Homer clarke venable (4 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 12mo. 290 pages. Hardcover bound in b lack cloth with lettering in yellow. Moderate rubbing and wear to the binding. Corners are a bit bumped. Secure inner hinges. Map endpapers. Text is clean. Covington Clarke was the pseudonym of Homer Clark Covington (1891-1953), who wrote some boy's adventure (and some science fiction) books. Born in Missouri, he lived in Virginia for about 20 years, during which he wrote this book. This is one of his adventure novels set in the Civil War.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. No Jacket. Reprint. Bound in navy cloth with titles and rules stamped in gilt. Although the book states that the illustrator is Harry W. Armstrong, R& L stopped using a frontipiece in 1926 and subsequently removed the from earlier titles as they were reprinted. This copy has no frontispiece (and ne ver did), so we know it a later printing, probably from 1926, as the Roy J. Snell titles listed as advbertisement list his boks through the titles published that year. The cloth shows no wear, the hinges are solid and binding is square. A clean, tight, unmarked copy of Venable's first book as Clarke, a juvenile western. none (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Reprint. Volume 1 in this series. Bound in green cloth with titles and rules stamped in black. No illustrations. Reprint circa 1930 listing 4 titles on the rear flap of the dust wrapper. This copy lacks the requisite illustrated endpapers and 8 pages of aerial acrobatics found at the rear of the first edition, which also has blue cloth and cover lettering stamped in gilt. There are no ads at the rear. The cloth shows only a hint of edgewear; the dust jacket has moderate edgewear with shallow chipping at the head and heel, and a 1" chip to the lower front panel at the spine. Former owner's info in ink to the front pastedown, with later pencil inscription to the ffe. Hinges solid; binding square. A clean, tight copy, with the wrapper now in mylar. The jacket art is not signed, but it is clearly Gretter's work. He became established at R&L in 1927 and worked there until moving to NY in 1932, when he began signing his work as "J. Clemens Gretta". Mattson & Davis 01625. Gretter, Clemens (dust jacket art) (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Good dj. 2nd printing (see note). (price-clipped) [good solid book, very slight deterioration to cloth at bottom edges of both covers, one teeny-tiny wormhole in front joint, one-time owner's name and place of purchase in ink at top of ffep; jacket has some minor chipping and slight paper loss (especially at corners and at top of spine) but with no loss of text]. Self-declared as "THE Great War Novel," this might as well be subtitled "A Hillbilly's Adventures in the Great War." The author was a WWI veteran who hailed from Missouri (his military service bona fides are detailed on the rear jacket flap), and while his alter-ego protagonist, Jeptha Montgomery Brice (called "Jep") maintains his cornpone accent and attitude throughout, the author at least doesn't fall into the trap of letting Jep also narrate the story, which would likely have rendered it unreadable. (Let's just say that Clarke Venable was no Ring Lardner, and leave it at that.) The book was apparently well-reviewed in its day -- the entire jacket design, at least of this printing, consists of a couple of dozen single-word quotes from various newspapers ("Sparkling"; "Vivid"; "Genuine"; "Absorbing"; etc.) -- although I haven't been able to turn up any actual contemporary reviews from which I might have been able to pull a more full-bodied quote. The bulk of this author's literary output (both under his own name and using the pseudonym "Covington Clarke") seems to have been boys' adventure fiction, often with an aviation theme; this would appear to be the only time he incorporated anything resembling autobiographical content, although admittedly that's a bit of an assumption based on his acknowledged war service. [NOTE that while the book itself states "Second Printing," the jacket is labeled as "Fourth Printing." You can believe what you want to believe.].…