Kettle by Gustav Eckstein (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First. Boards in black cloth, very good w/ wear to corners of cover, slightest foxing of endpapers, yellowing to pages. Six short fictions w/ artists of various stripes as subjects.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Binding shows some separation at cover. See photos. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good-. First Edition. 346 pp. Original black cloth covers. Corners of front cover and spine ends bumped. Front hinge just starting. Edges of leaves lightly age toned. DJ moderately soiled and rubbed w/ small spots to front panel. Small pieces missing from spine ends and corners. Faint musty odor.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First edition. 344pp. Contemporary owner name and a star sticker on the front fly, front hinge cracked, spine sunned with ends and corners rubbed, about very good lacking the dust jacket. A novel.

Condition: Good. New York 1933 First edition Harper. Hardcover. Octavo, 344pp., black cloth with red lettering, gilt patterned end papers. **Signed by Eckstein on title page. Owner signed. Good, cover a bit rubbed and lightly worn, no DJ.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good condition. Dust Jacket Condition: No dust jacket. First Printing of the First Edition. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1933. Clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Novel set in California, near Carmel. This copy is INSCRIBED: "To Arthur Bachmeyer, for his quiet kindly belief." SIGNED on the title page by the AUTHOR on April 24, 1933. Also signed by Dr. Bachmeyer, who was Superintendent of Cincinnati General Hospital from 1915-1934, and Dean of the Medical School there, 1925 through 1933. Subsequently Bachmeyer became dean and director at the University of Chicago. Dr. Bachmeyer served as president of the American Hospital Association. With Gerhard Hartman, he edited THE HOSPITAL IN MODERN SOCIETY (New York, Commonwealth Fund, 1943.) Established by the University of Chicago in his honor is the Arthur C. Bachmeyer Memorial Address, featured annually at the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) Congress on Healthcare Management. It was in Cincinnati that the author met Bachmeyer. Eckstein earned his M. D. degree at the University of Cincinnati and in 1922 joined the faculty there as instructor in physiology. For a fascinating profile of Eckstein, see Kunitz: TWENTIETH CENTURY AUTHORS, FIRST SUPPLEMENT, 1955; pp. 298-299. Original black cloth. INSCRIBED / SIGNED by the AUTHOR. First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good condition/No dust jacket. 8vo. 344pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Stated first edition with the date on the title page and $2.50 on the flap. A novel about an emigre pianist which addresses the question "What is the place of the artist in the boiling kettle of modern life?" Book is fine and unmarked. Jacket is very good with a small chip to bottom of spine not affecting text, and two other smaller chips at edges. Protected by an archival Myla rjacket cover. scarce in a jacket this fine.