Walter george chapman (7 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

First Edition, 20th Thousand. Good paperback copy only; wrappers edgeworn and slightly dust-dulled, entirely detached at the front. Internally tight, bright and clean; remains a very serviceable copy. Series; "Boys of all ages" series. Physical description; [8], 199 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 20 cm. Notes; Donated by H. W. J. Harris. Subjects; Great Western Railway (Great Britain). Caerphilly Castle (Locomotive). Locomotives Great Britain History. Locomotives Design and construction. Locomotives History. Locomotives Models. 20th century. 1920s. Illustrated. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Slightly stained and foxed within. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description; 149p : ill ; 20 cm. Subjects; Locomotives Great Britain History. Locomotives. Railroads Great Britain History 20th century Juvenile literature. Railroads Trains Great Britain History 20th century Juvenile literature. Great Western Railway. 1 Kg.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. A book of railway engineering for boys of all ages. Reprint from 1930's of a GWR book. Illus. pp259.

8vo., Second Edition, with folding frontispiece, title-vignette, numerous photographs (many full-page) and illustrations in the text, and endpaper maps in green; brown cloth, backstrip lettered in cream, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Reissue of the original GWR edition of 1934. See Wilson, pp.88-91 et seq.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. A bound, ex-library copy the July - December 1932 issues of The American Magazine, volume 114. It includes a title and author index bound in the front. Contents include stories and Depression Era articles by Archibald Rutledge (You Can't Put Out the Sun - July), Alexander Woolcott (I'm Glad I'm Absent Minded - July), Dashiell Hammett (2 Sam Spade stories - A Man Called Spade - July, Too Many Have Lived - October), Octavus Roy Cohen (The Knight's Errand - July, Hearts and Clubs - August, Grandstand Stuff - November), Amelia Earhart (Flying the Atlantic - August), Clarence Budington Kelland (Something to Tell the Folks Who Can't See Where Business is Going - August, Scattergood Meets a Gangster - September, The Touchstone: A Scattergood Story - October, Scattergood Tries an Experiment - November, Red Fingernails - December), Beverley Smith (The Man With the Flashlight Mind, The Story of Walter Lippmann - September), Walter Lippmann (Good Men Wanted - September), Tom Gill (Guardians of the Desert parts 1 - 4 - September - December), Kathleen Norris (Walls of Gold, parts 1 - 3, October - December), I A R Wylie (Pilgrimage - November) General John J Pershing (The Thing We Need Today - December), P G Wodehouse (A Cagey Gorilla - December), and others. Light rubbing to the spine. The front covers are present but the back covers have been removed, The top margin has been trimmed slightly, at times affecting the text at the top of the front cover. The library markings are fairly unobtrusive. They include "Mercer University Library - Macon, GA" stamps on the front covers and a Mercer University Library plate on the front paste down. Occasional neat tape repairs to a few pages. Occasional soil spots in the margins. However the interior is very clean and crisp overall. The binding is solid and tight. A very good copy with stories and serial installments by prominent authors, most notably Dashiell Hammett and P G Wodehouse, and a nice selection of Depression Era articles. A heavy, oversize book that will require additional postage. John E Sheridan, Hatden Hayden, Diana Thorne, Penrhyn Stanlaws (covers), Charles S Chapman, William Auerbach-Levy, Joseph Clement, George Howe, Clayton Knight, C W Massaguer, Floyd M Davis, Ralph Pullen Coleman, Paul Meylan, Pruett Carter and others (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 2-volume set. decorative cloth covers show minor wear. bookplates of former owners in the prelims. pages lightly tanned and clean.