Ken mirbeau (6 resultados)

Condición: New.

VG- condition in VG- dust jacket. Book with mild case of brown stain striping both front and back free endpapers, dust jacket with light overall worn look and light edgewear.

Good condition in Good dust jacket. Book appears to have been rebound, with both front and back free endpapers very neatly removed. Mild brown stain striping to half-title page and book's final page of text. DJ with price-clipped corner, mild soilin g allover and edgewear including several chips. Light spotting top fore-edge of book. …

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. 5.25 x 8in. 179pp. VERY GOOD in Very Good dust jacket. The book itself shows marginal shelf rubbing along the edges, bottom and fore-edge lightly dust spotted, else Fine/As New. The dust jacket shows several chips along the edges, back panel lightly rubbed, otherwise is not price-clipped remaining bright, colorful, and distinct. As pictured. …

First Edition. 8vo. 21cm x 14.5cm. Publisher's red cloth, titled in black to spine; dustjacket; 248pp. Internally clean; a Near Fine copy. One of the most vividly bizarre and convoluted of the Elite/Toga titles, this one a full on Juvenile Delinquent tour de farce with a fiery young redhead (naturally) inducted into a crazed youth gang called The Titans. Will she go for Stewart, handsome and devil-may-care with his drunkard father and his pool hall sensibilities, will slightly nerdy and besotted Eugene get his hands on her, or will she fall into the arms of lesbian ingenue Margie ("big in every way") Collins, whose ambition is to get our feisty protagonist into "The Sisterhood." It's all pretty borderline as far as anything approaching standards is concerned, but this stuff was written to push envelopes, these weren't books you kept on display alongside Capote and Mailer, these gaudy little numbers were double stacked in the bedside table, or in a cupboard next to the scotch. They promised knowledge of an imaginary underworld, that most heady and prevalent of literary landscapes, the novel length equivalent of a Hustler letter involving working after hours in a library, or being stuck in a locker room with *insert sports team of choice*. They are purely escape, but by necessity not so close to complete fantasy that they couldn't be real somewhere, at some point, because they aren't just selling sleaze; they also promise hope.…

dj. First Edition. Mirbeau, Ken and Sherry Francoise. Curtain Calls. New York: Elite Books, 1961. First edition. Hardcover book in original dust jacket. 245 pages. A 1960s novel with lesbian content about a small town woman moving to New York City with big dreams of Broadway success. Escaping the clutches of an abusive father, she soon meets a new cast of characters including a beautiful "voluptuous pantheress" named Nadya who seduces her. Light wear to dust jacket. Book in overall very good condition. A lesbian story in a time when such stories were still taboo.…