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Integrity, 2002. 242pp, plus 16 photo-pages. Eight minutes changed, and in some cases ended, many lives when the skipper of a nuclear submarine gave orders to perform an emergency maneuver and inadvertently the sub sliced a Japanese fishing boat in two, killing nine on board the boat, and causing a lifetime of misery to the author-skipper...this is his account of the tragic event. Dj has some curled edges. First Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 9" Tall. ... more information

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Villard, 1996. Quarter Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. Second Printing. 8vo - over 9" Tall. ISBN:0-679-41927-6. 319pp..Does Hollywood still hold a fascination for us? If so, this is one of those Hollywood novels that comes along once in a decade that captures the people and the culture more perfectly than any others and becomes the defining book of the decade..the author writes for television and films as well as directs, and writes with excruciating authenticity. ... more information

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Random House, 1991. Cloth Spine, Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First Edition. Price Intact. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 468pp. Before such bestsellers as "I'm Losing You" this author was being touted as the "Dante of Hollywood Hell" for this remorselessly precise expose of the underside of Tinsel- town..the built-in vulgarity of its cast of harlots, climbers, and desperate burn-outs..brilliant and hilarious but infallibly accurate. Dj has no splits or tears but s... more information

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St.Martins, 1986. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. BCE. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 244pp..True case of Leonard Ewing Scott and wealthy widow Evelyn Mumper, who met at a society party and were soon married in Mexico..five years later, shortly after Evelyn finally put her fortune in his hands, she disappeared. Scott was convicted of her murder without her body ever being found. Author interviewed him and the prosecutor 30 years later.. ... more information

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Hyperion, 1994. Quarter Cloth. Fine/Fine. First/First. Price Intact. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. ISBN:0-7868-6120-7. 191pp..Star of NBC's series of animated specials, Edith Ann got her first break in television on Laugh-In, perched in her big yellow rocking chair as Lily Tomlin's sandbox-philosopher of life and humor..she says her book is like an ant farm where she has put every little thing she knows about life so far in plain view..it is two-way culture-shock. Virtually new, no mar... more information

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Harper&Row, 1986. Full-Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. First Edition. Price Intact. 8vo - over 9" Tall. 224pp, many photos. One of the longest titles ever put up in lights, "The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe" , with Lili Tomlin, was not only a hit play but remains one of the funniest and best reads; a timeless capsule of the last part of the 20th century that has snapshots of the times and people that are sidesplittingly true to life. Clean, straight. ... more information

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Grosset&Dunlap, 1976. 240pp, plus 32 photo-pages. Movie and TV script-writer, author of a dozen books, Wagner tells how Beverly Hills weather made it the chosen site for making movies and grew into the world center for that industry, its glory years, and how its excesses brought about a decline to the point where it now leads only in negatives familiar to readers of Roman history. Rear of dj has repaired 2" tear, o/w v/g . First Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 9" Tall.... more information

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BasicBooks, 1977. Washable Hardcover. Very Good/Good. BCE. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 556pp, index, notes, plus 12-pages of photos and the secret portrait by Klaus Richter hidden during the war. Professor of History at Brown University Robert Waite has written books and articles on German history..this account of Hitler proves he was not simply another typical dictator, describing how his pathological personality and power was unique. Dj splits taped. ... more information

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Delacorte, 1973. Full-Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. BCE. Retail Sale. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ISBN: n/a. 308pp..A modern Pilgrim's Progress through today's America of divorces, promiscuous sex, alcohol, drugs, The Pill, VD, women's lib, suburban sham..in short, life as experienced by millions who thought they had found the American dream and wound up in a nightmare of no-fault, no satisfaction divorce..and children without parents..a novel that inspires thought. ... more information

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Delacorte, 1977. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. BCE. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 208pp..Dropping out of college into the hippie life just getting rolling in the Sixties was quite a jolt for Gene, but it all sounded good, especially the music..and the lyrics appealed to him especially, it all seemed so free..but working from Maine to the West Coast he learned the truth of the words from Bobby McGee, "Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose". ... more information

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Delacorte, 1970. Full-Cloth. Very Good/Fair. BCE. Retail Sale. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ISBN: n/a. 319pp.."It is the truest and funniest sex novel any American will ever write" says author Kurt Vonnegut about this delightful story of two Korean War vets who both have problems with their domineering mothers..he evokes the Eisenhower era and the beer-guzzling fraternity of guys looking for girls who are "hot to trot". Very clean book, slightly tattered wrapper. ... more information

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Rinehart, 1946. Cloth. VGood - First thus. 8vo - over 8" tall. 307pp. One of the first postwar novels, by a returning veteran who has a new, less respect-ful view of the world of Madison Avenue, and the world-shaking importance of selling bath soap to housewives who want to have skin like movie stars..made into one of Clark Gable's first postwar films. A true relic of the postwar era of returning veterans; collectible. ... more information

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Greenwich, 1954. 512pp. The grandfather of all global airlines was PanAmerican World Airways who developed the first routes from the United States to the far corners of the earth, when fine dining was an art and recipes were highly guarded treasures...over 600 of the finest from over 80 countries on PAA routes, gathered by a world-traveling publisher of recipe books, are featured in this historic, immaculate, unworn book. First Printing. Skivertex,Leatherette. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 9" Tall. ... more information

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HHolt, 1987. Cloth. Fine/Fine. First Edition. Price Intact. 8vo - over 9" Tall. ISBN:0-8050-0668-0. 325pp..plus 16-pages of photos. Index. One of the most thrilling and heroic stories in the history of Poland, whose invasion by Hitler was the start of World War II, was the chain of events driven by this man whose father spent the war in Nazi concentration camps and left a son who organized the collapse of the communist regime that took over after the war.. ... more information

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New York: Weidenfeld&Nicolson, 1987. 342pp, index, plus 16 photo-pages. With its telling anecdotes, fascinating insights, and unforgettable glimpses of Hollywood in its heyday this is sure to stand as the definitive portrait of one of the most talented and tormented actresses of all time, of "Gone with the Wind", of Clark Gable, Laurence Olivier, affairs with Peter Finch and others, and comments on co-stars in many movies. . Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 9" Tall. BC. ... more information

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Scribner, 1996. Cloth Spine. Fine/Near Fine. First Printing. Price Intact. 8vo - over 9" Tall. ISBN:0-684-81419-6. 300pp, index. First "Purple" became a bestseller, then the Pulitzer Prize, then the Spielberg film finished turning her life upside down, with controversy in the black community over the film and health problems for her and her mother bringing a new perspective to her art and philosophy. Includes film script never used.. ... more information

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Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1989. Quarter Cloth. Fine/NFine. First Edition. Price intact. 8vo - over 9" tall. ISBN: 0-15-188533-4. 416pp. A remarkable book cheered by everyone who was impressed with the author's major best-seller, "The Color Purple", for this is a sequel in the sense that some of the characters carry over, but this is, according to the author, "a romance of the last 500,000 years"..and it skips through the eons with aplomb. Remainder mark. ... more information

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Random House, 1998. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. First Edition. Price Intact. 8vo - over 9" Tall. ISBN:0-375-50152-5. 222pp. "The Color Purple" won a Pulitzer Prize and millions of fans, including critics who can never say enough in praise of her now many books of fiction, short-stories, essays, and poetry..even childrens' books. This is the story of two young girls and their parents who go to live among the Mundos, a mixed Black/Indian race in Mexico's remote Sierras. Name on ffep, o/w no marks. ... more information

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HarcourtBrace, 1992. 286pp. Tashi was mentioned in "The Color Purple" expressing briefly her opinion of the tribal African custom of female circumcision but her, as Paul Harvey might say, is "the rest of the story" during which the severely traumatized Tashi suffers madness and is treated by the great psychologist Jung and eventually recovers...a fascinating story. Near new condition, slight rubbing. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 9" Tall. Price I... more information

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Houghton Mifflin, 1960. Washable Hardcover. Poor. BCE. Retail Sale. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ISBN:n/a. 410pp..This is one of those timeless stories and characters that stick in your memory all your life, and program you so you know what it would be like to be on your own in the frozen wilderness, the life of a trapper, bush pilot, a successful oil tycoon, and to know the love of a good woman, to lose her, and have more luck than you deserved. A special piece of work. ... more information

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