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Price: US$30.92 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Chalmers, Patrick R. The Horn: a lay of the Grassington fox-hounds / illustrated by Lionel Edwards, R. I. London: Collins, 1937. First edition. Hardback, VG. Red cloth, somewhat bumped and rubbed with a little damage to the top of the spine and colour loss on reverse; black lettering to spine. Red endpapers. Colour frontispiece. 148pp., b/w illustrations throughout. Top of text block slightly dusty; contents clean and bright. Patrick Reginald Chalmers (27 June 1872 12 September 1942) was an Irish writer, who worked as a banker. His first book was Green Days and Blue Days (1912), followed by A Peck of Malt (1915). He wrote in a number of different areas, including field sports, deerstalking and horse racing, as well biographies of Kenneth Grahame and J. M. Barrie. He was a contributor to Punch magazine and The Field, and editor of the hunting diaries of Edward VIII (as Prince of Wales). He also wrote much poetry, with topics war, dogs and cats, and Irish life, as well as hunting and fishing. His work was part of the literature event in the art competition at the 1924 Summer Olympics. Lionel Edwards (9 November 1878 13 April 1966) was a British artist who specialised in painting horses and other aspects of British country life. He is best known for his hunting scenes but also painted pictures of horse racing, shooting and fishing. He provided illustrations for Country Life, The Sphere, The Graphic and numerous books. RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing.
Seller: RightWayUp Books, Woodbridge, SUFFO, United Kingdom
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Liveright Publishing Corporation, New York. 1934. Hardcover. Stated 7th Printing. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Near Fine; trace shelfwear to tail and tips. DJ: Very Good +; Price Clipped; light shelfwear to head, tail, and tips; slight sunfade to spine. Green cloth boards and spine with brown lettering on the spine with decorations on the spine and front board. 328 pp 8vo. The focus of the book is the author's time living in a shack on a small island, Jones Island, off Long Island's south shore, from 1921 to 1929. The nearby Coast Guard crew helped him repair the shack and shared supplies and recipes with him. In 1929 the encroachment of the Jones State Park forced him off the island, but a dispensation from the head of the parks department allowed him to keep the shack, and he continued to visit the island until his death. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket. These gently humorous essays show the difficulty of living alone, dependent on the mercy of the coast guardsmen and the seasonal visitors to the island, who left behind miscellaneous canned goods when they left. He quotes the acerbic comments of his only companion, a black cat.
Seller: Books by White/Walnut Valley Books, Winfield, KS, U.S.A.
Garner, Elvira. Ezekiel. Henry Holt, 1937.
Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Blue Cloth Spine, Illustrated Boards. Second Printing Stated. Near Fine, Bright And Clean, No Marks. Dust Jacket ;Price Clipped, Some Wear, Browning, Short Tears And Small Losses. Per Wikipedia, Elvira Garner (1886–1956) Was An Early 20Th-Century Author And Watercolor Illustrator In The Us State Of Florida. Garner Lived In Sanford, Florida, And Attended Rollins College In 1903 And 1904, But She Wasn't Able To Graduate Because Of Family Responsibilities. Garner Published Five Children's Books, The First Four Of Which She Also Illustrated: Ezekiel (1937), Ezekiel Travels (1938), Sarah Faith Anderson: Her Book (1939) And 'Way Down In Tennessee (1941). Her Last Book Was Little Cat Lost (1943). Ezekiel, Her Best-Known Children's Book, Won A Prize From The Julia Ellsworth Ford Foundation, Was Published By Henry Holt In 1937, And Detailed The Story Of A Black Boy Who Lived In Sanford, Florida With His Mammy, Pappy And Sister Emancipation.] As Noted In A Positive Review In The New York Times, The Book Had An Unusual Format For The Time, With "Droll Little Sketches In Color Scattered Lavishly Through The Printed Pages As An Integral Part Of The Text" Often Forming The Words Of The Story, Itself.[ Ezekiel Was Advertised Heavily With "Display Material In The Form Of Window Sets, Sets Of Dolls Illustrating The Story And Made -- By The Author -- Out Of Pipe Cleaners, Etc." The Book Is Considered By Swann Galleries In An Auction Description As: Emblematic Of Florida When It Was Part Of The Deep South, Ezekiel Was Written In African-American Dialect, And Was Tremendously Popular. But In The Early Days Of The Civil Rights Struggle, Books Like Little Black Sambo, And Ezekiel, As Well As Radio And Television Programs Like Amos And Andy Stereotyping African Americans Were Essentially "Purged" From Popular Culture. Garner, Who Was White, Wrote In What She Imagined Was African-American Dialect Of The Time. In The Book With His Name, Ezekiel Said "Hits An Ill Wind Dat Blows Nobody No Good.” Ezekiel's Type Was Hand Drawn, With Illustrations Inserted Into The Type. In 1939, Sarah Faith Anderson: Her Book, Was Published, Detailing Life Of A Girl Whose Father Was A Missionary To The Seminoles In St. Augustine, Florida, And Capturing The Feeling Of 19Th-Century Florida In Words And Illustrations. In 1941, She Published 'Way Down In Tennessee.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. 8vo; 150pp + [2]; royal blue textured cloth over board, black vignette of cat on front, title in black on spine; yellow pictorial endpapers with cats; gift inscription in neat ink to title page; color vignette to title page; illustrations in both color and b&w; light age toning of paper, top edge light spot; unclipped color pictorial dust jacket lacking price, light age-toning of dj paper, some light staining; near fine in very good plus dj. Story of a young girl who wants a kitten.
Seller: Sandra L. Hoekstra Bookseller, Thomaston, ME, U.S.A.
. Who are the Twelve Greatest American Women?. Black Cat Press, Chicago, 1937.
Price: US$112.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A very good copy of this keepsake published by the Black Cat Press. The colophon states: "This, number two of a series of keepsakes was designed and set by Forgue and Roth, Printers, and 500 copies printed from Linotype Granjon and Ludlow Garamond, adaptations of the original fonts of the famous French typefounder, Claude Garamond. Worthy Brochure in the natural wove finish has been used as the text paper and is enclosed in Brochure laid wrappers, french-fold." Saddle-stitched. The two-and-one-half page text is unmarked, pristine. Evidence of a small bump to the bottom right corner of the Brochure laid wrapper, resulting in a miniscule crease along the very edge and some slight flaking. One small abrasion to the front cover. A lovely copy of this rare Black Cat Press keepsake.
Seller: Works on Paper, DeKalb, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. One of 250 copies printed and published by the Black Cat Press. 61pp. Chapter notes. Original silver-stamped blue cloth, printed paper label on front cover. A very fine copy. Collier (1789-1873) was appointed by President Taylor as Collector of the port of San Francisco just after the Mexican War. He and his party were among the 1849 westward-bound emigrants who came into the gold fields via the southern route - across the Colorado River westward over the Colorado Desert. H.M.T. Powell, in his diary, indicates that Collier followed the mountain route out from the Carrizo Corridor, his trail leading up through a canyon, over the mountains, finally bringing him to San Diego. Well researched with extensive chapter notes. Quite scarce. [Edwards: p. 87; Rader: 1430; Rocq: 9400].
Seller: Argonaut Book Shop, ABAA, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
ALLEN W. SEABY. SONS OF SKEWBALD - OR, CASTOR AND POLLUX. ADAM & CHARLES BLACK, London, UK, 1937.
Price: US$251.21 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Allen William Seaby (1867 - 28 July 1953) was the author of several art ADAM & CHARLES BLACK, London, UK, 1937. Cloth. Book Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Original Dustjacket. with eight full page drawings and 27 smaller illustrations by the author (illustrator). 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Allen William Seaby (1867 - 28 July 1953) was the author of several art books for students, and also wrote and illustrated books for children. Seaby taught fine art at the University of Reading for many years, eventually becoming a professor and head of department. Among his students were Kathleen Hale, the creator of Orlando The Cat: A Camping Holiday (1938) and its sequels, and C.H. Chapman, who went on to take over the drawing of Billy Bunter. Allen W. Seaby was the grandfather of noted wildlife illustrator and printmaker, Robert Gillmor.[The Book Described:] The original dustjacket houses this book. 6/- NET sticker to inner front prelim. Light creasing to the spine and prelim folds with slight darkening to those areas also. Few very small closed edge tears. It really is a nice condition overall for an old dustjacket. It really has been looked after well. Now housed in a plastic [removable] protective sleeve. Light beige cloth boards with wine lettering to the spine. Bumped corners, slight colour darkening to the spine. Firmly bound to inner page block. 207 pages are clean and tightly bound throughout. - END - [Shipping] - All our orders are shipped within 1 or 2 business days.
Seller: Modern_First_Printings, EAST SUSSEX, United Kingdom
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: Cardozo Can't Recall Any Memories Worth Sharing [Manuscript]. Cardozo, Benjamin N. [1870-1938]. [Shapiro, Harold Roland]. [Autograph Letter, Signed, To Shapiro On Supreme Court Letterhead, March 26, 1937]. Single 7-3/4" x 5" sheet. Horizontal fold line though center, tiny inkspot above letterhead, otherwise fine. [With] Cardozo, Benjamin N. [6-1/2" x 8-1/2" Black-and-White Photograph of Cardozo's Chair in the Supreme Court Courtroom Draped in Black Bunting]. [Washington, DC: International News Photos, July 12, 1938]. Light wear to edges, stamps and caption to verso. $750. * Cardozo writes (in part): "Many thanks for your letter. Alas, I have no reminiscences worthy to be recorded!" Shapiro was an assistant district attorney in New York City and the author of books and articles on a wide range of topics. Shapiro's request for a reminiscence was probably related to one of his writing projects. The photograph's caption reads (in part): "IN MOURNING: The Supreme Court chair of Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo, who died last Saturday, was draped in black today. It was the first time that mourning black was placed on the bench since 1930, when Justice Sanford died."
Seller: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., ABAA ILAB, Clark, NJ, U.S.A.
Vernon Loder. Choose Your Weapon. The Crime Club, Collins, UK, 1937.
Price: US$1127.23 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Choose Your Weapon by Vernon Loder First Edition The Crime Club Collins 1937. Publisher's file copy with stamp and date to ffep. Contents are clean and unblemished throughout. No foxing. Covers bright, fine and without bumping or rubbing to corners or edges. In original VG+ dust jacket. Not clipped and with printed price of 7/6 to front flap. Choose Your Weapon is a vintage murder mystery from the golden age of detection. It was originally published in 1937 and is now part of the Black Heath Classic Crime series. The story is set in the quiet English village of Ingle Parva, where a village bazaar is taking place. Jean Maze, a young woman who is looking forward to the bazaar, is asked to play the part of a fortune teller. On the day of the bazaar, however, she makes a macabre discovery when she finds the body of a man named Marden, a business rival of her brother-in-law, in her fortune teller's tent. The police are called and begin their investigation, but Jean Maze is not content to wait for them. She starts to do some theorising of her own and soon finds herself caught up in a dangerous game of cat and mouse with the killer.
Seller: Brought to Book Ltd, London, United Kingdom