Damon Runyon Foreword Walter Winchell (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First ed.; 192 p., clean and unmarked within but former owner's name written on end page; paper somewhat tan with open tear on upper corner of p. 87/88; binding firm; in absence of d.j. the dark blue boards with dark blue lettering on white patches has lightly bumped corners and light rubbing at crown at crown and foot of spine, a few small white smudges.

small-8°, paperback edition. Condition: Gut. 16th printing,. Biographer of Broadway complete & unabridged 237 pages, text in English, colored book edges, illustrated cover, table of contents, edges slightly rubbed, otherwise in good condition, Alfred Damon Runyon (October 4, 1880 December 10, 1946) was an American journalist and short-story writer. Meister des Hauptstammes! Hier sind einige Geschichten von Damon Runyon dem Mann, der laut Walter Winchell mehr über die Goldenen Vierziger weiß als jeder andere Schriftsteller. Darin enthalten sind viele der Geschichten, die ihn berühmt gemacht haben. Darunter sind Little Miss Marker", The Hottest Gy in the World" und Lady for a Day". He was best known for his short stories celebrating the world of Broadway in New York City that grew out of the Prohibition era. To New Yorkers of his generation, a "Damon Runyon character" evoked a distinctive social type from Brooklyn or Midtown Manhattan. The adjective Runyonesque refers to this type of character and the type of situations and dialog that Runyon depicts. He spun humorous and sentimental tales of gamblers, hustlers, actors, and gangsters, few of whom go by "square" names, preferring instead colorful monikers such as "Nathan Detroit", "Benny Southstreet", "Big Jule", "Harry the Horse", "Good Time Charley", "Dave the Dude", or "The Seldom Seen Kid". You ll enjoy meeting some of Mr. Runyon s friends, socially. You ll like Harry the Horse and spanish john and Little Isadore - hard characters, perhaps, but they would be hurt if you called them kidnapers. Then there s Big False Face, the Beer Baron. The police sent him to college at a place Auburn, N. Y., and he also did post-graduate work at Ossining and Dannemora. And you ll meet Princess O Hara and Goldberg, her horse, named after a guy who runs a delicatessen store on Tenth Avenue, and Last Card Louie, and The Brain himself. A veritable banquet is contained in these pages for all those who like their Runyon straight. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 120.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Dj slightly worn, darkened and torn w small annotation on rear. Cover very slightly shelf-worn. Small annotation on fep. Underlining in tp. Pages slightly darkened. 8vo. 192 pp. English.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Book is clean and square; no problems with hinges, "good-plus." First edition identified by the lack of any statement of printing or edition to copyright page, as per publisher's statements of 1928 and 1937. Priced $2.00 to jacket front flap. "Very-good-minus" jacket is moderately soiled to spine, and previous owner ran strips of brown tape along top and bottom edges of VERSO of jacket, which we would not recommend, but which have nonetheless limited chipping. Some small dark spots to top of REAR jacket flap. A number of these Runyon stories were filmed, including "Little Miss Marker" (1934 with Shirley Temple and Adolphe Menjou; 1980 with Walter Matthau and Julie Andrews) and "The Lemon Drop Kid" (1934 with Lee Tracy and William "Bub" Frawley; 1951 with Bob Hope and -- Yep, once again, William "Bub" Frawley.) 321 pp., reduced from $1,300.