Love You Mary Fatt (6 results)

Couverture rigide. Condition: Satisfaisant. Plon Impr. Plon, 1962. 1 volume relié(s) format In-8 assez bon sans jaquette.

paperback. Condition: Good.

Condition: Good. Botton section of first pages/front cover have light water staining, Good solid paperback with moderate reading/age wear, may have some light markings, pages may have some mild tanning. We take great pride in accurately describing the condition of our books and media, ship within 48 hours, and offer a 100% money back guarantee. Customers purchasing more than one item from us may be entitled to a shipping discount.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by (cover illus) Tsao (illustrator). 1st printing. [moderate soft creasing in front cover, a little wear to extremities, spine tight and uncreased]. Mass Market PB First-person narrative by a lovestruck adolescent, one Clarence Bascomb, likened in the cover blurbs to Holden Caulfield and Booth Tarkington's Penrod. There's something about this book that I can't quite put my finger on, e.g.: although the narrator and all the primary characters are white, the cover illustrator seems to have somehow had the idea that Clarence was African-American. There's also an odd scene, about halfway through the book, in which our hero, telling his mother about his supposed girlfriend, invents a fake name for her on the spot, "Reeola Bones," which in turn prompts his mother to ask, slightly insistently: "She's not a Negro by any chance?" That brief and weird little episode seems to just come out of nowhere, and as far as I can see (not having read the entire thing) there are no actual black characters anywhere in the book, or in the unnamed town where the action takes place -- so where is this lady's sudden race-based anxiety coming from? Also: the book is scarce enough, in any printing, that it hints at the possibility of its having a cult following -- yet I can find out nothing biographical about the author at all.

Hardback. No statement of later printing on copyright page. Very Good condition book with dust soiling to top edge in a Good condition dustjacket with inch long closed tear to top edge of back cover near spine, half inch closed tear to top edge of front cover and one to bottom edge near spine on front cover, along with chips, rubs and creases around its edges. Small owner's name and date on inside front cover otherwise a Tight sound unmarked copy.

Paper. Condition: VG+. Tsao (illustrator). First (English). Because Clarence, the hero of the story, can't express his adoration for Mary Fatt; and so does most of the teen-age bumbling idiot things (that I remember) - the jacket blurb likens this book to Catcher in the Rye. Well. Clarence for example takes up a friendship with Thad Fatt, Mary's brother to be as close as possible to the object of his desires. 143 pages. Cond: Red paper wrapper with an illus. of a dreamy Clarence thinking `cupid-like' about Mary. All edges lightly chipped, corners similar. One cover crease, NO tears, names NOR marks. Clean, tight and bright. Quote from page 47 on Clarence and Wimmie becoming buddies: " You know. You both bend over and back up to each other and simply touch behind, and that makes you buddies for life. That is all there is to it. Although Wimmie and I had this silly argument about whether it was supposed to be done with pants on or pants off, and I guess I did some.".