Theodore naidish (10 risultati)

Paperback. Condizione: Good. No Dustjacket. First Edition. ISBN . B0026PGNIA Oblong Trade Paperback. Armed Services Edition Book #952. Tight sound unmarked copy in Good condition. Some creasing to the first page in and Slight browning to the edges of the interior pages. No Signature.

NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1946), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 952 in this important series, it reprints ASE No. Q-12 published earlier in the series in 1945, a boxing novel, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good. …

NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1946), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. Q-12 in this important series, first issue, reprinted later in the series as No. 952 in 1946, a boxing novel, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good. …

NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1946), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 952 in this important series, it reprints ASE No. Q-12 published earlier in the series in 1945, a boxing novel, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good plus. …

hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Some Chipping.

Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1944, First Edition, 8vo., 248 pages. Jacket has very light edgewear, else book and jacket very good. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

First edition. 12mo. 248 pp. Cloth in dustwrapper, edgewear, good. (12095).

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good+. Very Good+ dj. First Edition. [nice tight copy of a cheaply-made wartime book, with light shelfwear, slight soiling to binding along front hinge, minor dust-darkening to page edges; jacket shows moderate general wear, a little paper loss at spine extremities, one small internal tape-repair at top of front panel]. Curious, unsettling novel about a moody young boxer, given to unpredictable rages, who adores (but also abuses and alienates) his pretty young wife (a nightclub singer) with his obsessive jealousy and sometimes irrational behavior. His ambitions as a fighter are inseparable from his desire to escape his past -- specifically the influence of his father, a small-town gangster -- and just to complicate matters, he must also contend with his in-laws, who are conniving to extricate their daughter from what they view as a very unfortunate union. The action is compressed into a three-day period, and of course has the boxer's Big Fight as a dramatic focus; might have made a good film noir, although the protagonist at some points is a pretty nasty piece of work, and his character would certainly have needed some softening in order to make for a palatable screen adaptation. The author's first, and apparently only, book.…

Condizione: DISCRETO USATO. Da revisionare INGLESE Brossura illustrata, scolorita al dorso, con usura lungo i margini e piccolissime mancanze. Pagine e tagli ingialliti, testo a due colonne. Raro. N. 952 della serie. Numero pagine 288.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Endpapers heavily offset, small owner name stamp on the front fly, a near very good copy in an attractive, very good dustwrapper with an internal repair and some moderate staining on the spine. Boxing prospect marries Greenwich Village nightclub singer with mixed results. Very scarce. …