Rosten Leo Leonard Q Ross (31 results)

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Paperback. Condition: Good.

hardcover. Condition: Good. DJ with moderate edgewear or bumping. Former owner's name on front endpaper. Light shelf wear. Else clean and tight.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Shelf wear, pages yellowing; a good solid book. K-1 code inside. Pieces of the dust jacket are included but missing pieces, heavily torn and worn. Illustrator: . Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Inventory No: 183508.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Pan Edition. VG, Edgewear, creases, browning. Comic drama. Pan X178. Photo on request.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Light shelfwear and foxing to cover, mild page tanning (endpapers more so), else internally in good condition, binding sound; wrapper is worn with tears and some loss to both spine extremities.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 156 pages. 8.00x5.50x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Used-Acceptable. Anita Walker (Jacket Design) (illustrator). 192 pp. Text in flawless condition; dj shows wear. Inscription on front flyleaf.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. 1st Edition. First British edition. First printing Hardback. 200 pp. slight foxing of first and last few pages otherwise Very Good condition in Near Very Good unclipped dust jacket. No inscriptions,

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Two book collection. The Education of Hyman Kaplan; with fair to good dust jacket/ edge wear. Copyright 1937, signed by previous owner. The Return of Hyman Kaplan; First edition, 1959. No dust jacket, blind stamp on ffep.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. 1st Edition. First British edition. First printing Hardback. 200 pp. Very Good condition in Good + unclipped dust jacket (tiny losses at a coiple of corners, now in protective transparent sleeve). No inscriptions,

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Stock toned but otherwise all in good internal order. Pictorial card covers a little worn, dulled and marked. 12mo. 187pp + publisher's ads.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

192 pp. 8vo, publisher's cloth-backed boards in dust jacket. First edition. Near fine in a jacket with a sunned spine and light use at extremities.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Illustrated by Movie Stills (illustrator). First Edition; First Printing. Cocked, text tone, otherwise light wear. Solid mass market paperback. ; First Edition, First Printing of Leo Rosten's novelization of his movie script of United Artists Pictures film starring Claudette Colbert, Robert Cummings and Don Ameche, illustrated with stills from the movie. "Tormented by desire and avarice he is forced to plot the destruction of the woman he had sworn to love." ; Century Movie Book; Vol. 66; 160 pages.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Century Movie Book number 66; cover price 25 cents; a movie tie-in, to the film that starred Claudette Colbert, Robert Cummings, and Don Ameche; illustrated with scenes from the movie. The book is unmarked; spine slanted, creased, and edgeworn; minor edgewear to the wraps; sleeve protected.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First British edition. Very good in good dust jacket. No markings. Page faces bright with some foxing to edges. Dust jacket is chipped to corners and spine ends and to a lesser extent along edges. Still fairly nice overall.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Dust spotting on cover.

Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Hardback. Heavy foxing to end pages and edge. Wear to edges of D/J. Plastic protective covering. 199 pp.(We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First UK edition, first impression. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, some slight spotting and time staining to quite bright classic Gollancz yellow jacket, price clipped, no inscriptions, some browning to page fore edges, internally clean tight and squareish, overall a vg+ copy for its age. 199pp. Twenty years after his first collection of tales about that Don Quixote of adult education, Leo Rosten has brought Hyman Kaplan back for a second term on the bottom rung in the beginner's grade at the American Night Preparatory School for Adults. Leo Calvin Rosten (1908-97), was a Polish born American humourist, scriptwriter, storywriter, journalist, Anglophile and Yiddish scholar. He was also a political scientist interested especially in the relationship of politics and the media.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original red paper covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 8'' x 5½''. Contains 199 printed pages of text. Without any ownership markings. Near Fine condition book, in Very Good condition dust wrapper with darkening down the spine and small rubs to the corners and spine tips, not price clipped 12/6. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, this protects and prolongs the life of the paper, it is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. MODERN FIRST EDITIONS.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1959 1st Edition thus. Red cloth, black titles. Condition: Good. Spine and top edge of boards sunned. Light edgewear. Pages generally clean and bright. Binding firm. Size: 8x5.5in / 20x14cm. 199pp. Weight: 245g.

PARIS, NRF / Gallimard [Brodard et Taupin, Paris-Coulommiers / Laquage Typolaque (pour la jaquette)] - Copyright 1950 / ACHEVÉ D'IMPRIMER LE 20 JUILLET 1950 / DL 3e trimestre 1950 [N° d'édition: 2089 / N° d'impression: 7812] - C.19x12x1,9 cm - Cartonnage éditeur jaune et noir titré en jaune; jaquette laquée blanche et noire titrée en blanc et jaune, dos blanc et noir titré et NON numéroté en blanc et jaune, 4e de couverture blanc et noir au catalogue de la "Série Blême" en blanc (11 titres); 187 et (3) pages. (Collection Série Noire, sous la direction de Marcel Duhamel - N° 63 - 150 fr.). Bon état. BIEN COMPLET DE SA JAQUETTE. PREMIÈRE ÉDITION dans la collection: 63 titres au catalogue. Français Livres.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. First UK edition (with "First published 1939" on copyright page). Orig. cloth, lacking dust jacket. Very good copy, spine somewhat slanted. With a long inscription from Ross to F. Tennyson Jesse and her husband on the front free endpaper: "For Fryn and Tottie, This book, of which a second edition is priceless, was purchased (underlined), if you please, by Fryn. Fondest good wishes and - until we meet again / Leo (Leonard Q. Ross)/ Pear Tree Cottage / Aug. 23, 1953." With F. Tennyson Jesse's bookplate on the front pastedown. Colorful reportage of New York life in the thirties, in the vein of A. J. Liebling and Joseph Mitchell; some of the pieces herein appeared in the New Yorker. Rosten's shmalzy "study" of Yiddish earned him the scorn of serious students of the language; here he is in top form as an observer of people and speech patterns. In the US the book, pace the inscription, actually did go into a second printing. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. C. Keeling (illustrator). 1st Edition. First UK Edition , first printing. Octavo hardback, 176 pp. Illustrated Very Good condition green pictorial cloth in Good + unclipped dust jacket (very small losses at some corners and at to[ of spine area of jacket) No inscriptions. Scarce with a jacket.

5. Auflage. 144, (4) S. Ill. Orig.-Broschur. Taschenbuch (= Bd. HPL 29). - Rücken leicht berieben; hinterer Deckel mit Knickspur. Papier altersbedingt gebräunt. Ansonsten gut erhaltenes Exemplar. Innen absolut sauber.

Hardcover. First Edition. pp. [1-2], 3-199. Small 8vo. Publisher's navy-blue cloth over board with silver lettering to the spine, publisher's plum topstain. Lightest bump to spine ends, else, near fine; faint unobtrusive library stamp to the endpapers, else, text-block clean and unmarked; very good+, housed in lightly-rubbed, price-clipped, dustjacket showing light chips and short closed tears along the edges of of the panels. Overall, very good. Uncommon in commerce.