Barrows R M (73 results)

Stapled. Condition: Fair-Good. No Jacket. W H King (The Woman Nell Cutter was Afraid of), J Henry (The Yellow Streak), R M Cramapton) Jimmy and the Ultimatum, Leslie L Benson ("Devotedly Yours."), Douglass Duer (The Blue Circle) (illustrator). First Edition. The January 1922 issue of The American Magazine. Contains The Woman Nell Cutter was Afraid of, a story by Bess Streeter Aldrich, The Yellow Streak, a story by Helen Topping Miller, Jimmy and the Ultimatum, a story by Franklyn Barrows, "Devotedly Yours.", a story by Mary Singer, The Blue Circle, a serial installment by Elizabeth Jordan and numerous vintage articles and ads. Condition issues include missing the front and back covers, and small chips to the lower corner of pages 1 - 8. No cutouts or missing pages. The interior is clean and tight. A fair to good copy of a vintage magazine.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Large Wraps. Near Fine condition. Includes work by James Thurber, Ogden Nash, Saki, Frank Sullivan, Roland Young, Will Cuppy, and other humorists.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. American pulp magazine, digest format, 1940's era humor. In very good condition. Pages may have chipping, pencil marks, sun bleaching or yellowing due to age. Image scans are available on request. Bagged and boarded for preservation.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Early American pulp magazine. In very good condition. Pages may have chipping, pencil marks, sun bleaching or yellowing due to age. Image scans are available on request. Bagged and boarded for preservation.

Paperback. Condition: New.

paperback. Condition: New.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 119pp w index. Thirteen indexed illustrations. Wrapper shows tiny splatter front near top, light handling, no edgewear. Binding square and sound. Five essays reprinted from the Bulletin of The New York Public Library, June 1962; March, April, May, June, October, 1963; with an Introduction and a Postscript. Essays include: The Literature of Travel and the Mode of Romance in the Renaissance (W.T. Jewkes); Travel Literature and the Rise of Neo-Hellenism in England (James M. Osborn); Patrick Brydone: The Eighteenth-Century Traveler as Representative Man (Paul Fussell, Jr.); Convention and Novelty in the Romantic Generation's Experience of Italy (Herbert Barrows); The Road to Reality: Burlesque Travel Literature and Mark Twain's Roughing It (Franklin R. Rogers). Introduction: Travellers and Travel Books (Warner G. Rice). Postscript: Fact and Fiction in Captain John Smith's True Travels (Philip L. Barbour).

Stapled Wrappers. Condition: VG+. Collection of jokes, cartoons, fiction etc from a wide variety of authors. They include Tom Cushing, Mark Twain, Cornelia Otis Skinner, Clarence Day, Ogden Nash, Emily Kimbrough and others. Mildly risque cartoons. Printed on newsprint. No staples [publisher's error?]. 64pp, illustrated, some color. Unusual. Slight browing to the exterior of the spine otherwise the booklet is in a wonderful state of preservation. Weight, 60g. Lettermail. Size: 6" by 8.75". Book.

Condition: Very Good. Very Good condition. (Humor, Cartoons) A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.

Condition: Fair. Acceptable condition. (Animals, Humor, Cartoons) A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books.

Condition: Very Good. Very Good condition. (Vacations, Humor, Cartoons) A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.

Condition: Good. Good condition. (Colds, Humor, Cartoons) 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.

Condition: Very Good. Very Good condition. (Birthdays, Humor, Cartoons) A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good +. 336pp, illus., pgs beginning to yellow, slight shelfwear to cover, rear binding starting.

PF. Condition: New.

Condition: New. In.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Illustrated by DD COVER ART (illustrator). First Edition. Quite GOOD CONDITION hardcovers. Bit smudged at top right cover., but genrally clea, solid, bright.Old elegant names to endpapers.".Marian Wyllde.Verna Elder.Low 4th".RATHER ATTRACTIVE SMALL VOLUME.; BLACK SPINE & COVER TITLES ON LITE GREEN CLOTH HARD COVERS.BACK COVER HAS 1x1" Publisher's winged seal & lamp of learning device.COVER ART BY "DD" bottom front cover art. Cover shiws indian bow starting fire, with floral &leaves corder art. Attractive art scene with Native American resect. Woman Cover art design.; Line drawings, B& White photos.; 127pg thin pages; Rural Youth.inlcudes BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH.6 essays on hunting and camping.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. trade paperback book VERY GOOD no writing in or on the book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No. Chicago: Consolidated Book Publishers, Inc., 1943. Published 1943. Externally worn. Short fiction and diversional reading material for US servicemen during World War II, illustrated with cartoons, some in color. Red, white and blue hardcover, pictorial endpapers, 336 pages. Quite a bit of wear and chipping to the cover edges, front hinge cracked at the title page, no half-title (there may not have been one with the book), very short closed tear to the top of the title page, pages age-toned and a little bit brittle, a couple of pages with small margin chips. No names or other markings. Hard Cover. Fair/No. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. BOOK DESCRIPTION: 12mo, 336 pgs, illustrations with some in color. Decorative printed covers. CONDITION DESCRIPTION: Light rubbing and wear to edges and corners. Interior is clean and tight. CONTENTS DESCRIPTION: Favorite stories, verse and cartoon for the entertainment of servicemen. Nice wartime publication for World War II forces. Includes J.D. Salinger's first printed work: "The Hang of It.".

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Bright cover has minimal wear, with one corner slightly bent. o marks or names inside. Darkening of paper. Book.

Soft cover. Twenty-one pages with photographs, tables, graphs, maps, and references cited. Bound in original green stiff paper covers lettered in black. A fine and bright, as new copy. Book.

Illus., 8.75 x 6", pict stapled wraps, 95pp, covers a little worn, pp browned else a good, clean copy of this SCARCE anthology. Includes works by Alexander Woollcott, O. Henry, William Saroyan, etc.

Condition: Very Good. Cover Art and Illustrations Sue Simmons and others. (illustrator). First Edition, First Printing. Oversized digest paperback; stapled illustrated wraps; 6 by 8.75 inches; 95, [1] pages unnumbered pages. illustrations and cartoons. Carefully handled, Text clean, Bindings firm. The bindings are tight and square. Text clean with Age-toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. Uncommon with only 1 institutional copy. Featuring James Thruber, Clarence Day, Ellis Parker Butler, Owen Johnson, O. Henry, E. B. White and Other Famous Humorists. Subjects: Humor; Cartoons, Anthology.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Single issue. Stapled wrappers. [15]pp. Wrappers lightly age-toned, near fine. Contributions by Herbert C. Barrows, Jr., William R. Steinhoff, Edwin M. Mosley, Richard B. Vowles, Eleanor M. Sickels, Daniel N. Dwyer, Vincent Freimarck, Lyman A. Cotten, and Ray Smith. Cummings' poetry featured are *Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town*, *These Children Singing in a Stone A*, *Space Being . Curved*. Essays on Eliot's *The Waste Land* and *Ash Wednesday*.

Condition: Fair. Volume 1. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,600grams, ISBN:0826128408.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Paper covers (8 3/4 in. x 6 in.) Dozens of Cartoons, poems, stories - ALL around the theme of having a cold! Story "Mother Makes a Mustard Plaster" by Clarence Day. Lovely front cover color cartoon by Sue Simons of a cute blonde couple huddled under a blanket, their feet soaking in a steaming bucket, a steaming kettle, and the lass, blowing her nose into a hanky. "BB (Best Books) to front panel. A quirky and entertaining compendium featuring cartoons and anecdotes about the common cold -- a topic oft-mentioned, but seldom elaborated upon in such a non-medical fashion. Far better to read about it than to go through it!

Soft Binding. Condition: Good Used Condition.