Pat crowe (11 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. 1st Edition. This is an ex-library copy containing library stamps, and the dust jacket has a library label. As well as the listed illustrators, the book also includes the following illustrators: Sydney Prior Hall, Jules Pelcoq, Cham (Arnadee Charles Henri, Count of Noe), Albert Robida, Daniel Vierge, Irving Montagu, Melton Prior, Johann Nepomuk Schonberg, Walter Paget, Frank Algernon Stewart, Frederic Villiers, George Bigot, Henry Charles Seppings Wright, Rene Bull, Richard Caton Woodville, Charles Edwin Fripp, W.T. Maud, George Lynch, Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, Geoffrey Douglas Giles, Charles M. Sheldon, Frederic Remington, Howard Chandler Christy, Ernest Prater, Inglis Sheldon-Williams. The illustrations are chronologically of: the Crimean War, the Magdala punitive attack, the Franco-Prussian Wars, Paris Commune, the First Indian War of Independence, Britain's wars against China, the Italian War of Unification, American Civil War, US Indian Wars, German-Danish War, Russo-Turkish War, British wars in southern African regions, Arab Rebellion, Turkish-Greek War, Servo-Bulgarian War, Afghan War, Sino-Japanese War, Armenian Massacres, British wars in Sudan, Spanish-American War. Crowe, John Archer; Goodall, Edward Angelo; Cathcart, Augustus Murray; Simpson, William; Atkinson, George; Crealock, Henry Hope; Vizetelly, Frank; Waud, Alfred R.; Waud, William; Forbes, Edwin; Lovie, Henry; Homer, Winslow; Davis, Theodore R.; Landells (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. First Edition. This is a fine hardcover first edition copy in a near fine mylar protected DJ that is price clipped, gray spine. MEDIA SHIPPING ONLY, Extra for airmail or international shipping.

Stapled Pamphlet. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Some minor wear. Text is clean and tight in binding, no ownership or other markings. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very good. good +. first edition. 10 x 12 in. Cloth boards. With letter inside from Crowe. Condition is VERY GOOD ; covers very clean, sunned at bottom edges, no wear. BInding tight, text spotless. DJ is GOOD+ ; clean but rubbed, minor edge wear. Phot. Stax.

First edition (per matching dates upon title and copyright pages). 220, [4] pages. Hardcover: H 21.25cm x L 14.5cm. No dust jacket (i.e. lacking). Bluish-gray cloth with brown lettering; modest soiling to boards; small brown stains upon spine and front board; light wear at spine ends with two patches of white discoloration below center. Non-authorial gift inscription dated July 1919 on front free endpaper with names obscured under swaths of black marker; front free endpaper soiled at top corner with faint residue from removed price sticker. Introductory biographical essay titled "Concerning Crowe" by editor W.B. Chase; four pages of publisher's advertisements at rear. A Sheffield, Alabama native and a 1911 graduate of Vanderbilt University, James Richard Crowe (1889-1918) was employed as a newspaper reporter in Memphis and New York City before enlisting with the United States Air Service in 1917. Upon completion of initial training in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Minneola, New York, Crowe was assigned to the 15th Foreign Detachment, Aviation Section, Signal Corps but, shortly after being commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in July 1918, Crowe died in a plane crash on September 29, 1918 at the 3rd Aviation Instruction Center at Issoudun, France. PAT CROWE, AVIATOR is a collection of Crowe's well-regarded literary "letters-home" featuring personal impressions and reflections on France and World War I. The book includes his famous "Jacqueline of the Chateau" which was first published in The New York Times Magazine upon its enthusiastic acceptance by editor Thomas Russell Ybarra. A good+ copy of a quite uncommon book.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Dustjacket. 1st Edition. First edition, hardcover, binding is a little loose but solid and without a lean, has slight bumps to spine ends, very slight shelfwear to edges and corners, slight sunning to spine, faint foxing starting to top edge of text block, and some slight rubbing, otherwise a solid VG copy.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. With dust jacket. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

First edition. 8vo. Dark blue cloth, titles stamped in red on the spine, xvi, 331 [1] pp., biographical note, editor's note, appendix. Crowe terrorized the Colorado, Nebraska, and Missouri areas for a number of years. Six Guns 520 says "Scarce." An all around hell-raiser whose specialties were diamond robbery, train robbery, and bank robbery carried out for a number of years. He also was one of two men who in 1900, kidnapped the Cudahy Meat Packing Company's owner's son and ransomed him for $25,000.00. A bit of wear to the spine ends, else a very good copy.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 1st Edition. 1st Ed., xvi+252 pp., cloth, vg+ 6-Guns #520 scarce Crowe terrorized the Colorado, Nebraska and Missouri area for a number of years, scarce.

Condizione: Good. Chicago: Patrick Crowe, 1907. 1st edition. 16mo. 242pp. Illus. Good book. Owner's name on pastedown and front endpage. (crime, criminals) Inquire if you need further information.

PATRICK THOMAS CROWE (1869-1938). Crowe, also known as Frank Roberts, was an American criminal whose exploits as a bank and train robber and kidnapper made him a prominent celebrity and writer early in the 20th century. TLS. 1 pg. 8 x 10. July 11, 1921. Boston. A typed letter signed Pat Crowe to Mr. Edward L.B. Howard: Business duties have prevented my granting your humble requests to present. It will be my pleasure to send you at an early date, a petition relating to our national welfare, that I would be pleased to have you circulate among your friends By 1921, the celebrity surrounding Pat Crowe had begun to fade. The publicity that surrounded his success at being the first man to successfully obtain a ransom for kidnapping and not be captured, and years later being acquitted of kidnapping despite 40 prosecution witnesses and no testimony on his behalf, had faded, and Crowe was working as a nightwatchman for the Salvation Army in New York. His references to national welfare and, later in the letter, to publicity campaigns, likely have to do with his work for the Salvation Army. In 1938, Crowe would die greatly impoverished in Harlem, yet 100 people still attended his funeral mass. This letter is therefore a good reminder of a man who was his generations Jesse James, though even more media-savvy. It is in very good condition. …