Zustand: Good. First edition copy. . Good dust jacket. (dragons, knights and knighthood).
Zustand: Fair. First edition copy. . No Dust Jacket Former Library book. Corner cut from front endpage. (kings and rulers, donkeys, loyalty, friendship).
Verlag: Trident Press (c.1968), New York, 1968
Anbieter: ReadInk, ABAA/IOBA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Erstausgabe
Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine dj. Illustrated by (dj design) James and Ruth McCrea (illustrator). First Edition. [lovely tight clean book, a review copy with publisher's slip and "compliments of the author" card laid in, appears unread; jacket similarly nice but for a couple of teensy nicks at the bottom edge of the rear panel, and a slight sunning to the spine]. "In these nine short stories, many of them actually of novella length, [the author] shows to advantage the wide scope of his considerable talents. Most of the stories are contemporary, many of them portraying a segment of Mid-western life that Mr. Manfred has written little about, the younger marrieds of the smaller cities.".
Verlag: Atheneum, New York, 1964
Anbieter: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, USA
Erstausgabe
Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First edition. Fine in very near fine dustwrapper.
Verlag: Harcourt, Brace & World (c.1968), New York, 1968
Anbieter: ReadInk, ABAA/IOBA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Erstausgabe
Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine dj. Illustrated by (dj design) James and Ruth McCrea (illustrator). First Edition. [minimal shelfwear to book, a nice clean copy; jacket shows a touch of rubbing at spine ends, tiny one-time sale price in ink at top corner of front flap]. "A fond and funny chronicle of life as an Army brat in those almost incredible years between two world wars." Actually, Army brats x 3, as the primary characters in this semi-autobiographical novel are the narrator, Carol, and her two siblings: "Accident-prone Allen and poetry-writing Carol and precocious Sarah had a childhood that was in many ways highly unusual, but it was also generally happy and characteristically American." The author's subsequent (and only other) novel, "The Lion in the Lei Shop," published in 1970, was about the experiences of a young mother and her daughter during World War II, beginning in Hawaii with the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Verlag: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc. (c.1967), New York, 1967
Anbieter: ReadInk, ABAA/IOBA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Erstausgabe
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine dj. Illustrated by (dj design) James and Ruth McCrea (illustrator). First Edition. [moderate shelfwear and light soiling to bottom edge; jacket is almost flawless, with just one tiny crease at bottom right-hand corner of front panel]. Novel about four NYC couples, by an author (it sez here) who was "married to a psychoanalyst, and lives in Greenwich Village." A native of the Bronx, she had gone to work at age 16 in the advertising business, and in the 1960s and 1970s was a teacher of fiction writing at the New School for Social Research. (Featured in our Catalog #2, available upon request.) NOISBN.
Verlag: Atheneum, New York, 1964
Anbieter: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, USA
Erstausgabe Signiert
Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First edition. Fine in very near fine dustwrapper with a small tear at the top of the spine. Inscribed by both authors to Helen Heinrich, well known Sherlock Holmes collector and historian.
Verlag: Atheneum, New York, 1964
Anbieter: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, USA
Erstausgabe Signiert
Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First edition. Fine in very near fine dustwrapper with a small chip at the top of the spine. Inscribed by both authors to Helen Heinrich, well known Sherlock Holmes collector and historian.
Verlag: Atheneum, New York, 1964
Anbieter: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, USA
Erstausgabe Signiert
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First edition. Water damage to cloth cover edges, thus very good in a very good dustwrapper with minimal stains and short closed tear on spine tail. Inscribed by both authors to Helen Heinrich, well-known Sherlock Holmes collector and historian with a drawing of two small flowers.
Verlag: Atheneum, New York, 1964
Anbieter: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, USA
Erstausgabe Signiert
Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First edition. Fine in very near fine dustwrapper. Inscribed by both authors with a drawing of two small flowers.
Verlag: Atheneum, New York, 1965
Anbieter: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, USA
Erstausgabe Signiert
Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First edition. Fine in very near fine dustwrapper with a short tear on the rear panel. Nicely Inscribed by both authors with a small drawing of the magic tree.
Verlag: Long Island, New York, 1976
Anbieter: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, USA
3 Christmas cards, printed with hand-colored illustrated elements, one with a holograph inscription and crepe paper pasted down inside; 1 single leaf illustrated print with hand-colored illustration. James McCrea (b. 1920 - d. 2013) and Ruth McCrea (b.1921 - d. 2016) were celebrated children's book illustrators and graphic designers with prolific output, especially through the 1960s. Among their most known works were The Story of Olaf and The King's Procession, and they contributed many dust jacket covers to the Peter Pauper Press line of cullinary books, novels by Ernest Hemmingway, Iris Murdoch, and Graham Greene. Three Christmas cards and one broadsheet, some toning, one with holograph inscription, all with hand-coloring; also a hand-colored broadsheet with toned edges but the colors are vibrant; a near fine collection from the famous children's book illustrators 3 Christmas cards, printed with hand-colored illustrated elements, one with a holograph inscription and crepe paper pasted down inside; 1 single leaf illustrated print with hand-colored illustration.