Brooks Edith (21 results)

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

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Signed. First Edition. Cover shows minor wear and rubbing. Pages are clean, text and pictures are intact and unmarred. signed by the author.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Boards rubbed and lightly soiled, edges exposed, a few internal holes to cloth spine, pages toned, binding a bit shaken but holding, publisher's advertising insert entitled Best Books for Boys and Girls laid in. 1899 Hard Cover. Color frontispiece, color pictorial boards, engraved illustrations throughout. An illustrated collection of stories and poems for young readers by various authors, including: The Mysterious Choir Boy; Fluffy's Easter Joke; Phillip de Valogne; The Sea-Serpent; The American Coracle; The Ah-Goo Tongue; Arithmetic Among the Greeks; How the News Came; The Squeaking Fern; A Boy's Ideal; The Diver; An Iconoclast; The Doll-Lady; Chin Chin, Huang Ta-Ta!; Kevin the Fisher; Australian Tree-Climbing; An Old Stager; Boston's Girl-Sculptor; An Evening at Home; How Easter Came to the Little Nuremberg Maids; Egg-Rolling at the White House (A Bit of Washington Folk-Lore); A Primitive Form of Vise; Upper Nine (A Sleeping-Car Story); High Tea at Low Tide; A Pet Seal; How Jack Sailed with Leif Ericsson; The Pessimist; Almost a Deserter; Frog Music; A Masquerade; On the Shores of the Dead Sea; A Boy Editor and How He Runs the Sunny Hour; A Woodland Custom; The Child's Treasure; Raglan's Substitute; The Elf's Thanksgiving; The Legend of the Rhode Island Greening; Dandelion's Time; The Babies of the Zoo; The Narration of Irish Will of Galway; Somebody.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 146pp. Red card covers, side-stapled, with black binding tape over spine. Warmly inscribed to folklorist Mark Mealing by compilers Edith Fowke and Carole Henderson Carpenter. Errata slip laid in. Inscribed by Author(s).

Paperback. Condition: Good +. early edition. 12mo, ca. 6.75" x 5" , pp. 20 illustrated, with lots of information , was folded along a verticle line at one time, so there is a crease, Overall a good to very good copy and scarce survivor with discussion of Mrs. Newcomb's "ever- ready " Buttonholes. Note: due to size and weight, overseas shipping may cost less than that of an average book.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. New Edition. 494 pages. Bookplate attached to verso of front free endpaper. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Card Covers. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. n.d. [1930s]. 72pp, photo, adverts, card covers sl darkened.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Courtney Allen, Charles L. Lassell, Dudley G. Summers, and other illustrators (illustrator). First Edition. The first issue of the expanded monthly edition of The Youth's Companion. Near fine in original wrappers with a thin line of foxing along the right edge and light edgewear.

Hardback. Condition: Good. No dustwrapper, blue cloth covered in sticky backed plastic Ex library, some marks on preliminary pages, otherwise clean. Binding sound. Book.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG+. 8vo, 160pp, printed wrappers. This later issue includes a substantial essay on Franz Kafka by Vladimir Nabokov, plus work from a range of other important contributors. Unmarked copy with light outer sunning and soil. Not Signed.

8vo Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Signed. 137p. Signed, inscribed and dated by Brooks on front endpage. Contents are otherwise unmarked with some b/w photos. Brown cloth boards are pointed with light foxing along text-block and endpapers. Binding is tight, hinges are secure. Lacks a jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1961 second edition, Hardback without wrapper with blue cloth and gold lettering to spine. Pages clean looking carefully read with light spotting to edges with photos, maps and diagrams intact. Solid copy showing a little natural age. d1.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Hbk 137pp INSCRIBED by the author on fep no dj as issued decorated cloth boards a very good clean tight unmarked copy now in custom acetate jacket. Signed by Author(s).

8Vo Hardcover. Condition: Good. Signed. 137pp. Signed, dated and inscribed by Brooks on front end page. Bound in light brown cloth with a few minor stains over surfaces and pointed corners. Pages are unmarked with some b/w photos. Binding is tight and square, hinges are secure. Foxing present on text-block and endpages.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good+. No Jacket. Reprint. Green boards with slight shelf wear and tanned page edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Edith F. Foster (illustrator). 1st Edition. The Cover Is Quite Worn And Is Detached. There Are No Marks Or Tears Inside The Book. The Binding Is Tight. There Is Some Old Paper Looks. I Can Not Find This Book In Any Of The Places That You Can Look For Books.

Hard back binding in publisher's original cornflower blue cloth covers, black title, author lettering and scroll designs to the spine and to the upper panel. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains [vi] 186 printed pages of text with colour frontispiece. Prize plate to the front free end paper dated 1929, foxing to the end papers. Very Good condition book, in very scarce Good condition dust wrapper with small tears, chips and rubs to the edges and spine ends. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, this protects and prolongs the life of the paper, it is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. CHILDREN'S & JUVENILE.

Hardcover. Condition: Sehr gut. 237 Seiten Ein umfassender Leitfaden für den Anbau und die Pflege von Zimmerpflanzen. Enthält Anleitungen zur Gestaltung von Wohnräumen mit Pflanzen, deren Pflege und Vermehrung. Zustand: Einband mit geringfügigen Gebrauchsspuren, insgesamt SEHR GUTER Zustand! HC1-568-6/8-00724219 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 493.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Missing free front endpaper. Colour frontispiece. Freckling to fore edge. Owner's note on upper front board, which is illustrated with a sunrise , as is spine cartouche.

[18] pp.; 35.5 x 21.6 cm.; staple bound; black-and-white; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed Exhibition checklist published in conjunction with show held December 7 - January 25, 1981. Watercolors selected by Brooks Adams, Martha Beck, Jack Boulton, Paul Cummings, Donald Droll, Klaus Kertess, Beatrix Medinger and Roberta Smith. Artists included Alan Saret, Gary Bower, William Allan, Mimmo Paladino, Barbara Novak, Richard Tuttle, Robin Bruch, Stephen Mueller, Michael Tetherow, Robert Kushner, George Sugarman, Judy Pfaff, Carroll Dunham, Stephen Ellis, Nancy Mitchnick, John Torreano, Nancy Spero, Judith Linhares, Wes Disney, Ellen Phelan, Lucio Pozzi, Edith Gauthmey, Frank Moore, Gioia Timpanelli, Sondra Freckelton, Saul Steinberg, Jack Youngerman, Robert Kitchen, William Garbe and Thomas Lo Cicero. Fair. Significant wear to bottom edges of publication including yellowing, soiling and bumping. 4 mm. tear to right side recto edge. 4 mm. tear to left side edge of verso. 7 mm. dog-ear to upper right corner of recto and 1.2 cm. dog-ear to bottom left corner of recto. 3.3 cm. of yellow to bottom edge of verso, continuing through to interior pages. Additional handling wear and rubbing.