Fred rothermell (8 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 12mo. Black cl. w. red illus. on cover, vl. sl. rubbed spots to edges. Backstr. black. w. black lettering on red field, red/black designs, top sl. rubbed. 361pp., sl. toned.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 85 pages. First edition. Edited By Hervey White, Henry Morton Robinson and Ernest Brace. Volume 10 January, 1935 No. 10. Seven stories by Fred Rothermell. Very good+ book with slight edge wear and very slight foxing to the covers in wrappers. A very nice copy.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Hardcover. Zustand: Poor. 1st Edition. 1st edition ; 299 pp. ; including frontispiece ; plates. 21 cm. ; LCCN: 30-6537 ; OCLC: 7514738 ; LC: PZ3.R74453 ; PS3535.O798 ; black cloth with red lettering and decorations ; art deco half-tone plates throughout ; knocked ; spine sunned ; soiling to fore-edges ; badly damaged section at pg 222-259 ; small water stain at top corner ; plates present ; old paste-down of no-longer extant dustjacket ; a good filler copy for this rare title, but note: condition POOR. Book.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. First Edition. (illustrated cloth; no dust jacket) [a nice solid book with just a touch of wear at the spine ends, inscribee's ownership signature on front pastedown]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the ffep, a lengthy and humorous inscription in a nice flowing hand: "Presented by order of / Timothy Pflueger, a / San Franciscoer, to / Mr and Mrs William / McCarthy, who are / San Franciscoers, / as scribbled by / Fred Rothermell, a / San Franciscoisterer." The tower of the book's title is a New York City skyscraper, a 72-story-tall building on 42nd St. dubbed the Aztec Tower (because the architect, one Paul DeMuth, was inspired by the Mexican pyramids, y'see), the construction of which, over a period of eleven months, dominates the first section of this novel. Upon its completion, DeMuth decamps for an r&r holiday in (where else?) Mexico, leaving the wife and kiddies at home, which makes possible a little dalliance with a Mexican dancer he meets on the boat. He proceeds to enjoy a six-month interlude south of the border, which is rudely interrupted by his partner back in New York, who calls him long distance to tell him that the Aztec Tower has started to lean to the north, and that he needs to get back home pronto to help fix the problem before it becomes a catastrophe. As the New York Times critic described it, this situation "would be difficult to parallel in originality, tension, implicit dramatic power, elsewhere in recent fiction." Signed by Author.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First edition. Fine in very good dustwrapper with spine darkened with stains. Contains four stories: "The Observatory", "The Sanitarium", "The Desert", and "The Mountain".

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First edition. Tiny owner name on the front fly, else fine in very good or better dustwrapper with a tiny hole on the spine, and several very small nicks and tears. When a building on the New York skyline threatens to fall the architect flees to find succor with a Mexican dancer. Very scarce.…

First Edition. Octavo; orange and black illustrated cloth boards; orange topstain; dustjacket; 361pp. Some trivial rubbing to extremities, else Fine in a Very Good dustjacket, unclipped, with chipping and tears along the edges (none affecting lettering), some general dustiness to covers, and a few tiny splash marks. A novel told through the eyes of an architect who is charged with erecting a new skyscraper after the foundations of its predecessor have crumbled. A particularly well-preserved copy of the book, with decorative boards featuring a towering skyscraper in the art-deco style.…