lacy len zinberg (3 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. by Len [Leonard] S. Zinberg. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1947. First edition, first printing. "First edition" statement to the copyright page, 1947 to the title page. A tough and tender, well-depicted novel of Hollywood by the author best known for the pseudonymous Touissant Moore mystery series which he wrote as Ed Lacy. Zinberg won an Edgar Award for ROOM TO SWING in 1957. Minor creasing to the spine, some light soils to the covers, bookstore rubber stamp to the lower corner of the inside front cover, else very good plus in cream linen with green titles and humorous vignette illustration to the spine; lacking a dust jacket.

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

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good dj. Illustrated by (dj design) Bill Hughes (illustratore). First Edition. [nice copy with light shelfwear only, a touch of dust-soiling to top of text block; the jacket is a little edgeworn, with some crinkling at the base of the spine and shallow paper loss at the top of the spine (no effect on spine text)]. Hard-boiled novel about a corrupt ex-cop who's working as the house dick at a small NYC hotel, but brought back into action when his ex-stepson comes to him with a problem related to his own ambitions for a career in law enforcement. "Ed Lacy" was the better-known of two pseudonyms (the other was "Steve April") used by Zinberg, whose early fiction (much of which appeared in leftish publications) reflected his liberal/Jewish intellectual background and revealed his concerns with social justice, particularly with regard to racial issues. (Although white, he was a longtime resident of Harlem and was married to an African-American woman.) He adopted the Lacy pseudonym, primarily for his detective genre fiction, in the early 1950s -- in part, it seems, to achieve a McCarthy-era distance from his left-wing political associations -- and became so well-known under that name that even his Wikipedia entry uses it. He turned out nearly thirty novels as Ed Lacy (as opposed to a mere three as Zinberg), the majority of them paperback originals; today, alas, most of his work is out of print.