate on the ffep. Dunne, who spent the majority of his career as a screenwriter/director/producer at Twentieth Century-Fox, discusses not just his film career but also his involvement with political matters, especially with regard to "the blacklists and witch hunts that would lead him to a play a central role in defending constitutional rights through Americans for Democratic Action and the Committee for the First Amendment." Signed by Author .

New York: Viking. Fine in Fine dj. 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. 067086398X . [a lovely, fresh, as-new copy]. This wonderful writer's third book, a superb novel about a family with relatively ordinary problems of its own which become exponentially more complicated as they get involved, for the best of motives, with a runaway girl and her violent boyfriend. .

New York: Signet Books / The New American Library. Near Fine. 1971. First Edition. Softcover. [a nice tight copy, virtually as-new with only the slightest edgewear to covers and a tiny fingertip dent in the front cover]. (Signet Film Series) Series Mass Market PB (B&W photographs) The complete screenplay for Forman's first American film, along with an interview and an original [sic] article by the director on the making of the film. (The making-of article was actually a reprint from Show magazine, and the interview originally ran in Film Comment.) .

London: Calder and Boyars. Very Good in Very Good+ dj. 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. [appears to be an ex-ship's library book, with only a single stamp on the front pastedown marking it as such (the stamp is of The Cunard Steamship Company Limited); there is some staining on the bottom edge and fore-edge, the latter bleeding a bit into the pages for about the first half of the book, but otherwise relatively little wear; the jacket is a bit rippled, with some horizontal creasing along the top and bottom of the front panel, but all in all pretty decent-looking, having been long protected by a (new removed) library jacket cover]. Maltz's final published novel, about a group of escapees from Auschwitz during the last days of World War II. "The horrors of their situation are pitilessly invoked -- not only the dangers of pursuit and discovery, of betrayal, but also of starvation, the terrible cold, the loss of morale." Maltz, one of the "Hollywood Ten," was… Read More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good in Good dj. 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. [spine slightly turned, small stain on top edge, some discoloration to pastedowns and endpapers; jacket is heavily edgeworn, little bits of paper loss at spine ends and several corners, shallow chip at upper left-hand corner of front panel]. A psychoanalytical murder mystery, in which the accused murderess doesn't actually know if she's guilty or not. Although she testifies to her innocence in court and is acquitted, every night "she dreamed an altogether different story of what had happened, until at last she did not know which version was true and whether the truth might not be still another story." She consults a psychiatrist, Dr. Hillis Owen, who attempts to penetrate "the shadows of [her] twisted mind" and figure it all out. (When published in paperback, this was billed as "A Dr. Hillis Owen Detective Story," like there had been others, but I don't believe… Read More

London: Michael Joseph. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj. 1963 (c.1961). 1st U.K. edition. Hardcover. [one-time owner's small bookplate on ffep, some discoloration to half-title page (probably from a newspaper clipping, once laid-in but now vanished); jacket lightly browned at spine, with some minor soiling]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED in large red-ink letters by the author on the front pastedown. "The cowboy novel to end all cowboy novels," in the author's words, a "non-historical comedy," about a couple of fellows competing to win the hand of the nymphomaniacal daughter of a Mexican rancher. (A curse has been put on the ranch, you see, which is why she's nymphomaniacal in the first place, and the only way her father can lift the curse is to marry her off.) Adapted into the 1969 film of the same name, starring that well-known comedy duo Richard Widmark and Chaim Topol, with Condon himself doing the screenplay. Supposedly the property was once proposed as a movie… Read More

Chicago: Thompson & Thomas. Very Good+. 1905. Second Edition. Hardcover. NOISBN . (no dust jacket) [solid, nice-looking copy, light wear at extremities; once part of a private (individual's) library, it bears his name and address stamp on the ffep and an additional name and property stamp on the front pastedown; there is also a small label with a number affixed to the spine, but aside from that there are no other markings]. (B&W frontispiece and 15 B&W plates) Classic account by a traveling salesman, imparting to the reader all the wisdom he's accumulated in his travels. "Salesmanship is the business of the world; it is about all there is to the world of business. Enter the door of a successful wholesale or manufacturing house and you stand upon the threshold of an establishment represented by first-class salesmen. They are the steam -- and a bit part of the engine, too -- that makes business move. I saw in print, the other day, the statement that… Read More

New York: Vantage Press. Fine in Very Good+ dj. (c.1981). First Edition. Hardcover. 0533044766 . [no discernible wear to book; rear panel of jacket a little scuffed and soiled, tiny nick at top of rear panel]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on a blank page preceding the half-title page. Episodic memoir by "an Armenian-born man who has spent nearly his entire life in Iran," specifically Tehran. "Beginning in the 1920s with the Copperfield-like account of his birth, the author spans fifty years of Iranian history with his anecdotes and life story." Laid in are two items: a handwritten note from the author to the book's inscribee (a newspaper critic who he hopes will review the book) and a mimeographed errata sheet. Signed by Author .

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company. Very Good+ in Fair dj. (c.1947). First Edition. Hardcover. [minimal wear to book, previous owner's name plus date & place & explanation of purchase in ink at top of front endpaper (six lines of writing), check marks (in both ink and pencil) next to all title in table of contents; the jacket is kind of a mess, although the worst of it is confined to the spine, in which several missing strips have been filled in by amateurish internal tape-repair (which has also been applied all across the top and bottom edges of the jacket); the front panel is substantially complete, with just some wear at the corners]. (pen and ink drawings) Uncommon anthology of undead-themed fiction, containing twenty short stories, two long stories, and one novelette, a substantial number of which had first appeared in the pages of the pulp magazine "Weird Tales." A highlight of the volume is that each story is accompanied by a suitably creepy full-page… Read More

New York: Pocket Books, Inc. (A Pocket Book Special). Good. (c.1965). First Edition. Softcover. [covers are edgeworn, the spine has been covered/reinforced by a strip of clear tape, and the previous owner's name plus date & place of purchase is written in ink at the top of the title page]. (pen and ink drawings) Very uncommon anthology of horror stories -- short-short stories, in fact, since each is just a single page in length (printed in two-column format, evocative of pulp-magazine formatting). There are 49 stories in this 54-page book, a paperback original which measures 6" x 9" (hence a Pocket Book "Special," larger than that publisher's typical mass-market product), interspersed with occasional full-page illustrations. The author (1925-2011) was quite prolific, not only in output but in pseudonymitry (if that's a word): according to encyclopedia-dot-com, he also wrote under the noms de plume J.D. Hardin, Zachary Hawkes, T.G. Horne, Jake Logan,… Read More

New York: Bantam Books (1726). Very Good+. 1958. 1st Edition (pbo). Softcover. [quite a decent copy, nice and tight, with a bit of wear to the spine extremities and a couple of very short diagonal creases at the corners of the front cover, a tiny stray pen-mark on the rear cover]. Mass Market PB "Stories of the men who made the legends, the tough, daring, unbeatable men who drove the bullion-laden coahes on the outlaw-ridden trails." A tie-in with the NBC-TV series, which aired for five seasons (1957-1962); its star, Dale Robertson, is pictured in a small photo on the rear cover. The eight stories in this book were all adapted from episodes in the series' first two seasons, half of them teleplayed by series co-creator Frank Gruber; several of the others were based on episodes written by Steve Fisher, based on Gruber's original stories. (Both Gruber and Fisher were veteran hacks who had emerged from the pulp-magazine world of the 1920s and 1930s, and also had numerous… Read More

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. (c.1971). 2nd printing (B). Hardcover. [light soiling to bottom edges of covers, no other significant wear; the jacket has a tiny tear and some associated dog-earing at the top rear hinge, and a couple of tiny nicks at the bottom edge of the front panel]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the half-title page: "To Flip [sic] -- In love is / all --- / Pearl." (The inscribee, Fil Perell, was a Los Angeles restaurant critic/journalist and cable-access show host.) Laid in is a letter (TLS) on Pearl Bailey Production Corp. letterhead, thanking Perell (whose forename is also rendered incorrectly here as "Flip") for "the beautfiul words you wrote in your column" and making reference to his having attended her recent show at the Cocoanut Grove; it's signed with her full name. Signed by Author .