Madden joe markee (14 risultati)

NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1946), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 936 in this important series, "reminiscences of a punch-drunk author," introduction by Louis Untermeyer, with a note about the book at the beginning and with a glossary of terms at the end, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good plus.…

Paperback. no date era. 936 very good - fine, couple small spine cracks, rubbing paperback.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDVery good copy with clean pages. Tips bumped, fray to head and heal of spine. Sm8vo. Pages 138.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. 1st Printing. 1937. Grandly Signed by Author on free page with Presentation notation, with date. Nice Firm Clean copy ! 140 pages. 6587.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, with a long gift inscription by Madden on the front endpaper. A very good copy with some interior foxing and some sunfading to the spine. See my photos of the book you will receive, not stock photos. All books are wrapped in bubble wrap and shipped in a cardboard box. USPS tracking provided. #197. Inscribed by Author(s).…

First Edition. Signed and inscribed by author in elaborate calligraphy at front free endpaper to a restaurant hostess. Octavo, original red cloth printed with black script, in original illustrated dustjacket. Author was the owner of a speakeasy and friendly to the mob. Near Fine in Very Good Plus dustjacket, slightly soiled with few short closed tears.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. No dust jacket. none. xiv, 140p., writings on front end paper.

First Edition. First edition. Second collection of essays by the "saloonkeeper" profiled in The New Yorker by Joseph Mitchell. INSCRIBED BY MADDEN on the front endpaper, as most copies seem to be. Page top edges foxed and unavoidable offset from binding to pastedowns otherwise near fine in very good to near fine, price-clipped dust jacket. Signed.…

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. First Edition. Octavo. Orange dust jacket with blue ink lettering and decorations, illustrated by John Rupe, inscribed by author at front free end paper. Very good, dust jacket spine darkened with light chipping at ends and minor wrinkling, top edge of many pages stained from top edge staining.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good +. No Jacket. First Edition. Set 'Em Up! by Joe(The Markee) Madden was published by the Author in cooperation with The Cornwell Press, Inc., in 1939. This MAY be an ex-library copy, but if it is, there are none of the obligatory markings to be seen, but for some reason "APR 1959" is stamped in red on the upper-left side of the back paste down page--the number "125", in dark blue ink, is seen in the upper left corner of same. Endpapers front and back as well as the text's pages are modestly yellowed in this Signed,73-year-old, 136-page, thought-to-be First Edition offering. This book is SIGNED, beneath a brief but hearty Inscription, on the front loose end page, and take up the entirety of said page. If you are familiar with Joe Madden's writings, you pretty much know what to expect. Suffice to say, he held the prevailing white biases and prejudices towards Chinese and African-American people, circa the late 1930's, and is not shy about trotting them out more or less throughout the book. He is clearly a decent man with his heart firmly in the right place, but very comfortably expresses his flaws openly and often, using them as a source of comedy, for the most part, in certain instances. And, what interests me the most is that this is clearly a man who is much smarter and sophisticated than he pretends to be, more polished than the butchered, ungrammatical English he offers as his writing "style". IN OTHER WORDS, this is one that you have to read to believe/appreciate, Reader. The book is dotted with the very amusing, period sketches(complete with captions taken from text) of John Rupe. In terms of content/subjects covered, the author is all over the place, but it is,generally, a gleaning of the insights and tidbits that he has picked up over years and years of operating a pub in some of the less-glamorous districts of New York City. The book's lone photo is the Frontispiece, two small pictures of Madden, circa 1917 and 1939, on either side of a series of Dan Martinelli(sp) sketches of Madden the lightweight(the main sketch of Madden in boxing gear, posing). Presented in ten chapters, some of the subjects/titles are "Sex, the World War, and My Pub", "I Wonder What Became of Money", "They Hit Him With the Book", "They'd Do It Naked"(his commentary on so-called "Cafe Society"), and "Here Today". There is, amazingly, a Glossary that serves as the final chapter of this book, and it may make the book worth its price all by itself, featuring such gems as Chow-Hooks, Croakers, Economic Royalist, Libretto(not what you think), Peruvian Room, Phil Harmonicas, Plasters, Readers, Strap Game, Sixer, Tops, and Wheezer. Check it out. Thanks!. John Rupe (illustratore). Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. Warmly inscribed by the author on the ffep. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. MADDEN, Joe (The Markee) [136] pp. Punch-Drunk Author 1939 7 3/4" x 5 1/2" Illustrated by John Rupe Introduction by Ring Lardner. Book of humor about trouble-making, money, sex, drinking, and drugs in New York, including references to cocaine in glossary.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. MADDEN, Joe (The Markee) Inscribed by the author on FFEP: Good luck. Sincerely [136] pp. Punch-Drunk Author 1939 7 3/4" x 5 1/2" Illustrated by John Rupe Introduction by Ring Lardner. Book of humor about trouble-making, money, sex, drinking, and drugs in New York, including references to cocaine in glossary. Inscribed by Author(s). …

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 1stedition? 12mo blue cloth lettered in black. Boldly inscribed on the front free endpaper by Madden to "*** who never fail to call on us when they hit the big city". Appears unread by recipients with a one inch chip out of back of dj, ow NF/nfdj: 134pp; "Breezy memoir of the Runyonesque New York barkeep, fight promoter and all-around character" who was nicknamed by Quentin Reynolds of Collier's Weekly "The Marquis of 51st Street' in his intro beginning on pg9; from the dj: "Of course now that Repeal is here, and I am a legit café owner, everything is going to be just dandymaybe. I shouldn't bother you with my troubles, but I often wonder as I stand around watching the boys and girls making merry and maybe getting a skinful, how many of them ever stop to think just what it means to run a place like mine, especially in them days of that dreadful speak." Markee ran his "store" in the West 50s of Manhattan. Signed by Author(s).…