Burton Rascoe Introduction (12 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition hardcover book, first edition, 1954. (Those with a 1955 copyright date are not first printings, of course.) Dustjacket is very good condition, price-clipped, in mylar protector.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Hardcover in slip case. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. Story of Carrie Meeber, an 18-year-old country girl who moves to Chicago and then to New York. She starts out poor and living with her sister but eventually becomes a successful Broadway star. [xii], 387 pages illustrations 27 cm. The Heritage Press operated from 1937 - 1982 and was created by George Macy. Heritage reprinted the lovely volumes of the Limited Editions Club. Heritage was established to give these works a wider audience by making them more affordable and widely available. Every book was selected by Heritage's editors as a classic in its field, chosen from the world's best-known and most enduring literature. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Near Fine. First Edition; First Printing. 8vo; 251 pages; Very light rubbing and edgewear to the jacket.

CLOTH. Condition: NEAR FINE. NEAR FINE-. FIRST EDITION THUS (STATED). SILVER GILT AND GREEN LETTERING ON SPINE, GREEN LETTERING ON FRONT COVER. DUST JACKET IN A PROTECTIVE PLASTIC COVER. A VERY CLEAN STRONG TIGHT COPY.

Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing. 5.75 x 8.75in. xx. 305pp. Publisher's cloth boards. GOOD. Shows the spine toned, a label remnant on the front endpaper, a small section of the dust jacket has been tipped-in at the half-title page, otherwise the binding is strong, the text is clean and unmarked, and the boards remain bright and distinct. As pictured.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Reprint. A fellow inmate recounts the tale of a young man imprisoned in Reading Gaol while he awaits hanging for committing a crime of passion (killing his wife), with stunning lithographed illustrations by Zhenya Gay throughout the 43 pages. Wilde wrote the poem while in exile after his own release from that same facility, where he had been incarcerated for the crime of sodomy. Originally published in 1891, this edition from the Heritage Press reproduces the 1937 Limited Editions Club edition. Hardcover is bound in gray cloth patterned to represent the stone walls of the jail. No DJ, as issued, but originally came housed in a slipcase, which is NOT present (No Slipcase). Condition is Fine: as crisp & clean & bright as Brand New! Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have on hand. Same day shipping on all orders received by 2 pm weekdays (Pacific time); later ordersweekends & holidays ship very next business day. Gay, Zhenya (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Gray cloth pressed with the image of a jail cell window and walls, with giold lettering ; some foxing ; fore edges red ; contains a veiled, vitriolic essay by Burton Roscoe ; without the slipcase ; otherwise FINE. Book.

fester Einband. 251 S. OLn-OU. 1. Aufl. OU gealtert mit Randläsuren; innen gut. Auflage: 1 (Diese "most cold-blooded robbers in the history of the West" gaben das Vorbild für die Dalton-Brothers im Lucky Luke ab). Sprache / Language: Englisch.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. A VERY RARE 1927 MODERN LIBRARY EDITION WITH DUST JACKET! The Triumph of Death by Gabriele D'Annunzio. First published by The Modern Library in 1923 this is an early 1927 reprint. This is a very rare early Modern Library book in dust jacket. Bound in brown imitation leather (spine #4) with Bernhard end papers. The book is in VERY GOOD+ condition with extremely bright gilt on cover and spine. Leatherette binding has slightest of wear on top and bottom spine otherwise perfect. Small owners signature on ffe otherwise no other writing anywhere in the book - contents clean and bright. NICE! The dust jacket is GOOD+ with chipping on the top and bottom spine and a larger piece missing from rear panel. The list of titles on the flaps and rear panel includes some from 1927, but none from 1928, indicating a 1927 printing. Now protected in an archival-quality dust jacket protector. EXTREMELY HARD TO FIND! **I WILL BE LISTIING OVER 400 COLLECTIBLE, RARE, OR SIGNED MODERN LIBRARY EDITIONS OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL MONTHS FROM 30 YEARS OF ACTIVE COLLECTING AROUND THE WORLD - PLEASE VISIT MY SELLERS PAGE TO VIEW THEM ALL**.…

Hardcover, Full Leatherlen, S. Condition: Fine. No DJ. Unmarked, unread book. Hardcover bound in full leather product called Leatherlen. Slipcase sunning. Sandglass Number v:17, re this volume, laid in. Introduction by Burton Rascoe. Lithographs by Zhenya Gay.

Condition: Very Good. 28.5 x 19 cm. Grey leather decorated to look like a brick building with gilt spine lettering and housed in slipcase. Limited to 1500 signed by the illustrator of which this is copy 684. Illustrated with 8 lithographs by Zhenya Gay. There is some scuffing to the front cover and edges and the spine is faded. Slipcase is a bit worn at the edges. Zhenya Gay (illustrator).…

First English Edition. Dust-wrapper design by Frank C. Pape Lacks fly-leaf. A little foxing, mostly to fore-edge, otherwise a nice copy in slightly frayed and dust-soiled dust-wrapper; bookseller's small label on rear pastedown.