Sitting Pretty de Young, Al - 1986

Creative Arts Book Company. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

New York, N.Y.: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1976. 1st Printing. Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Dust jacket showing slight shelf wear, some chipping.. 254 p. Audience: General/trade; General/trade.

U.S.A.: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., 1976. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ; 254 pages; First printing; Textblock is tight with no highlighting, no underlining and no marginalia, and minimal corner creasing; Dark green boards with a yellow/orange spine and title in green; Dust-jacket has protected the book well and is unfaded; Has shelf and edge wear mainly to corners/top & tail of spine; We have placed the dust-jacket in a protective, removable, clear mylar cover; . (In 'Sitting Pretty', Al Young has created a funny, original, and altogether human character whose predicament is as universal as middle age. Meet Sidney J. Prettymon, aka Sitting Pretty, a ladies' man, ex-husband, father and a man with strong opinions. His experience encompasses part-time jobs, a brush with television stardom, a run-in with the law, has many friends as well as complex relationships with women, his former wife, and their grown-up kids.).

New York, NY: New American Library: Signet. Very Good+. 1977. First Edition Thus (1972), so stated. The hardcover edition was published . in 1970; First Printing. Mass Market Paperback. First Edition Thus (1977) , so stated; First Printing indicated by a complete numerical sequence. Very Good+ in Wraps: shows just a touch of wear to the extremities; mild rubbing the panels of the wrapper covers and a hint of consequent soiling to the white background field; a faint crease near the lower rear corner; the expected light tanning to the text pages, due to aging; prices have been blocked out at the upper front corner and near the heel of the backstrip; the binding remains square and secure; the text is clean. Free of creases to the backstrip. Free of creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of underlining, hi-lighting, notations, or marginalia. Free of any ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, plates, or labels. A handsome, carefully-used copy, structurally… Leer más

Holt McDougal, 1976. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Holt McDougal, 1976. Hardcover. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1976. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Couple tiny tears to jacket..

Creative Arts Book Co, 1986. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. VG+ Slight rubbing to wrappers; slight soiling to lower edges; else a near fine copy as issued. xii, [2], 254, [1] pages. Softcover reissue of the novel featuring a middle-aged 'natural born ladies' man' (lower wrapper), set in San Francisco; originally published in 1976. Signed and inscribed by Young in black ink on title page (with printed name crossed out), 1994.Few b/w Decorations (title page).

New York Holt Rinehart [] , 1976, First Edition. hardcover. First Edition (jacket date 1975, copyright 1976). Hardcover. Condition: fine in near fine dust jacket (small faint spine spot; label residue on front-flap). ISBN 0030152666

New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston, 1976. Hardcover. 254p., inscribed and signed by Young, very good first edition in cloth-backed boards and somewhat soiled and rubbed dust jacket with fading to spine. African American novelist.