Babbit Bruce (13 results)

Condition: very_good. Gently read. May have name of previous ownership, or ex-library edition. Binding tight; spine straight and smooth, with no creasing; covers clean and crisp. Minimal signs of handling or shelving. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped with delivery confirmation, if you're not satisfied with purchase please return item! Ships USPS Media Mail.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No 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. Profusely Illustrated (illustrator). 2nd printing. Square quarto. B&W illustrations. Condition: DJ price-clipped with minor nicking and soiling to DJ; inked gift inscription on front inner flap of DJ; else near fine in very good DJ. Pages: x, 110.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Condition: 'Near Fine' Notes: Sticker to inside front cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1st Ed., xv+258 pp., frontis., photos, index, dj, nice.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. a very nice copy of this anthology. Book is immaculate and without flaw. Price clipped DJ is bright and clear with a few minor age spots and a small fingernail sized chip at the bottom of the front panel.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Very good in very good dustwrapper. Some light rubbing to board edges and spine ends. Dustwrapper is browned somewhat with some light rubbing to panel edges and ends. Flap edges chipped. Spine is somewhat worn along edges.

hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Soft cover. First edition. Illustrated in black, white and color. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy. 141 pps.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Color Frontispiece, 7 B/W Plates (illustrator). 1st Edition. I, 306 Pp. Blue-Grey Cloth Stamped In Blue. Stated First Edition. The Adventures Of A Sword, From Ancient Egypt To Elizabethan Times. Covers Bright And Clean, No Fading, Rubbed On Top And Bottom Edges. Book Label Of "Library And Book Shop / Adelaide Babbit Hanson / Number 7 Arcade / Redondo Beach, California", Her Ownership Signature At Corner Of Front Pastedown With Her Book Numbers. Later Bookplate Of Bruce Bryan Of The Southwest Museum, With His Ownership Signature On Verso Of Front Free Endpaper. Dust Jacket Priced $2.50, Some Browning To Spine Panel, Wear At Edges, Shallow Losses Along Top And Bottom Edges And At Flap Folds But Not Affecting Lettering Or Design. Per Wikipedia, Arthur Douglas Howden Smith (1887-1945) Was An American Historian And Novelist. Smith Was Born In New York. In 1907, He Joined The Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (Vmro) In Sofia. His Experiences He Recounted In 1908 In The Book Fighting The Turk In The Balkans, Describing The Revolutionary Struggle In Macedonia. On Returning To The United States, Smith Became A Reporter For The Newspaper The New York Evening Post. Smith Began Writing By Contributing Fiction To Pulp Magazines; His Main Market Was Adventure. Smith Also Wrote Fiction For Blue Book. Smith's Most Famous Series Were The "Grey Maiden" Stories. This Revolved Around A Cursed Sword Created During The Reign Of Pharaoh Thutmose Iii And Its Subsequent Appearances Through World History. Smith Was A Great Admirer Of Robert Louis Stevenson. In Porto Bello Gold (1924), A Prequel To Treasure Island - Written With The Permission Of Robert Louis Stevenson's Executor, Lloyd Osbourne - Harry Ormerod's Son Robert Goes To Sea In The Company Of Such Famous Pirates As Captain Flint, Long John Silver And Billy Bones And Takes Part In Capturing The Treasure Which Would Be Recovered In Stevenson's Book. Smith Also Wrote A Sequel To Stevenson's Kidnapped, Alan Breck Again. The Ormerod Family Saga Was Continued Further In The Manifest Destiny Where Robert Ormerod's Great-Grandson Takes Part In The Expeditions Of The 19Th Century Adventurer William Walker. Smith Wrote Several Books On American History, Including A Biography Of Cornelius Vanderbilt, Commodore Vanderbilt: An Epic Of American Achievement (1927); Vanderbilt Made One N Of The Great American Fortunes, In Shipping, In Part Through The Highly Lucrative Opium Trade From India To China, And Is Ancestor Of Many Notable Figures In New York Society And The Media.