Melvin Levy (43 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Stated First Edition. Good clean tight copy. Shelf wear. Tanning along fore edges and pages. Bumping along edges and tips of boards. Rubbing and fading to boards. Spine creases. Ex-Air Force Base library copy with associated stamps, stickers and markings.…

Condition: good. A copy that has been read, remains in good condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine and cover show signs of wear. Pages can include notes and highlighting and show signs of wear, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped with delivery confirmation, if you're not satisfied with purchase please return item! Ships via media mail.…

hardcover. Condition: Good. inscribed by author on cover page, includes thank you note from author Torn/worn dj. Good hardcover with some shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Standard-sized.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 188 Pp. Maroon Cloth, Gilt. Lightly Used, Gilt Intact And Rather Bright But Not Brilliant, Hinges Tight, No Fraying But Close To It At Corners, No Names Or Marks, Aging To Pages With Some Foxing To Endpapers.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Volume II only. Octavo. Condition: ex-library copy with library markings and pocket; minimal wear - overall, good plus in good DJ. Pages: xxv, 750.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Volume I only. Octavo. Condition: ex-library with library markings & pocket; minimal wear; overall, good plus in good DJ. Pages: xlii, 610.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.

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

Hard cover. Condition: Very good in poor dust jacket. No previous owner's name clean, tight pages No bent corners dj has large tear on binding 5" eb 41.

Vintage studio still photograph from the 1943 film, seen here under the alternate title "Hitler's Hangman." With manuscript pencil annotations on the verso. A dramatization of the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, a Nazi SS commander, by members of the Czech resistance, which resulted in the decimation of the village of Lidice by the Nazis as revenge. Set in Czechoslovakia. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine.…

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.

Condition: Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. Volume 1. (US history, law, legal, supreme court) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Condition: Fair. First edition copy. . Book Good. No dust jacket. (Polish Jews, Radicalism, Fiction).

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Near fine in very good+ price-clipped dust jacket with wear at head and foot of spine and wrinkling. Nice copy of this play wherein a San Francisco waterfront roustabout ultimately becames a ruthless shipping magnate. Levy had quit the Communist Party earlier because he felt their ideological positions would restrain plot development in his work. See Himmelstein, Drama Was a Weapon for more on this play and other work by the Group Theatre. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 188 pp.…

Hardcover. 188p., first edition, very good condition in an unclipped, edge worn dj with some staining along the spine and a few closed tears. Radical play set in the San Francisco waterfront from 1860 to 1906. "One Marxist critic, Stanley Burnshaw, stated that this play told the unadorned truth about the corrupt business practices in the nineteenth century that culminated in America's economic crisis in the mid-thirties." - Sam Smiley, THE DRAMA OF ATTACK, DIDACTIC PLAYS OF THE AMERICAN DEPRESSION. Columbia, 1972. p. 50.…

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Brown covers w/black title plate, gilt gold lettering on spine. Minor shelf wear. In near fine dust jacket w/one small tear to back edge. In mylar protector. 750 pgs., including index.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Publisher's black cloth. The stamped lettering on the spine has faded. Worn at extremities. Binding shaken. Ex-rental library with rubber stamps on endpapers (but no other library marks) and otherwise internally clean. 197 pages. Scarce. A scarce title by Melvin P. Levy (1902-1980), novelist, writer, and Hollywood screenwriter, known for his radical politics. The son of Russian immigrants, he received his masters degree in English from the University of Washington in 1924. His first novel, Matrix, was published by Thomas Seltzer in 1925 and was characterized by a critique of middle class conventions, social mechanization, and the restraints placed on youth. He relocated to New York and in 1926 presented a lecture at the Bronx Free Fellowship entitled ''Capitalism and the Artist.'' In September 1927, his New York office was attacked and 400 copies of Wedding were either damaged or destroyed (likely why this is such a rare copy). The attack was presumed to have been inspired by the charge that his book ''profaned Jesus.'' In 1931, he was indicted alongside Theodore Dreiser and John Dos Passos for criminal syndicalism while investigating the working conditions of coal miners in Kentucky. After publishing four novels and a play, he went to work in Hollywood as a screenwriter. As revealed in his 1952, McCarthy-era interview before the House Un-American Activities Committee, he had been a member of the Communist Party in 1933 and in 1944 became affiliated with the Communist Political Association. By 1952 he had written many movie screenplays, including Hitler's Madman (1943), which starred John Carradine as Reinhard Heydrich. Levy was also the author of the novels Lafayette Carter and The Last Pioneer as well as the play Gold Eagle Guy. At one point, he worked on a biography of the labor leader Thomas Mooney, at the request of publisher Harcourt, but the project was never completed.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Good dj. First Edition. [moderate wear to extremities, very slight fraying to lower corners, some discoloration to endpapers, vintage bookseller's label at bottom corner of front pastedown (Franklin Bookshop, Baltimore), small tears/dents in fore-edges of the first few pages; the jacket is edgeworn, with a 2" wide chip at the bottom of the front panel, a couple of other tiny chips and various other small nicks and tears]. The Group Theatre's previous production, "Men in White," had won the Pulitzer Prize; this play was less well received, running for just 65 performances between November 1934 and January 1935. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper: "To ______ with / affection + / nostalgia / Melvin Levy / 12/17/72." This play, set on the San Francisco waterfront between 1860 and 1906, is about "Guy Button, who begins life as a roistering sailor, and fights his way ruthlessly to fortune and power." It was the 1935 offering in New York of The Group Theatre, with J. Edward Bromberg in the leading role; the opening-night cast also included Roman Bohnen, Clifford Odets, Morris Carnovsky, Sanford Meisner, Luther Adler, Art Smith, Elia Kazan, Jules (later John) Garfield, Russell Collins, and Paula Miller (later Paula Strasberg). (Although not noted anywhere in this book, the production's director was Lee Strasberg.) The final scene takes place during the San Francisco Earthquake. Signed by Author.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Corners a little bumped, near fine in good, price-clipped dustwrapper with a soiled spine and some tears at the flap folds.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. G, 8vo, 348 pages, 1.25 pounds. Peach hardcover shows wear to covers with rubbing and light bumping to edges. Pages are tanned with water stains at fore edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Endpapers a little foxed, else near fine in very good dust jacket with dampstaining at the foot of the spine.

Hardcover. 368p., first edition, original orange cloth slightly frayed at head of spine, corners slightly bumped, part of front dj flap pasted down on front blank endpaper (rest of dj lacking). *Hanna 2149. Rideout novel. ".particularly concerned with the development of "Puget" (Seattle) from a wide-open lumber town through the years of the I.W.W. and World War I to the city of the Prosperity Decade and the 1929 Crash." *Rideout p. 195.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Slightly Frayed and Chipped. 1st Edition. INSCRIBED TO MAX LAMB ALSO A SCREENWRITER. DAVID STONE MARTIN (illustrator). INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR.

Three vintage studio still photographs from the 1944 film. Starring actress Baxter is featured in two stills. Two stills with "Silver Screen Archives" (New York) rubber-stamps on the verso. One image from the set is shown. Please inquire for others. Based on a story by Cheavens, source author of "Penny Serenade" (1941). Tessa (Baxter) leads an impoverished family holding a dinner for a soldier returning from war. They don't receive the soldier they expected, and the charming stranger Sgt. Eric (Hodiak) quickly involves himself. The film was reprised for radio by Lux Radio Theatre in 1945, with original starring actors performing. Shot on location in Florida. 8 x 10 inches, one slightly larger, two single-weight, glossy, and one double weight, matte. Very Good plus, faint discoloration to the matte still, small surface chips and brief creases to the glossy stills.…

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

First Edition. A Play set in San Francisco. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket with wear to rear spine edges.

dj. First Edition. Ocavo (21cm). Yellow cloth boards, lettered in blue on spine; dustjacket; 188pp. Bit of soil to text block edges, else a fine, straight copy in the original pictorial dustwrapper, creased and bruised with a closed tear on rear panel, otherwise unworn. Proletarian historical drama set on the San Francisco waterfront during the "Barbary Coast" era.…

Condition: Very good. First edition. "With brilliant characterizations, a rich collection of pungent anecdotes and a searching appraisal of the forces that molded American morals, manners and economics, "The Last Pioneers," is a memorable contribution to literature. The author, himself a native of the Pacific Northwest and a profound student of social problems." in worn and chipped price clipped dust jacket. Piece 1-1/2" deep missing along bottom edge of back panel. Some 1/2" deep chips at top of spine. Orange cloth stamped in black. Black top stain.…