boy von ross sam (5 Ergebnisse)

Mass Market Paperback. Zustand: VERY GOOD. A bit of chipping to lower edge of spine. Lower front corner bent. Pages are tanned. 18 cm. 343 pages. Bantam Giant A1214. Additional info or photos on request. Ships in protective packaging, with tracking and insurance.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Poor dj. 2nd printing before publication. [moderate shelfwear, slight bumping at several corners, bookseller's rubber-stamp on front pastedown (Bertrand Smith Acres of Books, Long Beach, California); the jacket is in two pieces (separated at the rear hinge, held together by new mylar protector) and rather tattered, with heavy edgewear, large pieces missing at both ends of spine, etc.] Uncommon second novel by the author of "He Ran All the Way." Set on in Chicago during the 1920s, it's "the absorbing and uncompromising story of Benny gordon, nurtured on slum housing, public school athletics, movies, radio, and comics, and how he struggled into maturity." Almost certainly an autobiographically-inspired book, given that the author's history (born 1911, grew up on Chicago's West Side, the son of Russian immigrant parents) tracks pretty well with that of his protagonist.

Couverture souple. Zustand: bon. RO60063528: 1954. In-12. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. légèrement passée, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 343 pages. Premier plat illustré en couleurs. . . . Classification Dewey : 820-Littératures anglaise et anglo-saxonne.

Zustand: VG. NY 1948 first edition. Farrar Straus. 340p. Hardcover cover. VG no owner marks. in DJ designed by Bill English. DJ is Good with worn spine ends and edges. No major chips or tears. Price present.

Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. New York: Farrar, Straus and Company, 1948. First Edition, with "FÅ¿" symbol to copyright. Octavo; publisher's cloth-backed boards in black decorative dust jacket retaining original price ($3.50); [6],340pp. Light shelf wear to jacket and board extremities including a few tiny closed tears to the former's extremities as well as wrinkling to front panel, cloth spine very slightly discolored, else a Very Good, still quite bright copy overall. Uncommon gritty post-War Chicago novel in the same tradition as Nelson Algren.