Bates Brainard (8 results)

Leather Bound. First edition. 24 mo; dark brown flexible leather boards impression stamped with title and decorations; b/w photograph of Mr. Reedy as frontispiece protected by tissue; stunning decorations throughout. Good- no dj as issued; front board is detached at spine; moderate rubbing to covers; all else-clean, tight, & attractive.

Leather Bound. Condition: Used;Very Good. East Aurora, 1912; blue leather covered flexible boards; heavy corner wear with board exposed; spine edges frayed; 16 mo, 5 3/4" to 6 3/4" tall; interior pages in very good condition; interior clean and unmarked; 102 pages.

Staplebound. 29, [3] pp., illustrations, color printed wraps. 5.25 x 3.75 in. Cover illustration of a soldier in a red hat shouting, musical notes projecting from his open mouth. Cover price: ?Price 10 cents.? Booklet of songs, all parodies of war songs popular in the United States during World War I. While meant to be humorous, the songs retain all the jingoism of the originals. The author notes that the lyrics were lifted from active-duty soldiers. Appended are ads for the author?s other humorous works on World War I, including Trench Gas: A Bunch of Clever Nuts and The Life and Death of the Kaiser.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Softcover, 6 by 4 inches, 102 pages. Front and back of covers have very little wear though spine has three 1/8th to 1/4 inch areas of wear on the spine. Hinges sound, contents clean.

First Edition. Poor copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; wear and tear as with age. Text remains in fine condition and without blemish. Front board detached. Provenance; from the library of Paul Fr. Aschert with the owner's bookplate. Physical description; 102 pages. Subjects; William Marion Reedy. 20th century fiction. 3 Kg.

First Edition. Poor copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; wear and tear as with age. Text remains in fine condition and without blemish. Front board detached. Provenance; from the library of Paul Fr. Aschert with the owner's bookplate. Physical description; 102 pages. Subjects; William Marion Reedy. 20th century fiction. 1 Kg.

Full-Leather. Condition: Good+. Sepia Frontis; Decorative Borders and Initials in Blue (illustrator). First Edition Thus. 102 pages. Full brown buttery pigskin over flexible boards, front cover elaborately embossed in gilt, top edge gilt (rubbing and nicking to edges; ink name and blindstamp). A very unusual and attractive binding. Scarce, humorous look at Elbert Hubbard and the Roycrofters. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good Indeed. None Stated (illustrator). First edition. A very scarce First World War parody songbook based on popular American wartime tunes, illustrated with humorous vignette illustrations throughout. In the publisher's original pictorial paper wraps.First edition.A very scarce copy of this work, with no copies held institutionally.A collection of humorous parody songs based on popular American wartime tunes, drawn from verses circulating among active-duty soldiers.Illustrated with humorous vignette illustrations throughout.The final pages advertise Bates"s other wartime comic works, including Trench Gas: A Bunch of Clever Nuts, How to be a Soldier and The Life and Death of the Kaiser. In the publisher's original pictorial paper wraps. Externally, generally smart. Crease to lower corner of front wrap. Creasing down the center of the rear wrap, with the odd closed tear along the crease. Three marks of glue residue to rear wrap with slight paper residue to upper mark. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with one or two spots. Very Good Indeed. book.