About this article: Simon and Schuster, 1947. Condition: Very good. 1st edition. Very good green fabric copy. Ancient on the sides and opening edges, as you would expect for its age. Beautiful solid copy. Cover edges. The wear of the shelves is to be expected. Light stain on blankets by wearing shelves. Top text block dyed green.

Book. Seller Inventory – TSB2015 About this article: Simon and Schuster, New York, 1947. Condition: Very good. State Dust Jacket: No dust jacket. -. 1. Full tan, green inscription and gold decoration on the front page, golden inscription on green panel on the spine, front edge cover. . Volume shows soft shelf clothes, slightly tinted back cover, ex-ex-libris old owner on the fep, otherwise close to thin. . 8vo 8″ – 9″ (vi), 275 pp. Seller Inventory No.

25139 It is interesting that Ms. Hobson`s novel on anti-Semitism is published, visibly very happy, by the same house that, a few years ago, deliberately repressed a book by Jerome Weidman, on the grounds that its unattractive Jewish characters would reinforce anti-Jewish sentiment in this country. In the course of Ms. Hobson`s history, we speak of the Weidman species; We understand that Mrs Hobson too refuses to draw attention to unpleasant Jewish examples. The hero of Gentleman`s Agreement was commissioned to make a series of articles on anti-Semitism for a mass traffic magazine; Looking for a fresh “angle” for the series – for an angle, and a new one, the theme, of course, he rummages through his library and stumbles upon three books, each having as its main character a Jew “dishonest, ashamed or repugnant”. “One of them never thought,” Phil Green annoys about their writers writing about a good guy who was Jewish? Did everyone feel a cruel need to pick a Jew who was a pig in the wholesale trade, a Jew who was a pig in the film, a Jew who was a pig in bed? About this article: Simon and Schuster, 1947. Connected. Status: Near End. State Dust Jacket: Very good.

It`s one of our two. NY, Simon and Schuster, 1947 BCE, NF/NF, grey/green hardboard with blue inscription and blind stamp design, very slightly bounced corners, slight discoloration on the front page, Dust Jacket is a beautiful transparent color illustration by Tom Lovell, edges of edges chipé/worn. A former ECB. Hobson was one of the most influential authors of the mid-20th century and became known for his Roman Gentleman`s Agreement, which unmasked anti-Semitism in American culture. The film version was awarded 3 Acadamy Awards under Darryl F. Zanuck and was nominated for 8. Before writing the book, Hobson said I had an idea for a book that magazines will never watch, the film won`t touch, and the audience won`t buy — but I have to. And the rest, as they say, is the story, It was an instant bestseller when published by Simon Schuster.

In Mylar Cover; 8vo – more than 7″ – 9″ Seller Inventory No. 000716 The book, originally serially published in 1946 at Cosmopolitan, was published by Simon and Schuster and became the bestseller with more than 1.6 million copies sold. [2] In April 1947, he reached number one on the New York Times bestseller list. The book was filmed in 1947 in a film of the same name with Gregory Peck.