9780525155621 - Metropolitan Life by Fran Lebowitz (22 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Dust jacket missing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Binding is tight and structurally sound. Clean interior pages. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Third printing of the first edition as indicated by number line of the author's first book. Hardcover and dust jacket. The book has a small neat previous owner's name to front free endpage and no other markings, a clean tight copy, some age spotting to outer page edges. First state dust jacket is unclipped showing the original price of $8.50, no chips nor tears, just a touch of edgewear and a slight bit of fading to spine, much less than normally found. A sharp copy.

Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First edition, third printing. Dust jacket is sharp and bright, with a couple tiny spots to red background of titling. Spine sunned with a couple light stains. Flaps age-toned but intact. Orange paper-covered boards have light sunning/toning to edges with very light shelfwear. Black cloth backstrip is clean with faintest trace of shelfwear to head and tail of spine. Gilt spine titling sharp and bright. Interior subtly age-toned with a bit of glue discoloration at endpapers. Otherwise clean and tight.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Price NOT clipped, DJ nicely in archival wraps with moderate shelf wear and light soiling to the page edges. Third printing of the author's first book. Less common.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition.

Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First American Edition (Fourth Printing). As-new copy of the Fourth Printing of the First American edition is in an unclipped dust jacket. Virtually mint.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. ***Please Read*** one small tear on the dj - some light foxing on the edges - No marks on text - My shelf location 40-e-9.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Small bump to front bottom tip of hardboards, light sunning to spine of dustcover; Hardboards with very light wear, no markings, tight, very clean, 3 square tips, solid and straight, dustcover with very little wear; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 177 pages.

Condition: Good. 1978, eight printing. Text block firm and clean, binding unblemished, boards straight, no highlights or underlining. DJ is torn along lower front corner, otherwise clean and in wonderful condition. Well packaged and promptly shipped from California. Partnered with Friends of the Library since 2010.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Signed by Fran Lebowitz on the front free end page. 3rd printing. Hardbound in dust jacket. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Sixth Printing. A Good Read ships from Toronto and Niagara Falls, NY - customers outside of North America please allow two to three weeks for delivery. Sixth impression. Clipped d/j. Inscribed by author to previous owner on ffep. Inscription dated in 1978.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 177 pages; Signed by Author.

first edition thus, 1978. lebowitz's debut book tackles topics like social mores, fashion, and personal annoyances, offering satirical advice in essays like"vocational guidance for the truly ambitious." her humor is curmudgeonly and irreverent, with memorable takes on everything from children ("sticky even when freshly washed") to scientists ("terrible dinner companions"). new york: dutton. isbn: 0-525-15562-7. 8.5x5.45". 177 pages. hardcover. bound in partial-cloth covered boards. book condition: ownership markings, sunning to head of front panel. very good++. jacket condition: sunning to flaps, bumping and closed-tear to head of spine, ($8.50). near fine-.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($8.50), faded at the spine, faintly bumped at the edges. Quarter black cloth with orange paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, three pages with remnants of dog-earring, clean otherwise. The debut collection of essays from the noted culture critic.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1978. First edition. Third printing. Hardcover. Black cloth over red paper-covered boards with gilt spine lettering. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a few small closed tears and light fading to spine. A tight, clean copy. Octavo, 177 pages. SIGNED (name only) by the author on the front endpaper. A collection of sardonic essays and observations on New York life, manners, and modern absurdities, "Metropolitan Life" established Fran Lebowitz's reputation as a sharp, urbane wit in the tradition of Dorothy Parker. This was her debut book and remains her most iconic work, followed by the companion volume "Social Studies.". Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st Edition, 1st Printing. Hardcover w/ Dust Jacket. SIGNED & INSCRIBED to the previous owner by Fran Lebowitz on the front free end page. Binding is slightly cracked at the half title page but is holding well and is otherwise sound. Dust Jacket shows some sun-fading to its spine and light shelfwear to its edges. Some soiling to one text block edge. Interior pages are clean with no underlining or similar marks. Overall in very good condition. RARE! Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Dutton, New York, 1978. First edition. First printing, with full number line to 1. A fine copy in a fine jacket. A clean copy in a price-clipped jacket (not book club edition). Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. NOTE: Jacket has light fading on spine (as pictured). Very faint foxing on top edge. Some sticky residue on top corner of rear board. A beautiful copy of Lebowitz s debut. F1700A.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First printing with number line to 1. Signed by Fran Lebowitz at the title page. Black and red boards with gold spine titling, very good with light rubbing edgewear. Spine square. Binding sound. Dust jacket very good in Mylar with light edgewear, small slight scrape to lower margin of front panel, faint crease across front corner of spine head. Cover price $8.50 at front inner flap. Pages bright, text unmarked. Signed.

Hardcover. First Edition, Sixth Printing. pp. xi, 177. Small 8vo. Publisher's quarter black cloth over terracotta boards, gilt lettering to the spine. Two very faint spots to the front boards, else, near fine. Contents equally without blemish with bright, clean, and unmarked leaves and firm, sound binding; near fine and housed in original, unclipped, dustjacket (bearing original price of $8.50), now housed in protective mylar cover. A near fine later printing of Lebowtiz's first printed work.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Binding very slightly cocked, publisher's name on spine a bit rubbed, and endleaves with a tiny bit of offsetting and spotting, near fine in a modestly worn, very good or better dust jacket with a tiny bit of light interior dampstaining that barely shows through.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. 177pp. Crease on front fly, boards lightly rubbed, near fine in a near fine dust jacket with modest edgewear and a slightly sunned spine. Author's first book.