484 résultats
1924M6217London:: Leonard Parsons; Boston: Small Maynard 1924. 1924. Roadmaker Series. FIRST EDITION. 187 x 132 mm. Small 8vo. 214 pp. Frontis. port. figs. bibliog. index. Red cloth gilt spine; spine faded lightly rubbed. Ownership rubber stamp on title. Very good. Leonard Parsons; Boston: Small, Maynard, (1924). hardcover books
1924126531New York & London: The Century Co. 1924. Octavo pictorial cloth. First edition. Travelogue of the author's visits to Asian countries. Front hinge starting a near fine copy in very good dust jacket with shelf wear to edges minor loss to spine ends and corners and spine panel age-darkened and damp-stained. #126531 The Century Co. unknown books
192400009049New York: The Century Co. 1924 1924. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. 12 3-349 3 pp. Green cloth with a pictorial front board and spine with decorations stamped in black and orange lettered in black on the front board and spine. Price of $3.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated by a frontispiece and 31 additional plates black and white drawings by Christopher Murphy. Hervey's record of his travels to China Japan Indonesia Singapore Hong Kong Manila and Hawaii. Here he records the costume the art and entertainment the food and the flora and fauna of these destinations. Hervey spends time in Shinto temples in Japan in the city of Nagasaki at a luau and spent time boating in the Philippines. A roguish travel narrative from the early twentieth century brilliantly illustrated and difficult to find in-jacket. A Near Fine book with a tiny nick to the bottom edge of the rear board; dust jacket is Very Good with a trace or two of edge wear and moderate fading to the spine panel. The Century Co. [1924] hardcover
192456360New York: Grosset & Dunlap c. 1924. Thick 8vo. 8 349 1 pp. Frontisp. numerous plates illust. endpapers. Green tweed cloth red lettering slight shelfwear w/ d.j. cover art of Chinese Junk sailing into the sunset minor chipping head of spine wear to corners still NF/VG copy. Reprint edition of this mystery/adventure authors memoir of his voyage from Hawaii through Japan China Singapore Java and Burma. Grosset & Dunlap, hardcover
192410093New York & London: The Century Co. 1924. First edition. A near fine copy front hinge starting in a very good dust jacket shelfwear to edges minor loss to spine ends and corners spine age darkened with a damp stain. 10093. Octavo cloth. Travelogue of the author's visits to Asian countries. The Century Co. unknown
1924337918New York: The Century Company 1924. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Rockwell Kent-illustrated bookplate else fine in near fine dustwrapper with some shallow chipping. Author's account of his search for romantic adventure mostly in the Orient. Many of the author's stories were made into successful movies including Shanghai Express. Lengthily Inscribed by the author in 1925. The Century Company hardcover
1924278213New York: The Century Company 1924. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Bookplate of noted oriental art collector Edward L. Whittemore fine in near fine slightly spine-faded dustwrapper. Author's account of his search for romantic adventure mostly in the Orient. Many of the author's stories were made into successful movies including Shanghai Express. The Century Company hardcover
1901145590Boston: Small Maynard & Company 1901. First edition of this collection of short stories; from the library of writer and social reformer Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Small octavo original pictorial cloth slip tipped in on the front free endpaper "With the Compliments of the Author." Signed by Gilman on the front free endpaper above the tipped in note. Additionally inscribed by Gilman on the rear pastedown in pencil with her 225 Riverside Drive address and a note to her publisher which she shared with Hervey White possibly in reference to her book 'Concerning Children' "About this size & quality but with paper cover gilt boards from mss. 5000 Charlotte Perkins Gilman." Gilman was an American humanist novelist writer lecturer advocate and eugenicist who served as a role model for future generations of utopian feminists. Best known for her semi-autobiographical short story 'The Yellow Wallpaper' which she wrote after a severe bout of postpartum psychosis Gilman has written works on gender and male domination that continue to maintain their relevance in today's society. In very good condition with rubbing and a few small losses to the spine and some toning to the rear panel front and rear pastedown front and rear free endpaper. A unique example. Hervey White was an American novelist poet and community-builder who was one of the original founders of the Byrdcliffe Colony in Woodstock New York and the radical artists' colony the Maverick known together as the Woodstock Art Colony. In 1915 White planned the first of the Maverick Festivals which included music and theatrical performances and which would inevitably become an annual celebration of wildness and unity until 1931. In popular press and local culture his long hair beard baggy white linens and purple silks are celebrated as the hallmarks of Woodstock's cultural identity. Small, Maynard & Company hardcover
192179027New Haven CT.: Yale University Press. Very Good. 1921. First Edition. Hardcover. This book is bound in stiff boards with dust jacket like blue paper covers attached at the spine. The covers show sunning to the edges and spine and light wear/chipping to the edges. There is some wear to the hinges but with the binding solid. The contnets are bright and clean. . Yale University Press hardcover
197171793Yale University Press. 1971. Hardcover. 0404538096 . very good condition xlibrary with usual markings; xlibrary with usual markings; LIB2958012274 . Yale University Press hardcover
192122266Yale University Press New Haven 1921. PBO Bound STIFF blue Paper Wrappers 1921 1st LTD EDITION 500 COPIES VG-/G- AS-IS SOFTCOVER MUCH Chipping & Loss of some Lettering Pictorial Cover EDGES Chips extremities Cover Interior relative nice tight clean but with some Tape repairs Inner Hinges Few Pencil marks interior & tiny chips Extremities light FoXing 69 pages Tape Repair OUTER HINGES COVER . iNCLUDES When Shady Avenue was Shady Lane Dragons Breath ETC Very Rare. First Edition. Printer Wrapper. Yale University Press, New Haven paperback
1963mon0000210823Gollancz 1963-01-01. Unknown Binding. Good. in x in x in. Ex-library book usual markings. Hardback with dust cover. Clean copy sound binding. Gollancz unknown
1973RO90125961LA CIBLE BLANCHE - SERIE POLICIER - N°5. 1973. In-12. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 149 pages. Première de couverture illustrée d'une photo en couleurs.. . . . Classification Dewey : 820-Littératures anglaise et anglo-saxonne
1973RO30029303LA CIBLE BLANCHE. 1973. In-12. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 149 pages.. . . . Classification Dewey : 843.0872-Le roman policier
1973RO20173262LA CIBLE BLANCHE. 1973. In-16. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 149 pages.. . . . Classification Dewey : 843.0872-Le roman policier
1976065962ST. MARTIN'S PRESS INC. 1976. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Price-clipped dust jacket in protective mylar. 224pp. ST. MARTIN'S PRESS, INC. Hardcover
192850234London: Thornton Butterworth Ltd. Very Good. 1928. Hardcover. London: Thornton Butterworth Ltd. 1928. ex-lib usuall markings still Very Good. . Thornton Butterworth Ltd. hardcover books
1979001822Nita Stewart Haley Memorial Library 1979. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Trails Travelled Tales Told by Hervey L. Chesley. Inscribed by J. Evetts Haley who wrote the forward on the full title page. No edition listed presumed first. Hardcover published in 1979 by Nita Stewart Haley Memorial Library. Clipped jacket with some wear near the gutters and a 1/2 inch tear on the back panel. Book itself is in near fine to fine condition. <br/> <br/> Nita Stewart Haley Memorial Library hardcover
1948allen_morningNew York: Rinehart 1948. First. hardcover. near fine/very good. Andrew Wyeth. Towards tbe Morning by Hervey Allen with illustrations by Andrew Wyeth. First edition first printing published by Rinehart in 1948. Near fine in a very good jacket. Apparently inscribed to actress Elizabeth Patterson by the author. Includes a guild review pamphlet with the corresponding illustrations and cover art by Wyeth. The third book in a triology of historical fiction 1st Rinehart hardcover
1948TB11175New York: Farrar & Rinehart 1948. First Edition. First printing Near fine in decorated tan cloth covered boards. In a very good- dust jacket due to 1/3" chips across the upper edge of the spine area & wear at the panel edges but with the price intact. The jacket art and frontispiece are by Andrew Wyeth. The third book in the series of historical novels of the early American frontier called The Disinherited. Farrar & Rinehart hardcover books
194857101948. WYETH ANDREW. ALLEN Hervey. TOWARD THE MORNING. Jacket painting & frontispiece by Andrew Wyeth. NY: Rinehart 1948. 8vo. cloth in dust jacket. First Edition. Signed by Allen on the front endpaper. Very Good crease first few pages; little wear bit of fade and soil d/j. $25.00. <br/><br/> hardcover books
194828961NY: Rinehart 1948. First Edition. 8vo pp. 458. Little water staining at top outer corned of pages edges of cover little worn o/w VG. A novel. Rinehart unknown books
1948127828New York: Rinehart 1948. First. paperback. near fine. Jacket painting by Andrew Wyeth. 8vo pictorial wrappers. N.Y.: Rinehart 1948. First Edition.<br/><br/> Advance copy in wrappers inscribed by the author. Spine slightly wrinkled otherwise near fiine.<br/><br/> Rinehart unknown books
194854051New York: Rinehart & Company. Very Good. 1948. Hardcover. New York: Rinehart & Company 1948. First Edition Author Inscribed. Light discoloration/soiling to covers otherwise about Very Good in a slightly chipped toned DJ. . Rinehart & Company hardcover books
1948540JNew York: Rinehart 1948. First Edition. Advance reading copy. Very good in wrappers. Illustrated by Andrew Wyeth. Rinehart unknown books
