Evelyn Nesbit (15 results)

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

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Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First American Edition. First publication in one volume of the beloved dragon stories of Evelyn Nesbit, which originally appeared in The Strand magazine in Great Britain beginning in 1899. Charmingly illustrated by Swedish artist Erik Blegvad in pen & ink throughout the 198 pages, as well as the entire DJ. Orig. published in Britain in 1972, this is the FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, First Printing, from 1973. An EX-LIB copy with the usual stamps, markings, & card pocket in front & rear endpapers, this hardcover has bright red cloth-covered boards with a brilliant gilt red dragon to front/gilt lettering to spine. Condition is Good+: extremely clean, interior pages white & unmarked, light soil to exterior. Binding strong & straight. Fairly heavy rubbing to extremities, down to underlying boards at corners. Front free endpaper has been excised. The unclipped DJ VG+: colorful & bright with some chipping at some corners, remains of old paper call number to lower spine; the old library mylar has been removed & replaced with brand new! Our photos depict the EXACT book you will receive from us--never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same Day Shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific time); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day. Blegvad, Erik (illustrator).…

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First British Edition. First publication in one volume of the beloved dragon stories of Evelyn Nesbit, which originally appeared in The Strand magazine in Great Britain beginning in 1899. Charmingly illustrated by Swedish artist Erik Blegvad in pen & ink throughout the 198 pages, as well as the entire DJ, this 1974 reprint of the First British Edition from 1972 is an octavo with plain black cloth-covered boards lettered in bright gilt to spine. Condition is VG+: completely Mild rubbing to extremities, bumped corners, ding in front board at lower edge, with corresponding tiny chip to first few pages in front matter. Binding strong & straight, hinges secure. The bottom-clipped DJ also VG+: colorful & bright with just a couple of tiny chips; nicely protected by former owner in nonreflective mylar cover. Our photos depict the EXACT book you will receive from us--never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same Day Shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific time); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day. Blegvad, Erik (illustrator).…

Condition: NEW.

Classica Europa Fiction and Poetry Classical Fiction Europe Letteratura universale Marsilio - Elsinore in 16°, tela edit. con sovrac. ill., piccolo timbro d'appartenenza.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Very good condition with no wrapper. No. 5081. Chunky format (4cm thick). Red cloth spine, pictorial front board shows girl whispering in boy's ear. First story is "Peace With Honour" by Geraldine Glasgow. Colour plates and b/w text illustrations (including one Wain cat plate accompanying a verse called "All Afloat" by Clifton Bingham. Reprint, no date. Minimal bumping and wear to spine, corners and cover edges. Contents lightly browned with some foxing and an odd mark. One hinge cracked. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched. Hardy, E. Stuart & Petherick, Rosa C. & Wain, Louis & et al., (illustrator).…

Hardback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1903. Good condition with no wrapper. Pictorial boards front showing children on stepping stones through stream. Six chromolithograph plates, packed full of b/w text illustraitons. First story 'Our pantomime' by L.L. Weedon Spine and corners bumped and worn. Board edges scuffed and rubbed. Some scratches to boards. Covers generally grubby. Joints and some hinges cracked. Frontis is partially detached at the top and has a small tear. One plate is detached but present. Another two plates are partially detached. Erased inscription to box on front pastedown. Endpapers and page edges are browned. Some foxing and fingering. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched. Hardy, E. Stuart & Street, K (illustrator). …

Encuadernación de tapa blanda. Condition: Bien. Dust Jacket Condition: Bien. Q & A Peter Bowen on Sundance Film Festival GADGET LOVE R. U. Sirius on Bill Gates The Road Ahead AMERICAN MYTHS J. Hoberman on the Remaking of the President MUSIC Mark Van de Walle on the Mountain Goats MUSIC Bruce Hainley on Yoko Ono/IMA MUSIC Evelyn McDonnell on the Raincoats MUSIC Charles Aaron on Brand New Blues HOT LIST Mark Van de Walle on Celluloid Sites LETTER Georgia Lobacheff on Brazil LETTER Carlos Basualdo on Cannibal Culture LETTER Jan Fjeld on Brazilian Rap HOTLIST Mark Van de Walle on Celluloid Sites TOP TEN Howard Hampton s Real Life Rock COLUMNS FEATURES REVIEWS BOB S THING Flanagan s Wake Dennis Cooper Excerpts from Flanagan s Pain Journal Bob Flanagan Rack Talk Deborah Drier interviews Bob Flanagan and Sheree Rose DREAM TEAM: THE BROTHERS QUAY Thyrza Nichols Goodeve talks with the Brothers Quay FLASH TRACK: MARIO SORRENTI PHOTOGRAPHS THE BERNADETTE CORPORATION Olivier Zahm LIKE A ROLLING STONE: GABRIEL OROZCO Jean-Pierre Criqui OPENINGS: GRAZIA TODERI Giorgio Verzotti COLUMNS FEATURES REVIEWS Molly Nesbit on Chris Marker NEW YORK James Meyer on Jo Baer Ben Lifson on John Coplans Ben Lifson on Richard Poussette-Dart Mark Van de Walle on Jessica Stockholder Faye Hirsch on Alice Neel Barry Schwabsky on Lucio Fontana Barry Schwabsky on Cathy de Monchaux Bruce Hainley on Francesco Clemente Bruce Hainley on Fantasy and Reality: Drawings from the Sunny Crawford von Bülow Collection Jean-Pierre Criqui on Tony Smith Donald Kuspit on André Masson Joshua Decter on Liisa Roberts Jenifer P. Borum on Red Grooms Marek Bartelik on Shooting the Moon Ingrid Schaffner on Robin Tewes Ernest Pascucci on City Speculations WASHINGTON, D.C. Howard Risatti on Painting Outside of Painting PITTSBURGH David Carrier on David Humphrey CHICAGO James Yood on Buzz Spector SAN FRANCISCO Maria Porges on Charles Goldman LOS ANGELES Andrew Perchuk on Udomsak Krisanamis Laura U. Marks on Photography and Beyond in Japan: Space, Time, and Memory BUENO AIRES Carlos Basualdo on Gladys Nistor MADRID Juan Vicente Aliaga on ZAJ MILAN Marco Meneguzzo on Rudolf Stingel Anthony Iannacci on Richard Wilson PARIS Jérôme Sans on Douglas Gordon LYON Miriam Rosen on Biennale de Lyon KREFELD Giorgio Verzotti on Jan Vercruysse FRANKFURT Noemi Smolik on Andreas Slominski/Ayse Erkmen ANTWERP Giorgio Verzotti on Ettore Spalletti LONDON/CAMDEN Martin Maloney on Matt Collishaw LONDON James Hall on Tracey Emin.…

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Spine cocked. Light foxing along top text block edge. Pervious owner personlizations inked on front pastedown and opposite title page. Light shelfwear throughout dust jacket.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 288 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition, Association Copy. :: Personal copy owned by Anita Loos, famous American novelist (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes), screenwriter and actress- her bookplate upon front paste-down. :: Later memoir by Evelyn Nesbit, popular early 1900's Gibson-girl model and actress. Details her experiences with her lover NY architect Stanford White whom was murdered by her husband Pittsburgh railroad fortune heir Harry Kendall Thaw during a premiere in Madison Square Garden, June 1906. :: Bound in publisher's deep red cloth, front board bears petite golden illustration of a hand raising a glass for a toast. Title, author, and publisher lettered upon spine in same, with simple decorative designs at crown and foot. Octavo ( 8 1/16 x 5 1/2 inches; 205 x 140 millimeters). 315 pages. Condition: Very Good. Spine is gently cocked, light overall soiling and wear. Corners rubbed through, boards exposed. Pages age-toned, small stains.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 8 x 5.5", red cloth, gilt dec and lettering, pictorial endpapers, 315pp. Covers soiled, extremely well worn and rubbed with paint stains on the back cover, inner hinges cracked and covers loose, contents have light soiling and toning else good. Evelyn Nesbit was a chorus girl and model whose husband Harry K. Thaw murdered her admirer, architect Stanford White. She was referred to as "the girl in the red velvet swing.". FIRST EDITION, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR "To Bert Most Sincerely Evelyn Nesbit Brooklyn 1937." Sold as is.…

First Edition. THE UNTOLD STORY, John Long, 1934, first edition, a vg to near fine copy. This attempt to give all the facts of the infamous "Thaw Case" of the early 20th century by the murderers wife, is written in most instances as a novel. The life of Ms. Nesbit, artist model, Gibson and chorus girl, actress and wife of multimillionaire Henry Kendall Thaw, is well known to the public and to those who studied law before 1940. Suffice it to say, it was perhaps the Orenthal James Simpson case of its day. The case so much in the public's eye, the judge did something that heretofore had never been done. He ordered that the jury be sequestered. Certainly a most bizarre and captivating tale of treachery, deceit, sadism and fixation, this tale as revealed by Evelyn Nesbit was brought to the screen as THE GIRL IN THE RED VELVET SWING in 1955. While not necessarily a faithful rendition into film (what Hollywood endeavor is?), the fact that a significant sum of people thought to invest and bring it to life some 50 years later, perhaps indicates its lasting memory.…