Softcover. Berkeley, CA, University of California, 1st paperback, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 639 pages. Softcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Wrapper very good. A little bit of spotting (soil) to edges, pages clean. Binding tight. No rips or tears. In great shape. In-depth look at sound design in selected films, filmmaking practices, censorship, issues of race, and the furious debate over cinema aestetics that erupted once the movies began to speak.
Hardcover. Garden City, NJ, Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 586 pages. Black cloth covers, gilt titles to spine, top edge gilt, stamped border to front cover, over 30 b&w plates. Light edgewear to covers, otherwise clean, inside of front hinge partially cracked, mild foxing to front prelim pages, pages crisp and otherwise unmarked; overall, a very neat, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 524 pages plus index, b&w photographs and illustrations. Maroon covers w/ gilt lettering on spine. Dark maroon top edge. Light rubbing to cover corners; crease to spine. Else a very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York , Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 303 pages, b&w illustrations. Green cloth, top edge cosmetic stain. Light wear to dust jacket with tanned spine. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press , 2nd pr., 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. B&w illustrations. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page.
Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 434 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. A history of American comics and the threat of censorship in the 1950's. Rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Moderate soiling to rear dust jacket. Mild age toning to top edge text block. Unmarked. A bright and tight copy.
Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 382 pages. Black & white illustrations and maps. Binding slightly slanted.
Hardcover. Vermont, Tenth Vermont Regimental Association, 1st, 1870, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 249 pages, green cover, small gilt design to front cover, gilt lettering on spine. Previous owner's bookplate to front endpaper, light wear to cover, small date stamp to corner of rear endpaper; otherwise book in great condition.
Softcover. Chicago , Art Institute of Chicago, 1st, 2001, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 104 pages illustrated throughout with numerous plates in b&w. Blue pictorial stiff wrappers. Lovely copy. Like new.
NY, World Publishing, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 143 pages, illustrated in b&w by Kurt Werth. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Small chunk gone from top spine of the dust jacket otherwise very good.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, The American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 214 pages, a journal normally in softcover, here bound in red cloth covers with gilt lettering. Clean.
Paperback. New York, Dover, 1st wraps, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 327 pages. Black & white photographs. Paperback. Cover has some corner wear.
Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 663 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Some wear and staining on jacket. Inscription on front end papers, 1989. Intro by Leon Edel.
Paperback. Worcester, Mass., Davis Press, 1st wraps, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 78 pages. From Vol. 31 of the American Antiquarian Society. Fold-out map in rear. Previous owner's signature on front cover. Light chipping to green paper covers. Paperback. Recognized as a most reliable history of this ocean outpost of New England.
Softcover. Philadelphia, American Baptist Society, Reprint, 1908, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 293 pages. Paperback. Illustrated with black & white photographs and 2 fold-out maps. Previous owners signature on cover. Minor chipping to edges.
Hardcover. California, Thunder Bay Press, 3rd, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 448 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Decorated endpapers. Dust Jacket lightly yelowed. Very clean inside and out. From the dust jacket front flap, "...a comprehensive guide to the ways we have designed our living spaces."