Peyton Place, Signed (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing with full number line. Signed, without inscription, by author on the FULL title page. Fine book in Fine dust jacket. All our books are bubble wrapped and shipped in a sturdy box with Delivery Confirmation. NO remainder mark, NO previous owner markings or inscriptions, NOT price clipped, NOT a Book Club Edition, NOT an Ex-Lib. Dust jacket covered in protective clear wrapper. Signed.

Condition: Good. Signed Copy . Good dust jacket. Inscribed by author on title page.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First printing, full number line. Signed and dated by the author on the title page: "Here's to happiness and hope! / Barbara Delinsky / 10/05." The book is unmarked; spine cocked; corners sharp, spine ends bumped. The dust jacket is not price-clipped (original price $25.95); Brodart protected. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Autorensignatur. Pueblo pequeño, infierno grande. Grace Metalious transformó la vida de sus vecinos al publicar en 1956 una novela que rompió barreras entre alta y baja cultura. Muchos creen que sin esta obra no habrían existido series como Melrose Place y Twin Peaks. Algunos incluso argumentan que impulsó el movimiento feminista en EE. UU. y permitió una revisión de la hipocresía moral de la época. Sin embargo, este libro también le costó a Metalious su muerte social y, según biógrafos, su vida a los treinta y nueve años debido a la cirrosis. La autora anhelaba la fama, y su historia se resume en su advertencia: ĞTen cuidado con lo que deseas, porque podrías conseguirloğ. Los lectores no estaban listos para confrontar en una novela lo que vivían cotidianamente: el despertar sexual, el odio racial y de clase, el incesto, el aborto y la corrupción religiosa. A pesar de esto, millones la leyeron, algunos a escondidas, mientras otros países la prohibían. La vida en esta obra rivaliza con la ficción; el lector honesto debe reconocer que, al abrirla, no puede cerrarla. Hay más realidad que ficción, lo que la hace indecente y fascinante. Metalious, aunque tarde, ha sido reconocida por su talento narrativo más allá de la provocación.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No dust jacket as issued. 1st Edition. SIGNED by Ed Nelson with brief personalized inscription on the front endpaper. First Edition, 2008. Clean and tightly bound with fine, unmarked contents. Faint, thin vertical dent to the rear cover, otherwise fine. A nice copy. International shipping may require added postage charges. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover boards. Dust Jacket Condition: No dust jacket. Later printing. This edition is a later Messner edition (Twenty-Third Printing, 1957) made special by the provenance. From the personal library/estate of writers Anne and Stan Rice. Signature and names to front free end page by Anne Rice's hand: Stan x Anne Rice/ 40 Yorkshire Drive/ Oakland, California/ May 1978. Some toning to pages, otherwise very clean interior. A slight lean. Sunning to spine, bumped corners and outer edge-wear. Overall a still lovely collectible. Back fly leaf has penciled in list of words, presumably in Rice's own hand as she seems to have had a habit of listing words from the text she was reading to the back of her books. Association copies have gained popularity in the world of book collecting as they provide a unique alternative to limited editions. Advertised as "the extraordinary new novel that lifts the lid off a small New England town" that spent nearly 60 weeks on The New York Times best seller list in 1956. Writer Metalious had a tragic end following the publishing phenomenon of "Peyton Place" as she died from cirrhosis of the liver and in significant debt, despite the profound popularity of her novel.

HARD BACK GREEN. WALTER BROOKS (illustrator). FIRST ED. SIGNED 1st Edition, 1st Printing Author of Peyton Place. Her signature is extremely rare. Inscribed to Bernard on fep. This is the author's fourth book. DJ flap $4.95 very good dust jacket DATE PUBLISHED: 1963 EDITION: FIRST ED 312 VERY GOOD. JACKET: VERY GOOD DJ.

[viii], 372 pp. 8vo. Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. First Edition. [viii], 372 pp. 8vo. Inscribed on the flyleaf to her agent: "To my dear friend Jacques - in gratitude for his patience, kindness and smart head. With love, Grace Metalious Sept 27, 1956." The book was published in late September, 1956. Metalious sent her manuscript to an agent named Jacques Chambrun, whom she chose because his name was French. Chambrun loved the novel and shopped it unsuccessfully to a number of publishers until it was picked up by Messner Associates, one of the few publishing houses run by a woman. Kitty Messner and Metalious bonded instantly and a period of intense revision followed, the most significant revision being changing the title from It'll Do to Peyton Place. Black paper covered boards. Very good copy, some rubbing to extremities, in unclipped ($3.95 price) dust jacket with minor wear, small loss to head of spine panel. Signed.

First Edition. First edition, first printing. Signed by Grace Metalious on the front free endpaper, inscribed to former owner two weeks after publication. [vi], 372 pp. Bound in publisher's slick black cloth with silver spine lettering. Rubbing to cloth along edges, else Near Fine with former owner's name on front free endpaper above signature, in a Near Fine dust jacket with light edge wear, bright and unfaded, unclipped ($3.95). An attractive copy.The runaway bestseller about life in a New England town that inspired a series of hit films and TV shows, quite rare signed. The author was a lower middle class housewife in Durham, New Hampshire when she wrote the novel. Its immense success in popular culture (especially as as soap opera franchise, which would sustained over four decades) blindsided her and she drank herself to death at 39. Peyton Place remains of the bestselling books in American publishing history. And while the book has been less read in recent decades the title is still synonymous with scandal in popular culture.