The Twenties And Thirties from Catron Grant Books
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Frank Sullivan Through the Looking Glass a
by Oppenheimer, George (ed)
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- 1970
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1970 xvi, 267 pp. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Blue cloth boards are clean, bumped at extremities. DJ is clean,slightly yellowed.,Twenty-two pieces from the New Yorker and elsewhere plus letters to to Helen Hayes, Russel Crouse, Thornton Wilder, Bennett Cerf and Groucho Marx among others.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Slender Octavo. Item Price
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Not Under Forty Studies of Lirterary Personalities and Certain Aspects of Literature
by Cather, Willa
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- 8th Printing
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- 1971
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Knopf, 1971 147 pp. "The title of this book is meant to be 'arresting' only in the literal sense ... it means that the book will have little interest to those under forty years of age. The world broke in two in 1922 or thereabouts, and the persons and prejudices recalled in these sketchesslid back into yesterdays's seven thousand years."… Read more about this item Item Price
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Empire State: a Pictorial Record of Its Construction
by Bailey, Vernon Howe, W.A. Starrett
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- 584
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- 1931
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NYC: William Edwin Rudge, 1931 Unpaginated One color and xxxx B&W drawings following the construction of the Empire State Building. Introduction by Colonel W.A. Starrett. William Aiken Starrett, Jr. (1877 -1932) was the builder of the Empire State Building He is remembered as building the tallest steel and concrete structures of his time as a new art form… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Tin Box Parade A Handbook for Larceny
by Mackaye, Milton
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- 1934
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Robert M. McBride and Co., 1934 334 pps.; Essays on American (largely NYC) politics and culture of the late 1920's and early 1930's. Text is clean, tight, toned, unmarked. Black cloth-covered boards show minor wear; metallic silver printing on spine tight and bright.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 6" x 8.25". Item Price
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Father Struck it Rich
by McLean, Evalyn Walsh with Boyden Sparkes
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- 1st Paperback Ed.
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- 1996
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- Paperback
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- 9781889459004
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Fort Collins, CO: FirstLight Publishing, 1996 8, 232 pps. with b/w period photographs in text.. Text clean, tight, bright and unmarked. Glossy black DJ with white type and b/w photograph very clean; inor wear on back cover. Thomas Walsh discovered fabulous golden wealth in the historic Camp Bird Mine near Ouray, Colorado. This is a paperback of the… Read more about this item Item Price
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India House Inc. 1936
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NYC: Privately Published 84 pp.The rules, officers and membership lists of the India House, a New York mens' club on Hanover Square.. Hardcover. Very Good. 5" x 7". Privately Printed. Item Price
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Minute Glimpses of American Cities
by Kates, Herbert
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- 1933
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SGD 28.83
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Grosset & Dunlap, 1933 159 pps. with b/w llithographic illustrations on every page. Russet-colored top edge of book shows some wear. Russet brown endpapers show minimal wear. Text clean, tight, bright and unmarked. Black textured cloth-covered boards clean and unmarked with some wear on corners. Cream and russet titles and graphic embellishments Near Fine. Charming, illustrated book regarding the major… Read more about this item Item Price
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Handrail and the Wampus Three Segments from a Polyphonic Biogriad
by Duff, Charles
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- 1931
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London: Cayme Press Ltd., 1931 46 pp. Charles Duff (1894-1966) was a writer from Northern Ireland whose works were largely about language. Text is clean but coffee (?) splash on title page. Blue soft paper covers are faded, curled along front edge.. Softcover. Fair. Item Price
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Our Times: The United States 1900-1925 Vols. I,II, III VI ,, V
by Sullivan, Mark
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- 1934
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Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934 Vol. I The Turn of the Century 1934(12th printing), Vol.II America Finding Herself 1932 , Vol.III Pre-War America 1930 (First Edition,) Vol. IV The War Begins 1909-1914, Vol.V Over Here 1914-1918, 1933 (First Edition) Texts are clean, tight and unmarked. Slight foxing and glue-stains to endpapers. Blue cloth boards with gold-stamped titles along spine are clean,… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 102.97
Television the World's First Television JournalVolume 1 Number 1
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- 1928
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Great Britain: The Television Society, 1928 Great Britain: The Television Society, 1928 52 pp with B&W illustrations throughout. The Television Society was formed in 1927, a year after the first demonstration of television by J.L. Baird, a Scottish engineer. This, their first publication has articles on 'Commercial Television, What May We Expect of It?' 'All About Television, the Invisable… Read more about this item Item Price
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Lytton Strachey A Critical Biography Vols l & Ll
by Holroyd, Michael
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- 1968
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New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968 New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968 Two volumes slipcased .Vol 1, "The Unknown Years 1880 - 1910" , xvii, 475 pp with a frontpiece color portrait of Strachey in Volume I plus twenty-four plates, a chart of the Strachey family tree and an index. In Vol ll, ,"The Years of Achievement 1910… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Player's Book A Half-Century of Fact, Feeling , Fun and Folklore
by Lanier, Henry Wysham (ed.)
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- 1938
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New York: The Players, 1938 New York: The Players, 1938 380 pp with B&W illustrations. Text is clean, tight, unmarked, slightly yellowed. Blue boards stamped with Players' Club emblem of masks of Comedy and Tragedy are clean but slightly rubbed and faded along spine. A lighthearted history of the New York Players' Club in sketches and essays. With a list… Read more about this item Item Price
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Since Stalin A Photo History of Our Time
by Shub, Boris & Quint, Bernard
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- 1951
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New York: Swen Publications, 1951 184 pp. with B&W illustrations on every page. A history of Russian Communism through news photos. text is clean, tight and unmarked save for previous owner's name on front endpapers. Red cloth boards are goodplus, clean and bright with a moisture stain. DJ is in tatters. Now clad in a mylar jacket. Size: 4to -… Read more about this item Item Price
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Passing Judgements
by Nathan, George Jean
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- 1935
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1935 271 pp. Critical essays on the Amnerican theatre in the Twenties and Thirties, including a chapter on Eugene O'Neill, a less-than-overwhelmed critique of Charlie Chaplin, dissection of Noel Coward's wit with it's vaudeville roots, a reality check on Gertrude Stein's "Four Saints in Three Acts." clean, tight A good look at how some of… Read more about this item Item Price
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London West
by Maxhall, Francis
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- Second Printing.
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- 1946
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London: The Studio, 1946 London: The Studio, 1946 vi, 95 pp. A view of London society in the years leading up to WW II with color and B&W drawings throughout, by the staff of British Vogue. Text is clean, tight, unmarked. Blue cloth boards are faded, rubbed at extremities. Second Printing. Good/No Jacket.. Second Printing.. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Item Price
SGD 39.81
Editor to Author The Letters of Maxwell Perkins
by Wheelock, John Hall (ed)
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- 1950
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1950 New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1950 315 pp with index. Editor Maxwell Perkins" correspondence with his writers including F.Scott Fitzgerald, John Galsworthy, Will James, Thomas Wolfe, and Ernest Hemingway. With frontpiece portrait. Text is clean, tight, unmarked. Red cloth boards are bumped at extremities, faded at spine. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.… Read more about this item Item Price
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American Art Deco
by Weber, Eva
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- 1990
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- 9780880295055
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Dorset Press, 1990 192 pp with color and B&W illustrations on every page. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Grey paper bpoards with silver stamped titles are clean and undamage save for very light bumping to corners. Dust jacket is clean, bright, undamaged. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hard Cover.… Read more about this item Item Price
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My Life in Japan and Singapore in the 1920s and 1930s
by Hepworth, Gertrude
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- First Edition.
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- 1987
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- 9780533069705
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Vantage Press, 1987 Vantage Press, 1987 175 pp. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Dark Blue cloth boards are immaculate. Dust jacket is clean and intact with slight wear to spine ends. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine.. First Edition.. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Item Price
SGD 49.42
The Twenties From Notebooks and Diaries of the Period
by Wilson, Edmond
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- First Printing.
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- 1975
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Farrar, Strauss Giroux, 1975 Farrar, Strauss Giroux, 1975 Edmond Wilson was working on "The Twenties" at the Time of his death in 1972, inserting passages of memory which gave it an autobiographical cast. Though he did not live to complete "The Twenties", he had chosen Leon Edel to be the editor of his posthumous papers with the injunction to make… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Smart Set A History and Anthology
by Dolmetsch, Carl R.with a Remineicence By S.N. Behrman
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- 1966
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New York: The Dial Press, 1966 262 pp with four color plate repros of cover art. Including stories, plays and verse by James Joyce, F.Scott Fitzgerald, Eugene O'Neill, Ezra Pound, mD.H. Lawrence, Dorothy Parker, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Robinson Jeffers, Damon Runyon, Anatole Fance, O.Henry and others. The magazine's motto, "One Civilized Reader is Worth a Thousand Boneheads" still has… Read more about this item Item Price
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