Ullin Robert (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 302 Pages; 31 Chapters; Pages Tight; Staining, Smudges On Pages; Page Edges Cut Roughly And Darkened; Stamped Notation On Front End Page; Evidence Of Previous Moisture Exposure Including Slight Warping Of Pages. Red Hard Covers With Title On Spine. Faded Dust Jacket Has Been Attached To Book Cover By Inner Flaps. Dj Has Illustration Of Man And Woman With Outline Of City In Background. Setting Of Pittsburgh After The War In Which A Group Of People Lives Together With The Peculiar Gypsy-Like Freedom Of A Rooming House. Their Destinies Are Entwined With Those Of The Steel Magnates And Millionaires-An Uninhibited Picture Of The Back Street Of A Time And City When Money Was Free. A Novel Of Melodrama And Tragedy! Very Readable Vintage Copy Although Book In Poor Condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. 20 x 13.5 cm. Octavo. 302 pages. Red cloth, spine is faded. Stated first edition.Previous owner's small stamp inside back cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 302pp. Red boards, black titles on spine, black decorations on front board. Square, sturdy copy with mild wear to foot of spine. Pages toned and have stray smudges in margins but text block remains clean and legible. Dust jacket is unclipped and in a mylar sleeve. Chipping to head and foot of jacket spine, as well as extremities of back panel. Ullin's 1935 boarding house novel boasts an ensemble cast, and is uncommon now in the dust jacket. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good dj. Illustrated by (dj) Bobri [Vladimir Bobritsky] (illustrator). First Edition. (price-clipped) [solid copy, very light wear to cloth at most corners, small label on ffep from "Central Building Newsstand" with indication of rental rate (the ONLY evidence that this is an ex-rental library book); jacket is very lightly soiled, chipped at top and bottom spine extremities, but still quite attractive]. One of those rooming-house novels so popular in the Depression era; there was just something so appealing about that "Grand Hotel"-style narrative structure, which among other things allowed a writer to string up a bunch of anecdotal material and not have to worry too much about, you know, an actual plot. This one is set in Pittsburgh, "in those flush days after the War when everyone had money and when social and moral standards were changing at a dizzy rate," and centers around the home of a woman named Lucille Bonnard, who took in "drifting girls" as boarders. (Interestingly, there was another rooming-house novel published the same year -- they were everywhere, I tell ya -- called "At Madame Bonnard's," by Joseph Vogel.) This was the author's first, and apparently only, book. Hanna 3591.

First Edition. The story a group of people living in a rooming house and caught up in the destinies of steel magnets and their mills. Fine in a very good dust jacket with a few tiny tears and some dust soiling.

Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. Bobri (Vladimir Bobritsky, dust jacket illustration) (illustrator). First Edition. 8vo. Pp. [1], 2-322. Top edge dyed red. Bound in red cloth with black rules stamped on front board, titling in relief on spine. Spine head a tad crimped; old price in ink on front pastedown; remnant of bookseller tag on rear pastedown.Dust jacket with edge-wear, especially at head and tail of spine; spine darkened; publisher's price of $2.00 intact, but blotted out with pen. A gritty novel set in Pittsburgh in which the characters, including "gilded young men who were their petting partners," are "part of the fascinating pattern of a cheap Bohemia, drunk with money and dizzy with changing social and moral standards."Dust jacket illustrator Bobri was a multi-talented Russian whose 1917 exit from turmoil was aided by his hand-wrought passport, a manuscript document done so well that it was accepted by consular officials in at least four countries. (For reference, see Forty Illustrators and How They Work (1946) by Ernest W. Watson. Bobri contributed six or seven covers to the nascent New Yorker. Dust jacket is now preserved in a removable, clear archival sleeve. .

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); original cloth in cream pictorial dust jacket printed in black, gilt, and red, red topstain; [10],302pp. Some relatively discrete old tape repair to spine crown and top of upper jacket flap fold, additional repairs to verso not visible to exterior; Fine in About Very Good, attractively illustrated dust jacket. Depression-era novel set during the Roaring Twenties in a Pittsburgh boarding house. "The brilliant and mordant drama of a woman of the backstreet in the days of the great boom" (upper jacket panel). Surprisingly uncommon, with only 13 copies located in OCLC as of April, 2015. HANNA 3591.

First Edition. Nice dustjacket design of a boarding house with factories in the background. Author's first novel and story of "cheap Bohemia" and a "backstreet" girl who makes her way in flush days of Pittsburgh, when steel was boss. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket, few edge nicks, small partial private library sticker at spine.