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1969ref. 140943428Los Angeles: Holloway House Publishing Co 1969. First Edition. First edition. 312 8 pp. Bound in publisher's wraps. Good with corner creasing to front wrap and first few pages wear to wraps a few corner creased pages pages toned with age. Holloway House Publishing Co unknown books
ref. BN619126W W Norton & Co Inc. Mama Black Widow Old School Books Mama Black Widow Old School Books Iceberg Slim W W Norton & Co Inc unknown
1969ref. 064414Holloway House Publishing. Paperback in Good condition there are no stamps writing or marks paper is tanning with age a couple small creases straight spine good binding unmarked pages a nice reading copy The Biography of a Con Man . Good. Paperback. 1969. Holloway House Publishing paperback
196096 pages. Short Stories: Fair Warning; Swindler in the Family; Night Marshal; A Sentimental Subject. Articles: The Night Our Town Blew Up - photo-illustrated article of Roseburg, Oregon, scene of a massive explosion in 1959; The Animals Come First; They Called Us "The Law" - recollections of the wife of District Attorney W.A. (Bill) Morrison in Milam County, Texas; The Fight to Save the "Preemies" (premature babies); Speediest Kids Afloat - Australian swimmers John and Ilsa Konrads of Australia; They Killed Heydrich (Conclusion) - Seven Against a Regiment - story with many photos of the aftermath of the murder of SS Gen. reinhard Heydrich; The Face of America - The Well-Trained Angels; Beloved Bandits of the Skyways - a seagull story. Serials: The Secret of Sidewinder Gulch (part 1 of 7); The Case of the Duplicate Daughter (part 5 of 8). Ads: Caterpillar ad features photo of Philadelphia demolition scene; Dodge Trucks - with U-Haul theme; Nice one-page Pepsi ad with beach scene illustration; Campbell's Tomato Soup - used in BBQ sauce; Very nice one-page color-photo ad for the 1960 Turbine Drive Buick, featuring a black Electra 225 four-door sedan with yacht in background; Salem cigarettes - nice creekside scene; Dutch Boy Nalplex paint; Nostalgic color-photo centerfold ad for the 1960 Chevrolet Impala Convertible features white car and white horses; The Taylor family is featured in a two-page ad for the Insured Savings and Loan Association; Fisher Body; One-page color photo of Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, USN; Lennox ad inside back cover; Great back cover color-photo Coke ad features bottle and glass floating on iceberg. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
1969ref. 605993Los Angeles: Holloway House 1969. Softcover. Very Good. 1969 edition. Paperback original. Pages are uniformly toned faint crease on spine a better than usual very good copy. Holloway House unknown
1969ref. 605993Los Angeles: Holloway House 1969. Softcover. Very Good. 1969 edition. Paperback original. Pages are uniformly toned faint crease on spine a better than usual very good copy. Holloway House unknown books
ref. 0870679368-7-1Holloway House Pub Co. Reissue. Acceptable. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting as well as stains bent corners or any other major defect but the text is not obscured in any way. Holloway House Pub Co unknown
1969ref. 140944986Los Angeles: Holloway House Publishing Co 1969. First edition. First edition. 312 8 pp. Bound in publisher's wraps. Very Good with single crease to spinea few stains to edges pages toned with age nice shape overall. Holloway House Publishing Co unknown
1969ref. 140944986Los Angeles: Holloway House Publishing Co 1969. First edition. First edition. 312 8 pp. Bound in publisher's wraps. Very Good with single crease to spinea few stains to edges pages toned with age nice shape overall. Holloway House Publishing Co unknown books
1967ref. 628314Los Angeles: Holloway House 1967. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Paperback original. Tiny hole on the front flyleaf subtle splash mark along the rear spine and light edgewear about near fine. Sensationalist second book by the reformed pimp Robert Beck a supposedly true story of a light-skinned Black hustler nicknamed White Folks considered by his peers to be a "Trick Baby": the child of a White John and a Black prostitute. Beck's books aimed primarily at a black audience were influential and imitated. Scarce in any sort of reasonably nice condition. Holloway House unknown
1967ref. 628314Los Angeles: Holloway House 1967. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Paperback original. Tiny hole on the front flyleaf subtle splash mark along the rear spine and light edgewear about near fine. Sensationalist second book by the reformed pimp Robert Beck a supposedly true story of a light-skinned Black hustler nicknamed White Folks considered by his peers to be a "Trick Baby": the child of a White John and a Black prostitute. Beck's books aimed primarily at a black audience were influential and imitated. Scarce in any sort of reasonably nice condition. Holloway House unknown books
197680 pages. Includes piano sheet music, lyrics and guitar chords for these songs: How Dare You; Lazy Ways; Iceberg; Don't Hang Up; I'm Mandy, Fly Me; Art for Art's Sake; Rock 'N' Roll Lullaby; I Wanna Rule the World; Head Room. Faint store inkstamp on title page, otherwise contents pleasantly clean and unmarked. Somewhat above-average wear to great seventies-style colour-photo illustrated covers. Binding intact. Includes black and white photos of members of the band. A fantastic 10cc memento. Book
194168 pages. Features: Nice color-photo Nash car ad inside front cover; Nice one-page two-color ad for the April 5, 1941 issue of the Saturday Evening Post features articles on the U.S. Navy and occupied Poland; Marriage of Ilona Massey to Alan Curtis; Brief obituaries for Dr. Eugene Dubois and Lawrence Hills; Nice one-page black and white photo ad for H.J. Heinz soups features happy photo scenes of soup being served; US takes dozens of foreign ships into 'protective custody' - discovery of Axis sabotage, Nazi nationals rush home; Crackdown on former Communist leaders Earl R. Browder and Richard J.H. Krebs, alias Jan Valtin; Dr. John Romulus Brinkley - radios' goateed medicine man; White Slavery on Cow Island, MS - Mrs. Cora Lee Davis and her family were held for two years by sharecropper Joseph Walker; Yugoslav Stand Against the Nazis - Belgrade closes border and Bulgarian Army mobilizes; Grainy photo of Ribbentrop welcoming Japanese Foreign Minister Matsuoka; Color Good Year tire ad; Color-photo Canadian Club whiskey ad features photo of rowboat approaching iceberg to await rescue; Cine-Kodak movie camera ad; Strike tidal wave; Nice color Cadillac ad features front grill and Hydra-Matic Drive; Classy color-photo ad for Fisher Body shows lady holding flowers; Last run for 10th Avenue cowboy in New York - with photo of him leading freight train down street; Photo of bank in New Rochelle station waiting room includes partial view of classic 1941 magazine rack; Photos of boxers Lou Nova and Max Baer; John Kieran; Emiliano Zapata - Prince of the Peasants - with photo; Book review of "Chemical Warfare" by Dr. Curt Wachtel, including photo of author; Nice color ad for Grace Line Cruises on back cover shows older man lounging on deck; and much more. Middle page holding by one staple. Average wear and soiling. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
1928Pages 338-420 + 16 pages of nice ads, including one page for Leonard Wood Memorial, an organization combatting leprosy. Features: The Sealed River - the terrible events which befell a young British police officer at the hands of an old Boer ex-commandant; The Hold-Up of No. 13 - remarkable robbery of the Southern Pacific Railway Company in Oregon, October 11, 1923 - article with photos of Hugh De Autremont, Ray Charles De Autremont and Roy A.A. De Autremont; Saving a President - the author spirited President Porfirio Diaz of Mexico from Mexico City to the coast when he adbicated in 1911; Ning Wo Intervenes - a Chinese Sherlock Holmes with methods all his own; Diver v. Devil-Fish - a Puget Sound battle in 1927; Life in a Land of Death - Part 1 - adventures among Papuan head-hunters - article with amazing photos; A Matter of Slave-Raiding - the white man goes up against a ruffianly border chieftain along the Abyssinian frontier of the Sudan; "Square-Pegs" - part 1 - the misadventures of a middle-class London family which uprooted itself and relocated to a Canadian prairie farm; Saved by an Iceberg - two Newfoundland fisherman were adrift for 11 days; The Lost Tusker - occult powers of the primitive Kurramba tribesmen of the Malabar forests; O'Hara to the Rescue - incident on board a steamer; Tom Threepersons - article with photo about a 'wild west' gunman; On Tour with a Puppet-Show - part 2 - odd experiences through the West of England; Tobacco Redeemer (smoking cessation) ad inside back cover. Unmarked. Somewhat above-average external wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
1977ref. 220278Holloway House Books. 1977. BH-609 near fine unread paperback Holloway House Books. paperback
1819ref. PHO-1356Paris, Gide fils, 1819. 2 volumes in-8,[iv], 357; [iv], 336 pp. , illustré d’une carte ,demi-veau havane, dos lisse orné, tranches marbrées, frottements , coiffes et coupes usées , mouillures en début du tome 1 et sur la carte.
ref. 14491Journal de route du Capitaine SCOTT au Pôle Sud. Adaptation de Ch. RABOT. In 4 reliure éditeur pleine toile verte avec portrait en pied de SCOTT et titre doré. 265x205mm, (poids 1,8kg). Faux titre, portrait de SCOTT en frontispice, titre, X- 381 pages, 91 gravures hors texte y compris le frontispice. Tête dorée, Hachette & Cie 1914.Petit raccommodage au dos, une déchirure réparée en marge intérieure du frontispice sinon bon exemplaire.
1979ref. 204301979. Beck Robert writing as Iceberg Slim Mama Black Widow and The Naked Soul of Iceberg Slim 1969 and 1971 brings together two Holloway House paperbacks central to African American urban literature street fiction Black pulp publishing and queer representation. Beck born Robert Lee Maupin and later known as Iceberg Slim became a major figure in postwar Black popular literature after Pimp: The Story of My Life appeared in 1967; his later books included fiction autobiography essays and social commentary rooted in the language and violence of the urban underworld. Mama Black Widow is especially significant for LGBTQ history because it centers Otis Tilson a Black queer character whose life is shaped by Southern racism Northern migration poverty family collapse and sexual violence placing Black queer experience within the same urban and racial worlds that made Iceberg Slim's work influential in African American literary and popular culture. The archive consists of two first edition paperback books published by Holloway House Publishing Co. in Los Angeles each approximately 300 pages and measuring about 4.25 x 7 inches. 1 Beck Robert. Mama Black Widow. Los Angeles: Holloway House Publishing Co. 1969. First edition paperback. The novel follows Otis Tilson and his family from the racial violence and economic restriction of the South into Chicago's urban underworld where poverty prostitution crime and family trauma structure the narrative; later descriptions of the book identify Otis as a Black homosexual character in conflict with pimps police and the racial order around him. 2 Beck Robert. The Naked Soul of Iceberg Slim. Los Angeles: Holloway House Publishing Co. 1971. First edition paperback. Collection of autobiographical and reflective essays in which Beck addresses his life as a pimp drug user prisoner and writer opening with the statement: "I want to say at the outset that I have become ill insane as an inmate of the torture chamber behind America's fake facade of justice and democracy. But I am not as ill as I was and I am getting better all the time." Together the books document the cultural force of Holloway House's Black urban paperback list and the tensions in Iceberg Slim's authorship: exploitation-market packaging autobiographical authority carceral critique racial anger misogynistic underworld material and a rare Black queer protagonist in late-1960s pulp fiction. Irvine Welsh has described Iceberg Slim as doing for the pimp what Jean Genet did for the homosexual and thief and William Burroughs did for the junkie a comparison that points to Slim's literary importance as an insider narrator of criminalized and stigmatized social worlds. Minor wear from age and spine use; pages yellowed as expected; both books remain intact and clean; overall very good. Focused African American and LGBTQ literary grouping documenting Black pulp fiction queer urban representation and Iceberg Slim's movement from underworld memoir toward broader social and autobiographical critique. unknown
1979ref. 204301979. Beck Robert writing as Iceberg Slim Mama Black Widow and The Naked Soul of Iceberg Slim 1969 and 1971 brings together two Holloway House paperbacks central to African American urban literature street fiction Black pulp publishing and queer representation. Beck born Robert Lee Maupin and later known as Iceberg Slim became a major figure in postwar Black popular literature after Pimp: The Story of My Life appeared in 1967; his later books included fiction autobiography essays and social commentary rooted in the language and violence of the urban underworld. Mama Black Widow is especially significant for LGBTQ history because it centers Otis Tilson a Black queer character whose life is shaped by Southern racism Northern migration poverty family collapse and sexual violence placing Black queer experience within the same urban and racial worlds that made Iceberg Slim's work influential in African American literary and popular culture. The archive consists of two first edition paperback books published by Holloway House Publishing Co. in Los Angeles each approximately 300 pages and measuring about 4.25 x 7 inches. 1 Beck Robert. Mama Black Widow. Los Angeles: Holloway House Publishing Co. 1969. First edition paperback. The novel follows Otis Tilson and his family from the racial violence and economic restriction of the South into Chicago's urban underworld where poverty prostitution crime and family trauma structure the narrative; later descriptions of the book identify Otis as a Black homosexual character in conflict with pimps police and the racial order around him. 2 Beck Robert. The Naked Soul of Iceberg Slim. Los Angeles: Holloway House Publishing Co. 1971. First edition paperback. Collection of autobiographical and reflective essays in which Beck addresses his life as a pimp drug user prisoner and writer opening with the statement: "I want to say at the outset that I have become ill insane as an inmate of the torture chamber behind America's fake facade of justice and democracy. But I am not as ill as I was and I am getting better all the time." Together the books document the cultural force of Holloway House's Black urban paperback list and the tensions in Iceberg Slim's authorship: exploitation-market packaging autobiographical authority carceral critique racial anger misogynistic underworld material and a rare Black queer protagonist in late-1960s pulp fiction. Irvine Welsh has described Iceberg Slim as doing for the pimp what Jean Genet did for the homosexual and thief and William Burroughs did for the junkie a comparison that points to Slim's literary importance as an insider narrator of criminalized and stigmatized social worlds. Minor wear from age and spine use; pages yellowed as expected; both books remain intact and clean; overall very good. Focused African American and LGBTQ literary grouping documenting Black pulp fiction queer urban representation and Iceberg Slim's movement from underworld memoir toward broader social and autobiographical critique. unknown books
1824ref. PHO-2094Paris, Librairie de Gide Fils, 1824, In-8 (210x130mm),299 pp.- 1f., relié demi basane époque, dos lisse avec titre, tranches jaunes, illustré d’une carte repliée en couleurs (déchirure au pli), légers frottements, .
1907Features: Robinson Cruesoe's Island; A Fight with a Leopard; The White Slaves of the Grand Banks; In Search of Pearls; The Guardians of the Yukon; The Adventures of a Miniature "Strong Man"; My Tour Through Java; An American "Oliver Twist" - II; The Tragedy of the Tower; In Quest of the Bird of Paradise; A Race with Death; Down the Crank-Pit; "The Land of Enchantment"; The Demon Snake; The Ghost of Musket Flat; Two Days in the Under-World; A Treasure-Hunt in the Arctic; Down the Grand Canyon; Father Raymond's Burglar; Stealing a Secret; My Motor-Trip to Constantinople - I; My Friend the Leopard; The Convict's Story; Hunting the Wild Carabao; Six Days in a Swamp; Frog Farms; The Garo's Oath; Tracking the Wire-Thieves; A Tale of Two Tigers; A Lady in Far Fiji - I; "Bud" Turner of Missouri; My Motor-Trip to Constantinople - II; Dublin and I; Monsters of the Forest; How Hassan Captured the Battleship; The World's Model Prison; Beseiged by Monkeys; Christmas in Montenegro; The Poacher's Daughter; Through Friesland on Skates; A Speculation in Turkeys; Searching for Castaways; In the Land of the "Long-Lips"; A Chapter of Accidents; A Lady in Far Fiji - III; What Befell the "Kathleen"; The Tragedy of a Swiss Mountain; An Indian "Sherlock Holmes" - II; The Sea-Hedgehog Harvest; The Sheriff and the "Bad Men"; The Vanished Islands; On the Frontier in Central Africa - I; Running the Blockade; What Happened in Carpenter Creek; 'Twixt Ice and Sea; A Pedestrian's Predicament; Four on a Raft; The Perils of Walrus-Hunting?; The Story of Maungawahati; Sergeant Daley's Ordeal; On the Frontier in Central Africa - II; An Indian "Sherlock Holmes" - III; The Village of "Scissor-Grinder" Guides; "Slippery Letts"; The Company of Mercy; The Mummy Head; Wide World Picture Tours - I; Two Stowaways; The Mystery of the "Placer"; An Iceberg Ship; Life on a Dahabeeyah; Cornering a Cattle-Thief; Among Brigands and Wild Sheep in Mongolia; Two Men and a Shark; Through the United States on a Bicycle - I. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
1967ref. WB-PB-500-502Pimp: The Story of My Life is the 1969 autobiography of Robert Beck better known as Iceberg Slim detailing his life as a pimp in Chicago's underworld from the 1930s to the 1960s offering a raw brutal and influential look at street life exploitation and survival becoming a classic in urban literature. The book is known for its unflinching honesty about the sex trade violence and the psychological manipulation used to control women while also exploring the societal constraints that led him to this life. Halloway House paperback
1969ref. EB-PB-07-06199Mass market paperback. 13th Printing. Marker letter 'B' on top and bottom edge of textblock wraps darkened and slightly rubbed else about very good with a flat uncreased spine. Holloway House Publishing paperback
2003ref. BN535909Europa Verlag 2003. 2003. Pimp. Story of my life: Story of my Life. Die schwärzeste Geschichte des schwarzen Amerika. Mit Nachw. v. Ice T u. Sapphire sowie e. Glossar m. Slang-Ausdrücken story of my life Pimp. Story of my life: Story of my Life. Die schwärzeste Geschichte des schwarzen Amerika. Mit Nachw. v. Ice T u. Sapphire sowie e. Glossar m. Slang-Ausdrücken story of my life Iceberg Slim und Bernhard Schmid Europa Verlag unknown
1876ref. 14715Wien, Alfred Holder, 1876 ; fort in-8 ; cartonnage de l'éditeur bleu-noir-or décoré d'images "polaires" : navire, ours blanc, chien de traineaux, explorateurs en fourrure, toutes tranches dorées (reliure signée H. Scheibe) ; CVI, 696 pp., 3 cartes dépliantes lithographiées en couleurs et 146 dessins gravés sur bois.
