Brody Catharine (9 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Cover has edge wear, minor creases, minor scratches, minor scuffs, small bent/rubbed cover/page corners, rubbed spine, very slightly chipped. Age browning to pages. No writing.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition in Swedish. Half Cloth. First Edition in Swedish. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 362p. A near fine copy. This may be a rebound copy of a book originally issued in paper, because there is a beautifully designed and yet simple red and black illustrated cover bound-in. The book was originally published in English as Nobody Starves. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. (no dust jacket) [a good sound copy with only moderate shelfwear, some fading to spine cloth, minor fraying at top of spine, lower tips lightly bumped with very slight exposure of boards, internally nice and clean]. Novel about "a girl press agent who knew what she wanted and got it." Catharine Brody was a newspaper and magazine writer before directing her efforts to fiction in the 1920s. She began modestly, with a digest-sized pulp novel called "Why Girls Go Back Home" (also published serially), but really got going in the late 1920s with "Babe Evanson," a tale of a New York office-girl; "West of Fifth" was her next book, and obviously drew on her journalistic experience. After the Depression hit, she turned out a couple of quasi-proletarian novels -- "Nobody Starves" (centered around a couple trying to make a go of it as factory workers in Detroit) and "Cash Item" (about the repercussions of a bank failure) -- but although both were well-received, she appears to have then more or less dropped off the literary map. I've run down references to a couple of syndicated newspaper short stories circa 1936, a couple of articles in the slicks in 1938, and a "vignette" in a 1944 issue of Liberty, and that's it; no obituary has yet turned up, nor any significant biographical information (apart from the fact that she was born in Latvia). What became of her, I wonder?

lllustr with stills from the movie, 8 x 5.25, color pict wraps, 135 pp, covers a bit worn, spine a bit torn at hinges, contents heavily browned and fragile with a couple of edge tears, else a decent copy of this movie tie-in that also starred a very young Myrna Loy (with her photo on back cover).

Paperback. era warner bros. trade paperback size, good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 7.5 x 5", dec orange/red cloth, 318pp, covers a bit rubbed, extremities lightly bumped and fraying, pp toned else a nice, clean copy in a rubbed, darkened, and lightly soiled/spotted dustjacket. FIRST EDITION. ".the story of a girl press-agent, who earns her own living, gets her own man and butters her own bread in the frantic world between Broadway and Fifth Avenue.".

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. These are 8 different films that have been converted to novels of the films; each novel has a colored illustrations substituting as dustjacket; approx 400 pages; edition size is unknown, it is not signed; the book is tight, the colored & b&w Illustrations that represent the dustjackets are in good condition because they are printed on a shiny thicker paper than the other interior pages that have lots of browning; a few tiny dots to the dark brown leather hardboards, otherwise overall in FAIR COND.

Magazine. Condition: Very Good. Erte, et al. (illustrator). First Edition. New York: Harper's Bazaar (Hearst Magazine Corporation). 138 pages; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. .

Condition: Very Good. Erte (illustrator). First Edition. Folio ; 138 pages; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. Size (9.75 x 13 inches) is much larger than more recent issues.