pine hester (7 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Fair. Acceptable condition. No Dust Jacket (college teachers, college stories, fiction) A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 323 pages; Description: 323 p. ; 21 cm. Subjects: Pine, Hester. 3 Kg.

Zustand: Fair. First edition copy. . No Dust Jacket Front hinge cracked. Writing inside. (College Professors, Fiction).

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good+ dj. First Edition. [nice clean copy with light wear at extremities; jacket has one short closed tear at top of front panel, minor wear at spine ends]. Who the hell was this Hester Pine, anyway? She published three novels in quick succession in 1939-1940 (this was the third), added one more (with the strangely apt title "The Waltz is Over") in 1943, then poof! The jacket blurb on her first book claimed that she'd already been a ballerina, an actress, a foreign correspondent, a doctor's receptionist, a Sunday School teacher, a photographer's model, and a choir singer, and that she was "still married to her original husband," but I've been unable to independently confirm any of that. In this book, at least, she seems to be trawling the same literary waters as the great Dawn Powell: it's about a high-powered but mismatched N.Y. couple (he, the editor of a highbrow literary magazine; she, a successful and hard-driving interior designer) who split up. Everything seems all amicable and oh-so-sophisticated, until hubby falls in love with a woman his wife doesn't approve of, whereupon she goes all psycho on him and refuses to give him a divorce. Were there ever any people like this, I mean really?

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Hardcover. Beige cloth-covered boards with pink and burgundy stamping on the front cover and spine. Cloth is mildly foxed and toned along the spine. Corners are bumped and the head of the spine is frayed. Binding is square and strong. Small penciling from previous owner on front free endpaper. Title continues as "A Heady Brew in Which To Toast the Pedagogues, Their Wives; in Which to Taste The Seductions of Higher Learning. Ladies and Gentlemen! The Faculty! Seen Through a Glass But Not Darkly". No date on title page. Copyright page is dated 1939. 312 pages. Interiors are clean and unmarked. From what I can manage to find on Hester Pine are excerpts from the elusive DJ such as "attended college for a while, but left without taking a degree in order to indulge in more exciting activities." she danced "in several ballets," was a foreign correspondent, a physician's receptionist, a Sunday School teacher, a photographer's model, a singer in a choir, and an actress "on the stage." and she is "fond of cooking corn fritters, shooting with a pistol, drawing nudes in charcoal, and playing the guitar.". Overall, a good copy.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good+ dj. Illustrated by (dj design) Robert Hallock (illustrator). First Edition. [a good sound copy, mild wear to spine ends, small dent in bottom edge of rear cover, date written in red ink at top of front endpaper; the jacket is lightly edgeworn, with some minor creasing at the top of the front panel]. "The story of Marta Nordlander, who came from Austria to America three generations ago [and] of her family since then and of how it last became an American family." Who the hell was this Hester Pine, anyway? She published three novels in quick succession in 1939-1940 (all in somewhat of a Dawn Powell-ish vein), then came out with this one, after which -- poof! The jacket blurb on her first book claimed that she'd already been a ballerina, an actress, a foreign correspondent, a doctor's receptionist, a Sunday School teacher, a photographer's model, and a choir singer, and that she was "still married to her original husband," but I've been unable to independently confirm any of that. This book's jacket offers nothing at all in the way of biographical data, providing only the barest nod to her earlier books by way of claiming this one to be "more mature than any of her previous work." OCLC records plenty of library copies, but it seems to be very scarce in commerce; is there a Hester Pine cult we all should know about? Simone 152. ***This book is among the nearly 150 items offered in ReadInk's new Catalog Number 4, "Booking Passage: Books on the Immigrant Experience." You can access this catalog and its contents in any one of three ways: (1) email us to request a PDF to be emailed to you; (2) view or download the catalog from the link on our website's main page; (3) browse the books individually (including a few that didn't make the cut for the catalog) on our website under these two subject headings: "Immigration: Fiction" and "Immigration: Non-fiction.".

Zustand: Very Good. First US edition hard back binding in publisher's original pale olive cloth covers, brown and coral title block to the spine and to the front cover, slate dyed upper edges. 8vo. 8½'' x 6''. Contains 312 printed pages of text. Small oval chip to the cloth of the front gutter, ink message to the front free end paper. Very Good condition book in near Very Good condition art work dust wrapper with small oval chip to the front gutter, shallow nicks and chips with crease lines to the spine ends, not price clipped $2.50. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, it does not adhere to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. AMERICA [Literature].