libbie block (14 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. Signed Copy First edition copy. . Good dust jacket. Inscribed by author on front endpage. In protective mylar cover. Uncut pages. Shelf worn. Toned on page edges. Shelf cocked. (fiction, doctor, town).

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.15.

Cloth. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Book Club Edition. Detective Book Club. Tan cloth binding. The pages are tanned. There is a name label on the front end paper. There is foxing on the end papers. The dust jacket has a few small edge tears (some have been repaired with clear tape), a few small soil spots and is darkened on the spine area. Included in this book: The Case of the Fan-Dancer's Horse by Erle Stanley Gardner; The Silver Leopard by Helen Reilly; and Bedeviled by Libbie Block. 495 pages in total.

Zustand: Fair. 1947. First Printing. 356 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Binding remains firm. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Previous owner's inscriptions to front pastedown and endpaper. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Tears to cloth to spine. Wear marks overall.

Zustand: Good. First edition copy. . Good dust jacket. In protective mylar cover. (short stories).

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Doubleday & Co. Inc, Garden City NY, 1957. 350 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Author compares life in Hollywood with that of the old royal courts-giving a "period" feeling about the kings, queens, and jokers of the movie pack. Libbie Block authored over her career some two hundred and fifty short stories and two novels. A number of her short stories were later compiled and published under the title "No Man Tells Everything". Her two novels were, "This Town Needs a Doctor" and "Wild Calendar", the latter was made into the 1949 film "Caught". EB; 8.3 X 5.6 X 1.5 inches; 350 pages.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First edition. A few very faint spots on the front board, else fine in very good dustwrapper with some offsetting to the right side of the front panel, and a couple of short tears. A collection of short stories.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. the jacket has edge tears and worn. shelf rubbed. slight creasing. light marks. tanning. small pen marks. internally clean and tightly bound. [P.K.]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Couverture souple. Zustand: Bon. Un volume in 8°, broché , ( 13,3 x 18,7 cm), 353 pages , un coin du plat légèrement plié.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.15.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.2.

Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc. / The Crime Club, 1947. First Edition. Octavo. 217 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $2.00 price present. Black boards stamped in yellow. Dust jacket shows a few chips and creases along edges, several short closed tears with some tape repair to verso, and one larger closed tear with no loss at bottom corner of back panel. Spine a touch faded. Boards worn with brief exposure to edges. Binding is sound and pages unmarked.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First edition. Bottom of the boards a trifle rubbed, else fine in a very good black dustwrapper with a couple of tears and some rubbing and light wear atthe spinal extremities. A novel about the royal families of the motion picture world. Block's previous novel, *Wild Calendar*, was made into the Max Ophuls film *Caught* and the film *Pin-Up Girl* with Betty Grable was based on another story she wrote.

First Edition. First Edition. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper by the author: "To Jack / A fellow Denverite / Cordialy [sic] / Libbie Block / Valentine's Day / 1946." Rare. The author's first novel. Basis for the 1949 film noir "Caught," directed by Max Ophuls and starring Barbara Bel Geddes, Robert Ryan, and James Mason. Near Fine in an about Near Fine dust jacket. Tiny owner name stamp on the front and rear pastedowns. Detached rear jacket flap neatly repaired along the verso with cello tape. The Dark Page I: 1940-1949, p. 26.