Hawthorne hurst (8 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Good.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Edition Not Stated. Ex-libris, inside front cover. Edge wear to boards, especially spine and corners.

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. 1932 hardcover. No DJ. Shelf wear and staining to covers and edges. Pages are tanned, but unmarked. Name sticker inside.

First Edition. Octavo, original red cloth over boards, stamped in black, stained top edge, deckle edge, color illustrated dust jacket. Romance and adventure novel of Christopher Columbus in which he is portrayed as a Don Juan. Very Good but for old New Brunswick, CA lending library stamps at front pastedown and front endpaper, in Good dust jacket, chipped at spine ends, closed tears at top of spine and front flap, darkening to spine.…

Condición: Good. Christopher Comes Across.

First Edition. Romance and adventure novel of Christopher Columbus in which he is portrayed as a Don Juan. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket with short closed tear along rear bottom flap edge.

Condición: Fair. Cleveland, OH: Economy Book League, 1934. 16mo. 315pp. Fair book. Ex-library, else Good. (women, fiction) Inquire if you need further information.

Reprint. Octavo, 315pp. Very good in the publisher's textured cloth wraps. Wraps curled, with mild edgewear. A stamp describing the rules of a lending library appears on the first text page; the rest of the book is clean and unmarked. A scarce reprint of an already scarce title. A synopsis printed on the title page reads as follows: "This is the story of a thoroughly modern girl. The weakness of her first husband creates in her an unrest and a desire for achievement which will not be denied. She launches into a successful business career but finds her life unfulfilled. A new restlessness creeps in-she can not live without love. This time she meets a man as capable and strong as herself. A terrific struggle ensues between love and pride of business achievement. This book is a daring illustration of the problem that confronts so many modern girls." Per an IMDB profile, Hawthorne Hurst was a male writer, whose novel "Goldie Gets Along" was adapted into a 1933 film. Hurst wrote a few other novels, including "Christopher Comes Across," which depicts Columbus as a swashbuckling Don Juan. Hurst died in 1934, two years after "Career Woman" was first published, and the same year of this reprint. This title is considearbly scarcer than the others; OCLC records just three physical holdings of the 1932 edition of "Career Woman," and none of this near-contemporary reprint. As such, a scarce novel of women in the workplace, worthy of preservation and re-appraisal.…