Robert Wilder 1901 (5 results)

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. DETAILS: very good brown cloth, gold leaf image on front cover, covers lightly scuffed, some light foxing on top foredge, tear at top outer corner of page 145/146, offsetting on both endpapers of exact same dimensions perhaps due to glue from pastedown. previous owner's name in pencil on front endpaper: Kelleys. WILDER, ROBERT. Written on the wind : a novel. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1946, Third Impression, 338pp., . Basis of the Douglas Sirk film starring Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack (1956). The novel is described in Wikipedia as "a thinly disguised account of the real-life scandal involving torch singer Libby Holman and her husband, tobacco heir Zachary Smith Reynolds." The movie by the same name changed the location to Texas and the family wealth came from oil rather than tobacco.

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

Condition: Good. First edition copy. . Acceptable dust jacket. In protective mylar cover. Slightly dampstained. (literature, fiction).

Hardcover. Condition: Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. William Metzig (Jacket design) (illustrator). 1st Edition. This is the 1951 First Edition of "And Ride a Tiger" by novelist Robert Wilder. In his day Wilder was a very popular author, whose many books earned him a faithful readership. "Written on the Wind", "Flamingo Road", and "Wind From the Carolinas" are likely his best-known novels. He also wrote the screenplay for the movie "The Big Country" Here is an excerpt form the jacket blurb of "And Ride a Tiger" : "Every man must ride a tiger of his own fashioning. He is unable to stay on and afraid to get off. Pike Yarnell's beast was conceived on a remote island in the Philippines in the closing days of the Japanese war when he buried Donald Beasley, who had survived a plane crash and ridden out eight terrible days with him on a raft. The tiger was whelped there and eventually carried him to Lothan, Georgia. Yarnell discovered there was no far corner to which man may run when he tries to hide from himself ." TITLE : And Ride a Tiger AUTHOR : Robert Wilder (1901 - 1974) IMPRINT : G. P. Putnam's Sons PLACE : New York DATE : (1951) EDITION : First Edition SPECIAL ATTRIBUTES : Dust-jacket designed by William Metzig, graphic designer and artist (1893 - 1989) PHYSICAL DETAILS : Trade hardcover; 345 pages; approximately 5 1/2" x 8", black cloth-covered boards with lettering and decorative embellishment in blue on spine and front board. Rough trim fore-edge. Decorated dust-jacket printed in blue, shades of gray, white and yellow. Black-and-white photograph of Wilder on rear panel. CONDITION -- BOOK : VERY GOOD -- DUST-JACKET : GOOD PLUS -- This is a previously owned book which remains clean and attractive, with the following particulars noted : EXTERIOR - Compression to spine extremities and soft bumps to board corner tips, else clean with but mild surface rub; there is a barely perceptible dent to the fore-edge of the rear board - this extends across the fore-edge of the text-block which is just barely discernible. Text-block edges are lightly toned, else clean. BINDING - Solid INTERIOR - End-papers are lightly toned, else the interior is clean and free of marking or writing. No signatures. DUST-JACKET - The spine panel is faded. Edge wear includes small nicking and chipping, as well as slight crimping along bottom edge. A small tear exhibits at the head of the rear flap fold. Folds are modestly rubbed and surface rub is mild. The front flap still has the original publisher's price. the whole displays nicely under an archival mylar cover.