Peckham Ted (19 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. Former library book. The hinges have been meanded preserving the original covers and spine. Moderate edgewear on the boards. Binding is very loose. Some pages are falling out. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Ex-Library.

Condition: New.

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Gentlemen for Rent. Book.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Il Cammeo. Volume cartonato rigido di pagine 269, sovraccoperta figurata, un po' ingiallito. La storia vera di un servizio di accompagnatori che "consolava" signore tristi e sole (dalla fascetta editoriale). Opera in buone/ottime condizioni. Spedizione entro 24 ore dalla conferma dell'ordine. Book.

copertina morbida. Condition: buone.

rilegato. Condition: Poor. Legatura editoriale. Copertina in cartoncino uso tela,con lievi segni d'usura.Sovraccoperta con alette,brunita,sporca lievemente,con segni d'usura. Paginazione brunita.Interno in ottime condizioni. 269 Mediocre (Poor) . Book.

Paperback. Condition: Used: Very Good. Libro proveniente da collezione privata. Pagine ingiallite. La copertina riporta usuali segni del tempo. Copertina rigida, collana " Il cammeo" Consegna 24/48 ore 63 o1.

Condition: DISCRETO USATO. Il cammeo ITALIANO Volume "110" della collana "il cammeo". Sovraccoperta illustrata ed ingiallita dal tempo con abrasioni ai margini ed al dorso e leggere macchioline marroni ai piatti. Coperta rigida marrone in buono stato di conservazione. Pagine naturalemtne ingiallite dal tempo in particolare ai tagli. Traduzione del testo di Diamante Cornaggia Capponi. Numero pagine 269.

Condition: BUONO USATO. Il Cammeo ITALIANO Volume 110 della collezione Il Cammeo con la traduzione di Diamante Cornaggia Capponi. Volume rilegato con sovraccoperta originale in carta opaca illustrata, appena ingiallita. Le pagine all'interno ambrate, il dorso e la legatura stabili. Numero pagine 268.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 285Pp. Yellow Cloth Stamped In Grey And Maroon. First Edition (No Additional Printing Indicated). Inscribed "To Anita Loos, The Girl I Love Best. When Can We Get Married? Consider This A Serious Proposal. Ted Peckham". With The Color Bookplate Of Loos Depicting A Young Woman In A 20'S Style Hat, And With Small Red Stamp "From The Estate Of Anita Loos". Book Clean And Complete, But Worn At Corners With Light Fraying, Hinges Tight. Dust Jacket Priced $3.50, Light Wear, No Fading, Minute Losses At Corners. From The Cornell Daily Sun, 1936: Having Taken New York's Fairer Sex Practically By Storm With His Guide Escort Service, 22-Year-Old Ted Peckham Looked For Other Worlds To Conquer. After Less Than A Year In What He Emphasized Was Not A Gigolo Business, The Angular, Blonde Youth Who Came Out Of Cleveland To Seek His Fortune Is Planning To Expand The Escort Service Across The Seas. "I Hope To Open A Branch Office Ln London Soon," Ho Said. "There Is A Great Field Over There. A Woman Tourist Would Much Rather Go About With An American Boy If She Knows He Is Responsible And Respectable. Anyway, I Understand There Are Seven Women To Every Man In England." In New York, He Said His Business Had Boomed So Rapidly That He Now Has 134 College Men, All Listed In The Social Register, On Call. When He Started He Had Only 14, And They Were Not All In The Blue Book. "We're Getting Snootier All The Time," He Said. "We Are Turning Down More And More People Every Day. "When A Girl From Out Of Town Calls Up And Asks For An Escort I Make It A Point To Find Out Who She Is, Where She's From, And How Much Money She Wants To Spend Before I Go Any Further.". Inscribed by Author(s).

1st Printing. 8vo. 285pp. From the library of Deryck Calderwood with his name stamp on the ffep and top and bottom of the text block. Hardcover in dust jacket. Light shelfwear; some shallow chipping to the spine and corners of the dusta jacket. Very Good.

Leatherbound. Condition: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 232. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1954 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 232.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good -. 1st Edition. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Plus. First Edition. RARE juicy and amusing biography of the operator of a male escort service in the 1930s, with branches in New York, Hollywood and Europe. With one new endpaper, else about fine, covered in the very rare color mended jacket with $3.50 price. Basically crisp and internally clean and looks terrific.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. PECKHAM, Ted [126] pp. E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc. 1940 First Edition 8 3/8" x 5 7/8" Illustrated by Pelagie Doane Ted Peckham, the proprietor of an escort service, was good copy in the café society era. A Midwestern boy whose family was impoverished by the Depression, he relocated to Manhattan in search of a better life and found it by delivering a better evening to lonely women. This book is a collection of the amusing and outrageous letters he received from both men hoping to work for him and women wanting to hire such men. "Please supply an escort service man about forty with jodhpurs, flannels, and mess jacket for one weekend . . . He must be able to dance and drink and play bridgeI will pay his Bridge losses but he must give me his gains.".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. PECKHAM, Ted [285] pp. Frederick Fell, Inc 1955 8 1/4" x 6" They were all "eligible" young men and were available for lonely ladies above ages on a strictly pay-as-you-go basis. after midnight, of course, there was a charge for overtime.