Search Results: midnight in the desert by jb priestley

Harper, 1937. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1937 Harper & Brothers, Publishers, New York. 1937. Hardcover. Stated First Edition/Printing B-M (FEB 1937). Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good; shelfwear to head, tail, tips and board edges; slight soiling to boards. No DJ. Blue cloth boards and spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Blue glittered endpapers. Clean internals; interior hinges are sound and not split. Deckle fore edge and bottom. 310 pp 8vo. Priestley was an English author who spent a winter in Arizona and California, which inspired a multitude of thoughts on the American landscape, the promise of achievement in the United States, the inauthenticity of Hollywood, the task of authorship, and more. A clean very presentable copy.

New York NY: Harper & Bros, 1937. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Text/As New. Navy linen boards/VG, w/trace edge rubs, wear to corner tips, and showing faint discoloration. DJ/None. PO name & date (April 14th, 1937) pencilled to fEP. Autobiography/essays. Author, the prolific novelist,playwright, essayist, broadcaster, scriptwriter, social commentator and man of letters, J.B. Priestly (1894 - 1984) wintered, with his family, on an Arizona ranch last year, Priestley spent an intensely ruminative 20 minutes one midnight in his writing shack analyzing himself, his U. S. travels, his possible travels in the Hereafter. This volume expands his midnight thoughts. Priestly had spent "a month writing a novel about London" and had procrastinated in destroying. In a black mood, he knew he was not homesick, but felt himself like "a half-starved little coyote . . . howling to the stars." John Boynton Priestley, OM (13 September 1894 - 14 August 1984), known as… Read More