Corner Store by Albert Idell (11 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book Club Edition. Bump to one corner, light shelf wear. Jacket shows edgewear, minor soiling. Clean and unmarked. A novel of days gone by and the nearly extinct neighborhood market.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Book club edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Hardcover Book in Good Condition. A nice 1953 volume, clean, unmarked, solid, light corner wear, in tan full cloth with red titles. Rough cut. Pages quite clean, no markings. Gently used book. The 1930s in Philadelphia on the corner of Camac and McClellan finds you at the corner store, with Chester Jones as the father confessor for the neighborhood. It is a gathering place for the neighbors as well as the 6 Joneses, an institution--one like that found in many neighborhoods in the 1930s. Life was exciting, full of adventure, romance, crime, births, deaths, marriages, elopements--told with humor and honesty of the problems and triumphs of ordinary people. A gem. 287 pages. 8.5 x 5.6 inches. Doubleday, New York, 1953.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. mediuim tan textured cover with brown smudge near the center and minor scuffing to upper corner, upper page edges are red, spine has red lettering with title, author and publisher, back cover blank, pages clean and tight, large brown spots on the end pages only.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. mediuim tan textured cover with brown smudge near the center and minor scuffing to upper corner, upper page edges are red, spine has red lettering with title, author and publisher, back cover blank, pages clean and tight, large brown spots on the end pages only.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Robert Doares (JACKET) (illustrator). Book Club Edition. Novel about a cross section of American life intermingling at the corner store. With owner's signature, otherwise a fine book under a striking dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. Book Club (BCE). Light tan hardcover bindiing clean square and tight. Interior clean but foxed and slight crack in hinge at first page of first chapter. DJ has shelfwear with chips and rubbing along edges, but displays nicely in clean Brodart jacket. A compelling novel of family life and of a corner store. 287 pages. Includes an insert advertising the Doubleday Dollar Book Club - pages there are yellowed from that. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Missing dust jacket. Acceptable Condition. Five star seller - Buy with confidence!

Condition: Very Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDVery good copy with clean pages and dust jacket. Book club edition. 8vo. Published in Garden City, 1953. 287 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Book Club Edition in V.g. condition.