Vail amanda miller warren (6 risultati)

Mass Market Paperback. Condizione: Good. First Paperback Edition. First UK paperback edition. Previously published in hard covers in the UK by Secker and Warburg in 1959 and prior to that in the US by Little, Brown, and Co. in 1958. Light reading crease to the spine which also has some rubbing to the edges and a small scrape over the first letter of the author's name. Light edge wear to covers. Previous owner's name and date to first page. Small stain to the top corner of the page edges. Pages browned but otherwise unmarked. First printing. Postage charge will be reduced by £1.50 when the order is processed.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First edition. Fine in a very good dust jacket with rubbing, tiny tears, and toning.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Near Fine. First edition. Gentle wear at the corners and spine ends, near fine in an about near fine dust jacket with a few tiny nicks and rubbing. Novel, purportedly by a young woman about slightly liberated young women. The first edition is very uncommon.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Near Fine. First edition. Fine in near fine dust jacket with nominal wear. Novel, purportedly by a young woman about slightly liberated young women. The first edition is very uncommon.

Secker & Warburg London 1957. First edition. Blue cloth, 125pp. Pages edges browned, foxing o/w good. Jacket (Peter Strausfeld) - tape reinforcing inside, browned.

Half title. Orig. blue cloth. Blue & pink pictorial d.w., unclipped; a little rubbed, a few tiny closed tears, v. small nick to rear panel. Wraparound band neatly repaired. Dustjacket by Peter Strausfeld. The New York edition appeared earlier the same year. Two teen girls romp through the 'crazy heartless world of the espresso bar, rock-n-roll [and] star-worship' in search of 'an interesting experience'. Warren Miller's attempt at ventriloquism is revealing but far less successful than that seen in The Cool World, and the American blurb's claim that the author was a seventeen-year-old girl seems to have found little traction anywhere; not least because the girls' propensity for staring into mirrors and at one another's cleavages does not wholly convince. The cataloguer may have led a sheltered life, but knows wishful thinking when he sees it.…