Cosgrave george (13 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. No Dust Jacket. Crisp, clean pages except for a bookplate on the front endpaper; square, securely sewn binding, the quarter cloth hard cover starting to show age toning around the edges of the patterned paper boards and some softening at the spine ends, otherwise well-kept. Lacks slipcase and Sandglass. 224pp. ; Tall 8vo. Illustrated by Cosgrave, John O'Hara II (illustrator).…

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: NEW.

Zustand: New. In English.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Xiii, 188 Pp. Red Cloth Spine, Spine Label Printed In Red, Over Patterned Paper Covered Boards. Lightly Used, No Fraying But Slight Fading To Spine Cloth. 1/2" X 1/4" V-Chip At Center Of Foredge Of Front Free Endpaper With Associated 1/2" Closed Tear. No Names Or Marks.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. xxxi + 224pp, very well-illustrated by John O'Hara Cosgrave II, hardcover, 8vo, bound in patterned cloth boards with red cloth spine, gilt lettered, binding rather worn and frayed at corners o/w book in good condition with no other markings or annotations, The Heritage Press, New York, 1943. O'HARA COSGRAVE II, John (illustrator).…

Zustand: Very Good. Very Good condition. Slipcase Acceptable. (louisiana, new orleans, fiction) A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New.

Zustand: New.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. Very Good dj. First Edition. (price-clipped) [spine slightly turned, light wear to both ends of spine; jacket lightly worn at extremities, a few tiny nicks at top of spine, a couple of small closed edge-tears, small puncture wound in spine]. Novel about a disillusioned 60-year-old Viennese playwright who visits a nondescript Italian seaside town in wartime Italy (1943), in the nostalgic hope of recapturing the past and something of the spirit of his younger self, but finds the little town "a microcosm of the world's holocaust," The author was a Hungarian expatriate who settled in Hollywood in 1947 after some time in Berlin (from which he was forced to flee the Nazis in 1935) and London. In America, he worked as a translator and screenwriter (notably for Alfred Hitchcock on I CONFESS), and was married for many years to actress Viveca Lindfors. He returned to Germany in 1971, and subsequently worked mostly in the theatre as a director and playwright. Illustrated by (dj and endpapers) John O'Hara Cosgrave II (illustrator).…

First edition. Quarto, cloth, fine. One of 400 copies.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 97 pp. some cover wear, no dust jacket, bookplate inside front cover 0.0.

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1943. Small 4to, xxxi, 224 pp. Full red leather with gilt floral decorations to backstrip and both covers. Backstrip slightly faded, slipcase somewhat water-stained, internally a fine copy. § Copy #666 of 1500 copies, signed by the illustrator. "Originally published in 1879, Old Creole Days catapulted Cable to national recognition. The stories within reflect the everyday life of the New Orleans Creoles through a mixture of humor and the unique Creole patois. tales that are alive with the sounds and scenes of nineteenth-century New Orleans." (Contemporary publisher's blurb). Signed.…