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Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Color Illustrated card covers. Covers show light wear along front edge and corner. Black Title, Author and Illustrator on front cover. Black Author, title and publisher on spine. 128pp. Content clean, bright and sound. Double column format.
Seller: Old Favorites Bookshop LTD (since 1954), Stouffville, ON, Canada
Rose, Billy. Wine, Women and Words. Simon and Schuster New York 1948, New York, 1948.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very Good/Very Good in mylar, light shelfwear,small corner chips
Seller: Abracadabra Books 50% Off Sale!, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Rose, Billy. Wine, Women, and Words. Simon & Schuster, New York, NY, 1948.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 295 pp. Tightly bound. Corners not bumped. Text is free of markings. No ownership markings. Dust jacket not price clipped but with one closed edge tear.
Seller: Book Bear, West Brookfield, MA, U.S.A.
Rose, Billy.. Wine, Women and Words.. Simon and Schuster, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1948.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good in custom orange cloth over orange marbled paper binding, leather spine label is crumbling at edges. Bound by the Art Book Binding Studio in Los Angeles, stamped"A.B.S.". Original color printed cover is bound in. Illustrated with b&w drawings by Salvador Dali. Edition and printing not stated. Hard Cover. 128pp. 22 x 28cm. 13843 Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Seller: Vashon Island Books, Vashon, WA, U.S.A.
Rose, Billy. Wine, Women and Words. Simon & Schuster, 1948.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Description: Hardcover; No marks or writing, clean; DJ not price clipped ($3.00) ; brn cloth spine with red; cover had rubbings on top and; slightly toned endsheets; DJ has edge wear, tears and; NOT ex-library;; Unique illustrations and DJ by Dali; this Broadway author of this collection of short stories; Very Good- tight binding boards and gilt image and spine lettering side edges chipping
Seller: The Book Chaser (FABA), Gainesville, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition."Copyright 1946, 1947, 1948, Glenmoore Productions, Inc," stated. No additional edition or printing indicated. Near fine plus, if not fine hardback in very good plus, if not near fine dust jacket ($3.00). Dust jacket has a 1/2 inch chip to head of spine affectng upper half of 'Wine,'; a 3/8 inch by 1/4 inch chip to top edge of front panel near fore-edge corner; a light, if not very light and perhaps barely noticeable 1 inch by 1/4 inch damp-stain to rear spine-fold; a 1/8 inch chip to heel of spine; a light, if not very light and perhaps barely noticeable 3/4 inch by 1/2 inch triangular damp-stain to upper fore-edge corner of front panel; and a 3/4 inch closed tear and 1/2 inch by 1/4 inch triangular chip to bottom edge of rear panel. Only trivial additional signs of age/wear/previous use to book and dust jacket: primarily to edges and corners of dust jacket.
Seller: Time Tested Books, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.
Billy Rose. Wine, Women, and Words. Simon and Schuster, New York, 1948.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Octavo. Pp. 295. With 16 full-page line illustrations on toned paper, and several smalled drawings. A hilarious memoir. Very good to near fine in cloth backed boards. No jacket. Edges of covers rubbed. No ownership or other marks.
Seller: Bryn Mawr Bookstore, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.
Rose, Billy. Wine, Women And Words. Simon & Schuster, New York, 1948.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: 295 pages. 21 x 15 cm. A special numbered and autographed edition copy 491 signed by Billy Rose in blue ink, illustrated with full page tinted plates by Salvador Dali, Clean, very crisp copy. Orig. publisher gold cloth spine, and illustrated boards. Fine in original clear mylar slipcase lettered in gold
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Signed. First Edition. Inscribed by Billy Rose. No jacket. Book has shelf wear. Pages are tanning.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Rose, Billy. Wine, Women and Words. Simon & Schuster, New York, 1948.
Price: US$295.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 295pgs.frontispiece. Pictorial boards (Salvador Dali drawing of Female sculpture, Rose head, butterfly and horsehoe vignette) Black spine label over gilt fabric spine. Limitation page states "This Is A Special Numbered And Autographed Edition, Of Which This Is Number 392.". On the ower portion of the page it is signed by Billy Rose. Red silk ribbon bookmark. Duotone illustrations by Dali throughout. William Billy Rose was an American impresario, theatrical showman and lyricist. For decades preceding and immediately after the Second World War Billy Rose was a major force in entertainment, with shows, such as JUMBO (1935), BILLY ROSE'S AQUACADE, and CARMEN JONES (1943), his Diamond Horseshoe nightclub, and the Ziegfeld Theatre influencing the careers of many stars. Billy Rose was inducted as a member of the Songwriter's Hall of Fame. In 1943, he produced CARMEN JONES with an all-black cast. An adaptation of Bizet's opera CARMEN, the story was transplanted to World War II America by lyricist and librettist Oscar Hammerstein II. It was an instant hit. Very scarce in this signed, limited edition. Size: Octavo
Seller: The Chatham Bookseller, Madison, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$323.40 + shipping
Description: Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some minor loss) and dust-toned dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Copy is not price-clipped. Physical description; 128 p. : ill. ; 28 cm. Notes; First published in 1946. Subject; Illustrated books U.S.A. 1941-1950. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
ROSE, Billy (SIGNED). Wine, Women And Words. Simon and Schuster, 1948.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: ROSE, Billy [295] pp. Simon and Schuster 1948 This is a special numbered and autographed edition, of which this is number 1056 Illustrated by Salvador Dali 8 1/2" x 6" Red silk ribbon bookmark. Duotone illustrations by Dali throughout. William Billy Rose was an American impresario, theatrical showman and lyricist. For decades preceding and immediately after the Second World War Billy Rose was a major force in entertainment, with shows, such as JUMBO (1935), BILLY ROSE'S AQUACADE, and CARMEN JONES (1943), his Diamond Horseshoe nightclub, and the Ziegfeld Theatre influencing the careers of many stars. Billy Rose was inducted as a member of the Songwriter's Hall of Fame. In 1943, he produced CARMEN JONES with an all-black cast. An adaptation of Bizet's opera CARMEN, the story was transplanted to World War II America by lyricist and librettist Oscar Hammerstein II. It was an instant hit. Very scarce in this signed, limited edition.
Seller: The Cary Collection, Bristol, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$364.00 + shipping
Description: Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some minor loss) and dust-toned dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Copy is not price-clipped. Physical description; 128 p. : ill. ; 28 cm. Notes; First published in 1946. Subject; Illustrated books U.S.A. 1941-1950. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.