Alan Kapelner (44 results)

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Condition: New. In English.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Light crease to the top corner of the cover and all the pages. Small water stain to the bottom corner of the pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Lonely Boy Blues by Alan Kapelner.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. New York: George Braziller, Inc., 1960. First edition, first printing. "First printing" statement to the copyright page, 1960 printed to the title page, and $4.00 printed to the jacket's flap. Two brothers are featured in this rich historical decade of the1930s, each trying to find his way, on the road and otherwise, through the depression and on the brink of war. From the author of the historical jazz mystery LONELY BOY BLUES. A nice well-preserved first edition. Lower spine end lightly bumped, else square, very tight and firm in fresh bright orange linen with bold-blue embossed panels with striking reverse titles to the front cover and to the spine; in an about near fine dust jacket with a some rub spots to the spine panel, slightly rubbed crimps to the upper and lower spine edges.…

Condition: Very Good. First edition copy. . Good dust jacket. In protective mylar cover. (1930s, Fiction).

Paperback. Reps.Lion Library 92. 224, almost near fine, (HARDBOILED SUSPENSE NOVEL), paperback.

Paperback. first PB. SP-126, very good -fine, , reading crease bohemian novel, paperback.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. UNCLIPPED DJ, CLEAN COPY.

Hardcover. Condition: USED Good. Fair Jacket. First Edition.

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Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Ed. VG+ to Near Fine in pictorial wraps with white & yellow lettering & cover art by Art Sussman picturing a montage of scenes from the book. Fiction, Novel, Vintage Paperback.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Very good in an about Very good dust jacket. Corners bent. Edges of spine bumped. Edges of dust jacket worn and torn. Letters on dust jacket spine fading.

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Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. All The Naked Heroes: A Novel Of The Thirties. Book.

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Softcover. Condition: Good. Lion Books LB 92. Music, Jazz themes. Vintage paperback with painted cover art. Cover attractive. Spine slightly toned. Binding cocked but solid. Some bumping and rubbing to edges. Slight damp-staining and wavering to first third of book. First Paperback. 127 pages. Illustrator: Art Sussman. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 12 oz. Category: Vintage Paperbacks::General; Inventory No: 030223. Art Sussman (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing (so stated). 8vo. Dust jacket designed by Paul Sagsoorian (unclipped). Fine. No signatures or bookplates. 349 pages.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Mass market paperback. Moderately rubbed and edgeworn, several small scuff marks on wrappers, very good. A novel about a muscular young man who is about to enter the Army and who wants to become an intellectual, at odds with society's and his family's expectations that he inhabit the physical world. Belmont 224.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Good condition. Moderate wear. Binding fairly tight, pages age toned. Dust jacket in good condition with moderate wear, small tears, chips and rubbing present. Pictures available upon request.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Originally published in 1944, Alan Kapelner's first novel, Lonely Boy Blues, is an intense (though not totally humorless) story of a dysfunctional family living in Brooklyn during World War 2. Written in a style that captures the rhythms of jazz and bebop, it is a precursor to the Beat novels of the 1950s. This expanded 75th-anniversary edition includes Seymour Krim's 1967 interview with the author from his collection of essays, Shake It For The World, Smartass, and features Arthur Sussman's cover artwork from the 1956 paperback edition. Legendary editor Maxwell Perkins, best known for his work on the first novels of Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Thomas Wolfe, wrote that Kapelner had 'a most unusual talent in narrative, in dialogue, and in perception,' and agreed to take on the editing of Lonely Boy Blues. It would be one of his last projects before his death in 1947.…