Illusion java de gene fowler (31 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fair. 1st Printing. DJ is Fair only it has the spine missing & pages are browning.

Cloth. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fair. IST Tower Ed. . First Printing. .STRANGE AND EXOTIC NOVEL OF THE TROPICS. 303 pp. Pages "wartime brown" but no creases. Dust Jacket has many chips, and tears , cover art still vivid. Hard to find 1947 Tower Books .see picture.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition.

Mass Market Paperback. Condición: Fair. First Ace Books Edition. Fair, Edgewear, creases, abrasion, tear, ink price, foxing, browning/NO DUST JACKET. "The story of a young native lured to the big city by a promiscuous woman". Ace H446. Expanded condition report/scan on request.

hardcover. Condición: Good. 2d ptg. 303 pp. 5 1/2 x 8 1/4. Brown cloth covered boards stamped in tan on spine. No dj. Ownership markings on ffep.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. 303 pp.Text is clean, tight, unmarked, sunned. Red cloth boards with light blue titles are rubbed at extremities..

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First edition. Dust jacket has edgewear, small corner chips, 1/4" tears. Novel set in the Dutch colony of Java in the South Seas.

Hardcover. Condición: very good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: very good. First edition. Gene Fowler (born Eugene Devlan) was an American journalist, author, and dramatist, known for his racy, readable content and for the speed of his writing. Fowler worked for the New York Daily Mirror, New York Evening Journal and as managing editor of the New York American and The Morning Telegraph. He was friends with W.C. Fields and John Barrymore. story of a Javanese music-maker, Ajoks, and his semi-legendary experiences, told in the symbolistic, metaphorical idiom of the people. Dust jacket with edge-wear, slight darkening, small closed tears, NOT price-clipped ($2.50), first printing. 5¾" - 8¼". book.…

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. No Dust Jacket. Book is cocked, binding is loose. Spine has heavy wear to the upper end. ; Inscribed by the author to "Uncle Charlie" [Hand] on a front blank page. Inscription closes ". I salute you, fellow Silurian and comrade". Advertisement for this book, clipped from newspaper, pasted to front free endpaper.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Published by Random House, 1939. Octavo. Maroon cloth over patterned boards stamped in gold with red topstain. Book is very good. Sharp corners, binding tight and pages crisp. Previous owner name and date on pastedown. Spine lean and some spots on top of page ends. Price-clipped dust jacket is very good with shelf wear, edge wear, and tears. Some loss to spine ends and edges reinforced with tape. Tears on flap hinges. 302 pages. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York. …

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. First edition. Very good in good dust jacket; Book shows rubbing/bumping, slight fraying of spine ends, slight foxing, dust jacket shows portions of spine/panels missing, tearing thru out.

Soft cover. Condición: Good. 189 pages. (SL#176).

Condición: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Very good.

303 pp. 8vo, publisher's decorated cloth in dust jacket. First edition. Very slightest of rubbing at extremities of spine; near fine in a slightly tanned jacket with minor use at extremities. Inscribed by Gene Fowler on the front free endpaper in 1939.

First Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-toned dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 303 pages; Description: 303 p. ; 21 cm. Genre: Fiction 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Wear commensurate with age and use. Clean unmarked copy. Dust jacket wrapped in protective mylar sleeve. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

First Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-toned dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 303 pages; Description: 303 p. ; 21 cm. Genre: Fiction 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. Second Printing. Inscribed by Fowler on FEP.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Good hardback copy. No dustjacket. 303pp. Book.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Near Fine dj. First Edition. [a very nice copy, with just a touch of wear to the base of the spine, vintage bookseller's label (The Village Book Shop, Carmel, Calif.) on rear pastedown; the jacket is equally nice, just lightly age-toned, with a touch of wear at the corners]. "Only a few miles from over-publicized Bali in the South Seas is the Dutch colony of Java, a colorful island teeming with a population of almost forty million people. [The author] came to this island as a casual visitor. He was fascinated, and before long learned to love it -- loved it so much that he stayed and was impelled to write a rich and tender novel about it. Into the story of Ajoks, the almost fabulous youth with the soul of a great artist who reaches heights that few of his race have ever attained, Fowler has woven much of the strange and beautiful folklore of the Javanese people.". Illustrated by (dj) George Salter (ilustrador).…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fair. 1st Edition. [vi], 303p. 1st printing. Inscribed by author on front endpaper to Julian Johnson, head of the story department at 20th Century-Fox. Endpapers toned, dents on top page edges, jacket has large chips to top edges and smaller chips and tears to bottom edge with spine and top edge sunned. Novel set in Java that interlaces the folklore of the Javanese people with the story of the young protagonist. Jacket design by George Salter. (8-1/4"x5-5/8"). Signed by Author(s).…

8vo. [10], 303, [1] pp. Title in brwn & white. Quarter-brown cloth over batik-illust. boards, paper spine label (mnr shlfwr, some rubbng, slghtly cockd), w/ d.j. (drkng to spine, mnr chppng hd of spine, shlfwr), VG-/VG-. First edition, 1st printing, of this novel set on the Island of Java in Indonesia.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good+. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good+. First Edition. Book & dust jacket are in very nice shape; the dust jacket has a few very small edge chips & wear here & there but it is still very nice.; Signed & inscribed by the author: "To Sheriff Gene Markey, with regards.G. F. , Oct. 1939." ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 303 pages; Signed by Author.…

Cloth. Condición: Very Good. Good (in mylar). First U.K. Edition. Slightly age toned textblock, else clean and exceptionally tight.Top page edges are foxed. Light baby blue cloth with light rubbing to corners of spine, edges and corners. Unclipped dust jacket, chipped spine extremities, sunned spine, chipped corners and ligthly shelf soiled, creased and couple small tears to rear top edge. 312p. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing (so stated). Octavo. Original 1/2 red cloth over dark red patterned cloth. Dust jacket (unclipped; half front panel lacking; few small chips; spine darkened), Very good. 303 pages. No other signatures or bookplates. Presentation copy, signed and inscribed by Gene Fowler in dark blue fountain pen ink on the front free endpaper: "To Grover T. Garland, with best wishes, Gene Fowler, Xmas - 1940". Inscribed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust jacket. Chipping at spine crown. Few small open tears.

hardcover. Condición: Acceptable. Hard cover book with dust jacket moderate wear to dustjacket and page edges .

Condición: Near Fine. dj. First edition, first printing. Fowler's only full-length novel, Illusion in Java is a surreal and feverish fable exploring of escapism and moral dislocation in the interwar world interwoven with the strange and beautiful folklore of the Javanese people. A wonderful association copy inscribed from Fowler to Nat "Gimlet Eye" Deverich. Deverich was a fellow denizen of the early Hollywood literary circuit and one-time colleague at the Selznick agency. A remarkable association between two behind-the-scenes figures of American letters and film, capturing a moment of literary ambition before Fowler fully transitioned to screenwriting and biography. Lightly rubbed extremities, overall near fine in fine, spine-toned dust jacket, in mylar cover. Brown, cream, and maroon patterned cloth, top stain red, in George Salter dust jacket ($2.50). Signed.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Poor. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing (stated). Director John Ford's copy with a gift inscription SIGNED by Gene Fowler: "To Man Against Fate John Ford, With the best, Gene Fowler/Oct. 1939." The book was published in October 1939. Fowler weaves the folklore of the Javanese people in this "rich and tender" novel set in the Dutch colony of Java. "An ultra-rarified book, and quite a departure for Gene Fowler, this story of a Javanese music-maker, Ajoks, and his semi-legendary experiences, told in the symbolistic, metaphorical idiom of the people."--Kirkus Reviews. This is one of many interesting books we acquired from John Ford's estate.…

No Binding. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing (so stated). Octavo. Dust jacket designed by Salter. (unclipped; spine slightly darkened; light rubbing). Very good. 303 pages. No other signatures or bookplates. Signed and inscribed by Gene Fowler to screenwriter Harry Tugend in black fountain pen ink on the front free endpaper: "To a long-time friend, and a great guy in his own right, Harry Tugend, with the best, Gene Fowler, Nov. 1939" Harry Tugend (1897-1989), screenwriter; "The Littlest Rebel" 1935; "Captain January" 1936. Inscribed by Author(s).…