Search Results: The Fifties from Catron Grant Books

1955 5, 265 pps. with erotic b/w illustrations and photographs throughout. A magazine of semi-erotic articles in book form.Text is clean, tight, bright and unmarked. Black cloth-bound boards are clean with rubbing to extremities.. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 6.25" x 9.50".

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1965 New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1965 694 pp with index. This book, together with its companion volumns, "The Shores of Light" and "Classics and Commercials," provides a chronicle of the literary world in America and Europe between the early 1920's and 1965. Among the essays are pieces on Angus Wilson, Kingsley Amis, W.H.Auden, Andre Malraux, and Edward Gorey. Text is clean, tight and unmarked slightly yellowed. Ochre boards with gold stamped boards are immaculate. DJ is intact but bumped and chipped, price clipped. Stated First Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.. Stated First Printing.. Hardcover. Very Good/Good.

E.p. Dutton 128 pp. Apart from one fine line of ink on the half-title page, text is clean, tight, toned and unmarked. The blue and yellow softcover with an orange circle above the title is tight bright with minor wear on corners and bottom edge, minor paper loss at the bottom of spine, and one fleck of surface loss on back cover. This is an English translation.. Ist Printing. Softcover. Very Good. 5.25" x 7.5".

Fine Editions Press, 1950 80 pps. Text clean, tight, bright, and unmarked apart from a dedication by the author on the half-title page. Red cloth-bound boards with gold ink Near Fine. Pale yellow DJ with black and red printing has some chipping on the upper reverse edge and some damage at the bottom of spine but is clean bright and tight. This book was from the library of screenwriter Nunnally Johnson.. Dedicated By Author on Half Title Page. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 5 5/8" X 83/8".

Collector Books, 2002 311 pp with color and B&W illustrations throughout. Reproductions of catalog pages and price lists. Text is clean, tight and unmarked.Covers are bright and undamaged.. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 9 " x 12".

Farrar, Sraus and Young, 1951 Farrar, Sraus and Young, 1951 336 pps. Text clean, tight and unmarked. 3 politcal cartoons. Red paper cover VG. Gilt lettering on black spine slightly faded. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 5 5/8" X 8 1/4".. 1st Edition.. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Philadelphia: Dorrance and Co., 1959 142 pps. Text clean, tight, bright, unmarked and Near Fine. Orange cloth boards with black printing on spine Very Good with very minor wear evident on corners. Cream colored DJ with burgundy printing and small woodcut on front has corner wear with minor chipping and small adhesive stan on bottom edge. Graphics are tight, bright and undamaged. A collection of humorous verse and lyrics by a well-known contributor to popular periodicals in the 1950s.. By Author. 1st Edition, Signed. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 5.25" x 7.5".

Houghton Mifflin, 1958 153 pp MacLeish's Pulitzer Price winning play based on a reinterpretation of the Book of Job. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Covers clean and bright. Library pocket on back endpapers.. Eighth Printing.. Trade Paperback. VG. Ex-Library.

NY: Sshapiro, Bernstein and Co,, Inc. 4 pps. Text clean, tight and toned. Full-page sepia-tone photograph of 1950's pop singer Eddie Fisher is clean and tight with 2 very small closed tears. Split at fold but holding. The song "Oh! My Papa" is from musical comedy Fireworks and was translated from the Swiss.. 1st English Edition. Pictorial Paper. Good. 8 7/8" X 11 7/8". Sheet Music.

Doubleday, 1968 3oo pp with 10 B&W plates. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Red cloth boards are clean and undamaged. Dust jacket has some rubbing and two short closed tears. In mylar wrapper.. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. BOMC.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1956 239 pp. text is clean, tight and unmarked. Previous owner's stamp on front endpapers. Dust jacket is sun-faded along spine, bumped at spine ends, price-clipped. In protective mylar wrapper.. First Printing.. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good.

A. S. Barnes & Co., 1956 151 pps. plus b/w frontispiece. Numerous b/w engravings and cartoon art. Text tight, bright, toned and unmarked. Bright turquoise cloth-bound boards with metallic gold printing on spine show some wear: good. Pale turquoise toned DJ with b/w gaphics is good but with toning and surface loss along edges and spine. Late 19th and early 20th Century cartoons and engravings - on varous subjects - from around the world and their relationship to mid-century reality. In protective mylar.. 1st American Ed.. Hardcover. Good/Fair. 7.25" x 10.25".

Viking Press, 1958 314 ps. Inside front and back covers are b/w "Radiation Diary" charts; both have toning. Interior text is clean, tight, bight and unmarked. White softcover with black graphics and red title is slightly toned but tight and undamaged. A comprehensive summation of the hazards of radiation - via the 1950s.. 1st Paperback Ed.. Trade Paperback. Good. 5" x 7.75".

London, U.S.A.: Gerald Duckworth & Co., 1952 227 pp with 13 B&W illustrations in text. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. DJ has a couple of chips missing. In mylar jacket. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair.

Washington D.C.: Center for Military History United States Army, 1992 571 pp with B&W illustrations in text and nine foldout color maps. The second of five volumes published by the Army on the Korean War. This volume covers the lasttwo years of the war and treats the seemingly interminable armistice negotiations and the violent but sporadic fighting at the front. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. All maps are present and undamaged. Cover is VG, a little shelgworn. 7" x 9" Size: 7" x 9". Trade Paperback. Very Good.