Search Results: Titles starting with L from 2nd Impression Books

THE MAN WHO SHOULD'VE BEEN PRESIDENT. NF/NF SIGNED BY BILL BRADLEY.

VG+ / VG+. 1947 The World's Work, Motion Picture Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Ties in with the Orson Welles film version which changed the title from 'If I Die Before I Wake'...to 'The Lady From Shanghai'. Very nice copy of a rare title.

VG+ / VG - VG+. 1946 Grosset & Dunlap, motion picture edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. One of the nicer condition copies to date. Minor wear to jacket spine edges; light pen/pencil marks inside letters of "Lake" on cover; small scuff mark on front & rear cover of jacket.

NF / NF 1946 farrar straus (presumed first edition, though not stated). Hardcover. A collection of short stories and poetry.

VG / VG 1970 Dial Press, book club edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Basis for the highly underrated film starring Jack Nicholson in his prime. Small price sticker removal scuff to upper right corner of jacket. Previous owner name on FFEP.

VG / VG. 1967 Doubleday, stated first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Book has a slight lean to the spine + a handwritten price on FFEP. Jacket has minor wear to edges and folds.

VG-/VG. 1967 Dell 4674, stated first printing. Softcover. Rubbing marks on covers. Binding solid. Stated first printing of a classic American novel.

VG+ / VG+ 1960 Atheneum, 2nd printing. hardcover. Terrific shape. Reatures a beautiful wrap-around cover design by George Salter.

NF / NF regnery 1973. first edition. signed by Ferguson Jenkins. A vastly underrated pitcher in our humble opinion

VG+ / VG 1961 simon and schuster, 4th printing. hardcover. DJ is chipping at edges w/ 1/4" chip missing from lower spine.

VG - VG+. 1929 Literary Guild of America second edition, first printing. Hardcover with dust jacket. Previous owner name on FFEP. Slight spine lean. Jacket in particularly nice shape (w/ a bit of wear to top spine edge).

NF / NF. 1974 Coward, McCann & Geoghagen, book club edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Basis for the 1976 Nicholas Gessner directed film version starring a young Jodie Foster in the lead role. It's a twisted, teenage 'Arsenic and Old Lace'.

book suffers from typical browning pages. DJ is stained in upper right corner, but o/w intact. VG/G

VG+ / VG. 1949 Houghton, Mifflin, first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Book is nice and square with no interior marks. Jacket is worn at a couple of corners and has a couple of 1/2" closed tears at edges. Still presents well though. All in all, a nice first edition copy of Chandler's fifth novel.

VG+ / VG-. 1949 Hamish Hamilton, first UK edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Jacket has a 1/2" chip to the rear cover (lower left corner). Front jacket cover has creasing and/or tears to lower left and upper right corners. Otherwise nice. UK release preceded U.S. by about 3 months.

VG - VG+. 1958 Arrow Books 505, first printing. Softcover. Light, intermittent foxing marks on interior pages; one tiny corner crease. Basis for the Hitchcock film 'Vertigo'. Another tough to find paperback.

VG+ / VG. 1953 Hamish Hamilton, first U.K. Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Nice overall copy. Book has a slight lean + previous owner name on FFEP (small writing). Un-clipped jacket has wear at both spine edges, with a 1/4" chip at top edge - taking the "ray" out of Raymond. Rear jacket cover has a few tears.

VG / No DJ. 1939 Dodd, Mead, first edition. Hardcover. Rare first edition from one of the great 20th century authors for kids and teenagers (and adults too!). Spine is a bit faded and rear hinge is starting to crack slightly.

VG / G+ - VG-. 1944 Farrar, Rinehart - 1st edition / 5th printing. Hardcover with dust jacket. Dust jacket has edge wear + chips at both spine edges. Not price clipped. Previous owner name (small writing) on FFEP. Stated "fifth large printing".

VG. 1955 Signet 1204, first printing. Softcover. Riding the wave of success from his previous novel 'Clean Break' (which was adapted for the screen by Stanley Kubrick under the title 'The Killing'), Lionel White continued to hone his heist plot(s) to the point where a NY Times review ultimately dubbed him "The Master of the Big Caper'. There is wear to the spine - otherwise in pretty nice shape.