Looking for a Bluebird by Joseph Wechsberg - 1946, Hardcover,

Penguin Books. NY: Penguin Books, Inc. , 1947 . 622 very good -fine, reading crease Cover art by Strobel. paperback,

armed services Edition Paperback paperback #749 CONDITION: vg.

armed services Edition Paperback ASE #749 CONDITION: good.

Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, 1948. First Edition. Softcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: F. Strobel. The text is illustrated with black-and-white drawings by F. Strobel. Blue and white coloured paperback binding blue and black coloured titles to the front panel and black coloured titles to the back strip. The reminiscences of the author, who as a young man, left his homeland of Czechoslovakia to become a musician upon a passenger liner trading in the Red Sea. Here is the back room story of what it is like on a passenger liner and of the eccentric personalities, both passenger and crew, that the author met. It is also an invocation of a time and of Europe that no longer exists. Creasing of the book corners with rubbing of the book edges and panels with quite notable rubbing either side of the back strip. Light browning of the book panels and dark of sunning to the back strip. The book has been stored improperly and it feels somewhat "bumpy". Tanning of the text… Read More

14-3: Penguin Books. Fair with no dust jacket. 1947. Paperback.

Penguin Books, 1948. Paperback. Good. 1948. First edition thus. 220 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Paper cover has mild edge-wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.

Penguin Books, 1948T. paperback. Good. Blue Penguin PB

Houghton Mifflin Company. Good/No Dust Wrapper. 1945. Hard Cover. (T71) .

Houghton Mifflin. Good/No Dust Wrapper. 1945. Hard Cover. (R135) .

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1948.. Complete Unabridged. Joseph Wechsberg, a contributor to The New Yorker, "has been secretary to a Czech M.P., a ship's musician, a croupier, a beer salesman and - oddest trade of all - a professional 'claquer' at the Vienna State Opera." Pp.220, occasional illustrations by F.Strobel, pages toned, owner's name to front free endpaper. Paperback, rubbed with wear to spine. Good.