Grayson Charles Edited (11 results)

Paperback. first PB. P-122, very good , (ANTHOLOGY OF 21 STORIES), paperback,

Paperback. first PB. 030, very good , creases (ANTHOLOGY OF 13 STORIES), paperback,

Paperback. first PB. 030, very good +, creases (ANTHOLOGY OF 13 STORIES), paperback,

Paperback. first PB. 030, very good -fine, , reading crease (ANTHOLOGY OF 13 STORIES), paperback,

Paperback. first PB. P-122, very good -fine, reading crease (ANTHOLOGY OF 21 STORIES), paperback,

Paperback. first PB. P-122, almost near fine, unread, spine glue ridges (ANTHOLOGY OF 21 STORIES), paperback,

Paperback. first PB. 030, almost near fine, (ANTHOLOGY OF 13 STORIES), paperback,

Paperback. first PB. 030, near fine, unread (ANTHOLOGY OF 13 STORIES), paperback,

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Good clean tight copy. Shelf wear. Tanning along fore edges and pages. Bumping along edges and tips of boards. Some rubbing to boards. Spine creases. Fore edges are scuffed. Foxing along upper edge.

Hardcover. Condition: Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. This uncommon collection of stories by noted early twentieth century male authors is signed by 16 of the 34 contributors, several of them twice. Inscribed and signed by W. R. Burnett on the title page. Burnett (1899-1982) was a novelist and screenwriter noted for Little Caesar, Scarface, High Sierra, and other noir classics. Signed on the front endpaper by contributors Erskine Caldwell (1903-1987), author of Tobacco Road and God's Little Acre; Albert Richard Wetjen (1900-1948), journalist and pulp story writer; Walter D. Edmonds (1903-1998), novelist whose Drums Along the Mohawk was filmed in 1939 by John Ford and starred Henry Fonda and Claudette Colbert; William Saroyan (1908-1981), Armenian-American author of The Human Comedy and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1940, for The Time of Your Life; Damon Runyon (1880-1946), reporter and writer whose stories were the source for the Broadway play Guys and Dolls; Jim Tully (1886-1947), hard-boiled novelist and reporter on Hollywood and boxing; and Borden Chase (1900-1971), novelist and screenwriter, whose Red River was filmed in 1948 by Howard Hawks and starred John Wayne and Montgomery Clift. The following authors also signed on their respective story pages: Burnett, who notes "Dressing Up" won the 1930 O. Henry Memorial Award; James M. Cain (1892-1977; crime writer and author of The Postman Always Rings Twice and Double Indemnity), whose "Dead Man" is inscribed, signed, and dated; Caldwell, whose "The Negro in the Well" is signed; Chase, whose "High Air" is inscribed, signed, and dated; Richard Connell (1893-1949), whose famous short story "The Most Dangerous Game" is inscribed and signed; James Gould Cozzens (1903-1978; author of the 1949 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Guard of Honor), whose "Success Story" is signed and dated; Ben Hecht (1894-1964; journalist, novelist, and screenwriter for The Front Page and dozens of additional films), whose "The Mystery of the Fabulous Laundryman" is inscribed and signed; George Milburn (1906-1966; Oklahoma author of The Hobo's Hornbook), whose "All My Love" is inscribed and signed; Runyon, whose "Undertaker Song" is signed; Ross Santee (1888-1965; Arizona writer and cowboy artist), whose "With Bated Breath" is inscribed and signed--in addition Santee has done pen drawings on three pages; Joel Sayre (1900-1979; novelist and screenwriter for films including 1939's Gunga Din), whose "Stunts" is inscribed and signed; James Stevens (1892-1971; author of Paul Bunyan), whose "The Bulldogger" is inscribed and signed; Tully, whose "A Stranger Appears" is inscribed and signed; and Wetjen, whose "Fortitude" is inscribed and signed. The book is unmarked; the hinge is cracked, with tape residue, at the front endpaper, but no pages are loose; corners and spine ends bumped; fading to the gold lettering on the spine. Lacking the dust jacket; Mylar protected. Signed by Author(s).