Days Without Weather
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1983. Paperback. 250p., wraps, first edition, uncorrected page proof, near fine condition. Novel of a stand-up comic in Hollywood by an African American author. More
Cat.No: 181708
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1983. Paperback. 250p., wraps, first edition, uncorrected page proof, near fine condition. Novel of a stand-up comic in Hollywood by an African American author. More
Cat.No: 181708
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1983. Paperback. 250p., wraps, first edition, uncorrected page proof, presumed second state issue with Richard Pryor blurb taped on front wrap and blurb with tentative release date and price stapled on half-title page, very good condition. Novel of a stand-up comic in Hollywood by an..... More
Cat.No: 181709
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. Hardcover. x, 275p., small splotch to top of text block, some mustiness, else very good condition in like dj. More
Cat.No: 116763
Somerville, MA: Radical America, 1981. Staplebound. Full year run, with one double issue, 7x8.5 inch wraps; throughout, minor sun fading on spines, mild handling soil on issue no. 4, minor foxing on edges of issues 4 and 5, else very good. Topics include Poland, Amilcar Cabral, sexual harassment, "From homosexual..... More
Cat.No: 120228
Los Angeles: Latinos in Hollywood, 2001. Magazine. 32p., 8.5x11 inches, b&w photos of Latinx actors and directors, color reproductions of actress Barbara Carrera's paintings of Hollywood Legends, lightly-worn souvenir program in stapled black pictorial wraps, Rita Hayworth in "Gilda" on cover. More
Cat.No: 250968
Las Vegas: Neva Paperbacks, 1965. Paperback. 160p., lightly worn first printing PBO in original camp pictorial wraps. Gay pulp fiction . An Original Playtime Book 743-S. "On Sunset Strip, Kenny was known as a wild piece of 'rough trade'. Five bucks and a shower, no need to scrub your own..... More
Cat.No: 95551
Valdivia, Chile: Ediciones el KultrĂșn, 2003. Paperback. 99p., texts mainly in English with some Spanish, very good first edition trade paperback in lightly worn Frenchfold pictorial wraps. Costa Rican poet living in Los Angeles. Only one holding located in OCLC as of 6/2021. More
Cat.No: 267591
New York: Four Swords, 1971. Newspaper. 20p., folded tabloid newspaper, illustrations, photos, ads, columns, listings, reviews, news etc., heavily toned at folds and edges, wornand stained newsprint. Cover story on tLove in the Hollywood YMCA. Groovy Guy Finalists. Review of "Maurice" by E. M. Forster. Clarke and Nichols were lovers..... More
Cat.No: 299027
Palo Alto: Ramparts Press, 1981. Hardcover. 448p., foreword, appendix, illustrations & photos, very good first edition, first printing stated in red cloth boards and slightly shelfworn dust jacket. One of the Hollywood 10. More
Cat.No: 8498
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1910. 310p., color frontispiece, very good first edition in pictorial cloth and decorative dj with cutaway front panel revealing color artwork beneath. Comfort was a Los Angeles-based author of adventure stories who became a Theosophist and founded a Utopian colony in the Hollywood Hills near Pasadena..... More
Cat.No: 99964
Hollywood, CA: Privately Published, 1947. Pamphlet. 63p., 6x9 inch blue wraps with gilt titling; in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 311041
New York: Dutton, 1993. 335p., very good first mass-market paperback edition in pictorial wraps. First novel in the series about an amateur sleuth/screenwriter. Set in Hollywood. Gunn page 136. More
Cat.No: 164124
New York: Dutton, 1993. 272p., very good first mass-market paperback edition in pictorial wraps. Number two in the series. Set in Hollywood. Gunn page 137. More
Cat.No: 164123
New York: Dutton, 1993. 332p., very good first mass-market paperback edition in pictorial wraps. Fourth novel in the series about an amateur sleuth/screenwriter. Set in Hollywood. Gunn page 137. More
Cat.No: 164125
New York: Dutton, 1993. Hardcover. 341p., fine first edition in cloth-backed boards and unclipped dj. Number three in the series which includes an Arba League bombing of Jewish targets. Set in Hollywood. Gunn page 137. More
Cat.No: 144178
San Francisco: Germinal Press, 1982. Paperback. 250p., wraps shelfworn and slightly rubbed, else in very good condition. This time, DeMarco's archetypal working-class detective, Riley Kovachs, tries to free Frances Farmer in the midst of the cold war hysteria that has gripped the movie industry. More
Cat.No: 5920
San Francisco: Germinal Press, 1982. Hardcover. 250p., first edition, very good condition in an unclipped dj with a faded spine panel; inscribed and signed by DeMarco on the free front endpaper. This time, DeMarco's archetypal working-class detective, Riley Kovachs, tries to free Frances Farmer in the midst of the cold..... More
Cat.No: 53152
Los Angeles: DeMille Foundation for Political Freedom, 1947. Pamphlet. 22p. staplebound pamphlet, 3.75x8.75 inches, year penciled in red at bottom of front cover, otherwise very good condition; not found in OCLC as of 6/2021. The director argues for the open shop. More
Cat.No: 271830
Los Angeles: Christopher St. West [at Peace Press], [1971]. Handbill. Single 8.5x11 inch offset printed handbill for the 1971 parade in Hollywood illustrated with a linocut by DeRosa, very good. Announces the second Gay Pride Parade held on Hollywood Boulevard. After no other printer would agree to print this handbill..... More
Cat.No: 187723
Los Angeles: Christopher St. West [at Peace Press], [1971]. Handbill. Single 8.8x11.5 inch offset printed handbill for the 1971 parade in Hollywood illustrated with a linocut by DeRosa, very good. We have seen two versions; this (slightly larger) version has a line of text at the bottom with contact information..... More
Cat.No: 311539
San Francisco: author, 2003. Pamphlet. 36p., illus., 8.5x5.5 staplebound untrimmed xerox. More
Cat.No: 158764
Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1989. Hardcover. 264p., illus., very good condition in like dj. More
Cat.No: 34790
Los Angeles: Columbia Broadcasting System, undated, 1940s. Pamphlet. Single leaf, 9x12 inches, printed red & black on white and folded to make a 9x3.75 inch promotional handout. Color is quite bright throughout, faintest edgewear, a very nice copy. More
Cat.No: 228582
London: Hallmark Communications, 2002. Magazine. 148p. includes covers, 8.75x11.75 inches, articles, news, reviews, interviews, events, fashion, photos, ads, very good glossy LGBTQ magazine in pictorial wraps. Three holdings located OCLC as of 1/2024. More
Cat.No: 314807
Boston: Focal Press, 1984. Paperback. vii, 142p., wraps, first paperback printing, signed and inscribed by Dmytryk "For Tony -- With thanks for an interesting & pleasant year, Eddie Dmytryk, Feb-16-1984," else very good condition. One of the Hollywood Ten, who later named names before HUAC in 1951. More
Cat.No: 293048