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Smart Adam Alfred Sutro; Davenport W. R. IllustrationsABAA

Words at Play

193917100517San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press 1939. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. Davenport W. R. One of 500 copies folio size 44 pp. inscribed by Alfred Sutro Adam Smart. Alfred Sutro 1869-1945 a lawyer residing in San Francisco was an avid book lover and collector and was president of the Book Club of California in San Francisco; "Words at Play" was published under his pseudnym Adam Smith. Printed by the Grabhorn Press this anecdotal book of children's rhymes was conceptualized by Alfred Sutro for his grandchildren and includes drawings by W. R. Davenport whose charming illustrations accompany the poetry's playfulness and wordplay. This volume warmly inscribed by Alfred Sutro on the front free endpaper: "To Al and Enid Tanner who even / if not grandparents are of / books for children with many / Christmas Greetings from / Alfred Sutro / Dec. 23 28 1938 ". ___DESCRIPTION: Quarter rose cloth with white and red decorative paper boards gilt lettering on the spine fore- and bottom edges uncut author's inscription on the front free endpaper as set forth above title page printed in rose and black twenty-two illustrations by W. R. Davenport in black and pink used as borders for the text; Benedictine linotype machine-made paper folio size 12.25" by 9" pagination: 44 unnumbered pages all versos blank one of 500 copies unnumbered. In a plain brown laid paper dust wrapper. ___CONDITION: Volume is near fine with clean boards straight corners a strong square text block with solid hinges the interior is clean and bright and entirely free of prior owner markings; some rubbing to the corners and top edges of the board else fine. The dust wrapper is very good clean overall with minor soiling overall edge wear with some chipping to the spine and hinges. ___CITATION: Grabhorn Bibliography no. 308. ___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply please inquire for details. Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. [The Grabhorn Press] hardcover books

Swan's Fine Books · États-Unis220,00 $US≈ 186,14 €

Adam Robert J.ABAA

Two Years Under Arms: A Novel of Life in a Military School

195317344New York: Exposition Press. Very Good in Very Good dj. c.1953. First Edition. Hardcover. NOISBN . moderate shelfwear light fading to cloth at edges light discoloration in gutters; jacket a little edgeworn spine is browned with some minor staining a few tiny nicks here and there. The author a native of Dunlap Kansas and a then-resident of Lyons Kansas about 110 miles to the west in case you were wondering novelizes his experience at military school -- by all accounts the sort of thing you never quite get over although it doesn't necessarily obligate you to write a book about it -- to present a "vivid and authentic account of . the hazing the maneuvers the sports the youthful rebellion and all the other countless facets of cadet life." Like many vanity-romans-a-clef the author effectively anonymizes the actual locations of the action -- his protagonist hails from "Centerville" but the description of the town doesn't match Centerville Kansas and attends "Sterling Military Academy in Longmont Missouri." There never has been either a military school or a Missouri town by those names near as I can tell. The novel is set mostly during 1934 and 1935 and although the locus is primarily the doings at the school itself there are at least some references to what was going in Depression-era America and a visiting lecturer even speaks of the rise of Hitler. There's also a kind of amusing passage in which the protagonist take a girl to see the movie LIMEHOUSE BLUES Paramount 1934 which he dismisses as "a morbid piece with many sordid undesirable scenes." All in all it presents a pretty balmy picture of life in a military academy -- even the "hazing" referenced above doesn't amount to much more than a sergeant who yells a bit and calls the cadets "the sorriest bunch of recruits I've ever seen." It does kind of leave you wondering though if the author -- especially since the book was published smack-dab in the middle of the McCarthy Era -- quite knew what he was doing when he named his protagonist "John Reed." . Exposition Press hardcover books

ReadInk · États-Unis50,00 $US≈ 42,31 €

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