grace shields (8 Ergebnisse)

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

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Boston, 1940; green illustrated cloth covered boards; corners bumped with board exposed; spine edges fayed; edges scuffed; 8vo - over 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; chip at top edge of 223; pages 57/58 with tear at top edge; Interior is clean and unmarked; 223 pages.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good -. No Jacket. Binding tight. Writing and drawing on inner front board and ffep; occasional marking throughout interior. Interior smudged. Brown boards with design, faded in some areas; a few small marks. Boards shelf worn, heavily worn to corners and spine ends, some wear along spine. Colored illustrations throughout. "This book is not intended for beginning reading. This book is the first step in teaching pupils how to study." - preface. 69 pages of directions followed 150 pages of the reader.

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

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

Softcover. Zustand: Good. First edition. Quarto wrappers. viii, 128pp., ix-xvi. Scattered foxing, yapped edges worn and torn, good only. Contributions by Walter Wilson, Eugene A. Kelly, Jan Spiess, Grace Adams, Bruce Winton Knight, Walter Schoenstedt, Jonathan F. Scott, Ernest Sutherland Bates, Meridel Le Sueur, Eugene Joffe, James M. Shields, Joseph N. Ulman, Alice Mulhern, Oswald Garrison Villard, Luis A. Hustana, Charles Fitzhugh Talman, Theodore Pratt, Kenneth Stewart, Charles Angoff, Samuel Grafton, Thomas Steep, Lewis Corey, Mildred Adams.

Zustand: Very Good. Some shelfwear on the cover.

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.