Arthur Kober (82 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. First edition l. Dust jacket is worn, several tears, stain on back. Hardcover is clean and square. Name on endpaper, pages are bright and unmarked, solid binding.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Poor dj. First Edition. (price-clipped) [moderate wear to book, top corners bumped; jacket is missing large pieces at several corners, and about 1/4 of the top of the rear panel (front panel illustration is mostly unaffected)]. 18 humorous stories of Hollywood agent "Benny Greenspan," most of which had originally appeared in The New Yorker, and an introduction which discusses the place of the agent in the movie business, with particular reference to screenwriters. (The author had done a stint in Hollywood himself, and of course was also the one-time husband of Lillian Hellman.) Each story includes its own brief "afterword," in which the author relates the events of the story to some bit of show-business lore, or to his own experience. The stories are largely told in Benny's voice, and the titles alone are worth the price of admission: "It's Enough to Curl Your Blood"; "I'm the Dog Evveybody Is Talkin' It Shouldn't Happen To"; "I Got Hard Luck Hooverin' Over Me Like a Flock of Vouchers"; etc.…

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Dust Jacket Condition: Acceptable. First Printing. Edgewear to dj.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. A collection of humorous stories by Arthur Kober. Bantam Books no. 35. 4.25" x 6.25" with 152 pages. Pages edged in red. Some mild wear and soil, pages browned. Size: 4.25" x 6.25".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. THAT MAN IS HERE AGAIN The Adventures of a Hollywood Agent by Arthur Kober 1946 1st edition published by Random House vg condition Here is Hollywood from the inside, a personally conducted tour of the kinds of places and people you'd have to know if you wanted to get along in the Celluloids. This is the business end of movie-making through the eyes of an "artist's representative," a fast-talking, flinty little "human domino" who always has hard luck "hoovering over him like a flock of vouchers." The deals he makes for his clients (and for a percentage of his clients' earnings) are hammered out in conference rooms, projection rooms, hotel rooms, Chasen's, Romanoff's, in fact "in every nook and granny" that offers a chance to "hustle a fast buck." No one but Arthur Kober, whose sensitive ear recorded HAVING WONDERFUL TIME, MY DEAR BELLA, etc., could have caught this character's awe-inspiring mutilations of the mother tongue. And to each of these eighteen hilarious episodes (17 of which appeared in The New Yorker, and one in Redbook) he has added a postscript revealing the facts on which it is based. "very good, jacket has some wear but is now in a plastic protector, gift inscription inside, clean tight and very good" BBDJ-B.…

Hardcover. Condition: Godo. These stories, with one exception, have appeared in.the New Yorker." jacket only fair, faded spine an2025 janfiled in comedy.

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Dust Jacket Condition: Acceptable. First Printing. Edgewear to dj.

Paperback. first edition. 35 very good, fading spine Cover by Syd Hoff. , paperback.

Paperback. first edition. 35 very good -fine, nice writing on the ep Cover by Syd Hoff. , paperback.

Hardcover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. First Edition. Dust jacket is price-clipped. usual tanning to pages.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good-. First Bantam printing. Light creases to the spine.

Paperback. first edition. 35 very good -fine, nice but name stamp inside Cover by Syd Hoff. , paperback.

Paperback. first edition. 35 very good -fine, , reading crease Cover by Syd Hoff. , paperback.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Very Good dj. First Edition. (price-clipped) [solid, clean copy, light shelfwear to bottom edge, bottom rear corner bumped; jacket has a few small tears, minor paper loss at top of spine, smallish chip at bottom of rear panel (no text affected)]. The third collection of "Bella Gross" stories, a regular staple of The New Yorker during the 1940s; these deal primarily with Bella's "romantic misadventures" -- "her aggressions against the male of the species whose habitat is the Bronx." NOISBN. Illustrated by (dj) Hoff (illustrator).…

Paperback. Condition: Good+. First Edition. 4to 5pp Music and Lyrics by Harold Rome. Cover shows illustration of Muscle-man in swimsuit holding a woman in his arms on the beach. Good+ in wraps (missing pages 3 & 4, edges rubbed, "Columbia Broadcasting System" ink stamp to front cover, penciled notes to rear cover). Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Stated First Printing. Well-kept copy with covers looking just about new. Tight unopened pages. Pages have tanned. JAcket has original price. Jacket with light vintage wear and some smudges to front. Frederick E. Banbery (illustrator).…

Pamphlet. Condition: Very Good. Imperial Theatre. The Playbill for theater-goers to this play. Among actors listed were: Jack Cassidy, Sheila Bond, et al. . This copy is VG; the text is clear, bright, and unmarked but pages have aged;; binding is tight, stapled center, and all pages are intact as in original. The covers are also VG: intact, including color and design, but because they used paper, the covers have aged. We have a five star rating because of our fulfilment success and because our descriptions are accurate. We guarantee: NO NASTY SURPRISES. Playbill.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good -. First Edition. First printing, stated. The book is square and unmarked; one corner, spine ends bumped. The dust jacket is not price-clipped (original price $2.75); heavily chipped and edgeworn, with several short closed tears; Brodart protected. …

Paperback. Condition: Good. THE SCRIPT! Acting Edition. Some shelf wear and scuff marks to the covers. Some edge wear and fold mark to the covers. The dialogue flows clearly . Enjoy this ACTING SCRIPT useful for performance.

Paperback. first edition. 35 almost near fine, Cover by Syd Hoff. , paperback.

Paperback. era. 697 very good paperback.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Gramercy Books. xx, 140 pp. Very good condition; touches of wear on edges of covers; very light yellowing on perimeters of pages.

Condition: Very Good. 1st Printing. Square solid copy with color fading on spine, a small corner of cellophane lamination is lifting on back cover, and covers show minor wear.

Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 239 pages. Black & white cartoon illustrations by Syd Hoff. Dust jacket has chipping, edgewear. Dust jacket is protected by a mylar cover. Record # 206646. Syd Hoff (illustrator).

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Near fine #35 appears unread.

Paperback. first edition. 35 near fine, unread Cover by Syd Hoff. , paperback.

Hard Cover. Condition: VG++. VG++. First Edition. Nineteen short stories; black & white illustrations; end-papers; browning of edges; 184pp. BANBERY, Frederick E. (illustrator).

Softcover/Paperback. Condition: Very Good. A collection of humorous plays and vignettes by Arthur Kober, highlighting mid-century American social life. Armed Services Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very Good dj. First Edition. (price-clipped) [book is only modestly shelfworn, but there's considerable age-toning to the edges of the text block due to cheap paper used; the jacket is quite nice despite some browning and light scuffing to the spine]. (pen and ink drawings) A collection of humorous, Bronx-Jewish-ethnic short stories in a vein that Kober had been mining since the late 1920s. (The term "schtick" comes to mind.) As with his earlier works, most of these (all but two) had originally been published in The New Yorker. This volume contains nineteen stories, six of which, presented under the subtitle "The Hollywood Flesh-Peddler," are further adventures of agent Benny Greenspan, the central figure in Kober's 1946 book "That Man is Here Again.". Illustrated by Frederick E. Banbery (illustrator).…

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. First Bantam Printing. Bantam #35. Humorous Stories, Cover art by Syd Hoff. 152 pages. A Fine copy - bright, clean, unmarked interior. Binding so tight it appears never read. No delamination. No fading. No spine creases. Ships via inexpensive Canada Post Lettermail within North America, in card sleeve. From $4.00 to $6.90 depending on exact weight and location. Image available. Enquire for rates to Worldwide destinations. Size: 16cm Tall. Syd Hoff (illustrator). Book.…