Author:Bessie, Alvah

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One for My Baby [SIGNED]

By: Bessie, Alvah

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston: (c.1980)

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 16807

ISBN: 0-03-053851-3

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice tight clean copy, slight fading to black cloth at top of spine; jacket shows light handling wear only]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED (in the year of publication) by the author on the half-title page. Novel about a nightclub that's a "pocket of nonconformity" in the conformist 1950s, by the novelist and blacklisted screenwriter, one of the original Hollywood Ten. The club in the novel is modeled in large part after San Francisco's "hungry i," where Bessie worked for many years as a stage manager and lighting technician following his release from prison in 1951. Signed by Autho...
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Bread and a Stone

By: Bessie, Alvah

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Modern Age Books: (c.1941)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 22126

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

(no dust jacket) [reading/reference copy only: shelfworn, bumped corners, spine cloth faded, slight fraying at top of spine, spine turned, light staining to both covers, etc.]. Third novel by the eventually-blacklisted screenwriter/novelist, about a ex-convict farmhand who finds love for the first time with the young widow on whose farm he's employed.
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Bread and a Stone [SIGNED]

By: Bessie, Alvah

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Berlin, Seven Seas Publishers: 1961 (c.1941)

Edition: 1st printing thus

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 25355

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good

[moderately worn book, a couple of diagonal creases in upper right corner of front cover, where the cover lamination is also starting to lift; front cover separating from spine by about 1/2-inch at top, slight dog-earing at top of spine]. (Seven Seas Books) Series Trade PB INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the half-title page: "For Luther Nichols / Gratefully[?] / Alvah Bessie / SF / 1962." An uncommon reprint edition of the author's third book, a novel about a ex-convict farmhand who finds love for the first time with the young widow on whose farm he's employed. This somewhat u...
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Author:Bessie, Alvah

One for My Baby [*SIGNED*]

Bread and a Stone

Bread and a Stone [*SIGNED*]

One for My Baby [SIGNED]

Bread and a Stone [SIGNED]