sanders jacquin (9 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Very Good. Very Good condition. Good dust jacket. In protective mylar cover. (new england) A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.

Zustand: Good. 1960. First Edition. 223 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears, and creasing. Light sunning to spine and edges.

Zustand: New. In.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good dj. Illustrated by (dj design) Robert Galster (illustrator). First Edition. [moderate shelfwear, some spotting/soiling to top edge of text block; jacket has some shallow chipping along top edge, general edgewear, sun-browning to spine, light overall soiling]. Satirical novel set in "the not-so-staid Puritan community of Gruel, Massachusetts," and presenting (per the jacket blurb) "the wildest, funniest, least probable adventure into the past since Mark Twain told the real story of olde King Arthur." NOISBN.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First edition. Very good in very good dustwrapper. Book shows rubbing to top and bottom edges. Dustwrapper shows rubbing to all edges, chipping at spine ends. Hardcover.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Little, Brown January 1954 Binding: Hardcover.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First English edition. Fine, with faint offsetting to the endpapers and foxing to the foredge, in a near fine dust jacket with chipping and tears to the spine and flap folds. A humorous story of the not-so-staid Puritan community of Gruel, Massachusetts.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. First Edition. (no dust jacket) [very slight bumping to upper tips, otherwise a nice clean copy with only minor shelfwear]. Novel set in a third-rate carnival, centered around the love affair between a wrestler and the star female attraction of the carnival's freakshow" -- to wit, The Fish Girl, a beautiful woman who had been born with stumps for arms -- whose romance is complicated by the presence of her husband, The Fish Boy, "a gnarled, sadistic gnome who hated the world." Well-reviewed as a vivid portrait of carny life at the time of its original hardcover publication, and now considered a bit of a classic. "Mr. Sanders will make you sweat," said the New York Times, no less, and Variety called it "an uncorseted picture of all the shady practices on the more malodorous midways of the country.".

First edition, first printing, presentation copy to Raymond Chandler, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Raymond, Jacquin Sanders", and with Chandler's La Jolla ownership stamp beneath which he as written "From Little Brown & Co - God knows why!". In a letter to the budding writer James Fox in May 1954 Chandler writes, "Your publishers for no reason that I can understand sent me a book called Freak Show by Jacquin Sanders (where the hell does a character get a name like that?). I haven't read it and don't want to." Jacquin "Jack" Sanders (1922-2005) was a rifleman in the U.S. Army infantry, lived in Paris for a couple of years and wrote three novels before he became a full-time journalist at age 40. He was a writer-editor at Newsweek and the New York Daily News, before moving to Florida. A modern reprint describes this, his first book: "Freakshow has occupied a unique niche in underground American literature since 1954. It's a novel which chronicles the somehow-disturbing love affair between Bat Fidler, a troubled, lonely guy and roust-about, and Fish Girl, a beautiful but disfigured sideshow performer, providing amazingly authentic glimpses into both carnival and prison life and defiantly unmasking the freakshow that usually passes for contemporary love." Octavo. Original yellow cloth, spine lettered in red. With dust jacket. Some minor toning to the contents but an excellent copy in the somewhat faded, price-clipped dust jacket.