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The Hungry Years and The Pulp Jungle by GRUBER, FRANK

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Seller: James Pepper Rare Books, Inc.

Title: The Hungry Years and The Pulp Jungle
Author: GRUBER, FRANK
Seller: James Pepper Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
Description: Los Angeles: Sherbourne Press, 1962 / 1967. Original 137 page mimeograph typed manuscript,‘The Hungry Years’ by Frank Gruber, with a small label reading ‘From the Library of Frank Gruber’ affixed to the inside of the front cover. Bradbound. Very good lightly used copy in printed wrappers. With a First Edition copy of ‘The Pulp Jungle’ by Frank Gruber, signed and inscribed by the author: “To Ross Teal, with the best wishes of Frank Gruber.” Fine in a near fine bright dust jacket with some tiny edge nicks. Both items tell the fascinating story of the development of “pulp magazines”, especially Black Mask Magazine, by celebrated suspense, mystery, and western fiction writer, Frank Gruber, with ‘The Hungry Years’ being the early manuscript form of the book ‘The Pulp Jungle.’ Frank Gruber (1904 - 1969), was a prolific writer, best known for his Westerns and his detective stories, who sometimes wrote under the pen names Stephen Acre, Charles K. Boston and John K. Vedder. He once bragged that he could write a complete mystery novel in 16 days and then use the other 14 days of the month to knock out a historical serial for a magazine. Legend has it that, while in the Army, he learned how to control the dice to throw 35 consecutive sevens, but that he had since "lost this skill through lack of practice.” Both items are enormously informative and entertaining, with the main difference being one of style and tone. ‘The Hungry Years’ has a more candid and immediate feel, relating wild tales of staying one step ahead of the landlord, the bill collector, the law, the editor, and, quite literally, physical hunger (think 10 cent or less meals at the automat & ‘free’ tomato soup - catsup in hot water). ‘The Pulp Jungle’ shares many of the same stories, but has a more edited and polished presentation, while retaining much of the essential cutting edge energy of the times. Together, they give the reader a front row seat to some of the most interesting and vital times in modern American literary history. With anecdotes about some of the most popular writers and publishing icons of the Depression era and beyond, including one of Gruber’s idols Max Brand (’King of the Pulps’), L. Ron Hubbard of ‘Dianetics’ and founder of Scientology, Forrest Ackerman, Erle Stanley Gardner, Raoul Whitfield, Rex Stout, Jonathan Latimer, Zane Grey, Ernest Haycox, Clarence E. Mulford, etc. Together:

Japanese Tourist Books

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Seller: Bookbid Rare Books

Title: Japanese Tourist Books
Seller: Bookbid Rare Books (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Board of Tourist Industry. Soft cover. Very Good/Very Good. Published by the Board of Tourist Industry, Japanese Government Railways before World War II. Various authors and publication dates. This set is incomplete, but contains 22 of the volumes. Written in English by Japanese citizens. Soft cover. Books very good, some of which have very good glassine DJs.

The Church Book of the Bunyan Meeting 1650-1821. Being a reproduction in facsimile of the original folio in the possession of the Trustees of Bunyan Meeting at Bedford ... With an Introduction by G.B. Harrison

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Title: The Church Book of the Bunyan Meeting 1650-1821. Being a reproduction in facsimile of the original folio in the possession of the Trustees of Bunyan Meeting at Bedford ... With an Introduction by G.B. Harrison
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller (United States)
Condition: Full japon vellum, yapped edges, ties. Fine, in broken slipcase. Bookplate
Description: London and Toronto: J.M. Dent & Sons, Ltd, 1928. No 527 of 675 copies. 1 vols. Folio. Full japon vellum, yapped edges, ties. Fine, in broken slipcase. Bookplate. No 527 of 675 copies. 1 vols. Folio.

Kniaz Igor. Opera v 4 dieistviiakh 5 kartinakh (Prince Igor. Opera in 4 Acts, 5 Scenes) by Borodin, A.

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Title: Kniaz Igor. Opera v 4 dieistviiakh 5 kartinakh (Prince Igor. Opera in 4 Acts, 5 Scenes)
Author: Borodin, A.
Seller: ZH BOOKS (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: Kiev: Izdanie Z. M. Sakhnina, 1906. Very good. Libretto; 5 x 3 1/2; pp. [3], 6-31; beige wraps, printed in black and decorated with a pictorial border in blue; a small chip to lower corner of front wrap and several small nicks to edges; in about very good condition.A tiny and beautiful, early edition of the text of Borodin's unfinished work, which would be completed by Nikolai Rimskii-Korsakov and Aleksandr Glazunov and originally published in 1888 and first performed in St. Petersburg in 1890. Uncommon, with OCLC listing 1 copy at Yale; none in the trade.

Vincent I & II by Meier-Graefe, Julius

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Title: Vincent I & II
Author: Meier-Graefe, Julius
Seller: Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (United States)
Condition: G: Volume one has lift at the top of the spine, as well as cracking to the spine leather. Wear to the edges and corners. Tanning
Description: München: R. Piper & Co. Verlag, 1921. Hardcover. G: Volume one has lift at the top of the spine, as well as cracking to the spine leather. Wear to the edges and corners. Tanning to the textblocks and edges of the pages, but no text or image is affected. Some foxing. Volume two's spine is detached but present; it also has cracking. Wear to the edges and corners of the book. Small black spots to the right edge and textblock. Tanning to the edges of the pages. Nice bright plates.. A two-volume set.Tan boards with three-quarter dark red leather spine. Gilt top textblock. Volume one is 246, [1] pages; Volume two is 24, 103 pages, with the latter being full page black-and-white plates protected by onion skin paper. Contents are as follows: 1. Bd. Einleitung ; Suchen und Irren ; Sturm und Drang ; Kartoffel-Esser ; Die Brüder in Paris ; Das Glück in Arles ; Die Brüderschaft des Südens ; Das Kloster von Saint Remy ; Der letzte Versuch -- 2. Bd. Der Maler.

Pax in Bello; Or, a Few Reflexions on the Prospect of Peace, Arising Out of the Present Circumstances of the War by [Anonymous]

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Title: Pax in Bello; Or, a Few Reflexions on the Prospect of Peace, Arising Out of the Present Circumstances of the War
Author: [Anonymous]
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: London: J. Owen, 1796. Very Good. London: J. Owen, 1796. First Edition. Octavo; removed; [4],88pp. ([A]2 B-M4). Leather remnants along spine, title page a bit toned, else Very Good and sound. Political tract first published in an unspecified "Morning Paper" delineating a path for peace between France and England in the midst of the French Revolutionary Wars. The anonymous author is especially concerned with the effect of the war on British trade, arguing at one point that "Having reduced all the French Settlements on the Continent of Asia, and masters as we are of the Cape and Trincomalé, with a superior Naval Force, I may fairly assume, that should the present War be protracted, we shall remain invulnerable in that quarter..." (pp. 57-8). [ESTC T43799].

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Utopia Revisited. by LOCKE, John.

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Title: Utopia Revisited.
Author: LOCKE, John.
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
ISBN: 9780359690763
Condition: Fine
Description: n.p.:: John Locke,. 2019. Paperback. Fine. Black and white illustrations. First edition (paperback). INSCRIBED by the author to a previous owner. Fine in illustrated wraps. ; Author . Signed by Author . 0359690769 .

Masterpieces of Fantasy and Wonder by Hartwell, David G.; Ford, John M.; Clifford, Lucy; Elgin, Suzette Hadin; Dickens, Charles; Gilbert, W.S.; Sologub, Fyodor; McKinley, Robin; Le Guin, Ursula K.; Sitwell, Osbert; Barrie, J.M.; Bobrowski, Johannes; McCaffrey, Anne; Rucker, Rudy; Twain, Mark;

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Title: Masterpieces of Fantasy and Wonder
Author: Hartwell, David G.; Ford, John M.; Clifford, Lucy; Elgin, Suzette Hadin; Dickens, Charles; Gilbert, W.S.; Sologub, Fyodor; McKinley, Robin; Le Guin, Ursula K.; Sitwell, Osbert; Barrie, J.M.; Bobrowski, Johannes; McCaffrey, Anne; Rucker, Rudy; Twain, Mark;
Seller: Yesterday's Muse Books (United States)
ISBN: 9781568650395
Condition: Very Good
Description: Garden City, New York: Guild America Books, 1989. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8x5x1. Canty, Thomas. Book club edition. Minor wear to corners. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 1989 Hard Cover. 656 pages. Includes: Introduction; Worlds of Wonder, Worlds of Difference; ENCHANTMENTS: Green is the Color; Wooden Tony; Lest Levitation Come Upon Us; Prince Bull; The Triumph of Vice; Turandina; The Princess and the Frog; WONDERS: Darkness Box; Jack and the Beanstalk; Peter Pan; The Thrush's Nest; Lock-out Time; The Mouse Festival; A Proper Santa Claus; Inside Out; The Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime; The Woman Who Thought She Could Read; The Third Level; CREATURES: The Griffin and the Minor Canon; The Man Who Sold Rope to the Gnoles; The Dragons; On the Downhill Side; The Parrot; The Gray Wolf; The Harrowing of the Dragon of Hoarsbreath; The Last of the Dragons; Lila the Werewolf; The Drowned Giant; WORLDS: The Enchanted Buffalo; Narrow Valley; Beyond the Dead Reef; The King's Bride; Under the Garden; ADVENTURES: The Things That Are Gods; The King of Nodland and His Dwarf; The Seventeen Virgins; The Bagful of Dreams; The Hollow Land.

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Eat, Pray, Love by Gilbert, Elizabeth

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Title: Eat, Pray, Love
Author: Gilbert, Elizabeth
Seller: Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB (United States)
ISBN: 9780143118428
Condition: Very Good
Description: Penguin, 2010. Very Good. Gilbert, Elizabeth. Eat, Pray, Love. New York: Penguin, 2010. Movie tie-in. 334pp. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good. Edges lightly rubbed.

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