illustrated john harper (3 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. First ed. with neatly opened pages; 150 p., clean and unmarked within on strong paper only faintly age-toned; former owner's signature on verso of color frontis.; penciled "first edition" written on front end page; binding firm; in absence of d.j. the red boards hae sunned spine but with gilt lettering clearn; gilt letltering on white patch and gilt ornamentation onf ront board iws very gbood; corners lightly bumped and light rubbing at crown and foot of spine.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. 4 p. l., 367 p. front., plates. 19 cm. ; LCCN: 14-1819 ; LC: PZ3.H314; PR4762; Dewey: 823 ; OCLC: 913774 ; an historical novel involving the actress and courtesan Nell Gwyn. ; Hope was an English novelist and playwright. He was a prolific writer, especially of adventure novels, but he is remembered best for only two books: The Prisoner of Zenda (1894) and its sequel Rupert of Hentzau (1898). These works, "minor classics" of English literature,[2] are set in the contemporaneous fictional country of Ruritania, and spawned the genre known as Ruritanian romance.--wikipedia ; green decorated cloth ; soiled and worn ; FAIR. Book.

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Fair. Illustrated by Forsgren, H. (illustrator). First Edition. Features: The House of Morgan and the Loot of America - Eight pages of the hitherto unpublished black history of the pirates of Broad and Wall Streets, with great photos; The Money Revolution of 1933 - An expert summing-up of America's financial problems created by the money changers, with photo of Henry Ford, who claimed the bankers were planning to damage his business; Editorial on the present state of Depression-era USA; A Fool for Women - The frank confession of a woman-mad man, with nice photos of Mary Nolan, Norma Talmadge, Mary Dale and Mary Clark; The Private Life of the Public Man - Intimate views of the sacred cows in Washington, D.C. (i.e. pork barrel politics); Wandering Women in Want - Photo-illustrated article on the influence of hard times on feminine morals and morale; The Magnificent Frederick G. Bonfils - A sparkling and informal history of the 'Napoleon of the Rockies'; Two pages of photos of the month's outstanding personalities; Behind the Headlines - close-ups of celebrities by Horace Wade, who interviewed them; Earthquakes and starquakes in Hollywood - Sardonic survey of the madcap people of the movie capital, with photos of Sam Goldwyn, Evelyn Turner, Carl Laemmle, Lucy Doraine and Irene Dunne; George Bernard Shaw Looks at America - A satirical portrait of a faded satirist, with photo of Shaw seated with Charlie Chaplin, Louis B. Mayer, Clark Gable and Marion Davies; Big Business and the Schools - An authoritative and fearless revelation of how big business is attacking public education; News of the Nation; Everybody's Forum. 94 pages. Many excellent black and white photos. Contents clean, tight and unmarked with light wear. Above-average external wear. Front cover loose but present. Chips from backstrip. A worthy and very rare surviving example. ; Cover Design; 4to.