Wolff maritta m (12 Ergebnisse)

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

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. Color illustrated softcovers. 222 pp. Solidly very good or somewhat better. "She was a girl with a price tag.The violent story of a handsome heel and the women who loved him." Carries only the 1941 Random House copyright but this paperback edition 1950.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Random House January 1941 Binding: Hardcover.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Through the course of a punishingly hot summer, we experience life with the six children and three adult Veeches as they bicker, brawl, make up, and provide titillating morsels of scandal for the neighborhood. A work of darkly comic grotesque, replete with shades of Flannery O'Connor, Whistle Stop is also a wrenching and earnest rumination on the tragedy of thwarted love. Condition: Boards have edge rubbing, corner bumps. Pages have light age toning, are clean and intact. Binding is secure.…

softcover. Zustand: vg+. dell PL 257. George Rozen (illustrator).

Mass Market Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition Thus. ASE T-34; Oblong 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 447 pages; [1944] Armed Services Edition #T-34. 1st edition thus. Specially formatted in oblong design to fit military uniform pockets and packs. These editions were intended to boost morale and promote literacy among troops overseas during World War II. Minor shelfwear to edges and light spine wrinkling typical of wartime glue contraction. Short stress crease across the top corner of the rear cover. Solid VG copy.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. 4th printing. (no dust jacket) [a nice tight clean book with no significant wear apart from a bit of scuffing to both covers, and slight yellowing to paper spine label]. A hard-boiled yarn about a family of shiftless lowlifes in an economically and culturally depressed small town on the outskirts of Detroit, this novel put its young author (just 22 when the book was published) on the literary map, earning special notoriety for its rather raw language as well as its thematic elements (including incest and domestic violence). It was adapted into a somewhat watered-down film version in 1946, starring Ava Gardner and George Raft. The author published five more novels during her lifetime, and one more ("Sudden Rain") was published posthumously, after the manuscript was discovered in her freezer following her death in 2002. NOTE: Although stated on the copyright page as the "Fourth Printing," this is in the first-state binding, black cloth with printed paper labels on the spine and front cover, which is much less common than the later-state full red cloth binding (which many booksellers mis-identify as the "original" binding).…

G134. Zustand: vg. 1st edition as Popular Library G134 1953 paperback, vg In stock shipped from our UK warehouse.

257. Zustand: vg. 1st edition Popular Library 257 1954 paperback, vg In stock shipped from our UK warehouse.

Mass Market Paperback. Zustand: Acceptable. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: n/a. Popular Library Edition. Covers show signs of wear with creasing and a small tear at the top corner. Spine is creased, and there is some edge wear. Binding remains intact, though pages are age-toned. No inscriptions or library markings present.…

Hard Cover. Zustand: Very Good. Good Plus. First Edition. 449pp, 2pp catalogue. Bound in original publishers orange cloth, with black lettering. Cloth lightly age marked. Binding in good clean firm condition. Dust jacket chipped, with loss in a few places, rubbed, dust marked. Jacket in good condition. Internally, pages clean. A good clean copy, in a worn jacket. Size: 8vo.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 8vo., 449pp. Sharp later printing with no statement of printing on copyright page. Square, tight and clean throughout save some off-setting to end-papers. Fairly minor wear to spine ends and tips, more so on the bottom edge. Contemporary ownership signature on front end-paper. Attractive clipped dust-jacket has some fairly mild wear to spine ends and edges. Small scrape to the front panel. Light soiling. Still solid with no chipping or tears. Basis for the 1946 Noir film starring George Raft and Ava Gardner. Inscribed and signed on the front end-paper, "Property of Baseball's Mrs. Ted Williams, October 2006. Out of print book. Bellows falls, VT". This would almost certainly have been the Splendid Splinter's third wife, Dolores Wettach, who shared a home in Vermont and was still alive in 2006. A pretty collectable copy of an unusual item. Signed/Inscribed by Notable. …