Good plus or better, light general wear, lightly soiled. Cloth Pages browned.
Condizione: Fair. Acceptable condition. Former Library book. (New Orleans, Fiction) A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books.
Good plus or better, light general wear, lightly soiled. Cloth Pages browned.
Editore: D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1931
Da: Mare Booksellers ABAA, IOBA, Dover, NH, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Cloth. Condizione: Good. First Edition. First edition. Green cloth. No jacket. 149 pp. A work of fiction set in New Orleans in the 1890s, using the city and its unique culture as a backdrop. VERY GOOD condition. Minor fading, rubbing and edgewear. Text block toned.
Editore: D. Apleton and Comany, New York, 1931
Da: Sea Chest Books, Tucumcari, NM, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Cloth. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: No DJ. Caswell, Edward C. (illustratore). First Edition. Medium green cloth with tan cover and spine labels, printed in green. Image of dancers dressed for Mardi Gras. Spine label is half missing. Ex-library with embossed stamp on title page and small rubber stamp on copyright page, and partial book plate on ffep. First printing with a '1' on the last page of text. This is book four of a series of four novels about old New Orleans by the last four decades of the 19th century. 148 numbered pp. Fiction, New Orleans.
Editore: D. Appleton and Company, 1931
Da: MyLibraryMarket, Waynesville, OH, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. ***Please Read***name inside cover - cover is a little wrinkled on the back panel - No marks on text - My shelf location bn9-d-5*.
Editore: NY Appleton 1931., 1931
Da: Crabtree's Collection Old Books, Sebago, ME, U.S.A.
VG. Title label on ft cover & spine. Illustrated by Il Joseph Pennell, E Caswell. 2nd ptg edition.
Editore: D. Appleton & Co.,, 1931
Da: A Squared Books (Don Dewhirst), South Lyon, MI, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: Good. New York, 1931; green cloth covered boards; titles and illustration pasted to spine and front cover; corners slightly rubbed; spine edges bumped; smudges on front cover; 12mo - over 6 3/4" to 7 3/4" tall; illustrated end papers; interior clean and unmarked; 186 pages.
Editore: D. Appleton & Co., New York, 1931
Da: Ann Becker, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket.
Condizione: Fair. First edition copy. . No Dust Jacket Former Library book. Owner's name on front endpage. (New Orleans, Fiction).
Editore: D. Appleton & Co., New York, 1931
Da: Ann Becker, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket. First Edition.
Editore: D. Appleton and Company, New York & London, 1931
Da: About Books, Henderson, NV, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good condition. Condizione sovraccoperta: No jackets. Pennell, Joseph; & Edward C. Caswell (illustratore). First Printing of the First Edition. New York & London: D. Appleton and Company, 1931. Very Good condition. 4 volumes, complete -- each is a FIRST PRINTING of the FIRST EDITION. All volumes have a (1) at the bottom of the last text page, which is this publisher's method for identifying a First Printing. The set is uniformly bound in original green cloth with a white paper label on each spine and front cover. Light cover soil. Several small brown spots on the front cover of CLOSED SHUTTERS. No owner's name or bookplate. There is a frontispiece by Joseph Pennell in each volume. Endpaper and cover label art is by Edward C. Caswell. "This tetralogy of romances picturing life in Old New Orleans is patterned after Edith Wharton's OLD NEW YORK. WIDOWS ONLY has for its background Creole life in the sixties. STRIFE pictures the carpet-baggers of the seventies. CLOSED SHUTTERS, set in the eighties, is a drama dealing with the life of two proud but improvident aristocrats. MARDI GRAS MASKS is a comedy romance of the nineties that reaches its climax during the fetes of Mardi Gras week." -- McVoy & Campbell 70. Shipping for this 4-vol set is most economical when sent by MEDIA MAIL. Priority and International shipment are also available, but ONLY by special arrangement, and at significantly greater cost. . First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good condition/No jackets. Illus. by Pennell, Joseph; & Edward C. Caswell. 4 vols: 165pp. +186pp. +104pp. +149pp.
Editore: D. Appleton and Co, New York & London, 1931
Da: Trafford Books PBFA, Manchester, Regno Unito
Membro dell'associazione: PBFA
Prima edizione Copia autografata
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Octavo, original cloth with pictorial onlay and title label to spine; front board slightly marked at foot; pictorial endpapers; fine internally and warmly inscribed by the authors, dated May 1931. 165pp plus prelims. Inscribed by Author(s).
Editore: D. Appleton and Co., New York and London, 1931
Da: Saucony Book Shop, Kutztown, PA, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good-VG. Joseph Pennell (frontis.), Edward C. Caswell (decorations) (illustratore). 1st Edition. Complete in four (4) volumes, uniformly bound in light green cloth with paper title labels mounted on upper front cover and upper spine panel. Volumes lightly rubbed along bottom edges, with dulled top text block edges, otherwise nearly as issued. Scarce color illus. dust jackets show rubbed edges with minor chips and a few closed tears, 1" loss to head of spine panel of one volume, tanned spine panels, ranging G to VG, now in mylar. All are 1st editions. One novel set in each decade from 1860s-1890s. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.
Editore: D. Appleton & Company, NY, 1931
Da: Acme Book Company, Fayetteville, NY, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good+. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good+. First Edition; First Printing. Contains: WIDOWS ONLY (The Sixties) ; STRIFE (The Seventies) ; CLOSED SHUTTERS (The Eighties) ; MARDI GRAS MASK (The Nineties). Each volume has (1) at the end of text, denoting First Editions. Book and DJs in excellent condition. With the remnants of illustrated cardboard slipcase (no spine; soiling and wear; ink notation on front).
Editore: D. Appleton and Company, 1931
Da: Shelley and Son Books (IOBA), Hendersonville, NC, U.S.A.
Membro dell'associazione: IOBA
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good -. Four volume complete set in slip case. Please note that the decades mentioned within this set are from the 1800s. Hardcover. Bound in olive green publisher's cloth with off-white labels with green illustration and lettering on the cover. Spine bears matching title label lettered in green. Endpapers are a two-page illustration by artist Edward C. Casewell in brown against a tan background. Text throughout is a larger-sized print. Illustrated dust jackets are in matching red, green and black colors on an off-white background. Volumes included in this set are:1) Widows Only (The Sixties). 165 pp. "[This] is the first of four romances which deal with the old days in New Orleans, and which compose a second set in The Old City Fiction Series. [.] It is a story of tender love and unbending hate, laid against the background of the shattered order of plantation life immediately after the Civil War." (From the DJ).2) Strife (The Seventies). 186 pp. "Deals with the atrocious conditions in New Orleans after the Civil War, when the carpet-baggers seized control of the state and its treasury. It is the graphic story of those conditions when they became so unbearable that the white Southerners arose in revolt and fought a pitched battle with Metropolitan Police, organized by the carpet-baggers, in the main thoroughfare of New Orleans." (From the DJ). 3) Closed Shutters (The Eighties). 104 pp. "[This] is the story of a Creole family, a widow and two daughters, whose inherited Spanish pride made them move from the Vieux Carre to the American quarter to conceal from their friends their dire poverty. [.] The tale of the relations between the American and the Creole families as brought about through this simple black woman is a charming bit of honest sentimentalism that gives the most intimate idea of life on the background of New Orleans - gives it truly, gives it graphically, in all its rich detail of little neighborly kindness." (From the DJ). 4) Mardi Gras Masks (The Nineties). 149 pp. "[This story] shows just how deeply embedded is the Mardi Gras Carnival in the hearts of New Orleanians. It is a story of the last day of Carnival in all its wild hilarity and irresponsible prankishness. [.] This story -- though it is now become a legend -- is based on an actual occurrence. [.] During the unfolding of this amusing tale [.] a complete picture is painted of a typical New Orleans Carnival, with all its gay pageantry and intricate, elaborate ceremonies, and a glimpse is given behind the scenes at the complicated machinery and careful organization that is its motive power." (From the DJ). CONDITION: Books are overall VG with light exterior wear, moreso on the spine. Leaves have lightly and evenly toned with very little foxing, predominantly along the text block edges. Unmarked. Dust jackets are VG- with chipping and soiling along spines. Widows Only dj shows an open tear along the head, and Closed Shutters dust jacket shows both open and closed tears on the spine. Slipcase is strong, yet shows wear on all sides. A very nice, very readable set. Full refund if not satisfied.
Editore: D. Appleton and Co., 1931
Da: Nightshade Booksellers, IOBA member, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
Membro dell'associazione: IOBA
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. First editions of all 4 of the Old New Orleans series by Appeleton. All of them have the (1) on the final pages indicating first printings. All of the books are near fine with tight bindings, clean green bindings and sharp pasted labels. The DJs are very good with some spine darkening and minor chips to each volume. Does not include original slipcase. All titles are included: "Widows Only", "Strife", "Closed Shutters" and "Mardi Gras Masks. See photos. All books are in my possession and packed securely in cardboard boxes.