irving politzer (8 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. Politzer, Irving (illustrator). 300 pages, fifth printing. Some sunning and wear to the covers, pages yellowed; a sound binding. Good overall, no jacket. Illustrator: Politzer, Irving. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Philosophy; Inventory No: 198200.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Irving Politzer (illustrator). Pages unmarked.Bookplate on inside front cover. Print on spine is faded to illegibility. Slight Spine slant. No jacket. Cloth over boards is loose in the lower portion of the front cover. Binding firm. Book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good dj. Illustrated by (dj) [Irving] Politzer (illustrator). Reprint. [a touch of fraying at base of spine, light dust-soiling to top edge, no other significant wear; jacket lightly rubbed, with various small nicks and tears, tiny piece missing at bottom right corner of front panel]. "A modern romance that moves with thrilling swiftness before and behind the curtain of the operatic stage. It tells the story of a young American girl and her struggle to gain the limelight.".

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good dj. Illustrated by (dj) [Irving] Politzer (illustrator). First American Edition. [good solid book with minimal shelfwear to bottom edge, vintage bookseller's label (Paul Elder & Co., San Francisco) on rear pastedown; jacket a bit edgeworn and lightly soiled, with a handful of tiny nicks and edge-tears]. First American edition of this late work by the great Norwegian writer, recipient of the 1920 Nobel Prize for Literature. It's a continuation of the saga of the title character, introduced in Hamsun's 1927 novel "Wayfarers" (published in America as "Vagabonds"); his next book, "The Road Leads On" (1933), completed what's known as "the Wayfarers trilogy" or "the August trilogy." In this one, August, "the wild and unscrupulous, yet ever generous wanderer, returns after twenty years to his home in northern Norway." Jacketed copies of the American editions of Hamsun's books are surprisingly uncommon.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good+ dj. Illustrated by (dj) Irving Politzer (illustrator). Reprint. [spine turned, light wear to base of spine and bottom corners; jacket slighty faded at spine, with tiny tears at several corners, one-inch closed tear and associated creasing at top of front panel]. An early reprint of the prolific Ms. Mitchell's first novel (first published in the U.S. by Dial Press in 1929), in which a famous arctic explorer is found dead in a bathtub at an English country house -- and is discovered to have been a woman! (Much, I suppose, like a purchaser of this book by "G.M. Mitchell," as she is called in the front jacket panel, might have been surprised to have learned the author's gender only upon turning to the title page.) As Michele Slung wrote of Mitchell, she's "a special taste" whose work "has been little published in the United States since the beginning of her career [yet] to mystery readers in England who have followed the classic school she is practically an institution." Considered in her heyday to be in the same league as Agatha Christie or Dorothy L. Sayers, she wrote a total of 66 books featuring psychoanalyst-writer-sleuth Mrs. Beatrice Adela Lestrange Bradley, introduced in this book -- one or more every year until her death in 1983. As Slung also notes: "To put it mildly, eccentric goings-on are Mitchell's hallmark," with much attention devoted to "witchcraft, the supernatural, and folklore esoterica." It might also be observed that very few (if any) long-running detective series have featured a central character whose creator has taken such pains to make an unappealing, indeed almost repulsive figure: the very first mention of Mrs. Bradley in this, her introductory exploit, has another character describing her as a "little, old, shrivelled, clever, sarcastic sort of dame [who] would have been smelt out as a witch in a less tolerant age." And the author herself is scarcely more charitable, writing of her "nasty, dry, claw-like hands, and her arms, yellow and curiously repellant," employing adjectives like "reptilian," and describing her (more than once) as resembling a "playful alligator." Miss Marple she isn't!

Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good-. New York: A.L. Burt Company Publishers, [1929]. Reprint. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket by Irving Polizer; 310pp. Jacket margins rather rubbed and worn with a few small losses and closed gears, corners bumped, textblock lightly toned, else Very Good and sound. Romance novel set in British India where beautiful young Jean Farley finds herself charged with managing her father's estate, attracting the attention of multiple suitors in doing so.

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: dj. First Edition. Octavo (22cm); purple cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front panel; purple topstain; dustjacket; 230pp. Hint of sunning to upper board edges and topstain, else Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, with light wear and a few small nicks to extremities and gentle sunning to spine. A novel based on events from the author's life, woven around the motion picture industry in modern Russia, with a dash of romance and a Tsar-like Trust which dominates the cinema field. Abramson was a Polish-born filmmaker and screenwriter in the U.S. with little fiction to his credit. An uncommon book, particularly in attractive condition.

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: dj. First Edition. First Edition. A Lone Wolf mystery set in Manhattan. Very Good plus, slightly cocked, with a hint of foxing to the top page edges, in a Near Fine dust jacket with light toning to the extremities and brief rubbing to the corners and spine ends. Despite issues, a presentable copy.