glenn a gilbert (8 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.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. photogravure sites & portraits, with sketches by Raymond E. Craig (illustrator). First edition. Octavo, 550pp., textured black cloth; x-library with rubber stamps, bookplate removed; presentation inscription from listee William Barnes (p.43) to his mother at Xmas; tight, little-used copy. An excellent overview of Chicago on the eve of the 1933 Century of Progress World's Fair, its institutions, businesses and people. Photogravure sites & portraits, with sketches by Raymond E. Craig.

Hardcover. Cloth, VG; cellophane dw. Scottish Text Society: 4th Series 21.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Black Cloth, Gilt. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. 550 Pp. Black Cloth, Gilt. First Edition. Light Wear, Very Good. Essential Biographical Dictionary Of Prominent Chicagoans In 1933, With Good Family History And Other Background Information. Inscribed By Glenn Bishop And Also By His Wife, To Pearl And Francis Pryor. Inscribed by Author(s).

Zustand: New. 1978. Hardcover. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Zustand: New. 1970. Hardcover. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Fair. Groll, Albert; Shields, Gertrude M.; Avison, George; Salg, B.N.; Johnston, Robert E. (illustrator). First Edition. Features: Satanism and the World Order - Professor Gilbert Murray explains how "The spirit of hatred, which rejoiced in any wide-spread disaster that was also a disaster to the world's rulers, is perhaps more rife today than it has been for a thousand years"; Santo Domingo - The Land of Bullet-Holes - Photo-illustrated article by Harry A. Franck describes how, crossing between Haiti and Santo Domingo, he found striking differences in the two peoples; Paradise Shares (fiction); The Making of a Book-Collector - William Harris Arnold; From a Door-Step in Leinster (Life in small Irish towns), I. The Door-Step, II. A Girl for the Kitchen; The Strange Paumotu Atolls - Frederick O'Brien describes his visit; Aaron Harwood (fiction); The Tide of Affairs - Comment on the times; Quaint Old Boston - Photo-illustrated article; Georgios Venizelos and Hellas; Her Promised Land (fiction); Mecca's Revolt Against the Turk - An explanation of current difficulties in the Middle East subsequent to Emir Feisal setting himself up as king of all Syria in March, 1920 - article with photos of Mecca, Medina, T.E. Lawrence, and The Emir Feisal; The Success of the Season - Theatre business is growing; Musical Adventures of the Season; Where is America Going? - The third (and final) letter by American reporter Webb Waldron to Bernard Roberval, French historian and philosopher; Investment and Banking; Colour frontispiece illustration "The Painted Desert", by Albert Groll. pp. 289-432, 56 [ads]. Includes a particularly wonderful assortment of nostalgic ads, with full-page color ads for Old Colony Trust Company of Boston (featuring John Hull, the mint master of the Massachusetts Bay Colony), W. & J. Sloane (rugs) of Fifth Ave., NYC, Indestructo Trunks, The Jordan Silhouette motor car, The Templar Motor Company, Mercer Motors Company, The Pantasote Company, Macbeth-Evans Glass Company, Kellogg's Krumbled Bran, G-E (General Electric) Fans, Davey Tree Surgeons, and Beech-Nut Ginger Ale. Somewhat above-average external wear. Contents clean and unmarked. Binding intact. Lacking back cover. A sound copy of this fascinating and informative vintage issue.