klempner john (9 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. Later Printing (no "A"). (no dust jacket) [a good sound copy, light shelfwear only, slight darkening to spine cloth, minor soiling to rear cover; small name label on front pastedown, beneath which someone has drawn a crude peace symbol in blue ink]. Novel set in Greenwich Village, centering around a pair of sisters and their marriages -- one to an amiable fellow who hasn't quite recovered from losing his job when the stock market crashed in 1929, the other (working as an advertising copywriter) to a impoverished playwright who's convinced he's a genius and expects her to support him. The latter's domestic non-bliss is complicated when she meets and finds herself attracted to a more substantial guy, a former pro basketball player. One contemporary critic praised the book for its "witty, easy short-cut phrases [and] the sparkling slangy epigrams, like so many zircons twinkling in a jeweller's window," while also opining that it would make a good movie. It didn't make it onto the screen at all, actually, although the author's later novel, "Letter to Five Wives," did (after writer-director Joseph L. Mankiewicz jettisoned a couple of its wives).

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good dj. First Edition. [light shelfwear, a couple of tiny stains on bottom of text block; jacket has a bit of wear and some minor creasing at spine ends and bottom of front panel, a couple of tiny closed edge-tears]. Novel about the Hardy sisters (no relation to the Hardy Boys), a pair of sort-of single mothers: Sue, who, in a funk after her husband was killed in the war, had surrendered the care of her twins to her domineering mother-in-law, so she could pursue her career as a band singer; and Nora, who's struggling to make ends meet for herself and her four kids following their abandonment by her feckless husband. The jacket blurb mansplainingly declares the author's "particular forte [to be] an uncanny understanding of women such as few male authors are privileged to possess," and lauds "the surgical precision with which Mr. Klempner dissects the mind and heart of the female of the species." Klempner's previous novel, "Letter to Five Wives," had been the basis for the two-wife-reduced movie adaptation A LETTER TO THREE WIVES.

Zustand: Good. NY 1939 first edition. Scribners. Hardcover. octavo.381p. Good, almost no wear; binding secure; end papers a bit toned; some brown spotting along outer hinges and on rear cover. **Signed by Klempner in presentation to Geri Beck. In Fair dj (dj has several taped tears but other than a few small chips is complete.) Scarce.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Set in Israel and New York City, Another Night, Another Day tells the story of the intertwined lives of four people whose relationships and values are forever changed after a terrorist attack. Klempner's character-driven narrative offers a nuanced exploration of love, loss, and the complexities of forgiveness.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Set in Israel and New York City, Another Night, Another Day tells the story of the intertwined lives of four people whose relationships and values are forever changed after a terrorist attack. Klempner's character-driven narrative offers a nuanced exploration of love, loss, and the complexities of forgiveness.

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Fair. Elena; Varady, Fredric; Sarnoff, Arthur; Elvgren, Gilette; Gramatky, Hardie; (illustrator). First Edition. 148 pages. Features: Charming color-illustrated ad for Alba Nylons inside front cover with gorgeous young lovely standing in tree; DuBarry Success Course ad features Berry Lou Arehart; Out of the Blue - complete novel by Vera Caspary; Is He In the Right Job?; Young Wife in Washington, D.C. - color-photo-illustrated article on author Mary Augusta Rodgers and her family; The Farmington Valley Republican Club; It Happened in Hollywood - How the Censors Cleaned up 'Forever Amber'; Several pages of attractive fashion photos in color and black and white; How Fast Can You Read?; My Life is Different Because. - by Joseph Pasternak; Nice color-photo back cover Maybelline ad features Norma Christopher, Queen of the 1947 Tournament of Roses; and much more. Unmarked with above-average but not excessive wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy.

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good+. 1st Edition (A) [see notes]. (pictorial wrappers, with "jacket" flaps) [modest external wear, spine slightly turned]. The author's uncommon debut novel, about a newly- (and hastily-) married New York businessman, who finds himself driven to distraction by his obsession with his "lovely and enigmatic" wife's possible previous lover (or was he?), referred to only as "The Count" (but who apparently might not have been a "real" Count at all). Bound in pictorial wraps, with all the indicators of a Scribner's first edition, although this may actually be an advance copy of some sort. The author scored a big success (and a nice movie sale) a few years later with "Letter to Five Wives.".

Final script for the 1948 film. With a single note on the verso of the last page in manuscript blue ink. Shot under the name "Off to Buffalo" as is presented here. Vaudeville is a fading form of entertainment and prospects are grim for the Norwick family, a juggling act struggling to find work. They are forced to find normal jobs and one daughter elopes with her boyfriend, leaving Albert's son forced to make a decision as to whether play professional baseball or join his father on a 16 week tour out west. Set in New York City. Blue titled wrappers, noted as Final on the front wrapper, rubber-stamped copy No. 152 and production No. 154, dated March 21, 1947. Distribution page present, with receipt removed. Title page present, dated March 21, 1947, noted as Final Script, with credits for screenwriters Samuel Hoffenstein, and Elizabeth Reinhardt. 131 leaves, with last page of text numbered 129. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Very Good with dampstaining, wrapper Very Good with dampstaining bound internally with two gold brads. Hirschhorn p. 293.

First Edition. First Edition. Basis for the classic 1949 film "Letter to Three Wives," directed and written for the screen by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and starring Jeanne Crain, Linda Darnell, Ann Sothern, Kirk Douglas, Paul Douglas, and Barbara Lawrence. Scarce in or out of jacket. About Near Fine in a Very Good plus, price-clipped dust jacket. Faint offsetting on the endpapers. Jacket lightly worn at the corners, with a moderately faded spine panel and a tiny chip on the bottom edge of the rear panel.