Richard Osborne:Bound in Shells
- signed or inscribed book 2006, ISBN: 9780872235885
Paperback, Hardcover
New York: Creative Age Press, 1946. Hardcover. Very Good/Poor. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The jacket is badly chipped and the back is missing the lower, outer ed… More...
New York: Creative Age Press, 1946. Hardcover. Very Good/Poor. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The jacket is badly chipped and the back is missing the lower, outer edge. Internally the book is in excellent condition, no markings and solidly bound. Second printing. "Herebis more than a biography of a great musician. It is an unabashed picture of the bigotries and biases which Duke (Ellington) and his Negro musicians have had to face, presented with a frank prejudice in favor of equality and against discrimination. ...." (front flap), Creative Age Press, 1946, 2, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada: Great Plains Pubns, 2003. Soft cover. Very Good. SIGNED BY BETTINA VON KAMPEN on title page; Clean, tight, unmarked; very minimal shelfwear; "Jazz was her ticket out. Just as Charlotte is set to leave the small town of Norman, MB, her mother dies, and she is forced to give up a music career to care for her ailing father. Now facing retirement herself, she must come to grips with a lifetime of choices and missed opportunities., Great Plains Pubns, 2003, 3, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, UK, 2006. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Trade Paperback. 256 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, UK, 2006. *** CONDITION: This book is in near fine condition. More specifically: Covers have no creasing. Corners of covers are lightly bumped. Spine is uncreased. . Pages are clean and unmarked and in excellent condition. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: Rob Garland is getting married in two months. Oddly, however, this is the least of his problems. More vexing than the seating arrangements, the choice of wedding stationery - more even that the savagely obscene expense of everything - is the fact that Rob should be dead: and he knows it. Faced with an ultimatum from his girlfriend to either sort himself out, or call the wedding (and the whole relationship) off, he sets about trying to come to terms with how it is that, somehow, he's still inexplicably breathing. After pouring his heart out to the listeners on his late-night radio jazz show, he soon finds himself teamed up with others who really ought not to be alive, but who - for random, meaningless and, frankly, stupid reasons - unaccountably are. And that's when things become yet more worrying: because it turns out that their search to understand why they've each remained oddly alive might very well end up killing them all. Love, death, religious beliefs, existential angst - "Not Quite Dead" is a jack-knifing comedy about those things which should be no laughing matters. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; General; ISBN: 0297851063. ISBN/EAN: 9780297851066. Inventory No: 13060537.. 9780297851066, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2006, 4, West End Film, Inc, Washington DC. -----------Little paperback, stapled binding, 5 1/4" x 4", about 40 unnumbered pages. Red and white paper covers, with text on each facing page and illustration opposite the text. Scarce little book. FINE CONDITION . Fine. Paperback. Apparent First.. 1986., West End Film, Inc, Washington DC, 1986, 5, New York: Aperture, 1998.. 1998.. Fine.. - sc - A 24 inch high by 18 inch wide sienna-toned black & white poster illustrated with a photograph of a Blues bass guitar player by Jeff Dunas. The beautiful evocative image, which was also used as the cover for the book, depicts the musician's face at top right, looking soulfully down at the top of his instrument. His hand, at center left, cradles the the instrument's neck & strings. Identified at top left as "Photographs by Jeff Dunas" with Aperture's information printed vertically along the left edge. Further credits, boldly printed at the bottom of the image, read: "Preface by John Lee Hooker / Introduction by William Ferris / Aperture / State of the Blues". Fine., New York: Aperture, 1998., 1998., 5, New York: Seaview Books, 1980. L2 - A first edition (stated) hardcover book in very good condition in very good dust jacket. Dust jacket has some wrinkling on the edges and corners, tanning and light shelf wear. Book has some bumped corners, wrinkling on the spine edges, some light smudges on the page edges, light discoloration and shelf wear. Although not marked in any way, this copy comes from the personal collection of Otto Penzler, legendary editor and founder of the Mysterious Press, an award-winning icon in the genre. 8.5"x5.75", 266 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Moving from the sixties to the seventies, this is a novel about several young metropolitan adults who find or lose their way in life. It is a story of ideals and reality, of hopes and failures, of friendship and its collisions with sexuality. Patrick Sullivan is a young actor and stage manager. Payton Miller is an attorney in a prestigious New York law firm. Old college acquaintances, they meet again by coincidence and become friends, despite the vast differences between the bohemian Patrick and the sophisticated Payton. Both Patrick and Payton are products of their times. The influence of the sixties causes Patrick to choose a life in the arts and a Payton to opt for a rich wife with a peripheral connection to the law firm he hopes will make him a big success. The women in their lives form the vortex for a conflict that will become deadly. Payton's wife, Elizabeth, is spoiled, alcoholic, childless. She becomes increasingly incorrigible as she carries the habits of unrestrained youth into adulthood. Patrick's lover, May, a jazz pianist, thinks it's time to marry and have a family. Both men find themselves mired in conflicting demands and aspirations. Ultimately, Payton faces disaster from an unexpected source. Patrick's dilemmas culminate in his discovery of a crime of which no one else is aware. His efforts to bring it to light threaten the most important relationship in his life. Forced to question his vision of himself and of his place in society, Patrick must struggle with the claims of judicial equity, of romantic love, of self-fulfillment, and of friendship. Bound in Shells is the story of young people striving to transcend their pasts, accept the present, and move on in life. Ultimately, they must accept limitations of opportunity, of vision, and of needs, and adapt to the inexorable power of circumstances.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., Seaview Books, 1980, 3<
