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Samuel Hoffenstein. Poems in praise of practically nothing. boni and liveright, 1928.
Price: US$8.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 217pp 8vo dark blue cloth covered boards, chipped at head near spine, bumped at tail. Interior clean and tight.no dj.good plus/o another helping of poetry
Seller: aldebaranbooks, Lantana, FL, U.S.A.
Hoffenstein, Samuel. Poems in Praise of Practically Nothing. Boni & Liveright, NY, 1928.
Price: US$8.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Jacket has light edgewear. Boards have minor shelfwear. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound. Top part is cut off fep. Size: 8vo - 7¾" - 9¾" Tall
Seller: Top Notch Books, Tolar, TX, U.S.A.
Hoffenstein, Samuel. Poems in praise of practically nothing. Boni & Liveright, 1928.
Price: US$8.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Piece(s) of the spine missing. Due to age and/or environmental conditions, the pages of this book have darkened. Binding is very loose. Some pages are falling out. Shows more than the usual amount of shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item.
Seller: Library House Internet Sales, Grand Rapids, OH, U.S.A.
HOFFENSTEIN, SAMUEL. POEMS IN PRAISE OF PRACTICALLY NOTHING. BONI & LIVERIGHT, New York, 1928.
Price: US$13.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: BINDING IS TIGHT. SOME FADING ALONG THE SPINE. NAME PLATE ON INSIDE FRONT COVER. PAGES ARE YELLOWING.
Seller: Trouve Books, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.
Samuel Hoffenstein. Poems in Praise of Practically Nothing. Boni & Liveright, 1928.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Fifth printing May 1928. A rub thru lower rear board corner. Open tear on upper corner of rear end flap. A paper crack on inside front hinge. Light staining to boards. See photos for further details, description.
Seller: Dean's Books, Webster, NY, U.S.A.
Hoffenstein, Samuel. Poems In Praise Of Practically Nothing. Boni & Liveright, 1928.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Spine and back half of DJ is missing, but the front is protected in mylar wraps. Pages are tanned but are free from markings or creases. Binding is tight. BP/Poetry
Seller: Bookplate, Chestertown, MD, U.S.A.
Hoffenstein, Samuel. Poems in Praise of Practically Nothing. Boni and Liveright, 1928.
Price: US$22.00 + shipping
Description: Duodecimo 217pp. Collection of light and humorous verse by screenwriter and composer Samuel Hoffenstein, who wrote screenplays for The Wizard of Oz, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Laura, Phantom of the Opera, and more. #00153. good: some fading to gilt lettering on boards, spine sunned and letters faded, text clean, binding tight
Seller: Matthew's Books, Chattanooga, TN, U.S.A.
Hoffenstein, Samuel. Poems in Praise of Practically Nothing. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1928.
Price: US$22.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 217p.
Seller: Yushodo Co., Ltd., Fuefuki-shi, Yamanashi Pref., Japan
Price: US$25.66 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York. Boni and Liveright. 1928. First Edition. Fifth Printing published same year as first printing. Hard Cover. Dark blue boards which have softening at the spine ends and small knocks to the corners. Circular gilt titles. Pages have green top edges and untrimmed fore edges. Text block is clean and unmarked. Contains work that had been formerly published in the New York World, the New York Tribune, and Vanity Fair. One of his best loved and shortest poems is titled "The Apple". The Apple live so bright and high And ends its day in apple pie. Like most of his works, the poem was a metaphor about life. Author was a notable screenwriter who penned the Wizard of Oz and many other hit movies of the era.
Seller: Libris Books, Bristol, United Kingdom
Hoffenstein,Samuel.. Poems in praise of practically nothing.. Boni & Liveright, New York,, 1928.
Price: US$29.77 + shipping
Description: cm.13x19, pp.214, New York, Boni & Liveright cm.13x19, pp.214, leg.ed.in t.tela,
Seller: FIRENZELIBRI SRL, Reggello, FI, Italy
Hoffenstein, Samuel. Poems In Praise Of Practically Nothing. Boni & Liveright, 1928.
Price: US$29.97 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Fifth Printing. The dust jacket has a darkened spine.
Seller: Mark Henderson, Olathe, KS, U.S.A.
Hoffenstein, Samuel. Poems in praise of practically nothing. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1928.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Hardcover octavo in gilt blue cloth boards. 217 pages, 20 cm. American poetry -- 20th century. Humor. Mild scuffing and soiling to front cover. Else pages clean and binding tight. Near fine. No jacket.
Seller: BIBLIOPE by Calvello Books, Oakland, CA, U.S.A.
Samuel Hoffenstein.. Poems In Praise of Practically Nothing.. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1928.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Mohandas K. 'Mahatma' Gandhi, 1869-1948, was an Indian political activist and Hindu nationalist leader. V-225. 377 pages. Near Fine, very light wear to edges. Dust Jacket condition fair. Hardcover, dark blue cloth boards, gilt-stamped cover & spine.
Seller: Monkey House Books, Miller Place, NY, U.S.A.
Hoffenstein, Samuel. Poems in praise of practically nothing. Boni & Liveright, 1928.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Poems by the composer & screenwriter of the - Wizard of Oz -et.al. Unclipped DJ is Colorful w/light ruffing along upper edge, sunning at spine, light soil from handling - protected in mylar. Boards are well-bound, sprinklings of foxing along textbox edges & admist page, on the whole, the pages are bright & clean throughout.
Seller: Shaker Mill Books, W. Stockbridge, MA, U.S.A.
Hoffenstein, Samuel. Poems in Praise of Practically Nothing. Boni and Liveright, New York, 1928.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, 217pp; black cloth. Hoffenstein's most popular book, comprising light verses and parodies. Lightly used, in a like dust jacket, unclipped, but with some shallow chipping, a few splits and tears
Seller: Locus Solus Rare Books (ABAA, ILAB), Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Hoffenstein, Samuel.. Poems in Praise of Practically Nothing.. New York, Boni & Liveright., 1928.
Price: US$242.53 + shipping
Description: 8°. 217 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket. First edition. A classic collection of humorous verse, including a section of parodies. Dark offsetting to half of each free endpaper, top edge stain a bit faded, else overall very good+ in dust jacket with occasional shallow chipping to extremities. Inscribed (fully signed) by Hoffenstein to Abraham Heller on the front free endpaper. Samuel "Sam" Hoffenstein (October 8, 1890 - October 6, 1947) was a screenwriter and a musical composer. Born in Russia, he immigrated to the United States and began a career in New York City as a newspaper writer and in the entertainment business. In 1931 he moved to Los Angeles where he lived for the rest of his life where he wrote the scripts for over thirty movies. These movies included Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931), The Miracle Man (1932), Phantom of the Opera (1943), The Wizard of Oz (1939), Tales of Manhattan (1942), Flesh and Fantasy (1943), Laura (1944), and Ernst Lubitsch's Cluny Brown (1946). In addition, Hoffenstein, along with Cole Porter and Kenneth Webb, helped compose the musical score for Gay Divorce (1933), the stage musical that became the film The Gay Divorcee (1934). He died in Los Angeles, California. A book of his verse, Pencil in the Air, was published three days after his death to critical acclaim. Another book of his work was published in 1928, titled Poems in Praise of Practically Nothing. The book contained some of his work that had been formerly published in the New York World, the New York Tribune, Vanity Fair, the D. A. C. News, and Snappy Stories. One of his best loved and shortest poems is titled "The Apple". The Apple live so bright and high And ends its day in apple pie. Like most of his works, the poem was a metaphor about life. (Wikipedia) Sprache: english.
Seller: Inanna Rare Books Ltd., Skibbereen, CORK, Ireland