Illustrated cosgrave (15 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Near Fine dj. 2nd printing. [lovely copy, no discernible wear to book; jacket faintly edgeworn, one teeny-tiny nick at top of spine]. (illustrated endpapers) "A rich and robust tale set against the exotic background of the Pacific islands" [with] the elements that entranced the readers of 'Mr. Roberts' and 'Tales of the South Pacific.'" The story concerns a U.S. Navy doctor who's assigned to a quiet island "with orders to do something about the health of the native population" -- a task at which he succeeds so well that the people, in their gratitude, make him their King. Originally published "in large part" in The Saturday Evening Post, under the title "The Doctor of Unknown Island." The author, per the jacket blurb, also wrote under the name David Rame. Illustrated by (dj) John O'Hara Cosgrave II (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Very Good- dj. First Edition. [slight fraying to cloth at base of spine, a bit of dust-soiling to top page edges; jacket edgeworn, small tears at several corners, spine faded, a few tiny tears and minor paper loss at top of spine]. First (and apparently only) novel by this Southern-born author, about a young black man who develops a fascination for a white prostitute who regularly passes through the town's "Negro quarter" as she crosses to the other side of town in search of customers. The man, Milo, is psychologically scarred from his boyhood experience of having been sent home after his mother had attempted to enroll him in an all-white school, while Vern, the woman, is dealing with the bitterness of having been abandoned by her soldier-husband, which forced her to turn to prostitution to survive. Illustrated by (dj) John O'Hara Cosgrave II (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. No Dust Jacket. Crisp, clean pages except for a bookplate on the front endpaper; square, securely sewn binding, the quarter cloth hard cover starting to show age toning around the edges of the patterned paper boards and some softening at the spine ends, otherwise well-kept. Lacks slipcase and Sandglass. 224pp. ; Tall 8vo. Illustrated by Cosgrave, John O'Hara II (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. Very Good dj. First Edition. (price-clipped) [solid copy, minor wear at corners; jacket lightly sunned at spine, tiny tears at several corners, moderate soiling (mostly to rear panel), a little paper loss at top of spine, 1/2" chunk missing at bottom rear corner of spine]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the ffep. Novel about a close-knit family in Dallas, Texas, set in 1905, when "the pace is leisurely. The automobile is a new and noisy invention, newcomers to Dallas from Kansas City are "Easterners," oil has just been discovered in Oklahoma, and nobody ever heard of psychoanalysis." Signed by Author NOISBN. Illustrated by (dj design) John O'Hara Cosgrave II (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: good. First edition. 6 x 8 1/2 inches. 166 pages. Condition of the book is Very Good; exterior excellent, text and illustrations are very clean, binding is tight. Dust jacket is Good; lightly soiled, edges worn. STK.*.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 294pp; Index; b/w illustrations. Contents textually unmarked, clean, tight. Former college library volume with customary stamps and labels. Yellow cloth with gilt and brown lettering on spine.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good +. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: fair. Fourth printing. 6 x 8 in. 294 pages. red cloth. 'Fourth large printing on dj front flap and 'War Edition' on copyright page. 1939 still on copyright page but I am guessing this war edition is about 1943. Printed on thinner paper than the 1939 1st printing so it is a muck thinner book, but contains all 294 ages of the original text and illustrations, does not include 'Rivers and American Folk' by Constance Lindsay Skinner, which was included in the 1st printing. Condition is VERY GOOD+ ; looks new on all points. Binding tight and text unmarked. Dust jacket is Fair, almost all there, but front cover and flap are detached from spine, rear cover, and rear flap' spine faded and worn with some tears, price-clipped. Stax.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Near Fine. First Edition. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1958. First edition, stated first printing, 1958. Illustrated in black and white. Light blue cloth printed in black, illustrated dustjacket. The book is in about fine condition with very light rubs to the spine ends, good hinges, tight text block, clean pages, no names or other markings. The mylar protected dustjacket is not priceclipped [3.00] and is also near fine with very light shelf rubbing, no chips or tears. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Very Good dj. First Edition. [nice clean book with just a touch of shelfwear; the jacket spine is tanned, with a couple of faint water spots and some shallow paper loss at both ends]. The first book by this author, who went on to write a great deal of non-fiction related to the American West. It's an episodic book, not so much a novel as a collection of interrelated stories (three of which had already been published in The Atlantic Monthly) about a ranch hand working on a large California ranch engaged in what we today would call "corporate farming": The El Dorado Investment Company, as it's called, "manufactures its beef -- manufactures it as smoothly and efficiently as Henry Ford rolls cars of his conveyor belt. Cowboys still ride the range at El Dorado, and the cattle still stampede when the dust storms roar in, but Diesel trailer-trucks move the herds around, hay is pitched a ton at a time, and the feed is as carefully balanced as a baby's formula." It was, of course, based on the author's own working life before he turned to writing. In conjunction with his writing, Easton was also a prominent environmental activist; he was also a son-in-law of the famous Western writer Frederick Faust (aka Max Brand). Illustrated by (dj painting) John O'Hara Cosgrave II (illustrator).…

Zustand: Very Good. Very Good condition. Slipcase Acceptable. (louisiana, new orleans, fiction) A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.

Paperback. Zustand: Near Fine. This book is in excellent condition, with just the slightest of curl to the front cover corners (see image) . Definitely a collector's copy. Tight binding and clean, unmarked text. Bookplate on front inside free endpaper in name of Samuel French Morse. Samuel French Morse (19161985) was an American poet and teacher, and lived in Hancock, Maine. ; B&W Illustrations; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 245 pages. Illustrated by John O'Hara Cosgrave II (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. Very Good dj. First American Edition. [minor shelfwear, slight fading to cloth at spine ends (due to jacket paper loss), light dust-soiling to top of text block; jacket is quite presentable despite a little paper loss at the spine ends, and a general sun-browning of the spine and rear panel]. (endpaper maps) One of the author's many "Barsetshire" novels, placing the reader "once again happily in the midst of the George Knoxes, Lord Stoke, Edith Graham, the numerous Hallidays, and the wonderful inhabitants of Pomfret Towers. One death occurs, but it is not profoundly sad -- and nothing else exactly *happens* except that everyone (which naturally includes the servants) goes on meeting and taking tea and talking and arranging other people's lives and complaining about taxes and *them* (although not so much as when *they* used to be Labour). The weather, of course, is terrible. Nor is summer what once it used to be. We are, in a nutshell, still ourselves.". Illustrated by (dj painting) John O'Hara Cosgrave II (illustrator).…

Hardcover. First Edition. Quarter bound in black cloth over off-white boards, decorated endpapers. Slightly bruised spine ends else a fine copy in very good dustjacket with mild toning and light edge wear. ; Octavo. Illustrated by Cosgrave, John O'Hara, II (illustrator).

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. Very Good dj. First Edition. (price-clipped) [spine slightly turned, light wear to both ends of spine; jacket lightly worn at extremities, a few tiny nicks at top of spine, a couple of small closed edge-tears, small puncture wound in spine]. Novel about a disillusioned 60-year-old Viennese playwright who visits a nondescript Italian seaside town in wartime Italy (1943), in the nostalgic hope of recapturing the past and something of the spirit of his younger self, but finds the little town "a microcosm of the world's holocaust," The author was a Hungarian expatriate who settled in Hollywood in 1947 after some time in Berlin (from which he was forced to flee the Nazis in 1935) and London. In America, he worked as a translator and screenwriter (notably for Alfred Hitchcock on I CONFESS), and was married for many years to actress Viveca Lindfors. He returned to Germany in 1971, and subsequently worked mostly in the theatre as a director and playwright. Illustrated by (dj and endpapers) John O'Hara Cosgrave II (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. Very Good+ dj. Later Printing. (price-clipped) [a good sound copy with moderate shelfwear to lower edges and upper extremities; the jacket shows some wear and minor paper loss at both ends of spine, vertical crease in the lower 2/3 of the spine, still colorful and attractive]. Historical/biographical fiction about the famous Victorian-era dancer/actress/courtesan Lola Montez, who "went from one man to another until she became the mistress of the Bavarian King -- and cost him his throne." Unaccountably scarce. Illustrated by (dj design) John O'Hara Cosgrave II (illustrator).…