Silver eagle von burnett (4 Ergebnisse)
- Softcover
Anbieter: Ria Christie Collections, Uxbridge, Vereinigtes KönigreichRia Christie Collections
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EUR 20,61
EUR 14,00 VersandVersand von Vereinigtes Königreich nach USAAnzahl: Mehr als 20 verfügbar
Zustand: New. In.
Weitere BilderVerlag: Lincoln MacVeagh/The Dial Press, New York, 1931
- Hardcover
- Erstausgabe
Anbieter: ReadInk, ABAA/IOBA, Los Angeles, CA, USAReadInk, ABAA/IOBA
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EUR 198,62
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In den WarenkorbHardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. First Edition. (no dust jacket, but encased in a nice-looking facsimile reproduction of the original first edition jacket; see 2nd scanned image posted with this listing) [no significant wear apart from some rubbing to silver spine lettering at base of spine (title and author are bright and unblemi…shed), light age-toning to edge of text block, attractive vintage bookseller's label (Satyr Book Shop, Hollywood and Los Angeles) on rear pastedown, one-time owner's embossed stamp on half-title and rear endpaper (see Notes)]. Burnett's fourth published novel, by far the most obscure and hard-to-find of his early books -- and a classic example of how a work by a notable and successful author (and Burnett had become notable and successful right away, with the publication of his first book, "Little Caesar," in 1929) can fade into obscurity for no other apparent reason than because nobody ever made a movie out of it. (It's the only one of Burnett's first six novels that's never been filmed.) I've seen the book referred to as a "follow-up" to "Little Caesar," but that's only true in the sense that it's also set in Chicago (and in fact on the original dust jacket it's heralded as "A Chicago Novel"). It's not even really a gangster novel, although the underworld does play a part in the narrative, which is primarily about a successful restaurant/club owner, a self-made man with ambitions to rise in the society world. But if you were a successful restaurant/club owner in Chicago in that era, you'd inevitably find yourself rubbing shoulders with the town's rougher elements, and between its somewhat low-born protagonist and some of the characters he gets involved with, there's a pretty decent quotient of hard-boiled, tough-guy talk to keep things snappy. The milieu is also evoked by the book's dedication -- "To the Wilson and Oak Gang, 1915-1918" -- although the significance of such a "gang" (if it was) has so far eluded my research. This copy is from the library of one-time MGM producer-writer Carey Wilson, with his embossed ownership stamp on the half-title page and the rear endpaper. NOTE again that the dust jacket on this book is a FACSIMILE, and that its presence has not been factored into our pricing.
Verlag: DIAL, 1931
- Hardcover
- Erstausgabe
Anbieter: Vagabond Books, A.B.A.A., PASADENA, CA, USAVagabond Books, A.B.A.A.
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EUR 794,47
EUR 6,86 VersandVersand innerhalb von USAAnzahl: 1 verfügbar
In den WarenkorbHardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. FIRST. A NEAR FINE FIRST IN DJ. SCARCE chip at bottom of spine.
Weitere BilderVerlag: New York: The Dial Press, 1931, 1931
- Erstausgabe
Anbieter: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, Vereinigtes KönigreichPeter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB.
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EUR 2.106,72
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In den WarenkorbFirst edition, from the collection of Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts (1941-2021), reflecting his fascination with the Jazz Age, and love of crime fiction and noir, with his posthumous bookplate. Published two years after the author's genre-defining debut Little Caesar (1929), this gangster novel "focuses on a business inve…stor trying to stay clean in the underworld of Prohibition-era Chicago" (LARB). Burnett's early novels shaped the conventions of noir in both literature and cinema. Octavo. Original black boards, spine lettered in silver, publisher's device to front cover in blind. With dust jacket. Lightly bumped, contents slightly toned; unclipped jacket rubbed, a few nicks and short closed tears to extremities: a near-fine copy in very good jacket.
