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1929réf. 68374London: Martin Secker 1929. Limited edition of 2000. Spine heavily sunned board edges mottled top edge gilt small bookplate to front pastedown content clean and firm. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo. Martin Secker Hardcover
1928réf. 008870New York: Covici Friede 1928. Dust jacket with tears and chips at edges and tears at flap folds. First Edition. Original Cloth. Very Good/Fair. Covici Friede Hardcover
1928réf. 35573New York: Covici Friede 1928. FIRST LIMITED EDITION of 275 copies. This is No. 161/275. Signed by Joseph Moncure March on the limitation page. Original tan linen cloth backstrip over bright red black and yellow art-deco style patterned paper boards. Yellow printed paper spine label and yellow endpapers. With the illustrations of Alexander King. Fine very bright and fresh copy. No name bookplate or other markings. Housed in a worn publisher's slipcase. By the author of The Wild Party. Scarce in the limited printing. . Signed. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. Illus. by Alexander King. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Covici Friede Hardcover
1928réf. 001852New York: Covici-Friede 1928. March 1899-1971 had an early career at "The New Yorker" magazine then worked as a screenwriter. This epic poem about an ageing African-American boxer was the basis for the 1949 film directed by Robert Wise the book is dedicated to Sue Wise. Many books have been made into films but Quercus believes few of them were from poetry! The film eliminated the racial issues and March himself rewrote it 4 decades later to purge it of anti-Semitism. This is a Very Good copy of a Later Printing the 5th of the First Trade Edition there is a signed and limited edition as well. Interestingly it took only two months to go to 5 printings. Yellow cloth binding with chocolate-brown stylized figure of the boxer. Clean text; 184 pages. Light bumping; very mild soil. Lacking the dustjacket. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Later Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Covici-Friede Hardcover
1928réf. 208380New York: Covici-Friede 1928. Second printing. Hardcover. A single long poem about a boxer. The basis for the Robert Wise directed movie with Robert Ryan Audrey Totter and George Tobias. A very good copy in cloth boards that are lightly soiled and with some fraying to the spine ends. No dust jacket. Covici-Friede unknown books
1928réf. 11060New York: Covici-Friede 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Limited to 275 copies signed by March on the limitation page. Illustrated by Alexander King. Very Good in a Fair slipcase rubbed at the edges split at the bottom joint. Quarter beige cloth with patterned paper on the boards paste-down label on the spine. Square and firmly bound scar inside the front board from a removed bookplate clean otherwise. March's novel-length poem about race and corruption in early 20th-century boxing. Adapted into the 1949 Robert Wise-directed film of the same title. Covici-Friede hardcover books
1928réf. 012420New York: Covici Friede 1928. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Tall 8vo. 184pp Sharp First Trade Edition of this classic poem about an African American boxer made into the 1949 Film Noir of the same title starring Robert Ryan. Also published in a signed limited edition. Square tight and clean throughout with some fairly mild page edge toning. A touch of softness at the spine ends but quite minor. Solid unclipped dust-jacket $2.00 has a few chips to top edges and toning to edges and spine. Still solid and complete with no tears or creases. An attractive collectable copy at a great price. Covici Friede hardcover books
1929réf. 0018916London: Martin Secker. Bound in red cloth with gilt titles to front board and spine this dated 1919 hardcover Limted Edition 2000copies is Good. 199pp with 183 vernacular poems concerning skid-row bar-rooms and boxing rings. Boards and spine are dirty wear to corners and top/tail of spine. Light foxing to FFEP with two small marks. Binding tight and sound gilt titles bright: general condition Good . Good. Hardcover. Limited Edition. 1929. Martin Secker hardcover
1876réf. biblio2501Harper & Brothers Publishers 1876. 250 pages 8 pages Ads. NearFine Hardcover Brown cloth Gilt title on the spine no dj. Practically no Wear just minimal rubbing to the cover. "Latin Department Wellersley College" stamped inside front cover and on the titl page. Otherwise clean unmarked throughout It bis not exlibrary book. Strong tight binding perfect hinges. 7.6"x5.2"x0.9". be20120 Harper & Brothers, Publishers hardcover
197840 page newspaper format. Features: The Fatal Impact of Captain Cook; The Inter-Tidal Zone; Lost Pleasures of Mount Arrowsmith; Turning the Tsitika into Cash; Brentwood Bay Oil Spill; and more. Light wear. Quality copy. Book
réf. 0266567207.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
réf. 0243438583.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
réf. 1025968883.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1965Features: The World is Mean to Millionaires - J. Paul Getty; ; The Soviet Spymasters; My Wife, The Critic - by Marvin Kitman; I Spied for the Russians (Part I) - Robert Glenn Thompson reveals how the Soviets recruited him, what kind of information they wanted, and how he got it; The Meaning of the Selma, Alabama March (with incredible photos); How Much Can You Take - testing the limits of human endurance for the sake of space exploration; Soviet Fashions - a hesitant bit of Glamour; I wrote "The Drinking Man's Diet" - Robert Wernick. (Red) Colour Corvair ad. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1961Features: Abortion (part 1 of 3) - the full story of one of our most shocking social evils; The Tornado Hunters - pilots of the new storm-warning center in Kansas City spot oncoming twisters; The Report the President Wanted Published - the free people of Binh Hung Village in Vietnam; A Visit with Willie Mays - he talks about his stormy marriage and the reasons behind his team's 5th-place finish in 1960; The Untold Stories of the Civil War, V - How we marched through Georgia - a Union soldier's unvarnished account of the march through the Confederacy to Atlanta and the sea; Secretary of Things in General - Arizona's Stewart Udall is a rugged ex-athlete and now head of the Interior Department. Nice 2-page colour Ford station wagon ad. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1963Features: The McNamara Monarchy - Hanson W. Baldwin argues that one-man rule in the Pentagon weakens our armed forces; The Revolt of Europe - Charles de Gaulle and others are challenging U.S. leadership over issues such as who will control atomic power; (Peter) O'Toole of Arabia - An unknown actor dons the cloak of a legendary hero and an epic is born - colour photos; "Lawrence" Inspires the Arab Look; Den Mother to the Clubwomen - Margaret Arnold is an angry feminist in hot pursuit of her cause; The Unsound and the Fury - pigeons, corn-rippers and orchids have one thing in commonk - all can provoke cold anger; The Return of Branch Rickey - the return of the Mahatma; Crime Town USA - Youngstown, Ohio has had 75 bombings, 11 killings in a decade, and no one seems to care. Address label clipped from front cover else unmarked with average wear. Colour Corvair Monza ad inside back cover. Please note: missing pages 39-40 and 49-50. Book
1957116 pages. Fiction: Dynamic Woman; Never Trust a Blonde; Too Young to Marry; The Peaceful Rebellion; The Golden Shadow (part 2 of 4); Murder on Order. Articles: Inside Defiant Poland - the astounding change in the ways of Communism under Wladyslaw Gomulka; The Happy Fugitives from Flatbush - American Safety Razor moves from Brooklyn to Staunton, Virginia - article with photos; Living Mysteries of the Deep - color fish photos; I'm No Quitter - Dodger Pitcher Don Newcombe on how it feels to have your courage questioned when you fail in the World Series; Children Are Smarter Than You Think - innovative science teaching at Beauvoir, the elementary school of the National Protestant Episcopal Cathedral in Washington; Everybody Laughs at Me - Victor Borge (part 2 of 4) - with photo of Borge and his wife Sanna walking their poodle in Hutchinson, Kansas; Watery Wilderness Photo; Old Tanker Rides Again - how Major General Ernest Harmon put Vermont's Norwich University back on the academic map. Ads: Nice one-page Kentucky Club tobacco ad features Ted Atkinson; Great color photo two-page ad for De Soto cars; Salem cigarettes; Canadian Pacific Rail - 'The Canadian' dome cars - two-pages in color; Gleem toothpaste (wish a smooch); Campbell's Soup - features color photo of Mrs. Selma Urbonas of Chicago; Great Pontiac ad features purple Star Chief convertible and young beach crowd; Tareyton; National Cash Register - with Kroger theme; Detroit Diesel - foundation-building scene; Admiral fridges - two-pages in color; 1957 Dogde color-photoad features the Custom Royal Lancer 4-door; Heinz new Campside Beans; 7-Up (Seven-Up) ad features couple eating pizza; Two-page GM ad features Donn and Barbara Sigerson who built Allwork Manufacturing in Oakland manufacturing parts for GM; Nice one-page color-photo ad for Studebaker-Packard features a white Studebaker; Dictaphone Time Master; Imperial cars; Dinty Moore Beef Stew; Oldsmobile Golden Rocket 88 Holiday Coupe - nice sailing scene; Cutler-Hammer; Back cover ad for Chesterfield cigarettes features color photo of the world's biggest pizza! Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
1962Features: The case against fallout shelters, by Hanson W. Baldwin; Kennedy's Grand Strategy - how we can counter Russian aggression, yet avoid nuclear war; People on the way up - Barbara Dodd, Frederic Chapin, James Messler - the Star Farmer of America, Geraldine Pearson; Hell Creek Crossing - a story excerpted from the newest work of William Faulkner; Phyllis Diller - the unlikeliest star (funny!); Where are those dream cars? - a car that drives itself, uses no gas and runs without wheels is more than idle speculation (conclusion); Holidays at Sea - cruisemaster Mike Burke runs a profitable fleet of pleasure boats; Why do they call my husband crazy? - Jim Piersall's wife tells of her husband's illness - and recovery; Krishna Menon - the Wasp of New Delhi - India's left-leaning chief delegate to the UN - terrible-tempered, anti-American and prime planner of the Goa invasion. Front cover loose but present, otherwise average wear. Book
1957112 pages. Fiction: Summer Affair; The Selfish Kind of Love; Tugboat Annie and the Hoard of Heroin; Street of Fear; The Lady (part 1 of 4); Kiowa Moon (part 3 of 7). Features: Memo to the Hungarian Patriots; This Place Can Save Your Life - the modern hospital's 'recovery room'; Religion Hits the Road - old camp-meeting methods are being used again; Is Yankee Pitcher Don Larsen a One-Game Wonder?; Rugged Bachelors of Okinawa - great photos and story; Everybody Laughs at Me - Victor Borge - part 7 of 7) - he flopped as a movie star but smashed all records with his one-man show; American Sundown - beautiful photo of the Sundown Ranch in Slaughterhouse Canoy, California - home of the Lee Brooks family; The Lady Cops of the Dope Squad in Philadelphia - with photos of Gorothy Ferrabee, Dorothy Garvin, Geraldine Galcik, Margaret Logan, Lt. Glasgow Driscoll, Capt. Clarence Ferguson and Doris Fanning.. Ads: Nice color American Motors ad inside front cover features George Romney; GE pink appliances; Ford Fairlane 500 Town Victoria and Del Rio Ranch Wagon; Wonderful one-page two-color ad for movie 'Designing Woman' starring Gregory Peck and Lauren Bacall; Florsheim Shoes - one page in color; 1957 Pontiac Strato-Streak; Lucky Strike cigarettes - inside diner; *Fantastic* two-page color Mack Truck ad shows illustrations of several models in color; Hertz Rent a car; GoodYear Tires; Nice two-page Chevrolet ad displays 20 of their models in color; Sweet Oldsmobile ad shows the Starfire 98 Holiday Coupe in a swank color waterfront scene; Totally wild color-photo one-page ad for National Cash Register (NCR) shows woman sitted in front of a massive Post-Tronic "The First Electronic Bank Posting Machine"; Colgate - romanti scene; Photo of Don Larssen with luscious Diana Dors; Nice color photo ad for Johnson outboard motors; Tasteful color photo ad for Hunt catsup; A&P Coffee; Cushman Road King; Great vintage one-page black and white photo ad for the new Jeep FC-150; Nostalgic color ad for Sunbeam electric lawn mowers inside back cover; Chesterfield cigarette ad on back cover features cartoon artists Al Capp, W. Steig and Richter. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
1958100 pages. Short Stories: Impossible Accident; Brothers' Quarrel; Man Trap; Gigolo. Articles: Religious Revolution on the Campus; The Land That Time Forgot - Part II - Stronghold of the Kukukuku; Baseball's Oldest Youngster - Jack Sanford; They Believed I Was an Arab Prince - William Peter Blatty poses as "Prince Xeer" for ten days - gullible Hollywood bows and scrapes; Don't Fall for the Mail Frauds; The Face of America - Dear Teacher - lovely color photo of Principal John Martin of Hillview Elementary School in Menlo Park, CA - surrounded by kindergarteners; Architect Royal Berry Wills - Big Man in Small Houses. Serials: Death Stalks the Bride (part 1 of 4); Seven Days to Tingyong (part 2 of 3). Ads: Philadelphia Electric Company; Special K cereal; Vitasafe; Mobil service stations - two pages with great color photos; Wheeling Corrugating Company; Mercury Outboards - nice two-page color-photo ad with boaters and swimmers; Nice two-page color-photo ad for Ford cars features the Edsel and others in a water scene; Whitman's chocolates; GMAC - with color photo of reluctant kids dancing; Mayo Spruce ad features photo of Lew Burdette of the Milwaukee Braves with his son, Lewis Kent Burdette; Hilton Hotels - with color illustration of their Havana, Cuba property; Eaton Manufacturing photo-illustrated ad features George D. Williams, General Superintendant, T.L. James & Company, Inc., Ruston, LA; Photo of Bil Sharman in ad for Spalding basketballs; Acme Spring Co. of Connecticutt is featured in a GM photo/text ad; Page & Shaw chocolates; Color photo of Saratoga 2-door hardtop and Saks Fifth Ave. fashion featured in color photo ad inside back cover; Lucky Strike ad on back cover features home movies. Somewhat above-average wear. Bits of writing on back cover. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
1965Features: Presidential campaigns are a sham - Dean Burch, G.O.P. National Committee Chairman; We Can't Let Them Down - Stewart Alsop discusses the Vietnam War; Discotheque - Go Go Madness strikes and the nation gyres in a frenzy of Swim, Surf and Frug - many colour photos; Vietnam - where do we go from here? - more and more Americans are dying - at the center of the chaos stands U.S. Ambassador Maxwell Davenport Taylor; A mirage of beautiful air - feature on Liz Renay; Anyone for Survival? - not so long ago, fallout shelters were the hot topic of discussion; A sentimental journey to Dracula's Hometown - Borgo Pass in the Romanian People's Republic; Lyndon Johnson's Religion - the President holds to a surprising faith, and it has an uncanny influence on him; Light-Heavyweight Boxing's World Champion Willie Pastrano - champion of nonviolence. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1957126 pages. Fiction: Problem Mother; The Face of Death; First Baby; The Forbidden Island; Kiowa Moon (part 2 of 7); The Golden Shadow (conclusion). Articles: How an Amblance Chaser Works - other people's accidents make him money; If a President Collapses - proposed solutions to the problem of what to do if/when a President falls ill; The Face of America - The Golden Triangle - large color photo of the Monongahela meeting the Allegheny River; We are on the Spot in Spain - Franco's dictatorship rests on a powder keg; Premature Births Can Be Prevented - Releasin is used to delay labor - with photo of Mrs. Lorraine Yarsinsky and her triplets; Everybody Laughs at Me - Victor Borge - par 6 of 7 - his feud with Rudy Vallee, and the day he was arrested as a spy; We Flew Operation Sharkbait - Col. Charles F. Blair, Jr., USAF Res. recounts the harrowing tension-filled hoursin a jet fighter that spanned the Atlantic on a hush-hush test flight - the first Great Circle Route flight to Europe in a Thunderstreak Interceptor; Fishing at its Fanciest - article and great color photos from Palm Beach; My Ware with the Army - W.H. Von Rosenstiel got no mail for three months so went over his colonel's head - with astounding results; Should your child be a Librarian? Ads: Winston cigarettes (taste good); Pream coffee; Amana fridges (very nostalgic); Hart Schaffner & Marx clothing - with color photos of Dr. Joyce Brothers and Hal March of the $64,000 Question; 'Eggs Belong in Breakfast'; Presto appliances; Nice 1-page color ad for Boeing's 707; Ford cars - two-page color photo; Westinghouse washer - the famous 'sand test'; Tareyton; Pontiac cars - nice yellow Super Chief two-door hardtop; Baldwin Organs; GMC Air Suspension Tractors - two color pages; Union Pacific Railroad Vacations; RCA TV Service; Underwood Typewriters (golden gloves); Allis-Chalmers - 2-page ad showing their cement plant; USS United States Steel with illustration of futuristic bridge; GMAC color photo ad with old ladies telling young mom what to do; Nice two-page Borg-Warner ad in 'believe-it-or-not' format; Nice one-page color Pepsi adshows young painting couple; Magnavox High Fidelity TVs; MacGregor baseball gloves - featuring Red Schoendienst; GM two-page photo ad features Amanda, Ohio, home of GM supplier Mid-West Fabricating - with photos of Stanton Johns, Francis and Helen Crago, Dick Young, and L.E. Conrad; Evinrude outboard motors - nice color-photo ad; Ponderosa Pine Windows; Anchor Fence; IBM Selectric Typewriters; Santa Fe Super Chief; Briggs & Stratton engines; Nice Viceroy cigarette ad features bowler Don Carter; Chrysler 4-door hardtop Windsor - color photo; Betty Crocker Li'l Angel Food Cake Mix ad on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
1963Features: England's place in the sun - Selwyn Lloyd; Birmingham, Alabama - a City in fear as racial violence smolders in this Deep South inderbox - with black and white photos; The new pulse of Australia - Jolly swagmen, kangaroos and tough outback cowboys are waltzing, like Matilda, toward a new destiny; Buck$ Benny Rides Again - the world's best-paid comedian, Jack Benny, still 39, returns to Broadway after a 32-year absence; Why I Didn't Quit the Ministry - by Norman Vincent Peale; Funny Side of the Bunny Business - a new Playboy Club whirls in a tangle of corn, beefs and cabbage; Dishrags to Riches - The Saga of Heloise Cruse; The Convict Volunteers - when scientists need human guinea pigs to submit to cancer shots or to test drugs, thousands of prisoners step forward, for surprising reasons; Atomic Bombs for Everyone - the exclusive 'nuclear club' may become crowded with new members including Egypt, Indonesia, the Congo. Absolutely *fantastic* colour full-page ad for 12 huge Cadillac models of varying colours. Book
1961Features: Of Men I Have Known - Part I - Winston Churchill, by Dean Acheson; Adventures of the Mind - The Five-Billion-Year Clock - measurements of radioactive 'clocks' in the earth's elements are providing geologists with new knowledge about the history of man and his planet, by Patrick M. Hurley; ; Minnesota Grows Older - this prosperous, rugged northland may be facing a lean future; What Freedom has done to India - John Masters describes the sweeping social changes that have taken place since it gained independence; The Girls in Candy Stripes - making life more livable for hospital patients; They Chase the Speeders - at the unique Emergency Vehicle Operations Course (EVOC) near Sacramento, candidates for the California Highway Patrol learn the hazardous art of police pursuit driving; Me and Old George (a horse) - Gene Coughlin learned that danger often disapears when you refuse to run away from it. Ad clipped from page 49 - text unaffected. Above-average but not excessive wear. Book
1962Features: Unfair Tax Laws - you are probably paying more than your share, says Ross M. Robertson; Albania - where Stalin still rules - can this tiny, backward Communist nation continue to oppose Khrushchev's power?; People on the Way Up - Giancarlo Baghetti, Jane Powell Rosenthal, Mark Wilson (TV's top magician); The Grass Craze - lawn lovers by the millions have taken the greensward to heart - here's how to work wonders with your private pasture; The New Frontier Women - wives of White House insiders battle to keep up with the sophisticated, hectic life in the Capital, by Flora Lewis; We Waste a Million Kids a Year - can our schools bridge the gap? - part 2 of 3; Timeless Idaho - how this wildly beautiful state preserves a slow-paced, independent way of life; The Last Days of Sugar Ray - the rise and fall of America's flashiest titleholder, the boxer they said would never have money trouble. Uncommon full-page advertisement for Tea ('The Hot Refresher') features the Detroit Red Wings NHL Hockey Team with black and white images of Sid Abel, Gordie Howe, Terry Sawchuk, and others. Average wear. Tears to to some interior pages at fold, otherwise a sound copy. Book