engstrand stuart david (5 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Cloth. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: fair. First Edition, Stated. 265p. Signed by author on verso of flyleaf. Name on front endpaper, front hinge weak, cover has brown spots, endpapers and page toned, jacket has chips and creased tears to edges. Jacket design by George Salter. This copy of the first edition is one of 800 copies signed by the author for Friends of Borzoi Books. (8"x5-1/2").

hardcover. Zustand: Good. Signed. First Edition. Signed First edition. No jacket. Book has shelf. Pages are tanning.

Hardcover. 8vo. Blind-embossed burgundy cloth with gilt spine lettering. 272pp. Near fine. Paper clip indent (no rust stain, though) at top of front pastedown and first couple leaves. Tight and lovely first edition of this historical fiction about the founding of the northwest Illinois utopian community of Bishop Hill, founded by Swedish immigrants in the 1840s. Choice author signature and inscription in black ink on front flyleaf: "wish best wishes for / E. Clifford Toren -- / Stuart David Engstrand / Feb 15, 1940." Affixed at top of front pastedown is a heavy card stock 32mo trifold announcement, featuring Engstrand's portrait on the front and a printed invitation to a lecture by Engstrand about Bishop Hill, same date as this inscription, to be given at the Swedish-founded institution of North Park College in Chicago. An uncommon title, seldom found signed.

First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); red cloth-covered boards, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt and blind embossed on spine and front cover; fore-edge untrimmed; dustjacket; 272pp. Pencilled name to front endpaper and light tanning to upper edge of textblock, else Near Fine. Dustwrapper unclipped (priced $2.50), spine-faded, with dust-soil, tiny chips and tears along spine ends and extremities, 1.5" tears to rear panel and upper rear flap fold, nicks to spine panel and folds; Very Good. Engstrand's novel focuses on pioneer settlers in Illinois. [83860].