Francis Strobel (15 results)

paperback. Condition: Fair. Good reading copy. About 9 pages have highlights/underlining.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine in Good dust jacket. Illustrated by Strobel, Francis (illustrator). A novel of a search for faith, embodied in a lilting style that flows along with the inevitable rhythm of the river. 668 pages. Signed by author on free front endpage. DJ slightly soiled, edges worn (in mylar sleeve).; 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 "; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Good-. Francis Strobel (illustrator). Tan cloth; tan and red spine; cover illustration of a hog with sunglasses eating acorns. McCord (1886-1979) specialized in occupational disease investigation and treatment. This book was his "first book in the popular style," "a panorama of human interest, sparkling with humor, gripping in pathos and tragedy." Illustrated with line drawings. Clean, tight, and unworn in a heavily edgeworn dust jacket. Rear panel has several chips and tears, the largest an irregular triangular 2" x 1/2" piece missing at lower rear edge. Spine faded and with tears at gutters. Jacket now protected in mylar.

Hardcover. Condition: Used: Very Good. Publisher: Cloud Chicago Inc.Date of Publication: 1947Binding: hardcoverEdition: 1947 no other datesCondition: Near FineDescription: This old book with dust jacket is clean, solid, and in great shape! This is a hardcover book with 191 pages including several illustrations. The binding is strong with all pages firmly attached. The pages are clean with no soiling, writing, or tears. The dust jacket is clean with a small closed tear on top and some edgewear (No Chips). The DJ has been placed in a fresh mylar jacket. The DJ has a handsome illustration on the front of Men at Work!

Hardcover. 191p., illus., previous owner's name penned and then crossed out in marker on front pastedown endpaper, else very good condition in an unclipped, shelfworn dj which is a bit chipped on the edges. Juvenile literature on labor relations and the role of the foreman, inspired by the Cornell-Caterpillar Program to improve human relations in industry.

Condition: New. Strobel, Francis (illustrator).

Condition: New. Strobel, Francis (illustrator).

Condition: New. Strobel, Francis (illustrator). A Blind Hog's Acorns: Vignettes of the Maladies of Workers (Paperback or Softback).

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Strobel, Francis (illustrator). First Edition. Chicago, IL, Cloud, 1946. First edition. 8vo. Teal green cloth with gilt lettering on spine, illustrated by Francis Strobel, 668 pp. An epic poem about life in a turn-of-the-century Iowa town on the Mississippi River. Paper is somewhat tanned with age but otherwise in fine condition.

Condition: As New. Strobel, Francis (illustrator). Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Strobel, Francis (illustrator). 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Second printing. Burgundy and tan cloth, pig vignette to front board. 311 pp. B&W line drawings in text. Rubbing to cloth at extremities. Spine tilted. Staining to edges of text block. Offsetting and foxing to endpapers. Dust jacket is price clipped, heavily edge worn, large chip to spine foot with loss, perforated to front joint, stained and sunned to spine, foxed to flaps. An irresistible story, a true story, of Adventures in Medicine, a panorama of human interest, sparkling with humor, gripping in pathos and tragedy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good dj. Illustrated by (dj) Guedke; (book) Francis Strobel (illustrator). First Edition. (price-clipped) [a good sound copy, modest wear to extremities, old bookseller's rubber stamp (Bertrand Smith Acres of Books, Long Beach, California) on front pastedown; the jacket is heavily edgeworn, top and bottom edges internally reinforced with brown paper tapes, with various bits of paper loss but nothing too dire apart from a ragged diagonal tear near the top of the spine]. (pen and ink drawings) A long -- really long (668 pages) -- verse narrative depicting the life of a Mississippi river town around the turn of the 20th century. "This book is fiction, and the scene of its story, River Town, on the Iowa shore of the Mississippi, is entirely imaginary, as are all its characters -- excepting only George Hudson, who had his counterpart in reality." One contemporary critic's judgment: "It is overflowing with lust, violence, brutality, vice, intrigue, and yet through it all comes forth a beautiful story of love and faith." That "entirely imaginary" notation is precisely the sort of thing that raises at least one of my eyebrows, and my preliminary research suggests that "River City" might actually have been a fictionalized version of Davenport, Iowa -- which around 1900 had a significant number of brothels (a major element of this book are efforts to deal with "the District," which is under the protection of the town's corrupt political establishment) and (per Wikipedia) "150 illegal saloons" (for a population of just 35,000). There was also a notorious area of Davenport known as Bucktown, once called "the wickedest city in America," and the book contains a reference to an area by that very name. There is also a considerable presence in the book -- as there was in Davenport itself -- of the town's African-American community. It's possible that a deeper dive into Davenport's history might reveal the real-life model for "George Hudson," who in the book is the father of one of its tragic figures, a lawyer named John Hudson -- but I'll leave that to the purchaser of this book. ****NOTE that additional postage charges will be assessed for international shipping of this heavy book; if this concerns you, please contact us for a shipping quote before placing your order. As always at ReadInk, domestic Media Mail shipping is free.****.

Condition: As New. Strobel, Francis (illustrator). Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New. Strobel, Francis (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Francis Strobel (illustrator). Inscribed by the author. Unusual novel of Mississippi in epic style. Out of print. Binding is cloth. Signed.