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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 8vo. 132 pp. Black cloth in light lavender dust jacket. Sunning to DJ. Light foxing to text block edges. Otherwise clean and sound. Warmly inscribed by the author to Margorie Holmes on front flyleaf, dated August 1980. A group of tiny animals have their travel plans hampered by a cantankerous witch named Lolita.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Illustrated by Sargent, Dick (cover);Buell, Al; Swallow, Mike; Utz,Thornton; (illustrator). First Edition. 140 pages. Short Stories: Hard-Luck Girl; The Words of Love; Dangerous Bluff; His Sister's Keeper. Articles: Why do they Hate us in Panama? - photo-illustrated article about anti-American riots; The Birds' Last Stand - 6,000 exotic birds may be evicted from their Stone Harbor, New Jersey haven; Pilots Aren't Obsolete Yet - the recently-cancelled B-70 Valkyrie bomber may be necessary for our survival; Los Angeles' Cure for Drunks - California desert rehabilitation farm; The Movies' Modern Marco Polo - Stanley Goldsmith is Twentieth Century Fox's chief trouble shooter for pictures filmed overseas; They Call Me Madam (part 2 of 4) - Washington's legendary hostess Perle Mesta; Fabulous Mine in the Sea - The Grand Isle Sulphur Mine in the Gulf of Mexico; Touring Russia Made Easy. Serials: If Hitler Had Invaded England (part 2 of 3); The Tewksbury Feud. Ads: Dogde Trucks (inside front cover); Employers Mutuals of Wausau - with photos of John M. Fox of the Minute Maid Corporation and company driver Eddie Mew plus Ed Waters; GE Appliances; Spring cigarettes; Fantastic two-page color-photo (red) Corvair ad features gents in black suits and hats checking out the car; Old Crow Whisky, with one-page color illustration of James Crow with his neighbors; Two-pages of the Ford Galaxie; Lowry organs; Quaker State Oil; The BMC 850 (Mini) (2 pages in color); Canadian Pacific Dome Cars (1 color page); Nice color photo ad for the (red) Chrysler Imperial in a horse-racing setting; Hotpoint fridges; Cadillac Guide-Matic; Scott Paper; ScottTowel multi-color towels; Schlitz beer - flying a kite; Kem-Tone and Kem-Glo Paint; Johnson V-75 outboard motor; Toro lawn and garden products; Admiral TVs; Cracker Barrel Cheese; Caterpillar; Smith-Corona typewriters; Hertz rental cars; Boeing 720; Samsonite luggge with Queen's guards in background; The Denver Hilton Hotel; Karpen furniture (very funky); Nabisco Veri-Thin Pretzels; American Seating Company; Lucky Strike cigarettes (back cover). Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy.; Magazine; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; The Saturday Evening Post, April (Apr.) 23, 1960 - International Movie Man Stanley Goldsmith Short Stories: Hard-Luck Girl; The Words of Love; Dangerous Bluff; His Sister's Keeper. Articles: Why do they Hate us in Panama? - photo-illustrated article ab.

Vintage program for the 1926 silent film. Based on the 1821 epic poem by Lord Byron, about legendary womanizer Don Juan. The first feature-length film to use the Vitaphone sound-on-disc system to provide a musical soundtrack and sound effects (but not spoken dialogue). 12 x 9 inches. Six leaves, saddle stapled. Near Fine, with light fading to the edges of the wrappers.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by Crockwell, Douglass (illustrator). First Edition. Features: Our Next Two Years - What total war will demand of every American; The Terrible-Tempered Dr. Albert Coombs Barnes - how to buy an Old Master at bargain-counter rates, with color photos (third of four articles); Booster No. 1 - Donald Kirk Thomas is managing director of the All-Year Club of Southern California; Plush-Covered Cactus - Texas' Tom Connolly, first member of Congress to shed his blood in WWII, fights to keep this 'America's War'. Stories: Home is the Sailor; Captain Tutt, Ahoy!; Joseph's Coat; The Ranger Meets the Family; Ride the Man Down; Tall in the Saddle. Pepsodent Powder ad features photos of Jack and Alan, the Sampson Twins of Norwood Park, Illinois. Nice one-page color-illustrated ad for Diamond T Trucks features scene of tandem truck in military service painted by Frederic Tellander. Nice back cover color Coke ad features lovely dame in lavender dress. Complete, clean and unmarked with light wear. A very well-preserved copy of this nostalgic issue.; Cover Art; Folio.

Vintage double-weight satin-finish publicity photograph from the 1935 film musical, showing director Roy Del Ruth inspecting a chorus line of showgirls. MGM photographer stamp on the verso. A young woman attempts to convince her high school sweetheart, now a Broadway producer, to let her star in his new musical. Nominated for three Academy Awards, winning one for Best Dance Direction. 10 x 8 inches. About Fine.