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Stanley Kubrick: A Narrative and Stylistic Analysis (Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture, No. 39)


Falsetto, Mario

Softcover. Connecticut, Greenwood Pub Group, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 217 pages. Softcover. A clean & unmarked copy. Black & white photos throughout.

Record # 2230292


Price: $23.00 

 

Stanley Morison


Barker, Nicolas

Hardcover. Cambrdige, MA, Harvard University Press, 1st edition, 1972, 566 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, has some tears (taped) at the edges from agewear (see image). Top edge dyed. Cover boards bound in red cloth, gilt title on spine. Pages clean. Binding tight. Spine straight. Barker has written an account of Morrison's life at once balanced and humane with a rare degree of insight into his complex and fascinating character.

Record # 32330


Price: $23.00 

 

Stanton - The Life and Times of Lincoln's Secretary of War


Thomas, Benjamin P./Harold M. Hyman

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st Edition, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 642 pages. Hardcover. Toning to edges. Red cloth boards with gilt decorations to cover. Gilt titles to spine. Dust jacket with sunfading, and chips to one corner. Black & white illustrations throughout. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 750227


Price: $25.00 

 

Stardust - The David Bowie Story


Edwards, Henry and Tony Zanetta

Hardcover. NY, McGraw-Hill, 1st , 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. 433 pages

Record # 57839


Price: $20.00 

 

Starkboro Stories


Baker (edited by), Aylie; Robert McKay and Deborah Wakefield

Softcover. Middlebury, VT, Middlebury College Reprographics, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, 73 Pages. Paper wrappers with black cloth spine. Black and white photographs.

Record # 613306


Price: $19.00 

 

Starting Out in the Thirties


Kazin, Alfred

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Little, Brown, and Company, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 166 pages. Hardcover. An Atlantic Monthly Press Book. Dust jacket unclipped, has a little agewear, very good. Cover boards bound in green cloth, gilt title on spine. Some slight tanning from age/shelfwear to edges and pages. Binding tight, spine straight. In great shape. Tells of Kazin's coming of age in the decade that began with the depression and ended with the outbreak of WWII.

Record # 31774


Price: $15.00 

 

Steeplejack


Huneker, James Gibbons

Hardcover. New York, NY, Charles Scribner's Sons , First Thus, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 327 pages. Hardcover, publisher's dark green cloth. Gilt cameo to cover, faded gilt titles to spine. Deckled edge, some pages unopened. Frontis illustration, James Gibbons Huneker, in sepia tones, protected with a tissue guard. Small 2mm dent to right side edge. Wonderful illustrations in black & white throughout, clean and unmarked pages, with only light toning.

Record # 6670142


Price: $31.00 

 

Stefansson - Prophet of the North


Hanson, Earl Parker

New York, Harper & Bros., 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 241 pages. B&W photos.

Record # 305466


Price: $25.00 

Steinway Saga, The : An American Dynasty Fostle, D. W.
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Steinway Saga, The : An American Dynasty


Fostle, D. W.

Hardcover. New York, Scribner, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 710 pages, b&w illustrations. Some edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 459931


Price: $23.00 

 

Stephen Spender: A Life in Modernism


Leeming, David

Hardcover. New York, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages, some b&w photographs, unclipped dust jacket. Light wear to cover. Clean and tight.

Record # 451160


Price: $15.00 

Stephen Spender: A Literary Life Sutherland, John
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Stephen Spender: A Literary Life


Sutherland, John

Hardcover. Oxford [England] ; New York, Oxford University Press, USA, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 627 pages, b&w illustrations. Light shelf-wear and rubbing to dust jacket else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 458697


Price: $23.00 

 

Stephen Spender: A Literary Life


Sutherland, John

Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Fine, Dust Jacket: Fine, 627 pages. B/W photographs. Like new. Dust jacket pristine.

Record # 802371


Price: $13.00 

 

Steve Jobs: The Journey Is the Reward


Young, Jeffrey S.

Hardcover. US, Scott Foresman Trade, 1st, 1987-12-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 440 pages, b&w photos. Edgewear, rubbing and light creasing to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 464508


Price: $50.00 

Steven Spielberg: A Biography Jackson, Kathi
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Steven Spielberg: A Biography


Jackson, Kathi

Hardcover. Westport, CT, Greenwood, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 176 pages. Hardcover with NO dust jacket. Black and white photographs. Light adhesive residue on back cover, otherwise, clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to covers.

Record # 468722


Price: $13.00 

 

Stickluft (Black Damp)


Dornik, Franc

Hardcover. New York, Vantage Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 272 pages. Some sun-fading along dust jacket spine. Chipping and tears on dust jacket covers. Dust jacket protected with clear, plastic cover. Front flyleaf clipped. Minor spotting on fore and bottom edges. Underlining in pen on about five pages. Nice, tight copy.

Record # 856284


Price: $25.00 

 

Stieglitz: A Memoir/Biography.


Lowe, Sue Davidson

Hardcover. New York , Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR, AND CONTAINS SIGNED LETTERS AND NOTES. 456 pages. Blue cloth cover, some fading and wear to edges. Dust jacket has bumped bottom edge, small chip missing from top edge of spine. Light foxing on fore edge, but inside is very bright and clean, with b&w illustrations throughout.

Record # 853252


Price: $60.00 

 

Sting: Demolition Man


Sandford, Christopher

Hardcover. London, Little, Brown & Company, 1st UK, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 320 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Some minor sunfading to spine. Otherwise tight copy. Black and white images throughout.

Record # 471136


Price: $19.00 

 

Story of a Wonder Man, The - Being the Autobiography of Ring Lardner


Lardner, Ring

Hardcover. NY, Scribners, 1st , 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white illust. by Margaret Freeman.

Record # 58994


Price: $35.00 

 

Story of Chicago May, The


O'Faolain, Nuala

Hardcover. New York, Riverhead Books, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 307 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Biography of famed "Queen of the Underworld." Mild rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Moderate fading to text block edges. A clean and tight copy.

Record # 951739


Price: $25.00 

 

Story of Frances E. Willard, The


Leavitt, Gertrude Stevens

Softcover. Portland, Maine, L. H. Nelson Company, 1st, 1905, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 32 pages, with illustrations. Soiling on cover and some pages, binding loose from pages 15-18. Overall in good condition.

Record # 853283


Price: $12.00 

 

Stowell C. Goding and France: A Festschrift in Honor of Stowell C. Goding


Goding, Stowell C. and Mel B. Yoken (Ed.)

Hardcover. New York, Peter Lang, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glazed boards. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. 183 pages, b&w frontispiece. A very clean, tight copy.

Record # 452995


Price: $60.00 

 

Stranger and Traveler


Wilson, Dorothy Clarke

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown , 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Story of Dorothea Dix, American reformer. Previous owner's signature.

Record # 2682


Price: $18.00 

 

Stranger at the Party


Lawrenson, Helen

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st edition, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 244 pages. Hardcover. Deckled, untrimmed edges. B/w illustrations throughout. Binding tight. Spine straight. Previous owner's bookplate on front endpaper. Note in marker to back page. Tan cover boards, blue quarter cloth, gilt title on spine, author's initials in gilt on front cover board. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. A touch of foxing to edges. In great condition. Lawrenson tells the story of her own life against the backdrop of the glamorous world of Vanity Fair, as well as against the atmosphere of the waterfront that she came to know through her husband's work with the National Maritime Union.

Record # 32327


Price: $23.00 

 

Stranger On the Earth


Lubin, Albert J.

Hardcover. NY, Holt Rinehart Winston , 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, A psychological biography on Vincent Van Gogh

Record # 7624


Price: $18.00