poems praise practically nothing von hoffenstein samuel (29 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.9.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.35.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.35.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.65.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.44.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.8.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.8.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Forest green cover with some slight shelf wear. Looks like first blank page has been excised out and is missing. First page starts with title page and every other page is fully intact. Very very funny poems inside. (PM) "H"offenstein.

Zustand: Good. 1941. 217 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Inscription to front pastedown. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.85.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.85.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Later printing. 5 x 8 in. Cloth boards. Condition is VERY GOOD ; minor shelf wear, covers very clean. Binding tight and text spotless. Poetry. Stax.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Poor. 1st Edition. Spine and back half of DJ is missing, but the front is protected in mylar wraps. Pages are tanned but are free from markings or creases. Binding is tight. BP/Poetry.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Zustand: Fair. 1928. Seventh Printing. 217 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Rough-cut pages. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Pen inscriptions to pastedowns. Boards have noticeable edge wear with corner bumping and rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends. Gilt lettering is slightly dulled.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Later printing. Slightly cocked spine and foxing on the page edge else very good.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hard Cover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. Ninth Printing. Publisher's full blue cloth, gilt lettering on cover and spine, fore edge deckle. . Volume shows mild wear, spine lightly sunned, former owner's inscription on ffep. VERY GOOD. Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall. 217 pp.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good-. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. Later Printing. Spine lettering faded, light tone, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover. ; INSCRIBED by author on front free endpaper. Samuel Hoffenstein was a poet and entertainment writer in New York until 1931, then spent most of his life in Los Angeles as a screenwriter. Poems in Praise of Practically Nothing. contains some of his work that had been formerly published in the New York World, the New York Tribune, Vanity Fair, the D. A. C. News, and Snappy Stories. Louis Untermeyer said of Hoffenstein's light verse, "whose cynicisms were always on the point of breaking into tears". Signed copy of this delightful and popular collection of witty light verse.; 217 pages; Signed by Author.

Zustand: Good. 1929. First Edition. 214 pages. No dust jacket. Orange cloth. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Cracking to gutters, with exposed netting. Binding is weakened but remains secure. Some pen markings to margins. Bookseller's sticker to front pastedown. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Book has a slight forward lean.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. New York. Boni and Liveright. 1928. First Edition. Fifth Printing published same year as first printing. Hard Cover. Dark blue boards which have softening at the spine ends and small knocks to the corners. Circular gilt titles. Pages have green top edges and untrimmed fore edges. Text block is clean and unmarked. Contains work that had been formerly published in the New York World, the New York Tribune, and Vanity Fair. One of his best loved and shortest poems is titled "The Apple". The Apple live so bright and high And ends its day in apple pie. Like most of his works, the poem was a metaphor about life. Author was a notable screenwriter who penned the Wizard of Oz and many other hit movies of the era.

Zustand: Good. Mohandas K. 'Mahatma' Gandhi, 1869-1948, was an Indian political activist and Hindu nationalist leader. V-225. 377 pages. Near Fine, very light wear to edges. Dust Jacket condition fair. Hardcover, dark blue cloth boards, gilt-stamped cover & spine.

tapa dura. Zustand: Bien. Horace Liveright. Nueva York. 1928. 19 cm. 215 p. Encuadernación en tapa dura de editorial. Idioma inglés . Cubierta deslucida. (=3149957=) MT02.

First edition. Hardcover. 217 pages. A collection of poems from this Oscar nominated screenwriter. A bright and fresh copy in orange cloth boards with a very faint moisture stain to the bottom of the front board but with no evidence internally in a very good lightly soiled dust jacket with corresponding evidence of the moisture stain to the bottom of the front panel and spine but really only visible on the verso. Still, a lovely copy.

Zustand: Good. 8vo. Hardcover, clothbound with embossed gilt author name on cover, with a mylar reinforced dust jacket. 438 pp. No Plates. Some foxing to dust jacket and slight tear to back of dust jacket, else Very Good.

Zustand: Good. 8vo. Hardcover, clothbound with embossed gilt author name on cover, with a mylar reinforced dust jacket. 438 pp. No Plates. Good, tears to edges of dust jacket, some wear to edges of cover.

Zustand: Good. 8vo. Hardcover, clothbound with embossed gilt author name on cover. 438 pp. No Plates. Very Good.

Zustand: MOLTO BUONO. New York, Boni & Liveright cm.13x19, pp.214, legatura ed.in tutta tela,

First edition. 8vo, 217pp; black cloth. Hoffenstein's most popular book, comprising light verses and parodies. Lightly used, in a like dust jacket, unclipped, but with some shallow chipping, a few splits and tears.