Introduction by christopher morley (39 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. Clean tight copy. Shelf wear. Tanning along fore edges and pages. Bumping along edges and tips of boards. Rubbing and fading to boards. Spine is slightly cocked. Spine creases. Former owner's name on front fly leaf.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Hard Cover - Good - No dust jacket if issued - Other than bumping at edges and fade to spine book is tight with light wear - 555 pages.

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 288 pages. 8.00x5.12x7.99 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Moderate edgewear on the boards. Binding is so loose that the book will stay open to any given page. Moderate shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardback. Condizione: Near Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 1st Edition. Reprint Octavo hardback 720 pp. Near Very Good condition Deep pink/purple cloth gilt titles. No inscriptions.

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 288 pages. 8.00x5.12x7.99 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 288 pages. 8.00x5.12x7.99 inches. In Stock.

hardcover. Condizione: Good. No jacket. Upper part of binding is worn/discolored. Clean unmarked and tight text block.

hardcover. 1st ed. B009908; 555 pp, And edge fraying hardcover, good contents, covers are fair with discoloration.

Hardcover w/DJ. Condizione: Good/Good. First Edition. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. Good/Good. 1934. First Edition. Hardcover w/DJ. Sm 8vo., 555 p.p., Shelf wear; head and tail of spine and corners of cover bumped; head and tail of dust jacket spine and corners of dust jacket torn; cracked inner hinge; shelf lean; top and bottom edge of front dust jacket panel chipped; dust jacket spine lightly sunned; tear at top edge of back dust jacket panel;previous owner's inscription on first front free-end paper; original price intact; pages clean and unmarked. . Not Illustrated (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. First Printing. DJ has some edge wear and Is in a mylar protector. ; Inscribed by Ruber on the front free endpaper. ; Collection of reminiscences and tributes by Morley, Franklin P. Adams, August Dereleth, Ben Hecht, David Randall, Carl Sandsburg, and others. Also contains a checklist of Starret's books. …

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 288 pages. 8.00x5.12x7.99 inches. In Stock.

mass market paperback. Condizione: acceptable; used. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDED16mo; 308 pages; acceptable exlibrary mass market paperback; library stamps to edges; stains to cover and few pages; spine slanting; tips bumped and chipped; few nicks and chips to edges cover; tanned pages; edges factory coloring some fade; few pages slight chip to edges; some pencil front free end page from a previous owner; clean pages ; prompt shipping wtiht racking. …

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 288 pages. 8.00x5.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Glassine; plus slip case. Copyright date of 1938 is given but for the Limited Editions Club--this elegant edition may be as late as the 1960s; 237 p., clean and unmarked on fine quality paper only faintly age-toned; map end pagers; ill.; binding firm; illustrated boards in gray tonalities clean without discernible wear, and gilt lettering on unsunned red patch on spine are still bright; glassine wrapper very yellow with some chipping; celadon slip case has little edge wear but is sunned at edges.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good-. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. This book is in Very Good- condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. There is rubbing and wear to the spine ends and corners of the book covers and a chip to the bottom spine end of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. The endpapers have some beginning toning. "This is not a writing, but conversation. It is condensed from a stenographic transcript taken down as uttered, and was the concluding talk of a series given in March and April, 1939, at Adelphi College, Garden City, Long Island. The term Passivity is employed with some mischief as "Activity Programs" have become a fetich among progressive educators." (from the book).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. Argus Book Shop, 1939; no additional printings indicated. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; text also very good; edge-wear to cloth boards is light. No dust jacket, likely as issued. NOT an ex-library copy, NO remainder mark. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very good. First Modern Library edition. 4 1/4 x 6 1/2 inches. x, 332 pages. Flexible pebbled brown covers. Condition is Very Good; very clean, pages very lightly toned in the margins. STK.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Jacket Slipcase is Fair. T.M. Cleland (illustratore).

Condizione: Good. Good condition. Acceptable dust jacket. (humor, short stories, british literature) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Hardcover. Vintage Copy. Book condition is Very Good; with a Good dust jacket. Edgewear to jacket including bumps, chips, short tears, and one longer tear along the edge of rear cover. A few small stains to jacket. Minor edgewear to boards, including a few small bumps. Text is clean and unmarked. No date, circa 1960. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. ] Hardback, 12mo, 4 3/4 x 7 1/2 inches, copper titling on black cloth, xxx + 670 pages, VG+ in VG dj (dj in new protective mylar). Very nice copy. Head of spine bumped o/w book itself crisp and clean throughout interior, close to being entirely flawless. DJ bright, clean, price corner intact, bump crinkle head of spine, quarter-inch chip heel of spine o/w edgewear pretty minor. RWR5 Literature Humor Illustrated Cats.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Not in a slip case. The following applies to both volumes: Residue of a sticker on inside front cover (Volume I). Slight discoloration to pages. Some wear along the edges, tips, and along the spine. Some rubbing wear to covers. ONLY SOLD AS A SET. T. M. Cleland (illustratore). …

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. xiii, 316 pages. 28 cm. Green burlap boards with green title over white label to spine. Decorative end papers). Top edge blue-green. Illustrated with 30 out-of-text full-page drawings, some in color. some in b/w "reproduced in Similetone and Intaprint by the Zeese-Wilkinson Company". Printed on special thick paper (made by the P.H. Glalfelter Company). Sunned spine (brown) and to boards along the spine. Book is bright and tight with clear illustrations. NOTE : Large and heavy book (1.5 kg), may need extra shipping, please inquire. Illustrations by Lewis C. Daniel (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. With an introduction by Christopher Morley and wood engravings by Freda Bone. An unnumbered copy from a limitation of 1200. New York: Cheshire House, 1932. Quarter leather and marbled boards in slipcase, pages uncut; pp. [iv], viii, [2], 147, [2]. Sunning to spine, else a fine copy. Internally clean and bright. Slipcase shows some wear. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Limited Edition. A beautiful, clean, crisp hardcover in very good condition; light shelf wear more pronounced at extremities. Original glassine dust jacket in good condition with age toning and edge wear. Includes clamshell box in very good condition with sunning to spine. No. 476/1,100 limited edition copies.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. SHEPARDSON BOOKSTALL, 20+ YEARS OF EXCELLENCE. DJ has price of 95 cents; many chips and wear along top edges with one large tear with chip on back (see scan). BOOK is Stiff Board covered in Kelly green cloth with black accents; spine #8; Kent endpapers. SYNOPSIS: Considered a masterpiece of travel literature for nearly a century, The Sea and the Jungle is a wise and witty book of firsts: ostensibly a light-hearted story of a Londoner's first ocean voyage, it is also a carefully crafted journalistic account of the first successful ascent of the Amazon River and its tributary, the Madeira, by an English steamer. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good -. First Edition, First Printing. Original price of $2.00 printed on dust jacket front flap. Jacket sunned, chipped to head and top edges not affecting printing with archival closed tears, now protected in paper backed polyester film. Book is inscribed/gifted by "Etta Preston" wife of author. …

Condizione: Fair. New York: The Viking Press, 1946. Sm 8vo. xiii,718pp. Illus. Book Good. No dust jacket. Gifter's inscription ("For Barbara, / Happy Birthday!! / Carl and Stan / Sept. 29, 1950") on front free endpage. Lower corner slightly bumped toward end. Barbara G. Mertz Rev Trust custom bookplate on pastedown. This book formed part of Barbara G. Mertz's personal library at her home in Frederick, Maryland. (short stories, humor, manners, customs, Edwardian era) Inquire if you need further information.…