New venture press (18 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Includes dust jacket.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Early book club edition. Short tear at spine head, corners lightly bumped, else very good in a good only dust jacket with extremities worn and chipped.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. First edition. Small quarto. 56pp. Near fine with light sunning to edges and a previous owner's name on the front paste-down in a fair only, price-clipped dust jacket, missing some pieces and detached at the rear joint. Although not marked as such, this copy is from the library of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Peter Taylor and his wife, the National Book Award-nominated poet Eleanor Ross Taylor.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Poetry series published in Philadelphia. Stapled wraps. Clean. TM/Poetry.

Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Bindings Tight and Square. Text clean, light even toning. Light handling wear. 208 pages plus brief biographical note. 8.25 inches tall. Dust Jacket in new clear protective Mylar sleeve has price of $2.75. Moderate handling wear to edges. Interesting period historical fiction novel regarding race in the south involving the rape of a black woman. Very Good in a Very Good Dust Jacket. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Book club edition. Small owner label on front pastedown, corners and spine ends slightly bumped, very good in a very good dust jacket with slight tanning to the spine and flap folds, modest wear to the extremities and internal tape repairs. Wouk's first novel, written while at sea during the war.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Good+ dj. 4th printing. (price-clipped) [good sound copy with only minor shelfwear, the 5th of the book's 8 signatures (i.e. pp. 141-172) printed on cheaper paper and thus notably age-toned, one-time owner's signature on front endpaper, vintage bookseller's label (Paul Elder & Co., San Francisco) on rear pastedown; the jacket is worn at edges and extremities, with a small bit of surface insect-nibbling near the bottom of the rear panel]. The author's first novel, a psychological horror tale set in a small town on Cape Cod, about a young woman (the book's narrator) who enters into a loveless marriage to escape her abusive father (who rapes her at the age of 14), only to be subsequently abandoned and divorced by her husband. She becomes something of a recluse, until coaxed out of her isolation by a local groceryman, with whom she enjoys a budding romance -- until her ex-husband returns to town with a new (pregnant) wife, and moves in next door to her. Then, in the words of one contemporary review: "Obsessed by envy and rivalry, by her own inadequacies, the advent of Ed's baby adds the final touch to her brooding, bitter unhappiness and ---." (Sorry, I've already given you enough spoilers. No more!) One contemporary reviewer described the book thus: "Crackling with suspense, a story filled with emotional anguish and fearsome passion, [the novel] is a triumph for the author. Eerie and gruesome, yet haunting and deeply sincere, it achieves heroic stature because it creates an impression unforgettable." It was also announced shortly after its publication that the movie rights to the book had been acquired by agent-turned-producer Charles K. Feldman, but no film was ever made. However, Wolfson (already an established playwright when this book appeared) later dramatized it himself under the title "American Gothic"; it was staged at the Circle in the Square theatre in Greenwich Village in 1953, starring Clarice Blackburn and the then-unknown Jason Robards Jr., under the direction of Jose Quintero -- who later gave Robards his big break in his 1956 production of O'Neill's "Long Day's Journey Into Night.". Illustrated by (dj) Leo Manso (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First edition. Small quarto. 56pp. Black cloth edges faded, spine ends and corners moderately worn, a very good copy in a good only edgeworn and chipped dustwrapper with brittle spine. Inscribed by the author on the front fly.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good+. First Edition; First Printing. Drawings; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 166 pages; 1945 Venture Press / Simon & Schuster. Smaller format HC/DJ. First edition. Snugly bound and neat in full cream linen covered boards lettered in burgundy; publisher's burgundy top stain bold and uniform. Color pictorial dust jacket from art design by Glen Rounds is generally clean and neat with $2.00 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Mild toning to the jacket spine and sides; superfcial shelf rubbing to tips and a short stray pen mark to the cover panel. Illustrated from b&w drawings by Rounds. VG++/VG+. …

1947, 1st editiion. (hardcover) Very good in very good dust jacket. xi, 241pp. 8vo. Signed first edition of Wouk's debut novel. Jacket shows moderate wear at the upper and lower edges (closed tears, small chips). There appears to be some water damage to the rear panel of the jacket and the back board of the book. Discolouration, no obvious smell. Internlly clean and bright.…

Softcover. Zustand: Fine. First edition thus. Fine in wrappers. Reissue of this story which first appeared in the pulps in 1936. Two other short stories included.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. Very Good dj. First Edition. [modest shelfwear to top and bottom edges, old gift inscription (non-authorial) on front pastedown; jacket has some shallow chipping along top edge, split halfway up from bottom along front flapfold, various small nicks and closed tears]. The first book by this Georgia-born author, who worked at various times as a social worker, library assistant, clerk-typist, teacher, advertising copywriter, and book reviewer. She was later to gain a minor reputation as a mystery novelist, with six novels and dozens of short stories (mostly published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and similar digest pulps) to her credit. Her entry in "Twentieth Century Crime and Mystery Writers" notes the affinity and empathy she exhibited throughout her fiction to disadvantaged and socially isolated people, particularly elderly women, and ascribes it to her experiences as a social worker -- but from what's known of her life, it seems like she could just as well have seen herself in that class as well. (Critic Christopher Fowler, writing in The Independent in 2014, sketched this portrait of her: "She read avidly, stored books in her oven, and would only eat in restaurants with linen napkins. She lived austerely, took care of a sick mother, travelled alone and liked teddy bears" -- also noting that she had "abandoned writing after becoming completely deaf, and concentrated on charity work.") This particular book, which predates all her other published writing by about five years, both stands apart from it and yet is all of a piece with it -- it's "unclassifiable," per the publisher's blurb, "not a novel, not a book of short stories. It contains 26 chapters, each the autobiographical sketch of a human being, as he or she tells his story is his own words to a case worker." The author provides only the briefest sociological overlay, noting in a half-page introductory note that "the people in this book talk to someone called a case worker. Their confidence has been respected and they cannot be identified." (Note that she all but removes herself from the equation, too: although we learn from the author-bio jacket copy that the author "has been employed as a social worker since October 1939," she makes absolutely no attempt to position herself as the specific receptor for any of these narratives.) The book just plunges straight ahead with its 26 tales of "love and hate and human dignity and of the anguish caused when minds and hearts and bodies go unfed.". Illustrated by (dj design) Sol Immerman (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Very Good- in a Good dust-jacket. Minor dust-staining of edges of text-block. Minor age-toning to pages. Owner's name on the ffep in blue ink. Numerous nicks and chips, primarily at head and tail of spine of the dust-jacket. A bit of shelf-wear and rubbing primarily to back-panel; Blind-stamped circle at bottom-left of back-cover indicates that the volume is a book club edition.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 241 pages.…

Softcover. Zustand: Near Fine. First edition. Perfectbound near fine glossy wrappers with general wear. Inscribed by the author. A book containing both a short biography of the Texas author and a fictional account of a white couple who gives birth to a baby with black features that leads to their ostracization but ultimate happiness.…