You Have Seen Their Faces

Schulberg, Budd [with a Preface By Kurt Vonnegut and an Introduction by the author]: Love, Action, Laughter and Other Sad Tales, New York Random House, Inc. 1990
ISBN: 0-394-57619-5 Fine in Fine Dust Jacket Dust Jacket Design By Loretta Leiva; Book Design By Debbie Glasserman

First Edition. xxiv, 328pp. Blue quarter-cloth, off-white, blue-flecked paper boards, blue gilt spine and front cover lettering and designs, cream endpapers. Dust jacket price 17.95. SIGNED BY Schulberg and Vonnegut to half-title page. "Budd Schulberg is an American screenwriter and novelist whose works are deeply rooted in the great humanistic and social tradition of American literature. He was Hollywood "royalty", the son of B.P. Schulberg, head of Paramount Pictures and Adeline Jafee-Schulberg, sister to agent/film producer Sam Jaffe. He is best known for his 1941 novel, 'What Makes Sammy Run', his 1947 novel 'The Harder They Fall', his 1954 Academy-award-winning screenplay for 'On the Waterfront', his 1957 screenplay' A Face in the Crowd' and his 1950 novel, 'The Disenchanted', [one of Anthony Burgess' 99 Best Novels of the Twentieth-Century] about a young screenwriter who collaborates on a screenplay about a college winter festival with a famous novelist at the nadir of his career [based on F. Scott Fitzgerald]. In 1965 he formed the Douglass House Watts Writers Workshop in Los Angeles and in 1971 New York's Frederick Douglass Creative Arts Center. He has also taught writing at Columbia University, New York; Phoenixville Veterans Hospital; and University of the Streets, New York. Among his several awards are American Literary Association Award, New York Critics Award, Foreign Correspondents Award, Screen Writers Guild Award, Academy Award for screenplay, Humanitarian Award from B'nai Brith, Bahai, German Film Critics Award, and Emmy Award." - wikipedia. Budd Schulberg's contribution to American literature is very under-rated. His best work ranks with the best work of Irwin Shaw, John O'Hara, Theodore Dreiser, James T. Farrell, Nelson Algren. His ability to realistically and compassionately portray the lives of all American social classes places him in the first rank of American writers who have reported and recorded America in the 20th-century. " For more than fifty years, renowned novelist and screenwriter Budd Schulberg has also garnered acclaim as a craftsman of exceptional short stories. With 'Love, Action, Laughter and Other Sad Tales', his first collection since his famed 'Some Faces in the Crowd', Schulberg introduces us to characters that suffer from an all-too-inescapable plight: being human. Whether he assumes the voice of a young boy who craves attention from his Hollywood-executive, too-busy-to-be-bothered father, that of an up-and-coming advertising man not quite ready to settle into suburbia, or that of a silent movie has-been on the luckiest night of his life, Schulberg skillfully puts them on common ground: their conflicts, their hopes, their wants, and their needs become tragic and touching because they are so recognizable-and so impossible to deny. In 'Love, Action, Laughter and Other Sad Tales' Schulberg explores the depths of ordinary emotional struggles with strength and sensitivity. As Kurt Vonnegut writes in his foreword, "Schulberg has seen things you may have seen, but in a very different light, and seen things you will never see." In conjunction with the publication of the anniversary edition of 'What Makes Sammy Run?', it is a literary event of genuine importance." - front dust jacket flap. Book and dust jacket are in fine, tight, unread condition [barely perceptible crease to front flap]. Signed by Author and Introducer First Edition Fine Hard Cover 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

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V.C. Andrews: Into the Woods, Pocket ISBN: 0743428595

MASS MARKET PAPERBACK Very Good 0743428595 Product Description\nHer life would never be the same once she ventured...\n\nINTO THE WOODS\n\nThe only child of a U.S. naval officer father and a charming mother, Grace Houston is the center of her parents' universe -- until sudden tragedy tears her world apart. Now Grace and her mother, Jackie Lee, move from the naval base in Virginia to ritzy Palm Beach, Florida, to start all over again. It's hard enough being the new girl -- but Grace is enrolled at a prestigious private school where what you wear is more important than who you are. Now her own mother is pressuring her to do whatever it takes to be accepted by the in-crowd. But Grace just wants to close her eyes and disappear....\n\nSoon Jackie Lee marries a sophisticated millionaire, Winston Montgomery, who is her ticket to high society. But happiness once again vanishes into the shadows...and it's not long before the young and dashing Kirby Scott works his way into Jackie Lee's life. He's got his eye on her newly inherited fortune -- and something much more precious: her beautiful, innocent daughter....\n\n\n\nExcerpt. ? Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\nPrologue: Goodbye, Sailor Girl\n\nMy last memory of my daddy was watching him walk out to his helicopter at the Norfolk Naval Base, where his student pilots waited respectfully at attention, their helmets under their arms.\n\nThey saluted him, and he saluted back. Then he turned to smile at me the way he always did whenever Mommy brought me to see him take off in a helicopter. He and I called it putting sunshine in our faces. In the years to follow, that smile would fade slowly like an old photograph until my imagination did more for it than my memory.\n\nHis face would always brighten with a fresh, happy surprise when he looked back at me standing beside Mommy. The specks of hazel in his otherwise light blue eyes would become more prominent. He used to call me Sailor Girl, and we would salute each other with only two fingers. He did it one last time that day. I responded with my salute, and then he turned back to his men.\n\nMy eyes drifted to a sea gull that looked lost, confused, even a bit frantic. It did a quick turn and dipped before shooting off toward the ocean as if it had seen something that had terrified it. I watched it until the sounds of the helicopter motors ripped the air and pulled my attention back to Daddy. \n\nI stepped closer to Mommy. Something dark had already put its cold fingers on the back of my neck. My heart sank, and my stomach felt queasy. I had to feel Mommy beside me. Even at fifteen, I needed to be within the walls of her security. She and Daddy were my fortress. Nothing could harm me when I was with them.\n\n"How he stands that noise is beyond me," Mommy said, but she looked so proud and so beautiful with her shoulder-length apricot brown hair dancing about her chin and cheeks. She was five feet ten and always stood with an air of confidence, regal. Anyone who glanced her way stared at her for a few moments longer as if he or she were hypnotized by her beauty.\n\nMommy's eyes were almost navy blue, which Daddy said proved she belonged with him, a navy man. She was as loyal to him as he was to the flag, her devotion and her admiration for him unflappable. My eyes were more turquoise, but I wished they were more like Mommy's so Daddy would think I, too, was meant to be always at his side.\n\n"C'mon, Grace," she said. "I have errands to run, and you have studying to do and a guest for dinner."\n\nShe nudged me, and I followed along reluctantly. Something was telling me to stay as long as I could. I looked back only once as the helicopters lifted. I didn't see Daddy, and that disappointed me. They whirled off toward the ocean, following the sea gull. \n\nA cloud blocked out the sun, and a long shadow fell around us as we continued toward our car.\n\nI would remember that.\n\nI would remember it all for a very long time.\n\nAnd then, like the sea gull, it would all disappear into the distance and leave me standing alone, yearning for just one more smile, one more salute.

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Waldmann, Helmut: Berlin, 27. Februar 1969 "Ha, Ho, He -- Nixon is okay!" Booklet issued in commemoration of visit of President Nixon to Berlin, Berlin, Germany Presse- und informationsamt des Landes Berlin 1969

Cover features color photo of President Nixon standing in open limousine in motorcade through Berlin, while Berliners wave. Introduction to text by Bürgermeister Klaus Schütz. Photos of arrival, visits to Charlottenburg Palace and Siemens Factory, photos of departure. Statement by Nixon, upon return to Washington: "If you could have been with me as rode through the streets of Berlin on a snowy cold day and have seen the hopeful faces in those crowds on the streets....you (the American people) would have been proud that America did meet her world responsibilities in helping others defend their freedom." Paper booklet, very good.

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