Hester pine (14 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition. No dust jacket. A few small nicks/marks on cover. Slight spine lean. A little soiling on panels; light marks on front end page. A couple nicks/wrinkles. Very Good + condition.

Etat : Fair. First edition copy. . No Dust Jacket Front hinge cracked. Writing inside. (College Professors, Fiction).

Etat : Fair. Acceptable condition. No Dust Jacket (college teachers, college stories, fiction) A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books.…

Hard Cover. Etat : Good. No Jacket. First Edition. First edition. Lacks jacket. Spine leans forward, minor loss from spine base, boards soiled, hinges weakening, pencil name inside. 1939 Hard Cover. 312 pp. Yes, in Beer for the Kitten, there is a cat named Gerald who is overweight, eats bacon, likes to visit a litter of red puppies at a neighbor's house, gets spanked when he licks the butter, but "it was worth it. (He was a hopeful cat)." There is a sex scene that does not involve the cat ("They were proud animals living in a feral world of their own, a world of pain and ecstasy"). The first cat-sipping-liquor scene comes on p. 55: "This was good stuff, better than milk. ('Cocktails, beer, wine - nothing's safe with Gerald about')." At various points it really seems that Gerald may take over the book, which wouldn't be a bad thing since it's not nearly as witty as the author's bio; one problem is that it's scattered among more characters than can easily be managed. The novel flogs its central metaphor most explicitly when one faculty husband watching Gerald happily lap up a saucer of beer observes that "We, the real teachers, are the kittens who drink beer. We don't have to be taught because we're built that way, like Gerald. The academic misfits are the ones who, not really liking beer, drink it because it's smart? They'd be happier with a bowl of warm milk." He goes on to distinguish between the good kittens who "thrive on beer" and the lazy kittens who "lap at it and hate it because they're too weak and are afraid to compete with other kittens around the cream bowl." A typically prescient female catches him up by pointing out that his argument is going round and round "like a kitten chasing its tail." The book's defining moment comes when Gerald moves in with the family that has the red puppies. The significance of this move in the context of serious beer-drinking cats and pretenders is not as clear as it could be. There's a Princeton reference in this book, too. After someone asks what Princeton's like, someone who lived here says, "Not so hot. A pleasant place, lovely surroundings, a nice life with plenty of ice in the refrigerators at the graduate college and a pretty pipe organ you can play with rolls. But for the rest' Phooey!" - Town Topics.…

Hardcover. Etat : VG. Etat de la jaquette : VG. First Edition. CLEAN, UNMARKED COPY.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 323 pages; Description: 323 p. ; 21 cm. Subjects: Pine, Hester. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 323 pages; Description: 323 p. ; 21 cm. Subjects: Pine, Hester. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Etat : Good+. No Dust Jacket. Tan cloth with minor edgewear; bumped spine ends and corners; light soil. Black topstain to text block. Binding sound, spine slightly cocked, text clean. Interior lightly toned. No ownership marks, stickers or stamps. Not ex-library. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 312 pages.…

Hardcover. First edition. Covers slightly warped and faintly rubbed, with several small marks; backstrip sun-faded; extremities frayed; pages slightly toned; otherwise very good condition (no dust jacket). ]. 312p.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good+. Very Good+ dj. First Edition. [nice clean copy with light wear at extremities; jacket has one short closed tear at top of front panel, minor wear at spine ends]. Who the hell was this Hester Pine, anyway? She published three novels in quick succession in 1939-1940 (this was the third), added one more (with the strangely apt title "The Waltz is Over") in 1943, then poof! The jacket blurb on her first book claimed that she'd already been a ballerina, an actress, a foreign correspondent, a doctor's receptionist, a Sunday School teacher, a photographer's model, and a choir singer, and that she was "still married to her original husband," but I've been unable to independently confirm any of that. In this book, at least, she seems to be trawling the same literary waters as the great Dawn Powell: it's about a high-powered but mismatched N.Y. couple (he, the editor of a highbrow literary magazine; she, a successful and hard-driving interior designer) who split up. Everything seems all amicable and oh-so-sophisticated, until hubby falls in love with a woman his wife doesn't approve of, whereupon she goes all psycho on him and refuses to give him a divorce. Were there ever any people like this, I mean really.…

Hardcover. Etat : Good+. Etat de la jaquette : Fair. First Edition; First Printing. Ex-library. Purple cloth coveris lightly soiled, caps are crushed, corners are rubbed but cover is in good+ condition. Boards are straight and spine is slightly cocked. Binding is tight. Residue from removed materials on paste downs and end sheets, ex-library ink stamp on front paste down, and a number witten in pen on top corner of front end sheet. Pages are lightly toned but clean and in very good condition. Dust jacket is soiled, has wear to the extremities including chipping and tearing but is in fair condition. Publisher's price of $2.50 on DJ flap. DJ protected by a brand new, clear, acid-free mylar cover. We add mylar covers to all books with DJs to preserve the DJs and add luster to magnify their beauty. (If pictured, shown without the mylar cover for an accurate representation of dust jacket. ); Ex-Library.…

Hardcover. Etat : Good. No Jacket. Hardcover. Beige cloth-covered boards with pink and burgundy stamping on the front cover and spine. Cloth is mildly foxed and toned along the spine. Corners are bumped and the head of the spine is frayed. Binding is square and strong. Small penciling from previous owner on front free endpaper. Title continues as "A Heady Brew in Which To Toast the Pedagogues, Their Wives; in Which to Taste The Seductions of Higher Learning. Ladies and Gentlemen! The Faculty! Seen Through a Glass But Not Darkly". No date on title page. Copyright page is dated 1939. 312 pages. Interiors are clean and unmarked. From what I can manage to find on Hester Pine are excerpts from the elusive DJ such as "attended college for a while, but left without taking a degree in order to indulge in more exciting activities." she danced "in several ballets," was a foreign correspondent, a physician's receptionist, a Sunday School teacher, a photographer's model, a singer in a choir, and an actress "on the stage." and she is "fond of cooking corn fritters, shooting with a pistol, drawing nudes in charcoal, and playing the guitar.". Overall, a good copy.…

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good+. Very Good+ dj. First Edition. [a good sound copy, mild wear to spine ends, small dent in bottom edge of rear cover, date written in red ink at top of front endpaper; the jacket is lightly edgeworn, with some minor creasing at the top of the front panel]. "The story of Marta Nordlander, who came from Austria to America three generations ago [and] of her family since then and of how it last became an American family." Who the hell was this Hester Pine, anyway? She published three novels in quick succession in 1939-1940 (all in somewhat of a Dawn Powell-ish vein), then came out with this one, after which -- poof! The jacket blurb on her first book claimed that she'd already been a ballerina, an actress, a foreign correspondent, a doctor's receptionist, a Sunday School teacher, a photographer's model, and a choir singer, and that she was "still married to her original husband," but I've been unable to independently confirm any of that. This book's jacket offers nothing at all in the way of biographical data, providing only the barest nod to her earlier books by way of claiming this one to be "more mature than any of her previous work." OCLC records plenty of library copies, but it seems to be very scarce in commerce; is there a Hester Pine cult we all should know about? Simone 152. ***This book is among the nearly 150 items offered in ReadInk's new Catalog Number 4, "Booking Passage: Books on the Immigrant Experience." You can access this catalog and its contents in any one of three ways: (1) email us to request a PDF to be emailed to you; (2) view or download the catalog from the link on our website's main page; (3) browse the books individually (including a few that didn't make the cut for the catalog) on our website under these two subject headings: "Immigration: Fiction" and "Immigration: Non-fiction.". Illustrated by (dj design) Robert Hallock (illustrateur).…

Etat : Very Good. First US edition hard back binding in publisher's original pale olive cloth covers, brown and coral title block to the spine and to the front cover, slate dyed upper edges. 8vo. 8½'' x 6''. Contains 312 printed pages of text. Small oval chip to the cloth of the front gutter, ink message to the front free end paper. Very Good condition book in near Very Good condition art work dust wrapper with small oval chip to the front gutter, shallow nicks and chips with crease lines to the spine ends, not price clipped $2.50. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, it does not adhere to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. AMERICA [Literature].…