hare knowles (3 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. In.

Stapled. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Herbert Paus (cover June), J Knowles Hare (cover July), William Trench (Thirteen at Dinner), William Oberhardt (Good Listeners are Always in Demand) (illustrator). First Edition. The June & July 1933 issues of The American Magazine. Contains, most notably, parts 4 & 5 of 6 of Thirteen at Dinner (Lord Edgware Dies), an Hercule Poirot mystery by Agatha Christie. Includes an article by General John J Pershing, Shall We Have a Dictator? (6/33), asserting America's democracy will persist as apposed to European tendencies of the time to adopt dictatorships. An interesting proposition when considered against recent events. Additional articles include What! - No Chorus Girls? (7/33), an article by Henry F Pringle on the career of composer Jerome Kern, and Good Listeners are Always in Demand (7/33), and article by poet Archibald Rutledge on the power of silence, and others, Numerous vintage ads. Condition issues include: 6/33 - light edge wear to the front cover with a small loss at the top of the spine; a light crease to the top corner of the pages from page 47 through the end; light edge wear to the back cover with small soil strips along the top, bottom and spine; and 7/33 - light soil and edge wear to the front cover, soiling to the spine with small loss at the bottom; soiling to page 74; a couple of closed tears to the back cover; and a small chip at the bottom that carries through to the last couple of pages. Otherwise the interiors are clean with no missing pages or cutouts. Overall, very good copies of a vintage magazine with installments of a Hercule Poirot mystery. A heavy, oversize set that may require additional postage.

Zustand: Good. Drypoint. Boy yawning with a dog. Signed and titled in pencil. 11 x 8.5 inches.