Bernard Garfield (5 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Autograph ed. As recorded on Columbia Records (MS-6451) with the Philadelphia Orchestra. Edges worn but otherwise clean and in good shape. Signed by Author(s).

Jean-Louis Zirnhelt PARIS, Polar [55, Passage Jouffroy] - 1980 - Br.21x13,5 cm - Couverture au premier plat bleu illustré d'une carte en blanc, noir et rouge, dos blanc titré en noir, 4e de couverture blanc illustré en couleurs publicitaire de l'ouvrage de Léo Malet "Le dernier train d'Austerlitz"; 100 pages y compris la couverture; iconographie en noir; 4 dessins hors-texte en noir par Jean-Louis Zirnhelt; texte sur 2 colonnes. (Collection Polar, le Magazine du Policier - Hors-série N° 1 - Août 1980 - Mensuel - Rédacteur en Chef; François Guérif - 15 F). Bon état. Cette série aura 21 numéros et 2 hors-série. SUR LE SENTIER (R. Rendell, traduit par G. de Chergé) / LE PRIVÉ QUI COLLECTIONNAIT LES POLARS (B. Pronzini, traduit par M. B. Endrèbe) / SELF-BANK (H. Jaouen) / BOURREAU DE JOUETS (B. Williamson, traduit par G. Chergé) / LA FIANCÉE (J.-F. Coatmeur) / CHARLIE CHASSE (B. Garfield, traduction de F.D.J.) / L'EMBALLEUR (P. Darcis) /UN CRIME IMPARDONNABLE (R. Bloch, traduit pat J.-P. Gratias) / LA FEMME D'HECTOR (Y. Barrec) / VIOLETTE ÉTAIT EN RETARD (L. Chomarat) / C'EST ÇA LA MORT (D. Westlake, traduit par P. Bondil) / VIDEO CASSETTE (A.-P. Duchâteau). Français Revues. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. SHEPARDSON BOOKSTALL, MORE THAN 20 YEARS IN BUSINESS> VERY SCARCE COPY (ONE OF A KIND AS OF 2024) OF THIS VERY CONTROVERSIAL BOOK WITH ULTRA SCARCE DJ. BOOK: covered in Green BALLOON cloth; green topstain; Kent Endpapers; wear on bottom edge and corners; first 30 pages have slight wrinkle bottom corner. DJ covered in mylar to protect: Attractive Pictorial DJ is covered in mylar ; one of the spine seams is worn through; chipping at top of spine and on corners. PLOT: The book, centering on a brothel, owned by a woman named Anna Markovna, caused much controversy in its time. …

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. New York: Bernard Guilbert Guerney, 1929. First Trade Edition, preceded by a limited issue in 1922. Thick octavo (23.2cm); illustrated dust jacket over matching cloth boards; red topstain; 447pp. Jacket briefly chipped along edges with larger chips at spine ends; clean split along top third of front spine fold; some fading with a brief waterspot to spine. Boards edgeworn with bumping at corners and spine ends; spine a bit cocked, with brief closed tear at head. Front board gives a bit, but binding secure. Pages toned but unmarked. Very Good. As attested by the multi-national reviews to the back panel, Yama: The Pit, despite being censored in Russia, was a publishing sensation in its time. Based on Kuprin's observations in Kiev, St. Petersburg, and Odessa, the novel is centered on the lives of three sex workers in the Odessa underworld. With the author's blessing and assistance, the Guerney edition includes a more fully-realized version of the story, adding more text than any other translation. Basis for the 1936 Japanese drama Sisters of the Gion, which chronicles the life of two geisha sisters in Kyoto.…

Unknown Binding. Condition: Good. Funk & Wagnalls edition with dust jacket.