Search Results: A Talent For Loving by Richard Condon

McGraw-Hill, 1961. Hardcover. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York, NY: Ballantine Books. Good. 1978. First Paperback Edition. Soft Cover. 4 1/8" x 7" 0345257677 PAPERBACK When Major Patten set up a "love" sweepstakes - with a million dollar betting bank - and his daughter Evalina as the big prize, the whole honkytonk town went wild. Wear at edges, spine creased, reading creases, some creases on book, soiling, rubbed, light interior browning. .

Random House Publishing Group. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Ballantine Books, 6/12/1978 12:00:01 A. mass_market. Good. 0.8000 in x 6.9000 in x 4.1000 in. This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear .

Ballantine Books, 1978-06-12. Mass Market Paperback. Good.

Middlesex, England: Penguin Books Ltd., 1967. Paperback - Penguin Books 2432. Minor edgewear to the cover; small bump to the spine side. Inside covers and page edges tanned. The binding remains sound and all text is clear. CM. Paperback. Good. Used.

London: McGraw-Hill, 1961. Used.VINTAGE PAPERBACK.CREASES TO SPINE AND MARKS ON FRONT COVERIn this comedy, Richard Widmark stars as a professional gambler who finds himself financially embarrassed. To bail himself out, Widmark marries into a wealthy Mexican household. What he doesn't know is that the family is cursed: its female members are compelled to love their men literally to death.

ballantine, 1978 first edition . 25767 almost near fine paperback,

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Ballantine Books. Good. 1978. Mass Market Paperback. Mass Market Paperback. (I251)-4 .

London: Michael Joseph, 1961. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. From an auction of modern first editions with the auction tag laid into the book--a near fine copy in a very good plus unclipped dustjacket. This copy is signed by the author on the title page--signature only. A clean and tight copy with no evidence of previous ownership. A little dustiness to the outside page edges. The dustjacket is complete with moderate edgewear to the head and heel of the spine and to the tips--but the front panel is bright and vibrant--the dustjacket spine is darkened. From the author of "The Manchurian Candidate" and "Prizzi's Honor"--this novel is set on a ranch in the mid 19th Century. A nice collectible copy.

McGraw. Collectible - Good/Good. 1961. First Edition. Hard Cover. (I251)-2 (H301) .

London: Michael Joseph. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj. 1963 (c.1961). 1st U.K. edition. Hardcover. [one-time owner's small bookplate on ffep, some discoloration to half-title page (probably from a newspaper clipping, once laid-in but now vanished); jacket lightly browned at spine, with some minor soiling]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED in large red-ink letters by the author on the front pastedown. "The cowboy novel to end all cowboy novels," in the author's words, a "non-historical comedy," about a couple of fellows competing to win the hand of the nymphomaniacal daughter of a Mexican rancher. (A curse has been put on the ranch, you see, which is why she's nymphomaniacal in the first place, and the only way her father can lift the curse is to marry her off.) Adapted into the 1969 film of the same name, starring that well-known comedy duo Richard Widmark and Chaim Topol, with Condon himself doing the screenplay. Supposedly the property was once proposed as a movie… Read More

Michael Joseph, 1963-01-01. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. Ex-library book, usual markings. Hardcover/Hardback. Clean copy in good condition.

New York Ny: Mcgraw-Hill, 1961. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good + Jacket. X, 267 Pp. Yellow Cloth Spine Stamped In Red And Magenta, Yellow-Beige Boards. First Edition Stated. Near Fine, No Marks. Dust Jacket Priced $4.95, Light Usage, No Frays Or Chips Or Tears, A Little Fading To Spine Reds.

First Edition, First Printing. Near Fine in a Good+ dustjacket. Signed by the author. Yellow and beige boards with red lettering on spine. Binding is solid, book is square with one corner lightly bumped and minimal shelf wear. Interior is clean with no bookplates, previous owner names, etc. The dustjacket has original $4.95 price intact, rubbed with chipping at head and foot of spine. Protected in archival Gaylord cover. Fourth novel from the author of The Manchurian Candidate and Prizzi's Honor. This is an association copy, warmly inscribed on the front free endpaper to legendary Random House senior editor Joe Fox, signed and dated by Richard Condon on January 18, 1962. Basis for the 1969 British-American comedy Western film directed by Richard Quine and starring Richard Widmark, Chaim Topol, and Cesar Romero with a screenplay by Condon. Carefully packaged and shipped in a box.