Sarsfield john b (3 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Jacket as Issued. 1st. First Edition, First Printing; black c w/gilt titles; 36 clean, unmarked pages.

Stapled. Condizione: Fair-Good. No Jacket. First Edition. The July 16 & 30, 1932 issues of Collier's The National Weekly. Fiction and articles include parts 9 & 11 of 12 of Hot Water, a novel by P G Wodehouse, part 11 of 12 (7/16) of The Mask of Fu ManChu, a novel by Sax Rohmer, The Real Lindbergh (7/16), an article W B Courtney - the man who hired him, Come on In! (7/16), an article by Elizabeth Dickson about olympic swimmer Eleanor Hold and overcoming the fear of water, part 1 of Wife for Sale (7/30), a novel by Kathleen Norris,The Iron Captain (7/30), an article by George Creel about John Smith's adventurous life before Pocahontas, and others. Condition issues include: 7/16 - a damp stain at the bottom of pages 2/3, soiling & browning to the back cover; and7/30 - soiling, edge wear & spine roll to the front cover, dog ears to the lower corner through page 27, soiling to the top corner of page 5/6, soil spots to pages 11 - 14, and soiling, browning & edge wear to the back cover. A fair to good set with serial installments by a prominent & collectible author plus an interesting set of period articles. E M Jackson (cover), John Richard Flanagan (The Mask of Fu ManChu) (illustratore).…

Stapled. Condizione: Good - Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. The April 13 & 27, and June 22, 1929 issues of Collier's The National Weekly. Fiction and articles include parts 2, 4, & 12 (conclusion) of 12 of Summer Lightning (Fish Preferred), a Blandings Castle novel by P G Wodehouse, Excuse MY Clouds (4/13), an article about the rise of private airplanes as a transportation alternative by W B Courtney, The Iron Handshaker (4/13), an article about Jack Dempsey as a promoter by Grantland Rice, Teeing Off with Babe Ruth (4/13), an article about how golf reveals the character of Babe Ruth by Al Demaree, Reuben the Artist (4/13), an article about the life and work of Rube Goldberg by Ring Lardner, Who Killed Montague Brest (4/27), a Sir Jasper Slane story by E Phillips Oppenheim, The Somebody Man (4/27), an ethnic themed story by Roark Bradford, The Imperfect Alibi (6/22), a Sir Jasper Slane story by E Phillips Oppenheim, part 8 of 12 of The Day the World Ended (6/22), a novel of sinister intrigue by Sax Rohmer and others. Condition issues include: 4/13 - soiling to the front cover, most prominent at the upper right with a little at the lower left, a 1" closed tear at the top center of the front cover that diminishes through page 8, a ragged 2.25" half moon shaped chip at the top left of the front cover that diminishes through page10, soiling along the spine of the back cover and .25" of the top corner of the spine is cut off; 4/27 - light edge wear to the front cover; and 6/22 - nothing significant. Overall a good to very good set with serial installments by a prominent and collectible authors. Heavy, oversize set that will require additional postage. Edmund Davenport, Penrhyn Stanlaws, & Alan Foster (covers), John Crossman (Wodehouse serial) (illustratore).…