Union Square by Halper Albert (34 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Quadrangle Books Chicago, IL January 1970 Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Very Good. Very Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Quadrangle Books Chicago, IL January 1970 8vo. 275 pages. beige cloth boards are clean. previous owner bookplate to ffep. age toning to edges of pastedowns and endpapers. binding tight. rubbing and soiling to dust jacket.

Paperback. first PB. L92-555, very good -fine, , reading crease (HARDBOILED NOVEL), paperback.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Beige cl., red/gilt lettering and designs. Quotation in bp ink on endpaper. Sl. discoloration to endpaper edges. 275pp.

Paperback. first PB. L92-555, almost near fine, (HARDBOILED NOVEL), paperback.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Good Plus. Later Printing. 275pp. "A writer's memoir of the thirties." (loc x64,988).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. None. First Edition. Minor wrinkles to lower corner of jacket, else near fine and in a Mylar jacket cover, with price intact. A clean, unmarked copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Decorated red cloth.8vo.Illustrated end papers.378 pages.very good copy.no Jacket.

Book club edition. An attractive production of this author's first novel (a Rideout novel), with endpapers by Lynd Ward, and a stylized embossed design on the front cover. Very good+ in red cloth in a very good and uncommon dustjacket.

hardcover. Condition: Very good +. near very good. first edition. Octavo, beige-colored cloth with purple and gilt spine titles. viii + 275 pages. Book is in very good+ condition. Dust jacket has some yellowing, near very good. "With the novelist's deft eye, Halper brings the thirties back to life in his descriptions of political rallies and love affairs, cafeteria polemics and uptown cocktail parties, a disspiriting trip to the Soviet Union and quiet London literary lunches. Richard Wright, Langston Hughes, Whitaker Chambers, Diego Rivera, Bertolt Brecht, and Edward and Constance Garnett are only a few of the famous personages who appear in his pages." --from the dust jacket.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Good. Rubbed at the spine ends and corners, the spine is browned, the hinges are cracking, clean text.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First edition. Spine cocked, spine bleached, scattered foxing, thus good only with original dust jacket in pieces and laid in. Halper's first novel.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Near fine ("copy" stamped in red on bottom end pages) in a very dust jacket, in Mylar.

Hardcover. viii, 275p., first edition tan cloth boards lettered in red and gilt and enclosed in the dust jacket. Top edge tinted magenta, and the endsheets are magenta, a nicely designed book in fine shape (sound, clean and unmarked), with a few nicks and abrasions to dj and internal inexpert tape reinforcement at top of spine. *Rideout author. Occasional friend of Richard Wright.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. Reissue. Hardcover in red cloth lettered in black and with blindstamp design. Illustrated endpapers. Early reissue, published same year as the Viking Press first. A tight, near fine example, with a three small spots to the top edge of the text block. In original dust jacket, couple of very shallow chips to the edges and a small nick to the spine.…

1st. ed. fine.-v.g. d.j. frayed. Please email for info concerning any book or dust jacket. If d.j. does not appear in description, it means there is no dust jacket. Photos on request. Some books may have remainder marks. Heavy and/or oversized books require additional postage.

Hardcover. First Edition. viii, 275p., first edition, very good condition in like unclipped dj *Rideout author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. as pictured First Edition a very good condition hardcover, owner signed on title page .

hardcover no dustjacket. Condition: good; used. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDED8vo; 378 pages; good hardcover no dustjacket; spine slanting; deckled; tanning; tips bumped with slight fray; spine starting; slight scuff to face board; spine head and heal bumped; clean pages; promtp shipping with tracking. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Signed by Author on title page. Light edge wear to dust jacket which is protected in a mylar cover. Interior clean. Fast, secure shipping. #F4/AB/A. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 275 pages. First edition, first printing. Dust jacket design by Raymond Welch. His tenth book. Fine book in a fine dust jacket. A beautiful copy. Welch, Raymond (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. The Viking Press; New York, 1933. Hardcover. A Very Good, grey cloth binding, binding sturdy and intact, top text block edge stained red, deckle fore-edge, text block edges a bit pulpy, some crimping to spine edges, bit of discoloration to board/spine margins, small rub mark bottom text block corner, in a Fair to Good, some handling/rub marks to panels, bit of soiling bottom front panel, sunning to spine and verso, few tears/chips along edges, front panel detached from spine and front flap, Dust wrapper. A nice, clean and unmarked copy. 8vo[octavo or approx. 6 x 9 inches]. 378pp. We pack securely and ship daily with delivery confirmation on every book. The picture on the listing page is of the actual book for sale. Additional Scan(s) are available for any item, please inquire.Please note: Oversized books/sets MAY require additional postage then what is quoted for 2.2lb book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Very good minus. Browned on spine, lacking the dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. DJ in archival cover.

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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. First Edition. Original cloth, red topstain, pictorial endpages. Slight minor staining to lower board. Tight and unmarked. The DJ in mylar is toned to spine, faintly edgeworn, vertical crease to front panel, bookseller ticket to rear flap. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 378 pages. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. HALPER, Albert [378] pp. The Literary Guild New York 1933 8 1/2" x 5 3/4" DOWN where Broadway crosses Fourteenth Street, New York's ghetto has a little garden suburb known as Union Square. Its soap boxes and open-air forums are the city's safety valve, a rude reminder to patrician Stuyvesant Square that three blocks below are sweatshops and hunger and below-sidewalk retreats where Revolution is plotted ceaselessly, Mr. Halper, a new writer, has adapted for his book the familiar formula revitalized by Vicki Baum in Grand Hotel. It radiates from a cheap walk-up apartment, '20 Door City.' It's all about the People, and third floor-back drinkers and lovers; and always the Party, a parade of disillusioned immigres. 'Why don't you go back where you come from?' some shillalah bearer from the Old Sod is forever taunting them. And in the ensuing riots that both sides somehow seem to welcome, Mr. Halper tells us, 'in all the husky beefsteak faces [of the cops] the red juice of life and fury was overflowing, and the communists got spattered with the gravy.' An unpleasant story, much of it; but it rings true.…