Gambit boston ma (11 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First Printing. 178 pages; Ex-Library copy with usual identifiers. Top edge of pages colored blue. Presumably publisher's aesthetic choice. But the paint has bled onto the top edge of a couple pages. No markings on text pages or major defects. ; - We offer free returns for any reason and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your order will be packaged with care and ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence. …

Hardcover. First edition. First printing [stated]. 286, [2] p. Occasional footnotes. Illustrations. Select Bibliography. Index. In an appendix, the fleets of NATO and Warsaw Pact are compared. This tried to present with a comprehensive background the facts of Soviet sea powers. The previous owner, Walter Darnell Jacobs, was a noted military authority. Very good. No dust jacket. Bookplate of Walter Darnell Jacobs inside front cover. Pencil erasure residue on fep. Cover has minor wear and soiling. …

Zustand: very good, good. First Edition. First Printing. 178, index, some wear to DJ edges, ink notation inside front flyleaf.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. 191 pages. First edition, first printing. Dust jacket art by Leslie H. Morrill. Her second book. Fine book in a fine dust jacket. A beautiful copy. Morrill, Leslie H. (illustrator).

Zustand: good, good. First Printing. 22 cm, 321, DJ in plastic sleeve, edges soiled. The author was born into the world of Edwardian London. He traveled with his father, Philip Gibbs, on journalistic missions where he met celebrities, wrote some plays and novels, and during WWII tried to sway American sentiment.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: good. First Edition. First Printing. 178 pages. Index, some wear and soiling to DJ. Signed by the author.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: fair. First? Edition. First? Printing. 150 pages. Illus., index, front DJ flap price clipped, DJ worn, torn, soiled, and chipped. Presentation copy signed by Auchincloss. This is a complete array of literary figures by one of the great caricaturists of our time, David Levine. This collection, from Benjamin Franklin on the first page to the Beatles on the last--more than 200 drawings--is an extensive gallery of Mr. Levine's literary features from the present and the past of America, Europe, and the British Isles. Introduced and selected by John Updike.…

Zustand: very good, good. Second Printing. 24 cm, 307, endpaper maps, glossary, index, front DJ flap price clipped, DJ in plastic sleeve.

Zustand: Very good. WITH AN ORIGINAL SKETCH INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY DAVID LEVINE - Small quarto [approximately 10 inches high by 7 inches wide], black boards backed with gray cloth & titled in gilt in a dust wrapper. The dust jacket is lightly chipped with a small area of rubbing & foxing to its rear panel. The jacket spine is slightly darkened. viii, [1] leaf & 150 pages. Illustrated with profuse black-and-white caricatures. Near fine in a very good dust wrapper. First edition.With an original sketch of a man tying on an apron titled "Bruno Levine". The drawing is inscribed "To the Lessers" and signed "David Levine".The contents of the book are introduced and selected by John Updike.Laid in are a flier for a joint exhibition of David Levine's drawings and Laura Ziegler's sculpture; and an offprint of a New York Times article about Levine's Coney Island drawings.…

Hardcover in dust jacket. Zustand: Very Good. This book is hard-bound in black cloth, with a gray cloth spine, with gilt stamping to the upper cover and with slightly faded gilt stamping on the spine, in a dust jacket with some light soiling/toning and light edge-wear. The covers show some light rubbing to the corners and spine-ends. The binding is solid. The contents are bright and clean, with illustrations. This book is signed/inscribed by John Kenneth Galbraith on the front free end-page, and signed/inscribed by David Levine, on the half title-page, with an original drawing of a personified fountain pen. - From the collection of Cuthbert Christian Thambimuttu (1945-2019) of Columbus, Ohio - known to many of his bookseller, author, and illustrator friends as "Tubby." He was persistent in the pursuit of autographed books by the writers and artists he admired, including Gorey, Sendak, Heaney, Byatt, Morrison, Updike and many more. Joseph Heller once wrote to Tubby in response to one more "please sign and return" request: "This is turning out to be a hell of a lot of work!" All signed books unconditionally guaranteed to be authentic. Many of the books are inscribed to both Cuthbert and his great friend of more than two decades Antonia Gale Moss.…

Zustand: Very good. WITH AN ORIGINAL SEXUAL CARICATURE INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY DAVID LEVINE - Small quarto [approximately 10 inches high by 7 inches wide], black boards backed with gray cloth & titled in gilt in a dust wrapper. There is some minor soiling to the dust jacket & its top edge is lightly chipped. viii, [1] leaf, 194 & [2] pages. Profusely illustrated with black-and-white caricatures. Near fine in a very good dust wrapper. First edition.With an original caricature on the half-title inscribed and signed by David Levine. The caricature depicts a naked man and woman: a small intimidated-looking man kneels between the thighs of a large, pillowy woman. The pen-and-ink drawing is inscribed: "To The Lessers / David Levine." The words "and The Muse" are added, possibly in another hand.The contents of the book are introduced and selected by John Kenneth Galbraith.…