Georgie Leyla (11 results)

Illustrated by Ben Dale From the Complete Gold Seal Novel series run by the Inquirer ed. paperback about very good condition in wrappers (a small insect hole (< 1/2 cm.) through the piece)- Piece is about 11 X 14" & 20 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Reprint. G. Foxing to spine, lighter on boards and edges. Light soiling. Binding is sound. Ownership stamp on the title page. Text is clean. Ships securely in a box.

Softcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. A risqué novel about prostitution. The story of a brothel in Northern Germany, where "fashionable women came to sight-see and sip champagne [and] fashionable men were frequent callers." The book is structured as a series of chapter-vignettes about each of the nine women who work there. This is the 1938 Vendome Press edition with illustrated wrappers. Original wrappers with a bit of wear at the top edge. Very clean interior. 5¾" - 7¾". book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Good dj. Reprint? (see note). [Good only, book is worn and moderately soiled at page edges, both hinges weak (rear due to removed endpaper); jacket worn at edges and corners, quarter-sized chip at top rear hinge (taking part of the title with it), soiling and scuffing to rear panel]. The story of a brothel in Northern Germany, where "fashionable women came to sight-see and sip champagne [and] fashionable men were frequent callers." The book is structured as a series of chapter-vignettes about each of the nine women who work there (this being the joint's m.o.: "There were only nine girls, never more, and all of them beautiful, all of them from different countries"). You've got Natachia (Russian), Esther (from Palestine), Hahlihla (from Morocco), Frankie ("the vivacious American girl"), Fatima (Arab father/Syrian mother), Paulette (French), Lotte (German, "whose bourgeois appearance was contradicted by her store of strange desires and sadistic impulses"), Raquel (Spanish) -- and "the newcomer, the shy, delicate-featured girl from Budapest who was to cause a strange turmoil in the house of Madame Antonia." The author was an actress and occasional playwright, who appeared in the original Broadway production (1924) of "What Price Glory?," as Charmaine (the role played in the famous silent film by Renee Adoree) [The reason I state the edition as "Reprint?" is that the book appears to have been published by Liveright in 1932; there's no indication on this Macaulay edition of any prior printing, but then again Macaulay was a little slipshod about such matters. It's worth noting, however, that several of the books advertised on the rear jacket panel were, in fact, 1933 publications.].…

flessibile. Condition: Buono (Good). Testo in francese, 316 p., f.to cm 18,5x12, copertina flessibile. Buone condizioni. Book.

Couverture souple. Livre en français. Traduit par Paul Genty. Broché. 252 pages. Couverture défraîchie. Littérature : 20e siècle. Livre.

Couverture souple. Condition: bon. R150192821: 1933. In-8. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 316 pages. . . . Classification Dewey : 820-Littératures anglaise et anglo-saxonne.

PARIS, The Vendôme Press, 1938 - In-8° - Broché - Jaquette illustrée en couleurs - 358 pages - Exemplaire non coupé - très bon état Livres.

Couverture souple. Condition: bon. R150192822: 1934. In-12. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. convenable, Dos abîmé, Intérieur frais. 252 pages. . . . Classification Dewey : 820-Littératures anglaise et anglo-saxonne.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First edition. First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original orange cloth. Dust-jacket. Rare first edition of this risqué novel of prostitution, following the fortunes of a brothel in northern Germany where fashionable women came to sight-see and sip champagne and fashionable men were frequent callers; the book is built as a sequence of chapter-vignettes, one for each of the nine women employed there. Leyla Georgie was at one time a Broadway actress. A very good copy; jacket a little rubbed with some creasing, but an attractive example. Book.…

2. Paris, The Vendôme Press, 1938, in-8°, 358 pp, sewn, publisher's plain grey-brown wrapper. The author, a one time Broadway actress, relates here the histories of the different girls in Mad. Antonia's brothel. Openly published in New York in 1932, this would be an illicit Paris edition; aims at a different European public.…