Published by Avon Books/A Division of The Hearst Corporation, New York, 1978
ISBN 10: 0380018179 ISBN 13: 9780380018178
Seller: gearbooks, The Bronx, NY, U.S.A.
Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. Jim Kalett (Author Photo) (illustrator). 7th Printing. 692 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate use. Damage to front cover near spine. Slightly creased spine. Stain on fore edge. Light foxing on page edges.
Published by Dover Pubns, 1978
ISBN 10: 048623696X ISBN 13: 9780486236964
Paperback. Condition: Good. Softcover. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Edges creased. Small tears to margins.
Published by Dover Publications, New York, 1978
Seller: Antiquariat Alexander Kunz, Köln, Germany
1. Auflage. 91 Seiten. OBr., Quart 26,4 x 19,6 cm, 91 S., mit zahlreichen s/w-Fotografien; Umschlag etwas abgegriffen, die vorderen Seiten leicht angeschmutzt.
Published by Harper & Row, 1975
ISBN 10: 0060133724 ISBN 13: 9780060133726
Seller: MyLibraryMarket, Waynesville, OH, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. ***please read*** no marks on text - DJ shows minor shelf wear- my shelf location 18-B-38*.
Published by Bantam Books, New York, 1987
ISBN 10: 0553343815 ISBN 13: 9780553343816
Seller: biblioboy, North Providence, RI, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
paperback. Condition: Very Good. [cover art by Larry Noble] [author photo by Jim Kalett] [book design by Barbara N. Cohen] (illustrator). First Edition. New York: Bantam Books 1987. First Edition This copy has been inscribed, signed and dated by the author on the title page. 438 pages. Very good copy spine cocked and lightly edgeworn, light corner creasing, papoer tanned.ref28.
Published by Harper & Row, New York, 1976
ISBN 10: 0060129816 ISBN 13: 9780060129811
Seller: Idler Fine Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Jim Kalett (Author's Photo); Gloria Adleson (illustrator). 1st Edition. First printing of the stated first edition. Book with a small bump/abrasion to lower front corner, soft crease to corner of front-free-endpage, and light toning to top edge of boards, else in fine condition; dust jacket with light toning to spine and light shelf wear, else fine.
Published by Dover Publications, Inc., New York, 1978
Seller: Ann Becker, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
First Edition
Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition.
Published by Dial Press, New York, U.S.A., 1983
ISBN 10: 0385274270 ISBN 13: 9780385274272
Seller: Hudson River Book Shoppe, Waldwick, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Jim Kalett (photographs) (illustrator). 1st Edition. Stated first edition and stated first printing. Illustrated. Map end pages. Boards with moderate wear and soiling; interior clean.
Published by St Martin's Press, New York, 1992
ISBN 10: 0312082223 ISBN 13: 9780312082222
Seller: Idler Fine Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Jim Kalett (Author photo); N. Scott Momaday (illustrator). 1st Edition. First printing of the first edition. Light rubbing to extremities, else book and dust jacket in fine condition. Pulitzer Prize.
Published by The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD & London, 1981
ISBN 10: 0801826918 ISBN 13: 9780801826917
Seller: gearbooks, The Bronx, NY, U.S.A.
Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Jim Kalett/Photo Researchers (Cover Illustration) (illustrator). Copyright 1981. 206 pp. Solidly bound copy with minimal external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Pages slightly warped.
Published by Book Club Associates, London, 1977
Seller: J J Basset Books, bassettbooks, bookfarm.co.uk, Peter Tavy, United Kingdom
First Edition
Blue Cloth. Condition: Good (BELOW AVERAGE). Dust Jacket Condition: Good (BELOW AVERAGE). Jacket Photo By Jim Kalett (illustrator). First Edition of This Edition. Browned pages , foxed fore edges. Please email for further details Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Not Inscribed or Signed. HARDBACK.
Condition: Buone. inglese Condizioni dell'esterno: Discrete con difetti, segni d'uso Condizioni dell'interno: Buone.
Published by Harper & Row, Publishers, New York, N.Y., 1977
ISBN 10: 0060122498 ISBN 13: 9780060122492
Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Jim Kalett (Jacket photograph) (illustrator). First Edition (stated). [10], 276, [2] pages. DJ has slight wear, soiling, and flap creases. This story encompasses California theatre in its heyday, the movies in the silent days and now, the San Francisco earthquake and fire, as well as both world wars. As the journal entries continue to the present, the drama builds to its powerful climax. Only a man who has conducted a shameless, passionate, brazen, lifetime love affair with the theatre and the movies could have produced this spellbinding, glamorous, tantalizing, enthralling, human story. The portrait is complete. John J. Tumulty stands revealed in all his fascinating complexity. One Hell of an Actor is a triumphant blend of fine storytelling, outsize characters, suspense, and a technique that reminds us fiction is still a fluid form. Garson Kanin (November 24, 1912 - March 13, 1999) was an American writer and director of plays and films. Garson Kanin began his show-business career as a jazz musician, burlesque comedian, and actor. He graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City and made his Broadway debut in Little Ol' Boy (1933). In 1935, Kanin was cast in a George Abbott play and soon became Abbott's assistant. Kanin made his Broadway debut as a director in 1936, at the age of 24, with Hitch Your Wagon. Kanin's best-selling novel Smash (1980), about the pre-Broadway tryout of a musical comedy, was inspired by his experience directing the 1964 musical Funny Girl and was adapted into the 2012 television series Smash. In 1985, he was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame. Covering nearly a century of American theatre and movies, ONE HELL OF AN ACTOR intertwines myth, fact and invention with appearances by show business luminaries. Derived from a Kirkus review: This in part is a result of Kanin's of off-and-on investigations into the affairs of real-life John J. Tumulty (1849-1930), West Coast actor-manager and possible source material for some sort of Kanin dramatization. It's impossible to tell how much of this is invented, how much really happened; clearly Kanin found the Tumulty enigmas fascinating. Anyway, he gets a chance to drop first names galore--Spence, Kate, Arthur (Rubinstein), Laurette (Taylor), Thornton (W.)--and indulge in the good-natured showbizziness that is his province. Close to the mark.
Published by Harper & Row, New York, 1979
ISBN 10: 0060117974 ISBN 13: 9780060117979
Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Jim Kalett (Jacket photograph) (illustrator). xx, 411, [1] pages. Acknowledgments and Notes. Bibliography. Index. DJ has some wear and soiling. After graduating from Harvard University in 1947, Mr. Harris began working at A. Harris & Company, a family-owned department store founded in 1886 in Dallas by his grandfather Adolph Harris. A. Harris was sold to Federated Department Stores, which owns Macy's. Mr. Harris published a children's book, ''The Night Before Christmas -- in Texas,'' a parody of the Clement Clark Moore poem. He turned to writing full time after the family business was sold. ''The Fine Art of Political Wit,'' which traced the history of political humor since the 18th century, was published in 1964. He followed with two biographies: ''Only to God: The Extraordinary Life of Godfrey Lowell Cabot,'' about the industrialist and philanthropist, which was published in 1967, and ''Upton Sinclair, American Rebel,'' about the writer and social reformer, published in 1975. In 1979, Mr. Harris wrote a history of some of America's most successful Jewish businessmen, ''Merchant Princes: An Intimate History of Jewish Families Who Built Great Department Stores.'' In a review in The New York Times, Christopher Lehmann-Haupt described the book as a freewheeling narrative that used the stories of the Filenes of Boston, the Riches of Atlanta, the Rosenwalds of Chicago and the Marcuses of Dallas, among others, to explore Jewish life, philanthropy and anecdotes. The book, the review said, was ''sturdy enough to hold regional history, gossip, personal reminiscences and a history of the art and science of department-store merchandising.'' Derived from a Kirkus review: The reason this survey is more readable than other works is its emphasis on people, not buildings. Leon Harris, it turns out, ran Dallas' A. Harris & Company--founded by his grandfather--for ten years; and his "happiest childhood memories," he confides, involved buying trips with his father for "the store." Here he presents similar merchant families with unabashed enthusiasm. We meet founding fathers--immigrants all--and assorted progeny with such names as: Filene--"prideful, prickly, stubborn" Edward, who opened Boston's famous Basement; Straus--Macy's owners, and "the only Jewish merchant family in America that approximates the Rothschilds"; and the Gimbels of Philadelphia, originators of Thanksgiving Day parades. Plus: the families Kaufmann (Pittsburgh); Goldsmith (Memphis); Rich (Atlanta); Meir and Frank (Portland, Oregon); and the famous founders of Neiman-Marcus and Sears Roebuck. In the Southwest, Harris takes stock of Goldwater's; San Francisco brings us Levi Strauss, Solomon Gump, the Magnins; and even Jewish mountain men turn up--like peddler Adolph Kohn, who was kidnapped by Apaches and later "rode the warpath" with Comanches. Each family is presented in the context of its community, with Harris weaving social history into his story--the growth of anti-Semitism, the importance of brothels. An entertaining, nostalgic look at great stories run by people, not computers. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated].
Published by Brooklyn, New York : The Old House Journal Corporation, 1973-1979, 1973
Seller: Joseph Valles - Books, Stockbridge, GA, U.S.A.
No Binding. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. loose-leaf publication ; OCLC: 857088726 ; a six-year run of Old-House Journal, as well as The Old-house journal catalog, with the indexes ; lists over 5,873 products and services, with 525 companies for the renovation of old houses; many articles on various aspects of repair; laid the groundwork for the Public Television series This Old House ; V.1.no.1: An old house is a way of life -- Protecting the aging house from winter storms -- Old-house living: a brownstone in Brooklyn -- Sealing leaky windows -- Quieting a steam heating system -- Flat-roof repairs -- Chimney check up -- The care and cleaning of brass -- v.1 no.2 : Refinishing secrets of the Boston Museum -- The bare-brick mistake -- A schoolhouse in Kentucky -- Restoring shutters to working order -- Surgery on a staircase -- Coping with frayed electrical wiring -- How to apply French polish -- Recipes for reviving and refinishing - v.1 no.3: Teaching a fireplace not to smoke -- Antique wallpaper preservation -- Victorian gingerbread -- The art of getting plastered -- Tricks an old farmhouse plays -- Matching bricks & mortar -- How to paint a cathedral -- v.2 no1: Catalog your house's secret passages -- An Italian villa in New Haven -- Major repairs to plaster surfaces -- Tips on mixing plaster -- Mansard roof -- A tale of two houses -- V.2 no 2: How to stiffen sagging floors -- Let's do away with incentives that destroy old houses -- Wallpaper in old houses -- Where to buy 18th & 19th century wallpaper -- Duplicating plaster cornices -- v.2 no.3: Duplicate plaster castings -- A townhouse in Trenton -- Parts of a staircase -- One way to insulate an attic -- V.2, no4: Drapes & curtains -- A family plantation in Virginia -- Don't get stuck with the wrong glue -- Restoration of sandstone -- V.2 no.5: Repairing old floors -- Octagon house on the Hudson -- Re-creating period window hangings -- v.2 no 6: A restorationist view of windows -- Queen Anne revival in Little Rock -- Repairing & restoring marble mantels -- Windows and parts -- V.2 no 7: Sawn wood ornament -- Pre-Civil War manse on the Mississippi -- Mix your own wood stain -- Running electrical wire -- Restoring and re-creating sawn wood ornament -- V.2 no 8: Eastlake -- Preserving woodworkers' art in St. Paul -- Restoring rotted window sills -- Improved process for stripping paint -- v.2 no 9: Tips on stripping shutters -- in Covington, a riverboat captain's Italianate berth -- restoring a frame house exterior -- Early American roof types -- Victorian fancywork -- v.2 no 10: The domestic architecture of Downing -- Caustic approach to exterior paint removal -- A restored federal enclave in Charlestown -- Detecting & defeating rot in old houses -- Downing on color -- v.2 no2 : Preventing rot in old houses -- How to make an electrical survey -- Greek revival on the immigrant road -- Classical orders -- v.2 no12: Refinishing old wood floors -- Insuring townhouse living -- Tips on sanding -- Painted floors -- Cast iron fences -- Care & repair of ornamental iron -- v.3 no 1: Early American wall stenciling -- Restored, a hopeless 1865 Greek revival ruin -- Selecting the best floor finish -- v.3 no2: Victorian stenciling -- Romanesque revival in the inner city -- The case against removing paint from brick masonry -- Replacing a clapboard -- Glenview, Victorian stencilling restored -- v.3 no.3 Restoring old brickwork -- Dual personality saves 1836 Greek revival -- The peril in Portland cement -- Marbelizing -- v.3 no 4: Late Victorian art movement -- Reviving a 1745 stone manor -- Selecting & using chemical paint removers -- v.3 no5: Greek revival decoration -- Self-supporting shingle-style seaside cottage -- v.3 no6: How to grain like a professional -- Moving story of a Swiss chalet in Vermont -- Locating buried artifacts -- v.3, no.7 : Lighting for the old house -- Victorian charm re-created in San Francisco -- Rebuiling fireplaces -- Adapting old fixtures -- Fancy butt shingles; etc ; a mark or two; else FINE. Book.