Jacket design robert hallock (2 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Poor. Book Club Edition. 315 p. 22 cm. ; LCCN: 47-30245 ; OCLC: 343876 ; Dark red cloth with gold lettering and embosse, in dramatic period brick red and grey dustjacket ; jacket has tears ; front hinge shaken ; "Tin Flute : A Bitter-Sweet Love Story. ; "This is a story of little people in Montreal's Saint-Henri, of poverty that destroyed the heart and soul, of brief encounter, opening doors to a better world. The time is shortly before the fall of France -- and with that fall imminent, a whipping into frenzy of nati onalist spirit- be it French or British- and the resultant enlistments, proving only too often an artificial escape from boredom, from unemployment, from pauperism. Against this unstable setting is told the story of Florentine, who worked at the Fiv e and Ten, and who thought that in Jean Levesque she had found escape from the tenement of her crowded home into the fire of that grand passion of movies and cheap novels. Florentine was different- but disillusionment, fear and a pathetic eagerness to put her home and family behind her, combine to break down the little prides she'd nourished.- And only at the end, when, having said goodbye to Emanuel who had saved her, she has another chance with Jean -- and turns aside -- she finds that once again her self esteem means more to her than the tawdry trimmings of passion. The writing is perceptive, vivid -- the story marches -- most of the characters live. " ; book club edition ; a reading copy only ; foxed ; POOR. Book.…

Zustand: Very Good. Fine [Facsimile]. First Edition, First Printing. Original terracotta cloth stamped in black with wraparound illustration. A classic allegory of greed and human nature set in a Mexican fishing village, based on a legend Steinbeck heard while in La Paz. A Scribner's bookstore label to front pastedown indicates provenance to Mrs. S. I. Newhouse, Park Avenue, New York. First Edition, First Printing. The bindings are tight and square. Text clean with mild toning. Light sunning and faint discoloration along spine and board edges; gilt on spine title moderately dulled. Corners and spine ends show light rubbing. Overall a solid, well-preserved example, the orange cloth a bit faded from light exposure. Facsimile dust jacket in a Mylar sleeve is flawless. Published December 1947 by Viking, The Pearl was first serialized in Woman's Home Companion under the title 'The Pearl of the World'. The story was adapted into a 1947 Mexican film (La perla, directed by Emilio Fernández) and later an American production, securing its place among Steinbeck's most widely taught novellas. Orozco's stark illustrations deepen the book's social realism, pairing two of the 20th century's most powerful interpreters of human struggle. Genres: Fiction, Illustrated Literature, American Literature, Allegory Subjects: Greed, Poverty, Human Nature, Mexico, Morality, Film Adaptation. Drawings by Jose Clemente Orozco. Jacket design by Robert Hallock. (illustrator).…