Editore: BARSE AND HOPKINS, NY, 1917
Da: Bluff Park Rare Books, LONG BEACH, CA, U.S.A.
Membro dell'associazione: IOBA
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. HBDJ, NO DATE, 1917, VG-/GOOD-, AS-IS, DJ Soiled Extremities with few stains, Back DJ lists Stories of Adventure thru Traveling Bears in Fairyland soiling & small edge tears, Small piece Missing Base Spine DJ NOT Affecting Title, GREEN CLOTH WITH COLOR PICTORIAL ILLUSTRATION Matches DJ Illustration Lightr wear Extremities Cvr, , Cvr Light wear, Few Small Scuffs &y Tears near Edge & Light Corner Crease, MEASURES 6.5" BY 9" AND HAS 47 PAGES OF TEXT AND 11 PAGE CATALOG OF OTHER BOOKS FOR SALE. GREEN CLOTH WITH DARK GREEN LETTERING AND A COLOR PICTORIAL FRONT COVER ONLAY, BOOK'S CONDITION IS VERY GOOD- WITH BOTTOM SPINE BUMP AND A SMALLER BUMP ON BOTTOM REAR CORNER . SMALL ABRASION AND WHITE MARK ON BOTTOM FRONT . BOTTOM CORNER OF FRONT ENDPAPER AND A FEW PAGES AFTER SHOW A 1 INCH WATER STAIN, BOTTOM SPINE HAS A 1 INCH AREA OF GHOST BROWNING WHERE THE JACKET ABOVE HAD A 1 INCH LOSS AREA. A LITTLE LIGHT SOILING ALONG THE REAR COVER AND HERE AND THERE. THE JACKET DID A GREAT JOB OF PROTECTING THE BRIGHT BINDING. THE JACKET HAS SOME WATERSTAINING ON FRONT COVER . BOTTOM SPINE HAS A 1 INCH AREA OF LOSS ( . SPINE HEAD HAS A SMALL PIECE OUT ON LEFT SPINE EDGE. SOILING FRONT AND REAR . TOP CORNERS SHOW TINY LOSS. SCATTERED SMALL CLOSED EDGE TEARS WITH A 2 INCH CLOSED TEAR AT UPPER MIDDLE REAR COVER. SOME WRINKLING AND SCATTERED SOILING, SMALL MARKS. DUST JACKET CONDITION IS GOOD. MOSTLY COMPLETE EXCEPT FOR BOTTOM SPINE. BOOK HAS SCATTERED FOXING, PARTICULARLY ON ENDPAPERS, AND HALF TITLE. PRETTY CLEAN INTERNALLY. SCARCE IN ANY JACKET AT ALL! , Blank Endpapers Fox Former owner Inscription & small Corner Stain, , FOUR COLOR PLATES INCLUDING THE COVER ONLAY.Inner Flap DJ PriceClipped Lists Thru Corner House Girls on a Tour , Color Frontispiece I Swear to Perform My Duties as regent & to Take Care of His Majesty Foxed on Blank Margins, ,A CLASSIC CHILDREN'S BOOK, IT IS THE STORY OF A LITTLE PRINCE WHO WAS LAMED BY AN ACCIDENTAL FALL WHEN VERY YOUNG. A BELOVED CLASSIC THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.
Editore: Thomas Y. Crowell, New York, 1898
Da: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Membro dell'associazione: IOBA
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Color Frontispiece, Plates (illustratore). Second American Edition. 389 Pp. Green Cloth, Gilt, Top Edge Gilt. Second American Edition (Previously Published By Harper's). Light Wear, Gilt Bright, Hinge Repaired With Yellowing Tape Between Frontispiece And Title Page. Inscribed "Birthday Greetings From Edward Doheny Nov. 25Th 1902" On Front Free Endpaper. Edward Laurence Doheny (1856 ? 1935) Was An American Oil Tycoon Who, In 1892, Drilled The First Successful Oil Well In The Los Angeles City Oil Field. His Success Set Off A Petroleum Boom In Southern California, And Made Him A Fortune When, In 1902, He Sold His Properties. He Then Began Highly Profitable Oil Operations In Tampico, Mexico's "Golden Belt", Drilling The First Well In The Nation In 1901. He Expanded Operations During The Mexican Revolution, And Opened Large New Oil Fields In Lake Maracaibo (Venezuela). His Holdings Developed As The Pan American Petroleum & Transport Company, One Of The Largest Oil Companies In The World In The 1920S. In The 1920S, Doheny Was Implicated In The Teapot Dome Scandal And Accused Of Offering A $100,000 Bribe To United States Secretary Of The Interior Albert Fall. Doheny Was Twice Acquitted Of Offering The Bribe, But Fall Was Convicted Of Accepting It. The Character J. Arnold Ross In Upton Sinclair's 1927 Novel Oil! (The Inspiration For The 2007 Film There Will Be Blood) Is Loosely Based On Doheny. Doheny And His Second Wife And Widow, Carrie Estelle, Were Noted Philanthropists In Los Angeles, Especially Regarding Catholic Schools, Churches And Charities. Carrie Estelle Doheny Suffered A Hemorrhage That Left Her Partially Blind. Realizing The Value Of Good Vision, She Created And Funded The Doheny Eye Institute,[42] Which Has Become A World Leader In Vision Research. She Became A Major Cultural Philanthropist In Los Angeles, California As Well. When Commissioning New Buildings For These Civic Projects, She Often Chose The Renowned Southern California Architect Wallace Neff. On Her Death, She Left Antiquities, Including What Then Must Have Been The Finest Privately Held Library In The Western U.S., And Funds, To St. John's (Roman Catholic) Seminary Located In Camarillo, In Ventura County. In 1954, Estelle Doheny Provided Funds And "A Quantity Of Her Precious Collections In The Library Building" At St. Mary's Of The Barrens Seminary In Perryville, Missouri. By November 11, 2000, The Vincentian Fathers Signed A Contract With Southeast Missouri State University To Use The Library Building. So, "The Doheny Treasures Were Sold." Doheny And His First Wife, Carrie Louella, Had A Daughter, Eileen, Who Died In Childhood. Their Son, Edward L. ("Ned") Doheny, Jr., (1893-1929) Was The Owner Of Greystone Mansion And The Namesake Of Doheny Library At The University Of Southern California. Through Ned's Children, Doheny Is The Great-Grandfather Of Science Fiction Writer Larry Niven. The Great Fairy Tale Was Who Will Clean Up All The Pollution Of Doheny's Oil, And Who Will Pay For All The Health Problems It Has Caused.
Editore: RAINBOW BLUE RIBBON BOOKS NY, 1922
Da: Bluff Park Rare Books, LONG BEACH, CA, U.S.A.
Membro dell'associazione: IOBA
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. HARDBACK NO DUSTJACKET, 1922, 1st Edition THUS, VG+. YELLOW ILLUSTRATED CLOTH cvr, WITH RAINBOW ON BACK EDGE OF & ON FRONT EDGE CVR, , NOJACKET, FRONT HARDBACK CVR SHOWS MAN WITH RED SASH AT HIS WAIST & HAT & HIS HAND TOUCHES THE WALL & LITTLE TINY MEN STANDING BY HIM Considering that it's a children's book, this book is in solid condition! Yellowing of pages. Wear and markings on cover. Pencil marks and light staining on a few pages, but the rest are crisp and clean. HARDBACK CVR SHOWS MAN WITH RED SASH AT HIS WAIST & HAT & HIS HAND TOUCHES THE WALL & LITTLE TINY MEN STANDING BY HIM, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, House Island, Little Riding Hood , Snow White,Little One Eye, Yellow Dwarf , Clever Alice ETC.
Editore: Rand McNally & Company, 1923
Da: Bluff Park Rare Books, LONG BEACH, CA, U.S.A.
Membro dell'associazione: IOBA
Hard Cover. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Thus. HBDJ, PC, 1923, 1st edition THus, 1ST Printing, 1 date on Copyright pg, 128 pages, 128 pages, Blue cloth, large Winter colour plate set in. , DJ light rub, wear & scuff & small Chips along Extemities, small mended tears DJ. F-/VG+, AS-IS, Blue cloth with Gold gilt embossed TITLeS with Duplication of DJ Illustration on Front. includes Story of author's Life. An old tale of a mischievous brownie, in an attractive edition. Years cannot dull the appeal which these six delightful Tales possess for Boys & Girls.