Editor Amanda Vaill (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Book Club Edition. Fine and bright with no wear or markings in a near fine jacket with a little edgewear.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Book-Of-The-Month-Club (BOMC) copy. 1/16" closed tear at top of dustjacket spine, elsewise a bright, clean, tight copy. "O. Henry was in his lifetime-and possibly has been since his death-the most widely read writer in America. Like William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway, he has been honored by having a prestigious literary award-the O.Henry Short Story Prize-named after him. But his very popularity has often worked against him in assigning him a place in the pantheon of American literature. This collection brings together a considerable selection of the work that won O. Henry his millions of readers and also seeks to extend the limits of what we think of when we say the words "an O. Henry story." 60 short stories. 467 pages. LF.

Condition: Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 430 pages. The titanic choreographer, creator of memorable ballets, master of Broadway musicals, legendary show doctor and director, now revealed in his own words--the closest we will get to a memoir/autobiography--from his voluminous letters, journals, notes, diaries, never before published. Robbins was famous for reinventing the Broadway musical, creating a vernacular American ballet, pushing the art form to new boundaries where it had never gone before, integrating dance seamlessly with character, story and music, and as Associate Artistic Director, Ballet Master, and Co-Artistic Director, with George Balanchine, shaping the New York City Ballet with daring and brio for more than five decades through his often startling choreography in ballet's classical idiom. He was known as the king of Broadway, the most sought-after director-choreographer and show doctor who gave shape to On the Town (1944), Call Me Madam (1950), The King and I (1951), Wonderful Town (1953), Peter Pan (1954), The Pajama Game (1954), Silk Stockings (1955), West Side Story (1957), Gypsy (1959), A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962), Funny Girl (1964), Fiddler on the Roof (1964), and many other classic musicals, winning four Tony Awards, two Oscars, and an Emmy. He shocked and betrayed those he loved and worked with by naming names to the House Un-American Activities Committee. ("I betrayed my manhood, my Jewishness, my parents, my sister," he wrote in a diary. "I can't undo it.") Clean, bright copy. Record # 387412.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Dust jacket in good condition. Book club edition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 480 pages. 9.50x7.75x1.50 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. First edition. First printing. Hardcover. Signed by AMANDA VAILL on title page and dated by her in February 2020 in New York City. Signed, dated, placed (no other writing). Very fine in a very fine dust jacket. You cannot find a better copy. Shipped in well padded box. Comes with archival-quality dust jacket protector. Signed by Author(s).

Royal 8vo.pp.xvi + 430 with colour and black & white illustrations and photographs. Quarter grey cloth hardcover in complete pictorial dust wrapper. Fine copy.