Thursday's Child

Octavo, original blue cloth, original dust jacket. First British edition of Eartha Kitt's intimate autobiography which was published a year earlier in New York. In Thursday s Child, Eartha Kitt recalls her poor childhood and early career as a performer whose trademark highly mannered singing style, colored with gargling growl added to her sultry brilliance as a distinctive singer and… Read more about this item

New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce. Good. (c.1956). First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [a decent reading copy, with quite a bit of scuffing and light staining to covers, modest bumping to several corners, very slight fraying to cloth at top of spine, a few slightly bent lower page corners]. (B&W photographs) The first of this multi-talented… Read more about this item

Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1956. 2nd Printing. (1956.) Hardcover lacking dust jacket. 8vo with 250 pages. Signed on the front free end paper," Sept. 28, 1958 Dr. and Mrs. Weinberger, Please accept this as a token of gratitude and appreciation for your kindness and consideration to and for me. Gratefully Eartha Kitt." The book is in good condition… Read more about this item

London: Cassell, 1957 A very good copy of the third edition but with the fep excised and a gift inscription on the half-title page. The dust jacket is price clipped, edge tears, gaps, bright, in a clear film protective sleeve.

London: Cassell and Company Limited, 1957. Clean blue cloth on boards with gilt titles; small faint touch of old sunning / fading to front board top margin and head of spine. Edges: foxing. Eps: light sprinkling of foxing. Frontis: b/w photo of Eartha Kitt. Clean contents. B/w illustrations. Binding is VG. 248p Dj:… Read more about this item

New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1956. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1956. 8vo. 250 pp. Stated first edition. Very good in a very good jacket. Owner's name and date on the front free endpaper. Light foxing to the endpapers; chips to the jacket.

London : Cassell, 1957. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardback. Very Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First edition hardback 248 pp illustrated Very Good condition in Fair unclipped dust jacket (Loss of and inch or so at the bottom of the rear panel but the front panel is all there. Some edge tears with further small… Read more about this item

EB: Duell, Sloan and Pearce. Very Good. 1956. Second Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York, 1956. 250 pgs. Second Printing. DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (chip present to the heel of the spine). Bound in yellow cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear… Read more about this item

New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1956. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. First edition. Fine in near fine dust jacket. (1"-inch tear at base of front panel of jacket. A few very tiny tears at upper edge of jacket. ) An exceptionally nice copy of an uncommon title. ; 5 3/4" x… Read more about this item

Chosho Publishing. New. Special order direct from the distributor

Paperback / softback. New.