Eldon Kelley (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Eldon Kelley (illustrator). First Edition. 202 pages; 4 chapters; pages of heavy stock paper; Pages tight; slight yellowing; page edges uneven. 8 full page drawings; no markings; faded black hard cover with red paste-on label with black lettering on front and spine. Some rubbing; areas of discoloration and smudges on both front and back covers. Moderate wear on cover edges, corners, and spine ends. VERY RARE VINTAGE COPY.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Eldon Kelley (illustrator). 183 pages; 18 chapters. Full page b/w illustrations throughout book. Pages show moderate wear; Some yellowing and minor smudges on few pages. Page edges cut roughly and darkened. No markings on pages; Inner spine crease weakened and split but pages intact. Frontispiece on glosssy paper, in addition to 9 other illustrations throughout book. Blue spine with faded white and blue design on covers. Faded gild lettering on spine. Rubbing and discoloration spots on top spine areas; Corners bumped. Wear and minor fraying on cover edges, corners, and spine ends.; Sticker label on front end page. VERY RARE VINTAGE COPY.

Hardcover. Condition: VG. ELDON KELLEY (illustrator). C-D PRINTING, OWNER'S INS. TO THE FFEP.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good dj. Illustrated by (dj) Eldon Kelley (illustrator). First Edition. [nice tight copy with minor shelfwear and a touch of dust-soiling to the top edge; the jacket is somewhat faded along the spine, with some edgewear and very shallow paper loss along the top edge, and a tiny scrape-mark near the middle of the front panel]. "These Tales of the New Time are not only laughable to the verge of tears, but at the same time philosophical to the verge of perplexity. They are equally absurd and equally sound economics." Although he also had a significant life as a teacher and political economist, Leacock (1869-1944) is best remembered (to the extent that he's remembered at all) as a humorist; this particular book, per the jacket blurb, reveals "both [his] personalities at once." Although it's been claimed that he was at one time (a few years prior to the appearance of this book) "the best-known English-language humorist in the world" (per Wikipedia) -- "our modern Lewis Carroll," the rear-jacket blurb calls him -- he seems to be little-read or -regarded today -- except perhaps in Canada, where since 1947 an annual award, the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour, has been presented for the best book of humor written in English by a Canadian writer. In this volume, Leacock skewers such topics as communism, the medical establishment, and gender equality -- but maybe the most interesting (and prescient) section of the book is entitled "Grandfather Goes to War," in which he prophesizes "the ghastly slaughter of the War of Desolation in 1950" and beyond that, "the fascinating but quite harmless war in Utopia, all done by clockwork and wireless.".

First edition. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1928. [6], 182, [1] pages, plus color frontispiece. Nine drawings printed with the text. Original patterned paper-covered boards with blue cloth spine and tips, lettered in gilt on the spine; illustrated endpapers. 20 x 13.5 cm. Very good in fair to good, price-clipped dust jacket. Light rubbing to extremities; a little tanning near the edges of the front board. Minor foxing to frontispiece with negligible impact on the image; foxing to title page as well, but none elsewhere. The jacket has a jagged 3-cm long chip to the center of the spine panel, several other chips with a slight impact on lettering, a long tear along the fold between the front panel and front flap, tissue repairs to verso, and sun-fading to the spine panel. FIRST EDITION. The subtitle on the dust jacket reads: "A Story in Jazz." The adventures of a free-spirited young woman, Ruby Burke, late of San Francisco, traveling in America and Europe, with delightful illustrations by Eldon Kelley (b. Denver, 1894). Kelley studied at the Art Students League in New York and was active in the 1920s and early 1930s as a book and magazine illustrator. Uncommon with the dust jacket in any condition.