The Velvet Knife (First Edition) by Irving Shulman - 1959

Garden City NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc.. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. [solid copy, light shelfwear, mild browning to page edges, previous owner's possession stamp on front pastedown; jacket edgeworn, minor paper loss at top of spine (no text affected)]. SIGNED by the author (signature only) on the ffep. The novelist-and-sometime-screenwriter's only Hollywood novel -- although some think his 1960s biographies of Jean Harlow and Rudolph Valentino have their share of fictional content -- "built around the fascinating, complex character of an evil genius," and informed by the novelist-screenwriter's "intimate knowledge of how producers, directors, writers, and stars really live and work on and off the set." Signed by Author .

Garden City:: Doubleday,, 1959.. First edition.. publisher's cloth in dust jacket.. Very good or better in a very good jacket with some rubbing at edges and very minor chipping to the top of the spine (not affecting any lettering).. 8vo,.

Doubleday, 1959. First Edition. Very Good book in a Fair to Good dust jacket.

GARDEN CITY, NEW YORK: DOUBLEDAY & CO. INC.. VERY GOOD+ IN A GOOD+ D.J.. PUB 1959. FIRST EDITION. HARDCOVER. BOOK IS ABOUT FINE WITHOUT ANY MARKS TO THE BINDING OR THE TEXT OTHER THAN PREVIOUS OWNER'S DATED NAME TO BOTH ENDPAPERS. D.J. IS WORN AT THE CORNERS AND SPINE-ENDS, FRONT FORE-EDGE RUBBED, A NUMBER OF SHORT EDGE TEARS AND SURFACE ABRASIONS, AND IS NOT PRICE-CLIPPED. AN UNFADED COPY WITH ONLY MINOR LOSS. .

Garden City: Doubleday, 1959. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. First edition. Near fine in a very good minus dustwrapper with some rubbing. Beloved publicity agent reveals his true sleaze-ball nature. By the author of *The Amboy Dukes.*.

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1959. Hardcover. 8vo. Yellow/green cloth, dust jacket. 336pp. Very good/very good. Slight jacket edgewear and rubbing. Tight, decent first edition of this "novel of Hollywood 'friendship.'"

NY: DOUBLEDAY.. Near Fine. 1959. First Edition. Cloth. Near fine in a very good only dj. (A few small soil spots on green cloth covers. Several edge chips at corners on dj. Short edge tears & traces of creasing at edges of dj.) .

DOUBLEDAY ,NY, garden City, 1959. HBNO DJ, Green cloth, 1959, stated 1st edition,VG+, NODJ. First Edition. Hard Cover.

FIRST EDITION in dust jacket; SIGNED. The book is FINE. The price-clipped dust jacket has only the least bit of wear. 'A dramatic revelation of Hollywood behind the set.' See.

Garden City: Doubleday, 1959. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Fine in very good plus black dustwrapper with some rubbing at the extremities and a couple of truly insignificant nicks at the corners of the spine ends. Beloved publicity agent reveals his true sleaze-ball nature. By the author of *The Amboy Dukes*.