bartlett lanier (13 Ergebnisse)

hardcover. Zustand: Good. Signed. SIGNED by booth authors. Slipcase has excessive wear and tear. There is an inscription inside the front free end page. Pages are tanning.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. First Edition. (no dust jacket) [worn at extremities with exposure of boards at tips, light external soiling, a bit of fraying to cloth at both ends of spine, front hinge cracked]. (frontispiece map) One of a series of such city guidebooks -- "The Seven Days Series" -- issued by this publisher in the 1920s and 1930s (there had also been volumes on New York, Boston, Chicago, Paris, Rome, and London, by different authors, and later books covered Berlin, Vienna, and Brussels), each blurbed as "A Guide for People in a Hurry." I don't know if this applies uniformly across the series, but the format of this one, at least, is utterly engaging: rather than being couched in a more-or-less-encyclopedic "reference" idiom, the whole thing is presented as a kind of running monologue by the authors (a husband and wife), delivered as they play hosts and tour guides to "a big Eastern publisher" who's visiting the city with his wife and young daughter. They take the little family -- "Mr. and Mrs. and Miss Jones" (of which we eventually learn the first name only of the latter, Annabelle) -- around the city on a week-long whirlwind tour in seven chapters ("Monday," etc.). Our authors style themselves within the narrative as "Mr. and Mrs. Guia" -- which the clever Mr. Jones figures out, right away, is Spanish for "Guide" -- and the conceit of the book is that they're trying to "get [the publisher] interested in the books we're trying to write!" It begins, appropriately, with a problem that plagues Angelenos to this day: parking. As the authors pull up across the street from the Biltmore Hotel, where they are to collect their tourists, "the missus" warns Mr. G that there's "only forty-five minutes' parking here" and suggests a nearby parking lot -- but he brushes her off, stating that "finding room at the curb right in the downtown block where we wanted to stop was too rare an opportunity to be slighted and I insisted on enjoying the thrill of it." If you're wondering (as I initially was) what caused the publishers to consider Los Angeles of the early 1930s to be on a touristic par with the other cities in this series (New York, London, Paris, et al.), the answer is right there in the year of publication: 1932, the year the Olympics came to town. (The book was published in March, and sure enough there are several pages devoted to the Olympic Village and other preparations for the upcoming Games.) NOTE that there were two variant printings of this book: one with a folding map of the city contained in a pocket affixed to the rear pastedown, the other without. This copy is WITHOUT the map.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Very Good in orange cloth with black titles. 1st Printing. A nice firm copy with light rubbing to boards. 298pp 12mo.

Cloth / Paper Covered Boards. Zustand: Very Good +. First Edition. 44 Pp. (Unnumbered). First Edition. Beige Cloth Over Boards.Short Prose. Inscribed By Author To Her "Dear Friends" Dr. And Mrs. Griffin, And With The Note Of A Later Owner. Inscribed by Author(s).

Authors' Limited Edition. SIGNED by the author. Near fine copy in the original decorated cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong; 309 pages; Description: 309 p. Subjects; California - fiction 1 Kg.

First Edition. Fine copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong; 309 pages; Description: 309 p. Subjects; California - fiction 1 Kg.

Fine copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 309 pages; Description: 309 p. Subjects; California - fiction. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. First edition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Boards betray fading and nicks and other signs of wear and imperfection commensurate with age. Binding is tight and structurally sound. Gift inscription on front endpaper; interior pages with text without any extraneous marks. Sealed in plastic for shipping. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hardcover. Octavo, xiv, 336 pages. In Good condition. Spine is black with black print on yellow banner. Boards in black cloth with yellow pastedown title label. Light wear to spine caps and corners. Text block has brown tinted top edge, penciled name on front flyleaf, tipped in book description on rear pastedown. Illustrated: b&w frontispiece portrait, endpaper illustrations, and plates. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column C. 1375465. FP New Rockville Stock.

Zustand: VG. New York 1930 first edition. Morrow. sm4to hardcover. Plates with Photo illus and drawings.336p. pictorial end papers. Green cloth with red printed title label on front cover panel and backstrip. VG spine toned but lettering on spine label still legible. no dj.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Photoplay edition. Penciled gift inscription else near fine in very good dust jacket with a paper shelf label and a small tear on the front panel. The 1930 film *The Lash* was directed by Frank Lloyd and featured Richard Barthelmess and Mary Astor. Illustrated with stills from the film, and a jacket painting of Barthelmess. A scarce photoplay edition.

FIRST. VG+. Green boards, red paste down title labels, decorated endpapers. California recollections - the 1800's. SIGNED by AUTHOR/EDITOR. [B130]. Signed by Editor.

hardcover. Zustand: Good. Good with wear and markings. Looks like an interesting title!