ISBN: 9780394409849 - slow days, fast company : the world, the flesh, and l.a. (12 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. First edition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Wear consistent with age and use. Clean unmarked copy. Bending and bowing to boards and page block. Light bumping visible to corners of boards and ends of spine strip. Light scuffing and smudging to boards and page block edges. Light chipping and tearing to jacket edges. Secure packaging for safe delivery.…

Zustand: Very Good. NY: Alfred A Knopf 1977. Stated 1st edition. Hardcover 8vo 178 pgs. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Top edge dyed plum color. Contents clean and binding sound. Jacket spine a bit toned. Laid in is a note to owner from Neal T Jones on Alfred A Knopf stationery. (California, Short Stories, Fiction) Inquire if you need further information. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. CLEAN, UNMARKED COPY.

178 p. Audience: General/trade. Very good in very good dust jacket. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket in mylar. Mild foxing to deckled textblock edge. Light wear to jacket. Unmarked.

Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition, First Printing [Stated]. A Very Good Book in a Very Good Dust Jacket, Unclipped ($7.95). Moderate rubbing, sunning, and dust soiling to extremities. Burgundy top stain to top edge remains vibrant, trace foxing to text block. Previous owner's name, date, and location to front pastedown, text is otherwise unmarked. Binding is tight and square. A few spots of glue squeeze-out from binding over-exuberance. Chris Blum designed dust jacket with a few bumps to extremities causing some small closed tears and chips. Scattered light dust soiling across, jacket panels. Hardcover. Octavo. [viii], [2], 3-178pp. Publisher's Quarter Off-White Cloth over Off-White Blind-Stamped Boards, Stamped Gilt Detailing. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. LOS ANGELES & THE ARTIST AS AN "IT GIRL" BABITZ, Eve. Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, The Flesh, and L.A. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977 First edition, first printing of the author's second and best book. This is a semi-autobiographical collection and a love letter to Los Angeles, Babitz's native city, home, and her artist's studio. Eve Babitz (1943-2021) was L.A.'s "It girl" of her era; her friends and lovers included Jim Morrison and Harrison Ford. She became an icon of art and sex in 1963, when she posed naked playing chess with Marcel Duchamp. The stylish dust jacket by Chris Blum depicts a soigné saluki dog sitting at a bar with a glass of wine filled by a mysterious mechanism. The photo of Eve Babitz on the rear cover is by Paul Ruscha, who is the unnamed man at the heart of this book. 'With Slow Days, Eve attained that American ideal: Art that stays loose, maintains its cool. Art so purely enjoyable as to be mistaken for simple entertainment. It's a tradition that includes F. Scott Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Fred Astaire, Andy Warhol and, of course, Marilyn Monroe.' (from Didion and Babitz by Lili Anolik) 178 pp. 8vo, qtr cloth, top corners slightly bumped, cloth and edges lightly spotted. Very good in very good dust jacket (price-clipped).…

Zustand: Fine in a fine jacket. First edition. First printing from the noted novelist and writer of these ten California "tales," considered by many her finest work. Babitz's second book (following EVE'S HOLLYWOOD), SLOW DAYS is her acclaimed melodramatic evocation of Los Angeles, a city of "movie stars distraught over their success, socialites on three-day drug binges holed up in the Chateau Marmont, soap-opera actors worried that tomorrow's script will kill them off, Italian femmes fatales even more fatal than Babitz" (NYRB). Increasingly uncommon in truly collectible condition. A beautiful copy. 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original quarter beige cloth over peach boards. In original unclipped ($7.50) pictorial jacket designed by Chris Blum. [10], 178, [4] pages. Barest hint of rubbing, shelfwear. Else remarkably bright and sharp.…

New York, Knopf, 1977. First edition. First printing. Fine in a fine jacket. A tight clean and crisp copy. Comes with archival-quality mylar jacket protector. Smoke-free. This is the best conditioned first edition of Babitz' second book (after EVE'S HOLLYWOODthat I could find on the internet. Banitz enjoyed a renaissance beginning in 2010 due in part to the reissuing of much of her work by the New York Review Books, Simon & Schuster and Counterpoint. 178 pages. First edition, first printing. Dust jacket art by Chris Blum. Her second book. 10 short stories about the LA arts & cultural scene in the 60's & 70's. Inscribed on the first sheet to Tom Nolan. Fine book in a fine dust jacket. A beautiful copy. Chris Blum (illustrator).…

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 178 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Spine light yellow with brown lettering. Dust jacket protected with mylar covering, price uncut: "$7.95". Slight adhesive residue to front flap of dust jacket. Minor foxing to boards and edges of text block. Small random house logo stamp on bottom edge of text block. Interior pages clean. Top edge of text block dyed maroon. Shelved Case 6. 1404106. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. 178 pages. First edition, first printing. Dust jacket art by Chris Blum. Her second book. 10 short stories about the LA arts & cultural scene in the 60's & 70's. Inscribed on the first sheet to Tom Nolan. Fine book in a fine dust jacket. A beautiful copy. Inscribed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. New York, Knopf, 1977. First edition. First printing. Fine in a fine jacket. A tight clean copy. The jacket is price clipped. Prior owner's neat bookplate on front pastedown. A bit of soiling to reverse side of jacket (about an inch-size stain, although it is not noticeable from the front). Not a book club edition, of course. Comes with archival-quality mylar jacket protector. Smoke-free. This is a beautiful copy of the first edition of Babitz' second book (after EVE'S HOLLYWOOD). Babitz enjoyed a renaissance beginning in 2010 due in part to the reissuing of much of her work by the New York Review Books, Simon & Schuster and Counterpoint Press.…

Zustand: VERY GOOD. First printing. Ten episodes in the life of a Los Angeles woman who proclaims, among other opinions, that Los Angeles is not a city, it is a giant studio. While "Tales" in the title seems to imply that they are short stories, most read as essays or opinion pieces. Regardless of whether these are factual or fiction, this book, Babitz's second, contains some of her best and most perceptive writing, with the long piece on "Bakersfield" standing out. Now very hard to find in the original hardcover first edition. 178 pp. Very good in a near fine dust jacket (foxing to the fore-edge and bottom edge of the textblock and to the cloth spine of the book, slight spine slant, original price of 7.95 on dj flap).…