Arntson Herbert (18 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Clean, straight yellow book w/brown letters in clipped dj w/light tanning at edges. Dj in mylar. Inscribed to a couple and signed by the author on title page. First edition. Inscribed & Signed By Author.

hard cover, ex library, bar code on the cover & stamp on the title pages, 151 pages, 5 3/8 x 8 inches, first printing, good + book condition, no dust jacket, fiction,

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

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Boards (HB) in near fine condition. Dust jacket in very good condition with light cover wear and is also price clipped. Based on a true account, Samuel Parker's "Journal of an Exploring Tour". There was no room for weaklings in the caravan that set out from St. Louis in the spring of 1835 bound for the Far West. Tom Mason had to grow up?fast. He had to learn to ride hard, to shoot straight, to do a man's work. He had to measure up. And that was not easy, for he was traveling in the company of of frontiersmen like Luke Fontonelle, Jim Bridger and Dr. Whitman, men who understood the hardships and dangers of the trail. 194 pages.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Spears, Sherman (illustrator). 1st Edition. Clean, straight yellow book has bumps to corners and former owner's name in red ink inside the front cover. Map end papers and 5 nice monochromatic full page illus. Clipped dj has rubs to corners, couple of short (1/2" or less) tears to edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Later Edition. ISBN Hardback. Second printing. Very Good condition book, with some browning to edges of interior pages, minor bumps to cover corners, in a Good to Very Good condition dustjacket with minor rubs and creases around its edges, half-inch jagged chip to top edge of back jacket, heavy rubs to lower right corner of back jacket, slight browning to jacket edges. We have placed dustjacket in a brodart protective cover and it looks better than described, front jacket illustration is bright and attractive. price clipped on front jacket flap.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Gillette, Henry S. (illustrator). 2nd printing, ex-library, glue marks on front & rear endpapers, otherwise very good. Mylar cover, illustrated.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good-. Green card covers, staple-bound. Tip of bottom corner of pages are scorched and lightly chipped (not affecting any text), else clean. Includes a handful of linoprint-type illustrations. 23, [1] pages. A scarce copy of Tide, the literary journal of the Writers' Club of the College of Puget Sound. This issue features a piece by Herbert Arntson (1911-1982), who went on to become an award-winning author of juvenile historical novels set in the pioneer milieu of Oregon and Washington. He served on the faculty of Washington State University, 1946-1974, where he was head of the creative writing program. (His papers are collected at the University of Oregon Libraries Special Collections). One of the longer prose pieces is a story titled, ''The Class Struggle in Yelm, Washington,'' by James Docherty. It's a quirky tale that centers on a sketchy communist barber and a pro-fascist editor of a local newspaper. This issue also includes a book review by Francis Galbraith, who became the U.S. Ambassador to Singapore, 1966-1969, and Indonesia, 1969-1974. (The other brief book reviews cover Aldous Huxley and Charles Erskine Scott Wood). Dorothy Belle Harriss (m. Cairnes) contributes a poem. In January 1937, she became the first woman to serve as President of the University of Puget Sound Student Body. The cover was done by Maurita Shank (m. Runions), president of the C.P.S. Art Club.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair to Good. Ferguson, William (illustrator). No Edition Stated. Nice tight copy. Slight bumps and wear on corners and spine. Dust Jacket has small tears and chips and a small piece missing from the back. Shelf wear along spine and edges. A rare signed copy inscribed "Best wises to all the Taylors" . NOT ex lib. Fourteen year old Daniel suddenfly found he was the only person to take over operation of a flatboat ferry across the river when Gramps was no longer able. Without this service people who had come to Oregon territory in 1846 had to travel miles out of their way. He dreamed of and planned a bridge but faced many problems in implementing this. Arntson, a Washington State University faculty member has written three earlier books about Oregon. 153 pp. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Henry S. Gilllette (illustrator). First Edition. First printing of this Franklin Watts Fiction Award Winner. Special Limited Autograph Northwest Edition. SIGNED by the author. Near fine in a very good dustjacket with light wear. (box 172). Signed by Author(s). Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Dustjacket included. Later Edition. ISBN . Hardback. Very Good condition book in a Very Good condition price-clipped dustjacket with minor rubs and creases around its edges. Tight, sound, unmarked copy. No statement of later printing on copyright page. No Signature.

Hardback. Ex-Library Copy With The Usual Faults, Card Pocket, Ink Stamps, Etc. Tight Sound Copy With Average Wear In Dustjacket. Signed by author on front free endpaper.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Hard Cover. NEAR FINE in a NEAR FINE DUSTJACKET. 2nd Printing. Illustrated by Henry Gillette, 195 pages. Actual history of two real ships in the years 1810-1813: the TONQUIN & the NEW HAZARD.

Hardcover with Blue Boards. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Based on a true account, Samuel Parker's "Journal of an Exploring Tour". This copy is bright and clean throughout and complete with a dust jacket with great cover art. DJ has some smudging and a few chips. Altogether a very nice copy with an excellent story of the old west. This book will ship with a new Brodart cover.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Gillette (illustrator). First Great Britain. slight wear to cover edges, some library marks, otherwise book clean and tight. DJ: slight edge wear Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex Library.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First UK edition. Good condition.The World's Work,1962.First UK edition.Blue hardback(two stain marks and light shelf wear on the edges of the cover and spine,silver lettering to the spine) with Dj(tears,nicks and creases on the Dj cover),both in GC.Illustrated with b/w photos.Pictures by Henry S. Gillette.Clean pages but tainted on the outer edges,owner's name written on the edge of the first blank page of the book,a couple of nicks and creases on the edges of the pages.The book is in GC for its age except for the tatty Dj cover.223pp including A short glossary of sailing ship terms,author's note.Price un-clipped.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: no dj. Adam Gray: Stow Away. Book.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 232. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1957 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 232.