The City Boy by Herman Wouk, First Edition (24 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. The jacket is a bit torn and marked.Internally clean.Well bound.[R.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. The jacket is taped and marked.Previous ownership stamp.Tightly bound.[R.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. The jacket is torn and a bit marked. Light marks. Internally clean and tightly bound. One signature. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Nr Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition Not Stated. Red Cloth Covered Boards. Signed By Author On Front End Paper. Mild Shelfwear And Edgewear, Light Soiling To Boards, Light Moisture Exposure On Boards, Front Board Lays Flat, Tanning From Age, Previous Owners Bookplate On Inside Front Cover, Slight Lean To Spine, Otherwise An Unmarked, Clean, And Solid Copy. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. The jacket is a bit marked and torn but has suffered little paper loss. Internally clean and tightly bound. A little foxing. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good Only. First Edition. Bound in red cloth stamped in black and gold. The dust jacket is tape repaired on both the top and bottom edges amazingly enough -- not affecting any text. . The author's second book 306 pp. Dust jacket maintains the price of $2.95 on front flap of jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. A blue coloured, hardback book, with gilt title impressions on both the front board and spine. Comes with dust jacket, price clipped, slightly faded, a tad worn around the edges and small tear to back of jacket, please see photo. The book itself is in reasonably good condition, normal wear and marks apply consistent with use and age. Spine faded, ex-W.H.Smith & Son's, Strand House, London, library book which states as follows: (This book may be borrowed by Subscribers as an extra volume and by Non-Subscribers through THE DAY BY DAY SERVICE, only after registration by the branch library. The Day by day fee for this book was four pence per week.), dark black pencil mark on first blank page, drops of blue ink on the next blank, pre-title page and the next page, otherwise all other pages are in good, clean, readable order. 347 pages all intact, nice tight binding. The author, Herman Wouk's, city boy suffers from two handicaps: he's too fat and too clever. Both at school and at holiday camp he is ostracised. But he bears his burdens cheerfully, and his final triumph, after many tribulations, is well deserved. This is a funny book, because, after all, boys do have fun. It is also a fine novel, in which the parents and teachers and officials at the holiday camp are notably involved, some of them in dramatic incidents from which all touch of comedy is absent. Just a really good novel.

First UK edition. Hardcover. Edges slightly foxed, endpaper more so, with a bookseller's small label on the front fixed endpaper, otherwise very good in good price-clipped dustjacket with a little wear at the extremities and some tiny professionally restored chips and closed tears. An attractive edition (the UK jacket differs from the US version, artwork uncredited) of Wouk's second novel (4th to be published in the UK), a story reminiscent of the American classics of boyhood, Tarkington's "Penrod" and Twain's "Tom Sawyer".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Gordon Grant (illustrator). First Illustrated Edition. Nice copy of the scarce first illustrated edition done in 1952 with 1952 shown on title page. His second book and first publishedl in 1948. Spine blue over black cloth with gold lettering and design on spine is clean with sharp tips. Brief gift inscription on front pastedown as is small rubber stamp but no other markings and partially hidden under front flap. Neatly Price clipped jacket shows price but dollar amount clipped. Jacket is very clean and surprisingly well preserved with only minor nick at head of spine and a small pencilled B3 on back panel. In mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good +. First Edition. Red boards have very slight edgewear, some toning to endpapers, a stamp and sticker from Norway Shop Library and a neat signature on ffep (Howard Munce, a local CT artist). The interior is clean and tight. Top stained. DJ has chipping to edges and spine tips, rubbing and some soiling. Price intact. In fresh mylar. Author's second book. Very decent copy of this hard to find classic.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Blue cloth first UK edition. Spine gilt dulled, cloth corners slightly bumped, soft corner crease to first 25 or so pages. The DJ in mylar is slightly nicked, toned, with small stain to rear panel. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine Copy in a Near Fine Jacket. $2.95 On Flap. First Edition. Excellent Copy Of The Author's Second Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. A NEAR FINE FIRST IN DJ. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Good. NY: Simon and Schuster 1948. 1st edition. Hardcover 8vo 306 pgs. Good in a fair dust jacket. Covers edgeworn. Shallow horizontal cut across front cover. Ink '77' at top of half title pg. Contents clean and binding sound. Jacket edgeworn, chipped, lightly soiled and has small edge tear. Jacket's front panel has been cut across as with an Exacto, not that noticeable under a new acetate wrapper. (New York, Jews, Fiction) Inquire if you need further information.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Illustrated Edition. First Printing. Originally published in 1948, this is the Illustrated Edition of 1952, published to capitalize on Wouk's contemporary fame from the successful play and movie versions of The Caine Mutiny [1951]. 348pp. with Drawings by Gordon Grant, and with a Foreword by John P. Marquand. A Fine copy in blue and black cloth (spine gilt slightly dulled) in a Fine dustwrapper, not price-clipped. Q14593.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good ++. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good ++. First Edition. Bound in red cloth stamped in black and gold in a Lawrence Hoffman designed dust jacket. Minor bit of rubbing to spine ends of jacket. The first edition of the author's scarce second book 306 pp. Dust jacket maintains the price of $2.95 on front flap of jacket. Hard to find in this protected condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First Edition. Red boards titled in gilt, dark topstain. First edition. Light wear to covers. Unclipped jacket is stained along spine and folds and is worn along edges. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 306 pages.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. A first UK edition copy of Herman Wouk's second novel, a semi-autobiographical story centering on a bright boy called Herbie Bookbinder. The first UK edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original unclipped dust wrapper.Previous owner's ink inscription to the front free endpaper.A semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story and the second novel of the award-winning author Herman Wouk (1915-2019). The story focuses on Herbie Bookbinder, who is ostracized as a result of being fat and clever. Wouk was best known for The Caine Mutiny (1951), for which he won the Pulitzer Prize. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, excellent. Touch of fading to the head and tail of the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Dust wrapper is smart. Sunning and chipping to the spine. Odd mark to the rear of the wrap. Near Fine. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Plus. First UK Edition. London: Jonathan Cape, 1956. Wouk's second novel, first published in the USA in 1948. Rather unsuccessful; It was perhaps too gentle a work for the postwar market. Quercus, however, attests that it is a great read. This is a Near Fine copy of the First English Edition. A rather uncommon title in either vertsion. Blue cloth binding;titled in gilt on the spine and front cover. Clean text; 347 pages. Very fresh and bright. There is a previous-owner bookplate on the front paste-down, and spine gilt appears a bit dulled; else a Fine copy. The dustwrapper is unclipped, with only hints of edgewear; light soiling. In an archival plastic protector. First UK Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good Plus. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Printing. A Fine copy in red cloth, in a Very Good dustwrapper, not price-clipped, with shallow chipping to points, and one chip from crown of spine. 306pp. This was Wouk's second trade book and second novel. Quite uncommon in jacket. Q19786.

Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, x, 306 pages. In Good plus condition with a Good condition dust jacket. Age toned white spine with black and red lettering and illustration. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering, price uncut "$2.95", has tears along the head and tail edges, stains, age toning and chipping throughout. Boards have age toning and discoloration along most edges, bending wear along the spine head/tail and fore corners. Textblock is slightly warped along the head fore corner of pages 177 to the rear end-page, minor soiling on some pages throughout, age toning and wear along the edges. Signed flat by Herman Wouk on the title page. DL consignment. Shelved in Room C. 1394333. Special Collections.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Simon & Schuster, New York, 1948. Hardcover, 306 pp. 1st edition. The author's second novel, partly inspired by his boyhood in New York. This copy comes from Herman Wouk's own book collection and is one his rarest titles in a first edition. Near fine condition in a very good dust jacket. Rear panel of jacket has light soiling and small scuffs. Top right corner of jacket has an underside water stain, a spot of offsetting from the red cloth underneath. Jacket is in a new mylar sleeve.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. A VERY GOOD FIRST EDITION IN DJ WITH CHIP. INSCRIBED BY WOUK. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. x, [2], 306, [2] pages. Some endpaper discoloration. Cover has some wear, edge rubbing and soiling. Inscribed and signed on the free end paper. Inscription reads: For Dr. Leslie Glenn, my good friend. Herman. Herman Wouk (May 27, 1915 - May 17, 2019) was an American author best known for historical fiction such as The Caine Mutiny (1951) which won the Pulitzer Prize. His other major works include The City Boy and both The Winds of War and War and Remembrance, historical novels about World War II, and non-fiction such as This Is My God, an explanation of Judaism from a Modern Orthodox perspective, written for Jewish and non-Jewish audiences. His books have been translated into 27 languages. The Washington Post called Wouk, who cherished his privacy, "the reclusive dean of American historical novelists". Historians, novelists, publishers, and critics who gathered at the Library of Congress in 1995 to mark Wouk's 80th birthday described him as an American Tolstoy. Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, Wouk joined the U.S Naval Reserve in 1942 and served in the Pacific Theater, an experience he later characterized as educational: "I learned how men behaved under pressure, and I learned about Americans." Wouk served as an officer aboard two destroyer minesweepers (DMS), the USS Zane and USS Southard, becoming executive officer of the latter while holding the rank of lieutenant. He participated in around six invasions and won a number of battle stars. During off-duty hours aboard ship he started writing his first novel, Aurora Dawn. City Boy: The Adventures of Herbie Bookbinder is a 1948 novel by Herman Wouk first published by Simon & Schuster. The second novel written by Wouk, City Boy was largely ignored by the reading public until the success of The Caine Mutiny resurrected interest in Wouk's writing. Like The Caine Mutiny, the novel is semi-autobiographical in setting and situations, if not protagonist. In 1969 the novel was re-issued, with paperback editions in 1980 and 1992, and according to Wouk was translated into eleven languages. John P. Marquand, in a preface to the 1969 twentieth-anniversary release, likened Herbie Bookbinder to a city-dwelling Huckleberry Finn or Tom Sawyer. In many of his novels Wouk evinces through his characters a love of Dickens, particularly in use of language to set mood. In City Boy he devises humorous twists of language to set a less-than-serious tone throughout this coming-of-age story. Also like Dickens, Wouk expertly manages a large cast of characters, including more than a dozen adults (and a one-of-a-kind horse named Clever Sam) woven in-and-out of a narrative about children, with depictions that ring true both in description and actions. Herbie contrives to have himself (and his sister, his cousin Cliff Block, and his rival Lennie) sent to Camp Manitou (run by Mr. Gauss, the principal of P.S. 50, as a source of summer income) when he learns that Lucille Glass will be there. The second half of the novel skewers the summer camp scene of the 1920s even as it sets up a succession of abject failures and spectacular successes for Herbie. Herbie and Cliff contrive to burglarize The Place to finance a well-intended camp project, and that crime is the device by which all the subplots come together in Dickensian fashion, at a cost to Herbie's bottom if not his psyche. Wouk fashions a moral to the tale without preaching, but the boy's victory in the quest for Lucille proves tenuous at best. Derived from a Kirkus review: This is a tragi-comedy of youngsters, understandingly, amusingly, entertainingly presented, with enough bite in the interpolations of the adult world against which they carry on incessant warfare, to keep it from a too humorous approach. Wouk tells of eleven and a half year old Bronx Herbie Bookbinder's school and camp exploits â" exploits promoted by his desire to be liked and admired for something other than his fat and his brains. With his cousin Cliff he manages a modicum of trouble for himself and a maximum for others. He loses his heart; he achieves passing fame in a school play by creating a General Grant that never was; he competes unsuccessfully with athletic Lennie for popular favor; he suffers a few frustrations at camp. Then he reaches a peak of fame in constructing a slide for the mardigras, only to have it tempered by realization that he has an unpleasant confession to make to his father. The confession ultimately saves his father's plant- and the finale, despite punishment, is more than Herbie had hoped. Nice going.