Howard Bette Fast (12 results)

Pictorial Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st. Dj has illust of palm trees - tan background - sl. wr. hairline tr. upper and stain back upper dj, illust. eps', age toning from paper laid in ffep. , original price 1.50, Fifty Eight pp., many b & w & color illust., Written for younger readers - age 7 & up. pp. have some yellowing due to paper content ow int. vg. good - no tears. Helen Hoke (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Location:59 54 pages torn dj loose endpaper 59.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First edition. Hardcover quarto in beige DJ. 57 pages: illustrations (primarily color); 26 cm. Abstract: An interesting narrative of the Jewish People for younger readers. Jews -- History -- Juvenile literature. Moderate rubbing to head and foot of spine. Mild bumping and rubbing to corners of boards. Very mild rolling to spine. Moderate yellowing to boards, edges of boards. Moderate rubbing and chipping to DJ head and foot of spine, corners, and edges. Mild soiling to DJ. DJ in archival mylar. Book is about verygood in same DJ.…

Condition: poor. First? Edition. First? Printing. 26 cm, 57, illus. (some color), boards quite worn, corners rounded, spine missing, pages weak at top near spine, interior clean Early work by Howard Fast, a noted author, Communist, and radical.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Synagogue Price Label on inside page Jacket slightly ragged.

Hardcover. Condition: g to vg. First edition. Quarto. 57 (1)pp. Original illustrated dustjacket over illustrated tan boards with black lettering on cover and spine. Color illustrated endpapers. Illustrated half-title and title page. Book design by Helen Hoke. "This interesting narrative of the Jewish People for younger readers will lead boys and girls into a more detailed study of the Bible stories, which have such color and variety and meaning in their legendry." (publisher). Beautifully illustrated with color and b/w drawings. Dustjacket with light wear along edges and rubbed. Binding somewhat darkened at the very edge of the top. Some plane foxing of endpapers and age-toning of block along edges not affecting images. DJ in overall good, binding and interior in very good condition.…

Hardcover. Condition: VG. First Edition Pictorial boards. End papers lightly age toned, else a Fine unmarked copy in Near Fine price-clipped jacket .

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Good (+) Jacket. First Edition. Secure binding with clean pages and light wear to the corner tips. The jacket is price clipped with a small tear at the spine tip, mild edge creases, and very light soil. About 10 x 7-1/2 with 57 pages. Color illustrated. Scarce. Size: 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Book. …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition of this history of the Jewish people for children, co-written by the future author of Spartacus. The Picture Book History of the Jews offers a history of Jewish triumphs at a time when Jews were being massacred across Europe. Meant to bolster the faith and pride of American Jewish children, the book highlights--in both text and stylized color illustrations--the historical importance of the Jewish people. Howard Fast contributed the text, while his wife, artist Bette Cohen Fast, contibuted the illustrations. Interestingly, Howard Fast was an incredibly prolific adult novelist, best known for writing Spartacus, the basis for the movie. Fast joined the Communist Party in 1943, a year after this book was published, and was later jailed and blacklisted for refusing to reveal the contributors to a fund for orphans of American veterans of the Spanish Civil War. Those contributors included Eleanor Roosevelt. Nevertheless, Fast managed to have a successful career as an author, writing dozens of historical novels, histories, poems, and short stories under his own name as well as two pseudonyms. He was also the father of novelist Jonathan Fast and father-in-law of Erica Jong. Book about-fine, dust jacket with only minor rubbing mainly to extremities. A near-fine copy.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. First edition. Quarto. Illustrated papercovered boards in dustwrapper. Fine in a price-clipped, near fine dustwrapper with a little age-toning and a couple of short tears (curiously, we have never seen an unprice-clipped copy). Children's history by the author of *Spartacus.*.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Near Fine. First edition. Quarto. Illustrated papercovered boards in dustwrapper. Slight offsetting to the endpapers from the jacket flaps, else fine in a price-clipped, near fine dustwrapper with a little age-toning. Children's history by the author of *Spartacus.*.