Prickly Pear by Pine Hester (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition. No dust jacket. A few small nicks/marks on cover. Slight spine lean. A little soiling on panels; light marks on front end page. A couple nicks/wrinkles. Very Good + condition.

Hardcover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. First Edition. CLEAN, UNMARKED COPY.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 323 pages; Description: 323 p. ; 21 cm. Subjects: Pine, Hester. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 323 pages; Description: 323 p. ; 21 cm. Subjects: Pine, Hester. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Very Good+ dj. First Edition. [nice clean copy with light wear at extremities; jacket has one short closed tear at top of front panel, minor wear at spine ends]. Who the hell was this Hester Pine, anyway? She published three novels in quick succession in 1939-1940 (this was the third), added one more (with the strangely apt title "The Waltz is Over") in 1943, then poof! The jacket blurb on her first book claimed that she'd already been a ballerina, an actress, a foreign correspondent, a doctor's receptionist, a Sunday School teacher, a photographer's model, and a choir singer, and that she was "still married to her original husband," but I've been unable to independently confirm any of that. In this book, at least, she seems to be trawling the same literary waters as the great Dawn Powell: it's about a high-powered but mismatched N.Y. couple (he, the editor of a highbrow literary magazine; she, a successful and hard-driving interior designer) who split up. Everything seems all amicable and oh-so-sophisticated, until hubby falls in love with a woman his wife doesn't approve of, whereupon she goes all psycho on him and refuses to give him a divorce. Were there ever any people like this, I mean really.…