Len zinberg (33 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. by Len [Leonard] S. Zinberg. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1947. First edition, first printing. "First edition" statement to the copyright page, 1947 to the title page. A tough and tender, well-depicted novel of Hollywood by the author best known for the pseudonymous Touissant Moore mystery series which he wrote as Ed Lacy. Zinberg won an Edgar Award for ROOM TO SWING in 1957. Minor creasing to the spine, some light soils to the covers, bookstore rubber stamp to the lower corner of the inside front cover, else very good plus in cream linen with green titles and humorous vignette illustration to the spine; lacking a dust jacket.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. #201. Paperback. 188pp + 4pp ads. Cv by Ann Cantor. VG-VG+. Light-mod. spine edge dampstaining and small fore-crnr crease detract lightly. Leaves light-mod. edge browned and a couple inner leaves wi/small/closed edge tears. Bright; sq; little read. No marks.…

Paperback. Reprints Avon 201. T-093, very good , rear scrape (HOLLYWOOD NOVEL), paperback.

Paperback. Zustand: Acceptable. 1st printing. Cover: Robert Maguire. Light wear, tanning. Signitures uneven but binding tight. Text clean, unmarked.

Paperback. first PB. 201, good - very good, creases (HOLLYWOOD NOVEL), paperback.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. 3rd Avon printing. Light creases to the spine. Short vertical crease to the front cover. Slight wear to the edges.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. SOFT COVER IN VERY GOOD-PLUS CONDITION,BERKLEY EDITION MARCH 1959.

Paperback. first PB. 201, very good , creases (HOLLYWOOD NOVEL), paperback.

Paperback. first PB thus. G-225, very good -fine, , reading crease (Hardboiled Hollywood Novel), paperback.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. first PB. 201, very good -fine, reading crease (HOLLYWOOD NOVEL), paperback.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. First Edition. Light wear; pages yellowed; a good solid book. The jacket is chipped, torn and stained. Cover says "A tough and tender novel of Hollywood", title page says "A 20th Century-Fox Literary Fellowship Novel." Illustrator: . Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Inventory No: 201717. …

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. Paperback. Avon Books #201. Romance/sleaze novel. Very good condition. Minor edge-wear on front and back covers. Small crease on upper right corner of front cover. Faint stain on top edge of front cover. Small crease on middle-right edge of front cover. Minor edge-wear on spine. Multiple creases down spine. Two creases on upper left corner of back cover. Creases on lower left corner of back cover. Staining on bottom-edge of back cover. Sticker residue on upper left corner of inside front cover. Yellowing on spine-edge on inside front and back covers.…

Paperback #T 93 CONDITION: vg.

Paperback. Reprints Avon 201. T-093, near fine, unread (HOLLYWOOD NOVEL), paperback.

Hardcover. Jacket. First Edition (stated). Near fine in very good minus, price-clipped dust jacket, with small chips to slightly stained spine.

Wraps. Zustand: Good to Very Good-. Vol. 112, No. 1. Pulp magazine. Edited by Kenneth S. White. Cover art by Rafael DeSoto. Includes "Guerilla Furlough" (novelette) by E. Hoffman Price; "The Secret of St. Lucie" (novelette) by William Du Bois; "The Army Way' by Norman Rose & Len Zinberg; "Tire Trouble" by Keith Edgar; "Not for Glory" by Jonathan Fettes; "Private Dynamite" by Ray Millholland; "Next to Nothing" by L. L. Foreman; "To Be Continued" by William Arthur Breyfogle; "Captains Don't Cry" (pr. 4 of 5) by Edmund Gilligan; "Old Ironsides" (Fact Story) by 'Rufiji' Barker. Departments: "The Camp-Fire"; "Ask Adventure"; "Ask Adventure Experts"; "Lost Trails"; "The Trail Ahead." Illustrated by Frank Kramer, James Schucker, Paul Stahr, J. Campbell Farren, Charles Dye, Harve Stein, Nick Eggenhofer, John Meola, and Gordon Grant. Lean; creasing; standard wear and tear at edges with small losses, more to rear foredge; staple pokes to front; tanning. Magazine.…

Zustand: New.

Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. 1st Ed. Near Fine in pictorial wraps with black lettering & cover art by Ann Cantor picturing a guy kissing the cheek of a brunette babe on a balcony. Novel about the movie colony set & a silver screen star with two personalities--one hot & one cold. Fiction, Novel, Vintage Paperback. …

112 pages plus covers. Paperback; H 23.25cm x L 17.5cm. Yellow paper covers soiled, shallow chipping at spine ends. Text block edges toned. Moderate toning to pages 9 and 104; interior pages otherwise remain fairly clean. Binding is firm. A good copy. Features contributions: "A Passenger to Bali" by Ellis St. Joseph, "That Dangerous Young Man" by Samuel Rogers, "My Mother's Uncle Hal" by William Polk, "Little Boy Lives In a Mining Camp" by Ernestine Magagna, "When We Were Young" by Thomas Bell, "A Leaner" by Len Zinberg, "The Intrigue of Mr. S. Yamamoto" by R.H. Linn, and "Father Patko" by Jerome Bahr, etc.…

Wraps. Zustand: Very Good-. Vol. 112, No. 1. Pulp magazine. Edited by Kenneth S. White. Cover art by Rafael DeSoto. Includes "Guerilla Furlough" (novelette) by E. Hoffman Price; "The Secret of St. Lucie" (novelette) by William Du Bois; "The Army Way' by Norman Rose & Len Zinberg; "Tire Trouble" by Keith Edgar; "Not for Glory" by Jonathan Fettes; "Private Dynamite" by Ray Millholland; "Next to Nothing" by L. L. Foreman; "To Be Continued" by William Arthur Breyfogle; "Captains Don't Cry" (pr. 4 of 5) by Edmund Gilligan; "Old Ironsides" (Fact Story) by 'Rufiji' Barker. Departments: "The Camp-Fire"; "Ask Adventure"; "Ask Adventure Experts"; "Lost Trails"; "The Trail Ahead." Illustrated by Frank Kramer, James Schucker, Paul Stahr, J. Campbell Farren, Charles Dye, Harve Stein, Nick Eggenhofer, John Meola, and Gordon Grant. Creasing; stress wrinkling and tears. Magazine.…

SingleIssueMagazine. Zustand: Very Good-. Vol. XXIX, no. 1. Pulp magazine. Cover art is uncredited for "The Dangerous Corpse" (novel) by G. Wayman Jones. Includes "Murder Stalks the Big Top" (novelet) by H. C. Butler; "The Unarmed Super" by Len Zinberg; "The Purse" by Harold Helfer; "A Little Psychology" by Arnold Grant; "See You at the Morgue" by Russell Branch. Features: "The Crime Quiz"; "Six-Legged Lawbreaker" by Carter Critz; "The Reader Wites"; "Murder by Experts" (A Guide); "What's Your Alibi?". Illustrated by A.S. and others. Staple tears; creasing; rear cover a little soiled; faint dealer's marks on front. Book.…

Zustand: Good. Lion Books 1950 light creasing to wraps. spine slightlly cocked. previous owner inscription in pencil to ffep. pages browned.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION in dust jacket. The book is almost fine. The unclipped dust jacket has some minor paper loss at the spine ends and at the flyleaf folds, with some tape repairs on the verso. A director wants to make 'artistic' films and in the process revives the career of a once famous actress. '. . . honestly portrays the little people of Hollywood.' See and Brooker.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Very Good dj. First Edition. [nice copy with light shelfwear only, a touch of dust-soiling to top of text block; the jacket is a little edgeworn, with some crinkling at the base of the spine and shallow paper loss at the top of the spine (no effect on spine text)]. Hard-boiled novel about a corrupt ex-cop who's working as the house dick at a small NYC hotel, but brought back into action when his ex-stepson comes to him with a problem related to his own ambitions for a career in law enforcement. "Ed Lacy" was the better-known of two pseudonyms (the other was "Steve April") used by Zinberg, whose early fiction (much of which appeared in leftish publications) reflected his liberal/Jewish intellectual background and revealed his concerns with social justice, particularly with regard to racial issues. (Although white, he was a longtime resident of Harlem and was married to an African-American woman.) He adopted the Lacy pseudonym, primarily for his detective genre fiction, in the early 1950s -- in part, it seems, to achieve a McCarthy-era distance from his left-wing political associations -- and became so well-known under that name that even his Wikipedia entry uses it. He turned out nearly thirty novels as Ed Lacy (as opposed to a mere three as Zinberg), the majority of them paperback originals; today, alas, most of his work is out of print. Illustrated by (dj design) Bill Hughes (illustrator). …

Softcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition Thus. First Lion Books printing, mass market paperback with purple edge treatment, has a skew with a shallow roll to the binding, bumps to the spine ends, creasing to the spine and covers, and strong fading to sections of the edge treatment with small spots of soiling to the edges of the text block. Otherwise, this is a solid, Good copy.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. 278 Pp. Beige Cloth. First Edition Stated. Near Fine, No Marks. Dust Jacket With Price $2.50, Wear, Fading To Edges Of Front And Rear Panels, Small Chips And Tears At Edges With No Loss Of Lettering.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. (lacking the original dust jacket, but encased in a nice-looking facsimile reproduction of same; see 2nd image posted with this listing) [solid but shelfworn copy, slight bumping and minor fraying at most corners (fraying most prounounced at top of spine), age-toning to edges of text block, tiny white spot on front cover, slight pucker in cloth in middle of rear cover, one-time owner's name at top of front endpaper]. Hardboiled novel about an African-American prizefighter who "wanted very little -- a better place to live in than the Harlem dump he was born in and freedom for himself and his girl from the burden of Jim Crow discrimination," but (of course) had to contend with the usual venality and corruption of the boxing racket. The first novel by Zinberg, who had already established himself as a notable writer of short stories and had even ventured west to Hollywood for a brief stint as a screenwriter, at least according to the jacket blurb. (He left no credit trail behind him, but he gathered enough material for a punchy Hollywood novel with a great title, "What D'ya Know for Sure," published in 1947.) His early fiction, much of it appearing in leftish publications, reflected his liberal/Jewish intellectual background and revealed his concerns with social justice, particularly with regard to racial issues. But it wasn't just his writing that gained him street cred in the black community: he was a longtime resident of Harlem himself, and was married to an African-American woman, to boot. He was also, for a time, a member of the Communist Party, which fact was probably not entirely unrelated to the glowing review "Walk Hard--Talk Loud" received in The New Masses -- by none other than Ralph Ellison, who praised him as a writer "whose approach to Negro life is uncolored by condescension, stereotyped ideas, and other faults growing out of race prejudice." Zinberg was a prolific writer of detective genre fiction as well, mostly under the pseudonym "Ed Lacy," which he adopted in the early 1950s -- in part, it seems, to achieve a McCarthy-era distance from his left-wing political associations. Ironically, it was as Ed Lacy that he became much better known (even his main-entry Wikipedia page is under that name), turning out nearly thirty novels under the pseudonym (as opposed to a mere three as Zinberg), the majority of them paperback originals. The Lacy books included the 1958 Edgar Award-winning "Room to Swing," which featured Toussaint Moore, described by one latter-day critic as "the first credible African-American PI." And lest there be any doubt that he was still a Zinberg in Lacy clothing, the same critic also remarked on his "literate, plausible, and often inventive use of African-American and minority characters." Today, alas, much of his work under both names is out of print. …

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing of this collection of short stories. Featured are Teamed with Genius by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Little Miss Whisk by Hannibal Towle, A Triumph in Theory by Charles Rawlings, The Flatfooted Angel by Len Zinberg, One Quiet Afternoon by Ernest Redmond Buckler, An Affair in Tahiti by Donald Barr Chidsey, The Birthday Party by Roderick Lull. The Fitzgerald story is "Pat Hobby" number 4. A collection of Petty women from 1933 to 1939 called A E. Simms Campbell black and white fold out on pg. 45. A Petty Portion of Memorable Cartoons starting on pg. 59. A 3-inch closed-tear to the front corner of the spine. Corner crease to the front cover. in good condition.…

Pictorial wrappers. First Edition. The Avon Monthly Novel No. 6. First Avon edition. Revised and edited. Photo cover. Very good.; Octavo.