Oursler Grace Perkins (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Piece(s) of the spine missing. Due to age and/or environmental conditions, the pages of this book have darkened. Dampness has seeped into more than just the cover. Moderate edgewear on the boards. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition; Fifth Printing. Light tone, otherwise light wear; Dust Jacket only rear panel and flap with edge chipping and tone. Solid hardcover.; "For every ex-wife and ex-husband there's a third party, the often unknown quantity in the eternal triangle. HERE SHE IS! In an open, bare, literal, downright undiguised revelation of self. You may think that she is bad, but you will know why so many loved her, and above all, why one man not only loved her too well but wisely. . just a sweet American girl trying to get along." Grace Perkins Oursler wrote many pot-boilers, until she and her husband Charles Fulton Oursler [Greatest Story Ever Told] found Christianity, became devout Catholics, and eventually she was the first executive editor of Guideposts.; 365 pages.…

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

Condition: Good. 1952. Hardcover. Fine copy. Good to very good, clean condition. Minor shelf wear on dust jacket and page edges. Pages yellowed. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Condition: Good. 1952. Hardcover. Fine copy. Good to very good, clean condition. Minor shelf wear on dust jacket and page edges. Pages yellowed. . . . .

Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. A tan to the page edges/pages. Light foxing/Spotting to the page edges/pages. Minor wear. No Dust Jacket. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. (patterned cloth; no dust jacket) [nice copy, slight fading to spine cloth, a couple of tiny stains on front cover; M-G-M Script Dept. label on front endpaper, also stamped "Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Library, Culver City"] One of this many "scandalous" novels by this author, who also wrote as Grace Perkins and Grace Perkins Oursler (her married name; her husband was Fulton Oursler, author of "The Greatest Story Ever Told"). At this stage of her career, she was just about the perfect "pre-Code" writer, with several of her books having served as the basis for some of the racier movies of the day -- notably MY PAST (1931, based on her anonymously-penned "Ex-Mistress") and NIGHT NURSE (1931, from her novel of the same name). This one starts with a terrific 8-page "Preamble" -- "which may be read at the start or the finish or completely ignored" -- which decries the looseness of women in modern society. ("Prostitutes and actresses set the style. Not that the two groups can be mentioned in the same breath except as one would say that pickles and cucumbers are both good side dishes.") Although not marked as such, this copy is from the personal library of MGM writer/producer Carey Wilson, who I guess took it home from the Script Department and just ignored the "Please Return" label. …