towne p a (3 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First edition. Good in leather spine with pictorial paper covered boards, front hinge is split, boards split, leather is chipped and worn, some writing in the margins of the text.

7 x 4.5, leather backed printed boards. 360 pp, very worn copy, hinges loose, free end papers gone, pencil notes and scribbles, pp spotted and thumb soiled, a loose and used but intact copy.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 181pp. Gilt-stamped blue cloth. Decorative owner bookplate (William H. Johnson) and contemporary owner gift inscription on front endpapers, old bookstore label on rear fly, spine toned and cloth modestly worn, else very good. Literary spoof of the bluenoses of the era with contributions by Dorothy Parker, Ben Hecht, Heywood Broun, Alexander Woollcott and several others. Amusing illustrations of the contributors at battle with the forces of prudery by Ralph Barton.