Lane Kauffmann (69 results)

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. No Stock Photos! We photograph every item. spine creasing, light edge wear; A novel of love, money, marriage and adultery, among New York's richest, most exciting people.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Book Club Edition. Book Club Edition. Corner bumping. Light edge wear to the dust jacket. Otherwise a clean, unmarked copy.

Mass market. Condition: Good. Paperback. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show light edge wear.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Jacket has light edgewear. Very minor library markings. Boards have minor shelfwear. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Social Library.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Jacket has light edgewear. Boards have minor shelfwear. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Please see any and all photos connected with this listing. No Dustjacket. A bit scuffed but all pages intact and legible. Good reading copy. Clean. No store stamps. --- --- HERE'S THE FIRST FEW SENTENCES --- --- In her fuzzy blue dressing gown, Ruth Fortescue stood at the hall archway looking into the living room. She was not a nervous woman, her gaze did not dart about restlessly, itemizing; rather she confronted the room with a blank, comprehensive stare, waiting for her attention to be caught by some cushion inadequately plumped up or an ashtray despoiled by a thoughtless masculine cigarette stub. . . .…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). The dustjacket is quite scuffed but all pages intact and legible. Good reading copy. Clean. No store stamps.--- HERE'S THE FIRST FEW SENTENCES --- --- In her fuzzy blue dressing gown, Ruth Fortescue stood at the hall archway looking into the living room. She was not a nervous woman, her gaze did not dart about restlessly, itemizing; rather she confronted the room with a blank, comprehensive stare, waiting for her attention to be caught by some cushion inadequately plumped up or an ashtray despoiled by a thoughtless masculine cigarette stub.…

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

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Clearly not many hardcover first editions (not even stated "Second Impressions" like this one) of this first mystery by Kauffmann -- which won the 1956 Edgar Allan Poe Award for best mystery by a new writer -- were ever printed. Then we have the added problem of the Online bulk sellers (you know their names) who drive us crazy by consistently listing paperback reprints of this book (as well as similar reprints of the 1957 Edgar winner, Donald Douglass' "Rebecca's Pride") as "hardcover firsts." Taken together, these factors help explain why this volume -- an ex-library hardcover copy stamped to all page edges by The Free Library of Philadelphia, with manila card-holder glued to FRE, and not an expensive or impressive piece of book-making in the first place -- commands a substantial price. There are also removal marks to both pastedowns -- possibly where the (now missing) dust jacket was once glued down. (NO dust jacket present.) Franklin Lane Kauffmann (1922-1988), the grandson of Franklin K. Lane, a Secretary of the Interior under Woodrow Wilson, graduated from Choate and attended Princeton. He wrote under the pen name Lane Kauffmann and published nine books, eight of them novels. In addition to the 1964 best seller ''An Honorable Estate,'' his works included ''Another Helen,'' published in 1968, and ''A Lesser Lion,'' which was adapted for the stage. Edgar-winning mystery. 211 pp. Reduced from $90.…

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. First Avon Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Good. First Avon Printing. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. This paperback is in god shape for its age. It has some wear and all. All int act. There is minor wear to the book and some spine creases. We have cheap media mail rates. We ship daily and we ship on saturdays. We even drop ship.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Please see any and all photos connected with this listing. The dustjacket is a bit scuffed but all pages intact and legible. Clean. No store stamps. --- --- HERE'S THE FIRST FEW SENTENCES --- --- In her fuzzy blue dressing gown, Ruth Fortescue stood at the hall archway looking into the living room. She was not a nervous woman, her gaze did not dart about restlessly, itemizing; rather she confronted the room with a blank, comprehensive stare, waiting for her attention to be caught by some cushion inadequately plumped up or an ashtray despoiled by a thoughtless masculine cigarette stub. . . .…

Hardcover. Condition: Used - Acceptable. No Jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: NF/F. Dust Jacket Condition: NF. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). A NF/F copy in a price-clipped NF dust jacket. Book.

Paperback. first PB. 64 very good +, hardboiled crime novel, paperback.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Please see any and all photos connected with this listing. A bit scuffed but all pages intact and legible. Good reading copy. Clean. Store Stamped. --- --- Meet the Marshalls. . .Nice people, the Marshalls. . . . . . . . . . . .pssst they're all lying. . .See photos for additional content. . .…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Unread book shows light shelfwear. Dustjacket ($4.95 price) has light edgewear and a one inch closed tear and a couple very short closed tears.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First edition. First Edition. A good book in a good dust jacket. Moderate wear to book. Tape on Dust jacket from being previously taped down. Y1C.

Hardcover. Book Club Edition. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; DJ is worn at edges. ; 410 pages.

Paperback. first edition. G-1243 very good- fine, reading crease paperback.

Hardcover. Book Club Edition. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; DJ is worn at edges. ; 410 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First UK Edition. 221pp. HARDCOVER Clean copy internally. No inscriptions. D/w is present & complete, but has edgewear top/bottom, marks & some dings. D/w will be improved where possible & supplied in protective sleeve. Will appear smart when work completed. Size: 8vo - over 73/4" - 93/4" tall. Book.…

Hardbound. Condition: Good/Good. 1st Edition. 8vo no stamps or names present. None (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Book Club Edition. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 410 pages; Book Club Edition. Book Tight. Dust Jacket shows wear of usage with chips and tears. Text is clean no markings seen.

paperback. Condition: Good. The dust jacket shows normal wear and tear. Hardcover Book, Good condition but not perfect, Cover has minor nicks and tears, spine shows some creases from use. Ask Questions and request photos if your buying for the cover and not the content. Items are uploaded with their own individual photo, but when Multiple Items are for sale only one representative photo may be shown. Actual Photos are availible upon request. Fast Shipping Monday Through Saturday! - Safe and Secure.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Wear commensurate with age and use. Clean unmarked copy. Tearing to jacket as shown in photographs. Light bumping visible to corners of boards and ends of spine strip. Light scuffing and smudging to boards and spine strip. Secure packaging for safe delivery.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. hardback, 8vo, 221pp, edges slightly browned, text clean and sound, no inscriptions, Very Good / Good dustwrapper; wrapper browned, edges rubbed and slightly frayed. ISBN: 0859400301.

12mo. Softcover. Condition: Very Good. 160p. Text is clean and unmarked. Wraps are bright and glossy with very little shelf wear. Slight bumping to the edges of the wraps. Spine and hinges are tight.

small corner crease, o/w VG.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Clearly not many hardcover first editions of this first mystery by Kauffmann -- which won the 1956 Edgar Allan Poe Award for best mystery by a new writer -- were ever printed. Then we have the added problem of the Online bulk sellers (you know their names) who drive us crazy by consistently listing paperback reprints of this book (as well as similar reprints of the 1957 winner, Donald Douglass' "Rebecca's Pride") as "hardcover firsts." Taken together, these factors help explain why this volume -- an ex-library hardcover copy stamped to all page edges by the Porter Library, Kansas State Teachers College, festooned with all the usual lending-library trappings, and not an expensive or impressive piece of book-making in the first place -- commands a moderately substantial price. Date due slip to RFE shows an extensive borrowing history from 1957 to 1997, "Withdrawn" stamp to blank FFE, and a bar code sticker to front board and white paper Dewey Decimal label to bottom of spine which in our opinion can NOT be easily removed without further defacing the book's appearance. NO dust jacket. Franklin Lane Kauffmann (1922-1988), the grandson of Franklin K. Lane, a Secretary of the Interior under Woodrow Wilson, graduated from Choate and attended Princeton. He wrote under the pen name Lane Kauffmann and published nine books, eight of them novels. In addition to the 1964 best seller ''An Honorable Estate,'' his works included ''Another Helen,'' published in 1968, and ''A Lesser Lion,'' which was adapted for the stage. This ex-library first edition here reduced from $120.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Covers rubbed and slightly soiled with a little loss to spine Due to age and/or environmental conditions, the pages of this book have darkened. Former library book. Ex-Libris and is stamped as such. Foxing is present on one or more pages. Dampness has seeped into more than just the cover. Moderate shelf wear. Noticable fading due to exposure to sunlight. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Ex-Library.…