CRY FOR HAPPY (Sailors & a Geisha House) by CAMPBELL, GEORGE - (first PB 1959),

New York, New York: Bantam Books, Inc., 1961. MMPB. Good. Booze-Babes-Beer-Sex-Sin-Sake ** Lusty comedy of geishas and sailors on Bantam A2259, later to become a film. Reading copy with moderate wear, including spine roll and a burgeoning split at pages 104-5. Packed and shipped with care.

New York, New York: Bantam Books, 1961. Book. Good -. Mass Market Paperback. 4th Printing. Good - mass market paperback. May be some rubbing, creasing and small tears to edges, corners and spine of book. Overall a good reading copy..

NY: Bantam, 1959. [1st printing] Mar. 1959; #A1899. Cover art by Alex Ross. Creased; "Japan" written in pen on first page; corner wear with small corner loss at lower front foredge.. Mass Market Paperback. Good+ to Very Good-.

NY: Bantam Books (l959) Paperback, mass market, 165pp., Slight general wear, top of spine slightly worn. V.Good+. 1st printing.. Soft cover. #A1899. Cover by Alex Ross.

New York: Bantam Books, 1959. This 4.25 x 7 softcover has 165 pages. Six screwball U.S. sailors take over a Japanese geisha house - and its girls. . Soft Cover. Very Good.

bantam book, , (first PB 1959), . 1899, very good , spine creases (COMEDY NOVEL), paperback,

New York: Bantam Books. Good with no dust jacket. 1961. Pocket pb. A2259 .

Bantam Paperback #A1899 CONDITION: g-.

London: Panther, 1961. Covers feature stills from the Columbia film. (anr copy, paper browned G++, £3). 1st British Edition. Paperback. VG-.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company. Near Fine in Very Good dj. (c.1958). First Edition. Hardcover. NOISBN . (price-clipped) [nice clean copy, slight wear to cloth at spine ends; jacket has a few tiny nicks and chips along the top edge, but presents very well in new jacket protector]. Novel about six U.S. Navy men (members of the Pacific Fleet Combat Camera Unit), stationed in Tokyo during the Korean War, who become partners in a geisha house -- "as wild, delightful, charming, bittersweet, and satisfying a yarn as ever was told about the United States Navy." Hollywood went a little geisha-happy in the late 1950s and early 1960s (cf. THE TEAHOUSE OF THE AUGUST MOON, THE BARBARIAN AND THE GEISHA, THE GEISHA BOY, MY GEISHA); the 1961 movie made from this book, starring Glenn Ford and Donald O'Connor, came rather late in the cycle (if it can be called a cycle). The book is unaccountably scarce in the hardcover issue; does this movie have a cult following that I don't… Read More