Five Days by Hatch Eric (10 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Paperback. Bantam Books #453, "Comedy of Life and Love on a Yacht". Cover art by Scott Evans. Very good condition. Minor edge-wear. Minor peeling of laminate on the edges of the front and back cover. Minor lifting of the laminate on the spine.

Condition: Very Good -. 2nd Printing. Solid copy with a light spine lean, a couple of light creases on covers, and bright covers show minor wear.

First Bantam Printing. Bantam 453. Very Good condition.

First Printing. Very Good condition. Bantam #453.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Printing (1st Ed.). Near Fine to Fine in pictorial wraps with pale yellow & white lettering & cover art by Scott Evans picturing a brunette babe being grabbed by a yacht captain as she climbs up a rope ladder. Fiction, Novel, Vintage Paperback.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Boards in red cloth with black lettering. Top fore-corner of rear cover bumped, else fine. A few pages show smudging, otherwise the interior is clean and unmarked. A couple pages are lightly over-printed. Illustrated title page on 2 leaves. Dust jacket rubbed; short closed tear to top of rear panel; not price clipped (75 cents); in an archival mylar sleeve. 285, [1] pages. A diverting maritime caper featuring a stolen yacht, and giving a caricature of Long Island society, by novelist Eric Hatch (1910-1973), a Long Islander himself. A movie adaptation of Five Days had been announced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in mid-1933, which was to have featured Jimmy Durante and Stuart Erwin, but the project appears to never have come to fruition. Five Days was reprinted in a paperback edition in 1948, under the title Five Nights.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. front end page missing, price clipped DJ is glued in at fly-leafs, with soiling creases and paint splatter on front. no ex-lib marks on DJ or book cover. chip on title page. D3 5.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good dj. Illustrated by (dj and title page) Francis W. Swain (illustrator). First Edition. [nice tight copy, minor soiling to top edge and fore-edge, previous owner's name stamped on front pastedown, otherwise unmarked; jacket moderately edgeworn, some minor shallow chipping at edges and corners, light dampstain on front panel, a few small tears, spine a little darkened]. A guy on the skids -- "his money was gone and Madelaine had broken their engagement" -- teams up with a burglar to steal a yacht. (Because, well, why not?) "Here is an uproarious novel of high adventure, a mad tale, cheerfully improbable, but amusing from beginning to end; a story which has the substance and effect of the bubbles that rise from the bottom of a hollow-stemmed glass." Early novel by the author/playwright, whose (mostly) light fiction served as the basis for several movies, most memorably MY MAN GODFREY. Like most of his early work, hard to find in a jacketed first. (Reprinted in paperback under the title "Five Nights.").

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1933 Little, Brown and Company, Boston hardback 1st edition 1st impression very good+ clean tight binding in very good+ unclipped dustjacket.

Hardback in dust jacket. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. This book is hard-bound in red cloth with black stamping on the upper cover and spine, in a dust jacket with light soiling and light edge-wear. The binding is solid. The contents are bright and clean. --- From the American First Editions collection of Donald C. Scriven (1948-2019). Don relished points of issue and the primacy of the dust jacket but above all he loved the literature!