Booth Grey (5 results)

Stapled. Condition: Good - Very Good. No Jacket. Hayden Hayden (cover), Wallace Morgan (High Summer), Joseph Cummings Chase (Owen D Young), Roy F Spreter (The Smile That Wins), T D Skidmore (A Gentleman for a Night), Frank Hoffman (West of the Pecos) (illustrator). First Edition. The October 1931 issue of The American Magazine. Fiction and articles include, most notably, The Smile That Wins, a short story by P G Wodehouse plus part 5 of 5 (conclusion) of High Summer, a novel by Booth Tarkington, Owen D Young, a biography of an industrialist by Ida M Tarbell, Hitting Fifty, an article by Clarence Budington Kelland, A Gentleman for a Night, a short story by Octavus Roy Cohen, part 3 of 7 of West of the Pecos, a novel by Zane Grey, and others. Condition issues include: light edge wear to the front cover; small closed tear at the bottom of the spine, light soiling to the back cover; and pages 171/172 are missing - affecting an article by Martin H Kennelly, It All Comes Out on Moving Day. A good to very good copy due to the missing pages with a P G Wodehouse short story. Note this item plus my other listings comprise the complete serialization of High Summer (inventory #s 009695, 009696 & 009697).

Stapled. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. C E Chambers (cover), Norman Price (War Paint and Rouge), Wallace Morgan (High Summer), Frank Hoffman (West of the Pecos), Paul Meylan (An Ounce of Curiosity: Another Scattergood Story) (illustrator). First Edition. The August 1931 issue of The American Magazine. Fiction and articles include part 7 of 7 (conclusion) of War Paint and Rouge, a novel by Robert W Chambers, part 3 of 5 of High Summer, a novel by Booth Tarkington, part 1 of 7 of West of the Pecos, a novel by Zane Grey, An Ounce of Curiosity: Another Scattergood Story, a short story by Clarence Budington Kelland and others. Condition issues include: light edge wear to the front cover; 1" closed tears at the top & bottom of the spine with small loss at the bottom; light soil to the back cover; and folds to the lower corner of pages 1/2. A very good copy. Note this item plus my other listings (inventory #s 009695, 009697 & 009698) comprise the complete serializations of High Summer.

Comic. Condition: New. Cover: Brett Booth Pencils: Minkyu Yung Inks: Mick Grey (illustrator). First printing. New and unread. Sent in a comic bag with backing board as well as our usual protective packaging. Book.

Condition: Very good. Brooklyn New York: The Baptist Young People's Union of the Washington Avenue Baptist Church, (1898)., (1898). Very good. - Octavo, 9 inches high by 5-7/8 inches wide. Softcover, bound in light green wraps titled and decorated in darker green on the front cover. There is a small spot at the bottom corner of the front cover. [12] unnumbered pages, including the rear blank leaf, printed in brown and illustrated with portraits of each of the lecturers. The top corners of the pages are creased. Very good. RARE program for the 1898 & 1899 series of lectures at the Washington Avenue Baptist Church. Starting the schedule is a reading by Hall Caine "Mr. Hall Caine will read for the first time in America an , Unpublished Novel complete, entitled , 'Yan of Iceland'." This is followed later in the month by a "Song-Lecture Recital on 'Robert Burns: His Pathos and Humor told in Poetry and Song' "Madame Annie Grey, Scottish Vocalist". Then, the following year, "Mrs. Maud Ballington Booth" offers a "Lecture entitled The Criminal Problem. Discussed from Mrs. Booth's knowledge of it from her work among the poor and in our prisons." The American impressario and lecture manager James B. Pond offers a lecture entitled "'Men of Brains' or 'Twenty Years as a Lecture Manager'." and finally "Ian MacLaren" offers "New Readings from the Annals of Drumtochty." The lecturers were secured for the Baptist Young People's Union by James B. Pond.

concerning a "Resolution proposed at a Town's Meeting at Ashton under Lyne respecting the proposed Police Bill. I regret exceedingly there should still be a difference of opinion amongst the Inhabitants, as to the expediency of a Police Act, & the establishment of a Regular Market. My sentiments on this matter are well known, that it cannot be supposed I shall at any time countenance a measure of this nature, were I not well satisfied it would ultimately greatly conduce to the advantage of the Town, and to the Safety and Comfort of the Inhabitants. These being the general objects of the Bill, it has my support, and I still entertain a hope that the opposers of the measure, in considering the Public Good will see reason to withdraw their intended opposition.", 2 sides 4to., Enville Hall, 6th March small tear on left hand edge slight affecting the signature Sir Robert PEEL (1788-1850, Prime Minister) entered the Cabinet for the first time as Home Secretary in 1822 and held the post until 1827. He reformed and liberalised the criminal law and created the modern police force, leading to a new type of officer known in tribute to him as "bobbies" and "peelers".