True charles h (5 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. HARDCOVER; this is NOT ex-library; in very good condition. Book.

Stapled. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. First Edition. The November 2, 1935 issue of the Saturday Evening Post. Fiction includes Yankee Notion, a J P Marquand short story, part 2 of 6 of Knockout, a novel by Charles Francis Coe, and the conclusion of Dreams That Come True, a novel by Henry C Rowland. It also includes an article about Alcatraz (The Rock - "The toughest "Big House"). Cover art (Halloween Scare) by Francis Stanley. Light soiling to the front cover. A damp stain at the top left that runs throughout the magazine and results in loss at the spine on pages 77 - 92. There is a small loss of text on pages 88 - 92. More pronounced soiling to the rear cover w/a 2.5' x 1.25" chip out of the top left. Similar slightly smaller chip on the last page (91/92) that results in text loss to the top two lines of the left column. Similar yet smaller loss to page 89/90 but no text is affected. Despite its flaw an OK copy. Francis Stanley (cover), John La Gatta (Yankee Notion), Rico Tmaso (Knockout), James H Crank (Dreams That Come True), and others (illustrator).…

Hardcover. dj. First Edition. First Edition. Hardcover. Minor shelf/edge wear, sunning/toning at spine, sunning at front board, two leaves at mid-signature loose at gutter and showing unusual wear at edges as a result (but both are present and wear is very shallow), appears to be rebound (early 20th cent.), else tight, bright and unmarred. Red cloth boards, gilt lettering, frontispiece. 8vo. viii; 592 pp. Illus. (b/w plates). Good+ [Rebound]. No DJ as Issued.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Poor. First Edition. Lewiston, Maine: Nelson Dingley Jr & Co, 1865. First edition, 1865. Poor condition but most notable for the name of the documented Civil War soldier written on the front free endpaper: Josiah H. Smith, Co. K 24 Main Vol Infantry; D C Rodinan Post No. 65 Grand Army of the Republic Silver Lane CT. Smith's name appears in the book and also on a separate list of Maine Volunteers laid in loosely at the front. Brown cloth, 592 pages. Covers heavily rubbed, rear cover detached, spine covering lifting, text block separated into sections, pages foxed. Poor condition overall. Inscribed By One of the Soldiers. First Edition. Hard Cover. Poor. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

FIRST. FAIR+. Fully decorated boards, spine weakening, board separation starting. This very rare children's publication - content done in the illustrated style of Harpers, but here, by the Canadian/American publishing house of Belford (various corporate names), ties together some of the best loved illustrators/artists of the age with literary connections to one of the giants of the age, Mark Twain, and events as monumental as Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. --- Belford, Clarke & Co., Chicago, 1875-1892. Canadian Alexander Belford started "Belford's Magazine" in 1873. He used a new marketing concept of selling "cheap twelvemos.", placing displays in general stores & others to compete with books-only stores. Even selling through temporary stores to unload inventory in a technique called 'hippodroming'. They also marketed by announcing (artificially) impending price increases to push sales 'before looming deadlines'. The company was embroiled in constant law suits and their Chicago plant was razed by fire in 1886. But that didn't stop Belford. He contracted with the Encyclopedia Britannica to promote a reduced price American version of the famous British work that made it a success in the States. In the meantime, Mark Twain constantly sued the company for using his personal illustrator True Williams in their publications. But the wiley entrpreneur always seemed to escape culpability. Williams is prominent in this current offering of Belford's Annual 1888-89. Additionally, Belford had a knack for bringing important people onboard his staff. Colonel Donn Piatt served as an editor in 1888. Piatt was renowned for being a Union officer who devised the formation in Maryland of a full regiment manned "solely by slaves". The legal effect was to at once emancipate every slave in Maryland - BEFORE Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation was made political currency. It caused a wave of slaves to enlist for service and turned Maryland "Free". The book for sale here includes articles by Theodore Roosevelt, Gen. Lew Wallace, and other notables. Art contributors included True Williams, N.H Cady, Arthur Vaughn, Charles. M Bowles, among others. An extraordinary surviving memento of 19th century publishing and personalities. [B87-43]. TRUE Williams, H.N. Cady, Arthur Vaughan, Charles M Bowles, et al. (illustrator).…