Hecht Howard (61 results)

hardcover. Condition: near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. Unpaginated; 9 1/2 x 8 5/8" Foxing to top page edge; sun-fading to jacket spine; light wear to jacket spine edges and corners; 1/2" tear to top jacket edge; jacket in mylar sleeve.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. wear/soil, w/Full markings, R hinge cracked. Size: 8vo. Ex-Library.

Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Softcover. Condition: Good. Some creasing; yellowing to the pages; a good complete vintage issue. Includes the entire novel of The Judas Hour. Features on beauty contests, tiger attack, bookie and more; Fiction, ads, etd. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Vintage Paperbacks; Inventory No: 197288.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. This is the First American Printing, paperback format, of "A Part of Speech" by Joseph Brodsky, exiled Russian author. The contents were translated by Anthony Hecht, Derek Walcott, Richard Wilbur and others, and published in 1980 by Farrar, Straus, Giroux in New York. It was Brodsky's second book of poetry. TITLE : A Part of Speech AUTHOR : Joseph Brodsky TRANSLATORS : Anthony Hecht, George L. Kline, David McDuff, Howard Moss, Alan Myers, David Rigsbee, Barry Rubin, Derek Walcott, Daniel Weissbort, Richard Wilbur IMPRINT : Farrar, Straus and Giroux PLACE : New York DATE : (1980) EDITION : First Paperback Printing PHYSICAL DETAILS : Trade paperback; approximately 5 5/8" x 8 7/8", pictorial wraps, glued; 152 pages CONDITION -- VERY GOOD -- A previously owned book which remains bright, clean and attractive with near-negligible signs of handling (slight bumps to corner tips and head of spine. Interior clean and unmarked. No signatures. No writing.).

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. About 60 poets, each with about 1 - 4 poems (12 by David Ignatow). Includes Wallace Stevens short play "Bowl, Cat and Broomstick" with a lengthy introductory note by A.W. Litz; and a conversation with Marianne Moore. Book covers are lightly soiled with age, edges and folds along spine are a bit worn and vertical crease along spine. Interior pages are clean, undamaged. 267 pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Very good in original wrappers with light wear.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good+ to Very Good-. Vol. 1, No. 4. Includes "The Spanish Cow" by Leslie Charteris; "Let Me Kill You Sweetheart" by Octavus Roy Cohen; "Case of the Rival Familiars" by Clarence Budington Kelland; "Sweet Rolls and Murder" by William Campbell Gault; "The Professor Had a Key" by Arthur Conan Doyle; "A Murder of No Importance" by Morris Cooper; "The Magic of Fear" by Edgar Wallace; "The Wreath from the Sky" by Rufus King; "It had to be Murder" by Cornell Woolrich; "Murder on San Afer" by Hayden Howard; "The Doting Burglar" by Ben Hecht. Creasing; rubbing; edge and corner wear; tanning; date in pen on front.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st edition. Good+. 8vo, 88pp, printed wrappers. Scarce postwar issue of this important little magazine founded by future intelligence chief James Jesus Angleton and poet Reed Whittemore. Includes an essay on W. B. Yeats ("with hitherto unpublished poems") by Richard Ellman. Unmarked copy, staining/paper losses to spine and back cover. Not Signed.

Vintage studio still photograph from the 1935 film. Miriam Hopkins plays Mary Rutledge, a widow who begins working at the roulette wheel of a pub in San Francisco. She is tirelessly pursued by the club's owner, and she in turn pursues one of the clientele, a wealthy gold miner. A love triangle ensues, with rather violent consequences. Shot on location in California. 8 x 10 inches. Good, with creasing overall, pin holes to the corners,soiling to the verso, and a small closed tear to the right margin.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG. 8vo, 160pp, printed wrappers. Issue includes Canto 97 by Ezra Pound (Gallup C1822). Ownership signature of Beat associate and photographer Marshall Clements to front cover (no other markings), a bit of toning, wear and soil. Not Signed.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Mass market paperback. 201pp. Spine toned and creased, near fine. Contributions by William Stafford, Robert Lowell, Robert Duncan, Reed Whittemore, Howard Nemerov, Richard Wilbur, Anthony Hecht, James Dickey, Denise Levertov, John Logan, Louis Simpson, Edgar Bowers, Donald Justice, Robert Bly, Robert Creeley, James Merrill, W.D. Snodgrass, John Ashbery, Galway Kinnell, W.S. Merwin, James Wright, X.J. Kennedy, Adrienne Cecile Rich, Gary Snyder, and Robert Mezey. Penguin Poets D67.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Prior to 1979, consideration of the problem of the carcinogenicity of the aromatic amine class of chemicals took place primarily in poster sessions and symposia of annual meetings of the American Association for Cancer Research and analogous international associations. In November 1979 the first meeting concerned with the aromatic amines was held in Rockville, Haryland under primary sponsorship of the National Cancer Institute. The proceedings from this meeting were published as Monograph 58 of the Journal of the National Cancel' Institute in 1981. The second meeting in this series, the Second International Conference on N-Substituted Aryl Compounds, was held in March/April of 1982 in Hot Springs, Arkansas. The National Cancer Institute and The National Center for Toxicological Research were the primary sponsors of this meeting. The proceedings were published as Volume 49 of the journal En-vil'onmental Health Perspectives in 1983. The third meeting in this series was held in April of 1987 at the Dearborn Hyatt in Dearborn, Michigan. The principal sponsor of this meeting was the Heyer L. Pre ntis Comprehensive Cancer Center of Metropolitan Detroit. The proceedings, Carcinogenic and Mutagenic Responses to Aromatic Amines and Nitroal'enes, were published in 1987 by Elsevier Press. The fourth meeting was held in Cleveland, Ohio, on July 15-19, 1989. Prior to 1979, consideration of the problem of the carcinogenicity of the aromatic amine class of chemicals took place primarily in poster sessions and symposia of annual meetings of the American Association for Cancer Research and analogous international associations. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Condition: New.

Wraps. Condition: Good. Wraps. 88 pp. Single issue of this magazine with a modernist feel, featuring many writers associated with that movement. Founded by James Angleton and E. Reed Whittemore. This issue with work by Anthony Hecht, Carrol Coates, Howard Nemerov and others. GOOD condition with minor to moderate browning and fading. Minor soiling. Some creasing and scuffing to the covers. Minor browning to the interior. (Anderson and Kinzie pp 100-110).

PF. Condition: New.

Condition: New. In.

Condition: New. pp. 344.

"Expurgated Edition " (as stated upon copyright page) - presumed first edition, first printing. [12], 132, [1] pages. Hardcover: H 19.5cm x L 12.5cm. Lacks dust jacket. Orange cloth lightly soiled; gilt stamping to spine and front board. Gilt top edge; deckle fore-edge and bottom edge. Foxing to pale blue endpapers; inelegant personal bookplate of Mencken collector H. Walter Starkloff on front pastedown; Christmas 1928 four-line pencil inscription "from Joe" on front flyleaf; glued down to half-title page is Starkloff's personal memo sheet with typewritten commentary regarding the book and his ink signature; pages are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. Else a very good copy. A collection of invective directed at renowned Baltimore Sun columnist H.L. Mencken by fellow American newspapermen, commentators, essayists, etc. among which includes Arnold Bennett, William Braithwaite, Louis Bromfield, Hamlin Garland, Ben Hecht, D.H. Lawrence, Christopher Morley, et al.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Condition: New. In.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.