Young Man With a Horn
by Baker, Dorothy
Dorothy Baker (1907–1968) was born in Missoula, Montana, in 1907 and raised in California. After graduating from UCLA , she traveled in France, where she began a novel and, in 1930, married the poet Howard Baker. The couple moved back to California, and Baker completed an MA in French, later teaching at a private school. After having a few short stories published, she turned to writing full time, despite, she would later claim, being “seriously hampered by an abject admiration for Ernest Hemingway.” In 1938, she published Young Man with a Horn, which was awarded the prestigious Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1942 and, the next year, published Trio, a novel whose frank portrayal of a lesbian relationship proved too scandalous for the times; Baker and her husband adapted the novel as a play in 1944, but it was quickly shut down because of protests. Her final novel, Cassandra at the Wedding (also published as an NYRB Classic), examined the relationship between two exceptionally close sisters, whom Howard Baker asserted were based on both Baker herself and the couple’s two daughters. Baker died in 1968 of cancer. Gary Giddins was the jazz critic for The Village Voice, where his column “Weather Bird” ran for thirty years, and is presently director of the Leon Levy Center for Biography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He has contributed articles about music and movies to The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Nation, Esquire, The New York Sun, and Vanity Fair, among others. He has written twelve books, including Visions of Jazz, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1998, and Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams. His most recent book is Warning Shadows: Home Alone with Classic Cinema.
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Young Man with a Horn
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Cambridge, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1938. First edition of this novel, which was the basis for the classic 1950 American film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall, Doris Day, Hoagy Carmichael, and Juano Hernandez. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on front free endpaper, "For Nell- Hommage de l'lauteur Dorothy." Near fine… Read more about this item Item Price
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The World Publishing Company, 1946. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1946. First Printing. 243 pages. Yellow dust jacket with black lettering over black cloth. Heavy tanning to pages throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with tanning to spine and board edges. Notable scuffing and marking to boards. Unclipped dust jacket.… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Jazz Book Club, 1957. Hardback. Good. First Jazz Book Club edition hardback, 1957, with no jacket. In overall good-to-very good used condition with only minor signs of age, handling and storage - red cloth boards a touch faded. Internally clean. Binding tight and appears little read; no annotation or inscriptions; light tanning to page-ends but text bright… Read more about this item Item Price
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World Publishing / Tower Books, 1946-01-01. First Edition. Good/Good. Minor wear & soiling to boards & edges of text block. Pastedowns & pages toning with age. Otherwise text and images unmarked. Dj shelf worn with scuffs, creases, toning, light soiling & small tears in a mylar cover. Item Price
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Young Man with a Horn.
by Baker, Dorothy [Kirk Douglas]
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Cambridge, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1938. First edition of this novel, which was the basis for the classic 1950 American film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall, Doris Day, Hoagy Carmichael, and Juano Hernandez. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on front free endpaper, "with best wishes Dorothy Baker." Additionally signed by legendary actor… Read more about this item Item Price
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Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1938. First edition of this novel, which was the basis for the classic 1950 American film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall, Doris Day, Hoagy Carmichael, and Juano Hernandez. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Loosely based on the life of Bix Beiderbecke, Dorothy Baker's first… Read more about this item Item Price
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Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1938. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); original cloth in black pictorial dust jacket; [8],243pp. Spine a bit cocked, jacket extremities rubbed and a bit ragged with several short closed tears and subsequent creasing. Still, Very Good or better in Near Very Good jacket. "A Houghton Mifflin Fellowship Novel" - upper jacket panel. Author's first novel, inspired… Read more about this item Item Price
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1938. First Edition. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper.
Dorothy Baker's first novel, about a jazz trumpeter whose music suffers as a result of his alcoholism and unhappy marriage, loosely based on the life of famed coronet player Bix Beiderbecke. Basis for the 1950 film starring Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall,… Read more about this item Item Price
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Houghton Mifflin, 1938. 1st. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. INSCRIBED BY DOROTHY BAKER AND ALSO INSCRIBED BY NOVELIST JANET LEWIS AND POET YVOR WINTERS on the front flyleaf. 1938 1st edition. VG- (with foxing to the front and back panels and to the endpapers) in an unclipped, VG- dustjacket, which has a bit of chipping at the tips and… Read more about this item Item Price
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Young Man with a Horn
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The World Publishing Company, 1946. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1946. Tower Books Edition. 243 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over blue cloth boards. Pages are heavily tanned with noticeable foxing throughout. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Minor wear marks to boards. Unclipped jacket. Panels and spine have light edgewear with… Read more about this item Item Price
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Young Man With a Horn
by BAKER, DOROTHY
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1938. First Edition. Signed and inscribed by the author, Dorothy Baker inscribed: “To Margaret - Who helped like anything with the research. Dorothy.” Very good in neatly price-clipped dust jacket with few tiny nicks and tears. A novel based on the life of the great coronet player Bix Beiderbecke who died of alcoholism in 1931… Read more about this item Item Price
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Cleveland: World Publishing Company; (1946). First Edition . Hardcover. First Tower Books edition, very good in a like dust jacket. Pages a little browned, small pencil marks in margins throughout book. The jacket has some soiling, and some loss on rear flap fold. A classic novel of the 1930's jazz scene, reportedly inspired by Bix Beiderbecke.
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hardcover edition in dust jacket; early but not first printing; prior owner front free end paper corner, text unmarked; some age tone to text pages, top corners bumped; sound binding; cloth cover has bumped corners, vivid titling; dj has rub wear along edges and folds, tears and small chips (some tape repaired on dj verso) at corners and spine ends;… Read more about this item Item Price
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Young Man With A Horn
by Dorothy Baker
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Young Man with a Horn
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- 1943
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New York: The Press of the Readers Club, 1943. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Special edition for the Reader's Club. Foreword by Clifton Fadiman. Owner's name on front fly, foxing on endpapers, binding cocked and cover corners lightly bumped, very good in a good or better foxed and edgeworn dustwrapper with modest loss on crown of spine. Dorothy Baker's first… Read more about this item Item Price
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Young Man with a Horn
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Cleveland: World Publishing, 1946. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Reprint. Very good with some small stains on boards, light bumping of extremites, and browning of pages in a good only chipped and soiled dustwrapper with water stain along spine. Item Price
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by Dorothy Baker
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The Reader's Club, 1943-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good Minus/Good. Very good minus early (1943) reprint Reader's Club edition in good dust jacket. Binding is solid. Boards have some light stains. Previous owner's stamp on reverse of free front endpaper.Jacket has tattering, creasing, wear at the flap edges, and some missing material at top of spine, but is currently protected… Read more about this item Item Price
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Young Man with a Horn (New York Review Books Classics)
by Baker, Dorothy
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Young Man With A Horn
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Pasadena, California, USA
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1938. Hardcover. Very Good +`. 243 Pp. Brown And Beige Cloth. Early Issue, No Date On Title Page But No Later Printing Indicated. Slight Use, No Marks Or Fraying Or Stains; A Little Dust To Cloth, Very Slight Browning To Beige Color On Spine.
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