with william dufty (24 risultati)

Paperback. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Mass Market Paperback. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket. second edition stated. 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 191 pages; Mass market paperback lightly rubbed at edges, spine ends and corner tips. Faint creasing at front cover. Photos illustrate. Book solid and tight some discoloring to the inside covers. One scribble to page 95 does not effect the text block, otherwise text block clean. Pages tight but yellowed. Bagged for protection.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 4-1/8" x 6-7/8", 192pp incl. front matter. Perfect bound mass market book in varnished printed card stock cover. Light shelf wear to cover. The spine is creased from reading and somewhat faded. Red edge tinting all around. Binding is slightly cocked but remains sound. Pages are age toned but clean and unmarked.

Very Good. Holiday, Billie, 1915-1959 Singers United States Biography. Discography.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. The sizzling autobiography by the vocal jazz great, Popular Giant G208. Bend to upper outside corner with cover creasing. Bottom of spine burgeoning fray had been repaired by a piece of tape. Unabridged and very collectible though perhaps more in the placeholder copy realm. Teal dyed page edges. Kept in poly sleeve for protection. Packed and shipped with care.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 4" x 6" Paperback. All edges purple. 191 pp. Spine tilted, covers age toned. Interior age toned. Very good.

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Illustrated soft cover - light wear to edges/soft crease to back corner/no spine creases/Good. 188pp. Content Good. (114g) Photo on request. All proceeds from the sale of this book go to Help for Heroes and Alzheimer's Research UK.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: No dust jacket. First Edition. Red and black clothbound boards, bumped corners, minor shelfwear. Totally tight and clean within. No dust jacket. 316 pp. Illustrated with black and white photographs. 2.

Mass Market Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. First paperback edition (Popular #G208), very good in original wraps, with $.35 cover price. Small dampstain to upper corner of front cover and first 75 or so pages. Green edge stain is spotted in places with small water spots. A little wear at spine ends; front cover opens a little too far, but is stilll firmly attached. A tight, square copy with no names or other marking in or on the book. 0.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First UK edition of a this very scarce book in presentable clean condition. Red cloth boards are clean, although a tad knocked at the extremities with some sunning to the spine and top edges. Bright throughout, no inscriptions although a little toned to the end papers and page block edge.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. No Edition Stated. The book is in very good condition. Unclipped price on jacket in fair condition with edgewear and some chipping. Previous owner's inscription on blank page following free front endpaper. Edition not stated.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Slight lean to binding. Piece of yellow tape 1 1/2 " wide on the front cover (?). Otherwise decent, somewhat worn dust jacket with no real tears. Not a library book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condizione: Very Good. 8vo. hardcover. 226pp. b/w plates. Very good, top of spine faded, tiny penmark on fep. / no d/w.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. SIGNED BY ROBINSON!! 1958. Frederick Fell Inc. Signed on front endpaper, "To Yvonne West, someone I will always be grateful to for her many Kindnesses--Sincerely Edward G. Robinson "Eddie", ". Illustrated with b/w photos. No other marks or writings, pages bright and clean, binding sound. Slight mark on front cover, looks like from price sticker, light shelf wear and light wear to corners. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. 1956 Doubleday & Company, red cloth hardcover with dust jacket, DJ is badly rubbed and worn, book is clean and unmarked, illustrated endpapers, 250 pages.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 1st Edition. The boards of this volume are covered in red cloth and have white and black lettering on the spine. The white lettering of "Billie Holiday" has all but worn off while other lettering remains bright and legible. There is light wear to the spine ends, board edges and tips of the boards. The gutters remain intact. The end papers are images of the singer at various times in her career-the photos are credited to their respective photographers. There are 250 pages to this 5 3/4 by 8 1/2 inch volume. The date on the copyright page is the same as the date on the title pages. The edges of the leaves show age toning but the interior is clean and bright. The dust jacket shows paper loss, creasing, and some tears. The dust jacket is currently protected by a clear removable cover.

Quarter Red Cloth. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good+ (in mylar). B&W Photographs (illustratore). First Edition. Author's ink signature and inscription to Los Angeles newspaper woman Agnes Underwood on ffep. Light age toning down gutters, else an excellent copy, b&w photographs. No remainder marks. Red cloth spine, black paper boards, lightly bumped spine foot. Unclipped dust jacket, with light to moderate edge and corner wear; 316p. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Inscribed and Signed By Author. Hardcover.

Cloth. Condizione: Near Fine. First Edition. A very presentable copy of the 1956 stated 1st edition. Solid and Near Fine (tiny name at the front free endpaper) in a crisp, price-intact ($3.75), VG+ dustjacket, with mild rubbing to the rear panel, very light creasing along its edges and a touch of wear at the spine ends. Still though, quite handsome. Octavo, with an assist in the authoring by William Dufty.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 1st Edition. HBDJ, Stated 1st Edition, 1956 ON HALF TITLE & COPYRIGHT ,1st Impression, ,Red cloth Titled on Spine Cover in B/W VG+/GOOD , Cover & SPINE light rub, wear Scuff, 250 pgs, Interior nice tight clean light wear Fox. DJ HAS RUB, WEAR SCUFFING ETC & TINY EXTREMITIES CHIPS, a bit of spine lean, some bumping at board and spine extremities, a few scuff marks to boards, rubbing/fading to spine, pages clean & unmarked & a bit age-tanned; dust wrapper has chipping and tears at head & foot of spine and inside flap fold corners, shelfwear at edges, white tape at top right of front panel, some tape repair to verso, scuffing to panels, rubbing to spine" TAPE RESIDUE TOP FRONT DJ CORNER , and 3 years before her untimely death of cirrhosis of the liver at the age of only 44. pulls few punches in addressing her troubled childhood experiences of sexual abuse and prostitution, her heroin addiction, her drinking, her imprisonment on narcotics charges, her sex life and her relationships with abusive men.includes a Billie Holiday discography, and a number of monochrome photographs on the front and rear pastedowns and free endpapers.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very good. First Edition. Octavo: 250 pp. with photographic endpapers. Original red cloth binding, with titles stamped in silver and black. Faint stain to the spine heel. Some general edgewear to the dust jacket; otherwise very good. This is the fiercely honest, no-holds-barred memoir of the legendary jazz, swing, and standards singing sensation. From Holiday's rough-and-tumble Baltimore childhood, to her emergence on Harlem's club scene, to sold-out performances with the Count Basie Orchestra and with Artie Shaw and his band, Lady Sings the Blues is notable for its trenchant observations on the racism that darkened Billie's life and the heroin addiction that ended it too soon.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. HBDJ, 1ST UK EDITION, STATED FIRST PUBLISHED 1958, First English edition. VG/VG-, AS-IS, 226 pages plus plates, Jacket was taped in at one point many years ago TO ENDPAPERS and left tape ghosts to the inner and outer boards, INTERIOR LITE FIX & FEW FOX STAINS . Book also has some spotting to first blank pages . Jacket also has some spotting and a couple neat repairs on the back at the spine tips. Displays quite well with despite its flaws. Rare in hardcover these days. 226 PGS BRITISH DISCOGRAPHY. & CHRONOLOGICAL DISCOGRAPHY, RED CLOTH TAPE GHOSTS AT EDGES Titled in gold on spine cvr.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. HBDJ, 1ST UK EDITION, FIRST PUBLISHED 1958, First English edition. 226 pages plus plates. VG/VG, DJ has Tiny Extremities Tears chips, , else a NEAR fine- copy in the very slightly chipped, rubbed dustwrapper (now protected with removable archival plastic); a presentable copy.