Smith harry b editor (4 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. The Bibliophile Society January 1910 Binding: Hardcover in Good condition, many pages remain uncut.

This edition is limited to 483 copies printed for members only. Small 4to; original half-vellum, with brown boards; pp. (x) + 90; pages uncut; plates with captioned tissue-guards; facsimiles, incl. folding. Rather foxed throughout. Good only. "At the time of the issue (in 1908) of the volume of the Dickens-Beadnell Correspondence, containing Professor Baker's footnote calling attention to another collection of early Dickens letters that changed hands in Birmingham, England, about ten years ago, it was hardly to be hoped or believed that within a year these letters should be located here in the United States, and in the hands of a generous Bibliophile, who not only expressed an eager willingness to share their contents with his fellow-booklovers, but also offered to edit and arrange them for the press, which he has done in a scholarly and highly entertaining and instructive manner. . It will be remembered that Kolle, in addition to looking after his own interests in wooing a fair member of the Beadnell household, served young Dickens in the capacity of messenger in smuggling his imploring love missives through the parental barriers and into the hands of the coquettish Maria, after Dickens had been debarred from the Beadnell home .".…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 4to. (25 cm.) [4]v-vii[1]1-247[1]p. Tipped in color frontispiece by Irene Mountfort, plus fivex tipped in color plates by Marian Allen, May Smith, Harry Rountree, Roy Meldrum, and Hugh Chesterman. Plus numerous black and white drawings throughout by Irene Mounfort, C.T. Nightingale, Marian Allen, Michael Lynn (the author, illustrating six of the items included), May Smith, Harry Rountree, Ruth Macnair, L.R. Brightwell, Harold King, each one illustrating the various stores & poems included in this book. Pictorial endpapers. Tan cloth with repeating pattern in blue over boards. Some wear to extremities with corners just barely worn through, all plates present and in fine condition, else very good to near fine with no internal markings. No dust jacket. Irene Mountfort, Marian Allen, May Smith, Harry Rountree, Roy Meldrum, Hugh Chesterman (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 2nd Edition. [Rev. and enl. ed, 1st printing] ; 336 pp. ; illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm ; OCLC 464172261 ; brown cloth with gold lettering, in color illustrated dustjacket ; detailed color photos of aircraft of the period. Contents: American D.H.4, Gloster Gladiator, Focke-Wulf FW200, Beoing B-29 Superfortress, Nort American P-51B & C Mustang, Douglas A-4 Skyhawk, SE 5, PZL P-23 Karas, Lockhead P-38J-M Lighting, De Havilland Comet Series 1-4, Grumman F8F Bearcat, Kawasaki KI-45 Toryu, Hanriot HD 1, English Electric P.1 & Lightning 1, Fiat B.R.20, Martin B-26B & C Marauder, Hawker Hurricane 1, Messerschmitt BF 109G & K, Curtiss Nave Hawks, Boulton-Paul Defiant, Gotha G I-V, Lockhead Constellation, Kawasaki KI-61 Hiem, Fiat G.91 ; Copy of Lt. Col. Charles Oliver Fikes (1935-2020), who served in the U.S. Air Force for 22 years, at first as an aviation cadet in B-47s at Chennault AFB in 1955, and later as a B-52 pilot. He retired as a Lt. Colonel, and began a career with Eastern Airlines. He retired from Eastern in 1985. ; nick in dustjacket, else FINE/FINE. Book. …