Ford Macbain (20 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Dan Holland (Author-Photographer); William J. Schaldach (Illustrator) (illustrator). First Edition, First Thus. Text/Bright, clean, As New. Blue linen boards/NF w/light edge rubs. DJ/Poor; intact w/edge losses; under mylar. PO stamp to fEP. Monograph on trout fishing in these United States by sportsman, fisherman and Fishing Editor for Field & Stream magazine, Dan Holland. Core Ford, who has fished with Holland, wrote of this book: it tells "everything about trout fishing that anybody ever needs to know." Fine copy despite flaws.

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

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Stated first printing. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown; bits of scotch-tape residue to verso of front FEP and to half-title page. Text pages are yellowed but free of markings. Lacks most of dust jacket; detached front and rear panels are included. Black cloth-covered boards are rubbed and scratched.

hardcover. Condition: GOOD. Dust Jacket Condition: GOOD. 216 clean, unmarked, tight pages; light soiling on outer edges of textblock; cover is clean and sturdy; dust jacket nicely wrapped in clear Brodart cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. William Von Riegen (illustrator). Clarles Scribner's Sons January 1946 Binding: Hardcover.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. William Von Riegen (illustrator). 1946 Charles Scribner hardback with x+244pp. Hardback without wrapper with boards showing shelf wear a little rubbing and signs of use. Pages showing a little reading use, no folds or creases. Solid copy showing its natural age. G2.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Grosset and Dunlap Reprint. Hardcover in jacket. Moderate wear to jacket, small chip to jacket spine, a few small tears to jacket edges. Book is clean and unmarked. Binding strong. Light wear. Very good book in a good jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Very good inside with no markings or damage other than penned name on front end flap. Boards are lightly dirt stained with minor rubbing on corners and spine ends. See pictures.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 4th Edition. private library liquidation fades red cloth /black lettering faded 1946 edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Inscribed and dated by the author on initial page. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Stated First printing. Black cloth with burgundy and gilt on front and spine. Name and date in ink inside front cover. Mild yellowing to edges of text block. Unclipped dust jacket has some color loss on spine. Faint foxing along right edge on front of jacket. Minimal shelf wear to jacket, which is in mylar.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition; First Printing. Boards show light shelf wear, DJ has heavier shelf wear with large piece missing upper front affecting the first letter of the title, short tears, creasing chipping. Previous owner's name inside front board and on title page. Price-clipped. ; A tight solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. Stated 1st printing. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 216 pages; The story behind the formation of the Office of Strategic Services during WWII. This Office changed its name to CIA after the war.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Whittlesey House, New York, 1949. Illustrated with a few drawings. 5.75" x 8". 196 pp. Grey cloth, decorated endpapers. ".fifteen original, gripping and entertaining dog stories.a book about many different kinds of dogs - pure breds, coon dogs, setters, pointers and 'just dogs'. Most of them are yarns about hunting dogs.". Seven of the stories are by Corey Ford, five are by MacBain, and three are by both Ford and Mac Bain. Scarce. Fine in very good wrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition/First Printing. Quite nice and scarce in jacket. Jacket has a couple of small chips and the spine is toned. Owner info. to pastedown.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. Illustrated by Skor, Walter; Murphy, John Cullen; Conner, Mac; Moore, Al;Cooper, Mario; Hawes, Charles; Oehmen, Len (illustrator). First Edition. 86 pages Features: Kid Killers at the Wheel are turning highways into human slaughterhouses; New York's Biggest Attic - The Manhattan Storage and Warehouse Company - article with great photos; The 25 Men Who Run the World; Wizards of Words - The National Spelling Bee; The Great Larynx - Art Linkletter and Familiy; I Was the King of the Safecrackers (part 2 of 5) - Herbert Wilson; Inside Sports; Collier's Out of Doors. Fiction: A Young Man Marred; One Day When I Was Lost; How Are You in Trunks?; Lionheart; The Golden Dart (part 3 of 8); The Parked Car. Ads include: Magnificent Studebaker Truck ad inside front cover; Trailways Bus ad; Elsie the cow in Borden ad; Firestone; Pontiac; Fisher Body; *Beautiful* two-page color ad for Packard cars; Hudson cars; Dodge Trucks; *Gorgeous* Canada Dry ad features their Spur Cola, Ginger Ale, Club Soda and Hi-Spot; Greyhound bus lines; The US Army; Old Thompson Whiskey; Great color photo Blatz Beer ad inside back cover features photo of Brian Donlevy; Coke ad on back cover features many fashionable ladies. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy.; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; Collier's - The National Weekly Magazine, May 28, 1949 - The 25 Men Who Rule the World Kid Killers at the Wheel are turning highways into human slaughterhouses; New York's Biggest Attic - The Manhattan Storage and Warehouse Company - article with great ph.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. Illustrated by Snyder, Wesley; Skor, Walter; Milroy, Karl; Oehman, Len;Mochi, Ugo; Fredman, Harry; Varady, Frederick (illustrator). First Edition. 90 pages. Fiction: The Balance of Nature; His Brother-In-Law's Keeper; Episode; Hold fast, My Love; Marriage '48 (part 3 of 5); Man-Eater from Snohomish. Articles: Death in the Classroom - schools are dangerous places (part 1 of 2); Billie Burke - Her Story (part 2 of 3); A Hunter's Map of the U.S.A. - Sportsman's Paradise; Godmother to Little Yanks - Mary Rizzoto and her World Children's Foundation; Hawkshaws in Skirts; The Campaign Trains Roll Again; Bedlam on Sunday; Smithson's House of Wonders - The Smithsonian Institution; Try Building Your Own Dream House - The Spelman family of Babylon, Long Island, Henry Wallace is the voice of Russia - opinion piece inside back cover. Ads include: The Frazer Manhattan automobile - inside front cover, B.V.D. sports shirts, Jeep Trucks - very nice, International Trucks, Schlitz Beer, Firestone Tires, Kodak film, MGM's The Three Musketeers, Harley Davidson - their 125 single cyllinder, Bicycle playing cards, Arrow ties, Jantzen sweaters, Smartair leisure wear, City Club shoes, Inco, Wilson Brothers men's wear, Botany brand shirts and slacks, Pendleton shirts, Gruen watches, and a lovely Coke ad on back cover which shows Coke dispenser inside a snowy window. Covers holding by one staple. Average wear. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy.; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; Collier's - The National Weekly Magazine, February 19, 1949 Balance of Nature; His Brother-In-Law's Keeper; Episode; Hold fast, My Love; Marriage '48 (part 3 of 5); Man-Eater from Snohomish. Articles: Death in the Classroom - schools are dangerous place.

Condition: Very Good. Publisher's original colour illustrated card wrap covers [soft back]. 8vo. 7'' x 4ĵ''. Contains 251 pages of text with wonderful monochrome strip cartoon illustrations to every page. Crease lines to the covers, 'Souvenir of The Army Air Forces Claiborne Flight Academy, Wickenburg, Arizona' sticker to the front free end paper and in Very Good condition, no dust wrapper as issued. Member of the P.B.F.A. AVIATION & AERONAUTICS.

216pp. 8vo. Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Printing. First Printing. 216pp. 8vo. Black cloth in unclippoed almost fine dj by George Giusti.

Original two-page contract agreement from the 1946 film noir, amending and supplementing an agreement between starring actress Lilli Palmer and then-president of United States Pictures Joseph Bernhard, and signed by both in manuscript ink on the second leaf. Dated "April 8th" in manuscript ink on the first leaf, and a date of 5/10/46 typed on the second leaf. Small notary blindstamp on the first leaf. The first film released by short-lived studio United States Pictures, and the first of the studio's two films noir, the other being "The Enforcer" (1951, with Humphrey Bogart). Director Fritz Lang was already an established noir authority, having previously directed "M" (1931), "Fury" (1936), and "The Big Heat" (1953). Two leaves, stapled and hole-punched at the top, 8.5 x 11 inches, ribbon copy typescript, rectos only. Very Good plus overall, with light toning, diagonal creases, and faint 'I.M.P." blindstamps to both leaves. Grant Worldwide. Olive Films. Selby Classic Noir. Signed.