kidd salter (4 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. First Edition. 8vo. A good copy in dk pink cloth covers with much-sunned spine. Minor foxing to eps, yellowing to page edges. Binding slightly slack in centre. gilt titling barely legible. Book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Chip Kidd (jacket design) (illustratore). Hard cover book in ivory and red boards with titles in black. The book is clean and tight The jacket has a very nice design on the front with photos and very light rubbing on the back. This book is based on the author's experience as a fighter pilot in the Korean War. It is a classic of wartime fiction.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardback with dust jacket. Tight and clean. Slight discolouration and wear to spine and edge of DJ, otherwise no marks or damage. VG+/VG. Photo available on request.

First edition of the re-issue of the authorâs first novel and landmark in the literature of war. Octavo, original cloth half-cloth. Boldly signed by James Salter on the front free endpaper. Additionally signed three times by legendary jacket designer Chip Kidd: on the front panel in the year of publication, the front free endpaper in the year of publication, and on the rear jacket flap. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Chip Kidd. Salter's 1956 fighter pilot novel stands out as a literary endeavor in a genre dominated by cheap adventure yarns. Salter goes beyond the usual gung-ho fighter jock glitz to present the story of Capt. Cleve Connell, whose intentions of becoming an ace are thwarted by enemy pilots with plans of their own. "Anyone under forty may not appreciate how profoundly Salter influenced my generation. [He] created the finest work ever to appear in print--ever--about men who fly and fight" (Robert F. Dorr). It is the basis for the 1958 film bearing the same name produced and directed by Dick Powell, it stars Robert Mitchum and Robert Wagner.