Hans otto storm (13 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: Good. Good condition. Acceptable dust jacket. 3rd printing. (baseball players, biographies) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Very good Spine lightly faded with some very light soiling, spine ends lightly bumped, a few light scratches on front panel, light browning of page edges, end papers browned.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. Fair dj. First Edition. [minor shelfwear only to book, but with a tiny piece of the spine cloth torn away at the top; the jacket is in somewhat rough shape, substantially complete but with long splits at the front hinge and rear flapfold, chipping at the upper left front panel and lower rear panel; let's just say I don't recommend removing its new mylar protective cover, since that's about all that's holding it together]. SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper. The third novel by the least-known (which is to say most-forgotten) of "The Boys in the Back Room," so dubbed by critic Edmund Wilson in his 1941 book of the same name, subtitled "Notes on California Novelists." Although linking Storm with John Steinbeck as practitioners of "more ambitious writing" (in comparison to James M. Cain, John O'Hara and William Saroyan, all of whom he somewhat disses), Wilson quickly passes over this book -- summarizing it as "a story about people on a ship that ran aground, worked out as a social fable" -- in his rush to expend a lot of words slamming Storm's next (and as it turned out, last) novel, "Count Ten," as "very much inferior on the whole to the ones that had gone before." The latter novel put a cap on Storm's most productive literary spurt (three novels published between 1937 and 1940), and although Wilson couldn't have realized it, his dismissal of "Count Ten" was akin to a literary eulogy for Storm, whose career was cut short by his untimely, accidental, and somewhat ironic death in late 1941: he had continued to work in the radio industry, the background for his 1929 debut novel "Full Measure," and was electrocuted while working on an Army Signal Corps transmitter in San Francisco. Signed by Author.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. Red cloth, gilt-stamped spine title. Spine faded, corners lightly bumped, else very good, lacking the dustwrapper. Author's last novel.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. (no dust jacket) [only light wear to book, but top edge of text block is somewhat soiled and lightly spotted, and a few pages are slightly scrunched at the top corners]. SIGNED by the author on the ffep, just below an inscription in another hand, reading "Rose Schroeder / Her Book." The first novel by the least-known of "The Boys in the Back Room," so dubbed by critic Edmund Wilson in his 1940 book of the same name, subtitled "Notes on California Novelists." Although linking Storm with John Steinbeck as practitioners of "more ambitious writing" (in comparison to James M. Cain, John O'Hara and William Saroyan, all of whom he somewhat disses), Wilson managed to overlook this novel entirely, referring to Storm's 1937 novel "Pity the Tyrant" as his first book. (Although to be fair to Wilson, neither did Storm's publishers make any allusion to it in the blurbs for his later books; apparently everybody had just decided that it was an early "failure" and thus best left unmentioned.) Storm, a radio engineer by profession, used his deep knowledge of the early days of that industry -- when the emphasis was entirely on engineering and utilitarian communication and not at all on entertainment -- as the background for the "tragedies and comedies of men and women caught in the whirling wheels of the business machine." The book's fictional corporation, "American National Telegraphs," is headquartered in Pittsburgh, but its enterprises propel the book's protagonists all over the place; major episodes are set in Central America, California (including Los Angeles) and China. Storm had his most productive literary spurt a little later on, turning out three books (and catching Wilson's attention) between 1937 and 1940, but his career was cut short by his untimely, accidental, and somewhat ironic death in late 1941: he had continued to work in the radio industry, and was electrocuted while working on an Army Signal Corps transmitter in San Francisco. Signed by Author NOISBN.…

dj. Second Printing. Octavo (21cm); publisher's cloth in decorative dust jacket, brown topstain; [6],623pp. Jacket extremities a bit chipped and worn with small closed tear at bottom edge of upper panel with subsequent crease, long narrow paper flaw across upper panel, corners a hint bumped, else Near Fine in Near Very Good jacket. BAIRD 2375: "Eric Marsden, a singular young man, lives full and freely. Jailed as a conscientious objector, involved in labor violence, attracted to strange and eccentric women, he moves from one experience to another"; HANNA 3392.…

Hardcover. Zustand: VG+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First Edition. 623 pages in very good condition; clean and white. Endpapers slightly yellowed. Previous owner's embossed stamp on the ffep. Burgundy hardcovers with gilt titles on the spine. Corners not bumped. Green/brown DJ with yellow titles. Spine scuffed and chipped. Light wear on corners and edges. Not price clipped. VG+/GOOD. Book.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First edition. Near fine in an about good dustwrapper. Blue cloth with green stamping, very light browning on page edges and end papers, very light bumping of spine ends, dustwrapper shows top half of back cover missing, light chipping on spine ends, some short tears on cover edges, line tear across width of spine, flap corners clipped but price still present, spine faded, browning and shelf rubbing.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. Very Good dj. First Edition. [good solid copy, light soiling to top edge, one-time owner's pencil signature at top of ffep; jacket is moderately edgeworn, with a few small tears and associated minor creasing, shallow chip at base of spine]. The first novel by the least-known of "The Boys in the Back Room," so dubbed by critic Edmund Wilson in his 1940 book of the same name, subtitled "Notes on California Novelists." Although linking Storm with John Steinbeck as practitioners of "more ambitious writing" (in comparison to James M. Cain, John O'Hara and William Saroyan, all of whom he somewhat disses), Wilson managed to overlook this novel entirely, referring to Storm's 1937 novel "Pity the Tyrant" as his first book. (Although to be fair to Wilson, neither did Storm's publishers make any allusion to it in the blurbs for his later books; apparently everybody had just decided that it was an early "failure" and thus best left unmentioned.) Storm, a radio engineer by profession, used his deep knowledge of the early days of that industry -- when the emphasis was entirely on engineering and utilitarian communication and not at all on entertainment -- as the background for the "tragedies and comedies of men and women caught in the whirling wheels of the business machine." The book's fictional corporation, "American National Telegraphs," is headquartered in Pittsburgh, but its enterprises propel the book's protagonists all over the place; major episodes are set in Central America, California (including Los Angeles) and China. Storm had his most productive literary spurt a little later on, turning out three books (and catching Wilson's attention) between 1937 and 1940, but his career was cut short by his untimely, accidental, and somewhat ironic death in late 1941: he had continued to work in the radio industry, and was electrocuted while working on an Army Signal Corps transmitter in San Francisco. Terrific wrap-around dust jacket art by George Carlson. Illustrated by (dj design) George Carlson (illustrator).…

Berlin, Erich Schmidt Verlag, ( 1991). 216 S. (= Storm-Briefwechsel, 12). 23 cm. OLn. m. SU. [1.] 1877-1880 / [2.] 1880-1888. - Theodor Storm (1817-1888), deutscher Schriftsteller und Lyriker des Poetischen Realismus. - Otto Speckter (1807-1871), deutscher Maler und Graphiker aus Hamburg. Sein Sohn Hans Speckter (1848-1888) war ebenfalls Illustrator und Zeichner. - Gut und sauber erhalten.…

32 S. Buchformat 24x18,5cm. Ohne Verlag oder Jahr, lediglich mit Verlagsnummer 4352. Vorderdeckel original mit farbig bedrucktem Papier bezogen, Motiv: Mädchen unterm Baum, Hund, Spielzeug. Buchtext Antiqua. Viele zweifarbige Illustrationen im Text, einige Farbtafeln auf Kunstdruckpapier. Kinderbuch der 1920er-Jahre mit zauberhaften Illustrationen. Selten! REGAL7schwarz Stark gebraucht, viel gelesen, teils Zeitspuren.…

Cloth. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First. First edition of THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, a novel of the emerging radio industy and a man who builds a business empire only to see it crash. Author Storm was himself a radio engineer. A fine, fresh copy in one of the most strikingly designed George Carlson deco jackets we have seen. Jacket has some short tears abouth the edges that have been archivally repaired.…