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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. University Press of Florida, 2002. Hardback, d/j, 8vo, xvii,305pp, illust. A good copy. 0813025745/0.7us . (Please note that our condition gradings are stricter than those of Abebooks and many other sellers. There may therefore be a discrepancy between this description and its listed condition grading).

Vintage studio still photograph from the 1958 film. A rural community is terrorized by a giant, mutated arachnid. The last of noted exploitation producer and director Bert I. Gordon's giant monster movies of the 1950s. Shot on location in Vail, Arizona, and in Carlsbad, New Mexico. 10 x 8 inches. Faintly toned on the margins, else Near Fine.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First US Edition. New York: Columbia University Press, 1984. xx, 542 pp. 24 x 16 cm. Red cloth covered boards with gilt lettering to spine, in a dustjacket printed red with white and black lettering. Very light sunning to spine of jacket, with some light rubbing and bumping to spine ends. Jagged 3.5 cm tear and creasing to head of rear panel of jacket, with another small 1.5 cm closed tear to bottom corner of front panel of jacket. Dustjacket is now protected in a mylar cover. Very slight rubbing and bumps to corners of boards. Light freckled foxing to head of text block. This book was originally owned by the literary critic Harold Bloom, and has his signed name at the head of the front free endpaper, followed by a gift inscription to the person he gifted it to in 1984. Interior otherwise clean and unmarked. Binding sound. Due to the size and weight of this book, additional shipping may be required for international orders. . First US Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good-. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good-. First Edition. Ex-library. Usual library stamps and markings. A couple of ink marks to top page edges. Dustjacket in plastic cover taped to boards with small pieces of adhesive tape. ; xxiv, [2], 542 pages. Page dimensions: 232 x 151mm. "For so long merely Mediterranean, humanism began to be global when the scientific reading of Avestan and Sanskrit scripts unlocked innumerable unsuspected scriptures." - quote from Schwab on dust wrapper blurb. Schwab's study was originally published in the French language in 1950. This English translation is copyrighted 1984. Selected chapter titles: There is an Oriental Renaissance; Establishing the Text; Europe learns Sanskrit; The Progress of Oriental Studies; Repercussions in Literature; Founders and Intermediaries; India and the Blossoming of Lamartine; Vigny Tempted by India; From Historical Poetry to Poetical History; An External Orient: Exoticism; The India of Schopenhauer; The Iran of Nietzsche; The Buddhism of Wagner; Russian Orientalism and Nonviolence; The Dialogue Between Creedson the Question of the Soul; An Age of Relativism; The Orient, the Supreme Romanticism. ; 8vo.

Softcover. Zustand: fair. First edition. Large quarto. 104pp. Black and tan wrappers in spiral binding with original illustrated slipcase. Back wrapper detached but present. Some creasing, chipping, wear and discoloration to wrappers. Heavy chipping and tearing to slipcase. Spine split on slipcase. "Will Connell is that rarity - a photographer whose sense of humor extends to his own work. "In Pictures" is its own proof of the use to which he has put his gifts. Connell shows how wide the abilities of the camera are when a thorough technician, a penetrating mind, and the all important satirical impulse are blended in one talent capable of dissecting a national institution with its own instruments of torture.ground glass, shutter and lens." Illustrated with full page b/w photographs. Slipcase in poor, wrappers in fair, interior in very good condition.

First Edition. First Edition. Lengthily INSCRIBED and dated 1949 by co-author Gene Fowler on the front endpaper, with brief, additional annotations in manuscript ink and pencil to the title page and page nine. Lacking the original illustrated paper slipcase. Housed in a custom clamshell box and matching chemise. A penetrating, satirical take on the film industry, illustrated throughout with black-and-white photographs. Gene Fowler was an American author, dramatist, and screenwriter who enjoyed a long and varied career. Fowler found early prestige as a journalist in New York, most notably a lengthy tenure as a managing editor of The Morning Telegraph, where his staff included a number of luminaries of the period, including Ben Hecht, Ring Lardner, Charles MacArthur, Westbrook Pegler, Martha Ostenso, Walter Winchell, Nellie Revell, among others. Fowler also worked as a screenwriter for several years, penning a dozen screenplays in the 1930s and early 1940s, including "What Price Hollywood?" (1932), "The Call of the Wild" (1935), and "Billy the Kid" (1941), and also collaborated with Ben Hecht on the 1932 Broadway play "The Great Magoo." Spiral bound wrappers Very Good plus-which anyone who has before encountered this book knows to be extraordinary condition. Custom clamshell box and chemise Very Good plus, with leather lightly faded and some light soil to the extremities.