Show Off by Wolff William Almon (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Binding a bit age-dulled. Light wear to the binding. No distortion from improper shelving. Pages are tight and clean. Name in ink inside the front cover. No odor. No water damage. No soiling. no sun fading. No dust jacket.

Hard Bound. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Hard Bound. No Jacket. Fiction. 4t. Grosset and Dunlap,NY. 1924. Looks like first ed. Good+/NJ. Blue cloth hardbound with orange print. Shows some edge and spine wear, light fading. Front end paper has a few pencil marks. Front is begining to loosen, rest is still tight.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good dust. Book is sharp and clean. The dustjacket is attractive and clean, but has a 1/2" piece missing at top and bottom of its spine, also some corner wear & two small closed tears. ; Small 8vo; 308 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Thus. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1924. First Thus. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover book in original dust jacket designed by Charles Buckles Falls. A novel by William Almon Wolff based on the play by George Kelly. Clean blue cloth boards with red lettering on cover and spine. Hint of surface wear and slight fading at top edge of spine, no tears or fraying. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages are clean, slight dust speckling to page edges; neatly penned previous owner inscription dated Dec. 25th, 1926 on front free endpaper. 308 pages + 8 pages of publisher's advertising at rear of book. Clean illustrated dust jacket has shallow chipping at top and bottom spine edges, small corner chip, one 1/2" closed edge tear. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover.

First Edition. Adapted from George Kelly's very popular theatrical play of the same title which served as the basis for the 1934 Spencer Tracy film. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket, few nicks at spine ends, mild wear, few inch closed tear to top front and rear panel.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. A small stain at the bottom of the front board, else near fine in a nice, very good dustwrapper with small chips on the front panel. A novelization of a wildly successful Broadway comedy that made George Kelly the most talked-of playwright on Broadway (a few decades later his niece, Grace Kelly, would reign first in Hollywood and then in Monaco). It was the basis for three films: a 1926 Malcolm St. Clair version featuring Louise Brooks and Ford Sterling; a 1934 Charles Resiner version re-scripted by Herman J. Mankiewicz and featuring Spencer Tracy; and finally a 1946 Harry Beaumont version with Red Skelton and Marilyn Maxwell. Scarce in jacket.

First Edition. Charles Buckles Falls dustjacket art. Based on the play by George Kelly. "Aubrey Piper was a clerk in a railroad office, earning thirty-two dollars a week, but to hear him talk you'd have thought he was head of the freight department. He wore white vests and patent-leather shoes, wing collars and bow ties, and a flower in his button-hole, and strutted, and frequently looked in the mirror. He believed the only way for a fellow to get along was to try to make an impression." A very successful Broadway comedy that made George Kelly's career. Basis for three films; a 1926 adaptation featuring Louise Brooks and Ford Sterling; a 1934 Charles Reisner directed feature re-scripted by Herman J. Mankiewicz and featuring Spencer Tracy; and a 1946 Harry Beaumont directed film with Red Skelton and Marilyn Maxwell. Very uncommon as a true first edition, and not the more oft found Grosset and Dunlap printing. Near Fine but for contemporary owner's address stamp at front pastedown, in Very Good dustjacket, chipped at spine ends and flap corners, foxing and soiling to panels.